2008 Spring Teachers
Trent Emery-ARTicipation
Jennifer Howard-ART+Play
Jennifer Howard is a published children's book author and illustrator, a Montessori teacher, a mother and an artist. She brings with her 15 years of experience working with young children and families and a love for story telling which she incorporates into her classes. She resides in Northport with her husband and three sons in the forest.
Abbie Read-Designing the Artistic Garden
Abbie Read has taught art and design for many years. As a partner in the Downtown Gallery she is a practicing artist whose work can be seen at www.downtownartgallery.com Her business, ARTgarden, based in Appleton, offers garden design and maintenance services as well as site consultations. www.midcoast.com/~artgardn
Lynn Pussic-Working the Wheel
Lynn Pussic started studying and working with clay seven years ago to explore the intriguing combination of form and glaze available with clay. She studied at Unity College with Master Ceramicist Gretchen Luchessi. For the past two years Lynn has taught children and adults at Waterfall Arts the processes of creating pottery. She also crafts stained glass and is a professional desktop publisher.
Lesia Sochor- ARTicipation
Lesia Sochor began her studies as a teenager with Ukrainian watercolorist Peter Mehik. A graduate of Philadelphia College of Art, Lesia has taught art and exhibited her watercolors for 25 years in Maine.
Linda Stec-MUDClub for teens
Linda Stec is a multifaceted artist, whose areas of expertise include ceramics, puppet theater and nurturing the artistic spirit of young children at the Starrett Center in Belfast. She holds BA and MA degrees in ceramics.
2008 Summer Teachers
Barbara Andrus-Weaving Trees
Barbara Andrus is currently living and working on two islands, Swan's Island and Manhattan. Recent shows include "Tree Weave: A Quiet Corner"" at the Groton School, Groton, Ma and evolving installations at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. She recently completed an installation in the lobby of the 30/30 Hotel- as part of the Art Now Fair, Manhattan.
Marta Bernbaum-Intermediate and Advanced Torchwork
Marta Bernbaum grew up in Maine and received a BFA from the Mass College of Art where she studied a multitude of disciplines involving glass as a medium. She also studied torch work in New York City and now uses the torch to create detailed and delicate glass pieces. www.jmbglass.com
Jen Brown-Teaching Green
Avy Claire-Summer Artist in Residence and Building "the nursery"
Avy Claire is an artist who divides her time between a studio in Maine and one in New York City. The challenges of landscape and conceptual involvement are significant to her art. " I am interested in the dynamic tension between human mechanistic activity and nature's deeper order. I call this intersection 'The Garden'." www.avyclaire.com
Squidge Liljeblad Davis -Side by Side Clay
Squidge Liljeblad Davis, Director of Starflower Farm and Studios in Monroe, has studied with numerous world-class potters and holds a M.F.A. in ceramics. She has been a State of Maine Resident Artist since 1978 and has taught thousands of individuals the joy of creative process through the vehicle of clay.
David Estey-Drawing the Figure in Nature
Maine native David Estey is an award winning painter/printmaker who has taught and exhibited widely in the eastern US. His work covers a wide range of styles and media. He received degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and George Washington University, and studied further at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
Harold Garde-StrappoTechnique
Elissa Garde Joia-Clay Camp Mornings
Elissa Garde-Joia has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has been playing with clay for as long as she can remember. She has studied ceramics at City College in New York, and at the Henry Street Settlement, and in many private studios along the way.
Russell Kahn-Twice is Nice Clay Workshop-Sgraffito
and ART+Nature Camps
Russell Kahn appreciates "the privilege of watching each child's creative vision unfold. Their approach is refreshingly absent of preconceived notions." An artist and highly regarded art teacher, Russell brings many cultural influences to his work through his experiences living in New England, South Africa, the Southwest and New York City.
Joel Lipman-The Writer’s Workshop in Poetry-The Intimacy of Place
A former student of Gwendolyn Brooks, James Wright and Robert Creeley, Joel Lipman is Professor of Art & English at the University of Toledo, where he also is one the faculty of the Toledo Museum of Art School of Art & Design. Among his small and independent press collections of poetry are Mercury Vapor Lamp [Ocooch Mountain Press], Machete Chemistry/Panades Physics, with Yasser Musa [Cubola New Art Foundation], The Real Ideal [Luna Bisante Prods], and Ransom Notes [Obscure Publications]. Long active as a mail artist and visual poet, his work can be found on-line at the Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry. Joel is married to Cynthia Landrum. They have 3 children and are summer residents of Northport.
Jamie Oates- Twice is Nice Clay Workshop-Teapots
Teapots are an interesting challenge for potters. A good teapot wants to have a good handle, lid and pouring spout. It should feel balanced and not too heavy and of course be attractive to the user. After 35 years of making pots, Jamie Oates is still enjoying the process of shaping clay. He makes porcelain bowls and mugs and other items for everyday use. In addition to porcelain, Jamie makes beautiful raku lamps and other one-of-a-kind raku pots. Over the years his pottery has been seen at juried shows through out the Northeast. In 1988 Jamie and spouse, Jeannette Faunce, established Mainely Pottery, a gallery showcasing handmade pottery from several Maine potters. Jamie's studio is next to the gallery on Route 1, Searsport Avenue. Visitors are welcome to come to the studio and see clay works in progress.
Paul Oberst-The Printed Voice
Paul Oberst has been making art since childhood but professionally since 1982. Since then he has been exploring his image of the "temple" first covered in abstract and representational marks, then in gallery, museum, university, dance and site-specific performances or installations. He took a break from building temples to build his home with surrounding stone walls in Montville during the early 90s. In 1989, Paul returned to making temples in various media incorporating clusters of words that he composes himself. He also travels to Mexico and the Southwest to study the architecture and cultures of the Mayan and Pueblo peoples. Currently Paul has been working on a large body of banded temples covered with words to be shown in Philadelphia at Bridgette Mayer Gallery (open April 1), the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art (opening in late May), and a corporate space this spring (mid April). Oberst's work is in numerous museums, corporate, private and university collections.
Susie O’Keefe-Sensing Our Way into Nature
Susie’s passion for healing our relationship to the natural world has taken her to Europe and back, into inner city communities and on to rural farms. It has moved her from poetry to politics and back again. She has lectured widely to a variety of audiences on a number of environmental issues, including our separation from nature, and how to imagine new ways of living within the natural world. Susie holds a Master of Science with distinction in Environmental Management from Oxford University where she explored human conflict with wolves, and opportunities for co-existence. She recently completed creating Maine FarmLink, a farm transfer program for the Maine Farmland Trust. Before this she worked for MOFGA. In addition to publishing a monthly environmental article in a Toronto based paper and writing poetry, she is studying how our senses, intuition, imagination and dreams can help us transcend our separation from the natural world. In particular, she is focusing on how, when combined with the creative process, these forms of perception and experience can be used to create an ecologically sustainable world. She is currently seeking grants to apply her research to carnivore conservation. She speaks French fluently and lives in solar powered home in Montville.
Deb Pickering-ART+Nature Camps
Currently, Deb Pickering teaches art at the Cornerspring Montessori School in Belfast. Previously, she ran the Woodland Schoolhouse Early Learning Center in Searsmont. Her experience and dedication to learning through exploration and play sparks creativity in young minds.
Cathy Plourde-Power of One
Cathy Plourde is a playwright and founding director of Add Verb Productions. Add Verb is based in Portland but presents around the country; her touring plays (You the Man, The Thin Line) are performed by professional actors in schools, colleges and various community settings. Her work using theatre to make a difference in communities has received awards from the Maine Women's Fund, and Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine; and, she was a finalist for the Volvo For Life Award. In Maine she frequently works with the Maine Alliance for Arts Education's residency program, and has facilitated youth devising theater for social change since the mid 90's, most recently with Muskie YLAT group for youth in foster care advocacy. Last year she was commissioned by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England to write a play on youth/adult communication about sexuality (When Turtles Make Love) and she has a new play that helps the health care sector examine their role in preventing violence. Cathy is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Adjunct Artist in Residence at the University of Southern Maine, a volunteer for the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival.
Leslie Pontz-Crocheted Metal Sculpture
Leslie Pontz “pushes the envelope” by using crocheted wire and creating non-traditional fiber-sculpture, weaving metal and fabric together. Leslie holds a masters degree in printmaking from Syracuse University and was the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts as an Artist-in-residence. She is the former owner/designer of Leslie Pontz Design, an international manufacturing company that produced a high-end artist designed and hand printed line of table linens and related tabletop products. Leslie has shown internationally in invitational and juried exhibits in Paris, Brazil and Venezuela as well as throughout the U.S. She is the recipient of several awards for her work. Leslie is a co-founder of ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick, a nationally acclaimed east coast venue for the exhibition of art quilts. At present, she is represented by the Snyderman/Works Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Boston Art Inc in Boston, Massachusetts and is part of many private and public including but not limited to the Kamm and Best Western collections.
Lynn Pussic-Clay Camp Afternoons
Lynn Pussic started studying and working with clay seven years ago to explore the intriguing combination of form and glaze available with clay. She studied at Unity College with Master Ceramicist Gretchen Luchessi. For the past two years Lynn has taught children and adults at Waterfall Arts the processes of creating pottery. She also crafts stained glass and is a professional desktop publisher.
Michael Simon-Twice is Nice Clay Workshop- Slab Built Clocks
Michael taught art and photography at Beloit College for over 30 years. His resume also includes his own studio for advertising photography in New York City. Michael shares his joy and delight in working with clay in his whimsical signature slab built clocks
Suzanne Southworth- Beginner and Youth Torchwork
Suzanne Southworth lives in Rockport ME. She is a 1995 graduate of S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, New York. She has a Bachelors Degree in Art Education with certification to teach k-12 Fine Arts. She teaches at Camden Hills High School. Suzanne has a strong background in metalsmithing, glass, and painting. Four years ago Suzanne learned the art of glass bead making right here at the Waterfall Arts Center formally known as Kingdom Falls in Montville. She has many hours of teaching and experimenting with this medium under her belt and looks forward to sharing it with others.
Linda Stec-MUDClub for teens
Linda Stec is a multifaceted artist, whose areas of expertise include ceramics, puppet theater and nurturing the artistic spirit of young children at the Starrett Center in Belfast. She holds BA and MA degrees in ceramics.
Richard Tremeglio-The Little Green House from A to Z
Richard Tremaglio grew up in a family of resourceful builders. Educated at Brown in art and MIT in architecture, he has practiced and taught extensively from a Cambridge, MA base since the early 80's. His appropriate, environmentally sensitive buildings, in diverse settings from Colorado to Maine and Prince Edward Island, reflect a passion for the art of building in support of place and community. Hands-on experience, initiated in early participatory design-build projects, is central to his teaching philosophy: that we draw inspiration and information from materials-at-hand.
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