2008 INSTRUCTORS
PAT FIORELLO - WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS
Pat Fiorello is a professional artists who captures the beauty and energy of nature in her watercolor paintings. Her primary subjects include landscape scenes, gardens with architectural accents and florals. Pat began to learn watercolor at the age of 35. She began teaching herself to paint and then took courses, workshops and private study with noted watercolorists to further develop her artistic abilities and talent. After a successful 20 year corporate career, including executive positions at The Coca-Cola Company and Nabisco, Pat pursued her passion. Pat paints in her studios in Atlanta and Sautee, Georgia and on location. Her work has been featured in over 50 juried shows and has held several "one woman" exhibits. Pat was the featured artist at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia where forty of her paintings were on display. Pat also teaches art classes and workshops in Atlanta, has licensed her images for greeting cards and home decor products. Pat is currently President of the Georgia Watercolor Society. www.patfiorello.com. LAMAR GEE - BASIC DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Atlanta area photographer, Lamar Gee, is the owner of Lamar Gee Photography, specializing in wedding photography. Lamar has studied with several of the premiere wedding photographers in the United States. In addition, he brings the practical experience of operating his own photography business. Lamar’s class will focus on the basics of photography - digital or film. (www.lamargee.com) MILLIE GOSCH - PLEINE AIR INSTRUCTOR
Millie Gosch “Painting was always a part of me,” says Mille Gosch, who has painted since she was a child. She pursued her passion in art studies at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Later. she returned to her native Georgia and settled in the Atlanta area. After a successful career in the decorative arts, Ms. Gosch returned to her first love of fine arts. A native of a classic southern town, Newnan, Georgia, she finds the lowlands and rural fields in the area and the marshes and waters of coastal Georgia inspirations for her landscape paintings. She is active in bringing well-know plein air painters to the Southeast to teach workshops. Ms. Gosch has won several awards, most recently as a finalist in the prestigious RayMar Second Annual Fine Art Competition with her oil painting “Sunrise in Summer.” She has been accepted in exhibitions throughout Georgia and in the Southeast. Her work hangs in numerous private collections and she is represented by four Georgia galleries: Frameworks Gallery, Marietta; Two Sisters Gallery, Columbus; Panoply, Newnan; and Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta. www.milliegosch.com
J. WILLAIM HILL - DRAWING & PAINTING
J. William Hill began painting in the early 1990s and has a degree in visual arts from Florida State University and an art education degree from Georgia State University. He has worked as a professional artist and decorative painter for the past eleven years and has won awards and recognition both locally and regionally. His teaching philosophy is that all art begins with a good foundation in the elements and principles of art, but at the same time one should be open to new methods, materials and emerging technology. Technology has not killed traditional painting; it has simply brought new tools to the artists’ disposal.http://www.jwilliamhill.com STEFANIE LIEBERMAN - OIL LANDSCAPE INSTRUCTOR
Stefanie Lieberman is an award winning painter and graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has received numerous painting awards for her landscapes as well as being the recipient of the Nantucket Painting Residency awarded by the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States including the prestigious Biggs Museum of American Art in Delaware. Her paintings are among the collections of the Rome Council of the arts, Rome, GA , The American Kennel Club, New York, NY as well as numerous private collections, both nationally and internationally. Her philosophy on painting is to "apply paint as a form of feeling rather than just a tool to depict the scene or object before me. I am less interested in the components of the landscape such as; trees, sky, water, road, buildings and more interested in painting the experience itself, the atmosphere, the smell, the weather etc." She uses many variables of paint application i.e.: the juxtaposition of soft, transparent washes against bold impastos, lost and found edges, deliberate brush strokes as well as the use of the palate knife and splatter to capture those experiences. Stefanie has had numerous solo exhibitions in Philadelphia as well as in the South Eastern region of the US. She is currently represented by Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia, Anne Irwin Fine Art in Atlanta, GA, Principal Gallery in Alexandria, VA and The Shain Gallery in Charlotte, NC. She was recently a featured artist in American Art Collector magazine. Stefanie travels extensively to find subjects for her work. She currently works and resides in Philadelphia. www.stefanielieberman.com
JASON McGRADY - ENCAUSTICS/PHOTO ENCAUSTIC
Jason studied at the Art Institute of Atlanta and earned a degree in Advertising Design in 1995. He currently exhibits at the Sabra Gallery in Atlanta. His abstract paintings represent his feelings, passions and emotions that he has felt throughout his art career. The Encaustics/Abstract/Mixed Media course will focus on the latest techniques for mixed media abstract art. The instructor will teach various methods of media and their uses pertaining to contemporary art and the current trends in mixed media. The focus of this class being on abstract art featuring still life adaptation and components of self-realized imagery. These techniques will enhance the artists views of abstract art and allow the artist to see abstract art in a new perspective. The class will also focus on past and present contemporary artist’s and their techniques. All levels.(www.jai-star.com) jason@jai-star.com.
CHRISTY MULL - STILL LIFE FOR BEGINNERS
Christy Mull is an Atlanta native. After attending Ringling School of Art in Sarasota Florida, she returned to Atlanta to begin a career in Commercial illustration. That career spanned thirty-five years, including five years in Chicago, Illinois. Illustration gave her a strong background in drawing and realistic painting. Christy is now retired from the ad game and has entered the fine art world with her oil paintings of still life, plein aire, and figure. She has participated in many shows at the Atlanta Artists Center winning several awards. “Paint the Parks” Competition accepted her river painting last year and it is still touring the USA. Her painting “Ted’s Bar” was accepted into “Oil Painter’s of America Eastern Division Show” in 2007. REBECCA NAGEL - CHILD INSTRUCTOR
Rebecca has taught children for the past six years. She has been an instructor at the Spruill Center for the Arts and Vanderlyn Elementary School in Dunwoody. Her expertise is in working with children to release and nurture their creativity using a variety of mediums. Recently she was recognized by the Governor of the State of Georgia as a Georgia Exceptional Teacher. She has even taken the opportunity to use art with teenagers as a therapeutic tool and means for expressing their unique style and imagination! Needless to say, Rebecca's passion is art! Rebecca holds a B.A. from Auburn University in Mass-Communications/Journalism, and has studied in Europe with the Art Institute of Atlanta. Her artwork has been featured in several films across the nation, earned awards, and been displayed at schools such as Agnes Scott College. She is in the process of publishing a book and producing and facilitating adult seminars on art as a powerful healing tool.
RECO STURGIS - CANVAS STRETCHING WORKSHOP
Reco Sturgis is an alumnus of the Art Institute of Atlanta and Atlanta College of Art. Sturgis has worked as the manager of Atlanta’s major art supply houses where he oversaw an inventory of more than 500,000 art-related materials and supplies. His broad base of knowledge extends to properties of virtually all artistic disciplines. Sturgis is also a certified custom framer. DONNA THOMAS - BEGINNER / INTERMEDIATE OIL PAINTING
Donna is a local artist and Sandy Springs resident. She attended the Fine Art School at the University of Georgia School of Fine Arts and has painted for more than 35 years primarily in oils. She is the past gallery owner at TULA on Bennett Street in Atlanta, is a past member of The Landings Art Association of Savannah, Georgia, is a member of the Atlanta Portrait Society, the Portrait Society of America and the Atlanta Artists Center. She teaches a variety of painting techniques including palette knife, impressionism, and realism. Donna has studied under Philip Carpenter of Atlanta and Susan Rochwerger of Roswell. She accepts all levels of experience believing that each student is capable of learning the necessary skills to create a work of art if there is a strong desire. (www.donnathomasfineart.com)dthomas555@aol.com |
CHARLES YOUNG WALLS - ADVANCED STILL LIFE WORKSHOP
Charles holds a BFA from Arizona State University and studied further at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League, both in New York City.
HALIMA WASHINGTON - PALETTE KNIFE PAINTING
Halima received her MFA in 2005 afrom the Academy of Art University of San Francisco and a BA in 200 at Occidental College in Visual Arts in La. Exhibition Record: Present- Fine Line Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 2007-Hedonnism VII-Apache Cafe,Atlanta,GA 2007- Dalton Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia 2006- Fine Line Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 2006- Cultural Interiors, Los Angeles, California 2006- Cultural Interiors, Los Angeles, California 2005- * Foster City Art Gallery, Foster City, California 2000- Senior Comprehensives, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College Los Angeles, California. www.halimawashington.com
INVITED/PAST INSTRUCTOR PANEL:
BRONWEN WAGNER - ABSTRACT
SUSAN KNIGHT SMITH - PASTELS
LORI SUMRALL - ACRYLICS
MICHAEL ALLMAN - DRAWING AND PAINTING
Michael Allman has been working as a fine artist in his native Atlanta since 1999. He previously worked as a sculptor's apprentice for six years, creating and engineering large commissioned public and private sculpture. While doing his apprenticeship, he taught a sculpture class for eight semesters. Michael has worked on large metal fabrications, engineered and built original furniture and has a history of work in digital and traditional photography. Having studied classical painting techniques since the age of thirteen and traditional and modern sculpture since the age of sixteen, he has continued with the tradition of creating exquisite pieces of fine art. Works exhibited at Mason Murer, Eyedrum, B-Complex
ADRIENNE ANDERSON - COLOR THEORY AND MIXED MEDIA WITH WATERCOLORS
Adrienne is a noted award winning artist and past Assistant Dean and Associate Professor at American Intercontinental University in Atlanta, painting and drawing instructor at Kennesaw State University, the Penland School of Art in NC, and Chair of Drawing and Painting at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She has been featured in over fifty solo exhibitions in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, New York and Virginia and has exhibited locally at MOCA, Fay Gold, The Swan Coach House, AIU, and the SpruillArtsCenter. Her works are largely collected by such corporations as Coca Cola, Pepsico, Walt Disney, and IBM. Adrienne has been featured in numerous publications relating to the arts. For more information: www.adrienne-anderson.com adrienneandersonart@comcast.net.
PATRICIA BRANCH - WATERCOLOR INSTRUCTOR (Workshop)
Atlanta native and professional artist Patricia Branch’s use of light and color creates a luminous quality in her work. She fell in love with watercolor at first brushstroke and attended the workshops of many famous artists, winning her first watercolor award in 1979. Her favorite subjects are flowers and landscapes which she paints with inspirational liveliness. In 1989, while working on a Masters in Architecture at Georgia Tech Patricia decided to pursue her true passion and become a professional artist. She has been painting and teaching workshops and private lessons ever since.
KAREN CAMPBELL - WILDLIFE ARTIST (Workshop)
Karen is from a large musically talented family in West Palm Beach and has been drawing and painting most of her life. Although Karen has had no formal art training, she is an accomplised local wildlife artist whose works are in private collections throughout the southeast and hangs in the Defenders of Wildlife Headquarters in Idaho. She has had a number of solo exhibitions in the Atlanta area. She more recently has concentrated in pen and ink drawing but has worked with all mediums including acrylic, oil, watercolor and sculpture. www.myartspace.com (go to featured art, artist and then type in her name), SylntLgacy@aol.com
ELIZABETH D'ANGELO - CHILD/TEEN PRIVATE LESSON INSTRUCTOR Beth is a graduate of the University of Florida School of Art and is a professional artist (painter) working in the field today. She has exhibited extensively throughout the southeast and has been awarded residency into the Hambidge Art Center in north Georgia in 2007. She teaches children and teens privately through the school at their homes. www.elizabethdangelo.com.
EMORY DANIEL - WATERCOLOR
Georgia Artist Emory Daniel, a signature member of the Georgia Watercolor Society, reflects a nostalgic mood, paints with watercolor on fine paper to produce realistic and impressionistic two-dimensional art. Emory’s recent works have taken on a more abstract look with his more aggressive indirect application of paint; pouring, spraying, squirting, etc. Yet he has retained some impressionism with a combination of direct brush application within the same works. Emory has been involved in the Atlanta art community for over thirty years, and is currently an Advanced Merit member of the AtlantaArtistsCenter. As a painter and a teacher, he gets a wonderful amount of satisfaction out of sharing his knowledge of watercolors with fellow artists. Emory’s paintings are in private collections all over the United States.
KATHRYN FORRESTER - CHILD INSTRUCTOR
BARBARA JAENICKE - PASTELS/DRAWING FOR THE TOTAL BEGINNER
Barbara received B.A. in Art/Advertising Design in 1986 from Trenton State College in Trenton, NJ, attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY and has studied with fine art instructors in New Jersey, North Carolina and Georgia. Her teaching style has a structured approach that enables students to learn new skills one step at a time in a positive atmosphere. Barbara specializes in landscapes and and still life in pastel and is represented in two galleries in Atlanta: Raiford Gallery in Roswell and Bobbe Gillis in Buckhead. (www.barbarajaenicke.com) barbarajaenicke@msn.com.
SUSAN KENDRICK (Workshop)
Susan Kendrick, currently curator and Director of the Corporate Division at Trinity Gallery in Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia, works primarily in mixed media, acrylic and resins. She is collected privately throughout the southeast and has held numerous solo exhibits. Susan's experience in the arts in Atlanta brings to the school a fresh focus of the current trends in art.
ELLIOT MICHAEL - OIL PORTRAIT INSTRUCTOR (Invited)
Elliot McMichael was currently (August 2006) involved in a solo exhibition at Cherry Lion Studios in Atlanta, Ga. The show consisted of numerous portraits taken is from his own photography sessions in which he used people from his life. Elliot strives to capture the essence of the subject and strays from reproduction. He feels that it is imperative to show the emotions of the person, therefore works to bring them forward in his paintings. As a student of the Art Institute of Atlanta, Elliot studied Media Arts and Animation. He received a BFA upon graduation and decided to focus his time on painting, due to the freedoms of the medium and for his own personal rewards. In 2006 he had his first works published in the Art Institute's Annual Promotional Brochure, highlighting the efforts of students from Art Institute programs across the country. Over the last year, Elliot has been commissioned for several portraits. Elliot McMichael is currently pursuing gallery representation, and works as a young contemporary portrait artist in Atlanta, Ga.elliotmcmichael@yahoo.com
CHRISTY MULL - "EN PLEIN AIRE" ART GROUP
Christy Sheets Mull of Atlanta attended The Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida and after graduation began a 35 year career in commercial illustration. Many of her original art works are in the private collections of CEOs of the companies she worked for including Coca Cola, John Deere, Playboy Magazine and Kraft to name a few. She has illustrated a children's book series and a number of cookbooks. Christy paints, sculpts and is a figurative artist as well as painting "en plein aire". She is artistic by design - her mother being a well known potter, Audrey Sheets. She has studied with Kim English, Thomas Nash, Greg Kreutz, George Strickland and Kenn Bachus. The artist states "that painting en plein aire affords me the opportunity to convey to the viewer the awe I felt while on location...my goal in life is to capture a moment in time...".
ANGELA NESBIT - CHARLOTTE, NC, (OIL, PALETTE KNIFE) (Workshop)
Angela Nesbit received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and studied classical drawing and painting at Queens University and Spirit Square Center for the Arts in Charlotte, N.C. She has studied intensively with Andy Braitman of Charlotte, NC for several years and credits him for her success. She has also studied with many nationally recognized artists such as Cedric and Joanette Egeli, William Schultz, Kate Worm and Connie Winters. Nesbit lives in Charlotte, NC with her very supportive husband Chris and her two forever inspiring children Elizabeth Rose and Christopher. BENJAMIN M. THEODORE PRINCE - CARTOON DRAWING (Invited) Benjamin, a recent graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, is an illustrator, children's author and artist. He was born in AtlantaGeorgia, 1969, attended Galloway and graduated from Westminster (class of '87) in Atlanta, Ga. He studied at Ithica Cultural Studies ('88-'90), Crete, Greece and the San Francisco Art Institute, ('93-'95) and graduated with a BFA. After completing his formal studies in history and the art of painting he set forth upon an odyssey of picture making and showings reaching from the bay of San Francisco to the harborage of Brooklyn, Boston and Long Beach, Ca. numerous times. He currently devotes much of his energy to picture books ( 'a Winterburr @ Ooba' , 'in the Konga Giggles' , 'From here to Camelopia' ) and paintings he terms 'Bubble wrap'. He can be reached at nowhere01@earthlink.netregarding the question: 'Just what does this mean'.
LORI LUBIN - PRINTMAKING (Invited)
Lori Lubin received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Georgia College & State University and her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Louisiana State University. She has taught art courses at LouisianaStateUniversity and SoutheasternLouisianaStateUniversity. She also taught Visual Arts (K-12) for the Talented Program in the Zachary Community Schools in Zachary, Louisiana. In addition to her teaching career, Lubin is an active artist. Her art has been published in Direct Art Magazine, and she has won awards at regional and national levels. loripenn@yahoo.com
RAMOND SHUTT - PRIVATE PIANO INSTRUCTION - ADULTS (Beginner to Advanced)
has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in music both as a concert performer and teacher. Born in Chicago to a musical family, his early studies began at age six. He was accepted at age 10 on scholarship by Leon Rosenbloom, former pupil of Arthur Schnabel. His formal debut came at age 13 when he was soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, George Schick conducting. At the ChicagoConservatoryCollege, he earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Piano Performance (Pedagogy and History minor).He completed his academic studies at the University of Chicago. His Doctoral studies as a piano performance major, where at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship in piano. While attending IU he worked with master musicians including, in Piano: Jorge Bolet, Sydney Foster, Abbey Simmon; in Chamber Music: Janos Sarker,Josef Gingold, Menachem Pressler, and in the Vocal Studios of Margaret Harshaw and Pablo Elvira.
BASIL WATSON – FIGURE DRAWING & SCULPTURE - FAMED JAMAICA SCULPTOR
Basil Watson, artist / sculptor, works mainly with the human figure, drawing from the live model being his staple. Although Basil works in wood, stone, metal and a variety of other materials, clay modeling is his method of preference. His final pieces usually are either bronze, bronze composite or terra cotta. With a focus on the big picture his work reflects movement, gesture, attitude and emotion. Basil is Jamaican where he studied at EdnaManleyCollege of the Visual Arts and later taught figure drawing and representational sculpture at his Alma Mata. Working over 30 years, he has risen to prominence as Jamaica’s premier figurative sculptor and moving to Atlanta in 2003, Basil works, teaches, exhibits and is collected internationally, most recently in China, Spain and Guatemala. He is exhibited at Mason Murer in Atlanta. All levels. (www.basilwatson.com) bbwatson@usa.net.