Alexander Taylor, Spanish

large view "La Parroquia", San Miguel Allende, Mexico, Oil on Wood Panel

Alexander Taylor

Alexander Taylor teaches lower school Spanish at St. Francis School.  In 2004, Mr. Taylor and his family moved to Louisville from the Boston area where they lived since 1995.

Mr. Taylor is from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he grew up in a bilingual household. Through boarding school and college he returned to San Miguel on summer and winter breaks, studying art and music at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and working for the family business. After college, Mr. Taylor worked in Mexico City for Drafft, a small design firm. In 1996, he traveled to Brissago, Switzerland to attend the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design.

When not teaching Spanish at St. Francis, Mr. Taylor devotes his time to his two children (the youngest is a sixth grader at St. Francis), and his passion for the visual arts. He is a graduate of the Orme School of Arizona, and holds a BFA from Arizona State University and a MFA from Yale University.  

Before becoming a Spanish teacher, Mr. Taylor worked as a graphic designer in New York City and New England. His last job in design was with Simon & Schuster in Boston, where he helped design and develop an elementary school Spanish literature program. Before that, his work as a freelance designer allowed him to teach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Parsons School of Design in New York City.

A love of teaching began for Mr. Taylor while assistant teaching at the Yale School of Art and, though he now teaches Spanish instead of design, his love of teaching remains. He especially enjoys working with elementary- and middle school-aged children.

large view " Cuna de Allende", San Miguel Allende, Mexico, Oil on Canvas

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