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 is designed to educate students on proper, polite, and effective correspondence communication. It provides resources that students can use to aid in acceptable ways of formatting informal and formal letters and digital messages.
This class in the Shakespeare series focuses on the original play, Twelfth Night, and we explore modern adaptations of the story in popular culture!
This particular course will focus on the 1977 novel written by author Katherine Paterson – Bridge to Terabithia. The novel tells the story of Jess and his new friend Leslie who use their imaginations to go on wondrous adventures together, and learn tough life lessons through tragedy.
Verbs are the action words that we use to describe what a person, place, or thing is doing! This course goes into depth on the various categories of verbs, as well as the 12 tenses that verbs can be conjugated into.
This class in the Shakespeare series focuses on the original play, Hamlet, and we explore modern adaptations of the story in popular culture!
This class explores the work of American writer Richard Connell. We will look closely at the writer’s most famous short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” and will discuss why this story and the writer have had such a lasting impact on American culture.
This class in the English Grammar Series focuses on sentences as a whole. The course helps students to better understand the types of sentences, how to form them, and how it helps to better understand the parts of speech and their function within a whole sentence. This course goes into depth on the various types of sentences, how sentences can be put together, and the various parts that can make up whole sentences.
This 10 week etymology course will explore and unlock the mysteries of the English language…using examples found in the Harry Potter series!
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.