Paulina Shapona

Paulina Shapona is an art instructor for the Palo Alto Art Center’s Children’s Fine Art program, where she teaches drawing, painting, pastels, cartooning, fashion design and puppet performance workshops to children ages 5-11. Paulina, who also teaches for the Pacific Art League, PALY Adult Education, and the Community School of Music and Art, sells and shows her artwork internationally, ran her own Fine Arts School, and is a social worker for Community Action Commission, has taught at the Palo Alto Art Center for 14 years. Paulina’s philosophy as an educator and artist is to inspire personal creative growth in all her students, broaden their perception of the world around them, and to help them recognize the beauty of their own existence.