Our Teaching Artists
Emily Vaughn is a recent Baltimore-Shepherdstown transplant and graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has lived and worked in Japan, and upon her return to the U.S. she joined the Community Art Corp, MICA’s arts based Ameri-Corps program, where she pioneered a community arts practice after school program in the heart of East Baltimore. Vaughn loves working with kids, and thinks they are the worlds most creative and natural artists.
Rebecca Jones is no newcomer to the arts and teaching. She enjoys a successful career as an artist selling her paintings and mixed media work nationally and locally such as with The Over The Mountain Studio Tour of Jefferson County. Rebecca has 12 years teaching experience as a senior lecturer in the art department at Towson University and Maryland College of Art and Design. In her former position as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, Jones has had such high profile clients as National Geographic, The National Park Service, and Time/Life books.View Website
Email RebeccaJudy Bradshaw is a local Harpers Ferry resident and has taught locally for many years. Her work hangs at Dickinson and Wait Craft Gallery in Shepherdstown. She is known for her moody pencil drawings and evoking acrylic landscape paintings.
Steve Warner is a talented recording artist, performer, and award winning songwriter, published in Nashville, and covered by several Indie artists. You can hear Steve perform his blend of country-tinged folk with his trio The Rolling Coyotes. Warner has taught songwriting for years to the young and older, and serves as judge and coordinator in songwriting festivals in the Eastern Panhandle.
Nancy McKeithen provides writing, editing and graphic design services to businesses through The McKeithen Group, a marketing communications firm Nancy started in 1997. McKeithen is currently searching for an agent to market her non-fiction business book manuscript to publishers. Nancy also writes short fiction and poetry, and is a resident of the Eastern Panhandle since 1986.
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Anne Bowers "In my perspective, baskets have the ability to bridge the gap between a beautiful work of art and the functional woven vessel." With every basket Anne creates, her desire is to make an object that quickly becomes art-in-hand through its daily use. The interplay of fiber, color, and shape have always intrigued the artist. After practicing basketry for the past 26 years, Bowers continues to evolve in a wide range of styles and uses a wide array of media applications. Anne teaches basketry nationally and heads the Over the Mountain Studio Tour in Shepherdstown WV.View WebSiteEmail AnneSheila Brannan'
s work is based on the evolution of using a traditional approach blended with building abstract collages, incorporating found objects, copper wire and pipe, as well as chunks of color from the West Virginia glass factories. A firm believer in applying the fundamentals of design, Brannan undertakes each creation as she would a painting; utilizing texture, light and contrasts to enhance her finished piece. Sheila is local to Shepherdstown and is a featured artist on the Over The Mountain Studio Tour. View WebSiteEmail SheilaAndy Pressman has a Masters of Science degree in Sustainable Systems from Slippery Rock University and certificate’s in Permaculture Design, Grow Biointensive Mini-Farming, and SPIN-Farming. After several years of working on and managing diversified organic farms throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic, Pressman and his family currently reside in Northeast Pennsylvania on a sub-acre urban farm where they raise crops, chickens, and honey bees. Pressman is a Sustainable Agriculture
Specialist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT),
a non-profit organization that promotes small-scale, local, and
sustainable solutions to agriculture and energy.
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Isabelle Truchon is an award winning decorative artist. She also is a nationally recognized instructor of the decorative arts, and is a co-founder and former co-director of a premier decorative arts school in Northern California. She runs ITC, a decorative arts company providing beautiful and unique installations and finishes for walls, ceilings, cabinetry, furniture and accessories.
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Josef Beery is a Charlottesville graphic artist specializing in the design of publications for educational institutions, museums, historic sites, and literary publishers. He is a founder of the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, a member of Ten Flavors Studios, a cooperative design studio and has been working in relief printmaking for fifteen years.
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Jeff Feldman is a longtime environmental educator and the founder of GreenPath Consulting, which offers green building consulting and audit services. In 2007, Jeff and his wife fulfilled their vision of building their green dream home, incorporating strawbale walls, composting toilets, a masonry heater and many other environmental features.
Michael & Carrie Nobel Kline Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline operate Talking Across the Lines: Worldwide Conversations, LLC, a folklife documentary consulting and production firm. Together with students and community interns they seek to give voice to a wide range of views on historical and current events.
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