Instructors

Fiona Agababian

Fiona Agababian is a painter and printmaker based in Westchester, NY. She holds a bachelor’s degree in the arts from Stony Brook University (2022), where she focused on painting, drawing, and printmaking. Her work explores themes of self-identity, the concept of home, and the interconnectedness between individuals and their environment. In addition to her artistic […]

Mecca Alim

I am a Bronx-based illustrator and graphic designer. I have exhibited my works in numerous galleries and publications based out of New York City, New Jersey, Westchester County, and the United Kingdom. I’ve also created commercial illustrations, designs, and advertisements for The Society of Scent, Marilyn Gauthier of StudioChic, LolaLovesCargo, and more. I’ve graduated summa […]

Sylvia Arakas-Gutierrez

Rooted in her Puerto Rican heritage and shaped by her life in Pelham, NY, Sylvia Arakas-Gutierrez creates ceramics that embody both strength and sensitivity. Through Beholder, her women-powered studio, Sylvia draws inspiration from symbols like chains, thorns, and evil eyes—each representing beauty, protection, and endurance. For her, working with clay is an act of self-care and […]

Lauren Auyeung

Lauren Auyeung is a dancer, choreographer, and musical artist. She holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, and a BA from Princeton University. Lauren is an experienced artist, teacher, and multi-disciplinary performer, with a particular passion for embodied play in early education. Her classes seek to foster curiosity, […]

Abigail Blatté

Abigail Blatté is a floral designer based in Scarsdale, New York and the founder of Blooms & Rooms Designs. She holds a BA in Literature from the University of Montana and received her Certificate in Floral Design from the New York Botanical Garden. Drawing from her background in interior design, literature, and art, as well […]

Diane Boekman

Having always loved and participated in crafts as a child, I began my mixed media practice as an adult. Utilizing art as a vehicle of expression, I enjoy the creative process as well as the finished piece and want to share this joy with others. Since expanding my spiritual life, I am more open to […]

Joan Bradford

Joan Bradford is a choreographer, dancer, teaching artist, and arts administrator proudly born, raised, and still residing in The Bronx. Joan earned her BFA in Dance from Long Island University with awards in choreographic achievement and has since performed/collaborated with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, MizantyMoves Dance Works, Alexandra Beller, Alethea Pace, liryan movement, JoAnna Mendl-Shaw, […]

Steve Brock

Steve Brock is an artist, producer, and DJ with over 20 years of experience in digital media education. He has worked across music production and visual arts, combining technical skill with creative versatility. Currently, he is an active DJ with multiple residencies throughout the tri-state area

Maria Campos

Maria Campos received her BFA at Mercy College with a concentration in Digital Illustration and Visual Development. She was born in the United States but spent most of her life growing up in Mexico. Maria is inspired everyday to make art because it gives her the ability to teach what she learns to other people. […]

Jeanne Carreau

“Clay is a way of life. Working with my hands, head, and heart is my secret to a happy life. All of my life experiences, good and bad, provide a rich source of inspiration.” Jeanne Carreau fell in love with clay 50 years ago in a High School ceramics class in Kansas. She joined a […]

Jane Chang

Jane Chang has a MBA from Long Island University and studied master classes with Madame Aixinjueluo Hinyi, descendant of the imperial Qing Dynasty, China. Chang gas taught at the Art school at Old Church, Northern New Jersey Art Center, Tenafly Senior Center and has also taught private lessons. Jane has also exhibited throughout the tristate area.

xan Churchwell

xan Churchwell (pronouns: they / them) is an actor, writer and creator who constantly questions, and remains curious about the human experience. Their artistic mission is to spread empathy and responsible communication through bold storytelling. A graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, xan holds the title of Disney Imagineer having worked […]

Kaya Das

Kaya Das is an artist and art teacher from New York. She works in a variety of mediums, from watercolors and acrylics to high-fire ceramics and polymer clay to digital art. She has a BFA in Film & Animation with a concentration on 2D animation from Rochester Institute of Technology. Kaya has a deep passion for […]

Elizabeth de Bethune

Elizabeth de Bethune is an artist and educator with 25 years of teaching experience, both as a teaching artist and classroom teacher. Elizabeth works primarily with 2-dimensional image making processes, from drawing and painting to printmaking and collage. Her work focuses on figurative and narrative imagery. Elizabeth has a BA in Fine Art from Yale […]

Ann Marie DeLuca

I am an artist and creative healing mentor with decades of experience guiding individuals and communities through transformative expressive arts practices. My work integrates movement, symbolic imagery, and intuitive creativity to help people reconnect with inner wisdom, strengthen emotional resilience, and discover new pathways of self‑understanding. – I create environments where participants feel seen, supported, […]

Tara DeLuca

Tara DeLuca, MA, LCAT, ATR-BC is a Westchester native, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and a mother of 3 young children. Tara has had the pleasure of integrating Art Therapy into a variety of settings and locations, including several pediatric and adult hospitals in NYC and Nashville, and international work in the country of Qatar. Most recently, […]

CJ Donohoe

CJ Donohoe has a deep interest in art accessibility, devised performance, and improvisation. CJ is pursuing a Master of Arts in Dance Education: Initial Certification for Teaching Dance Grades K-12. CJ’s work as an artist and educator centers community and process, and is particularly interested in working with folks who do not necessarily consider themselves a […]

Tim Dosé

Tim Dosé was born and raised in Glenview, IL, just north of Chicago. He studied illustration at Syracuse University, where he received a BFA in 2000. After graduating, Tim moved to New York City. There, he received training in the Russian academic tradition at Bridgeview School of Fine Arts. He also studied drawing and painting […]

Rebecca Dunn

Through years of development Rebecca Dunn has created a deep sensitivity to color, composition, and the emotional atmosphere a painting can hold. She strives to create a sense of calm and openness—art that feels lived in, approachable, and meant to be shared. In addition to her studio practice, Rebecca teaches workshops that invite students into […]

The Nerdy Duo

The Nerdy Duo are Erin Cardullo and Melissa Weiland, new media artists, specializing in digital video production. Their involvement in a wide array of projects like projections for community theater (Gypsy, Man In Snow), producing props for the steampunk scene (as seen at the 2018 Community Organized Gathering of Steampunks), video installation art (most recently […]

Frank Fanelli

Frank is a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology with an AAS in Communication Design and a BFA in Computer Animation & Interactive Media. He has a passion for film, cartoons, comics, voice acting, writing, and music. He has been working as a graphic designer and animator since 2011. Frank has a growing interest […]

Helayne Friedland

Helayne Friedland is a ceramic artist, printmaker, graphic designer, and native New Yorker. She earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Helayne has been working with clay for over 30 years, exhibiting her work at both craft shows, and galleries. She has participated in ceramic workshops across the country, […]

AnnMarie Funigiello

AnnMarie Funigiello is a creative artist and educator based in New York who was born and raised in Westchester, NY. She earned her BFA in Advertising from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a Master’s Degree in Art Education from the College of New Rochelle. AnnMarie has been an art educator (also […]

Barbara Galazzo

Barbara Galazzo is an award-winning glass and mosaic artist for the past 30 years and has incorporated mosaics into various projects and residencies. She is excited to share the excitement of mosaics with students. Mosaics is like life, it’s all about how you put the pieces together. Her works are in corporate and private installations in […]

Letizia Gentile

I search for what connects us, what’s invisible. It takes time and a willingness to see. Letizia is classically trained and works in oil and graphite/charcoal. She earned her CFA at New York Academy of Art and honed her skills at Long Island School of Fine Art. Letizia has exhibited in various group shows including […]

Frank Guida

Frank Guida graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, continuing his art education by attending postgraduate art courses at the College of New Rochelle and the State University of New York at Purchase. He has been a drawing teacher for over thirty years. Currently he is teaching at the […]

Jo Jayson

Jo Jayson is a self-taught artist who started her career as a muralist and decorative painter in London, Sydney and New York. She started her own series of paintings in 2008 and has become an internationally known artist and teacher in her field. Her work is primarily figurative, with feminine spiritual, healing and empowerment themes. […]

Edgar Jerins

Jerins, awarded a full scholarship by Scholastic Art Awards to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was also the recipiant of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant, George Sugarman Foundation Grant, and E.D. Foundation Grant. […]

Satish Joshi

Satish Joshi is a 1968 graduate of the New Delhi College of Art (MFA) who immigrated to the US in 1969. He taught at Riverdale Country School for 37 years, much of that time as Head of the Visual Arts Department, and added ceramics, sculpture and printmaking to the existing painting and drawing curriculum at […]

Rachel Krause

Rachel Krause is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from New York who loves the dynamic of the classroom and empowering her student’s creative process. She recently moved back from Berlin, Germany where she co- directed and produced several art events, including a fundraiser for Figment, studied Neuroethics and taught art and English literacy. She has […]

Simone Kurtz

Simone is an illustrator and designer based in Westchester, NY, whose work celebrates storytelling, curiosity, and play. She has illustrated book covers and recently published her first children’s book, The Evening Before the Morning of the Kitty Kat Parade by Eric Hodos. Her work has also appeared in off-Broadway productions, including Emursive Productions’ Sleep No More. Simone’s creative […]

Lorna Leighton

Lorna Leighton is a freelance painter, illustrator and graphic designer. She has an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and has created illustrations for music, ballet, phone apps and toy companies. After 20 years in Brooklyn, she moved to Yonkers in 2023. At present, she works from her studio on paintings and […]

Ronit Levin Delgado

Ronit Levin Delgado (born Tel Aviv) is a New York–based multidisciplinary visual and performance artist, curator and a Fulbright Scholar. She graduated with honors her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and holds a MFA in studio arts at Montclair State University after winning the MFA Fulbright program in Israel. Levin […]

Barry Mason

Barry Mason is a photographer and painter living in Mt Vernon. He was educated at The Corcoran School of Art and Indiana State University. His commercial photography clients include: GE, L’Oreal, American Legacy Magazine. He has taught photography at Horace Mann School, ArtsWestchester, UJAMMA and for many years worked at CBS Corporation.

Jackie Meier

Meier attended Boston College and received a BA in economics, she then became a buyer for housewares working for TJMaxx and Marshalls for 8 years. She then travelled the world for 11 months she relocated to California and pursued her art education at the California College of Arts. Meier returned to the east coast and […]

Eleanor Miller

A classically trained artist, Eleanor Grace Miller received her BA from Monmouth University, where she studied under Eleanore Mikus, a vanguard Minimalist, and Bernard Aptekar, one of the original SOHO Ten Downtown, and continued her studies at the National Academy School of Fine Arts. Miller has exhibited extensively throughout the East Coast, both in fine […]

Kristin Moore-Gantz

Kristin enjoys sharing and teaching her passion for painting and fashion illustration. A proud Pratt Institute graduate, she led a long career as an Executive Creative Director in NEW YORK’s top ad agencies, Publicis, Grey, McCann and Leo Burnett, among a few, in the global beauty and luxury industry. Collaborating with well known editorial photographers, directors, wardrobe stylists, and fashion illustrators, allowed her to […]

Susan Nathenson

Ms. Nathenson received her BA from Washington University and has exhibited and taught throughout the US, Europe and in Hungary. Has taught at the PAC for over 25 years, is a member of the Hungarian Artists Association, she has completed several residencies in Hungary and India. In 2009 won the city prize of Keszthely, Hungary.

Nancy Nikkal

Nancy Egol Nikkal has been teaching the art of collage to adults for more than 30 years, including classes at the Pelham Art Center and exhibition-related collage workshops at William Paterson University (Wayne, NJ), the Newark Museum and the Morris Museum in NJ. Collage classes include demonstration, discussion and personal critique of works in progress. […]

Anna Novakov

Anna Novakov is an artist, certified perfumer and pattern designer. After earning a Ph.D. from New York University in Art Education, Novakov taught for over 25 years at the San Francisco Art Institute and Saint Mary’s College of California before opening studios in New York and New Mexico. As the founder of Mala_Igla design firm […]

Patricia Pardini

“Painting is the combination of subconscious and conscious thought expressed through visual reference.” Patricia is a fine artist based in Westchester County. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited in New York’s Soho, France and numerous galleries in Westchester County. Patricia was trained in traditional oil painting […]

Samantha Richardson

I am a Yoga instructor, a wife, mother, nana, homemaker, provider, spiritual being, health and wellness adviser and a natural born healer. I am the owner of S&S Health and Wellness LLC / S&S Yoga After my son died at the tender age of 25, I turned to yoga to cope with the trauma and […]

Zafiro Romero-Acevedo

Mrs. Zafiro Romero-Acevedo was born in Morelos Cuernavaca, Mexico and has been living in South Yonkers for the past three decades. Acevedo graduated from the Art Institute of Philadelphia with a Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia Graphics. Within her career she has worked with companies such as: MTV Networks, and 4kids Entertainment in the Animation Department. […]

Alexandra Rutsch Brock

Alexandra (Alexi) Rutsch Brock is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in New York and Connecticut. Born in Westchester, NY, she received her BFA in Fine Art & Art Education K-12 from the School of Visual Arts, NY and her MS in Studio Art from the College of New Rochelle, NY. She has been […]

Susan Saas

Susan Saas is a milliner and freelance illustrator. She received her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and her millinery certificate from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her illustration work has appeared in a variety of publications from the New Yorker to the Irish Times. Unable to shake an obsession with […]

Ana Saura

Born in Guatemala, Central America. Studied at Liceo Moderno, San Carlos University, Guatemala City, Guatemala and acquired a Teachers Degree. In New York attended Albert Pels School of Art/Cooper Union and received a BA in fine & commercial art. Attended workshop courses for one year with Martine Vaugel, sculpted in clay and stone, New Rochelle, […]

Mya Seward

My name is Mya Seward, and I am a mixed media artist and oil painter. I earned my BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2022. My practice focuses on oil painting and mixed media, incorporating collage and photography to explore overlooked aspects of urban life. As both an artist and educator, I am […]

Sarah Shibah

Sarah Shibah is a Yonkers-based visual artist who loves bouncing between digital illustration, acrylic painting, and ceramics. Her work blends character-driven imagery, bold mark-making, and decorative details—whether she’s sketching on a tablet or carving into clay. Shibah earned her B.S. in Visual Arts from SUNY Purchase and her M.S.Ed. in Art Education from Lehman College. […]

Jen Silvester

Jen Silvester is a passionate and student-focused art teacher with over 30 years of experience fostering creativity, technical skills, artistic expression, and community building for children and adults in diverse learning settings. With a BA in Elementary Education from Colgate University (1997) and years of experience as the Head of Fine Arts at a residential […]

Vicky Youngman

Vicky Youngman has a Master of Professional Studies in Creative Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and worked as an Art Therapist and administrator in health care settings for 23 years. She taught art therapy for seven of those years at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and for a short time […]