ARTSPACE SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM FOR YOUTHS

INSTRUCTORS

PARIS ALEXANDER was born and raised in New York City where he studied art since early childhood. Alexander's solo exhibitions include The Museum of World Cultures, UNC at Wilmington, Duke University, and the Fayetteville Museum of Art. His work is included in the collections of Saks Fifth Avenue, SAS Institute, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, and many others. Paris maintains a studio at Artspace.

VIDABETH BENSEN’s original screenprints reflect 27 years of living and working overseas as a professional artist and teacher. She has a BA in Art Education and an MA in Gifted Education. She teaches adults and children in the Triangle and many other locations in the US and overseas. Vidabeth’s work is in many private and corporate collections.

SARAH BRANIGAN works at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, in the Department of Art Education. She received her BFA from UNC in painting and drawing, and earned her Masters of Art Education from the University of Georgia, Athens. She has taught middle and high school art in GA and NC, and has taught in several after school and summer programs.

BONNIE BRUNNER is a NC licensed art teacher and a painter. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989 and has been teaching art for 10 years. Her students call her Mrs. Funner! Bonnie feels that making art is about “seeing” the world around you, creating possibilities, solving problems, and expressing your voice visually.

LEE GRUBER CLARK earned a BA in Studio Art and English at the UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Painting at the UNC Greensboro. She has exhibited her work in museums, galleries, and fine art centers across the US. Lee has also enjoyed teaching art to children in the public schools. She currently maintains a studio at Artspace.

JAYNE CLUGGISH received a BFA from Ohio University and an MFA from the State University of NY in Oswego. She has taught art at the elementary level for 18 years, currently at Heartwood Montessori School in Cary. Jayne has been a basketweaver since 1977. However, having a life-long interest in clay, she has always kept her fingers in the “mud.” Jayne has exhibited her work in NC and NY.

GABRIELLA CORTER has been living in Raleigh for the past four years although she has lived most of her life in Canada. After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a BA in English Literature, she completed a Fine Arts Degree from Langara College in Vancouver. She then moved to Toronto to complete a BFA in Drawing and Painting at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Gabriella currently exhibits in Raleigh at the Visual Art Exchange, Rebus Works, and 311 West Martin Gallery.

JOHN DANCY-JONES has been producing hand-laid paper and letterpress printing on paper since 1977. He operated the Paper Plant bookstore and book arts center in Raleigh from 1982 until 1990. He has published award-winning, small press publications since 1983. John is a science teacher and works with students who have learning challenges. He also has an English degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Masters degree in Special Education from NCSU.

EILEEN DOKTORSKI is Artspace’s 2008 Summer Artist-in-Residence. Eileen received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Utah Arts Council. She has had fifteen solo exhibitions of her work nationally. Eileen is currently an assistant professor of sculpture at Utah State University.

SONYA DRUM is an arts educator, theatrical designer, and studio artist. She received her BFA in Theater Design and Art Education from UNC-Greensboro and studied at Northwestern University. Sonya has been the resident scenic designer for Peace College Theatre for the past five years and is currently the Lead Scenic Artist for University Theatre at NCSU. She currently teaches art at Washington GT Magnet Elementary School and has taught several performing and visual art camps in the area.

KERRI ECKES received an MFA in 2005 in studio art with a concentration in painting from East Carolina University. Her work is figurative, with a formal interest primarily in color and design. Her current work also shows an interest in women’s issues. Kerri currently teaches drawing, painting, art history, and art appreciation at Mount Olive College in Mount Olive, NC. She is also a Digital Media instructor at the School of Communication Arts in Raleigh, teaching color theory using Photoshop, as well as drawing with traditional media.

SUSAN FENNEL was raised in Japan, so heroic characters like Momotaro (peach boy) and creatures like Kappa (water imp) are never far from her mind! In fact, Susan believes that a Kappa lived in a river that ran along the street of her childhood home. Today Susan lives in Raleigh where as far as she can tell there is no Kappa – but one never knows! She studied art at the Maryland Institute and at Meredith College, and currently teaches Japanese at Broughton High School.

TARRAH GOFORTH is a Raleigh artist and art educator. She earned a BA in studio art from Elon University, and a K-12 teaching license from UNC-Charlotte. She currently teaches art at Wakefield High School, and teaches part-time at Sertoma Arts Center. Tarrah is a member of the Visual Art Exchange and participates in juried and non-juried exhibitions, working mostly as a painter and ceramicist.

JILLIAN GOLDBERG holds a BA in Art Education from the Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 1986 she founded the Gifted and Talented Development Center at Queens University of Charlotte, NC, which served thousands of students from all over the Southeast. In 1994 she became a licensed instructor in the internationally renowned Monart Drawing Method, opening seven art schools in the Charlotte and Triangle areas. This year Jillian opened a new art school in Cary, named LaranJillzArt.

DAN HOHL is a local stained glass artist with over 25 years of experience. For the past 20 years he has operated the Stained Glass Center in North Raleigh. He has taught numerous classes at his shop, at various community colleges, and in the visiting artist program at Ravenscroft School. Dan has completed numerous glass commissions for homes, chapels, and businesses throughout the area.

EMILY HOWARD is a Raleigh fiber artist and educator. Her focus is working with batik, but she embraces all types of media in her work including printing, stamping, and embellishment. She earned a degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Surface Design from Meredith College in 2001. She is currently pursuing her MFA from East Carolina University.

PAULA MACLEOD has been a self-taught mosaic artist since 1997. She teaches mosaic techniques at various art centers throughout the Triangle. She has exhibited her mosaics in shows in the US and Ravenna, Italy. She holds a degree from East Carolina University, and was a recipient of the Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant (2000-2001). In June 2005, Paula was featured on HGTV’s Crafters Coast to Coast.

CARLY MORRISON is the founder of The Children’s Studio, a process-oriented art program developed to allow young children (18 months to 5 years old) to participate in the arts by exploring various materials and techniques. The Children’s Studio program has been implemented into multiple early education centers throughout the Triangle, and Carly has been working with children in the Raleigh area for over six years. As a 2004 graduate of the Anni Albers Scholar Program at NCSU, she received a BA in Art and Design and a BS in Textile Technology.

RACHEL NICHOLSON began her artistic career in music, then began taking painting classes in 1982. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Meredith College, in 1996, and has worked exclusively in felt for more than five years. Rachel has also studied at Penland School of Crafts, NC; Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, TN; John C. Campbell Folk School, NC; and the Art League School, Washington, DC. Rachel recently taught feltmaking at the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair in Asheville and will be teaching at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown this spring.

ELIZABETH NORVAL made her first puppets and put on a puppet show when she was just eleven years old. She created her own Puppetry Company in Zimbabwe in 1985. Shortly after her arrival in the US in 1990, she established the Zambezi Puppets and performed at fairs, museums, schools, and birthday parties in Gainesville, Florida. She has performed her puppetry at Fuller GT Magnet Elementary, where she performs for kindergarteners through second graders. She has also taught an elective Puppetry Class there every year. Elizabeth’s enthusiasm for puppetry is contagious!

KEITH NORVAL received his BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, in 2000. A professional painter who works in his Artspace studio, Keith grew up in Zimbabwe and Gainesville, FL. He draws on this background for the subjects in his oil paintings. Keith exhibits his work throughout North Carolina and is collected internationally. He has taught in the Summer Arts Program for the past few years.

ANNA PODRIS received her BFA in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA. Podris maintains a studio at Artspace where she creates paintings in oil and encaustics. In addition to teaching at Artspace, Anna has also taught at Pullen Arts Center and the Raleigh Girls Club. Her work has been shown in VA, NY, FL, and locally.

TIM POSTELL received his BFA from East Carolina University and his MFA from the prestigious Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Tim now lives in Knightdale and works out of his studio at Artspace. He also teaches art to aspiring artists locally.

LESLIE PRUNEAU is originally from Raleigh but has lived in New York City and Berlin, Germany, pursuing a career in the arts. Her passions lie in multi-media works, drawing, and painting. For ten years Leslie taught adult and youth art classes and camps with the City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation, as well as after-school art programs.

JANE ROBERTS has been an art educator for 24 years in Wake and Johnston Counties. Her classes are described as low stress and highly successful. Jane has received several awards, including Wake County Secondary Teacher of the Year, Racheem Educator of the Year, and NC Middle School Teacher of the Year. Students of every level enjoy the beautiful projects made under her instruction.

REBECCA ROUSSEAU received her BA in Elementary Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. After teaching for 4 years on the Mexican border, she returned to Raleigh to teach and paint in her Cameron Village studio. Rebecca’s art is currently featured on a City of Raleigh CAT bus through the Art-On-the-Move project sponsored by the City of Raleigh Arts Commission. She was recently awarded a grant by the United Arts Council to study at Penland. She is a member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters and the Visual Art Exchange.

GARRETT SCALES, a self-taught artist, has spent the past four-and-a-half years pursuing hand stenciling images on a variety of surfaces, including paper and textiles. His recent works of art have focused primarily on the hip hop culture of the United States. A Raleigh resident, Garrett has shown work at Artspace, and has several exhibitions planned for 2008.

SUSAN SCHUHMACHER is a professional painter and art educator with more than 20 years of teaching experience in NC, SC, and GA public schools. Susan also has experience teaching adults and art educators. She currently offers artist residencies through the United Arts Council in Wake and Johnston Counties. Her work is shown in numerous galleries and is part of many corporate and private collections.

SUE SOPER earned a BS in Graphic Design and a minor in Art Therapy from the State University College at Buffalo, NY. After graduation Sue moved to Riverton, WY where she lived for 20 years. Since 1988, she has been drawing and creating original hand pulled lithographs. She received additional training at the Tamarind Institute summer lithography program and Frogmans Print and Paper Workshops. Sue was previously an adjunct instructor at Central Wyoming College, as well as a visiting artist at St. Margaret’s Middle School, both in Riverton, WY. She currently has a studio at Artspace.

MARY LOUISE TALLEY has more than 6 years of teaching experience and currently teaches art at Root Elementary in Raleigh. She earned a BFA from UNC and has studied at Parson’s School of Design, NY; Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC; Lorenzo De Medici Art Institute, Italy; Oxford University, England; and St. Mary’s College, Raleigh, NC. Mary Louise has taught in Artspace’s Summer Arts Program for the past several years.

LORNA WANG has spent the past 5 years working extensively with painting, collage, and exploring the ancient art of encaustic paint. Most recently Lorna was the 2006 Fall/Winter Regional Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Artspace. She received her BFA from East Carolina University with a concentration in Painting and Drawing.

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