Create Wellbeing in Your Classroom

Jenny is passionate about creating shared experiences for children and adults around art and mindfulness. Her work is grounded in creativity research and social emotional learning. She has worked extensively with special populations. Jenny helps people unlock their own creativity by silencing their fearful inner critic and cultivating growth mindset, curiosity, resilience, and other creative behaviors.

Jenny earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MA in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has spent more than 20 years working in public schools and museums in New York City including a decade at the Guggenheim Museum. Jenny relocated to Montana in 2014 and joined the staff at the Missoula Art Museum in 2018 in the role of Educator Coordinator. She helped found Happy HeART Teachers in 2017.

Ilana Ingber, founder of Happy HeART Studio and Happy HeART Teacher Mentorship program, is passionate about teaching mindfulness, social emotional learning skills, and growth mindset to children and school teachers. She has her masters in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, her 200-hour yoga certification from YogaWorks, as well as, a yoga alliance certification in teaching yoga and mindfulness to children from Little Flower Yoga. Ilana is passionate about helping people find inner confidence, joy, and meaning through the teaching of art, yoga, qi gong, and meditation. She infuses themes such as: self-love, compassion, collaboration, determination, courage, and gratitude in all her lessons. Ilana has taught as an educator in both the public school, private school, and museum settings. She began her career in New York City where she worked for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Learning through Art Program and Creativity Institute. She later taught at Success Academy Charter School and became the Art Content Lead, providing mentorship and professional development for art teachers across the network of Success Academy schools. Ilana is an active member of the National Art Education Association and has presented at National Conventions on topics such as: Teaching Collaboration Skills through Painting Curriculum, Assessing Creativity, and Infusing Mindfulness Practices into the Art Studio. Additionally Ilana attends neuroscience, experiential education, and mindfulness conferences every year as part of her ongoing learning. Overall, Ilana is most committed to teaching herself and others how to find inner love, joy, and creativity, to create a more compassionate and peaceful world.