Faculty
Becky Holden holds a BA in Art, Painting from Rutgers University; a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Southern Connecticut State University, and has 20 years of experience as an art teacher in the Redding, Connecticut public school system. She has been teaching adult pastel classes at The Rowayton Arts…
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Serin Leas is a painter and textile artist living and working in Palm City, FL. After obtaining her B.S. degree in Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida, she began pursuing her love of art by teaching youth classes and eventually going back to school to be an elementary…
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Shari LaBrenz is a life long resident of Kalamazoo, MI. After early retirement from a twenty-five year banking career in late 1999, she returned to a childhood love of art and started taking classes in fused glass. That experience led to the question of how glass cabochons could be set…
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Ralph Papa was born and raised in Manhattan’s East Harlem and studied art and architecture in New York at Queens College and City College and Art Students League. He is a lifelong artist and is President of the Artists’ Guild of the Boca Raton Museum of Art and founder of…
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Susan Rienzo is a full-time studio textile artist who creates abstract and pictorial art quilts. She has a passionate love for color, textiles, and whimsical art. Born in Brooklyn, NY, Susan graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY with a degree in Fashion Design, and continued on at the University of Georgia,…
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Valerie Sun, originally from Detroit, Michigan, moved to Tampa, Florida in 1976 and graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in Architecture. She and her husband started their own architecture company, The Sun Group. She has tutored and assisted teaching children for over twenty-five years and obtained a…
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Ceramic Technician Ronald Shaw is a studio potter and teacher living and working in West Palm Beach, FL. His current body of work is being made using several different construction techniques to create pieces on a large scale, including hand building and sculpting, wheel-throwing, stacking and assembling, and coil and…
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Tracey Roedl has a long and diverse history in the jewelry industry. Her childhood passion for her great aunt’s jewelry dressing table peaked during a silversmithing and goldsmithing class in high school. She went on to do brief studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Colorado Rocky Mountain School.…
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Barbara Powell is originally from Western Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Smith College and later a M. A. from the University of Rhode Island. Barbara’s professional career spans over 20 years in water resource management at the state, county and local level. Throughout this time, she has defined her…
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Lisa questioned what it was to be an artist – she still ponders that question currently in the MFA painting program at FAU. Challenging herself with all aspects of painting and 3D work, Lisa has a passion for teaching creativity. Her early college years included biology, exercise science, and psychology.…
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