Jason Beaudreau, Interdisciplinary Arts.

Welcome to the online home of Interdisciplinary Teaching Artist, Jason Beaudreau..

I live, work, and create in a small century old farmhouse on the southern shore of Lake Ontario with my two dogs. My neighbors are acres of fruit trees, a small hidden and forgotten grove of old growth forest, owl, hawk, eagle, deer, coyote, fox, and the big fish who return (with some prompting by human hands), year after year, season after season, to the spawning grounds in my backyard. This amazing great lakes ecosystem has deeply influenced my practice as an artist.

I have a formal training in music and art that spans a continuum of over 4 decades, and have been creating using music, sound, film, video, photography, and text, since my first punk ethos d.i.y. music and art projects in the late 1980’s. Music and Art were my escape in this sleepy little town when I was growing up. They still are today. I am still writing epic songs in my bedroom studio about my dogs and pondering things that go boing.…

I ended up leaving Western New York several times for enough years to live and gather experience in a few different and inspiring places. I am fortunate to have been able to study with amazing teachers of music, art, and the martial arts during my travels. I have been lucky to perform and teach professionally in music, dance, theatre, and the martial arts nationally for a few decades now. My work as a composer, producer, and sound designer has filtered its way to a few different corners of the globe. Throughout all of my seeking, I always seem to find myself back home in Western New York, much like the steelhead who will find shelter this coming season underneath the bones of one of the oldest trees in the county.

There is something comforting about being in this place later in life. Maybe it is the call of the geese, the stinging of the cold wind of a Nor’easter blowing over the lake, or the sound of crickets on a late autumn night. I am grateful to be able to share my passion for the arts through my creative teaching practice at my studio in Niagara Falls, through my installations, recordings, and performances, through online lessons to a national body of students, and in masterclasses and workshops.

Education:

MFA Interdisciplinary Arts. Goddard College. 2013.

B.S. Music Theory/Composition. Magna Cum Laude. SUNY New Paltz. 1995.

B.S. Jazz Studies. Magna Cum Laude. SUNY New Paltz. 1995.