Mrs. Christy Young To All Instructors

I am excited to join the wonderful team of tutors and leaders at Eagle's Nest as the MS/HS Art tutor!

My husband and I have five kids, four of whom have graduated, and the youngest is in middle school. I attended Georgia Tech as a math major, with a job at an accounting firm lined up, but God showed me that my path and true love was education, so I changed direction and never looked back. During my 25 years of homeschooling, I've tutored middle school through college math - both privately and at co-ops - as well as MS/HS photography. I have a heart for young people and strive to pour into them love and positivity along with instruction.

I have always enjoyed looking at and learning about art - going to museums, taking an art history class that I adored, and especially learning about photography - from my first film camera to a dslr that is now nearly outperformed by the camera on my phone. However, until the last few years, I hadn't considered that I might enjoy creating other forms of art.
 

I had one of those middle school art classes where the teacher sat a pile of stuff in the middle of the table, and told us to draw it. No instruction. No joy. No bueno. I think even Picasso would have looked at my drawing and not understood it. So, that was that - I was apparently bad at art. Except, I had a building need to create and play with color, and so, in my 40s, I revisited that voice that said I was bad at art and told it that I didn't care. I was going to create anyway. Thereafter bloomed my love of watercolor. Now, I spend free moments training my brain to see things in shapes and my hand to draw them, so I can become more proficient at painting them.

My hope is to help my students have the confidence to create art by developing their skills while finding joy in the process.

Current Classes
HS Art 1 '26-'27 – Tutor (open)
MS Art '26-'27 – Tutor (open)