About Mrs. Artz

Hello Lakeridge artists and families! I'm Anna Artz (yep, that's my real name), and I'm so thrilled to be your art teacher again this school year.

This is my 11th year teaching at Lakeridge, and my 5th year as the K-5 Art Specialist. I've worn many hats over the years, including teaching 5th grade, PE, math learning support, 504 coordinator, and middle school art at IMS! This year I am also teaching some overload sections at Northwood and West Mercer each week.

I believe that the habits and mindsets students build through art-making are vital to not just their education, but to their wholeness as a person. I work hard to ensure the art classroom is a welcoming place for all Lakeridge artists to engage, persist, express, reflect, and explore! 

Outside of school, I maintain my own studio practice as a painter, exhibiting when I can and participating in my local art community. I commute over from Shoreline, where I live with my husband and our daughters (8 and 5 years old), and I am so happy to call Lakeridge my home away from home.