Meet Our Instructors
Instructor: Carol Adelman
Classes: Drawing, Painter, Printmaking
Contact: cmadelman@gmail.com
Carol Adelman is a painter, printmaker and experienced educator living and working in the Seattle area. Her foremost priority as a teacher is to help students develop a personal relationship to materials. In addition to teaching skills, her goal is to help each student access the concerns that motivate them to explore the visual world.
She has taught at Louisiana State University, Kutztown University, Dickinson College and the University of Washington among other learning institutions. Among other venues, her work has been shown in Seattle at the Bellevue Art Museum and Davidson Gallery as well as the Bowery Gallery in New York.
Carol’s work is developed with a sensual, aggressive approach to materials that borders on abstraction and engages with the concept of a fragmented self and the construction of gender.
To view her work go to caroladelman.blogspot.com Work by her students can be seen at caroladelmanteaching.blogspot.com
Instructor: Meredith Arnold
Classes: Professional Development, Mixed Media
Website: mereditharnold.com
Contact: meredith@mereditharnold.com
Meredith Arnold, known as a Comedian Artist, is the Director of ArtWorks and has developed a career as a professional teaching artist at colleges, universities, and events around the U.S. and Europe. She offers video-based classes online with Craftsy.com and Craftcast.com.
She began as a painter and photographer and continues to incorporate paint and photographic imagery into her work, whether it is jewelry, collage, or books. Her work has been featured in many books and magazines and exhibited internationally. Two of her handmade books are in the Rare Books and Manuscripts collection in Suzallo Library at the University of Washington.
Instructor: Sharon Grader
Classes: Mark making, mixed media & encaustic
Website: https://www.sharon-bill-grader.com
Contact: sharon.grader@comcast.net
Sharon is an abstract painter drawn to the fundamental aspects of creating art. No matter whether the medium is hot beeswax, ink, watercolor, oil, acrylic, combined with asemic writing or mark making, my curiosity constantly challenges her to push the boundaries of my limitations.
Exploration and experimentation are major elements of her artistic journey of discovery. She often works with found objects, using cardboard, paper bags, dyed silk, rusted paper, encaustic monoprinting, watercolor, oil, and pastels. She is fascinated with the creative process and the constant wonder that surprises her every day.
Instructor: Joanne Healey
Classes: Mixed Media
Website: www.instagram.com/joannesvisionaryart/
Contact: hopeurdancing@yahoo.com
Joanne Healey has been an artist for over 30 years and has sold her works globally. She has also taught art throughout the U.S. Her favorite form of expression is Mixed Media and her work has been compared to Gustov Klimt. She is also a Health Coach and Health Advocate, Yoga, Qigong, Energy Medicine and Intuition Teacher.
Instructor: Brenno Kenji
Classes: Drawing and Painting
Website:www.brennokenji.com
Contact: brennokenji@gmail.com
Brenno Kenji has taught figure drawing for over 12 years. He has studied under Steve Huston, Karl Gnass, Glenn Vilppu, Kevin Chen, and the late Glen Orbik, among others, in Los Angeles, California, where he also taught Life Drawing and Narrative Drawing at the Loyola Marymount University. He’s also an avid painter, having studied under Sunny Apinchapong-Yang, Sean Cheetham, Mian Situ, and Steve Assael, and having taught alla prima painting at private studios in the Los Angeles area.
Instructor: Marcia Meckelson Miller
Classes: Mixed Media, Collage
Contact: marciamiller934@msn.com
Approaching retirement in 2008, Marcia returned to her love of painting. Working primarily in pastel she studied with many prominent pastel teachers, painting mostly landscapes until in 2012 when monoprinting for pastel underpainting became a medium on its own.
Upon retirement in 2014, she finally had the time to produce more works. Abstraction became her a new focus. Collage combined with the monoprinting process developed into a love of Collage. Collage led to mosaic work produced with broken dishes. The cut pieces are reassembled to create mosaic garden décor.
Marcia now spends several days each week working on and expanding her artistic journey into many mediums of art, such as mosaic, pastel, collage and gardening.
Instructor: Nan Robkin
Classes: Mixed Media
Website: auntnanseclecticinkandblabula.blogspot.com
Contact: alhrobkin@aol.com
As a published artist with many talents (including a PHD), Nan is known for her extensive knowledge on the properties of different mediums. She is a Certified Master Porcelain Artist, and creates works in watercolors, digital collage, paper arts, polymer clay, mixed water media and more.
Her artist books are part of the permanent collection in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Book Arts section of the Suzallo Library at University of Washington. Nan’s extensive teaching past includes faculty positions at Seattle Pacific University and Discover U as well as events such as ‘Letters of Joy’, the annual regional calligraphy conference.
