Staff & Faculty
Fall/Winter/Spring Office/Gallery Hours
Monday thru Friday: 10am-3pm
Staff
Margaret Griffen, Director of Education and Operations
Kathy Magiera, Director of Development and Marketing
ARITSTS IN RESIDENCE 2011-2012
Colleen Hammond, Painting and Printmaking
Jennifer Hermann, Metals
Patti Nelson, Ceramics
Faculty
Bea Batt- Behar
She has received her Rio Certification in 2006 from Chris Darway at University of the Arts and continued to be re-certified this past Spring in Precious Metal Clay. She continues to refine her skillsby taking additional classes on repouse/PMC with Holly Gage and enameling on silver and copper with Linda Darty. When she is not teaching, she sells her one of kind pieces at craft shows and to private customers.
Karen Baumeister
Karen currently teaches at Montgomery Community College and Fleisher Art Memorial. She has received her Certificate/MFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. To see her work and CV please visit: http://kbaumeister.blogspot.com/
Megan Biddle
Megan Biddle received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and her MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond in 2005. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at various venues including the A.I.R. Gallery, XO Projects INC., Side Show, The Islip Art Museum in New York; the Reynolds Gallery Richmond, VA.; Space 1026 Philadelphia, PA.; Urban Arts Space Columbus OH.; Galerie VSUP in the Czech Republic; and the 700IS Experimental Film Festival in Iceland. Her work has been published in New Glass Review and was recently acquired into the American Embassy’s permanent collection in Riga, Latvia.
Joanne Bryant
BFA, Kutztown U. in Art Ed. Additional studies at Philadelphia College of Art and Design. Joanne has taught both children and adults at Mainline Art Center, Abington Art Center, Germantown YWCA, and Fleisher Art Memorial. She is the owner of production pottery business.
Anthony Ciambella
Anthony is a painter, sculptor, mixed media and digital artist. He received a Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and completed the Conservation Apprenticeship Program. He was a conservator at the Academy for many years and now maintains a private practice in art conservation. He also teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
Laura Demme
Laura Demme also teaches at many Community Art Centers in the area (Main Line, Wayne and Wallingford). Her work encompasses sculpture using ceramics, concrete and mixed media. She also works as a painter in oil, encaustic and decorative slip painting. Laura is comfortable working with all levels of students. Her web site is: www.web.me.com/laurademme.
Patti Dougherty
Through travel Patti has explored underwater life, birds, nests, and other natural geologic beauty. She uses paint, mixed media, and glass to represent many natural phenomenas. Patti received an MFA in Painting from Maryland College of art and a BFA from Tyler School of art. To view her work go to:www.pattidougherty.com.
Tim Fitts
Tim lives in Philadelphi and teaches writing at Temple University and the University of the Arts. His fiction has appeared in journals such as Prism International, Cimarron Review, the MacGuffin, Faultline, and a new story is forthcoming in The Connecticut Review.
Colleen Hammond
Colleen graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fines Arts and received her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resides in Moorestown, NJ where she was born and raised. She is an art educator and currently works for the Mural Arts Program, ArtWorks!, and the Saturday Arts Lab at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She is also the Painting and Printmaking artist in residence at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
Hiroe Hanazono
Hiroe, a native of Japan, received her MFA from Ohio University in 2008 and previously received a BA in Spatial Art from Califronia State University, Hayward. In addition to participating as an artist-in-residence at Archie Bray Foundation and Worcester Center for Crafts, Hiroe has worked and studied at various artist communities including Peters Valley Craft Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally. In 2008 she was awarded the Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship at the Clay Studio.
Barbara Hanselman
Barbara considers herself a maker and mentor of all things clay. Her pots, constructed from slabs or using a pinch-strip method I developed, bear the look of fabric, metal, leather or whimsical china. In addition, she addresses how what she is going to make will look before asking the question, what's it going to be - an approach quite out of the norm for most potters. Her signature pieces evolve from the stoneware 'fabrics' she create and enhance with patterns, texture and color. It is her unorthodox methodologies coupled with classic hand building techniques - pinching, coiling, extruding - which result in these whimsical pieces which beg to be handled.
Lana Heckendorn
Lana makes objects of porcelain and porcelain-like stoneware, which are intended for use in the home, to contain food and drink, flowers, or small precious items. Both hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques are used to create the clay forms that are further embellished with applied and drawn decoration, often covering the surfaces like fabric or netting. Lana is an accomplished ceramic artist and excellent instructor.
Jennifer Hermann
Jennifer Hermann received a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Millersville University. She continued her craft education and earned an MFA in Metals and Jewelry from SUNY New Paltz. She is currently the metals artist in residence at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts and works as a professional bench jeweler at Paul Morelli Designs in Center City Philadelphia.
Kathleen Hope Smith
Kathleen is an accomplished artist who has been teaching childrens classes at the Center for the past few years. She also works with students independently. She is kind, patient and an excellent art teacher.
Rinagai Stanley Jawer
BFA, B of Ed, Tyler School of Art at Temple University majoring in Printmaking
After graduating from Tyler, she became an Art Instructor at Harcum Jr. College, Wallingford Art Center, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, and Bucks County Community College.
Her exhibitions range from Toledo, Ohio Museum of Art, Philadelphia Art Alliance, China, Holland and the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul Kane
Studied at Atelier D'Andre L'Hute in Paris and received a certificate and a Cresson and Schedidt grants from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in numerous group and one man exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Selected collections include The Aldrich Museum, Plicker Art Museum, Colgate University, The Thomas Evans Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, The University of Delaware, and The Saatchi Collection - London. He is represented by the Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia.
Dustin Karrat
Dustin graduated from Arcadia University's theatre program. He is a Philadelphia based actor, fight choreographer, and teaching artist.
He has worked with People's Light and Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre, Azuka Theatre, and Philadelphia Young Playwrights, among others.
Gwendoyln Lanier-Gardner
Gwendolyn recently received at Post Baccalaureate degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. This figurative sculptor has also studied at La Meridiana School of Ceramics in Italy and received her BFA in Studio Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and also studied clay at the Massachusetts College of Art.
She believes that the process of working through the creation of a figure is a journey within itself and further satisfies my need to look deep within the core of things to create solidarity. She uses the figure to present these sublime and, at times, absurd qualities of human behavior and social conditions.
Ellen Pine Litwin
BFA, Ceramics, Phila. College of Art, Grad. studies in Ed., MCCC, Temple U., Cheltenham Clay Guild, Vermont Craft Center, League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. Taught at (GYW-YWCA), Mount Airy learning Tree, Wyncote Academy, Vermont CC. Exhibited at The Clay Studio, Abington Art Center, Cheltenham Art Center, Vox Populi Gallery, Artists League of Mount Airy.
Jafang Lu
Jafang Lu was born in Taiwan. She received her B.A. degree from the City College of New York University. Upon graduation, she studied with Nelson Shanks. She is currently an instructor at Studio Incamminati.
Pat McDonald O'Brien
Pat is a literacy specialist and certified school librarian. Pat graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education of Exceptional Children and later from Drexel University where she earned a Masters of Science degree in Human Behavior and Development. While at Drexel, Pat also earned her Reading Specialist Certificate.
Pat has studied at the University of New Hampshire’s Reading and Writing Institutes, and has published several articles on literacy and learning. She is an active member of NCTE and IRA. For over five years, Pat was the children’s book review editor for Voices from the Middle. Pat has taught reading and writing to children with disabilities and reading weaknesses for over 30 years in both private and public schools.
Marie Max-Fritz
Marie is a Fine Artist and an art educator. She has formed a style that consists of interpreting scenes of nature, people, and scenic, societal landscapes. Being a mindful artist is a constant existence for me. It enables her to teach what she understand and is a rewarding feat. In the ideal classroom, she helps her students be motivated to discover a range of methods, media, and styles. Through these discoveries, she helps them gain a confidence and be proud of their accomplishments.
Sarah Myers
Sarah studied at the University of the Arts and with renowned artists in Italy. Sarah is an accomplilshed jeweler, printmaker and excellent teacher!
Patti Nelson
Patti Nelson has an MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz, where she was a Sojourner Truth Fellow. She has a BA in Fine Art with departmental honors from Hunter College, NYC, and majored in Integrative Studies, International Relations and Women Studies with a minor in Comparative Religion from Hendrix College, Conway, AR. Patti Nelson has shown nationally and internationally including DC, Seattle, and NYC (Chelsea and Brooklyn), and Budapest, Hungary. She has taught at the university level, in elementary schools, at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY and currently teaches at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts in Philadelphia where she is the ceramics artist in residence.
Rona Richter
Rona received her BFA in Painting from the University of the Arts. She continued her graduate studies at Columbia University, the New York Studio School, and at Tyler University. Rona has also studied hand papermaking in Japan, Thailand and Burma. She is an award winning exhibitor in the American Color Print Society show, Artists' Cultural Exchange and various other national shows. She has taught at Bucks County Community College, Perkins Center for the Arts and the Abington Art Center.
Marthe Robers - Shea
Marthe Robers/Shea graduated from Moore College of Art, in Philadelphia, with a double Major in Advertising and Illustration. She has been Managing Art Director for Dupont de Namours Pharmaceuticals - Delaware, and CIGNA Corporation - Philadelphia. She has successfully run her own business, Taxi Graphics, Incorporated, since 1990. Skilled in electronic illustration and Graphic Design, she has created numerous award-winning pieces. She illustrates regularly for several Magazines. Her ability to communicate and grasp sometimes obscure ideas and concepts, and translate them into "client-pleasing" pieces is her primary strength. Marthe is a member of the Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia. Marthe was recently elected the President of the American Society of Goldsmiths.
John Sevcik
John is an accomplished Philadelphia painter. He trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and has taught at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Delaware College of Art and Design, Immaculata College and Bucks County Community College. His work can be seen at: www.tothestudio.com. He and his wife Lynn also have a blog: http://viewfromthestudio.blogspot.com.
Bailey Shaw
Bailey earned her BFA in Acting from Arcadia Universiity, Bailey has been a member of the Cheltenham Center for the Arts staff for two years. She specializes in improv, movement and laughter. Known to many of the camp students, Bailey is also a very serious actor who is willing to share her knowledge with you. She is currently working on various theater projects in the greater Philadelphia area.
Victoria Smith
In 2011, Victoria received my BFA in ceramics at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. She has spent the past few years studying functional ceramics at the college, as well as continuing my education through internships, various craft schools, and teaching opportunities. Her ceramic work is functional in nature, paired with hand carved or painted decorations. She strives to make my vessels an expression of everything beautiful to me, so that she may share the joy that accompanies handmade utilitarian objects.
Merle Spandorfer
Merle holds a BS from Syracuse University.mHer work is in collections of PA Academy of Fine Arts, Phila. Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. She has had solo shows at Marian Locks Gallery, Mangel Gallery and Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo. Co-author of "Making Art Safely" published by Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Lisa Stockebrand
Lisa earned a BFA in Crafts/Fibers from the University of the Arts and continued to work at UARTS as the shop supervisor in the Fibers department. For the past ten years she has worked as a Conservation Technician at the Philadelphia Museum of Arts in the Textile Conservation Department. Lisa is passionate about spinning, knnitting, and weaving!
Mary Tasillo
Mary Tasillo is a book, print, text, and paper artist based in Philadelphia. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, and her books and prints are owned by collections both public and private. Mary teaches workshops around the country. She writes about hand papermaking and book arts for publications such as Journal of Artist's Books, Hand Papermaking Newsletter, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She participates in the book arts, paper arts, print culture, and interactivity. Her work can be seen at: www.citizenhydra.com.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew is a recent graduate of Arcadia University with a BFA in Painting. He is am also a Writer, Artist, and Developer of www.doctorcops.com, a webcomic parody of the entertainment industry. He is excited about teaching students how to draw and paint with watercolor at the Center.
Amy Wergelis
Bonnie Kaye Whitfield
Bonnie lives and works in Philadelphia, where she is currently busy designing and printing for Kaye Rachelle Designs, a home textile company she recently co-founded. She graduated with an MFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute in 2010. She works primarily in silkscreen and relief. Her undergraduate work was a concentration in painting and drawing from The University of Georgia. She is an active member of the Philadelphia Center for the Book.
