2010 Workshop Instructors
M.J. Anderson
Primarily a figurative sculptor working in marble, M.J. Anderson divides her time between her studios on the Oregon coast and Carrara, Italy. She creates public, private, and liturgical art commissions as well as sculpture for gallery exhibition. Anderson is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle.
www.mjandersonsculpture.com
Annette Bauer
Annette Bauer, a native of Germany, studied medieval and renaissance music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland (2001). She holds an MA in music from UC Santa Cruz (2004), and has been a student at the Ali Akbar College of Music since 1998, where she studies North Indian classical music on sarode, a stringed instrument.
As a recorder player, Annette regularly performs with medieval ensemble Cançonièr, Baroque group Les grâces, Farallon recorder ensemble, and has appeared with early music ensembles throughout the US. Annette was an artist-in-residence in 2009 at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
www.annettebauer.com
Anne Beaufort
Anne Beaufort is a professor in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at The University of Washington at Tacoma. Her research focuses on the creative and developmental processes of writers. She teaches a variety of writing courses, including creative non-fiction and writing-for-social-action at the university. In her spare time, she explores the visual and verbal arts (and their intersections) as paths of creative and spiritual growth.
www.writingforlife.com
Rich Bergeman
Rich Bergeman has been photographing for over 25 years and has concentrated exclusively on the platinum/palladium process for the last 15. He works with large-format film cameras (8x10 and 5x7) and with digitally printed negatives. Recently retired as instructor of photography and journalism at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, OR, he has exhibited his work throughout the Northwest since the late 1980s. A collection of his work can be seen at richbergeman.zenfolio.com.
www.richbergeman.zenfolio.com
Frances Blaker
Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, and Cléa Galhano are internationally renowned recorder players who conduct workshops throughout the United States. Frances also composes for recorder. Vicki Boeckman is the 2010 Recorder-in-Residence at the Sitka Center and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician nationally and internationally. www.vickiboeckman.com
www.tibiaduo.com
Frank Boyden
Bradley Boyden has been teaching biology to young people for over 20 years. Frank Boyden is co-founder of the Sitka Center (with his wife, Jane) and a local legend as fisherman and hound of water creatures. His love of nature can be witnessed in his artwork, which may be seen at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon, and at the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
Kate Boyes
Kate Boyes is a multi-media artisan who has taught courses at two universities and has served as an artist-in-residence for state programs for over ten years. Her work is influenced by both Navajo and Saori weavers: she shares with them an appreciation for the intimate connection between humans and the natural world, and for the healing power of creative expression. Kate uses materials that are reclaimed, “found,” or gathered appropriately in nature for many of her weaving projects.
Mark Brody
Mark Brody has been a working artist since graduating from Lewis and Clark College with degrees in art and education. His passion for mosaic grew from his study of native building techniques in Spain and New Mexico. Mark has taught mosaic and created installations with students in Portland Public Schools for the past ten years. What he finds so fascinating about mosaic is how transforming and enriching the process can be. Mark believes there is a such a strong sense of finality and completion when the grout is laid over each tile. Hundreds of disparate pieces come together as one.
www.markbrodyart.com
Steven Carpenter
Steve is a native Oregonian, and began mushroom hunting with his family at the age of six. He earned his BS in Botany and Plant Pathology from OSU, working as a laboratory aide in the Forest Science Laboratory mycorrhizal fungus laboratories. He went on to earn an MS in Mycology at Cornell University, researching snow melt fungi. He continued his mycological studies as a Fellow at the New York Botanical Garden where he earned his Ph.D. As a Fellow, he traveled to Central and South America collecting and researching mushrooms and other fungi of the uplands and Andean regions.
Debra Carus
Debra Carus is a metal and collage artist in Clackamas, Oregon. She specializes in ancient design motifs from the old Norse and Etruscan worlds and uses various metal techniques to create unique jewelry and small sculptures. She is a Senior Certified Art Clay World instructor.
www.elentari-handverk.com
Chad Case
Chad Case is an award winning freelance photographer and writer located in Boise, Idaho. Chad provides a unique blend of art and photo journalism to create lasting assignment, stock, architecture, portrait and travel photography for clients worldwide.
His pictures have appeared in “National Geographic Adventure”, “National Geographic Traveler”, “Holland America”, “Mountain Travel Sobek”, “National Wildlife”, “The New York Times”, “Outside”, “Sunset”, “Backpacker”, “Woolrich”, and numerous other publications.
Chad also operates Idaho Stock Images at www.IdahoStockImages.com with over 26,000 stock images online and representing more than 60 photographers.
www.chadcasephotography.com
Allen Cox
Allen Cox is a well-known Pacific Northwest abstract painter, a native Oregonian, now residing in Knoxville, Tennessee. Cox has been showing his work nationally since 1982 and held his first international exhibition in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2003. He holds an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Oregon.
allencoxstudio.com
Alma de la Melana Cox
Alma de la Melena Cox created Telamadera Fusion, a unique mixed-media process where she brings fabric, paint and wood together in an unexpected way to create vibrant artwork. She shares her techniques in her new book, “Collage Fusion: Vibrant Wood and Fabric Art Using Telamadera Techniques”. Alma has been featured on TV via Oregon Art Beat and Quilting Arts on PBS. Her work has been published in several magazines including “Cloth, Paper, Scissors”, “Quilting Arts” and “Take Ten”. She teaches workshops around the country and her work is in collections in the US and abroad.
www.almaart.com
Moira Donohoe
Raised in Yosemite National Park, Moira Donohoe has been painting since childhood. She holds a BFA in printmaking, a Masters in painting and drawing, and has taught studio art classes, and outdoor workshops since 1988. Painting and teaching gives the artist "an intense connection to places and people. I think that's what it's all about." She uses an interpersonal and accessible teaching style, weaving demonstrations, class painting, exercises and critiques into her classes.
FineArtStudioOnline.com
Inga Dubay
Inga Dubay was adjunct professor at Oregon College of Art and Craft. She is co-author of “Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting”, “Italic Letters”, and “Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series”. Dubay & Getty have presented over 160 handwriting seminars for medical professionals and many workshops for the public.
www.handwritingsuccess.com
Aimee Erickson
Aimee Erickson is a freelance artist living in Portland. Her work covers a range of styles and media, primarily within the realm of painterly realism. Her murals are more stylized and narrative and call up memories of the golden age of illustration. Recently she completed a 180-foot community-driven mural at the Multnomah Arts Center, accommodating 750 participants from the community. She teaches drawing and painting with a particular interest in what enables or inhibits our vision and progress as artists. She has a BFA in illustration and teaches at the Multnomah Arts Center.
www.aimeeerickson.com
Dan Gleason
Dan Gleason teaches Ornithology at the University of Oregon and in community classes, and is an invited speaker statewide. He writes “Backyard Habitats” for Eugene's Register Guard, is the author of “Birds! From the Inside Out,” and a second book due soon. Nature and environmental education are life-long passions.
www.bgleasondesign.com/crane2/birdsinside
Jill Goodell
After spending over 25 years in advertising, Jill Jeffers Goodell returned to her first love: art. She brings to the classroom a creative background in art and design, helping students see the world in a whole new light. Jill is an instructor at PCC, the Village Gallery of Arts and her own private studio in Portland. Her work has appeared in a variety of local shows and galleries, including Lawrence Gallery. She is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, Portland Fine Arts Guild and a former board member of the Oregon Society of Artists.
www.jillgoodell.com
Patricia Grass
Patricia has taught all of her adult life including Bookmaking in the Artists in Education Program, Printmaking and Computer Graphics at Pacific University and Book Arts at private schools (Neskowin Valley School, Catlin Gabel, Arbor School), conferences, and cfrom her studio/classroom. She was instrumental in starting a Book Arts Guild which has sponsored a biennial conference and a national book show for 20 years. She has shown her books in various shows across the country, both juried and invitational shows and authored a book, “How To Make A Book Even If You Think You Can’t.”
www.greenheronbookkits.com
Kim Griswell
Kim Griswell is a senior editor for Boyds Mills Press and the Highlights Foundation. For six years, she was the coordinating editor of “Highlights for Children”. Her work has spanned the worlds of publishing and teaching, leading her to positions as senior editor of “Bookbag” magazine, book development manager for The Mailbox Book Company, a university and community college instructor, and a teacher with the Institute of Children’s Literature. She holds master’s degrees in teaching writing and in literature from Humboldt State University. Kim has published more than 200 short stories, articles, and columns, and a nonfiction children’s book.
www.kimgriswell.com
Jay Haavik
Jay Haavik is a full-time studio artist. His work extends nationally and internationally, including works in New Zealand and Norway. Much of his work reflects indigenous and older traditional cultures, especially those of the Vikings and the Northwest Coast Native peoples. In 2007 he designed and installed a large outdoor installation for the Leif Erikson International Foundation of Seattle, a memorial for Scandinavian immigrants. A long-time Sitka instructor, one of his class projects was the Sitka "Trickster" totem pole. He is currently working on carving the four posts for the new Sitka residences.
www.jayhaavik.com
Lee Haga
Lee Haga is a professional metalsmith who resided on the Oregon coast for 14 years. The shapes and forms of the rocks, waves, sand dunes and forests influenced her art and metalwork. Experimenting with metal is one of the purest pleasures of Lee's life. Now residing in Portland, she runs the Metalsmithing/Jewelry program at Mt. Hood Community College. Her artwork reflects a Japanese influence and has been published and exhibited nationally.
www.cmaguild.org
Betty Hageman
Betty lives in Seattle and owns a graphic design business that creates environmental education materials for agencies involved in natural resources management and sustainable design. She holds a B.S. in Art but only recently began to paint and exhibit professionally. Betty’s latest artwork is based on soil composition and microorganisms found in the urban backyard. By using soil, compost, and mold as art materials, she creates portraits of the subject matter using the subject matter as medium. While at the Sitka Center, she will be photo-documenting her ecological excursions and looking for new ways to interpret and interact with the environment, and to reinforce our sense of connection with and stewardship of the earth.
http://www.bettyhageman.com
Melissa Hart
Melissa Hart’s nature essays have appeared in “Orion”, “High Country News”, “Hemispheres”, “Horizon Air Magazine”, “The Christian Science Monitor”, “Oregon Quarterly”, and “The Boston Globe”. She teaches Journalism at the University of Oregon, and Memoir Writing for U.C. Berkeley's online extension program.
Melissa believes essays are an excellent way to inspire appreciation for the natural world. To that end, she's been known to run through thunderstorms, taste lichen, smell cougar scat, and train owls.
www.melissahart.com
Molly Hashimoto
Molly Hashimoto has taught watercolor landscape for the North Cascades Institute, the Yellowstone Association Institute and is a frequent workshop presenter at Daniel Smith Artist Materials. Her illustrations have been published by Pomegranate Communications for the past 15 years.
www.mollyhashimoto.com
Helen Hiebert
Helen Hiebert is a Portland, Oregon artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films and artist books using handmade paper, thread and light to create transcendent experiences that alter viewers’ perceptions of time, space and form. She teaches and lectures about papermaking and lamp-making internationally, and has recently exhibited her work at The Portland Building, Ogle, and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and at the 10 Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania. Hiebert is author of "Papermaking with Plants", "The Papermaker's Companion", and "Paper Illuminated".
www.helenhiebertstudio.com
Yuji Hiratsuka
Originally from Japan, Yuji Hiratsuka is currently a Professor of Art/Printmaking at Oregon State University. His work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards. His work is in many public collections, including the New York Public Library, the Portland Art Museum, and Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Wuon-Gean Ho
Wuon Gean Ho has worked in various print workshops in London, Kyoto, and Oregon, all places that she holds close to her heart. Taking the traditional Japanese woodcut and relief print as a starting point, she makes prints and artists’ books which use intense colors to depict unusual narratives.
www.wuongean.com
Eric Horvath
Eric Horvath holds a degree in zoology from Oregon State University, and has written a number of scientific papers on birds and mammals. He has led birding trips since 1990 for The Nature Conservancy. His interests include botany and geology. Eric lives in coastal Oregon, and knows the calls and songs of the local birds. The 2009 Sitka workshop that he led was a great success with views of Wilson's Warblers, Wrentits, Great Horned Owls, a Tufted Puffin, and a brazen Bald Eagle attack on the Yaquina Head lighthouse Murre colony.
www.erichorvathnaturetours.com
Ann Kresge
Ann is a Book Artist and Printmaker who has been teaching Book Arts for 25 years. She has taught Book Art workshops at Sarah Lawrence, Syracuse University, Bard College, SUNY New Paltz, Willamette University, Salem Art Association, and Western Oregon University. Her work is in many university and museum collections.
Dale Laitinen
A painter of the contemporary landscape of the West, Dale Laitinen takes his cue from this topography. His highly designed paintings feature both natural subjects and his Engineered Landscape series, depicting dams, roads,canals, etc. In his work one finds elements of the representational and the abstract. Laitinen is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, Watercolor West and a highly respected art juror. He graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Fine Art. He lives and maintains his painting studio in Mountain Ranch, California.
www.dalelaitinen.com
Lori Latham
Lori began painting as an interior decorative painter in San Francisco, CA. Searching for a different style of painting her work evolved to abstract landscapes. She still enjoys using many of the techniques and tools from the decorative painting field. The marks from the tools reveals the landscape over time.
On the coast her work is represented at Ryan Gallery, Silver Heron Gallery, and 9th Street Gallery. Please visit www.lorilatham.com/comments.htm to read comments from previous Sitka workshops.
www.lorilatham.com
Nancy Linnon
Nancy Linnon has been teaching writing for over 15 years. Her work has appeared in literary journals and magazines such as Creative Nonfiction, Los Angeles Review, and Yoga International and the anthologies What Wildness is This and Rage and Reconciliation. Her passion is creating spaces for people to nurture the writer living within.
Lauren Mantecón
Lauren Mantecón is an experienced teacher and studio artist known for facilitating ways of expanding the active imagination. She has taught at the University of Portland in Oregon and has worked with diverse populations. Lauren teaches workshops throughout the country, and has exhibited internationally. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon.
www.laurenmantecon.com
Barbara Mason
Barbara has been teaching Solarplate workshops for 8 years and has written a how-to booklet that will be provided free with the class. Dan Welden, master printer and the pioneer of Solarplate printmaking says Barbara is a master at this process and has high praise of her instruction. This is a totally non-toxic etching process using plates that develop in the sun and wash out in ordinary tap water. It is fast and safe, using drawings, xeroxes or film positives on clear acetate as a matrix.
www.barbaramasonart.com
Kicki Masthem
Kicki Masthem is a sculptural clay artist in Portland, Oregon. She has been an artist-in- residence at Clay Studio of Missoula, Montana,Watershed Ceramic Center, Maine, and at Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Oregon. Kicki has an MFA in Ceramics from James Madison University, Virginia and teaches at Oregon College of Art & Craft and Portland Community College.
www.kickimasthem.com
Amy Minato
Amy Minato is author of “The Wider Lens” published in 2004 by Ice River Press. Her poetry has been recognized with a 2003 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship and her prose with a Walden Fellowship. She teaches writing workshops in Portland but considers the Wallowa Mountains her home.
Suzanne Moore
Suzanne Moore is a painter, printmaker and lettering artist who combines contemporary vision with scribal techniques. Her painting, drawing, print and lettering explorations result in inventive artists' books. Suzanne sees books as interactive places: portable spaces created to transport readers. She uses the book form to explore verbal/visual ideas with the interplay of word and image. Suzanne's books have been acquired for prominent institutional and private collections, and she teaches and lectures in the US and abroad. She is part of the Wales-based team illuminating the St. John's Bible.
Judy Morris
Judy Morris is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Northwest Watercolor Society, and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. Her book, “Watercolor Basics: Light” is now available on CD. Her work has been featured in dozens of recent watercolor publications, including “International Artist”. Her work has been featured in seven “Splash” books and is one of fifteen watercolor artists chosen to have a chapter in North Light's recently released book, “Watercolor Secrets”.
www.judymorris-art.com
Joanne Mulcahy
Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches at The Northwest Writing Institute/Center for Community Engagement of Lewis and Clark College. Her essays have appeared in journals and anthologies including “The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the West and These United States.” She is the author of “Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island” and “Remedios: The Healing Life of Eva Castellanoz.”
www.lclark.edu/dept/nwi
Carole Murphy
Carole Murphy has been teaching workshops and classes in various media - bronze, glass, clay, and cement over the last 15 years on both the east and west coasts. Her art has been shown in galleries and museums in the NW, SW and in the NE. She is delighted to be returning to Sitka this year.
www.CaroleMurphy.com
Ken O'Connell
Kenneth O'Connell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and President of Imagination International, Inc. He has taught sketchbook workshops in Oregon, Washington, Vancouver BC, Tennessee, and Italy. He is on sketchbook number 70. His sketchbooks have recently been exhibited at the University of Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Jacobs Gallery in Eugene, Oregon. www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2009/12/a_life_in_68_sketchbooks.html
www.kosketch.blogspot.com
Nancy Olson
Nancy Olson, a retired special education teacher from Alaska and Washington, has been weaving since 1992. She works mainly with red and yellow cedar bark but also pursues harvesting and weaving with Sitka Spruce root. She has taken classes from Master Haida weavers and has taught individuals and workshops for schools and communities. She shares stories of weaving experiences, materials gathering and preparation plus Haida culture and design elements.
Robert Ortbal
Robert received his BA in ceramics from San Francisco State University and MFA in ceramic sculpture from University of California, Davis. After school, as his ideas evolved, he began exploring many new materials and processes for his exhibitions and installations in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Seattle and Japan. He received a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation in San Francisco and has recently completed public art commissions in Sacramento at the UC Davis Medical Center and the Oakland International airport. Currently he is an assistant professor at the California State University, Sacramento.
www.ortbal.com
Jane Pagliarulo
Jane Pagliarulo cut her teeth as a fine art printer in Santa Fe, NM, working one-on-one for 7 years in creative collaboration with artists. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from The University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is co-owner/master printer at Atelier Meridian, a membership printmaking studio in Portland.
www.ateliermeridian.com
Barbara Paley
As a life-long knitter, Barbara Paley has an incurable passion for this tactile art. Recognized as a Master Knitter and certified knitting instructor, Barbara designs her own garments and dyes yarn. She has taught workshops across the US and in New Zealand. Barbara has been the marketing specialist for Stitch N’ Pitch, (www.StitchNPitch.com) the social phenomenon that celebrates two timeless traditions, baseball and knitting! On behalf of The National Needlearts Association, Barbara is creating a marketing campaign about the Health Benefits of the Needlearts. Barbara’s enthusiasm about yarn and knitting is inspiring and contagious!
William Park
William Park has been drawing and painting full time since 1987. He has been exhibiting since 1995 and his work is in museums as well as public and private collections internationally. In Portland, William’s work can be seen in his studio or in the Mark Woolley Gallery.
www.williampark.net
Erin Paroubek
Erin Paroubek lives in Eugene, Oregon. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Sitka Center during the fall of 2009. Her paintings, shaped by memory and intuition, reflect the shifting nature of our minds, our bodies, space, and time.
www.erinparoubek.com
Nancy Pobanz
Nancy Pobanz is a full-time studio artist and adjunct professor at the University of Oregon. She has an MFA in Mixed Media Fibers and Book Arts from the University of Oregon. Raised in Oregon's desert, her work is inspired by desert spaces and the raw materials that can be found within them.
www.nancypobanz.com
Brad Price
A folk musician with a degree from MIT, Brad Price is as entertaining and engaging an instructor as he is a performer. With deep roots in American folk, blues and country music, Brad performs regularly in the Portland area as a soloist and as a member of alt-chamber group Caravan Gogh. In addition to teaching and recording he is a consummate sideman, working with the Trail Band (Marv and Rindy Ross), and songwriter Donna Jose.
www.bradpriceguitar.com
Greg Rice
Dmae Roberts
Dmae Roberts is an award-winning writer/producer who has written more than 400 audio art pieces and documentaries for NPR. Her Peabody Award-winning documentary "Mei Mei, a Daughter's Song" is a harrowing account of her mother's childhood in Taiwan during WWII. She received her second Peabody Award for “Crossing East”, the first Asian American history series on public radio. She received the Civil Rights and Social Justice Award from the Asian American Journalists Association, the Oregon Book Award and was a 2007 United States Artists Fellow. She's currently working on her memoir, "Lady Buddha and the Temple of Ma".
www.dmaeroberts.com
Cheryl Rorabeck-Siler
Cheryl offers a decade of experience with local waterways and has been a key member of Kayak Tillamook since 2004. Complemented by twelve years of teaching biology at Tillamook High and specialized skills in rescuing and rehabilitating raptors, she is well-suited to lead your educational adventure.
Marv Ross
Marv is a songwriter and playwright. A recipient of gold and platinum albums, he also wrote the award-winning musical, “The Ghosts of Celilo”. He received The Alumni Award of Excellence from WOU and was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. Marv’s classes stress collaboration, listening, and understanding song forms.
www.rossproductions.com
Laura Ross-Paul
Laura Ross-Paul has taught figure painting and drawing at Portland State University, Lewis and Clark College and other regional colleges for over 25 years. Her expressionistic figurative paintings are in the collections of museums throughout the Northwest. In 2007 she was the winner of the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship. Her figurative oil paintings and watercolors are represented by Froelick Gallery in Portland, Pacini Lubel Gallery in Seattle, and Joanne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, California who will feature her work at this year's LA Art Fair.
www.laurarosspaul.net
Donna Sakamoto Crispin
Fiber artist, Donna Sakamoto Crispin, specializes in basketry woven with wild-crafted materials. Her work is influenced by traditional Japanese and NW Native American basketry techniques. She has been teaching basket weaving techniques for over 22 years. Donna encourages her students to re-connect and receive inspiration from nature.
www.donnasakamotocrispin.com
Patricia Schmidt
Patricia Schmidt is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society, a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, and the Colored Pencil Society of America. Her artwork can be seen at the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, the Freed Gallery by Siletz Bay and at www.PatriciaSchmidtArt.com.
www.PatriciaSchmidtArt.com
Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch
Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch has taught encaustic workshops for six years throughout the US. She is the author of the book, “Encaustic Workshop” and two DVD's in the medium as well. In addition to painting in beeswax, Patricia is kept busy raising four teenage sons, two cats, and four bantam chickens.
www.pbsartist.com
Kayann Short
Kayann Short, Ph.D., teaches lifewriting, women’s literature, and digital storytelling at the University of Colorado-Boulder. The co-owner of Stonebridge Farm, a community-supported farm in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, she has been developing the genre of ecobiography as a bridge between her writing, teaching, and farming lives. Her ecobiography, “Farmgiving: A Life of Land and Heart”, mirrors the months and rhythms of a farming year to explore lessons learned from the earth’s bounty.
www.stonebridgefarmcsa.com
Jude Siegel
Teaching about nature and art to adults and children for over 35 years, Jude has taught classes through PCC, Haystack, Multnomah Art Center, PNCA, and Sitka. She currently teaches in Portland and Italy. Her book, “A Pacific Northwest Nature Sketchbook” was published by Timber Press in 2006.
Eileen Sorg
Eileen Sorg's work is collected internationally and is known for its complexity and vibrancy. Her students appreciate her "full disclosure" method of teaching, where no information is held back. Eileen is a Signature member of the Colored Pencil Society, the Society of Animal Artists, The International Guild of Realism, and author of "Colored Pencil Made Easy", a beginners guide to creating art using colored pencils.
www.twodogstudio.com
Kim Stafford
Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. In addition to Sitka, he has taught writing workshops at the annual Fishtrap Writers Gathering and colleges and literary centers in Oregon and abroad.
www.kim-stafford.com
Marlana Stoddard Hayes
Marlana Stoddard Hayes, M.A., M.F.A,(Sitka resident,1990) has thirty years of teaching experience. Her work has shown internationally: Musee Granet, Aix-En-Provence, France, Art-In-Embassies Program, Mali, Africa and nationally at University of Michigan, Nelson Atkins Museum, Spencer Museum of Art, and University of Iowa.
www.beppugallery.com
Teresa Sullivan
Award-winning beadwork artist Teresa Sullivan has exhibited her work internationally, and is represented by the Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft and Beet Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been featured in CRAFT magazine, 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse and Fiberarts magazine. A grounded, nurturing teacher, she empowers students to expand their assumptions about their own capabilities.
www.teresasullivanstudio.com
Larry Thomas
Larry Thomas is the former Dean of Academic Affairs and Interim President of the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited widely regionally and nationally and is in many permanent collections including the S.F. Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has taught drawing, painting and printmaking at SFAI and at Stanford University and has been a guest lecturer at numerous art colleges and universities throughout the US.
www.larrythomas.info
Margot Voorhies Thompson
Margot Voorhies Thompson is a painter, printmaker, calligrapher and the designer of the Sitka Center logo. She is represented by the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Her public art commissions include installations at Portland State University, Woodstock Public Library, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon State Library, and Tualatin Kaiser Permanente.
www.margotvoorhiesthompson.com
George Thompson
George Thompson is a musician and singer. He plays the guitar, mandolin and mandola. George has been collecting and singing folksongs for almost 5 decades. His repertoire draws from numerous traditions. He teaches guitar and singing in addition to being a teacher and school counselor. In 1972 he co-founded Neskowin Valley School. George incorporates storytelling, singing and playing the guitar into everything he does.
Andie Thrams
Andie Thrams is a painter and book artist with a lifelong devotion to creative work in wilderness locations. Her work is widely exhibited and is held in both private and public collections including those at Yale University and the University of Washington. She earned a BA in art practice from the University of California at Berkeley and, in addition to Sitka Center, she teaches for San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco State University Field Campus and others. She is currently creating a series of artist’s books called, In Forests. Sitka Artist-In-Residence
www.andiethrams.com
Cathy Valentine
Instructors Anne Kinkade and Cathy Valentine are working studio artists in the county of Siskiyou, Northern California. They have been close friends for thirty-five years and love to team-teach. Anne and Cathy have been working with encaustic for eight years, each in her own style. They have previously taught encaustic painting at the Sitka Center.
Eric Vines
Eric Vines is Executive Director of the Sitka Center. He seeks to unleash the power of business ideals for the betterment of the world, and has individually consulted with more than 300 business owners and given presentations to over 100,000 people, only once setting himself on fire. Prior to his current position, Vines was the President of a business advisory company focusing on executive leadership for businesses, non-profits and their boards. Eric also spent 6 years working as the associate director of programs at the Edward Lowe Foundation. He has an MBA from the University of Oregon and a BA from Whitman College where he studied Physics, Math, and Theater.
www.sitkacenter.org
Judy Vogland
Judy Vogland is an Oregon painter working in water-based materials and oil paint who continues to explore and teach the use of natural and found materials as surface makers. She has taught surface building with sand on the Oregon beaches for over thirty years. Students create large paintings with sand and found materials by working with natural forces of wind, water and gravity. In addition to teaching for Portland State University, Haystack, Hillsboro High School, and the Sitka Center, Vogland creates public space artwork, corporate commissions, and works in collage/assemblage for gallery exhibitions.
www.beppugallery.com
Taylor Vogland
Taylor’s teaching philosophy emphasizes the integration of form and concept. Seeing technical and aesthetic facility not just as an end in itself but also primarily as a vehicle for expressing the student’s creativity. Her artistic process and her teaching style encourage critical thinking about formal practice and individual creative goals. Taylor has experience with a variety of media and processes and has worked with students of diverse backgrounds and ages.
www.taylorvoglanddreiling.com
Elise Wagner
A working artist for two decades, Elise Wagner shares her passion for encaustic painting by teaching internationally. She founded Wagner Encaustics in 2004. She and Pagliarulo have team -taught the encaustics workshop multiple times and they enjoy the alchemy that takes place between wax and ink.
www.elisewagner.com
Nancy Weber
Nancy Weber's involvement with mushrooms is lifelong. She holds a Ph.D. from The University of Michigan where she specialized in mycology. In Oregon her avocation, now a serious research project, is a long term study of the conspicuous fungi of her yard and neighborhood in Corvallis. Her professional research at Oregon State University emphasized cup-fungi and related fungi. Nancy enjoys introducing people to mushrooms and sharing her experiences and knowledge with them through various kinds of presentations.
Rebecca Welti
From a tiny fishing village in southeast Alaska, Greg Rice and Rebecca Welti have gillnet for salmon for 20 years. Greg has studied fisheries and food science and continues to fish, while Rebecca now works at Sitka. When it comes to salmon, they enjoy collaborating and refining their classic Alaskan recipes.
Tash Wesp
Tash has gone all the way to Norway to study felt making and this art is now her passion. She creates a line of wearable art that has been sold from Pennsylvania to Malibu, California. You can see her work in a gallery called ForArtSake in Newport, Oregon. She doesn’t believe in long lectures so expect a lot of fun and creativity.
www.tashwesp.com
Patricia Wheeler
Patricia Wheeler is a multimedia artist who focuses on community and connections, the collective stories, traits, and ghosts we carry as a society. In her work she explores the intersections between language and image searching for insight into the human story. Patricia lives on Deer Isle, Maine with husband and artist J. Fred Woell.
www.mozellestudio.com/wheeler/index.html
Greg Wilbur
Greg Wilbur is a metalsmith from Oregon. He is known for the rare technique of "raising": hammering a flat sheet of metal into a closed-in sculptural form. He has shown and taught nationally and internationally for the last 30 years. This art form is his passion. He is a good teacher and wants to pass on what he knows and thinks he knows.
www.gregwilbur.com
Rebecca Wild
Rebecca Wild is an artist and calligrapher in Portland. Her work pairs her love of letterforms with drawing and painting. She has a BA in Studio Art and has taught locally at Sitka, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Portland Community College.
www.rwildletterart.blogspot.com
John and Kathy Willson
Formerly award winning staff photographers with Seattle's Museum of Flight, John and Kathy Willson bring forty years of teaching and photographic experience to the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. The Willson's images have appeared on greeting cards and in numerous books and publications including “Nikon World”, “Oregon Coast” and “Alaska Airlines” magazines. Most recently their photographs were on the cover and two inside months of “Nikon World International Calendar”. John and Kathy are currently working on two garden photography books and are frequently invited speakers to nurseries, garden clubs and symposiums.