About Us
Melinda Schneider and Meg Pearson are the co-owners and founders of Art Adventures for Kids. Great friends since elementary school, together they bring skills in art, design and teaching, along with a healthy dose of joy in working with children. In a world growing more complicated every day, they strive to bring a simple message to students:
"You are important, your art is important and there is joy and fun to be found in every day,
sometimes in the most unexpected places!"
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Meg Pearson
A former Peace Corps Volunteer, natural resources project manager and elementary school teacher, Meg has devoted her professional life to service. Her varied experiences in the field plus her many years teaching 1st and 4th grades allowed her to blend her knowledge of the natural world with her teaching, providing students opportunities to make deeper connections to what they were learning. Finding ways to incorporate and teach different kinds of art to her students has always been a particular joy for Meg.
Throughout her teaching career, she added in extra art at every opportunity, believing that art adds depth to any curriculum. Beyond its value in extending and deepening curricular content, however, she holds a valuable avenue for self-expression at any age.
Like Melinda, Meg is an outdoor enthusiast, and she loves to be out on her bicycle or out walking in the woods, hunting for mushrooms, and keeping an ear and eye for birds and other wildlife, particularly our native bees. She often volunteers in the classrooms at her old school, gravitating to the art room whenever possible.
Melinda Schneider
Melinda leveraged her business degree and graphic design background, to establish a full-service graphic design firm with a team of five. Her company, Visual Communications, produced multimedia presentations, websites, and brochures for clients ranging from local Seattle area businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Her design experience included working two years at Microsoft designing PowerPoint presentations for Bill Gates and the office of the president, then traveling nationally and internationally to Microsoft conferences supporting Bill and the other top execs with their presentations.
Melinda enjoys being with kids and has volunteered as a coach for Girls on the Run and a student tutor for KidReach. She also supported local elementary school teachers in math, reading, and art.
An avid hiker, mountain biker, skier and snowboarder, Melinda finds beauty and inspiration from the natural world. She also enjoys reading, gardening, and traveling.