Helga Jensen-Ruopp

I have spend 30+years in the educational arena where I have taught elementary, middle, high school and university classes, I have been the K-12 Science Program Coordinator and the K-12 Fine and Applied Arts Curriculum administrator. I’ve taught for NOAA and Distance Learning for Connecticut.

I have written grants, partnered with WCSU, NSTA, NCCC, Intel, CBIA, HP technology, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmacuticals, UCONN, Trout in the Classroom, and Science Horizons.

Having been an ELL student, I ran an English Language Learner class for adults at Immanuel Lutheran Church, taught German at the German School in Danbury.

Am involved with Immanuel Lutheran Church and school, Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, the Lions Club of Danbury and the YMCA.

And now enjoy working at Escape to the Arts, (YMCA) where I teach art, photography and cooking, programs geared to elementary and middle school students, and for adults I started ‘Paint, Palette, and Pour.’ I give private lessons and work on commissions.

I have had one-woman shows at: City Center, Danbury Library, Hauge Insurance Company, Bethel Library, participated in Newtown Visual Arts on the Green, Trinity Art Festival, Lime, CT, the Danbury Museum & Historical Society, Accessible Art Exhibits, and was chosen for Danbury City’s ‘Traffic Box Art.’ My ‘Jupiter Lighthouse with Sailfish’ design was chosen as the logo on the Class B shirt for Boy Scout Troop 173, Jupiter, FL.