Since 1984 ARTS UMBRELLA is proud to have amazing and talented instructors for our ADULT and YOUTH art classes. They have always had the student in mind and created a relaxed and encouraging atmosphere in which the artist can realize their potential and find community.
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Eileen Casler
Youth Art / all Media Art has been an ongoing presence in Eileen's life, drawing from childhood, classes at college, plus volunteering as an art docent while her son was in elementary school. But so much of her training as a youth art teacher came from a beloved youth teacher Rhonda Parent who passed away in 2017. Eileen was Rhonda's assistant for 2 1/2 years at Arts Umbrella learning under an amazing artist. With her children well on their way, Eileen is looking forward to expanding her creative life. [email protected] |
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Terri Davis
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Emiliya Lane
Oils, Acrylic, Gouache Emiliya was born in Russia and has been drawing and painting since she was three years old. Emiliya has been constantly surrounded by the visual arts ever since. After a 15-year career in commercial art as an animator and Illustrator and earning a Master’s degree in Fine Art and Art History, she relocated to the United States and continued to improve her painting techniques with such masters as Scott Christensen, Jeremy Lipking, Pam Ingalls, Rob Liberace, Ned Mueller, Jim Lamb, John Bodicin, Ovanes Berberian, Kathryn Stats, Zhaoming Wu, Karen Offutt and Daniel Gerhartz What brings me the greatest joy is painting two things: capturing the everchanging features of Nature and the intricate landscape of the human face; where even the slightest change in mood or emotion can have transformational effects. I most love painting ‘alla prima’, directly from life, in the Russian Impressionistic tradition with the contemporary twist of palette knife. [email protected] http://artlanegallery.com https://www.facebook.com/emiliya.lane/ https://www.instagram.com/emiliya_lane_art/ https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/703030 |
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Michelle Lustgarten
Youth Art / all media I've been creating my whole life! I was lucky to have the same art teacher in middle school and again in high school that inspired me to do what I do today. I'm a graduate of the University of Washington with a BFA in Visual Communications and I am the sole graphic designer for Honda dealerships in both Kirkland and Bellevue. I also teach art at multiple elementary schools in the Lake Washington School District, and this is the job that brings me the most joy! In addition, I am a member of the Kirkland Cultural Arts Commission and support the adoption of public art as a way to show that people care about the world in which we live in through the art that is placed in our environment
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Jennifer Park
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Jeanne Whitney
Watercolor Jeanne Whitney has always loved to sketch rosy-cheeked children all the way up to silver-haired grandparents, earnest animals, trees with patches of sunlight and shadows on their branches, opening flowers, frothy water, cloud-clad mountains, just about anything light touches! When she was small, she liked to write and illustrate little stories and sketch her cousins watching TV. She attended the Cornish School of Art and the University of Washington. Grownup, amongst the bustle of her six children, she illustrated more than 20 books and painted paintings for shows, where she won the Daniel Smith Award. She recently wrote and illustrated A Seed Story or the Curious Odyssey of Cisco the Seed. A signature member of The Woman Painters of Washington and The Northwest Watercolor Society, she also belongs to The Portrait Society and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Teaching creates an essential link to real, live people (not just the paper and paint in her studio), and she loves to share her watercolor discoveries with the curious of all ages. [email protected] jeannewhitney.art |
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Steve Whitney
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