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2010 Class Instructors
Carolyn Barnett, Kingston, ONT. After an education in Fashion Technique and design, Carolyn learned to operate a very basic domestic knitting machine to see if she could break her hand knitting bias. She discovered a new avenue of creation to her: domestic knitting machines have been around for over 400 years. Although she has spent many years focusing on custom garments and enjoyed participating in theatre costume and commercial work, her styles now are more technically refined (more sophisticated buttonholes, banding, collars etc.) and it takes longer to make one cardigan. Also, she devotes a day every couple of weeks to making the buttons for the newest pieces, both custom orders and new stock.
Wilson Bickford, Gouverneur, N.Y. Wilson has been an art instructor for the past decade, conducting on-going classes in oils, watercolors, and pen and ink. He has received teaching certification status through the following art material manufacturers: Alexander Art Corp, Grumbacher, Col Art American Martin/F Weber and Andreé Art. He is an award-winning artist who works in several mediums, preferring landscape, wildlife and still life subjects. His easy-going style has been used to teach hundreds of students throughout the North Country.
Pat Brown, Cape Vincent, N.Y. Pat is a North Country watercolor and mixed media collage artist, who currently teaches at the Arts Center, AANNY, and North Country Artist Guild and at local libraries and art centers. She has exhibited in many shows in New York State, bringing home a number of awards. She loves to experiment and try new processes, resulting in a great deal of interest in her collages.
Jan Byington, Clayton, NY. Jan has studied under artists such as Bob Browne, Henry Vyfinkel, Hans Junga and Alan Tuttle in watercolor and oil painting. she gives individual oil instruction and presentations on matting, painting on claybord and painting from photographs, as well as teaching After School Arts at the Arts Center.
Sandi Cirillo, Corning, N.Y. Sandi is a fiber artist and an elementrary/middle school art educator. Sandi also teaches workshops in Indian Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, Old Forge, N.Y., and at the Fletcher Farm School of Arts & Crafts in Ludlow, VT.
Donna Colvin, Clayton, N.Y. Donna is an art teacher in the 1000 Islands School District. She holds a Master’s degree from SUNY Potsdam. She specializes in creative children’s classes at the Arts Center.
Helen Condon, Parishville, N.Y. Helen has been braiding rugs for over 45 years. Her paternal grandmother taught her and she has, in turn, taught many students worldwide and in her Parishville and Southport N.C. studios. She has a MFA in creative writing from UNCW and while there she wrote a memoir entitled “The Big Rug†which deals with the death of her husband of 33 years and the braiding of a 15’ X 18’ rug.
Connie Cummings, Watertown, N.Y. &
Joan Kimmis, Chaumont, N.Y. Connie has been spinning since the late 1970’s. Joan has been spinning since the 1960’s. Both Connie & Joan have enjoyed spinning for many years and have taught at the Credo Foundation. Both Connie and Joan are part of the Wednesday Weavers who meet weekly at the Arts Center.
Nancy Dauray, West Palm Beach, FL. & Wellesley Island, N.Y. Nancy is a fiber artist who teaches fiber arts and designs and sells wearable art clothing. She is a recipient of the HGA (Handweavers Guild of America) award, has been published and has made TV guest appearances demonstrating her crafts. Nancy formerly owned a yarn shop and teaching facility in Florida.
Marg Grothier, Mallorytown, Ontario. Marg has been painting for more than 20 years. She teaches art at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Ontario, in addition to professional workshops and Elderhostel programs in both the U.S. and Canada. Marg works in her home studio on commissioned pieces, and exhibits her work in galleries, libraries, and restaurants.
Marcia Harris, Salem, NH. NY area native Marcia Harris spent her college years at Boston’s Butera School of Art. A leader in the commercial art field, her experience covers a broad spectrum; greeting card art, stichery design, director of arts and crafts at Boston Aid to the Blind and for a prestigious wall covering design center as Art Director for a wall covering brand. Marcia also studied the fine art of watercolor painting and has been teaching watercolor and drawing for many years in her home studio. She is very active teaching continuing education through several area high schools and holds membership in numerous art associations.
Kristina Hutch Matthews, Fairport, N.Y. Writer-Illustrator Kristina Hutch Matthews began her writing career as a journalist. After earning her Master’s Degree in Magazine Journalism from the S.U. Newhouse School of Public Communications, she served as editor of The Rochester Business Magazine. Three years later, she launched her own magazine, The Next Step, a career and guidance publication for teens in New York State. A love for kids and a longstanding admiration for animals (cats in particular) inspired her to write and illustrate her first picture book, My Cat Wears Kiwi-colored Glasses. Kristina will be the featured artist for this year’s Along the River’s Edge Art Show and Sale.
Mary Harding McCallion, Rensselear Falls, N.Y. is a bead artist. Mary has been making beaded jewelry since 1994. Her creations include neckpieces, cuff bracelets and strung handmade ceramic bead bracelets and necklaces. She has specialized in freeform peyote stitch cuff bracelets. These bracelets are made with an early Native American off loom bead stitch called the peyote or gourd stitch.
Amber Meyers, Watertown NY. Amber enjoys transforming wire and beads into delicate, lightweight jewelry for everyday and special occasions. She combines high quality materials and craftsmanship to create unique pieces that are comfortable to wear. Much of Amber’s jewelry begins as a spool of sterling silver or 14 kt. gold-filled wire, which she shapes and hammers by hand. She then adds beads and experiments with different textures, shapes and colors - often juxtaposing opaque, rough, natural stones with clear, shiny, smooth man-made beads. Amber is committed to sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with the local community through classes, workshops and craft shows. The thrill of creating and constructing jewelry, playing with color and form should be experienced by people of all ages.
Margot Miller, Rockport, Ontario. Margot has taught at Sheridan College, Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College and Sir Sandford Fleming College. For the past eighteen years she has run her own studio, designing products that are sold in Canada and the United States. Inspired by traveling extensively in India and Asia, she has documented traditional textile techniques of Asia. She is the recipient of a Design Canada award and has exhibited at The Art Gallery of Ontario, The National Film Board and The Ontario Crafts Council and the Arts Center’s “Along the River’s Edgeâ€Â, and the Fall Exhibit “Changesâ€Â.
Andrew Minnery, Northern New York. Andrew has been our Potter-in-Residence for the last two years, offering classes year round at our Pottery Studio. A graduate of SUNY Potsdam, Andrew also produces pottery and sculpture in his free time here at the Arts Center, pulling influences from the outdoors and surrounding areas.
Eliza Moore, Grindstone Island, NY. Eliza received her training at the Guildhall School For Music and Drama in London, England where she developed a passion for world music and collaborative composition. Gaining inspiration from fellow musicians and her environment, Eliza’s art thrives on travel and diversity. It enables her to constantly re-invent her already eclectic style. She currently resides in Montréal, where her creativity is stimulated by the open and multicultural society.
Kathleen Murphy, Syracuse, N.Y. Kathleen is a garden consultant and the proprietor of Olde Tyme Again, a nursery specializing in heirloom plants and gardens. The heirloom plants she raises are commercially available. Kathleen teaches gardening classes and hosts a weekly, informal gardening get-together.
Dancy Noble, DeKalb Junction, N.Y., Dancy is an artist who expresses on canvas her fondest memories of the North American landscape in its natural form. Her artistic medium is pastels which she uses in an innovative layering process.
Miranda Russell, Lansdowne, ONT. After receiving a degree in Print Making Miranda has gained over 20 years teaching experience from grades K-12 and has taught numerous summer camps at RISD Museum, Haverhill Summer Art Camp and Holderness Academy.
Gretta Jamieson Storrs, Fort Myers, F.L., Gretta has had a lifelong interest in arts and crafts, however in the last 10-15 years she has delved in whole heartedly. She specializes in gift bags with embellishments made with origami folds, beaded silverware, beaded book marks, jewelry, felting, plastic bag purses, collaged purses, boxes and bird houses as well as a collection of pen and ink gift cards.
Carrie Sweredoski, Watertown, N.Y. Carrie has 28 years of cold process soap making experience. She has been teaching soap making for 11 years. She is a featured artist at the Jefferson County Historical Society. Carrie was in a featured layout in the Watertown Daily Times and appeared on Channel 7 with her soap. Her soaps and products are sold in numerous shops throughout New York State, including the Arts Center Store. She is the soap maker and owner of Harmony All Natural Soaps & Oils.
Louise “Cookie†Witham, Clayton, N.Y. Cookie has advanced from taking classes at the Arts Center to teaching here. She started with Garden Sculpture and became fascinated by working with clay, rebar and copper wire. The results of her work grace many local homes and gardens as well as her own studio and the grounds surrounding her home. She is experienced in tile making, mosaics, hand building and throwing, glazing and firing – clay is obviously her medium.
Guy Zoller, VA. Guy is a retired Army Aviator who returned to his first love, sculpture, following a 21 year career in the military. He taught figurative sculpture at American University for six years and teaches periodically at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. In 2002 he took up ceramics, mainly due to the necessity to earn a living and fell in love with that as well. He currently teaches pottery and sculpture at the Reston Virginia Community Center at Lake Anne and tries to spend as much
time as possible in his studio in upstate New York summers. In 2005 Zoller started River Water Art Works LLC, a small business including exhibition and display design and installation, art photography, limited art restoration, and sculpture and ceramics production and instruction. At the moment Guy is devoting as much time to ceramics as sculpture, continues to teach two weekly sculpture classes in Reston, and is always looking for opportunities to acquaint new artists with 3-dimensional work. He has conducted portraiture workshops at the Mid-Atlantic Clay Conference.
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Thousand Islands Arts Center
- Home of the Handweaving Museum
314 John Street - Clayton, New York 13624
Phone: 315-686-4123 • Open Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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