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: Mary Anderson
Classes: Printmaking, Watercolors
Contact: mshradera@gmail.com
Mary Anderson earned her degree in art from the University of Washington and has been painting in watercolor for over 25 years. She brings a wealth of knowledge in this as well as the art of drawing to her students. Mary drew inspiration through the watercolors of artists such as John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer.
Luxuriating in the interplay of color, light and atmosphere, Mary paints the natural world around us – rural scenes, still life, flowers, water and boats. Mary is a member of Women Painters of Washington.
Classes: Jewelry, Metal, Clay, Mixed Media, Bookbinding
Website: mereditharnold.com
Contact: meredith@mereditharnold.com
Meredith Arnold, known as the 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 in Europe. She offers video based classes online with Bluprint.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 part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts collection in Suzallo Library at the University of Washington. Current work may be seen at the Gallery at Towne Center, in Lake Forest Park, WA and Tacoma Metal Arts Center, Tacoma, WA.
Classes: Watercolor
Website: buchananwatercolors.com
Contact: watercolors@rockisland.com
Caroline has a BA in Art History, graduating with honors from Wellesley College, and a Masters in Teaching in Art from Western Region College. She is a past president of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, and is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. Her paintings are in hundreds of public and private collections, including a 1% for Art Commission for the library of the Oregon Institute of Technology and the American Embassy in Honduras. A sampling of her original paintings may be viewed at Island Studios.
She has been teaching watercolor to adults for almost thirty years. She has taught outdoor workshops every summer since the late 70’s and in the winter teaches a number of classes on Orcas Island and in Friday Harbor, Bellingham, Edmonds and Seattle.
Brigitte Hefferan teaches calligraphy classes locally as well as traveling to calligraphy guilds to teach workshops. A member of Write on Calligraphers, she teaches at Letters of Joy, their regional letter arts annual conference.
As a free-lance artist, she accepts commissions and explores ways to combine her passion for lettering with her watercolors and oils. Her work has been exhibited at the WA State Convention Center in Seattle, Mountlake Terrace’s “Arts of the Terrace” show, in the ArtsNow Gallery at the Edmonds Conference Center and the Two Vaults Gallery in Tacoma.
Classes: Encaustic & Mixed Media
Website: JonesMooreStudioArt.com
Contact: jonesmoorestudioart@gmail.com
Lisa JonesMoore, a formally trained graphic designer and “en plein air” painter, holds a BFA from Colorado State University. She creates and teaches out of her studios near Seattle, Washington, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her inspiration comes from Nature, Latin American culture, the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest and her travels into the heart of Mexico. Lisa thoroughly enjoys teaching the art of encaustic painting and mixed media techniques to both beginners and those with previous experience. She is the founder of the group WOW! (Wax On Washington). To find out more about Lisa’s customized classes in the United States and Mexico, or to join her e-newsletter mailing list, please contact her.
Instructor: Rohini Mathur
Classes: Mixed Media
Website: www.rohiniartworld.com
Contact: rohiniartworld@gmail.com
About her purpose as an artist Rohini explains, “I believe there is no better way to appreciate and be in reverence of the magnificent beauty of Mother Nature than capturing that beauty through my playful brushstrokes on the canvas”. Rohini brings this inspiration to her paintings using her own distinctive style and interpretation using a loose, abstract impressionistism as she works to capture the essence and mood of her subjects rather than a complete detailed mirror image. Rohini enjoys painting in oils. She finds their smooth, rich texture and lush colors fascinate her as they shine through blending and adding multiple layers.
Rohini is an award-winning artist whose art is included in the city of Kent Public Art collection (Kent, WA), and recognized in the Washington State Heritage Arts Apprenticeship Program, 2018-2019 among other achievements.
Classes: Photography
Website: Billrayimages.zenfolio.com
Contact: billray@apian.com
Bill is a lifelong photographer, starting with the Ansel Adams Zone System as a teenager. An early Photoshop user from scanned film, he switched to full digital in 2006, delighted to find his arts avocation had converged with his computer engineering profession. He is an active member of ArtistsConnect Edmonds and Seattle Photographic Society.
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.
Instructor: J. Carlos Valdez
Classes: Mixed Media
Website: https://val9001.wixsite.com/jcarlosfinearts/
Contact: jcval9001@gmail.com
As an instructor for Edmonds Community College and Artworks Edmonds, J. Carlos combines his three passion for the arts into a lifelong commitment in building and advocating for the arts within the Pacific Northwest, teaching art through both traditional and non-traditional approaches, as well as finding time to focus on his own painting within Colibri Soul Studio in Edmonds, WA.
A life-long drawing and sketch artist, J. Carlos’s paintings, indigenous creative works, and sculptures adhere to the personal belief that we strive always forward to develop our own individual mark. His paintings have been exhibited within galleries throughout the US and in private collections. The painting, El Maestro is currently on permanent display at Edmonds Community College. One of his sculptures, El Legado del Sol, exhibited internationally through the Milan Prismian Challenge at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He currently works as a resident artist for the Blue Heron Canoe Family of the Snohomish Tribe and is pursuing his graduate degree at Goddard College in Port Townsend, WA.
