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IS183 Art School
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about usFacultyLisa C. Abbatomarco, is a visual and performing artist, puppeteer a go-go, stilt-walker, avant-garde explorer, tangential vocalist, instigator of large hoo-haa and rebel educator. Her 20+ year career includes improvisational theatre, sculpture, installation art, sound poetry, and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has created and directed original productions as well as extensively toured with Arm of the Sea Theater (NY) and In the Heart of the Beast Theater (MN). She has taught art programs and coordinated family events for Bethel Jazz Festival & the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (NY) among others.
Appearances include Third Coast Radio Festival and Green Mill (Chicago), HERE space & Governors Island Festival (NYC), Megapolis Audio Festival (Boston), Dream Community (Taiwan) and North Meets South Festival (Virgin Islands). Yura Adams holds an MFA and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught for many years at IS183, and Columbia-Greene Community College as well as a stint in the painting department at the Rhode Island School of Design.
She has been the recipient of two National Endowment Grants, was a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Mark participant, and recently received the 2010 Individual Artist Grant from Greene County (NY) Council of the Arts.
She is represented by John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY.
Karen Arp-Sandel is a collage artist, watercolorist and art educator with a BA from U-Mass Boston. At IS183, Karen teaches adult & kids classes through collaborations with the Lichtenstein Center and with Pittsfield Public Schools and is the Dept Head for 3D Arts. Currently, she is Artist Mentor at Kidspace, MASS MoCA, Art & Yoga Program Presenter at Kripalu Center and Visual Arts Faculty for CATA. Collage Eclectica Studio, in Canaan, NY is her artistic retreat. New work can be seen in both Berkshire and Columbia County galleries, benefit exhibits, public installations and in private collections. www.curioustouristproject.com Christa Assad is a teacher, traveler and full time ceramicist with an MFA from Indiana University, Assad’s work will be featured in a solo show at Ferrin Gallery in conjunction with the second annual, “Locally Thrown Locally Grown” event – a celebration of The Berkshire region’s world-class ceramic art and culture. Based in Berkeley, California, mid-career artist Christa Assad is best known for her interpretation of iron as a teapot. Assad explains the inspiration for her piece: "The antique sad iron conjures up memories of childhood, of times spent with grandmothers and long forgotten domestic disciplines. The morphing of iron and teapot as domestic object icon helps to elicit a more powerful emotional response."
Mary Barringer received a BA in art from Bennington College, apprenticed with Michael Frimkess, and has been a studio artist since 1973, making both sculpture and functional pottery. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at AKAR (Iowa City), the Signature Shop (Atlanta), and at the World Ceramics Expo in Korea. She has taught at numerous art centers and universities including Ohio University, the Boston Museum School, and Penland School of Crafts. In addition to her studio work she has written and lectured on ceramic history, and was named editor of Studio Potter journal in 2003. She lives in Shelburne Falls, MA. Daniel Bellow has studied with Mary Risley at Wesleyan University and Tom White in Northfield, MA. He learned to fire kilns with Jim Dugan at the Vermont Clay Studio, and moved to the Berkshires to establish Daniel Bellow Pottery in Great Barrington in 2002. Leslee Carsewell's interest in photography dates back to her teens (a long time ago) when she first began dark room work in black and white photography. During her 28 year award winning career as a graphic designer, she used photography she created or
art directed to enhance the messages of her Fortune 500 clients, the San Francisco Symphony, the Walker Art Center and various museums and universities to name a few.
Nancy Castaldo is an award-winning author of more than ten books for young people on topics as diverse as oceans, rain forests, rivers, and space. Her photographs have appeared in national magazines. She is the Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Eastern NY Region, a former Girl Scout Leader, a reviewer for the Historical Novel Society and the Chair of the Sierra Club's Environmental Education Team. Ms. Castaldo has taught a variety of programs for children throughout the country, including the Boston Children's Museum, Atlanta Zoo, Tennessee Aquarium and Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum.
John Clarke is a painter, photographer, printmaker and musician lving in Great Barrington, MA. He received his BFA in classical music composition from Bates College in the mid 1990s, and since then has been watching the nature of things, writing songs, and exploring visually his response to this beautiful, strange and wondrous world. He draws his deepest inspiration from those places inside us that lay beyond label and understanding. Linda Clayton recieved an arts degree from N.Y.U. She is an award-winning spinner and dyer of fleece and knitter of one-of-a-kind top prize hats. Her paintings are sold in galleries in the Berkshires, Wellfleet, MA and St. Augustine, Fla. Heather Graber Coon a preschool teacher for the past five years at Under Mountain Elementary School, has studied clay and woodworking at Bank Street College in New York City. She holds a preschool teaching training certificate and works with the Learning Curve in Great Barrington. Laura Curran has been an artist and educator for over 25 years. She has had many opportunities to study and learn many mediums and to share them with her students. Her work has been in galleries around the U.S., including the White House. She has been a member and exhibitor in the American Craft Council. She studied art at Smith College and has a studio art degree from UMASS, Amherst. Liz Daly received her BFA in Ceramics from Maine College of Art and her MFA in ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. She apprenticed at the Great Barrington Pottery, worked as a studio assistant for Dale Culleton, and was the ceramic studio manager and faculty member from 2000-04 at IS183 Art School. Currently she teaches ceramics as an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz and is IS183's Ceramics Department Head. Ben Evans is the Studio Manager at IS183. He received his BFA in ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His recent work, “Reflections” a large scale, sculptural piece was inspired by architectural forms. Laura Evonne Steinman is a community artist who has worked with people of all ages facilitating artmaking in schools, community centers, neighborhood backyards, in religious institutions, senior centers, orphanages, and hospitals. She believes that lives are nurtured and transformed by creating art together. Laura received her BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and her Master of Art in Art Education (MAAE) with a Concentration in Community Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Currently she is living in Somerville, MA sewing a bunch of "Colorful Matters" using recycled remnants and is a full time art teacher at The Gifford School in Weston, MA. June Ferrin received her BA from UCLA and continued to do graduate work there before raising her familiy. Her work has been exhibited at the Nardin Fine Arts Gallery in Cross River, Katonah Gallery and most recently at Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield. Her watercolors are in numerous private collections. She taught for the Los Angeles School System, the North Westchester Watercolor Society and at the Mandel Verde Society Angela Fina received her MFA from the School for American Craftsmen @ RIT. Angela has taught college level ceramics in Rochester, NY and in Ontario. She has taught workshops at Penland, Cortona Italy, Cheyenne WY, Colorado Potter’s Guild and other Centers throughout the country. Her work has been shown at the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia Craft Show, Demarest Invitational, and many shows throughout the Northeast. She has appeared in numerous publications including Ceramics Monthly, American Ceramics and Studio Potter. Jessica Fitzgerald received her BFA in metal from SUNY New Paltz. She continued her education as the assistant for two metal smiths in the Hudson Valley before moving to the Berkshires in 2007. Jessica enjoys working with both precious and non-precious materials, such as ceramic and fabric. This mix of materials is present in her recent work, which combines and pieces together scraps, shards & fragments, giving them new life and value.
Dennis Fougere holds an AS in Fine Arts and is currently working on a BS in art education. His subject matter tends to deal with the study of distortion in many different forms, and is usually explored through the medium of paint, though not exclusively. He is passionate about learning and passing on knowledge to others. Maire- Claude Giroux received her BFA from The California College of Arts & Crafts as an independant major: from ceramics & glass to paper, printmaking, and performance. Her further studies have taken her to Haystack, Penlord, and the Appalachion School of Craft. Marie-Claude earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. Paula Gottlieb was born in 1947 and raised on a chicken farm near the central New Jersey Shore. She received a BFA degree from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia with studies in Rome. In 1971 she graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with an MFA. Paula teaches classes at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield MA and privately in her own studio. Her paintings can be seen at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton and Amherst, MA. Bob Green is a ceramic artist and educator residing in western
Massachusetts. He has an undergraduate degree in sculpture and an MFA
in ceramics from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is
the recipient of the Vermont Council of the Arts individual artist
grant. Bob had two pieces included in the 2007 National Juried
Ceramics Exhibition at the Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence, KS.
Bob has taught numerous workshops on raku and pit firing. For the past
five years he has been a faculty member for Art New England at
Bennington College a summer program which is run by Mass. College of
Art and Design. Bob's work is featured in Steve Branfman's book Raku;
A practical Approach (2nd) edition as well as Mastering Raku,
published by Lark Books.
Joan Griswold spent her high school years in Japan and remained there after graduating to study the language and pottery at the Saga Bijitsu Tanki Daigaku, Kyoto, Japan. She received her degree as a dual major in Classics and Studio Art from Beloit College. Joan continued her studies at the American Academy, Paris, France and later with Aaron Shikler and David Levine: "The Painting Group"' NY. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world, including the Hoorn Ashby Gallery, NY since 1993. Mark Hanford is a field services engineering manager for GL&V, an international manufacturer for pulp and paper making machinery, Mark has worked in countries across the globe erecting factories from China to Ecuador. His work takes him around the world, expanding his sense of shape and design, but the disciplines and influences of more than 30 years of industrial work are hard to ignore. Mark resides in the beautiful wooded surrounds of Becket, MA."I’ve worked with metal for years in industry,
and my engineering career has given me technical skills that come into play with fine line design and dimension." Molly Hatch 's ceramic work appropriates imagery from the French baroque rococo and European chinoiserie traditions. As a result of coming to ceramics via drawing and printmaking, Hatch engages representational drawing on the surfaces of the work. She uses the traditional Japanese mishima slip inlay technique to create her detailed calligraphic line on the surface of the work. Exhibiting her work widely throughout the US, she is also a writer and is actively working with various publications specializing in studio ceramics including American Craft Magazine and The Studio Potter Journal. A solo show of her work will be presented at the Bennington Art Museum in November.
Tim Heffernan earned a B.A. from Simon's Rock College where he studied photography, music and ecology. Tim is a freelance graphics and web designer. He worked with Doug Trumbull Entertainment Design Workshop and has specialized in Digital arts since 1999. He considers himself a "Power geek". Ali Herrmann received her BFA from Bennington College in Vermont, where she concentrated in painting, fine art printmaking, and ceramics. A native of Berkshire County, Ali currently resides in Columbia County, pursuing oil painting and bookmaking as her mediums of choice. her work has been shown locally, having completed two sheep for Pittsfield's Sheeptacular in 2004, and most recently at the Fulton Street Gallery in Troy, Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, and other venues across the Capitol Region. Ayumi Horie Originally from Maine, Ayumi received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at ALfred University, and her MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is on the board of directors of the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and has taught many workshops on functional ceramics and the internet across the US and internationally, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Greenwich House Pottery, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, Northern Clay Center, Penland, University of Florida, LSU, Penn State, RISD, RIT, and Syracuse University, among others. Ayumi lives in the Hudson Valley of New York, making work in earthenware and porcelain and drawing from folk traditions and comics in the US and Japan. Jason Houston has worked for nearly 20 years as an independent photographer traveling to over a dozen countries and across the United States documenting social and environmental issues for editorial and NGO clients. His images have appeared in print, online, and broadcast media around the world and have been exhibited in New England, New York, Florida, and California. He regularly serves as a reviewer, judge, and curator for photo festivals and competitions, and currently also works as picture editor for Orion magazine. Philip Howie received a BA at Rhodes College of Memphis, TN. He completed post graduate work at the NY Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture, National Academy of Design, the New York Academy of Art, and at the Belles Artes, San Miguel Allende, Gto. Mexico and received an Individual Artist Tier Grant from the NYSCA for 2002. He has recently completed a life-size bronze sculpture for the St Louis Priory School in Missouri. Philip currently has work displayed at the BCB Gallery in Hudson, NY. Wendy Jensen has been an award winning professional basket maker for the last twelve years. She exhibits her work at juried craft shows and galleries nationally, and has taught basket making at many craft schools, museums and private facilities. One of her basket patterns was recently featured in "By Hand" by Janice Eaton Kilby from Lark Books. Linda Kaye-Moses has been working full-time as a professional jeweler since 1978. In her work, Kaye-Moses uses a multitude of techniques including metal clay, engraving, stamping, embossing to demonstrate the latent connection between her various media including sterling silver, gemstones, 14k gold and organic materials. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and at juried craft shows, including the Smithsonian, ACC Craft Fairs and The Paradise City Arts Festivals. She has received two Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council Grants, three Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grants and a Niche Award. Her work has also been published in numerous books and major periodicals and she is the author of "Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads" a workshop style book containing original projects for making silver beads from metal clay. James Kennedy received his BFA from the University of Michigan where he studied sculpture, photography, and metal-smithing. James founded, “Collective Metals,” a modern jewelry business in NYC. His work is sold in galleries across the country. Eight years ago Kennedy moved to the Berkshires and learned how to restore and build airplanes, and old houses. Current projects include large mural paintings and original platinum wedding rings. Naomi Lindenfeld Naomi has a Bachelor of Applied Arts in ceramics from Boston
University's Program in Artisanry.
After several clay apprenticeships, Naomi co-founded in 1983 the
Brattleboro Clayworks, a potter's collective in Brattleboro, Vt. Since
then, she has been a professional potter offering a line of colored clay
items. In 2004 she set up her own studio in her home in West Brattleboro
which is where she now works out of.
Since 1998 Naomi has been the ceramics teacher at Putney School (a
boarding high school), teaching a variety of hand-building and
wheel-throwing methods. Naomi has also taught a number of colored clay
workshops at craft centers around the northeast where she has had the
opportunity to share her enthusiasm for the unusual and exciting
technique involving working with colored clays.
Stephanie Maddalena has been lampworking since 1994 when a class from Kate Fowle-Meleney changed her life. She has a BA in Fine Arts and has accumulated lampworking knowledge through workshops. She has been developing her own sculpted flower techniques, and her flowers were published in the Spring, 2002 La Vie Claire Magazine. Nancy Magnusson has been pursuing her passion for ceramics for over 10 years, first as a student and then in a second career as a teacher and studio potter. She has as much fun as any of her students building various vessels, sculptures and critters. Marlene Marshall is a painter/collage artist, arts educator, designer, and author of Making Bits and pieces Moasaics 1998, Shell Chic 2002, and due in 2009 Woodland Chic (for Storey Publishers). For over a decade, Marlene has been conducting studio art classes in Mosaic and Shell design applications, as well as the Visual Arts. Marlene consults with communities on outdoor mosaic projects for public walkways, walls, and parks and has appeared on both the Home and Garden and DIY networks. Theresa May O'Brien has been crafting felt for 20 years. The medium was a natural extension from her years as a painter. In the last 7 years, Theresa has been mentoring under felt master Mehmet Girgic of Konya, Turkey. Through this mentorship, Theresa and Mehmet have been able to mix the artistic elements and the craftsmanship of felt-making in order to create contemporary fashion from an old world traditional medium. Theresa's studio is in Oneonta, NY. Mark McCormick-Goodhart Melanie Mowinski received her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of Philadelphia, a MA in Religion and Visual Arts from Yale University and a BS in Art Education from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is presently Assistant Professor of Visual Art, at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She was formerly employed as the Programs Coordinator at the Berkshire Museum and the Arts Department Head at Buxton School, in Williamstown. Linda Novick's passion for painting and experimentation with color is evident as her students enjoy the permission she gives them to create and discover their inner artist. Linda has taught watercolor painting for over 40 years, is the author of The Painting Path: Embodying Spiritual Discovery through Yoga, Brush and Color, published by Skylight Paths Publishing, is the former President of the Hudson River Watercolor Society and runs travel programs for painters in Italy, Peru and Mexico. Pat O'Donnell went to the Massachusetts College of Art and graduated in 2007 from the Illustration Program. He also attended the Visual Arts Program at Berkshire Community College. Currently he is teaching an illustration workshop at the Berkshire Community College. Fay O'Meara has a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She has studied at the Fine Arts Work Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She maintains a studio in Norfolk, CT where she works with textiles both on and off loom and makes sculpture with found wood. She is the mother of two sons. June Parker is a pastel artist, a signature member of Connecticut Pastel Society and recipient of numerous awards from national exhibitions including the Bernhard Silver Medal for Excellence in Pastel. She has taught at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Becket Art Center, and Housatonic Valley Art League. She has also studied with Shelly Fink and attended workshops with Charles Movalli, Frank Federico, Constance Flavell Pratt and Albert Handell. June's work can be seen at www.hval.org. Senta Reis has enjoyed bringing the arts to many varied populations for over 20 years. A painter by training, she has also studied artistic therapy extensively and is devoted to the arts as a means for personal development and healing as well as joy! Senta holds a M.Ed., Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley and a U. B.A., Studio Art from Bard College, along with a RYT from Kripalu.
Samuel Rowlett received his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. He is currently living and working in Western Massachusetts. Paula Shalan received her BA in studio art and child development from Sarah Lawrence College. She has been teaching art for over twenty years, including ceramics and multi media at IS183 Art School of the Berkshires for the past 12. She held the position of Head of the Young Artist Department where she helped develop both the 5 to 7 year olds and the teen summer programs. She has taught at various private and public schools in the Berkshires and at the Berkshire Museum. Her smoke fired ceramics have been shown locally and nationally. Currently her ceramics can be seen at The Snyderman-Works Gallery in Philadelphia as well as at Paradise City Arts Festivals and Craft Boston retail shows.
Cassandra Sohn born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sohn received a BA in Photography and English from the New School in Manhattan. Cassandra loves to travel, and finds tremendous inspiration in exploring diverse cultures around the world. She was the main contributing photographer in the recently released book, Window On The Park - New York's Most Prestigious Properties On Central Park, published by Images Publishing. Sohn exhibits with various galleries, and in 2009, had shows with Tappan Z Gallery, in Tarrytown, NY, the Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield, MA, Canyon Ranch and Karendipity Gallery in Lenox, MA, and Dream Studios and Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. Sohn has worked for a variety of clientele, including Berkshire Living Magazine, Travelraters, Images Publishing, The Berkshire Record, and the nonprofit City Harvest; as well as writing for News Photographer Magazine. Wednesday Nelena Sorokin is a painter and teacher with more than 30 years experience. With a BA from Smith College and an MFA from James Madison University, she is one of the artists who initiated and completed the 3,380 square foot mural "The History of Women in Northampton form 1680-1980". She has exhibited widely and has works in numerous private collections throughout the United States. She believes that the role of the teacher is to foster, stimulate, and facilitate investigation and discovery by sharing not only knowledge, but also the excitement of learning. Kevin Sprague is the owner of Studio Two, a design and branding firm in Lenox, MA. He is also an active commercial photographer in the region. He has published the graphic novel "Muse" and "Imagining Shakespeare" based on his 15 years photographing, illustrating, and marketing Shakespeare & Company. Mel Stabin, is an internationally known teacher, author, and award-winning watercolorist. A graduate of Pratt Institute, Mel studied the art of watercolor with Edgar Whitney. He is a signature member of prestigious art societies including the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. For over 20 years, Mel has conducted watercolor workshops throughout the country and abroad. He has written numerous feature articles in national art magazines and is the author of Watercolor: Simple, Fast and Focused and The Figure In Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused both published by Watson-Guptill. Bill Tobin is a former educator in the Pittsfield public school system, Bill has designed and fabricated hundreds of characters and creatures now inhabiting the Northeast. In addition to his creature
comforts, Bill has also mastered the molding of the concrete form into various reliefs and tables that are beyond ordinary design. Bill has also recently began experimenting with the free flying form of mobiles. Commissioned by the State of New York in 2003, Bill also created “Effie”, the “spokesperson” for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
(NYSERDA) statewide promotion and advertising campaign for energy efficient appliances. Bill has also designed floats and sets for numerous parades, events and plays across the region.
Kim Waterman holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, an MSEd from Hunter College, and art education certification from Bank Street College. She has been teaching children of all ages in a variety of settings for 15 years, including the past 4 years at IS183. Arthur Yanoff studied at the Museum School in Boston and privately with painter Jason Berger. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Rose Art Museum; the Currier Gallery; the Detroit Institute of Arts; Yeshiva University Museum; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe. He also participated in a traveling exhibition, Rural Artists with Urban Sensibilities, and his work was commissioned by the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company for projection during international performances. In summer 2009 his work was featured in a solo show at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. Jeff Zamek received BFA and MFA degrees in ceramics from Alfred University and has taught ceramics at Simons Rock College and Keane College, Elizabeth, NJ. In 1980 he started his own ceramics consulting firm and contributes articles to Ceramics Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated, Clay Times, Studio Potter and Craft Horizons. He is the author of What Every Potter Should Know.
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