• Teaches pastels, torn paper assemblage and mixed media.

    Leslie taught at Torrington Middle School, Irving A Robbins Middle School, Farmington High School and most recently, she has taught adults at Five Points Art Center.

    Experiential learning through various media and concepts has remained Leslie’s approach to teaching. Creating requires planning, experimentation, flexibility, revision and reflection.

    Leslie was recognized CT Middle Level Art Educator of the Year and CT Art Educator of the year, honors that are profoundly meaningful, in that they recognize her commitment to art education and her students.

    Leslie’s work is deeply bound in landscape and expressed through drawings, paintings and torn paper constructions. Landscape is subtle,nuanced and continually captivates, alludes and inspires. Light’s affect upon natural form is ever-changing and compounded by atmospheric change, which is a powerful metaphor for experiences and resulting challenges, that enrich, teach and bring a new perspective.

  • Teaches wood carving, wood sculpture, batik and Mindful Creativity.

    Born in Uruguay, with a background in architecture and design Pietro used those skills, for 25 years, as an independent artist building custom furniture and functional art. For the last 4 years, while still making furniture, Pietro has moved away from interiors and closer to his passion of creating sculpture. He finds carving to be a meditative art, and can be seen in many of his pieces. His work combines the natural beauty of the wood in combination with other materials.

  • Teaches Clay monoprint, mixed media collage, abstract design and Intuitive creativity.

    Jenna has been a full-time artist, working in multi media and teaching in private schools, art centers and her own studio for the last 25 years. Her work is in held corporate collection at Sikorsky in Shelton CT and privately across the country.

    In 1999, after 2 years of working with Art Therapist; Stuart Cubely, she began working as a therapeutic arts facilitator; working with therapist and domestic abuse survivor groups.

    She continues that today, working privately as well as with mental health and community providers.

    Jenna learned the clay monoprint technique, developed by the late Mitch Lyons, from one of his early students and is now, one of the few instructors in the country to offer classes in this medium.

  • Teaches drawing and painting.

    Bridget is an award winning exhibitor both nationally and internationally. Most recently she was selected for “The Art of Conservation 2010, An International Exhibit of Nature in Art” sponsored by the Artists for Conservation Foundation and was an exhibiting finalist in the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Environmental Art Prize 2010.

    her projects also include traditional and digital works created in Southeast Asia where she was an assistant professor of art at Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design, and Media located in Singapore.These works investigate the complex issues surrounding the material culture of developing nations and their affect on the environment. Work from this series “Glut” was selected for inclusion in the International Painting Annual, Exhibition in Print, sponsored by Manifest Creative Research Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.While in Singapore she was also granted the Nanyang Technological University Teaching Excellence Award 2010. Ms. Grady is a signature member of Artists for Conservation.

  • Teaches stained and fused glass as well as mosaics.

    Sarah Segovia began exploring the stained-glass medium in 1994, and developed a fascination with this ancient art that has remained with her to this day. Sarah's formal art training began a year later when she went on to study abstract painting. She experimented with colors and textures of paint on canvas. Not satisfied with this medium, she spent a year abroad in London, England, concentrating further in stained-glass, mosaics, kiln work, and leading. After graduating with a BFA in Painting, she devoted her time completely to stained-glass. Sarah has always been intrigued by the colors and textures of glass, the incandescent glow and glamorous light it casts. In the past few years she has predominately created specialty stained-glass giftware and custom design work. She especially enjoys custom work because it gives her the opportunity to work with various individuals to help bring their vision to reality, and at the same time to create a one-of-a-kind work of art. Sarah's work reflects her passion to create fragile beauty, intricate patterns, and unique designs.

  • Teaches lino and wood block printing. A native of central New York, David has been creating linocut prints for more than twenty years and received a National Scholastic Printmaking Award.

    He taught high school Mathematics for eleven years, and, dedicating more time to printmaking recently, he has focused on multi-color reduction prints, a mixture of portraits and landscapes.

    Working from his home studio in Windsor, CT, David is drawn to the balance between the deliberation of design and carving of the block and the quickness of using the press and pulling each layer of a piece. He often works from photographs he has taken, and he’s focused on the way that relief printing naturally highlights the inherent contrast of the images.