Your Team 4 Better Schools - Lisa Schare

Lisa Schare received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, and her Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in NYC. Ms. Schare also received a MA in Art Education from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.

Lisa is a successful educator, practicing artist, and community activist.

Lisa began teaching Studio Art and Art History at local colleges, including the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky University, and the University of Cincinnati. Ms. Schare is a member of the art department at Princeton High School. Her success as a teacher there can be judged in terms of the achievement of her students who each year have placed in the Scholastic Art Award competition, as well as the Ohio Governor’s Award program.

Ms. Schare’s success as an artist has been recognized by a number of invited gallery exhibitions both locally and nationally, as well as an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, and a City of Cincinnati Individual Artist Grant. She has used her artistic and teaching skills to work with at-risk youth in urban Cincinnati through the Citizen’s Committee on Youth and the Urban Appalachian Council.

Lisa has also shown her devotion to community and political issues. She has been nominated as a Woman of the Year in 2004 by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Ms. Schare an active member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and chaired the successful Grace Place fundraiser. Grace Place provides transitional housing to homeless women and their children.

She has also demonstrated her organizational skills by starting the Catholic Democrats of Ohio, a local chapter of the national Catholic Democrats. Working with other progressive Catholic groups, they produced locally a six percent increase in Catholics voting Democratic in the last Presidential election.

Lisa Schare lives in Cincinnati with her daughter, Helen, a Walnut Hills High School 7th grader.

More Information:

Lisa's page at the League of Women Voters

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