Judith Bastianelli is a self-taught fiber artist who specializes in knitting and spinning. She studied bobbin lace in France, has taught many people to spin, and has won prizes for her hand spinning. She demonstrates at fairs and fiber festivals and is interested in reviving traditional fiber arts.
Derek Bell earned a B.F.A. in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, and also loves to work in printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Derek’s love of teaching began while interning in AVA’s Summer Art Camps for children and continued with an internship at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in 2004. While at R.I.S.D., Derek worked as a teacher’s assistant for three years and taught teens at an after-school program in Providence, RI. His work has won first place in the 22nd Annual Congressional Art Competition and second place in “The Artists Magazine” annual competition; Derek also took part in AVA’s recent Generation Next exhibition.
Adam Blue has an M.F.A in Drawing and Painting from the California College of the Arts and a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College. He recently relocated to the Upper Valley from San Francisco. A small selection of his work may be viewed at www.adamablue.com. Adam will have his first AVA exhibition from April 18 to May 24, 2008.
Patty Castellini has been teaching children’s classes at AVA for several years. A multi-media artist, she has studied and apprenticed with many local artists and worked with children in a variety of settings. She has exhibited her monotypes in various locales throughout the Upper Valley, including a solo show at AVA in 2002.
Galen Cheney received her MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her BA from Mt. Holyoke College. She has been a committed oil painter for 20 years and has shown her work in Italy, Canada, and throughout the United States. Currently, her work is represented by the West Branch Gallery in Stowe, Vermont. Galen had a solo show at AVA in 2005.
Sara Dykstra received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Since 2003, she has taught art classes for children and adults at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan; she was also a visiting artist at Dartmouth Medical School in 2004-5, where she created a mural cycle commemorating the institution’s history. Recently, Sara has been working on a mural series for the Grosse Pointe Public Library in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Jeffrey Friedman is the author of four collections of poetry: Black Threads (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007), Taking Down the Angel (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003), Scattering the Ashes (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998) and The Record-Breaking Heat Wave (BkMk Press-University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1986). His poems and translations have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, 5 AM, New England Review, Forward, Maggid, Poetry East, Agni Online, North American Review and The New Republic. He is a core faculty member in the M.F.A. program in Poetry Writing at New England College.
Lori Gilbert has taught Lights, Camera, Action… at AVA since 2002 to great acclaim. She has been involved in play production with students of varying ages for a number of years.
Roger Goldenberg earned a B.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He taught painting and drawing at the University of New Hampshire from 1995 to1999. He has taught workshops for children and at-risk teenaged girls, and served as vice-chair of Portsmouth, New Hampshire’s cultural commission. Roger shows regularly in Boston’s South End and Newbury Street and extensively throughout New England. His work is in the permanent collections of children’s museums throughout the United States, including the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont.
Maggie Green is currently a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire studying towards a B.F.A. in Painting. She has been a teaching assistant in several summer camps and classes for children aged 6-12 at AVA and at the Hanover Street School. Over the years, she has taken numerous art classes at AVA and is very excited to return as a teacher of young children.
Christine R. (Kit) Hawkins has been an art teacher in the Upper Valley for the past twenty years. She received her B.F.A. from Boston University School of Arts and her M.A.L.S. from Dartmouth College. She has served as the Director of the Picture Gallery at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site and the Atrium Gallery of the Claremont Opera House. She has taught art history at the New Hampshire Community Technical College and at Colby-Sawyer College. Her work has been exhibited in numerous AVA shows as well as at other regional galleries.
Larry Howard had a gallery and studio on Rocky Neck, Gloucester, Massachusetts in the 1970s. He is a past member of the Copley Society, Boston, and a current member of the New England Watercolor Society, the Rockport Art Association, Rockport, Massachusetts, and the New Hampshire Art Association. He has been a member of AVA’s faculty for a number of years. Larry’s watercolors are featured in an exhibition at AVA in February and March, 2008.
Aya Itagaki studied traditional calligraphy for over twenty years in Japan before moving to Hanover, NH in 1964. Since 1976, Aya has taught calligraphy in the U.S., and she is the author of the 1987 book The Brush From Your Heart. Aya also holds a first degree black belt from the Okinawan Karate Academy in Lebanon, which was conferred in 2005. Aya has been involved with AVA since its inception in 1973, and has had several solo shows here.
Antoinette Jacobson holds a B.A. from Bennington College and received a graduate degree in Sculpture from St. Martin’s School of Art in London, England. She has taught French and art and is a sculptor, blacksmith, and filmmaker. Her sculptures were featured in an AVA exhibition in 2002.
John Joline holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in cubism, he has taught studio art as well as art history and architectural design. A longtime AVA faculty member, John is a well- known instructor of students of all ages. He had a solo show at AVA in Spring 2006.
Winkie Kelsey holds an A.B. from Smith College and studied art at Harvard University and Dartmouth College. Her work has been exhibited extensively, including at AVA, and she is the driving force behind AVA’s Stone Carving Studio and its resident artists, The Uncommon Chiselers.
Michael D. Kraatz holds a B.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin and an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has been a roster artist with the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for many years, completing numerous Arts in Education residencies in public schools. He works both in 2-D and 3-D and is particularly well known for his blown glass. Michael’s work has been shown both nationally and regionally, including at AVA.
J. Kiku Langford studied studio art at Dartmouth, graduating in 2006, and worked as a special instructor in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth in 2006-2007. Kiku is an abstract painter who also works in 2-D mixed media. In addition to her private artwork, she focuses on building community interest and involvement in the creation of art by working in public, holding collaborative painting sessions, and hosting art-making parties.
Michael Lovell, painter and illustrator, graduated from Cornell University and received an M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, Newport Library Art Center, the Hood Museum, and Colby-Sawyer College, as well as at AVA.
Eliza McLellan is a senior at Kimball Union Academy and has interned at AVA during the past couple of summers. She is interested in architecture and hopes to major in environmental studies at college.
Quinby McLellan is a graduate of Kimball Union Academy and a junior at Bard College. For a number of years, she was an AVA intern, acting as a teaching assistant in numerous summer art camps. This is her third year as a member of AVA’s faculty.
Mary Mead works in sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. She received an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin/Madison and an M.F.A from Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Awards include a 2007 Artist’s Opportunity Grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Mary headed Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT from 2003 to 2006. She specializes in both traditional and experimental approaches to printmaking and oversees AVA’s printmaking studio, which focuses on “green” printmaking processes.
Nicola Newton attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1976 and has been painting and printing ever since. After extensive travels Nicola moved to Lyme in1995. Her work has been shown throughout New England, often at AVA, and she was recently included in the New Hampshire Painting in the 21st Century exhibition. She is a member of United South End Artists in Boston. She has been teaching in area schools since 1999 and is currently an art teacher at the Children’s Montessori School in Hanover.
Murray Ngoima is an art educator and mixed-media artist who, for many years, has taught in local elementary schools and at AVA, where her Summer Art Camps for children are legendary. She has painted murals, designed theater sets, and taught children’s workshops in Boston, Woodstock, and Nairobi, Kenya. Murray was recently named Studio Manager of AVA’s four newly renovated teaching studios.
Robert O’Brien has worked in the watercolor medium for 30 years. Since moving to Vermont in 1977, he has focused his work on the landscape and architecture of New England. He has studied with James Whatford, Tony Couch, and the late Marshall Joyce, and travels annually to the south of France to paint.
Aline Ordman, freelance illustrator and artist, has a B.F.A. from Cornell University and a B.F.A. in Illustration from the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. A member of the Pastel Society of America, she is a longtime AVA faculty member; she has also taught at the Academy of Art College and Lebanon College.
Lia Rothstein has B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Boston University. She has been a professional photographer for over 25 years and has taught digital photography at several local colleges. Lia has exhibited extensively throughout the eastern United States, and her work is found in many private and corporate collections, including the Polaroid International Photography Collection.
Bill Scavone received his B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1993) and his M.A. from the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1998). His medical and scientific illustrations have won awards from the Association of Medical Illustrators and a Member’s Choice Award from the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Annual Juried Exhibition, in which he has been chosen to exhibit several times. Since 2000, he has been an interface designer of multimedia educational programs at the Interactive Media Lab at Dartmouth Medical School and continues to work as a freelance medical illustrator.
Martha Wakeman studied at the Tyler School of Art in Rome and holds a B.S. in Art Education from Skidmore College and an M.A. and M.F.A. from Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Art in Florence, Italy. She has taught Return to College students for the past 20 years at Connecticut College. She teaches pastel landscape in both the summer sessions at Connecticut College and at the Umbria Institute in Perugia, Italy. She has created Art and Study Retreats in Italy, one of which is a nine-day drawing, pastel, and watercolor workshop in the Etruscan countryside north of Rome. Martha has exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Joan White has a B.S. in Education from Castleton State College and has taught in the Upper Valley for over 20 years. She works in a variety of media, but her focus in recent years has been watercolor. In 2006, she received a Juror’s Recognition Award for her watercolors at AVA’s 14th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition. During spring 2007, her work was accepted into a national juried show.
Josh Yunger is a painter, printmaker, and musician. He began classes at AVA at age 14, studying painting with Clifford West. In 1999 he received a B.F.A. in Printmaking and Sound Design from The Art Institute of Chicago and had his first solo show at AVA the same year. His linocuts can currently be seen in The Gardener’s Companion book series (Globe Pequot Press). His band, The Ologists, are working on their third album.
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