Guest Teacher Biographies
November 19, 2011
Margot Miller is a children’s accessory designer and freelance illustrator. She works with character licenses and brands to create backpacks. To check out her illustration work visit margotmiller.com.
Tristan Zimmerman is the web producer on the Wendy Williams show. They both love coffee, daytime television and live on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, with their cat.
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August 27, 2011
Kim Funk
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August 13, 2011
Joshua Peters is currently exploring mixed media painting, sculpture and is expanding his professional art practice. Joshua had his first major New York show of 2007 at the Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn. The show titled Up, Up, and Away featured 14 of Joshua’s Hero Paintings. Joshua’s paintings allow viewers to look at culture in a way that challenges American racial constructs. The conversation about race, culture and understanding has become all but a quiet whisper in a post-Civil Rights Movement and Politically Correct era. Joshua want to help re-spark that conversation. Joshua was born on the East Coast, was raised in Hawaii, and schooled in the Southwest. He now lives and works in New York.
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August 6, 2011
Shaun El. C Leonardo received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and currently lives/works in Queens, New York City – the borough in which he was born and raised. He has received residencies/grants from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The New York Studio School, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Matters, New York Foundation for the Arts and McColl Center for Visual Art. El C.’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is represented by Praxis International Art, New York/Miami/Buenos Aires and RHYS/MENDES, Sao Pãolo/Los Angeles; with upcoming solo presentations in Lisbon, São Paolo and New York City.
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