Aric Attas
Aric Attas holds a B.S. in Psychology from Hobart College and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Hartford Art School. He has won numerous awards for his work which has been widely exhibited. As a two-time cancer survivor he thrives on sharing the healing power of creativity with others through art, music, creativity coaching, workshops, and speaking engagements.
Sandy Bachmann
Sandy Bachmann earned her B.F.A. in advertising design at the New York Institute of Technology. After moving to Florida, she returned to school for a teaching degree in Art and taught for 18 years in Broward and Indian River County before retiring. She rekindled her passion for pottery and has been instructing ceramics workshops for adults since 2018. Sandy has won several awards for her work and was featured in the Nov 2024 issue of LIV VERO Magazine.
Rebecca Barnhouse
Rebecca Barnhouse has taught fiction writing to all levels, from beginners to MFA students. Her publications include a middle grade historical novel, The Book of the Maidservant, and two YA historical fantasies inspired by Beowulf. An English professor emerita, her Ph.D. in medieval literature is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lynn Berkowitz
Lynn Berkowitz M.F.A., B.F.A., with a career in art museums and online learning, has developed an array of award-winning gallery tours, experiences, and apps aimed at helping audiences of all ages and abilities engage with a diversity of art ‘isms and approaches.
Robbin Buller
Robbin Buller holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a B.F.A. from Florida Atlantic University. He has extensive experience in the ceramics industry, having worked as a production potter for large-scale manufacturers and owning a wholesale pottery business with national distribution. For the past 15 years, Robbin has taught art at a small liberal arts university in North Carolina. His ceramic art has been exhibited in national exhibitions.
Judy Burgarella
Judy Burgarella has taught painting and drawing for over 20 years, and her work has been exhibited in many museums, galleries, and shows, earning her numerous awards. She is an artist of many mediums, and she has studied with such notable artists as Christopher Chang, Dorothy Starbuck, Karen Lafell-Massengill, Lou Bonomarte, and Charles Gruppe.
Walford Campbell
Walford Campbell attended the Walsall School of Art and Derby Lonsdale College in England. He served as the head of Ceramics at Solden Hill House in England and taught at Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica. Walford’s focus is on surface decoration and larger sculptural forms.
Monique Carr
Monique Carr is a contemporary painter and art instructor known for her vibrant, energetic style. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Monique spent a decade in the Cayman Islands before settling in East Tennessee in 1999. Recently, she and her husband relocated to Vero Beach, where she now runs her own gallery and studio. With over 20 years as a graphic artist, Monique transitioned to fine art, developing a signature style that merges expressive colors with captivating textures, creating work that radiates movement and emotion.
Adam Conard
Adam Conard has been actively involved in the arts over the last 20 years. Some highlights of Adam’s career have been traveling to Mexico and Fiji to teach art, exhibiting a painting alongside works by Andy Warhol, and starting numerous emerging artist programs. Adam enjoys seeing his student’s inner arts and creative voice emerge and has a knack for helping his students feel confident and secure
Camy De Mario
Camy De Mario is a self-taught artist, children’s book author, illustrator and screenwriter. She has produced short animated movies, and has participated in several national and international film festivals, where she has received multiple awards. Camy has taught art classes both virtually and in person. Her own art uses bright colors which results in happy pieces with her favorite techniques of pointillism and doodling.
Chris Fasolino
Chris Fasolino has an M.A. in Art History and English Literature from the State University of New York. He has taught art history for 15 years, including undergraduate classes and courses for museum docents. His book Early Nature Artists in Florida: Audubon and His Fellow Explorers was published by Arcadia / The History Press. His historical adventure novel, Men of Promise, is available from Barnes & Noble.
Katherine Galbraith
Katherine Galbraith, an acclaimed portrait artist and Signature Member of several prestigious art organizations, is known for capturing personality and expression. Her work is sought by collectors and shown in galleries nationwide, with portraits compared to John Singer Sargent’s. Featured in Southwest Art and Fine Art Connoisseur, Katherine also enjoys teaching workshops on painting and plein air techniques.
Kenneth George
Kenneth George is Director of Photography and Videography Services at Ironside in Vero Beach. He has 15 years teaching experience in subjects such as animation, videography, and photography. He strongly believes that anyone can be taught how to capture beautiful images and get enjoyment from it as a hobby or career.
Camila Greco
Camila Greco began her ceramics journey in 2009 at Eastern Florida State College. After spending 10 years in the veterinary field, she transitioned to managing a ceramics production studio. Inspired to create her own pottery, she founded Green Bee Ceramics and has been selling her work and teaching workshops, wheel throwing, and hand building classes locally since 2019. Camila is also passionate about homeschooling her three children.
Xaque Gruber
Xaque Gruber is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. He has taught art to people with Alzheimer’s and to cancer patients as they receive their chemotherapy. In downtown Vero Beach, Florida, he manages Gallery Veritas & Art Library, the only library dedicated to art books on the Treasure Coast. He holds a B.F.A in Drawing from Pratt Institute, a M.A. in Teaching from Tufts University, and a M.S. in Television Production from Boston University.
Sherry Haaland
Sherry Haaland received her B.S. in Art Education from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has extensive experience in both oils and pastels, having studied art and art history for many years. Sherry is a professional studio artist, receiving many commissions for pet portraits in pastels.
Jeremiah Jenner
Jeremiah Jenner’s photography students appreciate his likeable and engaging character, teaching style, and his natural calling as a teacher. National collectors of his photographs include Starbucks, PBS, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has been a photography instructor for Broward County Schools since 2009. Jeremiah recently received a letter of recognition for his teaching career from the Kennedy Center.
Joel Johnson
Joel Johnson has a B.F.A. in art from Westminster College and M.F.A. in painting and art history from Utah State University. A career artist, Joel has received numerous awards, exhibited in many national shows and has been featured in many fine art galleries throughout the country. Joel is a member of the National Watercolor Society and the Transparent Watercolor Society. He is also an exhibiting artist at the Prix de West in Oklahoma City at the Cowboy Heritage Museum. This will be his fifth year and in 2021 he was awarded the Donald Teague award for Outstanding Work on Paper. His work has been featured in Southwest Art magazine and also Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. His work is represented by Mountain Trails Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit www.artistjoeljohnson.com
Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson began his career in pottery at a very young age. In 1978, he apprenticed with Brent Bennett of Architectural Stoneware in Los Angeles before studying Ceramics at Palomar College in San Diego and in addition completed a two-year professional potter training program. He is a juried member of Many Hands Art and Craft Collective.
Pearl Lau
Pearl Lau graduated from Art & Design HS and was an art director in Manhattan for over 20 years. She also holds a B.A. and M.A. in Art Education from CUNY, NYC. Pearl has taught at Northeastern University and the NYC Dept of Education. She has won several grants to study the arts of Ancient China and Meso-American Mexico, including a Fulbright to India. Pearl has won numerous awards as an art director, art educator and as an artist.
Stephanie Lovallo
Stephanie Lovallo is currently a professional painter and sculptor and is known for her large-scale assemblages and paintings. She earned her B.F.A. from FAU, a M.S. from Nova Southeastern University, and certification credits for Guidance and Counseling from Barry University Miami. She is a retired Broward County Schools art teacher, and a Broward Art Guild teacher and gallery participant.
Elise Mahovlich
Elise Mahovlich founded and operated Living Yoga studio in Vero Beach for 15 years. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor with many thousands of hours of classroom teaching experience over 18 years. She is also certified to teach Prenatal Yoga and is a 3rd Degree Reiki Teaching Master.
Vickie Marsango
Vickie Marsango is a contemporary expressionist artist. As a Fine Arts major, she works with acrylic, oil, mixed media, and encaustics. From her art gallery in Jensen Beach, she accommodates collections for private and corporate collectors, interior designers, and gallery representation worldwide. Marsango is acclaimed for her perspective on abstract expressive drawing and painting techniques, compositional elements, color theory, and the creative process.
Marianne Mitchell
Marianne Mitchell is devoted to transforming lives through the presence and practice of art. Marianne is the founder of Whole Artist Mastery and a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship recipient. Her works hang in collections across the United States and abroad. Marianne is from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. She will instruct Painting into Abstraction, February 14 through 16, from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., an intermediate-level workshop focusing on accessing personal expression in abstraction and understanding how to use visual language to create work in your unique voice.
Katie Nall, Ph.D.
Katie Nall, Ph.D. is a certified Qigong instructor through the Cloudwalker program in Vero Beach. She is also a mathematician, a two-time TEDx speaker, a professional member of National Speakers Association, an Accredited Master Trainer and Practitioner in Emotional Freedom Technique.
George Paxton
George Paxton received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and has studied at the Florence Academy of Art, the Corcoran School of Art, and at numerous workshops with master sculptors. For several years he has taught figure and portrait sculpture and maintained a studio in Vero Beach. He is known for his life-like, representational figural sculpture, for which he has won numerous awards.
Marlene Evans Putnam
Marlene Evans Putnam has taught classes and conducted numerous workshops around the country. She is known for her portraits as well as seascapes, has won many awards, and continues to exhibit throughout the U.S. Mrs. Putnam’s work is included in many public and private collections.
Jack Reilly
Jack Reilly received his M.F.A. from Florida State University in 1978 and has since exhibited his paintings in numerous galleries and museums internationally. Recognized as an original artist of Abstract Illusionism, with reviews published in numerous periodicals and books, he has mounted over 50 solo exhibitions and countless group shows.
Barry Shapiro
Barry Shapiro is a graduate of Pratt Institute (B.F.A. in painting and printmaking) where he studied with internationally renowned artists such as James Grashow, Vasilios Toulis, Rudolph Baranik, and Audrey Flack. His portraits, landscapes and abstract paintings have been featured in multiple exhibitions and collections from California to New York.
Diane Thelen
Diane Thelen holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English, with minors in art and French, from Douglass College. She also did post- graduate work in education at Rutgers University. A former Language Arts teacher who has traveled abroad for many years, Diane combines a keen interest in film, together with a curiosity about people and cultures.
J.K. Van Arsdall
J.K. Van Arsdall holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from UCF, as well as an M.A. in Art History from Ohio University. His concentrations in the field are wide-ranging, from the pre-Renaissance paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to post-Yugoslavian performance art, and African American vernacular art of the south. A teacher since 2010, he has taught art in public and private settings to students from pre-k to college.
John M. Walcott
John M. Walcott is the Chief Instructor with 40 years of experience in healing and martial arts. A graduate of Palm Beach State College and Florida Atlantic University, he is certified in Chinese Tam Style and Ba Gua Zhang Kung-Fu, holds a 5th degree black belt in Gōjū-ryū Karate, and has extensive training in Medical Qigong. He has served on the Board of the National Qigong Association and is the founder of the Cloudwalker Place mind/body healing system.
Roberto Wong
Roberto Wong was born in Havana, Cuba. He has exhibited his work since finishing his art studies at the “San Alejandro” Fine Art Academy in various cities across Cuba, the United States, South America, and Europe. His artworks are part of museum and private collections. He has worked in several media, with ink on paper and clay sculpture being his primary mediums. Roberto Wong has taught classes in Havana, Cuba; Bogotá, Colombia; and Miami, FL.
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