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More About The Artists Teaching
Annie Goodsill:
Annie Goodsill is a creadentialed art teacher who teaches art through the El Cerrito community center at Madera and Harding Elementary school, Studio One, and Prospect Sierra School. Annie attended Lewis and Clark college in Portland, Oregon, where she focused on mixed media, graphic design and dance. Annie loves imaginative play and getting her students to think outside the box. In her free time she enjoys dancing in public places, And is currently creating art with her sewing machine and childhood collection of candy wrappers.
Annies' Website
Doug Calderon:
Doug Calderon has been teaching visual art since 1997. He has studied at C.C.A.C, Sacramento State University and various community colleges. Doug has exhibited throughout the bay area, and has published his comics in various newspapers.
Elise Mahan:
Elise P. Mahan was born in Arizona and raised in the redwood groves that make up rural northern California. She attended Mills College and San Francisco State University for a dual emphasis degree in Art History and Painting. She has had the opportunity to be a visual/theatre arts teacher for several schools and summer camps in the East Bay, including Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Prospect Sierra Elementary, Children's Montessori house of Albany, and Glitter and Razz. She spends her time exploring the inner facets of art making, writing, reading, cooking, and travelling. All of these interests assist her in her pursuit of making art that focuses on collaboration, interactivity, and experimentation. She believes that this will allow for an examination of the interdisciplinary nature of art and education and its greater contribution to environment and society. Elise Mahan Etsy Shop
Erin Collom:
For 8 years Erin Collom has shared Yoga teachings with pre-school and elementary yogis.
Through asana, meditation/a rmation, basic anatomy, and breath work, kids connect
with themselves and the world. Her classes foster mental and emotional skills like concentration, curiosity, mindfulness, and non-judgement. Erin?s Kids Yoga classes cultivate the compassion, presence, and intuition, already present in the spiritual lives of our children.
A mother of three, Erin graduated from Piedmont Yoga Studio?s Advanced Training Program. She is currently teaching at PYS, Fourth Street Yoga, Adeline Yoga and Mountain Yoga. Her teaching style holds multi-leveled precision, challenge and joy.
Yoga Erin Website
Melissa Crago:
Melissa Crago, this will be my 3rd year returning to teach at the Park Day Summer Arts Camp. Melissa has been teaching youth in the Bay Area for 5 years. She has BS in Physiology and has been training Capoeira for over 7 years in the US and Brazil. Melissa has been a gymnast and a dancer since childhood. Her passion has also been in cooking as a hobby chef and caterer for friends, family and small fundraising events.
David Dawson:
I've been making things all my life, and hope to continue for the rest of it. I've followed my interest into many areas and it has rewarded me with a variety of occasionally wacky opportunities to apply and acquire skills and creative thought. I have produced fashion shows, painted dancers at Lollapalooza, apprenticed with a bronze sculptor and built a 25 foot-long desk out of Bondo, to mention a few. I love to teach, and strive to enhance students' abilities to bring original thinking and artistic experience to the things they do every day.
Derrick "DereLeek":
Derrick "DereLeek" (pronounced Dare-Leak) started breakdancing (bboying) 8+ years ago. Representing Flex Flav (a world famous bboy crew) and Supreme Soul (Americas Best Dance Crew Season 2) he has traveled the world, competed against some of the best dancers in the world, and won some of the most prestige dance competitions. With this knowledge combined with his talent of freezes, power, footwork,flow, and dancing, he was able to take his dancing to a new level. Competing all over the states in USA he has also been blessed to travel the world in such countries as: Canada, France, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia Tahiti, Portugal,Taiwan,Japan, South Africa, Mexico, and Singapore. Besides competing, DereLeek has been given the opportunity to perform with popular hip hop artists such as Africa Bambatta, KRS-1, Talib Kweli, Common, Rob Base, Dead Presidents, Zion I, Crown City Rockers,Jendor and the Soul Sonic Force. Today his focus has been more into the culture, helping the future generation, as well as keeping it raw in the competitive scene and bring entertainment to the crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/dereleekfflav
Ernesto Hernandez-Olmos
Ernesto Hernández-Olmos is a renowned and innovative artist known for his knowledge of ancient MesoAmerican people their celebrations and legends. By integrating the Maya, Aztec, Zapotec and Mixtec traditions with music he embodies the honorable, ancient messages for the participants. Here is a rare opportunity to share his belief that everyone can create their own instrument. Experience your spirit flowing through your hands as they mold instruments in clay.
Ernesto Hernandez-Olmos was educated at the highly respected Autonomous University, Benito Juarez in Mexico. He has captivated viewers with art, music and dance presentations at cultural events in the United States, Canada and Mexico. His art has been exhibited at: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the De Young Museum, San Francisco; the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco and the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland. He shares his honor of native cultural traditions of the Americas. Various mediums of art give Ernesto a way to convey what he cannot say with words. The spirits of his people motivate him to share his deepest and most human feelings.
Kara Fortune:
Kaya Fortune was raised in Compton, CA. Kaya is an art educator whom has worked for MOCHA for 15 years. He is the co-founder of an artists collective" Soul Salon 10". Kaya also is the co-founder of "Hood Games", a skate park in West Oakland.
Moses LaSabra:
Founder and Co-Director of Park Day Summer Arts Camp.
Moses has been teaching art classes to both adults and children throughout the Bay Area for the past 25 years. In addition to being the Co-Director of Park Day Summer Arts Camp, he is also the Photography Coordinator at Studio One Art Center (City of Oakland - Office of Parks and Recreation). With an undergraduate degree in Social Work and a Masters degree in Therapeutic Recreation, he has extensive experience working with children and teens. He has exhibited both his photographs and light sculptures within various Northern California galleries. Inspired by Bruce Connor (found object assemblage), Joseph Cornell (minature fantasy boxes) and Alexander Calder (mobiles and stabiles), Moses continues to create his fantasy assemblage sculptures with new twists and turns each year.
Images of Moses' sculptural artwork
Alan Leon
Alan Leon is an Oakland artist and muralist,
who has painted and drawn the bay area for the last 20 years. He has taught at Esalen institute, Oakland Museum of California and Studio One Art Center . He helped create Omega Teen Camp in N.Y. and has been a seasonal artist-in-residence at the Omega Institute since 1996. Alan directed camp Lent ( for 6-10 year olds) in Hillsborough for 2 years. Alan is currently working on Temescal Flows-- a large mural on the highway columns at 52nd street near Shattuck Ave.
Meredith MacLeod:
Meredith MacLe od is an Oakland based Monster Maker, Creature Constructor, Stitching Siren, Art Adventurer, and general Lover of Life. When she's not playing Dr. Frankenstien with her monsters in the studio, she is out in Oakland and Richmond schools working with kids and showing them how to make really cool stuff. She has a BFA in Textiles from the California College of the Arts, Oakland.
Foster Monsters Website
Gina Telcocci
Gina Telcocci is a sculptor/installation artist creating enigmatic objects and environments with found, recycled, and natural materials. She has exhibited widely across the US and in South Korea & Mexico, in addition to receiving numerous grants and awards. She has completed several publicly commissioned sculptures, most recently at the Potrero Hill Library in San Francisco. Over the past 25 years she has had experience teaching art to all age groups. Currently she teaches 3-D Design at Santa Rosa Junior College.
Gina Telcocci Website
Julie Travis
Julie Travis earned her BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from CCA. Her work was recently exhibited at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and she participated in the Luggage Store Gallery 20th Anniversary celebration, both in San Francisco. For nearly six years she has been sharing her love of uniting hands and clay with children.
Nicole Thomas
Nicole is a former assistant chef teacher at The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley. For five years she shared her love of cooking fresh foods and spending time around the table with students at King. Nicole has also appeared on the kids cooking and gardening television shows Caitlin?s Kitchen and Twyla?s Kitchen that can be seen on local public television stations and the Comcast Network. Prior to working with kids in the kitchen, Nicole received her dusty but occasionally useful law degree from U.C. Berkeley, and was a baker-worker-owner at Arizmendi in Oakland. She has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from Mills College. In her free time Nicole enjoys playing in the park with her daughter, visiting farmers markets, writing and knitting.
Gabriela Nunez:
Gabriela moved to the East Bay in her late teens. She was born and raised in Lima, Peru. Since she was young had love for art. After she arrived in the Bay area, she began to appreciate her culture to a greater extent. All her paintings are inspiration of the Peruvian indigenous women. She obtained most of her art training at Contra Costa College and Laney College. Gabriela has been greatly influenced by Diego Rivera and Vincent Van Goth, who both use brilliant colors and giving movement in her brush strokes. She likes Diego Rivera because he also painted native Mexican. Gabriela uses different mediums to express herself. She paints with oils, acrylics and water colors. Her favorite medium is colored pencils. Today, she is learning the art of print making and has made several etching and block prints. She has shown her work at the Peruvian Consulate, San Francisco; Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista; La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley and Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco.
http://www.womenoftheandes.com/
Judy Rattner:
Founder and Co-Director of Park Day Summer Arts Camp
This New Yorker started painting with a spray can and a pair of silver boots, some 40 years ago. Curiosity, love of color and visual imagination took me though the next several decades of showing and selling my paintings. By the late 90's I was teaching art to anyone and everyone, from 5-95, and received an M.F.A. from the California College of Arts (C.C.A.) in 1992. Received grants for 10 years, through MOCHA and the California Arts Council to direct one of their artist in the school programs. Twenty one years ago I co-founded Park Day Summer Arts Camp. A vibrant camp that employs artists to teach their craft to the children. I'm still teaching and co-directing and believing that art is as complex, as interesting, as rich, as exciting as life itself and that children possess a sense of wonder, joy and self worth that is fostered though art. My studio is located in Richmond where I can continue the "serious play" of creating. Always was and always will be an advocate of the arts and of the children.
Shuhui Yang:
I was born in Taiwan in 1978 and I have lived in America for most of my adult life. Since I was young I have had a love for color and form. With the support of my parents I came to Califonia in 1996 to pursue my education in art. While a student at San Francisco State University I began to focus on ceramic sculpture. After I graduating in 2003 I went back to Taiwan for a year to reconnect with my family and culture. I moved back to the Bay Area where I can live with a wider range of artists. I currently teach ceramics in several places as well as maintain a studio practice in Oakland, CA.
She has been dedicated to arts education in Northern California since 2000. From 2000-2002 she worked as a program developer for Artomosphere Inc. (an art based start up company located in Pleasent Hill, CA). She currently teaches ceramics at various community art centers. Sharing her knowledge in painting and drawing (all mediums), ceramic hand building and wheel throwing, sculpture, paper mache, mask making, book making, stamping and embossing, scrap booking, mural painting, print making, collage, jewelry design, candle making, cooking,,... and much more.
"I do art to share it with people. To me art represents a choice, at each stage of the process you are forced to decide on something, whether it is what color to use, how much clay to grab, what size brush, or what quality of line. I think it is important to foster the self esteem that is built with the completion of an art piece, even if it is not successful" "Something is gained, something is learned, and a few choices were made along the way..."
www.huesculpture.com
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