Lara Hincapie
I am Lara Hincapie, an accomplished artist and thespian, and a current student in graduate school. From a very young age I joined the exciting world of theater as an aspiring actress, singer, and dancer. Throughout my youth I trained not only as a performer, but I was also introduced to what would become my first passion–scenic art (painting) and design.
I graduated from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX, with a Bachelor’s of Art degree in Theatrical Design and Technology. After earning my degree I spent several years working as the Charge Scenic Artist for The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and was published by The Guild of Scenic Artists for an article about a faux texture process I created and implemented for an award-winning set at there at the FAC. I also have years of experience freelance set designing for different theaters’ for-youth productions. I am currently enrolled in graduate school and am an MBA candidate at the University of Colorado Denver Business School. I spend my free time working with my best painter friend for our self-started company, Scenic Spark, painting murals, faux-finishing, and specialty painting for residential and commercial properties throughout the state of Colorado. I also enjoy teaming up with my brother, who is a poet, to create children’s books, which he writes and I illustrate.
I have long been drawn to arts education for young people, in large part due to my own childhood and that the arts shaped my life from a very early age. I have taught musical theater acting and dancing to ages ranging from 4-18, as well as studio painting and theatrical painting to high school and college ages. I enjoy teaching art to younger ages, because it helps kids discover themselves, to better understand who they are and who they might want to become; art teaches us about life in so many ways. For me, as a kid, participating in drama was a way to push the limits of my comfort zone, and the perfect challenge to my restless spirit. I have a new found love for teaching literary arts as well, including play studies. But I love teaching the arts in general, especially to youth, because I seek to guide the growth of their inner artist, so that they might find a sense of direction in life through the arts (whether literary, theatrical, or visual arts)– like I was so lucky to find for myself as a young person and turn into my life’s work.
You can check out some of my professional and personal artwork on my portfolio website:
This $5 course offers an in-depth lesson on identifying and understanding plagiarism, learning proper citation methods, and how to avoid plagiarism to help students uphold academic honesty with their writing!
This class in the Shakespeare series focuses on the original play, Romeo and Juliet, and we explore modern film adaptations of the story in popular culture!
This class focuses on the 1979 novel written by Ellen Raskin – The Westing Game. This mystery novel centers around sixteen unlikely strangers who have a whirlwind experience as they play a millionaire's game and try to figure out why he has chosen a stranger, and possible murderer, to inherit his fortune.
This class in the Shakespeare series focuses on the original play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and we explore modern film adaptations of the story in popular culture!
Adjectives and adverbs help us to describe people, places, things, and actions! This class teaches students the different types of adjectives and adverbs, as well as their proper use within a phrase or sentence.
Conjunctions help us to combine ideas within a sentence, while prepositions help us to connect the relationship of nouns and pronouns to the rest of the sentence. This class teaches students the different types, as well as their proper use within a sentence.
In this 4 week course, students will learn how to recognize, identify, and interpret the art of the indigenous American civilizations, including Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, and First Nation tribes.
This class explores the beginnings of theatrical performance up to 1700--from ancient Greek theater to the Italian stage of the Renaissance, to the Bard himself- Shakespeare!
What better way to spend Halloween month than studying the classic book Frankenstein! In 4 weeks, students will read the novel and compare it to the film version!
You're never too young to learn how to manage money wisely. This 6 week personal finance course will teach students all the things we adults wish someone taught us before we got to the real world!