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Alice Heller |
| Alice Heller teaches creative movement, yoga and gymnastics to pre-school children at various schools and day care centers in the metro area. Besides African-based dances and drumming, Alice’s studies include jazz, hip-hop, and improvisational dance as well as gymnastics. Alice has been dancing and performing West African dance for over 14 years. She is a member of Under the Sun Dance and Drum Troupe led by Fatou-Carol Sylla, as well as her own performing troupe, Teriya. |
Alice Hunter |
| Alice Hunter is a dancer, choreographer and teacher dedicated to helping her students gain the technique they need to express their own emerging artistic ideas and vision. The Director of On-e-on Dance Theatre (www.oneon.org), she has taught and performed for years. She holds a BA in Folklore from Oberlin College and an EdM from Harvard |
Andrea Dana-McCullough |
| Andrea Dana-McCullough is a professional potter who has been working in clay for the past 15 years. She has studied at the Museum School and Massachusetts College of Art and worked at Mudflat and Feet of Clay studios. |
Betsyann Duval |
| Betsy studied theatre at the University of Michigan, where she worked with the APA founded by Ellis Rabb and Rosemary Harris. She has directed and performed theatrical and artistic works in both the U.S. and London. She ran an advertising, marketing and public relations firm for many years where she coached senior executives in the delivery of speeches, presentations, and media interviews. Currently she works with many poets in the Boston area to hone their performance skills. |
Brenda Joy Fingold |
| Brenda Joy Fingold is a Holistic Health Educator who is devoted to helping people restore a sense of balance and well-being in their bodies and lives. For 17 years, Brenda was a trial lawyer and then Training Partner at the Boston law firm Hale and Dorr. In 2001 Brenda left law to study and teach how to use mind-body techniques for health and healing. She is a certified SpiritSong teacher trained by Shawna Carol, author of The Way of Song: A Guide to Freeing the Voice and Sounding the Spirit. Brenda is also certified as a Kripalu yoga teacher and a nourishment consultant trained by Hale Sofia Schatz, author of If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body to Awaken Your Spirit. Brenda’s healing practices include: nourishment and cleansing, yoga, relaxation and breathing techniques, meditation, guided imagery, Reiki hands-on energy and the healing power of voice and song. |
Bridget O'Connor |
| Bridget O'Connor has been teaching art to young children for many years. She is the creative director of Alacadazzle, a business she started five years ago, offering a wide variety of one-time and on-going workshops in the Boston area for all children throughout the year. Using literature as a starting point, she develops programs that incorporate materials from art, science, writing and cooking to encourage a natural flow of ideas and discoveries. She has an ability to connect with children allowing their individual bests to come out. |
Camille Maye-Leese |
| Camille Maye-Leese graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 2006 with a BFA in Ceramics. She first began teaching pottery to elderly blind and visually impaired individuals at the Greater Boston Aid to the Blind, where she still provides instruction. Art has always been a vital part of her life and at early age she knew she wanted to pursue a career that combined her love for the arts and working with children. As a fine artist and crafts person, her current work includes functional and sculptural ceramics, painting, card making and quilting. |
Carole Murray Davis |
| Carole Murray Davis earned a BA with a Fine Arts Major from the University of New Hampshire and holds MA Certification in Art Education. She is an experienced teacher in a wide variety of materials. Her current work includes drawing and painting the figure and landscape. |
Catherine Ezell |
| Catherine Ezell has been drawing and painting commissioned and non-commissioned portraits and exhibiting in local galleries for twenty years. She studied figure and portrait extensively under artists from The Art Students League of New York, the Boston Fenway Studios and the R.H. Ives Gammell School. She has taught portrait painting and drawing at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Arlington Center for the Arts, and the Lexington Munroe Center for the Arts. Her specialization is Alla Prima Portrait Painting or direct painting from life which she demonstrates regularly for Art Centers and Associations. |
Cecelia Sharma |
| Cecelia Sharma is a freelance graphic designer with years of experience in Advertising, 2D and 3D Design, Typography and Visual Communication. She is an accomplished artist and painter with expertise in watercolor, oil painting, and painting on silk. She is the recipient of several awards in the past for Graphic Design and Advertising. She studied Design at the National Institute of Design in India and later pursued a program in advanced studies in Television and Computer Graphics at Center for the Media Arts in New York City. She then continued her program at the Universtiy of California, Los Angeles. She currently also teaches at the Wayland Art Center in Wayland MA. |
Cheyenne Engle-Huynh |
| Cheyenne Engle-Huynh holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. She has taught art in the Boston area for eight years and has been working with homeless and at-risk children for the past five years. |
Cynthia Vose |
| Cynthia Vose earned her Diploma and 5th Year Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a BFA from SMFA/Tufts University. Cynthia has completed teaching assistantships at the SMFA, and has given painting and mixed media workshops and classes both publicly and privately. Her current work includes painting, drawing, mixed media, and sculpture. |
Eleonora Lecei |
| Eleonora Lecei received her MFA in Sculpture at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, her BA in Fine Art at Marymount Manhattan College. She has also studied at the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts in New York and the Paris American Academy in France. She operated the Lecei Gallery for two years and has been teaching both adults and children at the Emerson Umbrella for over 5 years now. Her teaching includes the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston/ BPS Scholarship Program, and she currently teaches Art History and Postmodern-Contemporary Art at Lasell College. |
Emily Schroer |
| Emily Schroer holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, with a concentration in ceramics. In addition to ceramics, Emily’s interests and skills include photography and horseback riding, and images of horses often appear on her ceramic artworks. Emily enjoys teaching both children and adults. |
Erin Harding |
| Erin Harding has a BFA from Cornell University, and is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Certified Raja Ashtanga Yoga Instructor. She has been teaching various forms of art and yoga for nearly a decade, and uses music, art, writing, movement, and meditation for her own personal healing, stress-management, pleasure, and transformation. She came to teaching as a way to share her experience with others. |
Gwen Murphy |
| Gwen Murphy earned a M.F.A. at Boston University and teaches throughout the Boston area. Her current work includes sculpture, painting, and portraits. |
Ilse Plume |
| Ilse Plume is an internationally known children's book author and illustrator, the recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats Award in 1985, and whose Bremen Town Musicians was a Caldecott Honor Book. She teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln,and conducts workshops and seminars throughout the country. |
Imadiel Ariel |
| Imadiel Ariel holds a MA from Tufts University, a BFA in Design from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and has worked in a variety of media. As a gallery instructor at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, she taught children aged 12-18 about the art of world cultures. Once a professional photographer she is now using her photography to inform her paintings. Her love of color has led her to study the many aspects of color and to specialize in the application of dyes on silk and pigments in watercolor painting. |
Jane Hallowell |
| Jane Hallowell's journey to good health began after suffering 16 years of chronic neck pain. She resigned from her job in New York City, moved back to Massachusetts, and took up yoga seriously. She had taken several styles throughout her life, but after one Svaroopa class, she noticed dramatic pain relief in her neck. Shortly thereafter, she began teacher training. Jane is now a Certified Svaroopa Yoga Teacher and a Registered Yoga Teacher, certified for 500 hours with the National Yoga Alliance. |
Jim Boyd |
| Jim Boyd first joined the staff of Emerson Umbrella during the summer of 2005. Following a 35-year professional career in various engineering disciplines, Jim chose to follow his dream and recently earned his Masters Degree in Elementary Education. His practicum was done at the preschool level through Salem State College. |
Jim Boyd |
| Jim Boyd first joined the staff of Emerson Umbrella during the summer of 2005. Following a 35-year professional career in various engineering disciplines, Jim chose to follow his dream and recently earned his Masters Degree in Elementary Education. His practicum was done at the preschool level through Salem State College. |
Jing-hua Gao Dalia |
| Jing-hua Gao Dalia holds a Fine Arts degree in Chinese traditional arts from National Taiwan Normal University and has done graduate work in art at the University of Hawaii. She has traveled and exhibited internationally for two decades, and has been a Boston Copley Society member since 1998. |
Joan Houlihan |
| Joan Houlihan is founder and director of the Concord Poetry Center and the author of two books: Hand-Held Executions, Poems & Essays and The Mending Worm, winner of the Green Rose Award. She is editor-in-chief of Perihelion, an online poetry magazine published at webdelsol.com, writes a series of critical essays on contemporary poetry, called The Boston Comment, and she is staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review. Joan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and magazines and is anthologized in the Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press, December 2004) and An Anthology of Irish-American Poetry, 18th Century to Present (University of Notre Dame, 2006). She has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. |
Joanne Gervais Matias |
| Joanne Gervais Matias is the former owner and director of the Gervais School of Performing Arts in Hadley, MA, and is a Visiting Artist in Jazz Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She also teaches at Green Street Studios. |
Jonathan Smith |
| Jonathan Smith received his BFA in Painting from the University of New Hampshire and MFA in Painting and Drawing from City University of New York at Brooklyn College. His work has been shown in a variety of local venues and his studio currently resides in the Emerson Umbrella for the Arts in Concord. He has been teaching Painting, Printmaking, and Figure Drawing at Concord Academy since 1989. |
Joy Nelkin Wieder |
| Joy Nelkin Wieder has written and illustrated several books for children, including two historical novels, The Secret Tunnel, and The Great Potato Plan, which is based on her family history. She was awarded Best Picture Book Text for her manuscript “Rivkah and the Mice,” in the 2004 Jewish Children’s Bookfest writing contest. Visit www.joynelkinwieder.com for more information and a portfolio of her work. |
Kathy Reticker |
| Kathy Reticker was the Executive Director of the Concord Children's Center for twelve years prior to entering the coaching profession. At the CCC, Kathy created opportunities for people to be successful whether it was the children attending the program, their parents, the teachers, or the Board Members. As a coach, Kathy works collaboratively with individuals and groups to create environments that foster creativity and success. |
Katie Clark |
| Katie Clark teaches Happily Ever Active in more than 10 area schools. She holds a MEd from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. Katie is also an ACE certified personal trainer. Prior to starting Happily Ever Active in 1999, Katie taught preschool for 20 years, and directed Evergreen Day School in Cambridge, MA for 10 years. |
Konstantin Popdimitrov |
| Konstantin Popdimitrov is a career exhibiting artist and art educator, descendant of the century-old tradition of Auguste Rodin’s School of Sculpture. He earned his two MFA degree equivalents in fine and applied arts at the University Paris VIII Saint Denis in Paris, France, and at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. His wide range of creations in Europe and the U.S. includes numerous 3-D and 2-D government and private commissions: monumental and studio sculptures, murals, interior and exterior design solutions, paintings, as well as solo and group exhibits. He has taught drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics in private and public art institutions for over 20 years. His solid classical “renaissance” education, complemented by his encounters with different cultures and art movements throughout Europe and the U.S., enable him to lead his students from the basic steps of art to mastery. |
Laura Sweet |
| Laura Sweet has been involved in Theater for over 30 years. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Concord Players. Her experience includes almost every aspect of theatrical production, and she uses these skills for much more than theater alone. Taking “all the world’s a stage” to heart, she is a founding member of the fledgling event production group, the Atomic Immersion Collective. |
Lauren Eppinger |
| Lauren Eppinger has a BA from Bennington College in Visual Arts and Psychology. She has been captivated by clay since childhood, and has taught ceramics to people of all ages, ranging from children to older adults. Inspired by human personality and forms of nature, her own work in the medium is primarily an exploration of groupings of functional, thrown pieces. |
Lee Fearnside |
| Lee Fearnside has been making photographs for ten years. She earned her MFA in photography from RISD, and currently teaches at Concord Academy. |
Leslie DePaolo |
| Dr. Leslie DePaolo is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College (B.A.), Northeastern University (M.Ed.), and the University of Maryland (Ph.D.), and has taught at all levels from elementary through graduate school. Her graduate and postdoctoral studies and her lifelong interest have been in the essential nature of human beings and the dynamics by which such nature is influenced by age, gender, and experience. |
Lisa Corfman |
| Lisa Corfman, born in Boston, MA, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and a certificate as a Nurse Assistant. She works part-time as a recreational therapist and photo technician, and with an entrepreneurial spirit Lisa spends her leisure time mastering the artistic parts of the art of folding paper called origami. |
Lucy van Leeuwen |
| Lucy van Leeuwen is a professional circle dance instructor who has taught internationally since 1998. Lucy has studied and performed modern dance at the Isadora Duncan Dance Institute in NY., and circle dance at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. Lucy holds an MS from BU in the completely unrelated field of computer science... but she has been dancing all her life. For more information about Lucy, please visit www.poetryofthedance.com. |
Margaret Remensnyder |
| Margaret Remensnyder earned a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in graphic design from Boston University School for The Arts. She has been teaching art to children since 2000. |
Margaret Savage |
| Margaret Savage received her B.F.A. in Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and has taught in Concord, Bedford, and at the DeCordova Museum School. |
Mary Pope |
| Mary Pope is a local artist with years of experience painting at DeCordova Museum, Emerson Umbrella and Concord Art Association. She teaches at Harvard University, the Concord Art Association and privately. She holds a Masters in Education from Wheelock College. |
Melissa Stewart |
| Melissa Stewart has always been fascinated by the natural world and enjoys sharing it with readers of all ages. She has written more than 60 books for young readers, garnering such awards as the National Science Teachers Association's Recommended Title, the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age, Science Books & Films's Editors' Choice, and Science Books & Film's Best Book of the Year. She has published articles in numerous magazines and taught both fiction and non-fiction writing extensively. |
Michael Perrow |
| Mike Perrow's poetry has appeared in Volt, Shenandoah, The Hollins Critic, Willow Springs Review, Del Sol Review, and Perihelion, as featured poet for issue #9. Perrow's poem, "Trees in My Brother's New Backyard" (Shenandoah Spring 2002) was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2004 edition. Perrow grew up in south central Virginia, but has lived the past decade in Massachusetts, where he is editor-in-chief of The Rational Edge. |
Michelle Lavallee Berti |
| Michelle Lavallée Berti is a professional, certified art specialist and instructor, practicing and exhibiting fine artist and painter, and designer. A Diploma graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she also holds a B.A from Rivier College. She has taught art for 16 years to students at all levels at the MFA and in private and public schools, in art galleries and organizations. She is currently an artist member of the Concord Art Association, The Wellesley Society of Artists, the Needham Art Association and its past president. |
MJ McCauley |
| MJ McCauley is a talented artisan working in fiber and jewelry arts for the past ten years. She got hooked on the flexibility of Metal Clay and the personalization it offers to fine jewelry. She is certified in both Precious Metal Clay and Art Clay. She loves to share ideas that exercise the logical and the creative sides of one's brain and is a favorite instructor at local bead shows and shops throughout New England. |
Niela Miller |
| Niela Miller, MS Ed, LMHC, has been involved in many arts all her life. She is a coach, trainer, and educator who specializes in creative and emotional intelligence and has written a manual on the subject. To find out more, go to her website at: www.peoplesystemspotential.com. |
Ori Munson |
| Ori Munson has studied and taught yoga all of her life. She began doing yoga at the age of 2 ½ with her father, who taught yoga, dance and meditation for almost 40 years. She lived in India from age 10 to 16 and again from 18 to 21 studying yoga, meditation, and vedant philosophy at the International Meditation Institute in Kullu, H.P. India. Ori has taught hatha, vinyas and iyengar yoga, somatics, Pilates, and aerobics, as well as meditation, pranayam, and eastern philosophy. |
Pablo Friedmann |
| Pablo Friedmann holds undergraduate degrees in Sociology from the Universidad Autonoma de México and in Painting from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado in Mexico City, and an M.A in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London. He is a narrative painter whose work combines technical skill with social awareness. |
Patricia Koenitzer |
| Patricia Koenitzer is a dance educator who combines her Western, Polynesian, and Asian dance training, sharing the joy of movement & culture with children and adults enhanced with the use of drama, art, music, stories, props, and puppetry. She earned her MA from University of Hawaii-Manoa, and has taught an array of dance styles (ballet to hula to creative movement) in schools, studios, for children's birthday parties, and workshops. |
Robin Masi |
| Robin Masi is an artist and a writer. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University and her MFA from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. She is currently attending Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education in the Arts in Education program. She has exhibited her conceptual costumes, abstract figurative paintings and charcoals in exhibitions in New England, California, Washington D.C. and New York. Her play Vanishing Point has been performed in Rome and New York. She has taught drawing and painting at colleges on both the east and west coasts. |
Robyn Logan |
| Robyn Logan graduated with a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art with a concentration in 3-D Fine Arts: Fibers. She has worked with children for five years as a teacher and as a nanny, but her favorite thing to do with children is to create art. Robyn writes and illustrations her own children’s books using fiber techniques such as embroidery, surface design and quilting. She also loves to create for family and friends, and several of her quilts have been raffled for charity. |
Ruth Herman |
| Ruth Herman has a personal interest in how the stories of children develop over time, often writing with children, individually and in groups, for a year or more. The founder and director of the Concord Writing Center, Ruth is committed to finding new ways to celebrate the collective spirit of community, through writing and storytelling one voice at a time. |
Sarah Nahrmann |
| Sarah Nahrmann holds B.A. in Theater and Dance from the University of New Hampshire. She has performed with the Seacoast Ballet Company and the Choreo Dance Company, Sarah has been teaching dance in New Hampshire and Massachusetts since 1988. |
Sophie Wadsworth |
| Sophie Wadsworth, M.A., has taught creative writing and literature since 1991. Her poetry has appeared in periodicals including Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, Sycamore Review, and Sanctuary Magazine. Her collection of poems, Letters from Siberia, was awarded the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Award from The Comstock Review. |
Stephanie Santos |
| Stephanie Santos has studied ceramic art at Franklin Pierce College and has a BFA with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. |
Steve Bobrow |
| Stephen Garschina-Bobrow is passionate about functional objects and rhythm. While earning his degree at Brandeis University and co-facilitating the university's Pottery Club program, these two passions united as he began to craft ceramic drums and other percussion instruments. Today he continues to create ceramic instruments while also teaching Mathematics at the Boston Arts Academy in Boston, MA. |
Sue Funk |
| Sue Funk has a BA in Fine Art and is a Massachusetts certified teacher. While she is active in the professional fine arts world, Sue is also an illustrator, specializing in children's literature. Combining her two loves — children and drawing — Sue has been teaching at the Emerson Umbrella for over 15 years. |
Susan Edwards Richmond |
| Susan Edwards Richmond has had poems in the California Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, The Larcom Review, Sanctuary: The Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, The Seattle Review, Wild Earth, and The Iowa Review. She has taught writing courses at The American School in Switzerland, the University of California, Davis, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Emerson College, and Boston University. Susan Edwards Richmond has had poems in the California Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, The Larcom Review, Sanctuary: The Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, The Seattle Review, Wild Earth, and The Iowa Review. She has taught writing courses at The American School in Switzerland, the University of California, Davis, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Emerson College, and Boston University. |
Susan Kelly |
| Susan Kelly is a resident of Acton and has been a scrapbooking consultant since 2000. She has a great passion for helping people create beautiful and meaningful heirloom albums to pass on from generation to generation. She teaches introductory and advanced classes and holds regular workshops twice a month. |
Susanne Liebich |
| Susanne Liebich studied with the Boston School of Ballet, Joy of Movement Center, and Lou Conte Dance Studio in Chicago. She has performed with the Airborne Dance Troupe and choreographed repertory pieces for Simon's Rock College and at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. She has been a modern jazz dance and dance stretch instructor for 19 years. She is also a certified Stott® Pilates instructor and an ashtanga yoga practictioner. |
Suzanne Hill |
| Suzanne Hill is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design in Ceramic Art and Illustration, and of Alfred State College of Ceramics with an MFA in Ceramic Art. She has taught at collegiate and elementary levels and has exhibited her work in galleries in New York, Philadelphia, and Newport. She has lived in Mexico, Peru and Bangladesh, where she learned traditional pottery techniques from local craftspeople . |
Terry Goss |
| Terry Goss initially learned pottery over 15 years ago, at Emerson Umbrella and the DeCordova Museum. In 2002 he retired from his telecommunications career, completed a two-year full-time program in ceramics at the Worcester Center for Crafts, and is a now part-time ceramics teacher at the DeCordova Museum School and Summer Fenn. Terry has always been most comfortable creating functional pottery with attention to the balance between the sense of sight and touch. |
Tim Seston |
| Tim Seston is a former camp counselor, after-school caregiver, and high school teacher. Now a father, he understands the need to interact with children and take an interest in each individual. Tim uses a combination of classical guitar, rhymes and old fashioned story-telling. |
Wendell Refior |
| Wendell Refior is an experienced adult-ed teacher, who has taught the Living Legacy to rave reviews. Using innovative technique, he seeks to include everyone in the discussion. He is a member of the Thoreau Society and a Life Member of the Emerson Society. |
William Turville |
| William Turville is a mixed media sculptor and architect who regularly shows his work at the Concord Art Association, Brickbottom Gallery and the Arts league of Lowell. He has done commissioned pieces and installations for Children’s Hospital, Authoria Corporation and Bikes Not Bombs and community sculpture and installation work for the Town of Concord, Boston, Somerville, Lawrence and Lowell among others. He has recently been a guest artist at the Wilbur School, Mass. Audubon and the Concord Library. You may have seen Bill's FishCar and FishBike in Concord or Carlisle. He really does not like to throw things away and has been an avid recycler since 1970. His cluttered studio is located in Arlington. |
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