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FACULTY

   
  Judie Alderman, BA Albertus Magnus College; MS art education, Southern Connecticut State University. Teaching: Worthington Hooker School, New Haven, North Branford School System, and Creative Arts Workshop. Exhibits in Connecticut.  
  Judy Atlas, BA State University of New York at Buffalo; MS University of Wisconsin, Madison. Studied at CAW with Lora Lee Bell, Graziella deSolodow and Barbara Harder. Teaching: Horizons-Snowfarms Elderhostel; Intensive Watercolor Workshops, Williamsburg, MA. Exhibits locally.  
 

Alexis Brown, BFA School of the Arts Chicago. Focus on etching, lithography, and animal illustration.

 
  Diana Brownell, BA Smith College; MFA Maryland Institute, College of Art. Teaching: Sacred Heart University, Mohegan Community College, Lyman Allyn Museum. Exhibits widely.
    
  Bill Burkhart, has been on the staff of city newspapers, magazines and the United Press International. His work has appeared in Time, People, Fortune, The New York Times and National Geographic. Teaching: Wesleyan University.    
  Betsy Ruth Byers, BA in studio art, magna cum laude, St. Olaf College; MAEd program, College of St. Catherine. Teaching experience: Tabor Community Arts Center and Green Street ArtsCenter.    
  Sue Chism, has a BFA in sculpture from the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts where she studied with and worked for the accomplished sculptors Don Gale and Daniel Edwards. She has won the National Sculpture Society’s annual figure sculpting competition (The Walter and Michael Lantz Prize) and been selected for their annual awards exhibition. She has received numerous commissions and her work appears in private collections throughout New England.    
  Robert C. Church, MFA University of Wisconsin-Madison; BFA Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Teaching: University of New Haven, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison. Maintains a studio in Guilford, CT.  
  Lucienne Coifman, studied weaving with Mary Colton, Virginia West, and Nell Znamierovski. Teaching: Guilford Handcraft Center, Wesleyan Potters and Handweaver's Guild of CT. Exhibits widely.  
  Linda Colman, BFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University, PA. Currently studying with Sara Aldouby, sculptor. Exhibited most recently at John Slade Ely House and Open Studios, New Haven. Co-owner of and currently teaching at Yarn, LLC, New Haven.  
  Peter Craig, BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Bridgeport. Studied photography at New York University. Program Coordinator Urban Artist Initiative. Ten years teaching statewide. Master Teaching Artist, Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Selected as “Artist to Watch for the Millennium” by the Hartford Courant. Exhibits nationally.    
  Phyllis Crowley, BS Vassar. Fine art and commercial photographer, now working digitally. 1999 and 1995 Artist Fellowship awards from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Teaching: Norwalk Community College, University of Bridgeport. Exhibits nationally.  
  Steve DiGiovanni, BA University of South Carolina; MFA Maryland Institute of Art. Teaching: Sacred Heart University, Guilford Adult Education. Exhibits in New York and New England area.  
  Cynthia Dobie, BFA high honors, School of Visual Arts. Teaching: Third Street Music School Settlement in NYC and Milford CT Fine Arts Council. Commissions include The Children’s Museum, Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Transit Authority, NYC. Exhibits regionally.    
  Amanda Taylor Durant, MFA Painting and Drawing, East Carolina University; BFA Painting and Printmaking, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Teaching in Northeast: Berkshire Community College, and Governor’s School West. Awards include artist residency grant, Chateau de La Napoule, La Napoule, France. Numerous public and private collections. Exhibits regularly.    
  Eileen Eder, MFA Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art. Studied: New York Studio School, Rhode Island School of Design. Teaching: Yale British Art Museum. Exhibits throughout New England.  
  Howard Ellis, MS in Technology Education CCSU; BSc from Suny, Oswego, NY. Technology education teacher with over ten years experience. Has built much of his own furniture.    
  Christopher Engstrom, MFA Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking; BFA Cooper Union. Teaching: Co-op High School .  
 

Michael Faulkner, MFA Yale School of Art, BS State University of New York College at Brockport. Since 1995 has been teaching painting and drawing at Southern Connecticut State University. Exhibits widely and has works locally in the permanent collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.

    
  Joan Fitzsimmons, MFA The School of Art Institute of Chicago; BFA Washington University. Teaching: Norwalk Community Technical College, Fairfield University. Exhibits widely.  
  Lily Kok Forbush, BA Beloit College, MS Southern Connecticut State University, classes Maryland Art Institute. Studio Potter at CAW for 15 years. Has taken numerous classes at CAW in drawing, watercolor, and metalwork. Member Connecticut Watercolor Society. Has won several awards. Teaching: Public schools, CAW and privately. Exhibits in the Northeast and in the Netherlands.  
  Maura Galante, BFA UMass Dartmouth. Graduate work in printmaking and certified in art education, Southern Connecticut State University. Teaching: Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School, Guilford Handcraft Center, and Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Exhibits in New England and New York.  
  Martha German, began her study of calligraphy at CAW 25 years ago with Yale Press book designer John O.C. McCrillis. She has also studied with Pamela LaRegina, Philip Bouwsma, Ward Dunham and Sheila Waters. In addition to accepting commissions for commercial work she exhibits locally and nationally and has taught at Guilford Handcraft Center.    
  Joyce Greenfield, BA Southern Connecticut State University; Paier College of Art. Studied with Skip Lawrence, C. Plummer AWS and C. Schink AWS. Teaching: Southern Connecticut State University. Exhibits widely.    
  Anita Griffith, BFA Tulane University. Studio in Madison, CT. Teaching: Guilford Handcraft Center. Exhibits nationally.    
  Carl Gunhouse, has received a bachelor’s degree in visual arts, and a master’s degree in American History from Fordham University. He has also received a master’s degree in fine arts from Yale University. He is a freelance photographer and writer, and currently an adjunct professor at Brookdale College in New Jersey.    
  Barbara Harder, BA Marymount College. Graduate work in Printmaking at Southern Connecticut State University. Teaching: Quinnipiac College, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut College, New London. Guest lecturer: Yale University Art Gallery and Fairfield University. Member of the Printmakers Network of Southern New England. Exhibits internationally and is represented in private, corporate and museum collections. Head of Printmaking Department, CAW.  
  Louise Harter, BA Barnard College; Penland School of Crafts; and Alfred University summer program. Apprenticed with Maxine Krasnow. Maintains a studio in Bethany, CT. Represented in galleries nationally.  
  Flo Hatcher, John Herron School of Art of Indiana University; Ball State University. Teaching: Southern Connecticut State University, Cleveland Institute of Art, Penland School. National exhibitor, juror and lecturer. Artwork included in numerous university museum, and corporate permanent collections. Also featured in recent publications and video presentations.  
  Ronald Hedberg, BS Penn State; MS University of Kansas; Ph.D. Harvard with a background in physical sciences. Trained under Ann P. Lehman at CAW for six years.    
  Scott Herman, BS Charter Oak College. Studied at Philadelphia College of Art. CAW Studio Potter.    
  Lisa Hess-Hesselgrave, MFA Yale School of Art; BFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Teaching: Fairfield University, Housatonic Community College, Paier College of Art, SUNY, Purchase, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Exhibits: Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York.    
  Chris Highsmith, self-taught cartoonist drawing since the age of nine. Developed and instructed classes in urban and hip-art art, cartooning, T-shirt and fabric painting, and digital computer art for youths and various institutions throughout the New Haven area. Studied computer graphics at Gateway Community Technical College.    
  Tung Hoang, MFA in Non-Toxic Printmaking Rochester Institute of Technology; MFA in Studio Art at Southern Connecticut State University. Research work on Dupont’s ImageOn film and on Rostow & Jung’s water-based intaglio ink. Teaching experience: Rochester Institute of Technology and Southern Connecticut State University. Exhibits regionally.  
  Charles Jones, studied at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. CAW Studio Potter.    
  Jilaine Jones, studied at the College of Ceramics, Alfred University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has taught ceramics, sculpture and drawing at a variety of schools including Phillips Academy, Andover and the New York Studio School. She has been exhibiting her sculpture in New England and New York since the early 1980’s. In 1998 she was awarded the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant for sculpture.  
 

Naomi Kantrow, MFA Yale University. She has been a high school teacher for over 35 years and teaches a variety of fine and commercial art courses, including studio arts and portfolio preparation, graphic design, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and photography.

   
  Kathy Kane, exhibits her paintings at prestigious national juried art shows including the Coconut Grove Art Show, The State Art Show in Ann Arbor, Michigan and museum shows sponsored by the Los Olas, Boca Raton and the Bruce Museum. Her work has been celebrated with merit awards at several shows including the Armonk Outdoor Show and the Bruce Museum Art Show. She is a member of the Connecticut Watercolor Society and the Guilford Art League. She has maintained a studio in the Erector Square Complex for the past fourteen years.    
 

Kelley Kapp, BFA University of Kansas, continuing education at the New York School of Visual Arts, Parson’s School of Design, New York Institute of Technology. Kapp is a graphic and fabric designer who has worked with Disney, Carters, Hallmark and Macy’s. She exhibits her mixed media paper, paintings and assemblages throughout the region.

    
  Toni Kayser-Weiner, BA NYU, BS Columbia University, MS Rutgers University. Studied textiles at Parsons School of Design, NYC and Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Brooklyn, NY. Group shows most recently at CAW and Open Studios, New Haven. Co-owner of and currently teaching at Yarn, LLC, New Haven.  
  Elizabeth Steele Kirby, BA Southern Connecticut State University, Cleveland Institute of Art. Teaching: Guilford Handcraft Center, Mary Murphy School, Branford.  
  Ann P. Lehman, BA Smith College; University of Florence; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Yale School of Art. Fifteen one-woman sculpture shows. Head of Sculpture Department, CAW.  
 

Catherine Lendler, BS Studio Art Graphic Design Specialization, Southern Connecticut State University. A graphic artist, photographer and Teaching Assistant at CAW.

    
  Nina LoRicco, BFA from the Art Academy, and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a visual artist at the Betsy Ross Magnet School in New Haven where she teaches photography, painting and sculpture. She has been a faculty member for the Neighborhood Place and LEAP programs in New Haven. She has been a photography for over 25 years with a specialty in emulsion and image transfer in 2-D and 3-D. She is a member of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and Connecticut Women Artist. Exhibits photography and sculpture throughout the country and is represented in private and corporate collections.    
  Chris Lubinski, MFA Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland. In addition to printmaking works in area of photography, digital imagining, video, sculpture and drawing. Taught at Southern Connecticut State University, Housatonic Community College, currently teaching at Quinnipiac University. Exhibited New York City, Houston, Boston, Seattle and various galleries in Connecticut.    
  Willard Lustenader, BA Vassar College, MA Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Formal background in art history. Studied privately with Nelson Shanks during early 1980’s. Part-time teaching at Choate Rosemary Hall, guest critiques at Yale School of Architecture. Recent artist in residence at Florida Southern University. Winner of many awards. Exhibits widely in New York, New England, and Tampa Florida areas.  
 

Michael Mancari, a graduate of Maryland Institute in 1993 and Yale University School of Art in 1998 with a concentration in Painting and Printmaking. Mr. Mancari continues to work and show around the New York Metropolitan Area as well as teach at Quinnipiac University, Southern Connecticut and Sacred Heart University. Visit www.mmancari.com.

  
 

Matthew Mandelbaum, BFA from SUNY Purchase. Further study at Vermont Studio Center. Studio assistant for Al Held and Wolf Kahn. Exhibits in Connecticut and New York.

    
  Corinne McManemin, MFA Southern Methodists University, Dallas Texas. Studied at The Art Students League and The National Academy of Design. Teaching: Southern Methodist University, Brookhaven College and the Guilford Handcraft Center. Exhibits nationally.  
 

Ihrie Means, MFA Yale University, BFA, Maryland institute of Art, Penland school of Craft, furniture making. Teaching experience: Quinnipiac University Art History and Comic Art. Ms. Means is also a children’s book illustrator and cartoon illustrator published in the New Yorker Magazine. She exhibits throughout the region.

    
  Fethi Meghelli, MFA National School of Fine Arts, Paris France. BA Fine Arts Algeria. Fellowship Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop New York City. Exhibits in the United States, Europe and Japan.  
  David Millen, a self-taught sculptor specializing in outdoor sculpture using permanent construction materials. He has maintained a teaching studio and sculpture garden for twenty years. Commissions include three Connecticut universities, North Haven High School and New Haven Jewish Community Center.    
  Jane Miller, MFA University of Illinois, BFA University of Iowa. Currently teaching at Rhode Island School of Design, Painting Department. Teaching: Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Kenyon College. Exhibits widely.    
  Meredith Miller, MFA Photography Yale School of Art; BA Visual Arts University of Chicago. Winner Creative Arts Workshop 2004 juried show Fact/Fiction.  
  Kyle Moran, graduate New England School of Photography, International Center of Photography. Exhibits nationally.    
  Armand Morgan, MFA Maryland Institute, College of Art, BFA University of Connecticut. Teaching: Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Bruce Museum, Greenwich.    
  Jan Murdock, BLS Yale University. Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant recipient. Prize-winning artist exhibiting in museums in over ten states. Member of Silvermine Guild of Artists; Connecticut Women Artist and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.    
  Gisela Noack, graduated from Chemieschule Ehlhard. Studied bookbinding, restoration and conservation of library materials with Jane Greenfield, Head of Conservation Department of Yale University Library. Head of Book Arts Department, CAW.  
  Aleeza Nussbaum, BFA Cleveland State University: apprentice to Maishe Dickman. Graduate study at Cleveland Institute of Art.  
  Robert Parrott, BA University of New Hampshire. Formerly Assistant Director of Haystack-Hinkley School, and Department Head of the Ceramics Department of Creative Arts Workshop. Teaching: Wesleyan Potters, Brookfield Craft Center, Guilford Handcraft Center, Horizons and Pratt Institute in NYC. He has been a full time potter since 1971 working in domestic stoneware and numerous forms of architectural ceramics. Exhibits and sells internationally.    
 

Liz Pagano, graduated Paier School of Art. Teaching: Creative Arts Workshop; Connecticut College; Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Member of City Gallery, and ALL Gallery. Teaches privately in her studio at Erector Square. Exhibits nationally and internationally.

 
  Debi Pendell, BA Central Connecticut State University, MALS Wesleyan University. Teaching: CAW, Farmington Valley Arts Center in Avon, Jerry’s Artarama in West Hartford, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Lives, works and conducts classes and workshops in her home and studio at The Eclipse Mill in North Adams, MA. Work in corporate and private collections in the US and Canada. Exhibits frequently in the Northeast.    
  Connie Pfeiffer, MFA Rochester Institute of Technology; BS Southern Connecticut State University. Teaching: Rochester School of Arts Magnet, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology; Wesleyan Potters, CT. Founding member City Gallery a cooperative gallery on State Street in New Haven. Metals and mixed media sculptor maintains a studio in Chester, CT. Exhibits nationally.  
  Dorothy Powers, a well-known Connecticut artist and teacher. Her paintings and drawings are in corporate and private collections in the United States. She has had numerous exhibits of her work in galleries in Connecticut and New York City and has taught at Sacred Heart University and Albertus Magnus College. Received Commission on the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship 2004.    
  Christina Re, MFA Yale School of Art; BFA Art Academy of Cincinnati; attended the New York Studio School. Teaching Assistant Yale School of Art.    
  Josephine Robinson, independent study in Madrid and trained in London UK. Exhibits nationally and continues to work in Connecticut. Teaching: University of Tennessee and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts; Milford Adult Education Department.    
  Stephen Rodriguez, studied ceramics at Alfred University under instructors, Val Cushing, Robert Turner, and Wayne Higby. His work in porcelain and stoneware is inspired by and reflects classic forms in the history of ceramics, particularly in ancient Chinese, Korean, and Japanese pottery. He is a founding member of Gallery 12 in Guilford, a cooperative crafts gallery. Teaching: Wesleyan Potters and the 92nd Street Y in New York. Head of Pottery Department, CAW. Exhibits widely.  
  Richard Rose, MA University of California, Berkeley; BFA Virginia Commonwealth. Teaching: University of California, University of Oregon, and Southern Connecticut State University. Graphic work published and exhibited nationally. Recently established the Bellrose Press, specializing in design and fine letterpress editions.    
  Paulette Rosen, is a book artist with a BA in Arts and Media, Williams James College. Studied bookbinding with Gisela Noack and D. Ann Lindbeck. Teaching: local elementary schools, and independent workshops. Exhibits in the Northeast.  
 

Karen Rossi,  graduated form Southern Connecticut State University, studied at Creative Arts Workshop, Penland School of Crafts, Brookfield Craft center. She is a narrative artist designer whose work is exhibited and commissioned throughout the region.

    
  Kris Sabatelli, MFA Yale University School of Art/Painting; BFA Suny at Purchase; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture . Exhibits in New York.    
  Jan Sacco, studied basketry with Suzanne Douglas and Barbara Massone. Teaching: Guilford Handcraft Center and privately. Exhibits throughout Connecticut. Head of Fiber Department, CAW.  
  William K. Sacco, has been a professional photographer in the New Haven area for more than thirty years and has taught at Quinnipiac College and CAW.    
  Ruth Sack, BA Brandeis University; MFA Sculpture Queens College City University of New York. Attended New York Studio School. Partner in Goldberg & Sack Communications, graphic design and marketing firm.    
  John Saunders, BA University of Missouri, runs Daggett Ironworks, a forge and foundry producing sculpture and architectural details. Teaching: Yale University.    
  Martha Savage, BFA San Francisco Art Institute; MFA Visual Art Vermont College, Alternate Route to Certification. Teaching: ACES-Thomas Edison Middle School, Meriden, Yale New Haven Teachers Institute Fellow, Connecticut Women Artist, Inc. Fifteen years teaching experience. Exhibits in Connecticut and New York.  
  Anna Scarff, BA London School of Occupational Therapy. Studied drawing and painting at Hornsey Art School, London; Art Student’s League, New York City. Teaching: New Haven area schools, LEAP.    
 

Ann Schnepf, BFA The School of Art Institute of Chicago. Further study at Chautauqua and Center for Creative Studies. Teaches privately, and in public school workshops. Exhibits in New York City, Connecticut and Chicago

  
  Eva Scopino, MFA Vermont College, BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Fellowship; Connecticut Commission on the Arts ICCD Grant. Over 15 years teaching experience in public and private schools, community programs, museum education. Exhibits regionally. Head of Young People's Department, CAW.  
  Harold Shapiro, New England School of Photography. Commercial and Fine Art Photographer. Adjunct professor, University of New Haven. Exhibits widely. Head of Photography Department, CAW.  
  Nellie Shevelkina, BA in Fine Art Education Institute of Fine Arts, Russia; MFA Textile Institute, Ivanovo, Russia. Parsons School of Design, New York. Freelance artist and teacher for over 10 years.  
  Graziella Patrucco deSolodow, studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, (Lima, Peru, MFA) Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum School of Fine Arts, Columbia University (BA). Artist in residence, Civita Vecchia Italy. Won Porras Barrenechea Fellowship and was artist in residence at Peruvian Historical Society, to do research on sacred flowers of the Incas. Received a grant from Patagonian Anthropological Society to teach and to draw skeletal formation of reptiles native to Patagonia, Argentina. Scholarship and one-women show at Cambridge University (England). Paintings in collections of Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, and Sao Paolo Institute of Fine Arts.    
 

Lissa J. Stewart, BS, MS Southern Connecticut State University. Teaching: over 15 years in the public school systems in Norwalk and New Haven; private schools in California. Exhibits in New England.

   
  Anne Thompson, BA Wesleyan University, graduated with Honors in Studio Arts. Trained under and assistant to Robin Price, Printer & Publisher.    
  Jennifer Van Elswyk, Paier School of Art, Southern Connecticut State University, Center for Creative Youth Wesleyan University. Trained under Barbara Harder at Creative Arts Workshop for five years. Exhibits locally.  
 

Gregory Vershbow, is a photographer whose work explores pictorial expressions including movement and time, fantasy and science, and text and the body through a range of photographic processes from modern digital to historically studied Victorian processes, as well as chemical printing techniques that he has invented himself. His most recent projects include the book and exhibition, "Philip Lusterko and the Memory Machine," a semi-fictional biography of a nineteenth century scientist, and "The Library" (in process), a book and exhibition about the blurring of fantasy and identity in the context of textual

    
  Chris Volpe, BA Visual Arts University of Bridgeport. Staff photographer New Haven Register.    
  Ben Westbrock, MFA in Sculpture. Taught at Hamden Hall Country Day School and Belvoir Terrace in Lenox, MA. Divides his time between Bethany Connecticut and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Exhibits in New England and New York.    
  Kris Wetmore, BA Fine Arts MS Art Education Southern Connecticut State University. Over 15 years teaching experience in New Haven Public Schools. Currently teaches at Cooperative Arts and Humanities Magnet High School. Exhibits locally.    
  Elise Wiener, BA Brandeis University; studied Fiber Arts at Massachusetts College of Art; studied Graphic Design at School of Visual Arts, NY; recipient of two Louie Awards for excellence in design; studied pottery and is a studio potter at CAW; work installed at New Haven Mikvah Society, New Haven CT. Exhibits locally.