Jean Opperman is an innovative educator with 35 years of experience teaching drawing. She developed a drawing curriculum for the Fashion Design Program at CCA (California College of the Arts). In addition, for the past 25 years, she taught drawing classes for the pre-college, first year, Fashion Design and Illustration Programs continuing as a teacher, academic advisor, and chair of the program.
This December, Jean will retire after 29 years encouraging, inspiring, and instructing hundreds of students in the fine art of the line. She will however continue her figurative work and managing the business aspect of artist, Gustavo Rivera’s (see Business Concept Magazine, July 2022) career.
Heide Betz: Tell us about your background, your family. Where did you grow up?
Jean Opperman: I grew up in Poplar Bluff, MO.…