VSA arts
of Nevada
Teaching Artist Bios
Burden
Basket Workshop
Mary Lee Fulkerson
Oil
Painting
Erik Holland
Hat Design and
Making
Lilli
Moffit
Raku
Fired Ceramics
Jacy Robinson
Elaine
Colgan
Suellen Cupp
Guy
Farmer
Tammy Franchini
Mary
Lee Fulkerson
Carol Gilman
Erik Holland
Cindy Hoonhout
Celeste
Kiener
Vicki
LoSasso
Traye Lovejoy
Lilli
Moffit
Valerie Parks
Stephanie Richardson
Jacy Robinson
Robin Robinson
Susan Sullivan
Elaine
Colgan
Teaches: VSAN's visual art workshops at Sierra Place Assisted Living Community
in Carson City.
Elaine Colgan is an eclectic artist probably because of teaching so many
mediums. Her love lies in watercolor, acrylic, fiber art
and collage. She has taught for many years and enjoys exhibiting her work in
many regional galleries.
Suellen
Cupp
Teaches: Adult
Drawing, Pastels, Printmaking,
Watercolor
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Suellen Cupp is a practicing artist, with 25 years experience teaching art to people of all ages. Known for her expressive portrait drawing and paintings, Suellen has received numerous grants and commissions for her work, and recently exhibited a series of paintings of people using American Sign Language at RIT in New York. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She came to Reno from Oregon five years ago where she was a professor of art at Western Oregon University. Suellen enjoys drawing, painting and teaching in a variety of media. Currently, she is using encaustic, a hot wax medium, and is painting areas and people of interest to her in Washoe Valley & downtown Reno.
Guy
Farmer
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Guy Farmer, MSW, helps organizations improve interpersonal communication, build cohesive teams and strengthen workplace productivity and morale. His company The Relationship Guy, llc, offers a comprehensive range of professional development training, facilitation and coaching services that help individuals and groups achieve success. Visit online at www.myrelationshipguy.com
Tammy
Franchini
Teaches: Mommy and Me, Art
Adventures, Camp Visual Arts, FUNdamentals
of Drawing,
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Mary
Lee Fulkerson
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The
themes of Mary Lee’s baskets and fiber sculpture reflect the lovely stories
of daily life and speak to that kernel of hope that resides in everyone. A
Reno native, her work is held in private and corporate collections around the
country, including the White House in Washington, D.C., and she has been
featured on public television and several local and national publications.
Each piece she makes is important to her, for she doesn’t want to
fill the world up with more generic “stuff”.
She
has been a professional artist for over 20 years and has been teaching most of
that time, at such venues as VSA Arts, Truckee Meadows Community College,
Nevada Museum of Art, and Sierra Arts “Arts in the Schools”.
She believes that everyone needs to create an art piece that comes from
their heart and soul, for this is how the world is healed.
Carol
Gilman
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Carol
Gilman is an artist and designer who uses nature for her inspiration.
For over fifteen years, Carol has taught visual art classes to children
and adults. Carol is the owner of
Clio Design, llc that offers residential interior design services.
She enjoys providing opportunities for everyone to celebrate their
creativity.
Erik
Holland
Teaches: Oil
Painting
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Erik
He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, The Art Students League of New York and the San Francisco Academy of Art.
Currently
Erik teaches art at
Cindy
Hoonhout
Teaches: Glass
Fusion for Adults, Glass
Fusion Jewlery,
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Cindy has been fascinated by glass since she was a child. She creates stunning, functional and decorative pieces such as sun catchers, wine stoppers, platters, bowls, vases, and candle holders, jewelry and ornaments.
Her approach to teaching is to give students the basics, and then let their creativity take over and guide the making of their own works of art in glass.
Celeste
Kiener
Teaches: Art Adventures,
Camp Visual Arts,
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Celeste has a degree in Fine Arts and
Design, and has taught elementary art for five years. She enjoys teaching all
mediums especially pastels and drawing, her favorite projects include color,
and her favorite color is red!
Vicki
LoSasso
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Vicki LoSasso is a Reno
artist who has worked in a variety of media including printmaking,
photography, basketry and mixed media. She is a member of the Printmakers'
Conspiracy art group, and her current work involves exploring a variety of
printmaking techniques and mixed media constructions. Her background includes
work with survivors of domestic violence, where she began to
recognize and ponder the relationship between creativity and healing. She has
been teaching workshops with Mary Lee Fulkerson for the past five years.
Both Vicki and Mary Lee believe deeply in the power of personal creativity to heal spirits and enrich lives. It is important to them that they create a safe and nurturing environment where participants can explore and celebrate their own creative process. They introduce a variety of artistic media and projects designed to help participants discover the inner rewards and joy of expressive creativity.
Traye
Lovejoy
Teaches: Camp Visual Art
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Traye has broad experience teaching art to children, is passionate
about teaching the artmaking process, and working with many different art
materials. She even makes some of her own art supplies!
Lilli
Moffit
Teaches: Hat Design and
Making, Cocktail Hat Making
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Having always worn hats, Lilli started making her own as the price of commercially available hats went up, and the quality of materials and workmanship went down. She has taken many hat-making classes and is passionate about creating hats with graceful design and fine craftsmanship.
In this class, Lilli aims to inspire a further interest in hat making and encourage a greater appreciation of hat making as an art form. She also wants to show people that hat making is not only fun, but that you don't need lots of expensive equipment to create your own quality hats at home.
Valerie
Parks
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Valerie has been a professional artist since 1978. Her particular passion is working with all types of landscapes, with a particular emphasis on mountains.
Valerie has been teaching drawing, watercolors, pastels and mixed media to adults and children since 1981. All her classes cover fundamental techniques including value studies. Her watercolor and pastel classes will also work on landscapes, while her drawing class will include still-life.
Stephanie
Richardson
Teaches: Kids Acting,
Camp Theater
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Stephanie is a 1990 graduate of the North Carolina School of
the Arts where she was awarded the William B. Kenan Scholarship and the
Chancellor's award for Artistic Excellence. In N.Y., she was one of the
founding members of The Next Stage Company and an apprentice member of the
Roundabout Theatre Company. Some of her NYC credits include starring opposite
Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Starvation of Ruby Nellis and
starring in A Report On Our Solar System written and directed by Peter Hedges
(Dan in Real Life/ What's Eating Gilbert Grape). In LA, she appeared as a
waitress on Friends as well as starring in the children's syndicated
television show BarnYard Place as Moonbeam the dancing cow. She was a company
member and board member for TheatreWest LA and also was a company member of
the critically acclaimed Road Theatre.In Reno, she has worked with the Lake
Tahoe Shakespeare company, Nevada Shakespeare Company, and The Actor's
Conservatory. In 2006, Stephanie started her own theatre company Theatreworks
of Northern Nevada. Stephanie's vast professional experience puts her in great
position to introduce children to the world of theater.
Stephanie's teaching style is very supportive and she has a real talent for encouraging even the shyest children to express themselves. Her classes are a very positive, child centered environment, where self esteem and expression are the ultimate goals. They're also great, great fun!
Jacy
Robinson
Teaches: Adult Ceramics, Clay Clay Clay
Raku Fired Ceramics
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A ceramic artist and northern Nevada native, Jacy has always had an interest in the arts especially of the three-dimensional variety. In 1993 he discovered the joy of clay and has not veered too far from its influence since. Having worked extensively both in the sculptural and functional realms, he describes his current work as a "comfortable combination of imagination and function".
Jacy has been teaching for
over six years including several classes at VSA, TMCC and NV Museum of Art.
His goal as a teacher is to share all that he has studied with anybody that
has the desire to learn, so that they have the chance to enjoy clay as much as
he has.
Robin
Robinson
Teaches: Camp Creative
Movement
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Susan Sullivan
Teaches: Camp Visual Arts
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