RAC Faculty/Visiting Artist Bios

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, SF State University. Steve teaches at Santa Rosa JC & has assisted at SFSU, including tutoring students with disabilities. He is the ceramics tech and manager of RAC. Steve exhibits his work internationally. www.sfclay.com

Jennifer Brazelton - MFA, SF State University. Jennifer has taught at ASUC studio at UC Berkeley, SFSU, Cal State East Bay and Merritt College in Oakland. She exhibits her work regionally. www.jenniferbrazelton.com

Martha Castillo - has taught a variety of art classes for adults and children. She learned clayprinting from the inventor, Mitch Lyons. She exhibits her work nationally.

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.

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

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.

Lee Haga - MA, Lewis and Clark College. Lee teaches metalsmithing and jewelry making at Mt. Hood Community College in Oregon and designs a line of jewelry under the name Pacific Rim. Her work is on view at the Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery in Portland.

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

Jan Langdon - BS, studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Jan has taught at the de Young Museum Art School, the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design and San Francisco City College.

Edward Lay - BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ed has been at RAC since 1998 and is the metals studio monitor. He is a researcher at UC Berkeley & studies how people learn things.

Arlene Magarian - is a Bay Area artisan who specializes in the art of the braided rug. Arlene teaches classes in diverse settings throughout California including recycling centers and promotes experimentation with the medium. Her business concentrates on custom work and repairs of elder rugs.

Katherine McKay - MFA, California College of the Arts. Katherine teaches Japanese printmaking, watercolor and color drawing at art associations and schools in the Bay Area. www.mckayartworks.com

Wendy McDermott - MFA, San Jose State University. Wendy also teaches at Contra Costa College in San Pablo and the Academy of Art University in SF. She also co-teaches welding and bronze work at CCC as well. She exhibits her work nationally.

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. He exhibits in New York and Northern California.

Kiki Rostad - BA, SF State University; ECEC, Merritt College. Kiki has taught at the Oakland Museum, Head Royce School, Montclair & Albany Recreation Centers and Youth in Arts in San Rafael.

Saadi Shapiro - has taught at Piedmont Adult School and is currently the Studio technician at Merritt College and kiln maintenance specialist at ClayPeople. Saadi shows his work in different venues throughout the Bay Area.

Marsha Shaw - MFA, California College of the Arts; MA/BA, CA State University Northridge. Marsha teaches at DeAnza Community College and gives workshops at different venues including Center for the Book & the Mission Cultural Center in SF. She exhibits her work nationally. www.marshashaw.com

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, including Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Francisco. www.stacyspeyer.net

Edward Stanton - an interdisciplinary artist, Edward has taught at SUNY Alfred, Kansas City Art Institute, UCLA, Stanford, CCA & SFAI. He has studied, collaborated & consulted with Anna Halprin, Allen Kaprow, Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson & others.

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

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.