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D.I.S. stands for Digital Image Story, a simplified form of Digital Storytelling that fits beautifully into and enhances middle school and high school visual art programs.  Jeff shares the knowledge gained from being a Digital Storytelling teaching artist coach for the YAWAC Digital Storytelling program and a leader in the evolution of this art form.  D.I.S. Art involves students in sequencing images that they have created and altered themselves, using imaging programs on the computer.  The result is a short digital art project demonstrating the discoveries that students can make when they re-imagine their visual art ideas using digital tools.

Jeff Mather

Site sculptor Jeff Mather is a master teaching artist and nationally known community-based artist.  He has served over 120 sites as artist-in-residence, many of these having him return year after year.

Jeff has worked with groups of every age level, creating more public art in Georgia than any other sculptor.  In addition to his sculpture residencies, Jeff is the lead artist for the YAWAC Digital Storytelling program. He is also at the forefront of cross-curriculum arts infusion and has co-created and co-taught units in world history, science, math and special education. He is all about turning S.T.E.M. into S.T.E.A.M.!  

Jeff's presence as a teaching artist in a school can be a catalyst for forging new inter-departmental partnerships and new partnerships with the community at large.