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| Selina Alexander was raised on the Yukon River between Ruby and Galena and on the north fork of the Huslia river. She is a master beader and skinsewer. She has demonstrated her work in Washington D.C. and throughout Alaska. In Selina's words, "I was seven when my mother started me sewing and knitting doll clothes and my father started me trapping squirrels and weasels. At age 11 my father started me running a dog team. By age 13 my mother taught me how to make slippers and boots, more knitting and crocheting. My father taught me how to shoot guns, trap for mink, fox, otter and snare beaver. Mother taught me how to snare rabbits and ptarmigan and fishing with nets and poles. Over the year's I've learned more about beadwork from my grandmother, watching others, books, museums, workshops and listening to my elders. My Indian grandmother and mother are excellent beadworkers and skinsewers. My white grandfather was a well known painter artist and professor in San Francisco." |
| Claudia Alvarez received her MFA from California College of Arts in San Francisco and BA from the University of California, Davis. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Mexico and Switzerland. Recent solo exhibitions include Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico, and El Museo Latino, Omaha, Nebraska. Her work has appeared in New American Paintings, NY Arts Magazine, Review Magazine, Ceramics Monthly and Confrontational Ceramics. Artist Website |
| Bob Athayde is the Music Director at Stanley Intermediate School in Lafayette California. He directs 6 bands and 3 jazz ensembles serving over 300 students daily. Bob's students have received many honors including several Downbeat Magazine awards and have gone on to prestigious music schools such as Julliard, Oberlin, Berklee and the Manhattan School of Music. Bob is an award-winning music educator, in frequent demand as a clinician. He is also a professional trumpet player and jazz pianist and has been teaching at Sitka Fine Arts Camp since 2001. Recognized for his outstanding teaching and musicianship, Bob has garnered a number of awards including the Gil Freitas Outstanding Music Educator Award, (1989), the Diablo Symphony Association's Distinguished Music Educator Award (1995), Charles Schwab's Teach Each Distinguished Teacher Award, the Prudential Realty Outstanding Teacher Award (1999), the AC5 Arts Recognition Award (2003), and the KDFC Outstanding Music Educator Award (2004). Bob was recently awarded the Outstanding Band Teacher of California Award by the CMEA. |
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Jamie Autrey is Professor of Art at the University of Alaska Southeast. He has a Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics, Visual Arts, and a decade of experience in teaching different forms of ceramics in the western states. He has taught children and adults of all ages. His work has been exhibited at colleges and galleries in the Northwest. In Sitka he has taught students from Mt. Edgecumbe High School as well as UAS college students. His open workshops are popular with adults who appreciate the practical expertise he shares. He uses various firing techniques including electric kilns, Raku, and pit firing, each of which will be available in his classes at Camp. Jamie was one of the organizers and instructors for the 2005 SE Alaska High School Arts Fest, and has taught at this event for several years. |
Javier Barboza lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts’ Character Animation program. His films have showcased in national film festivals, including Nickelodeon’s NickToons Network Animation Festival, having won the 2007 Diversity Award. He currently leads animation classes for elementary, middle and high school students throughout Los Angeles. Javier is currently working on independent animation film projects. Artist Website |
| Joy Barrett is an actor, producer and teaching artist in New York City. She has most recently performed in the Off-Broadway sold out hit "Dance Dance Revolution" with Les Freres Corbusier directed by the award-winning director Alex Timbers. She has performed in NY at The Cherry Lane Theatre, The Flea Theater, Tribeca Playhouse, the Sanford Meisner Theater, the Actor's Playground and Abingdon Theatre. She has also appeared in film and TV in various commercials and Saturday Night Live. She has worked regionally with La Jolla Playhouse, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Northwest Shakespeare Ensemble, Printer's Devil and The Empty Space Theatre in Seattle. Her teaching includes outreach programs with Stages of Learning in NYC, many theatre and dance companies in Seattle, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s tour Shakespearience, and the Open Door Theatre where she taught safety skills through dramatic live performance in an effort to free children from violence and abuse. As a producer, Joy co-created the summer festival 10 Plays, 10 Weeks, the series 4 Mondays, 4 Screenplays and has worked with Thirteenth Night Theatre Company and Francis Ford Coppola’s reading series Zoetrope Live Story. She is a graduate of Drama Studio London. |
| Jonathan "J" Bradley is a top call technical sound and lighting producer who now lives in Sitka and is the Technical Director of the Sitka Performing Arts Center. He has been working full time in the field since 1990 and has been involved in producing a variety of events including theater, concerts, rodeos, and jazz festivals. In addition J taught classes for 5 years at the University of Montana in audio production. Among his many diverse projects, J has been the sound man for four years at Seattle's premier jazz club, Jazz Alley. This year J has been on the road between Russia and the United States as production manager for the Russian State Ballet. |
Andrea Burck is an active music educator and accompanist in Aurora, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Andrea has been involved with music and kids since graduating in 1989. She has been on staff at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, has taught preschool, elementary and middle school music and choir in Wisconsin and Illinois and currently teaches music and directs a chorus of 120 members at Kendall Elementary School in Naperville, Illinois. She has been an accompanist for the Young Naperville Singers and continues to accompany school and church choirs, studio recitals and soloists in the area. |
John William Burck has been a string educator for over 19 years at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Mr. Burck earned his Bachelor of Music from the University of Iowa and Master of Music Education from the VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Currently, he is the interim music department chair at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois. In 2007, The Grammy Foundation recognized the Waubonsie Valley music department as one of the top three high school music programs in the country for music education. In addition to his administrative duties, Mr. Burck directs two of the six curricular orchestras, teaches string technique classes and co-directs the extra curricular strolling ensemble, the Warrior Strings. During the 2009 Spring Break, Mr. Burck and 65 members of the Waubonsie Valley Orchestras will be traveling and performing in New York City! He has been on both staff and faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. He has served as conductor of the junior orchestra at the Cedar Arts Forum’s String Camp in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan. |
| Teo Castellanos is an actor/writer/director. He received his B.F.A. in Theater from Florida Atlantic University under a full scholarship where he studied with four time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell. He is author of NE 2nd Avenue a one-man show based on Miami characters, commissioned by Miami Light Project. NE 2nd Avenue won the prestigious Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland 2003. He is Artistic Director of Teo Castellanos D-Projects, a contemporary Dance/Theater company whose original work fuses world cultures, religion and music, examining social issues through performance. Teo Castellanos D-Projects has toured South America, China and is currently touring in the U.S. with their latest work Scratch & Burn. Teo has lectured and taught theater workshops at colleges, universities and communities throughout U.S and the Virgin Islands. He is currently Executive Producer of Miami Project Hip Hop (MPH), an annual event that honors Hip Hop roots and aesthetics produced by Miami Light Project. He is the recipient of the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship 2005. Teo is a member of Screen Actors Guild, Associate Member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is represented in Europe by Universal Arts. Artist Website |
| Sarah Conarro is a visual artist and educator living in Juneau. Her work primarily consists of drawings, collages and paintings along with installations, prints, and carving. Sarah studied drawing and painting at UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art and owes her success as a painter to her mentor, Cuban artist Alejandro Aguilera. Sarah also often works as an artist-in-residence privately and for the Alaska State Council on the Arts in various Alaskan communities making murals and other large-scale works. Since moving to Alaska in 2006, she has been able to conduct twelve large-scale collaborative works. Her passion is to work with people with art and non-art backgrounds alike, get them painting together, and end up with something big and beautiful. Artist Website |
| Marco
d'Ambrosio is a composer, producer, trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist and all-around noise wrangler. He has scored numerous award winning films, documentaries and theatre projects including the anime hit VAMPIRE HUNTER D BLOODLUST, HAIKU TUNNEL (Sundance 2001), the Emmy winning documentary BLINK, DOUBLE DARE for PBS and RED DIAPER BABY for the Sundance Channel. Other scores of Marco’s have been on projects released by 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Classics, Lucasfilm Ltd., PDI/Dreamworks, Pixar, and Columbia TriStar. You can hear one of his latest scores in THE RAPE OF EUROPA, currently airing on PBS nationwide and for which he just received an Insight Award for Excellence from the National Association of Film and Digital Media Artists. Marco is also responsible for creating much of the dynamic sound and music heard in the acclaimed Lucasfilm THX trailers. In 2005, he was awarded the prestigious film scoring fellowship from the Sundance Institute. Most recently, Marco co-scored the documentary feature “We Live In Public” which was awarded the Grand Jury prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Artist Website |
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Scott Davis received his first intensive exposure to the arts as a student at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp in the early 1980s. Inspired by his teachers at that time and by the friendships he made at the camp, he continued to pursue the performing arts throughout college, studying mime and dance extensively while at Princeton University. He was the artistic director of the Princeton Mime Company. After living and teaching in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for two years after college, Scott returned to New Jersey and co-founded Loon Soup, a mime and physical theater company that performed and taught nationwide. He moved to Seattle to study law at the University of Washington in 1995 then in 2000 joined Lingo Dance theater, a contemporary dance company under the direction of KT Niehoff. He has toured with the group to Japan, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, Canada, and throughout the States. Davis has also collaborated with members of the dance faculty at the University of Washington and produced his own work in Seattle, New York, New Jersey, and Ecuador. Over the years he has served the Sitka Fine Arts Camp as a counselor in the 1980s, a teacher in the 1990s, and as Artistic Director from 1998 to 2006. He is on the faculty at the Northwest School in Seattle where he teaches Mime & Movement and Street Law. |
| Wade
Demmert, bass trombonist, performs
throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has performed with a variety
of national and international musical artists and ensembles including;
the Seattle Symphony and Opera Orchestras, the Pacific Northwest
Ballet Orchestra, Bellingham Music Festival of Music, Broadway
Shows, Pavarotti, and the Moody Blues. In addition he can be heard
on numerous movie, television, and theme park soundtracks. Wade
holds a Master of Music degree from Rice University. Wade grew
up in Sitka and attended the Sitka Fine Arts Camp as a student. |
Mark Eanes is a studio painter living and working in Benicia, California. Mr. Eanes is an Associate Professor of Art at California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC). Eanes was recently the Chair of the Visual Arts Department of the California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA), which is one of the country’s leading arts program for high school students. Eanes has exhibited his drawings, prints and paintings widely, both nationally and internationally. A series of his large scale Master Studies entitled SACRED AND PROFANE was recently exhibited at Parsons School of Design in Paris, France. He has had solo exhibitions at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, in San Francisco and in Napa, California, and the Mill Valley Arts Commission Gallery. His works have been included in shows at Arts Benicia in Benicia, California; the San Jose Museum of Art; the Etra Gallery in Miami, Florida; and at the Michael Dunev Gallery in San Francisco, among others.
Eanes recently returned from a month long residency at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in Manhattan, New York. He will be featured in an upcoming selected exhibition entitled JUST CHARCOAL at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts’ Artist Gallery. .Artist Website |
Christian Fabian bass player for the Lionel Hampton Big Band was born in Sweden and raised in Germany. He studied for four years at the Maastricht Conservatory in the Netherlands before receiving a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in the U.S. Christian lives in NYC and has performed extensively on the national and international jazz scene with such jazz notables as Gary Burton, Cheryl Bentyne, Ed Thigpen, John LaPorta, Bob Mintzer, Jon Hendricks, and has recently joined the Gianni Russo Big Band. He recently released two highly acclaimed solo CDs "Across The Tracks" and "Curtain of Life" . Artist Website |
Scott Fassett is a visual development artist working in the animation industry. He is a former Disney Artist and has worked on films such as Hercules, Tarzan, and Treasure Planet. He graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1994 with a BFA in Illustration. From there, he worked at the prestigious Walt Disney Feature Animation Studio in Burbank, California, where he continued his on-the-job education learning the meticulous craft of background painting. Inspired by the landscapes of the great Southwest, Scott and his wife Shelly decided to move to Arizona. While living in Sedona, he freelanced for Disney Toon Studio, contributing background art to such classics as Winnie the Pooh, Bambi II and Tinkerbell. After four years of the “dry heat”, Scott was ready for something a little different– Portland Oregon, where he now calls home. For the past three years Scott has been developing the visual style for Jack and Ben, an animated feature film from Laika Entertainment in Portland, Oregon. Scott is now exploring 3-D environment design and matte painting for visual effects. Digital photography is also a passionate hobby, which he pursues at every opportunity. |
| Andrew
Hames is a music teacher at Blackfoot High School in Blackfoot, ID. During the school year, Andrew directs four choral ensembles and teaches a music fundamentals class for special learners, as well as a course in advanced theory and composition. In addition to working as a clinician and adjudicator in southeastern Idaho, Andrew also directs a community choir, Vive la Voce, in Idaho Falls. A graduate of Idaho State University, Andrew received his Bachelor of Music Education degree where he studied choral conducting extensively with Dr. Scott Anderson. Born and raised in Sitka, Andrew first had ambitions of becoming a music teacher when he attended the Sitka Fine Arts Camp as a student. When he’s not spending beautiful summers in Sitka, Andrew and his wife, Kristin, both teach music throughout SE Idaho where they keep plenty busy raising their son, Justin. |
Marcia Hartsock comes to Fine Arts Camp from the mid-western city of Cincinnati on the Ohio River. She works professionally in Cincinnati as a Certified Medical Illustrator, a perfect career for an artist who is just as fascinated with science as she is with drawing. She earned her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Cincinnati, and an MA in Illustration from Syracuse University. She worked for over ten years as a Medical Illustrator at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine creating illustrations for medical education and research. Since 1984 she has owned her own illustration studio, specializing in medical and health education for clients all over the US. She has taught illustration techniques and media to teens and adults, and has beenAdjunct Faculty at Northern Kentucky University Department of Visual Arts. Her clear, colorful illustrations have won national awards, and have been exhibited both in this country and internationally. Her professional work combines pencil and ink drawing with computer techniques. In her spare time and on vacations, she enjoys filling her sketchbooks with watercolor and pastel paintings. |
| Robert Hoffman, is a Tlingit artist and woodcarver from Kake, Alaska. "I encourage all kinds of innovation to traditional arts forms; to deviate from conventional rules and medium. Art is not static, it is evolutionary. New technology is an artist's tool. When I am genuinely creating, there is no room for guilt. I have not forsaken the Old Ones. They are smiling. And clapping." ArtistWebsite |
| Jara
Kern is a flutist, educator, and arts administrator. She taught and performed in New York for five years, appearing at the 92nd Street Y as well as regularly performing with the New England Symphonic Ensemble and the Queensborough Symphony Orchestra. She graduated from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in 2001 and earned her master's degree in flute performance from the SUNY-Purchase Conservatory. Jara is currently the associate director for marketing and communications at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Previously she ran the education and outreach department at The Chamber Music Society of New York and worked in marketing for the Madison Symphony Orchestra. She earned her MBA in arts administration from the Wisconsin School of Business in May 2008 and now lives near Chicago with her husband and four parrots. |
| Brad Liening is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he studied under such well-known poets as Cole Swensen, Robert Hass, Dean Young, and D.A. Powell. He currently teaches writing and literature to college students in the Twin Cities, and before that he taught reading and writing to middle and high school students in California. When he’s not teaching writing or reading lots and lots of books, he has been known to wait tables and make a mean cappuccino. His poetry has appeared in a bunch of journals and magazines, including Mustachioed, the Sonora Review, and Forklift, and a chapbook of poems, Ker-Thunk, was published by H_NGM_N B__KS. He’d like to get a pet but isn’t quite sure if he’s a dog- or a cat-person. Artist Website |
| Valerie
Limbrunner has a wide background in dance. She has studied everything from Vaganova Ballet technique, to African dance, to traditional modern Graham Technique. She is a former member of the Oregon Ballet Theatre. Valerie began her training in Oregon at Newport School of Dance and continued with professional training at the HARID Conservatory of music and dance in Boca Raton, Florida. She has danced with Hartford Ballet, Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet, Dallas Opera and National Opera de Bordeaux in France. Valerie has taught summer dance camps at Newport School of Dance in ballet technique and flamenco. |
| Edward
Littlefield attended the University of Idaho where he majored in instrumental and vocal music education, with an emphasis in percussion. There he studied percussion with Daniel Bukvich. He has played in the showband on various cruise ships for Carnival Cruise Lines in the Carribean and the Bahamas. Ed was previously the music teacher at Sitka High School. He has toured throughout the country as the percussionist for the critically aclaimed Dallas Brass. He is currently a member of the percussion ensemble: Juxtapercussion and a freelance musician and clinician in the Pacific Northwest. Ed is a former student of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. |
Beverly Mann is an actor, mask theatre performer/educator, and mask maker. She is an independent artist and tours with several theatre companies including Faustwork Mask Theatre, based in Toronto, and Figures of Speech Theatre based in Freeport, ME. Beverly has performed in over 40 states, Canada, Mozambique, South Africa, and Peru, with an appearance on “Good Morning, South Africa". She was a company member of IMAGO Theatre based in Portland, Oregon from 1986 – ‘89 and again in 1992-‘93 performing mask, movement and visual illusion touring the U.S., Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong with appearances on “Good Morning, America” and the Disney special “New Vaudevillians, Too.” She was a company member of TheatreSports, an improvisational theatre company based in Seattle, Washington. For the past eight years she has been busy collaborating with several artists in the state of Maine, Beverly has taught numerous workshops and residencies in mask making, mask theatre techniques and theatre improvisation throughout Maine, across the U.S. and abroad. She is listed on the Maine Arts Commission Artist’s Roster and The Alaska State Arts Council Artist-in-Residence Program and is affiliated with The Maine Alliance for Arts Education. This is her thirteenth year teaching at The Sitka Fine Arts Camp. Artist Site |
WT McRae disappointed all of his teachers and professors when at the end of his serious theatre training he began to create a career centering around mime and clown. Growing up in Denver, CO and moving to NY in 1997, WT studied Acting, Scenic Design, Dance, and Pre-Med at Adelphi University. Since then he has made his living primarily touring with orchestras performing mime and clown based shows in Tri-State Schools. He spent 6 years teaching the arts in inner city schools, and funneled those two pursuits into the creation of his own clown based theatre company Fool’s Academy. Fool’s Academy is now a running theatre pursuit that blends education with clowning, bringing silly but educational performances to NYC schools. |
| Hank
Moore began playing music 40 years ago in North Carolina. Starting on the trumpet, he played in marching bands for nine years. At the age of 18, Hank started playing the guitar in rhythm & blues, rock n' roll and gospel groups. Singing and playing guitar in the "church of rock n' roll" for most of his life, Hank still implements these rhythmic techniques in his blues and Celtic playing. He now lives in Sitka, teaching and playing guitar. . |
| Brian Neal performs over one hundred concerts annually throughout the country as a member of the Dallas Brass, one of America’s foremost musical ensembles. Brian is a native of Miami, Florida. After earning music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music in New York and the University of Miami, Brian earned positions as principal trumpet of the Miami Symphony Orchestra and the Miami Bach Society Orchestra. He has been a soloist with those orchestras, as well as the Florida Philharmonic, Ensemble Monterey, and the California Symphony. Equally at home as a composer, Brian’s compositions have been performed at both the Aspen and Waterloo Music Festivals. Brian has also received commissions to write music for the opening of the Bayfront Park outdoor amphitheater in Miami and for the opening of the Miami Symphony's tenth anniversary season. A member of the faculty of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Brian resides in Miami with his wife, Karen, and their three children. Artist Website |
| Karen Neal enjoys performing a broad range of musical styles and languages, mastering a diverse repertoire from Renaissance to modern vocal literature and jazz. Currently, Karen is the professor of vocal literature and diction at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She serves as soh of the Epiploist with the Churchany and is the first soprano in the professional chamber ensemble, “Seraphic Fire”. She has been soloist with ensembles in Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami. As oratorio soloist, she has also sung with the Miami Bach Society and the San Francisco Chorale. In the field of modern music, she was the premier vocalist with New Music Works of Santa Cruz, California, a cutting-edge group committed to presenting the works of contemporary composers. Karen holds a Vocal Performance degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She was also a Tanglewood Fellowship recipient and has studied French repertoire intensively in France. |
Marilyn Reischke has been teaching piano students for over 30 years. She graduated from Biola University in La Mirada, California with a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance. Before moving to Sitka three years ago, she was an active member of the Oregon Music Teachers Association. Marilyn has been a church organist and pianist since high school and has had many opportunities to accompany vocal and instrumental soloists as well as a variety of groups. While living in Eugene, Oregon she accompanied the Women’s Choral Society and University of Oregon students.. Marilyn maintains a piano studio in Sitka and enjoys working with students of all ages. |
Caroline Rocher dances with Lines Ballet. She is the former principal dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem and has been a member of the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich and Lyon Opéra Ballet in France. She was also solo dancer for the legendary Crazy Horse Cabaret in Paris. Caroline began her training at the Conservatoire de Montpellier in France with Madame Claparède and later studied at the Rudra Béjart Lausanne School in Switzerland. In 1998 she moved to NY to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. As a professional dancer she has performed leading roles in The Prodigal Son, Agon, Fancy Free, Concerto Barocco, Serenade, Apollo, The Four Temperaments, Creole Giselle, Dwight Rhoden's Twist, Glen Tetley's Sphinx and Michael Smuin' Saint-Louis Woman. In May of 2000, Caroline performed George Balanchine' Slaughter on Tenth Avenue with New York City Ballet principal dancer Damian Woetzel at the New York State Theater as a part of NYCB/Dance Theater of Harlem collaboration. In October of 2000, she danced with Vladimir Malakhov at The Carrier Transition for Dancers Gala. In 2007 Caroline joined Alonzo King Lines Ballet. Artist Website |
Alex da Silva was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. After spending a few years in Europe he went back to Brazil where he received his B.A. in Communication and a Master’s degree in Film. He has been working in the film industry since 1989 as a Producer, Cinematographer and Director in commercials and non-commercial projects shot in Brazil, the United States, Argentina and Mexico. He co-directed and shot the documentary “Runners High” which tells the story of inner city teenagers who transform themselves both physically and mentally by training to run the Los Angeles Marathon. The film premiered in 2006 at the San Francisco International Film Festival and has gone on to play at festivals world-wide and has won numerous awards. Alex’s most recent project is “Paper or Plastic” (2008) and is a feature length documentary following contestants as they get ready for the 2007 National Grocery Bagging competition in Las Vegas. Artist Website |
| Julia Smith is an actor, director, and theatre teacher. She graduated from Miami University with a B.F.A in theatre performance and moved to Seattle where she completed a literary internship at The Seattle Children’s Theatre. She has also studied with notable teachers from The Goodman and The Steppenwolf theatres in Chicago, and apprenticed under the prominent director Lisa Peterson at La Jolla Playhouse in California. As a theater director she has directed plays at the Freehold Studio and Hyperion Theatre in Seattle. She took a long break from the theatre world to do a little traveling and exploring around the world, but has recently decided to establish some roots here in Sitka, AK. Prior to moving to Alaska she taught theatre classes to students of all ages at Two Roads Theatre in Seattle, The Seattle Children’s Theatre, and at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago. She is still an avid traveler and escapes into the outdoors every chance she gets. |
| Mike
Sullivan is a jazz arranger, saxophonist, and electric bass player who lives in Sitka Alaska. Originally from Seattle, Washington, he attended the Berklee School of Music, where he majored in arranging and studied saxophone under Joe Viola. He was a staff arranger with the 5th Air Force Band in Tokyo, Japan for 3 years and then continued as a freelance musician. He has performed with many personalities including Sarah Vaughn, jazz violinist Joe Venuti, comedian Red Skelton, and Billy Eckstein. He is an airline pilot and spends his free time arranging and mentoring young musicians interested in jazz. |
Robert Taylor is Director of Bands at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and University Band, directs the opera orchestra, teaches instrumental conducting, and mentors music education students in the Master of Arts in Teaching program. Dr. Taylor received the Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees in conducting from Northwestern University. Prior to his time at Northwestern, he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from Humboldt State University and served as Director of Bands at Eureka High School in northern California. Under his direction, Eureka High ensembles earned recognition for excellence by Downbeat Magazine, the Selmer Corporation, and Grammy Signature Schools, placing them among the finest in the nation. Dr. Taylor has adjudicated numerous music festivals and is in high demand as a rehearsal clinician and guest conductor throughout North America. |
| Sara Thomsen has over 16 years of dance training in a huge variety of styles. She started with ballet, jazz, modern, African, and martial arts. Since she began partner dance in 1996 she has studied with top US and international coaches in ballroom, latin, west coast swing, theatre arts, salsa, and argentine tango. In addition to her dance training, she is also a yoga instructor with a strong understanding of anatomy,that gives added depth and clarity to her instruction. Sara lives in Seattle, Washington where she teaches, performs, and choreographs for children and adults. Her current passion is running youth programs in public and private schools. |
| Lindsey White is an Oklahoma native, living and working in San Francisco, CA. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose work in photography, video, and sculpture explores the simple magic of everyday life. She has exhibited in San Francisco at Jack Hanley Galler, Southern Exposure, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, and in Berlin at the Deadpan Exchange II Festival. She is currently the Artist in Residence and 2008-2009 Fellowship Recipient at the Kala Institute of Art in Berkeley, CA. She teaches photography at the California College of the Arts and Modesto Junior College. BFA Pacific Northwest College of Art; MFA California College of the Arts. |
| Ricardo Zayas of Brooklyn, NY studied on scholarship at the schools of Dance Theater Harlem and the San Francisco Ballet. In 2005, he graduated with honors from Fordham University. He joined the Ailey II Company in his senior year and has also danced with Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Shen Wei Dance Arts. This is Ricardo's fourth season with LINES Ballet. He was listed on "25 to Watch" the annual list published by Dance Magazine of leading young dancers and choreographers, as well as new dance companies and trends in dance. |
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