Summary
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Languages
Accomplishments
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Full art portfolio
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SAm Cooper-Davis

Tigard,OR

Summary

I have many skills related to art. My experience with childcare has given me soft skills that are useful for social problems. My attention to detail is useful for organizing and keeping track of events, objects, and other things.

Education

High School Diploma -

Tigard High School
Tigard, OR
06-2025

Skills

Artistic hard skills

  • Block print making
  • Color theory
  • Crochet (clothing, toys, basic knowledge of tapestry)
  • Drawing (graphite and colored pencil, oil pastel, crayon, marker, ink)
  • Gourd carving (2-D designs)
  • Hand-sewing (clothing repair, making doll clothing)
  • Knitting (basic knowledge of straight needles, double-pointed needles, and cable needles)
  • Painting (watercolor, gouache, acrylic)

Other hard skills

  • Childcare (not confident in infant care skills)
  • JPN level N4 (my writing and comprehension skills are better than my speaking skills)
  • Organization of physical spaces, digital spaces, and information
  • Visual design of images and spaces

Soft skills

  • Attention to detail in many sensory aspects
  • Constructive criticism
  • Effective written communication
  • Endurance
  • Active listening
  • Guidance (teaching a skill, guiding through a task)
  • Integrity
  • Problem solving, especially in a setting with young children

Affiliations

For much of my free time I make art and explore linguistics. Currently I am studying toki pona, a constructed language, and Japanese, a naturally evolved language. In my art I am exploring different ways to use multiple media and how they affect each other.

Languages

Japanese
Limited

Accomplishments

I completed my high school's child development CTE pathway. I was also the secretary of my high school's GSA (gender and sexuality alliance) club during my senior year.

Full art portfolio

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wWUdQG1727lkq5tCZ06fRAkV8IV9hT1X?usp=sharing

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

High School Diploma -

Tigard High School
SAm Cooper-Davis