Larissa听Schwartz

  • MS, Creative Technology and Design鈥擟reative Industries '23
  • ATLAS INSTITUTE

Larissa Schwartz is a graphic designer, art director, business owner and visual arts educator focusing on developing more technical skills in video, sound and animation. She attended the University of Iowa, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art, art history and entrepreneurship. She also attended a post-graduate advertising school, Chicago Portfolio School, where she studied art direction and graphic design. She has had the privilege to work as a professional art director, graphic designer and visual arts educator. She currently holds听professional teaching licenses in Visual Arts (K-12), Career Technical Education in Visual Arts and Design (7-12), and English as a Second Language (PK-12). She has taught visual arts, design and technology for more than eight years in Title 1 public schools throughout Houston and Denver. In Houston, she taught at an early college high school which was听spearheaded by the听Bill听& Melinda听Gates听Foundation. She has also taught concurrent enrollment graphic design courses through the Community College of Denver, while writing technology grants to provide a computer lab for her students in Denver Public Schools. She launched a student organization to work with a local nonprofit in Denver, Women's Global Empowerment Fund, which听supports women through economic, social and political programs in northern Uganda.听She has been a sponsor for Girls Who Code and Skills USA, while holding memberships in Colorado Art Education Association, Texas Art Education Association and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Larissa has served as a juror for the Scholastic Art and Writing awards and the Visual Arts Scholastic Event. She founded her own graphic design company, Larissa Schwartz Design LLC, where she focuses on creating听print and digital听branding and marketing solutions for various companies.听Larissa听is looking forward to working with her peers and professors in the听CTD Creative Industries track.

Publications

Cornelius Onimisi Adejoro, Luise Arn,听Larissa Schwartz,听Tom Yeh. 2023. 鈥溾. In:听Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23)听(Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).

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