Meet Our Instructors
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: Carol Adelman
Classes: Monday Night Studio
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: Janet Arkills
Classes: Watercolor
Contact: jarkills@gmail.com
Janet Arkills is an artist and teacher with more than 20 years of teaching experience across multiple mediums. She’s worked with every age student from Kindergarten to 90yrs old. Her artwork has been selected for both local and international juried exhibitions. She loves to inspire a love of art in others – helping you embrace the creative process and giving you the tools to bring your vision to life. (She also has a penchant for homemade artist-themed Halloween costumes.)
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.
