School of Arts and Design - Arts and Design Faculty

Mechele Hesbrook, Dean,  School of Arts and Design and Professor of Fashion Design
M.S. in Visual Arts & Design, University of North Texas
School of Arts and Design

Mechele Hesbrook holds a degree in design with a minor in art. She is a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Mechele has taught at The University of North Texas and Adams State College in Colorado. She started teaching fashion design at SFCC in 1997, and in 2000 she created the Interior Design Department.

Mechele founded Mechele's baby, a clothing manufacturing company, and co-owns the American Indian Tea Company, located on the Santa Ana Pueblo. Her interests include home renovation and traveling. She shares these interests with students; design students enrolled in DESN 185-Field trip class have the opportunity to travel to the Denver and/or Dallas Apparel and Gift Marts and/or overseas to Europe.

André Ruesch, Chair of Arts and Professor of Photography
B.A. Napier College, Edinburgh, Scotland; M.A. and M.F.A., the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Photography Program

André Ruesch's work has been shown in various exhibitions in the UK, the US, Mexico and Singapore. Among the publications the work has appeared in are Art in America, Art Papers, Asian Art News, The British Journal of Photography, Shots and a recently published Museum of New Mexico Press book, Through the Lens. His images reside in private and public collections and he is represented by New Finds Gallery in Singapore and Canada. The work has been described as circumventing absolute viewpoints by setting contradictory narratives onto a collision course. To view his work, please visit www.andreruesch.com and to learn more about the Photography Program please visit www.sfcc.edu/school_of_arts_and_design/photography.

Michael Hoffer, Chair of Design and Assistant Professor of Fine Woodworking
B.A. University of Pittsburgh, PA; Certificate in Fine Woodworking, College of the Redwoods, CA
Fine Woodworking, Program Head for Sculpture, Ceramics

After receiving a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, Michael Hoffer became interested in learning woodworking after reading a book by renowned craftsman James Krenov. Michael's formal woodworking training began at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland CA, and continued with an intensive year studying with Krenov at the College of the Redwoods.

His work is in many private collections and in the New Mexico State Capitol Arts Collection. One of his chairs was included in an exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2008, entitled A Chair for All Reasons, and he has had images of his work published many times, most recently in 500 Cabinets by Lark Books in 2010.

He began at SFCC as a part time faculty member in 1992, and became a full time instructor in 1999. Michael teaches classes from introductory woodworking to classes in advanced techniques and design. Michael's work can be seen at www.michaelhofferwoodworkanddesign.com.

Clark Baughan, Gallery Director and Associate Professor of Gallery Management
B.F.A., East Carolina University, MFA, Arizona State University
Gallery Director, Gallery Management

For ten years Clark Baughan was a practicing artist in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he gained extensive experience in museum practices and installations. As a painter he has been in numerous exhibitions and received a residency from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico in 1993.

Clark has been with Santa Fe Community College since 2000 and teaches Gallery Practices. He also oversees the Associate in Applied Arts degree program in gallery management for SFCC.

Ezra Estes, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design
B.A., Eastern New Mexico University
Fashion Design

Ezra Estes has been self-employed as a bench tailor most of his career. He recently made the preliminary cut for season six of the Bravo Network TV series "Project Runway" (now owned by Lifetime Television).

In early 2009 Ezra spent time in Los Angeles, where one of his suits was featured in a People Magazine article and will appear in the May 5th issue. Ezra has done costuming for several films including "The Longest Yard" with Adam Sandler. He also did costume work for "Replay" clothing from Italy. Ezra joined the SFCC faculty in the fall of 2008.

Andrew James Kerr, Associate Professor of Architectural Design
B.S. University of Dundee, Scotland
Architectural Design

Andrew Kerr did his postgraduate studies in urban design at the Polytechnic of Central London. Andrew achieved his California architectural registration in 1986 as a result of diverse and extensive on-the-job training. Andrew has twenty-one years of professional experience in design and illustration and architectural management for major projects in London, New York/New Jersey and Southern California. He has been a full time community college educator in New Mexico for fifteen years and became an SFCC faculty member in 1999.

James Marshall, Associate Professor of Ceramics
M.F.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Art, Ceramics

James Marshall's initial experience with the arts began while living with a Native American tribe, the Quiche, in Guatemala where he apprenticed with potters during his two-year stint in the Peace Corps. He studied ceramics at Fredonia State University, in New York.

After teaching at the college level James went on to receive his Masters of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in sculpture and ceramics from the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. While at the University of Michigan he received a series of Rackham Block Grants and taught 3 Dimensional Design as a graduate assistant.

His teaching experience includes the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Grove City College, PA; University of Bloomsburg, PA; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; and the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. James began teaching at SFCC in 1999 and for the past 11 years has developed a successful ceramics program and curriculum. The ceramics program currently enjoys eleven revolving classes in clay, with 6 adjunct faculty all of whom are either professionals in the field as practicing and exhibiting artists or have received an MA or an MFA in ceramics. In addition to teaching in the ceramics program James has taught 3 Dimensional Design, Drawing 1, and Studio Practice at SFCC.

In addition to being a half-time Associate Professor at SFCC James continues to develop his professional career as an actively exhibiting artist. James' work is in over 200 public and private collections and museums both nationally and internationally. He is currently represented by Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM; Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ; William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO; William Campbell Contemporary, Ft. Worth, TX; Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK. James’ work can be seen at www.jamesmarshallart.com.

Charles (Bob) Mays,
Fine Woodworking

While looking for a hobby, Bob took a summer of 1995 course in Fine Woodworking at SFCC. Bob instead found a career change and a passion for self-expression through furniture making. Because he had never before taken a woodworking course, he spent the next three years studying the craft by taking every class available and working as a shop technician in the Fine Woodworking labs. Bob then joined a co-operative woodworking shop and opened his business, CR Mays Fine Woodworking, building commissioned furniture for clientele and producing speculation work for sale through galleries. While first employed as an adjunct instructor, Bob is now a full-time faculty member and Fine Woodworking program lead.

Laura Rosenfeld, Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
B.F.A. the College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California; MFA San Jose State University

Laura Rosenfeld is from Buffalo, New York. She was an offset printer with journeyman status for 18 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. She moved to Santa Fe from Kentucky, where she was an assistant professor of painting at Northern Kentucky University, responsible for the B.A. and B.F.A. programs in painting. Laura has received numerous awards and grants including the Al Smith Artist Fellowship grant from the Kentucky Arts Council and an Individual Artist grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in locals such as Havana, Cuba, Edinburgh, Scotland, San Francisco, California, and several locations in Kentucky, Ohio, Washington State, and New Mexico. To view her work please visit www.laurarosenfeld.com.

At Santa Fe Community College, Laura is Program Head for Drawing and Painting.

Jack R. Slentz, Associate Professor of Sculpture
M.A. University of Arkansas Little Rock; M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Sculpture and Ceramics

His teaching experience includes the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR. University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR. Minneapolis College of Arts & Design, Minneapolis, MN. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snow Mass, CO. Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. Jack has been head of Sculpture at Santa Fe community college and associate professor of Sculpture for the past nine years.

Jack has his work in over twenty five museum collections, a few of which are the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute; the Long Beach Museum of Art; the Mobile Museum of Art; and Yale University Art Gallery, and hundreds of private collections. His work is referenced in six books; the most recent is Conversations in wood, Wood Art Today, and Turning Wood into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection. He is currently showing at Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Signature Shop & Gallery, Atlanta, GA; rakova Brecker gallery, Dania Beach, FL; and The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA. Jack’s work can be seen at Jack has his work in over twenty five museum collections, a few of which are the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute; the Long Beach Museum of Art; the Mobile Museum of Art; and Yale University Art Gallery, and hundreds of private collections. His work is referenced in six books; the most recent is Conversations in wood, Wood Art Today, and Turning Wood into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection. He is currently showing at Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Signature Shop & Gallery, Atlanta, GA; rakova Brecker gallery, Dania Beach, FL; and The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA. Jack's work can be seen at www.jackslentz.com.

Diane Tintor, Associate Professor of Art History and Jewelry and Metal Arts
Art History/Jewelry

Diane Tintor, Associate Professor of Jewelry/Metal Arts and Art History, has a B.A. from SUNY at Buffalo, New York, an M.A. in Studio Art- Jewelry/Metal Arts from New Mexico State University and an M.A. in Art History also from New Mexico State University. Diane has been a practicing artist for many years and shown work internationally. She also currently teaches at The School of Architecture & Planning at UNM.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Benjamin Allison
M.A., Notre Dame University
Art Law

Jill Ansell
M.F.A., Vermont College
Drawing

Jill Ansell is a Taos painter and muralist whose work has been exhibited and published extensively. At SFCC she teaches classes ranging from two-dimensional design and drawing to courses in archetypal imagery in art. Chapters on her work may be found in the books Other Visions, Other Voices by Paul von Blum and Art That Dares by Kittredge Cherry. Recent exhibitions include the International Museum of Art in El Paso and New Mexico Women in the Arts at the Harwood Museum in Taos.

Alejandro Arauz
M.F.A. Louisiana State
Painting/Drawing

Diane Armitage
B.F.A. University of New Mexico; M.F.A. University of New Mexico
Art History

Diane Armitage has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico and has been studying Digital Media at the Santa Fe Community College for over a decade. She is an artist working in digital video; a freelance writer and editor for art publications; and an adjunct lecturer in Art History at Santa Fe Community College where she established the Art History program in 1999. In 2005, she established the Media Arts program at the Center for Contemporary Arts when she was the Director of Education at CCA. She has also taught for the University of New Mexico and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Her work in video and new media has been shown in New Mexico since 2000 and she was selected for the book 100 Artists of the Southwest published in 2006.

Bryony Bensly
B.F.A. Dartington College of Arts, U.K.; M.F.A. The New York Academy of Figurative Art
Drawing/Painting

John Boyce
B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Sculpture

John Boyce was a sculpture instructor at The Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, The University of Pennsylvania, and the Bucks County Community College. His sculpture has been shown at the Noyes Museum, the Montclair Museum, the Fleisher Memorial, the Harwood Art Center, Linda Durham Gallery, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.

John received the Herk Van Tongren memorial prize and the Fleisher Memorial challenge exhibition award. He is also a glider pilot and amateur astronomer who enjoys reading history.

Robyn Bradley
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles, CA
Fashion Design

In 1982 at the age of 25, Robyn apprenticed in Paris with couture fashion designer Thierry Mugler. For 35 years Robyn has worked in many aspects of the Fashion Industry. She was a commercial clothing designer, (1976-1986) living in NYC and traveling to India, Japan and Hong Kong, designing 3-4 clothing lines per year and overseeing sample production.

Robyn owns and operates a custom clothing company, established in 1990, here in Santa Fe. For her private clientele her company DREAM COUTURE www.dreamcouture.com creates one of a kind custom made couture garments. Robyn also continues to work in the film industry, in New Mexico, as a tailor/cutter/draper, creating other designer’s ideas and fitting couture garments on films and photography shoots.

Mark Buccheri
B.A. Northwestern University, M.P.S. New York University
Music

Mark Buccheri is a musician, artist, and teacher living in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City. He received a Bachelors of Arts in Music from Northwestern University and a Masters in Interactive Technology from New York University. He composes his own music, plays in an Elvis Costello Tribute rock and roll band, and plays the Indian tabla drum, with performances/exhibitions at Steinway Hall, Brooklyn Bowl, Bellhouse, Frying Pan NYC, Galapagos Art Space, Ventana Gallery, and Chelsea Art Museum.

Larry Buechley
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Fine Woodworking

Larry Buechley has been designing and building fine studio furniture since 1975, and has shown his work in galleries in Santa Fe and across the country. Images of his work have been published extensively in books, magazines, and online, including: 500 Chairs, Lark Books, 2008; Woodworker's Guide to Bending Wood by Jonathan Benson, 2008; The Annual Journal of the Furniture Society, 2005; Today's Woodworker: Sculpture Under Glass, Woodworker's Journal eZine, 2005; and most recently, the cover of Woodwork magazine, winter, 2011 edition.

He began teaching at SFCC in 1996, and he specializes in teaching bent laminating and router joinery, techniques that support the sculptural aspects of furniture making. His work can be seen at www.buechleywoodworking.com.

Joanne Burns
M.B.A. Michigan State University
Interior Design

Joanne Burns holds an Associate Kitchen and Bath Designer (AKBD) certification from the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA). She is also a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). She joined SFCC faulty in 2010 teaching courses in kitchen and bath design.

Joanne founded her own interior design firm, Joanne Burns Interiors. She specializes in kitchen and bath design. Her love of cooking influences her kitchen designs by infusing functionality into an ecstatically beautiful space. Her interests include applying sustainable design and aging in place principles to design, build and renovation of interiors.

Stefany Burrowes
B.A. University of New Mexico
Drama

Stefany G. Burrowes has training in body-based psychotherapy, personal growth and coaching. She has studied with a variety of acting schools and has performed with many of the theaters in Santa Fe. Stefany has been acting for over 30 years including stage, film and voice-over work. In addition to this extensive experience, she brings infectious enthusiasm, skill and passion to her teaching.

Stefany publishes The Theater Salon, a web-site and e-newsletter supporting the creative performance community in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. She is also a professional and personal coach.

Victoria Carlson
B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Drawing/Painting

Victoria was a scenic artist and active member of the Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists Local 800 in California. Her paintings are in many private collections and in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts New Mexico, The H.M. deYoung Museum in San Francisco, The Taos Museum and The Arkansas Drawing Center. She is represented by Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London and New York, and Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe.

Marilyn Carter
B.A. French/English, CSU Northridge; UCLA
Ryan Designated Credential: Adult Education
Private Postsecondary Teaching Credential: Dance

• Professional dancer, choreographer, teacher
• Specialist in modern dramatic dance
• Skilled in modern, jazz, ballet, folk and ethnic dance forms

Marilyn Carter received her professional dance training in Los Angeles, CA with the Valentina Oumansky Dramatic Dance Ensemble. As soloist, lead dancer with the Ensemble, she toured nationally and internationally, including a teaching residency at Tanschule Alisch in Aschaffenburg, Germany. Marilyn has performed in full length concerts and residencies in universities throughout the west coast, and at the University of Hawaii, Carmel Music Society, Hollywood Bowl and Ojai Music Festival.

She was a California Arts Commission Movement Specialist for schools in LA, and worked for Burbank and Conejo Parks and Recreations teaching preschool through seniors. She has taught and performed extensively for the Los Angeles Unified School District with a two-week per school residency, Inside Dance and Music; Performing Tree, and Intergroup Cultural Awareness Program. As associate director of the Dramatic Dance Ensemble, Marilyn produced and performed in several instructional/entertainment TV series. She has taught dance at SFCC since 2008.

Jon Carver
Studio Arts and Art History; Art on Campus Coordinator
MFA, Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy & Philadelphia, Penn.;
BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Before joining SFCC in 1996, painter Jon Carver taught at Warehouse 21, Desert Academy, the Center for Contemporary Art, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. In his own work, Jon employs a traditional oil glazing technique that creates a saturation and luminosity of color in timeless, vibrant compositions reminiscent of Byzantine art, Balthus and Modigliani. It is heavily influenced by art history and a belief in the importance of the figurative element through 30,000 years of human expression.

Jon is the author of the fourth title in the innovative New Mexico Artist Series, 3-D art/techné, which spotlights the extraordinary art and artistic life in New Mexico. www.joncarver.com.

Julia Catron
B.F.A. University of New Mexico; M.F.A. University of Maryland

Maxine Chelini
College of Marin, San Francisco State University, California College of Arts & Crafts
Photography

Maxine Chelini is an artist, professional and educator. Originally studying pre-med at San Francisco State University, she found herself sidetracked by the allure of “making things”. She attended California College of Arts & Crafts and UC Berkeley studying ceramics. Between raising a family and owning a business, she established herself as an outstanding ceramic artist, participating in show throughout California, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. Her recent interests brought her to digital photography and media arts, where she has studied with some of the masters in their field. Ms Chelini currently specialized in digital photography and bronze sculpture. Her recent works in photography and bronze sculpture have shown in solo and group shows here in Santa Fe.

Gary Cook
B.A. North Texas University
Photography

Gary Cook started teaching at SFCC in 2004 after a 40 year career as a graphic designer, photographer, art director and creative director for major design studios and advertising agencies in Texas and California. His clients have included Adobe Systems, ABC News, Shell Oil, NEC Electronics, United Artists, General Electric and All One People. He is the recipient of over 30 national and regional design and art direction awards including 'Best in the West' gold and silver, and a 'Clio' for trademark and package design.

His work has appeared in several publications including Elle Magazine and Communication Arts Magazine (CA). His photography has been exhibited in Santa Barbara, California and is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Ivan Dimitrov
Fine Woodworking

Woodcarver Ivan Dimitrov has more than 35 years of woodworking experience in wood-carved architectural elements and ornamentation, interior decoration, and furniture. Clients include La Fonda Hotel, First Presbyterian Church, Spanish Pueblo Doors, Southwest Spanish Craftsmen, and the City of Santa Fe Public Arts Commission. His work can be seen in public and private collections around the world. www.santafewoodcarving.com

Craig Donalson
M.F.A. University of New Mexico
Ceramics

Mary K. Eagan
A.A.Bradford College, M.A.; B.A. University of Puget Sound
Arts & Design Internship Program

Eric Gardũno
BFA University of New Mexico, MFA Yale University
Painting/Drawing

Eric Garduño began showing with Linda Durham Contemporary Art while still an undergraduate at UNM. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since completing his MFA at Yale University in 2006. His work employs diverse materials and techniques to explore such topics as history, color, and context. In 2011 his collaborative project People v. Bruce (Parrhesia) will be included in the Agitated Histories exhibition at SITE Santa Fe.

David Gaussoin
B.B.A., University of New Mexico
Jewelry

David Gaussoin was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico of Picuris Pueblo, Navajo, and French decent. David stems from a long line of artists on his mother's side with various silversmiths, painters, rug weavers, sculptors, and wood workers. He received his BBA in Business Marketing from the Anderson School of Business at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.

David actively participates in various juried art shows throughout the country, including the Santa Fe Indian Market. His jewelry is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (New York City), the Heard Museum (Phoenix), The San Diego Museum of Man, and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Santa Fe) as well as many private collections throughout the world.

David works with gold, sterling silver, and various precious and semiprecious stones, as well as incorporating materials not necessarily associated with Native American jewelry, such as steel and aluminum. He strives for perfection and pushes his designs to new unexplored realms of jewelry.

Cristina González
B.A. Yale University; MFA University of Washington
Painting

Among the grants she has received are fellowships from Skowhegan, Yale, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program. Solo exhibitions include the Roswell Museum and Art Center and Klaudia Marr Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Group exhibitions include the Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, Bowery Gallery, NYC, and the Museo de la Preparatoria Nacional, Mexico City, among many others. González' work resides in three public collections in New Mexico, besides numerous private collections throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Europe.

"My work is figurative and highly personal, concerning itself with questions of conventions of form in relation to specific cultural contexts. That is, the work strives to integrate traditional representation from the Western European painting tradition - with the flat, decorative spatial patterning of folkloric traditions. My ambition is to create works of compelling beauty, insight, and rigor."

James Gould
B.S., State University of New York
Fine Woodworking

Smitten with creating artwork and making things from an early age, James disregarded advice to the contrary and studied art through High School and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Art from SUNY Brockport. He then took a spontaneous detour and created a popular secondhand bookstore in Rochester, NY before selling the store and being lured to New Mexico 11 years later.

James perfected his skills as a woodworker in Santa Fe through on-the-job training and experience making custom furniture, architectural features and carving decorative picture frames. His original work often combines painted surfaces with fine woodwork and has been recognized with various awards. He has taught in the Fine Woodworking Department since 2002. Recently, his focus as an instructor has been the Introduction to Woodcarving class.

Brian Grossnickle
B.A. Depauw University
Micaceous Pottery

Brian started studying pottery at DePauw Univerisy in 1996. In 2000 he moved to New Mexico where he started a two year apprenticeship with Master Potter Felipe Ortega. During this apprenticeship he learned about the micaceous pottery tradition of the Jicarilla Apaches. Starting in 2002 he has been operating his own pottery studio which focuses upon clay cookware made with locally harvested micaceous clays. Brian's work has been in numerous shows across the US and is located in many private collections around the world. www.micaceouscookware.com.

Gregory Harris
Silversmithing

Karina Noel Hean
M.F.A. New Mexico State University; BA St. Johns College
Drawing and painting

Karina Noel Hean is a drawing artist and educator based in Santa Fe, NM who teaches at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe Community College and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She has served on the faculty at the University of Montana, Fort Lewis College and New Mexico State University. She holds a BA from St. Johns College and an MFA from New Mexico State University. With an interest in arts administration she is the Associate Sales Director at Selby Fleetwood Gallery and has worked with SITE Santa Fe and Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. Her artwork is grounded in drawing and exploring both formal and conceptual responses to landscape.

Living in the west and southwest provides an open location where the distinction between research and recreation is nonexistent; where lifestyle and inspiration harmonize. Experiencing new landscapes inspires developments in the work, which encourages her to walk, run, and hike her surroundings. She was granted an American Artist Fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland and has been awarded several artist in residence opportunities in the US; these generous opportunities afford valuable time to gather from new ecologies. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at numerous galleries, art centers, and universities throughout the US and is featured at Zane Bennett Contemporary in Santa Fe and Zia Gallery in Winetka, IL and also included in the Drawing Center's Viewing Program. Karina Hean was born and raised in Mayo, MD on the Chesapeake Bay.

Shelly Horton-Trippe
M.F.A. University of Oklahoma
Drawing and painting

Shelly Horton-Trippe studied ceramics with Don Reitz and Peter Volkus at the University of Montana and postgraduate video with Nam June Paik at the Centre Cultural American in Paris. She has taught painting and drawing for 25 years while maintaining an active exhibition schedule nationally and internationally. Shelly has shown her work at the Salon D’Autonne in Paris, The Venice Biennale and the Edinburgh Festival.

Shelly has also received numerous grants and artists' residencies, including four National Endowment for the Arts grants and residencies in Malta, France and at the John Ruskin Museum, Brantwood in Northern England.

Noel Hudson
B.A. Scripps College, Claremont California; MA Claremont Graduate University California
Painting

Noel Hudson was born in San Francisco. She has been a professional artist and art educator in California, Japan and New Mexico. Her work resides in more than 150 private and public collections, including The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, and The Capitol Art collection in Santa Fe.

Noel began teaching at SFCC in 1992. Her paintings are featured in Landscapes of New Mexico, a fine-art book published in the spring of 2006.

Alexandra Huddleston
B.A. Stanford University; MS Columbia University
B&W Photography

Elizabeth Hunt
B.F.A. Michigan State University; MFA University of New Mexico
Ceramics

Wayne Wesley Johnson
B.S. Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham Park, NJ
Business Management / Music
Professional Guitarist/Drummer, Recording Artist/Producer/Composer, Entrepreneur, Guitar Designer

Internationally recognized, this award winning guitarist performs on acoustic, electric, nylon & steel string guitars and guitar synthesizer in a variety of musical styles and genres. A pioneer of the 'New Sound of Santa Fe' tm and 'Jazzamenco' tm., the artist performs in thumbpicking, fingerstyle, and flatpicking styles...playing jazz, world, new age, latin & rumba flamenca and with classical techniques. In addition to his concert touring, jazz festivals and cruises, corporate and private performances, Wayne has also become known by many as Santa Fe, New Mexico's Premier Wedding Guitarist, in high demand for both ceremonies and receptions, alike.

This charismatic performer has shared the stage with some of the world's finest guitarists, too... Formerly a drummer and touring companion with legendary guitarist's Les Paul, and Nokie Edwards (The Ventures), Wayne has also shared the stage with Mason Williams, George Benson, Bucky Pizzarelli, BB King, Scotty Moore, Howard Roberts, Larry Carlton, Chet Atkins, Thom Bresh (Son of the legendary guitarist Merle Travis), Tom Doyle, Ruben Romero, Tommy Emmanuel, Seymour Duncan, Stephen Bennett, Stephen King, Richard Smith, Anthony Smith, Tim Farrell, Edgar Cruz, Lou Pallo (The Les Paul Trio), Jon Paris, and more.

Wayne is a regular annual performer at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society (CAAS), Nokie Festival, Association of Fingerstyle Guitarists (AFG) and the Guitars for life (GFL) benefit concerts and has performed either as a soloist or with others in South America, Europe, Scandinavia, Israel & China. www.gigmasters.com/jazz/waynewesleyjohnson

Doug Jones
M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
Fine Woodworking

Doug Jones joined the Fine Woodworking faculty at Santa Fe Community College in 2006. Prior to his arrival in New Mexico, he was the program head of the woodworking department at the Shelburne Art Center near Burlington, Vermont. Since 1992, he has operated a furniture studio under the name Random Orbit, often collaborating with his wife Kim. They build furniture and objects using both traditional materials such as wood and veneer, as well as a mix of recycled and sustainable materials to convey their sense of playful elegance. In 2004, they won an Award of Achievement at the San Francisco American Craft Council Show.

Their work is included in the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, as well as several private collections. Images of their pieces have appeared in American Craft, Fine Woodworking, several Lark Books, The Journal of the Furniture Society, Wood Art Today 2, and numerous other print and online media. Doug's work can be seen at www.randomorbitstudio.com.

Mark Kane
B.A. Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Photography

Mark Kane began his career in New York and has worked primarily in editorial and illustration photography for newspapers, magazines and book publishers. He was a regular contributor to the New York Times for 12 years and has been published extensively in numerous publications. His photographs have also been exhibited in many museum and gallery shows including Nikon House in NYC, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Millicent Rogers Museum. Mark is also a working painter and his paintings have been exhibited and represented in Santa Fe and New York.

Ellen Koment
B.F.A. Cooper Union Art School NYC; M.A. University of California Berkeley
Drawing

Ellen Koment has been teaching and showing her work actively for over twenty years: first in northern California, and for the last ten years at the University of New Mexico and at SFCC. She has been working primarily in a process of painting with molten wax called Wax Encaustic for about eight years, and previously worked with oil, acrylic and watercolor.

Ellen currently conducts private workshops in Wax Encaustic. Her work can be seen in Santa Fe at Waxlander Gallery, at their website, www.waxlander.com, or her website: www.airstudio-nm.net.

Kathryn Larlee
B.A. University of Southern Maine; MFA University of Texas at Austin
Theatre

Kathryn Larlee received a B.A. in Theatre and the Honors Program at the University of Southern Maine, Portland/Gorham, ME in 1990. At USM she received the Richard Peterit Award for Outstanding Work in Theatre and obtained first place standing at the New England Regional Forensics Competition for Original Poetry and Impromptu Speaking. Kathryn was awarded a James A. Michener Fellowship and received an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas, Austin Texas in 1993. She earned a certificate in International Reader’s Theatre, Toronto, CA, Chicago, IL, 2010

Kathryn started at SFCC in 2003 teaching Introduction to Drama, and is currently working on developing an on-line version of that class. Kathryn has done workshops with Maria Irene Fornes and Sharon Olds at UT Campus, Texas, and currently teaches Pilates, works as a post rehab specialist, and teaches at SFCC.

Donald Lanzer
GIA Geological Institute of America
Jewelry

Geoffrey Laurence
LCAD Byam Shaw School of Art, London: BA St. Martins, London: MFA Cum Laude, New York Academy of Art

Geoffrey Laurence has been drawing and painting the figure for more than 45 years. Pathos and eros dominate his expressive interpretation of the human condition. He works in charcoal, pastel and oil paint with glazes, using color to highlight his structural forms.

He trained in painting, graphic design, photography and printmaking in London from 1965 to 1972 and received his L.C.A.D and B.A. in painting there. He spent the next 20 years concentrating on drawing and painting, working exclusively from life and specifically with the figure, whilst also working freelance in the allied arts fields of illustration, fashion and interior design.

He attended the New York Academy in 1993, receiving his M.F.A. Cum Laude and relocated from New York City to Santa Fe in 1996. Since then he has continued his work with the figure in drawings and paintings and also his ongoing ‘Holocaust Series’ and teaches painting, drawing and anatomy in New York, New Mexico, Florida and Washington State.

His work is currently represented by 101Exhibit gallery in Miami, John Pence gallery in San Francisco and Pacini Lubel gallery in Seattle. His work can be seen in public collections in both the USA and UK. www.GeoffreyLaurence.com

Rebekah Levy
Voice, Piano, Music Appreciation

BA University of California, Santa Cruz (Aesthetic Studies/Music Performance), 1977; B.Mus. San Francisco Conservatory (Voice, minor in Conducting), 1983. 1st and 2nd Year Certificates, Dalcroze Eurythmics; Piano since 1959; Piano instruction since 1970; Voice since 1977; Conducting since 1982; Vocal coaching since 1983; Classroom music since 1985. Aesthetic Philosophy with Albert Hofstadter; Philosophy of Information with Gregory Bateson; Harpsichord, Baroque Theory and Practice with Laurette Goldberg; Dolphin Behavior and Cetacean Bioacoustics with Kenneth Norris (as Program Assistant).

Paul A. Lewis
B.F.A. University of Kansas
Sculpture

Paul A. Lewis was born and raised in Kansas. As a high school student, Paul had two experiences that would shape his career. One was taking classes from highly talented art teachers; the other was participating in an outstanding theater program. He worked summers in a bronze-casting foundry and in 1974 received his B.F.A. in theater design, with a minor in design. Shortly afterwards, Paul moved to Santa Fe, NM, where he designed sets, lights, props and costumes for local theatrical productions. He served as lighting designer and technician for a ballet company and was later employed as technical director at the Armory for the Arts.

In 1985, Paul established Paul A. Lewis Designs, a “one-man foundry.” He shows his bronzes at galleries nationwide. Today he continues sculpting in bronze and steel, as well as pursuing photography and other arts in Santa Fe. He also teaches Mold-making for Sculptures at Santa Fe Community Collage. Paul is married and has one son.

Joe Long
Photography

Joe teaches Photography and Studio Lighting I and II, also Advertising and Editorial Photography at SFCC. A graduate of the Fred Archer School in Los Angeles, Joe studied with Alexy Brodovitch at the New School in New York early in his career.

For thirty plus years Joe worked as a professional photographic illustrator. Corporate clients came to his New York studio from across the country. Commissioned by editors and art directors, his work was published as advertising and editorial content of newspapers, magazines, annual reports, and books. Designers incorporated his images into their package designs and posters.

Joe's documentary work of Post WWII Los Angeles has in the past been represented by the Oswald Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and LewAllen Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Examples of the Los Angeles work are held in the permanent collection of the Harry Ransom Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin.

Emilee McVey
B.A. University of Utah; MFA Brigham Young University
Costume Design

Emilee has worked with and/or designed costumes for the Utah Shakespearean Festival; the Tuachan Center for the Performing Arts; The Little Theatre On the Square; the Actors Theatre of Phoenix; Southwest Shakespeare and the Santa Fe Opera. She joined the faculty of SFCC in 2008.

Al Mirman
BS ChE (Chemical Engineering) City College New York- CUNY - 1965
MS ChE (Chemical Engineering ) New York University – 1969
Fine Woodworking

Al worked in the food industry as a Process Engineer for 36 years. He has worked for General Foods, Thomas J. Lipton, DCA Food Industries, Continental Baking Co and Ralston Purina. Al holds 5 patents and earned the title of Director of Energy and Director of Processing Engineering. A large number of new food products under his Directorship successfully reached the Marketplace and continue to be sold on a National Scale.

After retirement from Corporate America, Al has been teaching Sculpting and Woodturning on the lathe at Santa Fe Community College for the past 11 years.

Christoph Neander
Fine Woodworking

Christoph Neander has been an adjunct faculty member at SFCC since 2001. In addition to teaching he is also designing and building high-end, contemporary custom made furniture as a business in his studio in Santa Fe. Born and raised in Germany, he received his formal training there in the traditional apprenticeship format as a fine woodworker.

Since 1986 he has lived and worked in the U.S. and seeks to combine his more traditional background of meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail with a more contemporary design aesthetic. The majority of his work is commissioned for private collections, but can also be seen in art galleries. Locally he is represented by La Mesa Gallery on Canyon Road.

Christoph Neander's work has been published in American Craft Magazine, Fine Woodworking Design Book 7, and 500 Cabinets. Please visit his website at: www.christophdesign.com

Deborah Newberg
B.A. Oberlin College
Dance

Deborah Newberg has been performing dance for over 20 years, as a soloist, and with numerous dance companies. She is the founder and director of Saltanah Studios, a center for teaching Middle Eastern Dance since 2005. Her current dance company, the Saltanah Dancers, has presented hundreds of performances in NM, at venues ranging from the Santa Fe Bandstand to the South Broadway Cultural Center, from Cleopatra's Café to the Taos Inn. Her advanced student troupe, the Habibis, also performs regularly with the Saltanah Dancers.

Deborah's work as a dancer, teacher and choreographer has been enriched by extensive study and performance of a variety of dance styles, including Oriental Dance (aka Belly Dance), Central Asian Dance (Uzbek and Persian), Folkloric dances of the Middle East (Egypt, Turkey and North Africa) and Flamenco. She had the opportunity to travel to Egypt in 2009 to study with great Egyptian dancers and dance on the stages of Cairo. She currently teaches classes and workshops at Saltanah Studios, and at Santa Fe Community College. More information is available at her website: www.saltanahstudios.com.

Cheryl Odom
B.F.A. Acting, MFA Costume Design, University of California Los Angeles
Fashion Design

Cheryl was the faculty costume designer at the College of Santa Fe for 29 years. In addition to teaching at the College of Santa Fe, she has also taught at Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Cal Arts and Loyola-Marymount University. Her professional design credits include the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, PCPA Theaterfest in Santa Maria, California (numerous productions), Shakespeare in Santa Fe in Santa Fe (four seasons) and the Santa Fe Opera. Before relocating to Santa Fe, Cheryl was also member of Local 705 (costumers union) and worked extensively in the film industry.

Jeff Overlie
Glass Sculpture, Stone Sculpture
www.jeffoverlie.com

Francie Parker
B.A. Lewis & Clark College; MFA, SUNY, NY
Ceramics

Patricia Pearce
B.F.A. University of Cincinnati School of Design Art and Architecture
Printmaking/Book Arts

Patricia is a local mixed media artist using printmaking as her vehicle. Her work is shown nationally. Patricia has been teaching at SFCC for 17 years. She presently teaches all of the credit printmaking classes and a class in creative expression. Patricia is currently the Lead Instructor for Printmaking and Book Arts.

Willy Richardson
MFA Pratt Institute
Painting and Drawing

Willy Richardson exhibits his paintings internationally. In 2011 his work was included in an exhibition at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York titled, "70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts." The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock.

Sialia Rieke
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
Book Arts

Sergio Rodriguez
B.A. Florida State University; MFA University of California Los Angeles
Piano and Music Theory

Sergio was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida. He obtained degrees in piano performance from Florida State University and UCLA, with additional studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Aspen Music School in Colorado. He has performed solo piano and chamber music concerts and has been orchestra pianist with symphonies and orchestras in New Mexico and internationally.

In 1997 Sergio was guest recitalist-lecturer at the New Mexico State Convention of the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico, performing the piano music of Cuba.

Joyce Roetter
B.F.A. University of Hartford Art School; MFA the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
Photography

Joyce Roetter has studied in England, Spain, and Peru. Joyce co-owned a fine arts gallery in Venice Beach California, managed professional photography labs, and has a background in forensics. She started the Color Photo program at SFCC and teaches Botanical Photo, Black & White, and Studio Arts.

Joyce received a Pollack/Kransner grant and has been published in books and journals. Recent work has focused on documenting South/Central American shamanic ceremonies and images from her one-year residence in Australia.

Diane Rolnick
B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design; M.A. Rhode Island School of Design
Drawing/Painting

Diane Rolnick also attended Drexel University, Cornell University and Boston University. During her undergraduate RISD years she spent two years living and painting in Italy. Rolnick has shown her paintings and mixed media works extensively in the United States and her works are in various private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Since moving to New Mexico 13 years ago, Rolnick has shown at The Wiford Gallery, The College of Santa Fe, the Governor's Gallery and The New Concept Gallery. In 2003 she painted a 40-foot mural of dancers at the Atlas Gym in Espanola.

Maureen Scott
B.A. West Virginia University; B.A. Armstrong Atlantic State College
Fine Woodworking

Maureen graduated from West Virginia University with a BA in German. After serving in the US Army, in Germany, she returned to college for another BA, in Fine Art, from Armstrong Atlantic State College, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Maureen practiced art principally in various painting media before discovering woodworking in 1998. She went back to school once more, at Santa Fe Community College to study Fine Woodworking in 2002, and has been a member of the faculty since 2005. When Maureen is not teaching the Introduction to Wood Finishing Class, she can be found singing in several community choruses in the Santa Fe area.

Merry Scully
B.A. Loyola Marymount University; M.F.A. University of New Mexico
History of Photography

Currently a curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Merry Scully she has curated exhibitions of contemporary art, photography and design in locations across the country including the New Mexico Museum of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, and the Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previously she was the Associate Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, and later the Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Merry has worked as a director in various organization and commercial galleries, including the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Richard Levy Gallery, and Graham Gallery/Raw Space. Prior to graduate school, Merry was the assistant to the artistic director and gallery coordinator for Social and Public Art Resource in Venice, California and an intern in the Media and Performing Arts Department at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Yvonne "Charo" Shaffer-Pérez
B.S., University Studies, University of New Mexico, summa cum laude
Flamenco

Charo studied ballet, modern, jazz and Spanish dance since she was five years old. From the age of 13 to 20, she received a full scholarship at the Ballets de San Juan (Puerto Rico), appearing in the corps de ballet with Natalia Makarova & Rudolf Nureyev; Cynthia Gregory & Evan Nagy; Eleonor D’Antuono & Jacques D’Amboise; Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ted Kivitt, Miguel Campanería, Fernando Bujones and others.

Since 1991, Charo has studied flamenco at UNM under Eva Enciñias, Paco Gilpin and Pablo Rodarte and later with Julia Chacón, Juan Siddi, Mina Fajardo and María Benitez among others in the US, Puerto Rico and Spain. More recently, Charo appreared locally with Moving People Dance in "Louder than Words" and "Swingin' Suites" for eight consecutive seasons. She has also danced flamenco and Spanish dance with Pablo Rodarte, Julia Chacón, María Benitez and Juan Siddi. Lately, Charo has choreographed and danced at the James A. Little Theater, Highlands University and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM. She has taught at the Institute of Spanish Arts under María Benitez and teaches flamenco and Spanish dance at SFCC since 2009. She has danced professionally in Puerto Rico, Mexico and throughout the US on tablao, stage, film and TV.

Judith Shotwell
M.ED. Georgia State University
Alexander Technique for Performance

Danielle Silver
B.A. University of Utah
Dance

Edgar Sorrells-Adewale
M.F.A. Penn State University
Drawing/Painting

Mark Spencer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawing/Painting

Douglas J. (Jack) Sprague
M.S. Florida State University, Tallahassee FL
2-D, 3D, Graphic Design and Design Education

In 2010 after 21 years as professor and program coordinator in Communication Design at the University of North Texas, Jack Sprague was promoted to Professor Emeritus allowing him to explore new creative and educational opportunities nationally and internationally in the fine arts and design education. As the Founder and Educational Director of "The Smart Center Santa Fe" New Mexico, a creative think-tank for practicing and developing business leaders, technologists, artists and educators in all the arts, he is working to build bridges between UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design and other universities, community colleges, institutions and corporations.

He has a 30-year history bridging the theoretical methods of conceptual thinking and the creative process with practical business application. As a practicing art director/designer/photographer/editor he has worked in many aspects of the design/advertising industry from branding, naming and design to advertising art direction for real estate, fashion, automotive, fine arts and manufacturing. As an educator, Professor Sprague has earned national and international awards for his design and teaching and recently received the Golden Orchard Award, a national lifetime achievement award for superior design education. His work has been published in Graphis Best of Design, Communication Arts, Print and Archive Magazines.

Kevin Sullivan
Alternative Photo Process

Richard Sullivan
B.A. California State University Northridge, 1969
History; Minor: Religious Studies
Alternative Photo Process

Richard Sullivan was awarded a Fellowship in the Royal Photographic Society in 2000. In 2003 he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship for his work in historic photographic processes. He founded Bostick & Sullivan in 1980, now located in Santa Fe, the leading supplier of products and information historic photographic processes.

Though he does not consider himself an exhibiting artist, he does occasionally exhibit his work. In 2010 he had a one person show at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Jalapa Mexico. Other group shows include The Photography Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, and work that toured major museums and galleries in Europe. Sullivan’s photographs are in various collections and museums including portfolios in The Fine Art Museum of New Mexico, the Collection of The Royal Photographic Society in Bradford England, and the Marion Center in Santa Fe.

He has lectured and taught on various topics of photographic history, most recently in 2010 as a guest lecturer at the symposium: Encuentro Procesos Alternativos, in Jalapa Mexico and as a guest artist in 2009 at Alfred University, Alfred New York, and in 2002 at the Alternative Photographic International Symposium at Media Museum in Bradford England. He has taught workshops locally, around the U.S., and in Bradford England, London, Florence Italy, Mexico City and Puebla Mexico.

Jeremy Thomas
College of Santa Fe, BFA Studio Art
Forging/Sculpture

Jeremy Thomas was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio and spent his formative years in Texas, Illinois, and Oklahoma. He worked as a Master printmaker, beginning to edition intaglio etchings while still in high school. After graduating from the College of Santa Fe, he returned to Oklahoma to work as a Master printmaker. During his experience at college he was introduced to the processes of blacksmithing and began to explore forging steel.

In the late 1990's Jeremy returned to Santa Fe and began working as an artist/blacksmith. His sculpture is included in collections such as the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Wiesman Foundation. www.jeremythomasstudio.com

Barbara Tyner
B.A. University of California Los Angeles; MA University of New Mexico
Art History

Laurie Tumer
B.A. University of Arizona; M.F.A., Vermont College
Photography

Laurie Tumer has been teaching in the photography department at Santa Fe Community College since 1997. She currently teaches the department's first online course Camera Use and the Art of Seeing and the first online art history course The History of Graffiti: From Glyph to Graff. She also teaches writing at Northern New Mexico College. Laurie Tümer's photography is represented by Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe.

Felix Voltsinger
M.A. Art Conservation and Restoration, St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, Russia
Drawing/Painting

Erika Wanenmacher
Sculpture
Feminist Studio Workshop, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, California
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

Erika Wanenmacher explores the conflicts between nature and culture through assemblage and found object art. A large body of her work is taken from New Mexico’s atomic history, such as The Boys Room, exhibited at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been exhibited since 1985 in Santa Fe galleries and museums, including the Center for Contemporary Art, SITE Santa Fe and Linda Durham Gallery.

Collections that carry her work include the Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Fisher Landau Center and Albright-Knox Museum of Art. Erika received the 2003 Purchase Award from New Mexico Arts and she worked for five years in the Artist-in-Residence Program, with the New Mexico Arts Division. www.erikawanenmacher.com

Wendy Young
B.F.A. College of Santa Fe
Digital Photography

Priscilla Zimmermann
Music Program Head
PhD, Music Education and Resiliency Education, Union Institute & University, Cincinnati Ohio;
MA, Music (Choral Literature and Conducting), University of Iowa
BM, Music Education, University of Iowa

Priscilla Zimmerman directs SFCC’s chorus and chamber singers, teaches group voice classes and coordinates the college’s music program. She has more than 40 years' experience teaching voice and music, starting as an assistant professor in vocal and general music at the University Laboratory School at DeKalb University. She began teaching music in public schools in Los Alamos, and has taught music education in the Santa Fe schools for more than 25 years.

Zimmerman has more than 30 years’ experience as a choral conductor, having conducted the choirs at St. Bede’s Episcopal, First Presbyterian, and St. John’s United Methodist churches and the Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble.

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