Winter/Spring 2010 Instructors

Marcie Jan Bronstein has been creating photo-based art and design for the past 20 years. Known for her unique, hand-painted images, her work has been exhibited, published, and collected in the U.S. and abroad.  She is the author/photographer of three books, and the artist/designer for a number of large scale commissions. For more than ten years, Marcie has studied and practiced yoga, and for the past three, she has taught yoga classes at the Belfast Dance Studio. 

Larraine Brown is a writer, theater activist and storyteller. She has facilitated a number of collaborative experimental theater projects throughout the country. Larraine uses a wide variety of techniques to promote personal and social change, drawing on her work with Brazilian revolutionary director Augusto Boal, David Diamond's Theatre for Living and renowned acting coach Deena Levy.

Adele Drake received an MFA from UPenn in 1991 and is a certified art teacher in Maine and Pennsylvania. She brings to her students a wide range of knowledge about art media and art history. An adjunct faculty member at Husson College, Drake is also a founding member of the MaineArtists Group, which shows annually at the Lincoln Street Art Center in Rockland. Recently, she was accepted in the I-95 Triennial Show and the University of Maine Museum of Art.

Dave Peloquin is a lifetime artist who studied at the Swain School of Design, and learned figure drawing with Gene Tonoff. He has taught professionally for over 30 years. Peloquin teaches drawing based on the ideas of Kimon Nicolaides and Betty Edwards. Peloquin has worked professionally in art instruction, illustration, television, commercial design, and four color lithography. He is also a recording musician.

Deb Pickering has taught preschoolers for over 20 years, in public and private settings. She loves using art as a way for young people to discover and learn about the world around them.

Abbie Read grew up in New England then lived in several different M states (and one W) around the country before moving back to New England and permanently to Maine in 1998 with her husband Bart. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1978, earned a BA in art history and studio art and years later got an MFA in Mixed Media from the University of Michigan School of Art. From 1983 until 1989 Abbie taught painting and printmaking at Concord Academy in Concord, MA. Art and teaching art have been has been the focus but she sometimes practiced both in ways other than being in a studio or classroom. In 1991, feeling as passionate about making gardens and thinking about garden design as she is about visual art and design, Read started ARTgarden, a landscape garden design and installation business. As a studio artist her work shifts easily between two and three dimensions, always evolving, staying fluid and experimental, with ideas coming and going, growing seasonally then going dormant for awhile, very much like a garden. Read's work almost always makes use of found, recycled and cast off items in addition to paper and paint.

Lesia Sochor has brought art to young people for years at Toddy Pond School, Waterfall Arts, and other schools and settings in the area. She is a painter and book illustrator.

Linda Stec has worked with young people for over 30 years, running the Starrett Children’s Center, and holds an MFA in Ceramics.

You can register for classes by calling us at 207-338-2222