Art Teachers

Jill Andre'- is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach with a BFA cum laude,

and also studied at Leo Marchutz School Aix-En-Province, France prior to Long Beach studies.
Andre' is teaching acrylics and abstracted figurative painting.

Maya Babiszewska- studied at the University of Silesia in Cieszyn, Poland. She uses color as her most important element in painting.
Babiszewska is teaching classic landscape and portraits from photos in oil or acrylic.

Joe Decker- is a nature photographer and educator living in San Jose,California. His work has been displayed at the Smithsonian, LACDA in Los Angeles, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado. Decker also writes about photography for Photocrat, and is the author of "Saga: Visions of Iceland".
Decker teaches outdoor photography.

Leslie Lambert- graduated from Arizona State University with a BFA, magna cum laude. She attended Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts as a scholarship student, apprenticed with Robert Logsdon and Charles Andrade in the lazure painting technique, and studied with many artists including Mike Bailey, Katherine Chang Lui, Skip Lawrence, and Inge Infante.

Lambert teaches Recognizing Your Concept.

Paula Leslie- is a psychotherapist and a certified hypnotherapist in private practice in Palo Alto, California. She uses art therapy, music and relaxation in her work. She is also a professional artist and knows what it is like to overcome creative blocks in her work as photographer, painter and author.
Leslie teaches how to overcome artistic blocks.

Will Maller- is a career artist and painter specializing in the California Western Landscape, Coastal, Plein Air and Figurative Traditions.
Maller teaches plein air and figure drawing.

Anthony Montanino- studied with Jack Ogden at California State University, Sacramento, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He has had numerous solo exhibits and was the recipient of the California State Fair Award of Excellence in 1989, 92, 96 and 1998. He was also the subject of several profiles in the Sacramento Bee and honored with the 1985-86 Robinson-Witt Memorial Fellowship. In 2002 he was awarded the Sacramento Contemporary Arts Award at the California State Fair.
Montanio teaches watercolor and beginning oil/acrylic painting.

Therese F. Martin- is a consultant with over 10 years of marketing experience. She is the former executive director of ArtSpan, a SanFrancisco nonprofit that connects the public to artists. She has led workshops on artwork pricing and market penetration strategies atCalifornia College of the Arts and has given lectures on business planning through Independent Arts and Media. At present she ispursuing her doctorate in business administration in organizational development and holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and a BFA from the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
Martin teaches art business marketing principles.

Laura McHugh- Mixed media collaging on 2D and 3D surfaces. McHugh has an engineering design background, with extensive fine art training in out and inside main-stream institutions, however, she was also completed 3-week residency at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design to study with Elizabeth Erickson and Patricia Olsen. She recently completed a Masters Class in Printmaking at Aurobora Press in San Francisco with Master Printer Deb Sibony.

In this class, students will explore creating their own backgrounds from found paper, selection and use of imagery and text for composition of 2D and 3D pieces and methods for transferring photos and images to canvas and three dimensional objects. Finishing methods will also be covered including encaustic and acrylic glazes.

McHugh teaches mixed media collage.

Dave Misconish- is a working San Francisco artist whose raw and powerful work is being described as spiritual, emotive, and enigmatic.

Eschewing traditional methods, he prefers to work without brushes, palettes, or conventional canvases. Instead, he applies the paint directly to the surface and then through a process of removal reveals the image within, The constant dialogue between artist and art makes his work as much a discovery as a creation. This process of allowing

the work to participate in it’s creation and develop a life of its own, permits his paintings evolve from a combination of touch and texture.

Using the human experience as both subject and inspiration, his paintings evoke the joy, sadness, wonder and intensity of the human struggle.
Misconish teaches how to express yourself creatively.

Jane Peterman- is a full-time working artist out of the Palo Alto Artists Studios. She sees abstract painting is a means of expressing that part of human existence which is only felt, not seen. In constructing images this artist uses layers of paint applied from a "plate". The paint can be etching ink on mylar or acrylic film on canvas, paper or polyurathane.
Peterman teaches acrylic (in 2011).

Patricia Rodrigez- is teaching a silk screen class in the winter and spring quarters.

"My current work is abstract prints and paintings, which allows me to work in a loose format creating spontaneous splashes of color. Most recently I have been producing monotypes on the etching press, as well as screen prints. I am currently teaching screen printing at Laney College, in Oakland, CA. This process has being very rewarding and satisfying. My monotypes are mostly abstract, and the screen prints are subject matter related to my Latino Heritage symbols that are special to me, as a Latina artist and art curator.

My art history has been rich and wonderful. While I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, I created and organized a group of women artist to paint murals in San Francisco, the Mujeres Muralistas 1970-79. You can find information about the group in many art history books, during that time I taught at various universities and collages. In the 1980’s I also created a large body of art box constructions for exhibitions that traveled all over the U.S. and abroad. Currently I am teaching printmaking at Laney College in Oakland. I just finished my curatorial service of ten years at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, in San Francisco." -Nov. 20, 2009
Rodrigez teaches silk screening.

Daniella Russo- is an expert in drive strategy and creating social activation projects. Her vision is to broaden the impact of the visual arts and reach new audiences by creating 360 campaign packages that utilize multiple distribution platforms and formats, including: broadcast, theatrical, live-event, internet, social media, venue specific display, mobicast, and any other distribution methods.
She blends a background of executive management with a passion for a healthy planet with healthy people living on it, art, languages and travel. Daniella is the co-founder of the Plastic Pollution coalition and heads up the Think Beyond Plastics Campaign (on many social platforms, such Facebook).
Russo teaches social media art marketing.

Timon Sloane- is an award winning artist and workshop instructor. In his exciting hands-on workshop you will learn the beauty of painting in soft (dry) pastel. In his own work, he paints vivid contemporary pastel landscapes recognized through their bold use of color. Rather than simply documenting scenes, the paintings strive to capture the varied emotional impact of each location.
Sloane teaches pastel landscaping painting.