Bill Abright - BA, MA San Francisco State University. Bill has exhibited and demonstrated his techniques throughout the U.S. and has taught Art at the College of Marin in Kentfield for the last 34 years.
Phoebe Ackley - is currently a studio assistant for Andree Singer Thompson. She was awarded a public art project at Rosa Parks Elementary School. Phoebe teaches figure and clay sculpture to a wide audience. She exhibits her work throughout the Bay Area.
Steve Allen - MFA, San Francisco State University. Steve teachs ceramics at Santa Rosa Junior College and has assisted with classes at SFSU including tutoring students with disabilities. He is the ceramics tech and manager of RAC. Steve exhibits his work throughout the greater Bay Area. www.sfclay.com
Alison Antelman - exhibits and sells her work out of her studio and at craft shows nationally. As President of the San Francisco Metal Arts Guild Alison enjoys proselytizing the word of metal arts. She is often found creating one-of-a-kind jewelry in her well-lit studio at the Sawtooth Building in Berkeley.
Daniel Ari - MFA - Arizona State. Daniel is an accomplished poet, writer, performer and teacher. His written works appear widely in print and online. Hiscurrent performance series, "Fights With Poems," delves into the works of other poets and the art of poetry overall.
Lauren Ari - MFA, University of California, Davis and BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts. Lauren exhibits her work nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collection of the Museums of Fine Arts, San Francisco. www.laurenari.com
Jennifer Brazelton - Jennifer Brazelton - MFA, San Francisco State University. Jennifer has taught adult classes at the ASUC studio at UC Berkeley, at SFSU, Cal State East Bay and Merritt College in Oakland. She exhibits her work regionally www.jenniferbrazelton.com
Martha Castillo - Martha Castillo - Martha has taught a variety of art classes for adults and children. She was first introduced to clayprinting in 2004, by way of the inventor, Mitch Lyons, in Philadelphia, PA. Martha has been teaching clayprint workshops since 2005. She exhibits her work
Kay Coffee - BA, San Francisco State University. Kay has taught ceramics for the past 25+ years, specializing in beginning pottery and children's classes.
Shelly Cournoyer - BFA, California College of Arts Craft. Shelly is a fine art jeweler, blacksmith and sculptor. Her work integrates organic forms with found objects. She is currently developing a line of work that uses forged steel and mixed media.
Adele Crawford - MFA California College of the Arts. Adele has taught at CCA and Creative Growth. Her work in mixed media has been shown throughout the greater Bay Area. adelecrawford.com
Lisa di Prima - BFA, California College of the Arts. Lisa has taught at the S F Children’s Art Center, Berkeley Child Art Studio, Berkeley Arts Magnet, Harding Elementary and Arrowsmith High School. She is the artistic director of the Berkeley Jazz Art Program.
Emory Douglas - studied commercial art at San Francisco City College. Emory was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. His graphic art was featured in most issues of the newspaper The Black Panther. He currently exhibits his work nationally and internationally.
Hylla Evans - founder and paint maker for Evans Encaustics. Hylla teaches extensively in Boston, NY, SF, LA, Berkeley, and Amsterdam. She is a board member of International Encaustic Artists and the paint maker on the Technical Panel at Montserrat College of Art's First Annual Encaustic Conference. www.EvansEncaustics.com
Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez- BFA - University of Puerto Rico. Rebeca has studied at the Arts Students League in San Juan and at the Academy of Art University in SF. Rebeca coordinates several painting groups including the East Bay plein-air group. She exhibits her work locally. www.garcia-gonzalez.com
Annette Goldberg - MFA, California College of the Arts. Annette has taught at UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, the de Young Museum, Studio One and Berkeley Adult School.
Eri Goodwin - Floral design degree, Golden West College, Huntington Beach. Eri trained for 10+ years in British Floral Design. Assistant professor of Ikebana, Saga School, Japan.
Raymond Haywood - MA, San Francisco State University. Raymond teaches screen printing at Castlemont High School and Laney Community College. He was a 2005 Jan Hart-Schuyers Artistic Achievement Award recipient of the The Art of Living Black. He exhibits his work in the Bay Area.
Susie Hodges - has taught knitting and textile crafts for over 30 years including Straw Into Gold in Oakland and the national Stitches knitting conferences. Her video, "Multicolor Techniques for Handknitters is offered in knitting shops nationally.
Karen Jackson - BFA and K-8 teaching credential, California State University, Los Angeles. Karen has 25 years teaching experience in public and private schools. She has developed innovative approaches to teaching art as part of the curriculum in museum education programs including mask-making, memory boxes and paper theaters.
Bruno Kark - apprenticed to Isezaki Jun, Bizan, Japan. Bruno has taught through the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Program. He exhibits at the Asian Art Museum and Gump's in San Francisco. www.brunokark.com
Lisa Kokin - BFA, MFA, California College of the Arts. Lisa has taught classes at JFK University in Berkeley and at CCA. She is in numerous public and private collections and exhibits her work nationally and internationally www.lisakokin.com
Jan Langdon - BS, studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art and had a weaving business in Berkeley in the 1960s. Jan has taught at the de Young Museum Art School, the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design and San Francisco City College. She has work in collections including Phillips Academy (Andover, MA) and the Oakland Museum.
Edward Lay - BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ed has been at RAC since 1998 and is the metals studio monitor. He is a researcher on how people learn things at UC Berkeley.
Wendy McDermott - MFA, San Jose State University. Wendy is developing & teaching the jewelry program at Contra Costa College in San Pablo. She also co-teaches welding and bronze work at CCC as well. She exhibits her work nationally.
Keiko Nelson - did post-graduate work in Hamburg at a school based on Bauhaus principals. Keiko has earned a reputation as one of the leading contemporary artists today through numerous exhibitions and commission works in North and South America, Europe, Middle east and Asia.
Peter Ostwald - studied at UC Berkeley and abroad. Peter was founding director of the metal arts program at John O'Connell Technical Institute and has taught at Piedmont Adult School for seven years. He exhibits in New York and Northern California.
Dwayne O Parish - Arts & Culture Commissioner, City of Richmond. Creator of "hyp-hop-notherapy" self-empowering poetry using letters of one's name & "acrostic-alchemy", poetic profiling of non-profits, affinity groups, special events & individuals of merit.
Nancy Selvin - M.A. University of California, Berkeley. Nancy is an independent studio artist. She currently teaches at The California College of the Arts and serves on the Alameda County Public Art Commission. Ms. Selvins works are in numerous public and private collections.
Kiki Rostad - BA, San Francisco State University; ECEC, Merritt College. Kiki has 27 years of teaching experience at the Oakland Museum, Head Royce School, Montclair Recreation Center and Albany Recreation Center.
Saadi Shapiro - has taught at Piedmont Adult School and is currently the Studio technician at Merritt College and kiln maintenance specialist at Clay People. Saadi shows his work in different venues throughout the Bay Area.
Joyce Shon - Joyce has been screen printing for over 40 years and has produced custom commercial work, images on fabric and fine art prints. She exhibits her work in the Bay Area.
Stacy Speyer - MFA, California College of the Arts; BFA, Kansas City Art Institute. Stacy is a textile artist whose work challenges the traditional rules of weaving. She exhibits nationally and is represented in private collections, mostly recently at Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco. www.stacyspeyer.net
Edward Stanton - is an interdisciplinary artist. He has taught at SUNY Alfred, Kansas City Art Institute, UCLA, Stanford, CCA, SFAI and others. Edward has studied, collaborated and consulted with many artists including Anna Halprin, Allen Kaprow, Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson, Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving.
Myong Stebbins - BFA, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Myong has taught through RAC's Art Reach Program in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. She exhibits throughout the Bay Area www.myongstebbins.com
Patricia Townsend - BA Humboldt State University; Fiberworks in Berkeley; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Patty has been weaving since the 70s. She coordinates the arts program at San Francisco Waldorf High School where she has taught weaving, bookbinding, and basketry for the past 12 years.
Hope Weiner - studied with Hadar Jacobson and obtained Level One Certification in 2004. Hope also teaches workshops at the City College of San Francisco and at Civic Arts in Walnut Creek.
Aigin Zhou - MFA, Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Aiqin teaches brush painting at UC Berkeley Extension and also at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. She exhibits her work in the Bay Area.
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