2D Instructor | Painting | Mixed Media

As a secondary educator for over 26 years, I have had the pleasure of inspiring students each  day about the arts. I also regularly teach adult workshops and classes.

2D Instructor | Painting | Drawing

A retired art teacher of 29 years, Burl now teaches painting and drawing at SCAA. His paintings capture the Rhode Island coastline in all seasons.

2D Instructor | Painting | Plein Air

After decade-long career as a figurative sculptor Chris is now a dedicated daily painter. He completes several alla prima works per day while drinking copious amounts of espresso!

2D Instructor | Photography | Mixed Media

Christina Ascani is an artist and photojournalist with a diverse background in both media and education.

2D Instructor | Mixed Media | Wellness

Erica is passionate about art being accessible and enjoyable to all people, and that the process of creating is a powerful tool for healing.

2D Instructor | Painting

An experienced artist and education , Jeneane considers herself an impressionist and strives to capture the changing light effects of nature.

2D Instructor | Photography

For more than 40 years, photography for me has been a tool for discovery. My travels have led me to all 50 US states, and another 40 countries.

2D Instructor | Painting

Linda is formally trained in painting, life drawing, art history and graphic design and considers herself a lifelong student of art and design. She enjoys pastel and finds the medium to be challenging and rewarding. 

2D Instructor | Painting | Plein Air

An illustrator for 26 years, Lisa is represented in New York for her magazine and book cover illustrations, She juggles her fine art commissions for drawings and paintings as well as art instruction.

2D Instructor | Mixed Media | Papermaking

Papermaking captured my interest while I was studying painting and sculpture at the Art Students League in New York City. I was attracted to the manipulative aspects of the medium and its creative and functional possibilities.

2D Instructor | Writing | Poetry

Michael is a five-time finalist and two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award in poetry, for his first book, “1990,” and for editing the seminal anthology, “Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS.”

2D Instructor | Printmaking

Patricia Cheyne has an extensive art career, and has a taught drawing, design, printmaking, paper making, artist books, mixed media, and art history for  20 years.

2D Instructor | Printmaking

Robert now resides in Wakefield, Rhode Island after a 40 plus year career in the New York metro area involving performance art, video, publishing, printmaking, painting, and art instruction.

2D Instructor | Mixed Media | Collage | Printmaking

Sarah is a mixed-media collage artist from the woods of Rhode Island. Her background as an English teacher explains her love of books, which she also enjoys using as the primary material for her collages.

2D Instructor | Photography

Shane Gutierrez  has been  working, studying and playing with  photography for over 30  years. A part of  what makes photography so interesting is experimenting with different film cameras.

2D Instructor | Painting | Printmaking

Sharon is a self-taught, emerging artist living in Rhode Island. She creates in two mediums -- hand-printed watercolor white line woodcuts; and acrylic paintings in a style she calls "Technicolor Realism."

2D Instructor | Painting | Gouache

Susan has been teaching art and design since 1993. Her teaching experience has given her experience in many forms of art - drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and graphic design.

2D Instructor | Mixed Media | Papermaking

An experienced artist and teacher, Suzi has an aesthetic informed by the freedom she has always felt and still feels in the outdoors. This unfettered feeling is revealed in nature, on the farms, gardens, and ocean around her.

2D Instructor | Mixed Media | Painting | Printmaking

Taleen is an award winning multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose current work includes textiles, drawing, painting, and printmaking. She has been faculty member at RISD CE program for over 15 years.

2D Instructor | Painting | Plein Air

Trish is best known for her landscape Plein Air and studio paintings. She is an Adjunct Professor of Art at CCRI and teaches a variety of workshops in the region.