Teaching Visual Artists Directory
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This section was last updated May 30, 2008
Unless otherwise noted, all phone number area codes are 530
SUSAN BARRY
Phone: 265-6076
E-mail: susan@susanbarry.us
Internet: http://www.susanbarry.us
Teaches: Painting, drawing, beginning cartooning, mixed media, papier mache, puppet-making, mask-making, found-object nature art
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: Extensive work as guest artist in Nevada County schools, Sierra College and U.C. Extension, community colleges and with adults in informal workshops. Also teaches privately. Teaches regularly at Yosemite National Park as an artist-in-residence. Member of Pioneer Arts Club. Curator of Center of the Arts gallery.
RUTH BOURDREAUX
Phone: 265-4800
E-mail: chasecreative@yahoo.com
Internet: www.chaseboudreaux.com/FineArt/ArtHome.html
Teaches: Fine art instruction in a non-traditional method. Supplemental instruction for students taking technique-based instruction.
Students: Teens and adults
Experience/background: Has taught privately in an Auburn studio and in community classes (adults) through Santa Monica Parks & Recreation. Works as a professional fine artist and creative designer.
EILEEN BLODGETT
Phone: 477-8556
E-mail: eileenblodgett@comcast.net
Teaches: Print-making, kite-making, drawing, painting, multicultural arts
Students: Youths (K-8) and adults
Experience/background: Has 25 years teaching experience. Has taught as a guest artist in various Nevada County schools. Teaches at Sierra College. Has expertise in Asian art forms. Taught in Japan. Exhibits own work in galleries. Has a BS in art education and a MA in education.
LORI COLLINS-DELHEZ
Phone: 477 0656
E-mail: clayteacher@muddyfingers.net
Internet: http://www.muddyfingers.net
Teaches: Art, ceramics (handbuilding, wheel throwing)
Students: Preschool-Grade 8 and adults
Experience/background: Currently operates Muddy Fingers, a mobile pottery studio that provides art parties, private classes and workshops as well as guest artist classes in local schools. Worked as a ceramics instructor teaching privately and in Nevada County Schools at all age levels for 11 years. Has BA in education from Chico State with an emphasis in ceramics and humanities. Makes and sells own work.
SUSAN CROCENZI
Phone: 798-3895
E-mail: susan@scmosaics.com
Internet: www.scmosaics.com
Teaches: Mosaic art. Offers instruction in beginning mosaics
(interior artwork) and polymer "clay" artmaking. Has private and group classes. Offers a drop-in mosaic clinic June 19-21, 2008 at her rural Grass Valley studio. Hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Students: Youths (3rd grade and up) and adults
Experience/background: Has created and taught mosaic art since 2002. Has studied under several artists and traveled to Turkey, Spain, Mexico and other countries for inspiration. A former school teacher.
CHRISTINE ELDER
Phone: 831-227-6996
E-mail: christine_elder@yahoo.com
Internet: http://www.darlingtoniadesigns.com
Teaches: Lessons and workshops integrating visual arts and natural science. Specializes in botanical/scientific illustrations, drawing and painting from nature, creating illuminated manuscripts. Lessons for youths are aligned with California visual art amd science standards. See her website for more specific class and workshop topics.
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: Christine has taught courses in both biology and art for over 10 years. She holds a graduate certificate in scientific illustration from the University of California and a master’s degree in biology from Humboldt State University. She has taught art and illustration classes for Santa Cruz County’s Cultural Council, Marin County’s Youth In Arts program and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Has led environmental education activities for the Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service. Teaching summer 2007 art programs at the Grass Valley Center for the Arts and other Nevada County venues.
URSULA FREYMUTH
Phone: 265-2706
E-mail: ufreymuth@att.net
Teaches: Clay sculpture and pit firing; classes for children with cancer and their families through the S.N.M.H Cancer Center; One-on-one classes emphasizing "inner explorations" through clay.
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: Wide range of experience teaching, creating and selling clay sculpture since 1987; Studied at Art Student's League, N.Y.C.; San Francisco Art Institute, S.F.; Chico State University.
LISE GAFFNEY
Phone: 559-6691
E-mail: lisegaffney@yahoo.com
Teaches: Painting, sculpture, ceramics, creating with found-objects in nature.
Students: Youths and adults. Favors grades 6-12.
Experience/background: Worked at Nevada County Juvenile Hall, 3R School, Twin Ridges Home Study, Forest Charter, Quail Ridge senior living center. Has emergency credential.
GARY GRAHAM
Phone: 477-1019
E-mail: gwgarts@oro.net
Teaches: Mural painting, theatrical set design painting, art history.
Students: High school youth and adults
Experience/background: Current visual art instructor at Sierra College. Extensive work in the S.F. Bay Area as a public muralist and community college art instructor. Has worked with Nevada Union High School drama department and visual art department in short-term artist residencies.
SHARON GRIFFITHS
Phone: 274-7720
E-mail: sharongriffiths@sbcglobal.net
Teaches: Painting and drawing focusing on line and color theory; collage, print-making.
Students: Youths grades K-8
Experience/background: Extensive experience working in Nevada County K-8 classrooms; some work with high school. Worked for 19 years as the art teacher at Pleasant Valley School. Last three years, various short-term artist residencies at Union Hill and Ready Springs School. Teaches privately. Teaches after school and summers at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley.
JENNY HALE
Phone: 274-2123
E-mail: artalchemy@sbcglobal.net
Teaches: Painting, drawing, muraling, mixed media work, sculpture with recycled materials, paper hats and masks.
Students: Youths
Experience/background: Has worked numerous short and long-term artist residencies in Nevada County and Placer County schools. Specializes in using recycled materials for larger art projects (sculpture). Combines environmental education and recycling ethic with art.
CLAUDIA CIPOLLA JEFFERS
Phone: 477-0128
E-mail: cjeffers@netshel.net
Internet: http://www.mudhutclay.com
Teaches: Ceramics (hand-building, sculpting, tile design)
Students: K-12 youths, adults
Experience/background: Has worked as a ceramics instructor at the Mud Hut Ceramics Center for four years and as a guest artist in local schools. Primarily teaches beginners. Makes and sells own ceramic work.
CHIC LOTZ
Phone: 268-2268
E-mail: kamchic@jps.net
Internet: http://home.jps.net/~kamchic/ | http://www.mudhutclay.com
Teaches: ceramics
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: 25+ years experience teaching handbuilding and throwing pottery. Currently teaches at the Mud Hut Ceramics Center, privately and in school classrooms as a visiting artist. Has worked extensively in Nevada County K-8 schools; also former Sierra Mountain High School. Exhibits and sells own work. Has a special education credential (Georgia).
RUTH MAZUR
Phone: 218-0439
E-mail: ruthm@vfr.net
Teaches: Painting and drawing, basic to advanced. Creative art making with pre-schoolers. Works primarily with watercolors and charcoal.
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: Taught art for pre-schoolers in Yuba City. Art instructor at Golden Valley Art Center in Marysville. Taught private art lessons for adults out of home. Taught computer science and environmental science for post-secondary schools. Has emergency credential (on substitute teacher list). Own art is painted in photorealistic style — botanicals, landscapes.
SUSAN MICHALSKI
Phone: 272-1660
E-mail: lyf@jps.net
Teaches: Collage
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: Has taught arts and other skills for 40 years. Directed an art program for disabled children in Tahoe City. Was an art instructor at Monet’s Garden Art Academy in Grass Valley. Holds an AA degree with a major in painting and a BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design.
MARGIE MILLER
Phone: 265-0334
E-mail: margiemiller@ncws.com
Teaches: Painting and drawing, aesthetics, local architecture tours; teacher consulting on how to frame and exhibit student art. Watercolor is primary art media.
Students: Youths K-12.
Experience/background: More than 20 years experience as a guest artist in Nevada County schools. Has worked extensively with the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools Office as a workshop presenter for teachers and art docents. Teaches privately at home studio. Has curated various student art exhibitions. Named by NCSoS in 1999 as Visual Art Educator of the Year. Works as a docent and docent trainer with Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
LEX MUNSON
Phone: 265-2928
E-mail: lex@lexmunson.com
Internet: http://www.lexmunson.com
Teaches: Watercolor painting (self-styled “Dynamic Wet Into Wet Watercolor Technique”). Teaches 1-7 day “art adventure” workshops in the field; also teaches at his gallery-studio
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: Professional watercolorist and artist since 1969. His projects have ranged from designing banks to theatre sets, from interior design and graphic arts to theme trade shows and major retail/industrial exhibits. Teaches regularly at Yosemite National Park.
SHANNON PERRY
Address (Mailing): 312 1/2 Broad Street #2 Nevada City, Ca. 95959
Phone: 265-4342
E-mail: info@exposuregallerync.com
Internet: www.exposuregallerync.com
Teaches: Photography, darkroom techniques, fundamentals of photography and digital image making.
Students: Youths age 9-17, and adults
Experience/background: Self-taught professional fine art photographer and owner of Exposure Gallery in Nevada City. Has taught photography at several schools throughout Nevada County, and been a mentor to the Nevada Union High School photography program, partnering with teacher David Arnold. Also has taught Snappy Camp through the Imaginarium and Nevada County Superintendent of Schools Office.
NIKKI SCOTT
Phone: 273-6515
E-mail: nikscott@earthlink.net
Teaches: Graphic design (print, web design, production, package, logo, corporate design)
Students: youths and adults
Experience/background: Freelance designer since 2001. Has taught at the Academy of Art College/San Francisco (first-year design students; Art Outreach Program for high school students. Can be design "tutor" for individuals.
SUSAN VON DOLLEN
Phone: 273-8271
E-mail: smgguthrie@comcast.net
Teaches: Painting, drawing, mixed media.
Students: Youths in grades K-6
Experience/background: 2007 artist-in-residence at Hennessy School teaching "art through science" in 4th and 5th grades. Has taught art and subtitute teaching for 15 years. Has California multiple subject teaching credential.
DENISE WEY
Phone: 477-7843
E-mail: dswey@pacbell.net
Internet: http://www.mudhutclay.com
Teaches: Ceramics (hand-building), painting, drawing, collage, jewelry-making
Students: Youths and adults
Experience/background: Ceramics instructor at the Mud Hut Ceramics Center for four years and as a guest artist in local schools. Teaches painting/drawing classes ("You Can Paint!") at Center for the Arts. Primarily teaches beginners. Makes and sells own ceramic work and paintings.