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Call for Art Instructors
The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina’s Education Department seeks talented instructors to teach short classes and workshops for its community education series. The Arts Center offers integrated learning experiences to adults and children that emphasize hands-on learning. Classes can be in the visual or performing arts and can include but are not limited to workshops, lectures and demonstrations in two and three-dimensional art, jewelry, performing and media art, and writing.

Winter quarter runs from December - February 2012.  Deadline for workshop proposals was October 15  Download proposal form HERE, or for more information contact Alana Adams, Director of Education at 843-686-3945 x222 or aadams@artshhi.com. .

Instructor Bios

Alana Adams received her BFA in Art Education at Georgia State University with an emphasis in ceramics and sculpture.  Since receiving her PK-12 certification in 2001, she has gone on to teach art and pottery for children and adults in both private and public institutions. Alana specializes in the development of arts-integrated curricula and is the Director of Education at the Arts Center.

Yostie Ashley is a story telling puppeteer who serves as an artist-in-residence with the S.C. Arts Commission and is a popular presenter throughout the state. She has also done international work in Indonesia and Russia, and is very active in state and national puppet/storytelling organizations.  Yostie holds a BS in Elementary Education from Florida State University and a MA in Education from University of South Carolina.

Chris Dreyer, originally from Itasca, Illinois was first trained to paint at the age of 10. He has continued to expand his art and illustration at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. Since 1990, Chris has called Wisconsin home. The natural beauty of living in the Wisconsin River Valley has been the inspiration that motivates him to create and has been the center of his artwork and many illustrations.

Brucie Holler is a working artist and has been painting for most of her life, working primarily in oils and mixed media. She has been teaching a variety of classes since 1990, including doing residencies in the Hilton Head Elementary School for the Creative Arts. She is the Associate Director of Education at the Arts Center.

Patti Maurer has a BFA in dance from the University of Colorado and has performed throughout the United States, Japan, and Korea. She also has an Advanced Fine Arts Certification, Highly Qualified in Dance, K-12 for South Carolina. Patti performed in the Arts Center's productions of The Producers, A Chorus Line, My Fair Lady, and Hello Dolly!, Other past credits include: Mass., Sweet Charity, A Chorus Line, Colorado Repertory Dance Co., Kim Robards Dance Company.

Natasha Lawrence is a professional calligrapher and instructor. She also teaches other arts and crafts workshops. She is also an award-wining photographer, a freelance service journalist and destination writer for magazines and travel sites on the Internet. Having lived in Southeast Alaska for several years, she is a lecturer on cruise ships’ enrichment programs on the Inside Passage. She is calligrapher to the Historic Charleston Foundation.

Sylvia Pitts teaches visual art at Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts.  Before teaching she worked as a professional artist for 10 years. She is a painter and a graduate of the University of South Carolina and has made Hilton Head Island her home since 1990. Along with teaching art to 750 students during the school year and raising three children, Sylvia continues to expand her own body of work.

Amy Plew grew up on a small sheep farm in Southern Jew Jersey, where her parents own and operate a folk art school. Amy assisted in teaching classes at the school from the time she was ten years old, but now calls the Lowcountry her home. Amy sells her felted creations at a number of craft shows and online at www.etsy.com/shop/littlesheepfelt.

Martha Stuart earned her BS in Interior Design and Business from Western Michigan University.  In addition to working as an interior designer throughout her career, she served as an art instructor for the William King Regional Arts Center in Virginia, working with their in-house and outreach youth programs.  Martha is the Education Assistant at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina.

Christina Taylor received her BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a M.Ed. from Berry College. She divides her time between teaching and designing her personal line of jewelry, Dreamcat Jewelry. 

Marianna Tcherkassky was brought up in Kensington, Maryland and is of Russian and Japanese descent. She began her training with her mother, Lillian Oka Tcherkassky and continued her studies at Mary Day’s academy of the Washington School of Ballet and on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet in New York. She joined American Ballet Theatre in 1970 and was elevated to principal dancer in 1976. She has been recognized as one of the world’s leading ballerinas and was reviewed as “one of the greatest Giselles that American ballet produced” by Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times. Since Miss Tcherkassky’s retirement from the stage in 1996, she has taught extensively, and in 1997 she received a Golden ring award honoring artistic excellence from the Asian-American Arts foundation in San Francisco. On June 11, 1999, she received an honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts from the University of Cincinnati. She is married to PBT Artistic Director Terrence S. Orr.

Recent Workshop Instructors included:

Jay Apking is the founder and artistic director of the Janus Project, a theater in Cincinnati, Ohio, that concentrates on the development of young people in the performing arts.  He has been teaching and performing for children for 15 years, having worked at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival and the Barter Theater in Virginia as well as touring the Eastern U.S and Russia with productions.

Harry Culpepper Jr. graduated from Shenandoah University with a BFA in Music Theatre. He spent more than a year with Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, performing on the main stage, touring with its Youth Theatre, teaching playwriting, serving as a resident teaching artist in the public schools, and directing/producing two original cabarets. He served as the Education Specialist for The Peace Center for the Performing Arts, and is currently the Drama Teacher at the Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts, which earned the 2009-10 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Award.  Harry has appeared locally in Main Street Youth Theatre productions as the Cat in the Hat in Seussical The Musical, and the title role in Willy Wonka and recently directed A Thousand Cranes at the Arts Center.

Margaret Hancock holds her M.Ed from the University of Virginia and her BA in Art History from Duke University.  She leads design-based educational programs and workshops at a variety of institutions, including the Virginia Center for Architecture and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  Margaret’s expertise also includes judging annual juried shows, teaching undergraduate courses, serving as a docent at several art museums and completing an internship with the National Gallery of Art.

Melissa Holloway grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast where her love of teaching was inspired from working at her Grandparents' toy store.  She received her BFA in Art Education at Ole Miss. and then moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she earned a Masters in Art Therapy. Melissa currently works part-time at a local pre-school in Savannah, GA and also volunteers at Backus Children's Hospital.

Amos Hummel’s bright and happy paintings showing his interesting perspectives of his surroundings have made him one of this area's favorite artists.  A self-taught artist, Hummell uses vibrant colors and bold compositions to capture the joy and beauty of the Lowcountry.  The work is fun and funky, with a semitropical color palette to reflect the coastal area where Amos has lived since 1980. The zany and sometimes downright weird characters who show up in his pieces are often reincarnations of real people who have crossed his path.

Paige Klasing is a rising senior at Wake Forest University earning her degree in Education and Theatre. Originally from Roanoke, Va., she now calls Hilton Head Island home.  Paige is currently serving her second internship at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina and is excited to be back.

Danielle Agostinelli Tobia is an artist and teacher originally from New York City. She received her BA in Art Education and Elementary Education from Monmouth University in New Jersey. She has been an elementary art teacher for five years and is a member of the National Art Educators Association. 

Robert Yonke works out of two studios, one in Pittsburgh and the other in Swanton, Md. He works mostly in watercolor and focuses on subjects that he loves, such as bluegrass music. His love of music, the mountains, and the outdoors can be seen in his work. Bob's award-winning art has been shown in many galleries throughout the region.  He is a member of the Garrett County Arts Council in Western Maryland. 

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