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IS183 Art School
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classes/workshopsAbout Our FacultyLisa Abbatomarco, a visual and performing artist, puppeteer a go-go, stilt-walker, avant-garde explorer, tangential vocalist, instigator of large hoo-ha and rebel educator. Lisa has toured with Arm of the Sea Theater (NY), In the Heart of the Beast Theater (MN). She has taught her puppetry arts program, Edge of Your Seat Theater, and throughout the United States and abroad. Her most recent workshop series, "Illuminate Your Imagination" is a lantern/storytelling program in collaboration with NY storyteller, Jill Olesker. Lisa is currently working on her Master’s at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Sound, Sculpture and Installation. Appearances include HERE space (NYC), Dream Community Project (Taiwan) and North Meets South Festival (Virgin Islands). Yura Adams holds an MFA and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has shown her work as a painter and intermedia artist throughout the United States. Yura has taught many workshops and made presentations on both coasts, and is the recipient of two National Endowment Grants. She currently teaches at IS183, Columbia Greene Community College, and RISD. She is represented by John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. Karen Arp-Sandel is an artist-educator who loves sharing the spirit of experiential art education with kids of all ages. A former elementary school teacher, she has taught at Kidspace at MASS MoCA and enjoys guiding children in their unique self-expression with open- ended, "process" oriented projects. As an artist, Karen produces watercolor works, monotype prints, and collages of all shapes and sizes. Nick Atlas, a professional photographer/writer, holds a B.A. in Sociology from Emory University. Prior to returning to the east coast in 2006, he worked independently on documentary projects in nineteen foreign countries and forty-nine U.S. States over the last eight years. Currently, Nick shares his time between the Berkshires and New York City, where he freelances for the Village Voice and New York Magazine, in addition to studying yoga and healing arts. Daniel Bellow has studied with Mary Risley at Wesleyan University and Tom White in Northfield, MA. He learned to fire kilns with Jim Dugan at the Vermont Clay Studio, and moved to the Berkshires to establish the Daniel Bellow Pottery in Great Barrington in 2002. Dana Bixby is an architect and her practice is located in West Stockbridge. She acquired her interest in space in graduate school in London in the "Space Syntax" program at University College London and continues to explore space and movement currently through participation at the Spacial Dynamics Institue in Mechanicville, NY. Additional info is available at, www.danabixby.com Michael Boroniec, born in Pittsfield, received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He currently works in the Pittsfield Public School system as a high school foundations and ceramics instructor. His sculptural work has been exhibited at such places as the Fuller Craft Museum, Williams College Museum, and several national galleries. Michael continues to create and exhibit in several mediums. Leslee Carsewell's interest in photography dates back to her teens (a long time ago) when she first began dark room work in black and white photography. During her 28 year award winning career as a graphic designer, she used photography she created or
art directed to enhance the messages of her Fortune 500 clients, the San Francisco Symphony, the Walker Art Center and various museums and universities to name a few.
John Clarke is a painter, photographer, printmaker and musician living in Great Barrington, MA. He received his BFA in classical music composition from Bates College in the mid 1990s, and since then has been watching the nature of things, writing songs, and exploring visually his response to this beautiful strange and wondrous world. He draws his deepest inspiration from those places inside ourselves that lay beyond label and understanding. Linda Clayton recieved an arts degree from N.Y.U. She is an award-winning spinner and dyer of fleece and knitter of one-of-a-kind top prize hats. Her paintings are sold in galleries in the Berkshires, Wellfleet, MA and St. Augustine, Fla. Delores Coan is the head of the ceramics program at the Hotchkiss School. Delores attended the N.Y. School of Interior Design and studied with master potter, Prof. William Pitney of Wayne State University. She has shown with the American Craft Council and has work in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and the Everson Ceramic Museum in Syracuse, NY. Janet Cooper taught and did clay work for twenty years, followed by a decade of making and selling Bottle Cap and Tin Can jewelry and Found Art Objects. Ten years ago she began creating Assemblage, using fabric scraps and memorabilia. Her work is less about recycling and more about recognizing cultural symbols. It is about arrangement and surprise, woven into assemblages. Liz Daly received her BFA in ceramics from Maine College of Art. She continued her education with an apprenticeship at the Great Barrington Pottery, worked as a studio assistant for Dale Culleton and was IS183's ceramic studio manager from 2000-04. She recently completed a post baccalaureate year at SUNY New Paltz where she will be pursuing her MFA in ceramics this fall. Lynne DeVito has been teaching for the past 10 years. She works with at Ben Bronz Academy in West Hartford, Connecticut where she teaches students with learning disabilities. Lynne holds a BA from Central Connecticut State University, a teaching certificate in Visual Arts and is presently working on her Masters in Art Education. Lynne has been involved in several multi-media exhibits throughout Northwestern Connecticut. She shares studio space with two other ceramic artists at Riverfront Studio in Collinsville, CT. Andrea Downs holds a BA and MA in Art Education from The Ohio State University. She is interested in service learning through artmaking, interdisciplinary art education, collaborative artmaking, contemporary art, and above all creating meaningful artmaking experiences for students. She lives with her daughter Bronwyn and husband, Jesse in New Lebanon, NY. Ben Evans is the Ceramic Studio Manager at IS183. He received his BFA in ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His recent work, “Reflections” a large scale, sculptural piece was inspired by architectural forms. Laura Evonne Steinman is a community teaching artist who has created art with people of all ages from murals to books, quilts to collages. She has facilitated these creative actions in schools, orphanages, community centers and more in the states and in Europe. Laura believes that lives are nurtured and transformed by creating art together. Frank Federico is a Master Pastellist, Colorist and Contemporary Impressionist whos work has been shown around the world and is represented by the Elaine Beckwith Gallery in Jamaica, VT and The Gallery in Burlingame, CA. He has received numerous awards and is a signature member of many prestigious art societies including Pastel Society of America, National Watercolor Society, Pastel Society of Painters on Cape Cod and Degas Pastel Society, to name a few. June Ferrin received her BA from UCLA and continued to do graduate work there before raising her familiy. Her work has been exhibited at the Nardin Fine Arts Gallery in Cross River, Katonah Gallery and most recently at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield. Her watercolors are in numerous private collections. She taught for the Los Angeles School System, the North Westchester Watercolor Society and at the Mandel Verde Society Dennis Fougere holds an AS in Fine Arts and is currently working on a BS in art education. His subject matter tends to deal with the study of distortion in many different forms, and is usually explored through the medium of paint, though not exclusively. He is passionate about learning and passing on knowledge to others. Michelle Gillett teaches creative writing workshops, is a freelance writer and editor, writes and op. ed. column for the Berkshire Eagle, and is a contibuting editor for The Women's Times. She has won a Pushcart nomination has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Michelle holds BS in art from Skidmore College and an MFA in pottery from the Warren Wilson College Progam for Writers. A Chapbook of her poetry, Rock & Spindle, was published by Mad River Press in 1998. "Blinding the Goldfinches" a full collection of poems was chosen by Hayde Carruth as the winner of the Backwaters Poetry Prize and was published in the spring of 2005. Maire- Claude Giroux received her BFA from The California College of Arts & Crafts as an independant major: from ceramics & glass to paper, printmaking, and performance. Her further studies have taken her to Haystack, Penlord, and the Appalachion School of Craft. Marie-Claude earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. Kent Godfrey For the past 10 years Kent has taught and researched man's ability to express and experience music through all sense modalities. This has largely taken place with disabled children through the exploration of objects and the painting of music. Kent is influenced subjects such as Dalcroze Eurythmics, Multi-Sensory Cognition, Sensory Intigration Therapy, and Contact Improvisation. He has a BA in acting, MA in special education, professional diploma in dance studies, and BFA. Sue Godwin spent seven years studying portraits and still life with Copley Master, Mark Hayden. Teaching students of all ages the basics of drawing and painting at the Southern NH Community School of the Arts in Derry, New Hampshire and the Adalante School in Lawrence, Mass., before moving to the Berkshires in 2001. She continues to teach classical oil painting with her partner, John Lundquist. She is represented by Deborah Davis Fine Art in Hudson, NY and the Lenox Gallery of Fine Art in Lenox, Mass. Paula Gottlieb was born in 1947 and raised on a chicken farm near the central New Jersey Shore. She received a BFA degree from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia with studies in Rome. In 1971 she graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with an MFA. Paula teaches classes at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield MA and privately in her own studio. Her paintings can be seen at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton and Amherst, MA. Heather Graber, a preschool teacher for the past five years at Under Mountain Elementary School, has studied clay and woodworking at Bank Street College in New York City. She holds a preschool teaching training certificate and works with the Learning Curve in Great Barrington. Ulrike Grannis is a book-artist/teacher with over thirty years experience in her native Germany. She has had many exhibitions and has taught at all levels, from elementary school through to University and adult education courses. She now lives and has her studio in Chatham, New York. Cathy Gray received a BA with honors from Mount Holyoke College, and attended graduate school at Utah State University. She is a costumer for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. She has developed and taught educational programs for Strawberry Banke, Hancock Shaker Village, and Ventfort Hall Museums. Her historic costume reproductions are on display at Hancock Shaker Village. Joan Griswold Joan continued her studies at the American Academy, Paris, France and later with Aaron Shikler and David Levine: “The Painting Group”, NY. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world, including the Hoorn Ashby Gallery, NY since 1993. Susan Hackett is a New England artist and teacher who has presented classes and workshops in hot glass, enameling and kiln-casting. She is a faculty member of the Guilford Arts Center in Guilford Connecticut and the Farmington Valley Arts Center in Avon Connecticut. Her work can be seen in the Fisher Gallery in Avon Connecticut and the Gallery on the Green, in Canton Connecticut as well as a number of juried shows throughout the year. Susan earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts. Ali Herrman received her BFA from Bennington College in Vermont, where she concentrated in painting, fine art printmaking, and ceramics. A native of Berkshire County, Ali currently resides in Columbia County, pursuing oil painting and bookmaking as her mediums of choice. Her work has been shown locally, having completed two sheeps for Pittsfields Sheeptacular in 2004, and her most recently at the Fulton Street Gallery in Troy, Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, and other venues across the capital region. Pat Hogan holds a BS in Art Education from Pennsylvania State University. New work includes paintings and drawings in charcoal, watercolor, and mixed media. Recent exhibitions include Housatonic River Reflections at the Norman Rockwell Museum and The Nude in Cambridge, New York. Jason Houston images have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Time, GEO, New York Magazine, Berkshire Living, Bike and Playboy. In 2006 he exhibited Farmer, a series on local/sustainable agriculture, at Spike Gallery in NYC and Yale University, and he is picture editor for Orion Magazine. He is currently working with Rare Conservation to document their projects around the world. Philip Howie received a BA at Rhodes College of Memphis, TN. He completed post graduate work at the NY Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture, National Academy of Design, the New York Academy of Art, and at the Belles Artes, San Miguel Allende, Gto. Mexico and received an Individual Artist Tier Grant from the NYSCA for 2002. He has recently completed a lifesize bronze sculpture for the St Louis Priory School in Missouri. Bonnie Hull is the recipient of the Geraldine R. Dodge Grant in 2007 along with a two month residency at the Peter’s Valley Craft Center, guest artist Bonnie Hull is known for her rhythmic and colorful glaze surfaces. Students will work on improving their throwing skills and acquiring new methods of decorative glazing. Wendy Jensen has been an award winning professional basket maker for the last twelve years. She exhibits her work at juried craft shows and galleries nationally, and has taught basket making at many craft schools, museums and private facilities. One of her basket patterns was recently featured in By Hand by Janice Eaton Kilby from Lark Books. Maj Kalfus attended the High School of Art and Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, as well as the School of Visual Arts. Her career began in the field of fashion illustration, evolved into fashion merchandising, marketing and design. Her paintings and drawings are influenced by an extensive career in the fashion industry, which included projects for industry leaders such as Ralph Lauren, Gloria Vanderbilt, Tommy Hilfiger, Liz Claiborne, and JC Penney. Her work can be seen in the Deborah Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY and Briggs Mountain Gallery in Milan, NY. James Kennedy received his BFA from the University of Michigan where he studied sculpture, photography, and metal-smiting. James founded, “Collective Metals,” a modern jewelry business in NYC. His work is sold in galleries across the country. Eight years ago Kennedy moved to the Berkshires and learned how to restore and build airplanes, and old houses. Current projects include large mural paintings and original platinum wedding rings. Pieter Lefferts is an award winning artist, muralist and art educator. His many programs and residencies include the New Britain Museum of American Art and Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT. He exhibits throughout the region work that explores the elemental moods of nature. He is trained in portraiture and figure painting at the Art Students League of New York. David Librizzi received his B. F.A from Emerson College in Theatre Arts. He created Davmation Animation in 1999 and has taught throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. His main objective with Davmation has been to guide his students in self expression though art and moving image. Naomi Lindenfeld has a Bachelor of Applied arts in ceramics from Boston University's Program in Artisanry, Naomi co-founded in 1983 the Brattleboro Clayworks, a potters collective in Brattleboro, Vt. Naomi has been the ceramics teacher at Putney School for the past 10 years. Naomi has taught a number of colored clay workshops at craft centers around the northeast, teaching techniques involving working with colored clay. John Lundquist moved to the Berkshires after two years of study at the Art Students League of New York with Gregg Kreutz, Richard Pionk and Eleanor Moore. He recently filmed ten shows on Classical Oil Painting for the local television station, CTSB, and travels throughout New England doing demonstrations and conducting workshops for various art associations. John teaches all levels of students the fundamentals of classical oil painting along with his partner, Susan Godwin. Nancy Magnusson has been pursuing her passion for ceramics for over 10 years, first as a student and then in a second career as a teacher and studio potter. She has as much fun as any of her students building various vessels, sculptures and critters. Marlene Marshall is a painter, collage and mosaics artist and author of Making Bits and Pieces, Mosaics and Shell Chic. She conducts workshops in mosaics and teaches special needs students with CATA. Her watercolors and mosaic work have been exhibited and sold in galleries and museum shops throughout North America. Theresa May-O'Brien is a member of the International Feltmakers Association and the Northeast Feltmakers Guild. She has cultivated a mentorship program with Mehmet Girgic of Konya, Turkey and exhibited her feltwork internationally. She is the owner and operator of Woodscape Artistry in Oneonta, NY where she also teaches privately. Liz McIlvaine received her MFA from Bard College. She has taught all ages, from young children to college students in painting, drawing, silk screening and textile design.
Jonathan Mess studied art at the University of Toledo and received a BFA in studio art from the University of Montana. In 1999, Jonathan moved to the Western foothills of Maine where he taught art courses at Leavitt Area High School for 7 years. In 2004, he was commissioned to creat a major installation at the Bates Mill Complex, in Lewiston Maine, for the Governor's Conference on the Creative Economy. Jonathan is currently in his final semester as an MFA candidate in Ceramics at SUNY New Paltz. Fay O'Meara has a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She has studied at the Fine Arts Work Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She maintains a studio in Norfolk, CT where she works with textiles both on and off loom and makes sculpture with found wood. She is the mother of two sons. June Parker is a pastel artist, a signature member of Connecticut Pastel Society and recipient of numerous awards from national exhibitions including the Bernhard Silver Medal for Excellence in Pastel. She also teaches at Norman Rockwell Museum, Becket Art Center, and Sheffield Art League. Debi Pendell, BA Central Connecticut State University, MALS Wesleyan University. Teaching: CAW, Farmington Valley Arts Center in Avon, Jerry’s Artarama in West Hartford North Adams., and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Lives, works and conducts classes and workshops in her home and studio at The Eclipse Mill in North Adams. Her works are exhibited at Gallery 100 in Sarasota, Florida and the Kolok Gallery in North Adams. Fawn Potash works are in collections worldwide including the Sheraton Hotels-Montreal, McGraw Hill-Tokyo, Sony-New York, Bibliotech National-Paris. She is represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, the Anne Reed Gallery in Sun Valley and the Chace-Randall Gallery in Andes, NY. She has received grant support from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Bell Atlantic Foundation, Fuji and Ilford Inc. Her teaching experience includes the School of Visual Arts in NYC, the Center for Photography, the Peters Valley Crafts Center and the Island Center for the Arts in Skopelos, Greece. Michael Rousseau a Pittsfield native, has returned to the area after graduating (twice) from RISD, first as an undergraduate and then with a Master of Arts in Teaching. Michael overflows with ideas that ignite creativity, which he combines with solid teaching of techniques to encourage the student artist. Jim Schantz received his MFA from University of California, Davis and his BFA from Syracuse University. He has taught art and art history throughout the past twenty years at IS183, Simons Rock College of Bard, Russell Sage, Westfield State and Berkshrie Community College. His work is included in many public collections including the Williams College Museum, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, The Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA and the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA. Stan Scherer was the news photographer for the University of Massachusetts from 1985 – 2003 and has been on assignment for Time Magazine, the Associated Press, and United Press International. Sherer is a Fulbright Scholar and author of four books of photographs, including “Long Life to Your Children! A Portrait of High Albania”and “Founding Farms”. He resides in Northampton, MA.
Arline Shalan has been a basket artist since 1982, with a special interest in mixed media basketry. She has recently moved to Pittsfield from Northern New Jersey where she was on the faculty of The Art School at Old Church for eighteen years. She studied at the Peters Valley Craft Center, Parsons School of Design, The New School, The Art School at Old Church and Rockland Center for the Arts. Her work has been in Lincoln Center, Crafts on Park Ave., The Rhinebeck Craft Show, The Berkshire Museum, Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Silvermine Guild Art Center, The Belskie Museum of Art and Science, and the Nabisco Gallery.
Paula Shalan received her BA in studio art and child development from Sarah Lawrence College, and has studied at Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has 15 years experience teaching young children and has taught both children and adults at IS183. Her smoke fired vessels have been shown at The Hoadley Gallery, SKH, Pinch Gallery, and the Berkshire Museum. She is the Young Artists Department head at IS183. Sasha Sicurella is an artist-educator who earned her BFA at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and her MFA at New York University. She currently teaches art to elementary and middle school students at Berkshire Country Day School. Sasha continues to produce and exhibit work in a variety of media including sculpture and video. She lives with her husband, Derek Zeitel in Housatonic, MA. Cassandra Sohn was born and raised in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. She received a BA in Photography and English from the New School in Manhattan. After being based in New York City for many years, Cassandra recently moved to the Southern Berkshires, where she continues to work as a freelance photographer and journalist. Cassandra loves to travel, and finds tremendous inspiration in exploring diverse cultures and intriguing places around the world. Ben Tritt graduated from the School of Visual Art in New York and the Scuola Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy. He was accepted as an artist-in-residence at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London. From 1997 through 2004 he functioned as Assistant Director and Painting Instructor at the Jerusalem Studio School in Israel. His solo exhibitions in Paris, New York and Israel have garnered international acclaim. Marianne van Lent is a Hudson River Painter specializing in color and light. A resident of NYC and Athens NY, she is represented in NYC by Danette Koke Fine Art and in Fairfield, CT by Ulla Surland. Teaching includes color studios and workshops at Pratt Institute, FIT, Athens Cultural Center, and IS183. Kim Waterman-Spitzer holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, an MSEd from Hunter College, and art education certification from Bank Street College. She has been teaching children of all ages in a variety of settings for 15 years, including the past 4 years at IS183. Will Wendt Photographer and Master Printmaker
Will Wendt has a BA from St. John's College and an MFA from Yale University. His photography is represented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery in Manhattan. He currently resides in Great Barrington. Arthur Yanoff studied at the Museum School in Boston and privately with painter Jason Berger. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Rose Art Museum; the Currier Gallery; the Detroit Institute of Arts; Yeshiva University Museum; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe. Recently, he participated in a traveling exhibition, Rural Artists with Urban Sensibilities. Jeff Zamek received BFA and MFA degrees in ceramics from Alfred University and has taught ceramics at Simons Rock College and Keane College, Elizabeth, NJ. In 1980 he started his own ceramics consulting firm and contributes articles to Ceramics Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated, Clay Times, Studio Potter and Craft Horizons. He is the author of What Every Potter Should Know.
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