Biography

Lesley Jensen has been teaching art to students of all ages for 28 years and has been teaching for the AAA summer program for 17 years.  She has taught high school art full time for 18 years and presently teaches ceramics full time at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill as well as adult ceramics at Civic Arts in Walnut Creek. She received her BFA in ceramics from Colorado State University, as well as her teaching certificate. Her own ceramic artwork is displayed in local galleries and shows.

I have been working in clay as an artistic medium for over 30 years. My path to acquire a BFA in Ceramics took me to U. C. Santa Barbara, Calif. College of Arts and Crafts, Banff School of Fine Arts, and finally, Colorado State University.  After graduating in Colorado I set up a studio and had a small pottery for 9 years, before moving back to the Bay Area.

    Once back in the Bay Area in 1989 I began teaching High School at Mt. Diablo H.S., where I started the ceramics program that still exists today. I now teach full time ceramics at College Park High School in Pleasant Hill. For the past 21 years, I also have taught ceramics at Civic Arts in Walnut Creek. My alternative firing class has been one of my specialty classes.

  I consider my 2 children however to be my best artwork ever.  My daughter has a BFA in Painting and is presently a 6th grade teacher. My son is still in college pursuing his life path