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 -  Alison is a studio jeweler in Berkeley. Her work is sold nationally in galleries and art craft shows. Alison is currently the chairperson of the Metal Arts Guild of Fan Francisco. www.antelman.com

Shabnam Bahmanian - BFA, California College of the Arts. Shabnam is a fine art jeweler with a focus on one-of-a-kind studio pieces. Her work showcases pure metals by using a variety of methods such as hammering, fiber techniques, stamping, and fold-forming. www.shabnambahmanian.com

Jennifer Brazelton -  MFA, San Francisco State University. ennifer 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

Kay Coffee - BA, San Francisco State University. Kay has taught ceramics for the past 25 years, specializing in beginning pottery and children's classes.

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.

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

Alex Friedman -  weaves and sells her work from her Sausalito studio. She is a board member and former co-director of the American Tapestry Alliance and a current member of Tapestry Weavers West and of the Baulines Craft Guild. Alex exhibits her work throughout the Bay Area and beyond. www.alexfriedmantapestry.com

Arthur Gonzalez -  MFA, University of California, Davis. Arthur is an Associate Professor at CCA. His work is held in many public collections in the United States and is shown nationally and internationally. www.arthurgonzalez.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.

Raymond Haywood -  MFA, San Francisco State University. Raymond teaches 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.

Susannah Israel -  MFA, San Francisco State University. Susannah exhibits widely and was 2002 artist-in-residence at Archie Bray. She teaches ceramics at Contra Costa, Laney and Merritt Colleges. www.susannahisrael.net

Afsaneh Khalil - BA, University of Massachusetts. Afsaneh is currently pursuing her master's degree in Iranian art. She worked at both the Sackler and Fogg Art Museums for 5 years, assisting the curator. Afasneh exhibits her work both nationally and internationally.

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

Jan Langdon - studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art and had a weaving business in Berkeley in the 1960’s. She 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.

rp leaf - BA, San Francisco State University. Richard has taught and developed metal and jewelry programs for San Francisco Parks and Recreation for over 29 years.

Natalie Lenz-Acuna - Master's of Education (M. Ed) in Curriculum and Instruction from St. Mary's College. Natalie is a practicing artist and muralist and is an art teacher and the department chair at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord, where she also facilitates outreach programs that help serve the school's at-risk population. Her work is in many private collections.

Kristin Lerner - BFA, Boston University. Kristin taught at the Arts Council of Princeton and the Mercer County Teen Arts Program. She is a grant recipient of the George Sugarman Foundation. Her work is in the permanent collection of Ellarslie Trenton City Museum in New Jersey. Kristin exhibits locally & nationally. www.kristinlerner.com

Robin Lynde - is owner of Meridian Jacobs Farm located near Vacaville. She and her family raise Jacob sheep with an emphasis on top quality fleeces. Robin sells the wool, fleece, sliver, yarn and woven blankets in her shop and offers weaving and spinning classes. www.meridianjacobs.com

Hilda Robinson - MA, BA, University of California, Berkeley & graduate of Tyler School of Fine Art, PA. She was a recipient of the 2000 Jan Hart-Schuyers Merit Award in RAC’s annual The Art Of Living Black. She exhibits locally and nationally and is very active in her community.

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 - BFA, Kansas City Art Institute; MFA, CCA. 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

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.

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

Yehuda Tassa - learned filigree from his father, a well-known jeweler in Yemen and worked in the family business for 16 years. After retiring from an aerospace career, he began producing both ancient and modern filigree designs incorporating both traditional and ancient tools and techniques. He shows and sells his work throughout California. www.sabrajewelrydesign.com

Shalene Valenzuela - MFA, California College of the Arts. Shalene has taught a variety of ceramic workshops for adults and teens as well as undergraduate students at CCA. Shalene started the Cricket Engine Gallery, an alternative exhibition space in Oakland. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Clay Studio in Missoula Montana. She exhibits her work nationally.