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Carla Rodea is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born and raised in Mexico City. Her/their research-based work involves a variety of disciplines and mediums such as music, sound art, poetry, vocal performance and performance art, photography, video, movement, sculpture and, of course, sharing knowledge. Carla earned an M.F.A. from CUNY’s digital and interdisciplinary arts practice and was a recipient of several awards and fellowships for research-based residencies in Mexico City. Before that, Carla studied music at the National Center for the Arts in Mexico, and later received her/their B.F.A. in vocal performance from the City College of New York. Carla is an alumna and fellow of the Wassaic Project, The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, Works on Water, The Home School, and Materia Abierta. She/they has taught music, art, and languages for the past 20 years. She/they has also performed extensively and shown work internationally. Carla joined the BPC community in 2021.
Teaching Since
The 90s
Pronouns
she/her/they/them
Contact
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Why I Work with Children
I learn so much!
A Favorite Book
I’ve been loving Octavia Butler’s and Fred Moten’s work for a few years now.
Quick Fact
I speak several languages.
Eighth Grade History & Geography Teacher
Keen on floating houses and mutant Basset Hounds
Full Bio >
Seventh Grade Math Teacher, Math Club / Math Team Coach
Played soccer on a Zambian teacher team
Eighth Grade Math Teacher
Loves to travel
Fourth-Sixth Grade Music Teacher
Tamed a mechanical bull in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sixth Grade Science Teacher and Sixth Grade-Level Coordinator
Herded sheep by motorbike in Australia.
Upper School Physical Education Teacher and Upper School Athletic Director
Eighth Grade English and Eighth Grade Drama Teacher
Ask me about the time I had a magical and terrifying stand-off with a bison in the Badlands.
Seventh and Eighth Grade Music Teacher, Band Director
Performed music in South Africa during the end of legal apartheid.
Eighth Grade Science Teacher
Apprenticed with a luthier, adept with a paddle
Sixth & Seventh Grade Math Teacher
Seventh Grade History Teacher
Sixth Grade English Teacher
Loves to write or paint
Upper School Assistant Teacher
Fluent Russian speaker
BPC String Orchestra Leader
Creates musical arrangements for fun
Seventh Grade Science Teacher
Kissed a shark once!
Sixth Grade Spanish Teacher
My birthday is April 1st, no joke!
Seventh Grade English Teacher
Obsessed with the Salem witchcraft trials
Sixth Grade History Teacher
Played Gaelic Football as a youth, and won a Minors championship in Ireland
Upper School Mandarin Teacher
Once ate deep-fried silkworms
Seventh Grade Math Assistant, Math Team Coach
