MEET the ARTIST
Kimberly M. Roberts is a South Carolina based International Artist-in-residence with extensive teaching and performance experience. During her 25+ years as a teaching artist, she has been invited to teach and perform at more than 400 schools, as well as dozens of libraries, child development centers, festivals, and Arts camps throughout her state of South Carolina, across the United States, and internationally.
Unlike many artists-in-residence, Mrs. Roberts has a teaching degree. Her true passion is teaching and she has directly taught thousands of students- more than 50,000 during the span of her 25+ year teaching career. Mrs. Roberts' work as a teaching artist has brought her to some of the most economically challenged communities to the most culturally enriched around the world. She has worked with students across the entire age spectrum- senior adults, professional adults, college students, high school, middle school, elementary, and early childhood. Mrs. Roberts has successfully worked with every type of learner including the academically gifted, behaviorally at-risk, and children with severe to profound developmental and physical limitations. In addition to usual populations of learners, she frequently delivers programs to youth in the custody of the Department of Social Services, Department of Juvenile Justice, and students at the SC School for the Deaf and Blind. She quickly builds rapport with students and hosting teachers to create a positive and fun learning environment that instills a sense of success in each student. She constantly explores ways to enhance her teaching to bring meaningful artistic experiences to every type of individual, no matter their age or ability level.
Kimberly M. Roberts double-majored in Choral Music Education and Percussion Performance while attending the University of South Carolina. She was the 1994-95 recipient of the prestigious Presser Award granted to college students for academic and musical excellence. While her major focused on music, every opportunity she had, Mrs. Roberts took visual art-based electives. She notes that her favorite non-music course while in college was “Art in the Elementary School.”
In 1994, Mrs. Roberts helped create the Pantasia Steel Band and thirty years later, she still leads this successful band. In 2010, she published her first children's book, Jammin' Geography-Caribbean Cruise. This, along with the Jumbie Jam instruction manual, Trinidad's Musical Journey music lesson book, and her experiences teaching many poetry-based residencies, qualified her as a Literary Artist-in-residence, in addition to her credential as a Music Artist-in-residence and Certified SC Teaching Artist.
Mrs. Roberts enjoys traveling the state of South Carolina, the U.S., and abroad, meeting new people, experiencing life in new communities, and sharing her particular specialties of Music and Literary Arts. She lives in Lexington, SC, with her husband and their two dogs- Scout & Sadie. Her hobbies include landscaping, organic gardening, pottery, photography, and anything "outdoors."
Kimberly M. Roberts is a South Carolina based International Artist-in-residence with extensive teaching and performance experience. During her 25+ years as a teaching artist, she has been invited to teach and perform at more than 400 schools, as well as dozens of libraries, child development centers, festivals, and Arts camps throughout her state of South Carolina, across the United States, and internationally.
Unlike many artists-in-residence, Mrs. Roberts has a teaching degree. Her true passion is teaching and she has directly taught thousands of students- more than 50,000 during the span of her 25+ year teaching career. Mrs. Roberts' work as a teaching artist has brought her to some of the most economically challenged communities to the most culturally enriched around the world. She has worked with students across the entire age spectrum- senior adults, professional adults, college students, high school, middle school, elementary, and early childhood. Mrs. Roberts has successfully worked with every type of learner including the academically gifted, behaviorally at-risk, and children with severe to profound developmental and physical limitations. In addition to usual populations of learners, she frequently delivers programs to youth in the custody of the Department of Social Services, Department of Juvenile Justice, and students at the SC School for the Deaf and Blind. She quickly builds rapport with students and hosting teachers to create a positive and fun learning environment that instills a sense of success in each student. She constantly explores ways to enhance her teaching to bring meaningful artistic experiences to every type of individual, no matter their age or ability level.
Kimberly M. Roberts double-majored in Choral Music Education and Percussion Performance while attending the University of South Carolina. She was the 1994-95 recipient of the prestigious Presser Award granted to college students for academic and musical excellence. While her major focused on music, every opportunity she had, Mrs. Roberts took visual art-based electives. She notes that her favorite non-music course while in college was “Art in the Elementary School.”
In 1994, Mrs. Roberts helped create the Pantasia Steel Band and thirty years later, she still leads this successful band. In 2010, she published her first children's book, Jammin' Geography-Caribbean Cruise. This, along with the Jumbie Jam instruction manual, Trinidad's Musical Journey music lesson book, and her experiences teaching many poetry-based residencies, qualified her as a Literary Artist-in-residence, in addition to her credential as a Music Artist-in-residence and Certified SC Teaching Artist.
Mrs. Roberts enjoys traveling the state of South Carolina, the U.S., and abroad, meeting new people, experiencing life in new communities, and sharing her particular specialties of Music and Literary Arts. She lives in Lexington, SC, with her husband and their two dogs- Scout & Sadie. Her hobbies include landscaping, organic gardening, pottery, photography, and anything "outdoors."