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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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