RAC Faculty Bios
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
Lauren Ari - MFA, University of California, Davis, and BFA California College of Arts and Crafts. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally. www.laurenari.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
Gabrielle Castonguay –is a member of the Enamelist Society & the Metal/Glass Association of Canada, and serves as the president of the Lachine Enamelist Atelier. She exhibits her work in Canada, the US and in Europe.
Kay Coffee - San Francisco State University. Kay has taught ceramics for the past 25+ years, specializing in beginning pottery and children's classes.
Duane M. Conliffe - attended Howard University & apprenticed at the San Francisco Chronicle in photoengraving. He exhibits his work in the Bay Area, including TAOLB. He is the owner of Digitalia Photographica. www.DigitaliaPhoto.com
Marilyn Cooper - is a painter who heads a non-proft whose mission is to teach peace and solidarity to others by using both martial arts and the visual arts. Marilyn teaches Chinese martial arts classes in the East Bay. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States and abroad. www.pushingforpeace.org
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 an annual presenter at the Montserrat College 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.
Raymond Haywood - MA, San Francisco State University. Raymond teaches screen printing at Castlemont High School and Laney Community College. He exhibits his work throughout the Bay Area.
Margie Kaplan - MA, Michigan State University. She began weaving at the Richmond Art Center almost two years ago, having recently retired from a 44-year career as an educational therapist. Margie has been creating batik and tie dye fabrics since the 1970s. Fiber is her passion.
Bruno Kark - Apprenticed to Isezaki Jun in Bizen, Japan, and Eric Norstad. Bruno is a full-time potter and shows his work at The Asian Art Museum, galleries & prominent craft shows. He is a member of ACGA and the Ikebana Intl. & Sogetsu Flower Arrangers.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.
Emma Mankin-Morris - is the third generation of working metalsmiths in the Macchiarini family. Emma has taught metalworking classes at Scintillant Studio in San Francisco, as well as a sculpture class at Berkeley City College.
Ralph McCaskey – has more than a decade of glassworking experience, with a focus on sculptural beads. He is a member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers and the Bead Society of Northern California and teaches beadmaking at several locations in the Bay Area. www.nightsidestudios.com
Tomyé Neal Madison – Primarily an illustrator, Tomyé learned stained glass while teaching at Studio One Art Center. She progressed to glass fusing to create sculptural artwork. Tomyé is the Visual Arts Recreation Specialist at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. She mounts exhibits, teaches and mentors artists
Nancy Netherland – Nancy has worked as art therapist, artist-in-residence and art educator for more than 20 years in San Francisco and Oakland. She exhibits her work throughout the Bay Area.
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.
Nancy Roberts - uses a knitting machine as a tool for dyeing self-striping yarns. She applies her innovative techniques to knitting, weaving and felting. Her dyeing method was published in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Handwoven, and her article "Machine Knitting to Dye For" was featured on the cover of Spin-Off, Fall 2006.
Kiki Rostad - BA, SF State University; ECEC, Merritt College and certified art therapist. 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.
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.
Debra Stuckgold - MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University. She has received numerous awards including The Puffin Foundation and the Marcus Foster Fund. Debra teaches art in the Oakland Unified School District. She exhibits her work nationally. www.stuckgold.com
- MFA, Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Travel and percussion are principal points of inspiration in his work. Alan taught bilingual art classes at the Instituto. He has also taught at Studio One. Alan exhibits his work locally. www.alantarbell.com
– BS, CSU East Bay. Leah has studied with Lisa Kokin, DJ Pettitt and Nick Bantock and exhibits and teaches in the Bay Area. www.leahvirsik.com
- BA, CA State East Bay, MA, Ethnic Art in Anthropology, CA State East Bay. Mj has taught at numerous educational facilities throughout the East Bay. She currently teaches at Acalanes and Albany Adult Schools.
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