Ceramics Instructor | Pottery

Kayla is a ceramics artist and teacher whose work ranges from large abstract sculpture to functional pottery, all inspired by the natural world and organic forms.

Ceramics Instructor | Pottery

Kris is a self-taught ceramic artist with more than 40 years of experience in wheel throwing and handbuilding. From production ceramics in Los Angeles to years of teaching and creating functional ware in Rhode Island, Kris brings skill, warmth, and real-world knowledge to every class.

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.

Ceramics Instructor | Pottery

Roxann has been an active ceramic artist and teacher at the SCAA for approximately four decades. She continues to explore her creativity through a variety of mediums, including stain glass, watercolor, painting, and natural fiber dying with plants.

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."

Ceramics Instructor | Pottery

Both a hand builder and thrower, much of Sherry’s work is functional with an emphasis on the integrity of a pot, storytelling, and surface decoration.

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.