Program Spotlight: Adult Evening Programs

This is the second of a series of interviews with SNBC's Adult Evening Programs staff. We are highlighting these fantastic instructors this week as part of our Program Spotlight. 

Sung-Hee Kim teaches watercolor and acrylic painting classes for SNBC’s Adult Evening Programs. A highly trained and accomplished artist herself, Sung-Hee enjoys sharing her passion for art with adults in the Sunset through SNBC’s free Evening Programs.  

SNBC: Please tell us a little about yourself.

SK: I am an art instructor in SNBC’s Adult Evening Programs. I earned my MFA in Oriental Painting in South Korea in 1997, and my MFA in Abstract Painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2007.

SNBC: How long have you been with SNBC’s Evening Programs?

  

SK: I have been working with Evening Programs since January 2012.

SNBC: How did you first hear about SNBC?

SK: I heard about SNBC from my first daughter who graduated from A.P. Giannini Middle School last year. She really enjoyed all of SNBC’s afterschool programs, so I knew that SNBC ran a lot of great programs.

SNBC: What do you enjoy the most about your position as an instructor? 

SK: I really enjoy teaching art as well as making my own works as an abstract painter. As an Evening Programs instructor, I really enjoy teaching the kind of art that I like the most! Most of all, I am really happy to meet all of my great and talented students. I always learn new ideas from them. 

SNBC: What do you hope students gain by taking your classes?

  

SK:  I love working on my paintings because it heals me all the time. I hope that all of my students can have this same feeling and also improve their works. I respect all of my students’ creativeness in art, and I hope they gain more confidence in art from my classes. 

SNBC: Is there anything you'd like to add?

A: Learning techniques in art is important; however, I think that to improve, it is very important to practice and complete works on new subjects in art, even though we make mistakes.