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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lee Fearnside earned her MFA
from RISD in 2002, and has been teaching photography and non-silver
processes at area colleges, including Holy Cross, Rhode Island
College and Roger Williams University. She lives in Providence,
and is currently photographing spaces under construction. |
| 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. |
| Sue
Funk has a BA in Fine Art and is an MA 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 — in the fall of
2006, Sue will begin her 15th year teaching at the Umbrella. |
| 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, as well as the clay coordinator
at the Emerson Umbrella. Terry has always been most comfortable
creating functional pottery with attention to the balance between
the sense of sight and touch. |
| Jane Hallowell
pushed herself so hard, she could only sleep four hours a night.
It took its toll. The 16 years of chronic pain in her neck and
shoulders spoke to that. Jane made some changes. 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. |
| Alice Heller has been dancing
and performing West African dance for over 14 years. She is a
member of Under the Sun Dance and Drum Troupe as well as her own
performing troupe, Teriya. In addition to African-based dance
and drumming, Alice’s studies include jazz, hip-hop and improvisational
dance as well as gymnastics. |
| 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. |
| 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 . |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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, Art History and Postmodern-Contemporary Art at Lasell
College, and currently she is teaching 3-D Design and Problems
of Aesthetics at Endicott College. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| William Turville is a mixed media
sculptor whose recent commissions include work for Bikes Not Bombs,
FirstNight Boston, the Somerville Arts Council, Children's Hospital,
Authoria Corporation and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless.
He does not like to throw things away and his overflowing studio
is located in Arlington, Massachusetts. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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