Biography
Deb Crowder earned her BFA at the University of NH in 1978 and the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1978-79. She also studied with Richard Whitney from 1978-1984. She earned her Masters in Education at Antioch New England Graduate School in 2005. Deb has taught art at Monadnock Regional High School in Swanzey, NH for the past 23 years, and is also an adjunct professor for the Foundations Drawing Department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. The NH Art Educators Association selected Deb as the 2006-07 NH Art Teacher of the Year. Deb also serves on the Advisory Board for the NH Scholastic Art Awards Program. She is most interested in drawing, painting and enameling on copper. She serves on the Swanzey, NH Conservation Commission and the Swanzey Open Space Committee. She lives in Swanzey with her husband Larry, and has three grown children, Andy, Ben and Chelsea.

Artist's Statement
Working as a high school art teacher for over 25 years requires versatility and an openness to new mediums and approaches. The studio art teacher must know not only how to draw and paint, but, in my case, to also know techniques in many other areas, including jewelry-making, ceramics, 3D design, and artisan crafts. My interest in enameling has grown out of many
years of teaching it to my students and experimenting with the medium. Now that I teach an AP Studio Art class at my high school, and drawing classes at NHIA, I have rediscovered my own long-held love of drawing, and I particularly enjoy sketching in my Nature Journal alongside my students. I am basically interested in nearly every artistic medium, and I enjoy immersing in all I can.