A mother of three, Ms. Bican took time to devote several years to her children and volunteer her time to art education. She helped to develop a program to incorporate additional art into the elementary curriculum in Downers Grove School District 58 and became chairman of the Art Awareness Program and Annual Art Exhibition at Lester Elementary School.
Ms. Bican returned to teaching art in 2012, where she taught Ceramics at Naperville North High School, Drawing and Digital Art at West Aurora High School. For the past three years she has served on the faculty of Downers Grove South High School teaching Drawing, Painting, and Jewelry/Metalworks.
Ms. Bican is committed to providing her students with a caring and developmentally sound foundation for a lifetime of artistic learning.
Joshua Hoering is a Certified Art, Design, and Photography teacher based in Chicago. He has designed widely published reports for the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) and the online portfolio system for the Illinois High School Art Exhibition (IHSAE). Mr. Hoering has served as a lecturer at the National Art Education Association, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Skilled at designing community engagement strategies, curricula, assessments, and digital user experiences, Mr. Hoering's artwork has been exhibited nationally and is held in a variety of public and private collections in the United States. Mr. Hoering was educated at Indiana University, where he received a Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) and Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) with distinction.
As a teacher, Mr. Hoering's goal is to facilitate student growth and development in the realms of design thinking, concept development, creativity, and visual storytelling. He believes the ability to communicate visually is imperative to all aspects of art and design, from product to expression.
