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Jeneane Lunn
2D Instructor | Painting
An experienced artist and education , Jeneane considers herself an impressionist and strives to capture the changing light effects of nature.
John Hames
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.
Kris Greco
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.
Linda O’Connor
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.
Lisa Adams
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.
Lisa May Tobin
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.
Robert Pillsbury
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.
Roxann Kasper
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.
Sarah Z. Short
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.
Shane Gutierrez
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.
Sharon Estes
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."
Sherry Italiano
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.
Susan Sward
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.
Suzi Ballenger
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.
Taleen Batalian
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.
Trish Hurley
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.