Meet Our Instructors
Clay Instructors
Judy Becker
Painter, potter, and metal sculptor. She has dabbled in the arts since childhood. She credits her creativity to great genes and her skills to incredible instruction…
Martha Grover
Martha Grover is a functional potter, living in Bethel Maine, creating thrown and altered porcelain pieces. READ MORE
Sandy Moore Howe
Sandy Moore Howe is a ceramic artist living and working on Marco Island, Florida. She earned a BFA from the University…READ MORE
Cory McCrory
It took years for me to find my place in ceramics. I hand built at an early age. Like most…
Rinny Ryan
Rinny Ryan touched clay for the first time in college in 1962. She received her B.A. from
Anne Vreeland
Ann Vreeland is a professional potter from Ohio operating Sisters Pottery Studio. She has a BFA in ceramic art…
Glenn Woods
Glenn creates functional and decorative pottery with strong influences from nature.
Alix Cunningham
Alix opened her first clay studio in 2008 in a tiny storefront in Fishermans Village, Marina Del Rey, CA….
Don & Cristina Williams
DMW Pottery Studio is run by Don Williams and his wife Cristina. His graceful wheel thrown…
Denise Ertler
“Denise Ertler has been professionally involved in the ceramics industry for more than thirty-five years. As a studio owner, retailer, and professional potter…
Nancy Norman
Starting with a first grade portrait of a snowman, Nancy has always followed the arts. She studied art at …
Ira Burhans
I am drawn to the classic Japanese pottery that influenced many potters. The simple shapes and glazes seem to…
Ginny Mueller
“I began my love affair with clay about 15 years ago after taking clay classes at Marco Center for the Arts. Traveling to wheel and hand building workshops with pottery friends …
Virginia Palma
I come from an artist family few generations back. My father is a sculptor and my mother is a fabric artist. I…
Jennifer C. McCurdy
Jen has been selling her porcelain in art shows and galleries for the last thirty-five years, and her work is included in the collections of several institutions…
Acrylic Instructors
Diane Reed Eiler
Diane Reed Eiler received her BFA in Studio Art at the University of Arizona. She lived in Arizona for ten years as she pursued her education and art career.
Jo-Ann Sanborn
Jo-Ann Sanborn has joyfully painted the threatened Everglades landscape since falling in love at first sight. The focus is to bring attention to the fragile landscape…
Drawing Instructors
Tara O’Neill
Life-long artist Tara O’Neill has been an area resident over 50 years. She holds a BFA through the University of South Florida, Tampa, and Oxford University, England…
Pastel Instructors
Douglas David
Douglas David has painted his way across the country, capturing the beauty and spirit of the things he loves…
Maureen Gerrity
I have been working in the medium of Pastel and Oil since I was a teen.
Mixed Media Instructors
Shirley Wilson Blake
Shirley has been a working artist since the early 80’s, is represented in galleries in IA, IL, MN, WI, and FL. She has taught art extensively…
Tara Funk Grim
Color and I have been on a long journey together, beginning when I was a child and filling in coloring books with bright rainbow hues…
Maggie Henry
Maggie Henry’s art has been a life long journey. While living in Northern CA she studied Mixed Media Collage & Watercolor …
Oil
Inez Hudson
Primarily a self-taught artist, Inez began drawing classes at Oakland Community College, studying oils with local artists, learning basket…
Phyllis Pransky
I made my own way to being a professional working artist with a professional working studio known as My Yellow Sandbox Studio….
Elio Camacho
My workshops are very hands-on, with an emphasis on easel-side critiques. I believe that giving instruction is important, but showing students..
Douglas David
Douglas David has painted his way across the country, capturing the beauty and spirit of the things he loves – tranquil country landscapes, sunrises and sunsets on his favorite beaches…
Specialty
Lorelle Bacon
I was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1941…While being confined to bed for a year after developing Rheumatic Fever at age 11, I discovered drawing and determined that I would be a dress designer when I grew up…READ MORE
Sherry DeGennaro
I describe the style of my paintings as “Representational Abstract”, suggesting organic shapes, colors, and textures in the real world…
Hannah Ineson
Hannah Ineson works in several art media, from painting in oils, acrylics and watercolor, to clay arts. As a long time teacher, she offers demonstrations…
Edythe Newborne
Edythe Newbourne became fascinated with traditional Chinese brush painting at the age of 12. By the time she became an adult…READ MORE
Marjorie Pesek
Majorie Pesek is one of the foremost mixed media artists of her generation and the creator of her unique art form – Layered Imagery…
Ted Streppa
I grew up in Fairport, New York, a small village outside of Rochester. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University in 1961, and my Doctor…
Madeline Sugerman
Madeline received her formal art training at the Fine Arts Department of Lehman College, City University of New York. She graduated cum laude…
Karen Swanker
Before retiring from a career in advertising and graphic arts, Karen owned and operated a retail craft shop in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania…
Christine Otis
Christine Otis is a freelance artist, writer and teacher. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania…
Leigh Herndon
Working daily in her studio, Leigh creates nature-inspired paintings and wearable art, primarily Japanese silk dyeing processes after earning an MFA in fibers…
Stone
Joel Shapses
Shapses’ Award winning sculptures are prominently displayed in private collections and public venues throughout North America…
Watercolor
Diane Reed Eiler
Diane Reed Eiler received her BFA in Studio Art at the University of Arizona. She lived in Arizona for ten years as she pursued her education and art career.
Janet Cedar Kindy
Janet ”Cedar” Kindy has been painting for over 30 years. She is passionate about watercolor and changing its bad rap…
Judy Chinsky
I think of painting as a journey. As I travel to places real or imagined, I strive to record the beauty of the things I see around me…