Who+We+Are

=**Mr. Grainger**= A little about myself...I was born in Washington, NC on December 1st, 1974. I attended the last two years of high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Its was a very formative experience which cemented my desire to study the Fine Arts. I attended one year of school in Chicago at the School of the Art Institute concentrating on large scale abstract oil paintings. I loved living in the city and being at the school but the monetary cost was too much to bear. I returned to North Carolina to attend classes at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, eventually switching my major to ceramics. However, after two and a half years I left school to pursue a career in the culinary arts. This detour which began as a simple dish washing job to make rent quickly developed into a passion for all things food and a career in restaurants lasting ten years.

On September 21st, 2002 Jennifer Knox (Upper School Art Instructor and Woodward Alum) and I were married in Black Mountain, NC. After a very frugal but fabulous honeymoon in Costa Rica we relocated to Atlanta. My passion for the kitchen soon began to wane, mostly due to Jen and I having opposite work schedules. After a year of leaving the apartment 30 minutes before Jen got home and returning home 30 minutes after she had gone to bed, we decided it was time for a change. So we moved to India.

We lived in Kerala (the south-western most state on the tip of the sub-continent) at a botanical sanctuary helping with their education program. Urban school children from schools all over India would come and experience life in the rain forest, learning about ecology, native plant species, sustainability and themselves. It was a fantastic year in India and my first total immersion in educational theory and practice. After four more months traveling through south-east Asia (Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan) we landed back in Atlanta. Jennifer accepted her position at Woodward and I returned to college to finish my BFA in Ceramics at Georgia State, graduating in December of 2008.

Now I find myself part of the Woodward family. I'm excited about the new school year and getting to know the students, parents and faculty of this strange and wondrous place.

Mrs. Warren


Mrs. Caroline Warren is a graduate of the University of Georgia. She has been a teacher’s assistant at Woodward Academy for eleven years. She is currently working on her Master’s degree in Integrating Technology in the Classroom at Walden University. She is incredibly well organized and which Mr. Grainger greatly appreciates.