Learn from Great Arts Teachers

JoEl Levy LoGiudice is a full-time studio artist from Ashland City, Tennessee whose work is celebrated across the Southeast. She is also an experienced instructor, who makes every class a creative adventure. She has taught at the Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech, Arrowmont, the John C. Campbell Folk School, and SEFAA and is known for her expertise and infectious energy.

Penny Morgan (Prichard) has been involved with teaching cooking to adults since 2000. An accomplished fiber artist, Penny loves to share tips and inspiration with quilters, embroiderers and wool applique fans of all skill levels. Penny has been teaching online courses since 2002. As an instructor for East Carolina University she has taught food labs online to many students.

About Me I have spent fifteen years doing one thing: helping young people find their voice — on stage, in the classroom, and in life. I hold a BA in Theatre Arts and Early Childhood Education from UC Santa Cruz, which means I was literally trained to do exactly this. Teaching theatre to kids is not something I fell into. It is what I was built for.

Catherine Redford was born in England where she learnt to knit and sew as a young girl. After relocating from London to Naperville, Illinois, she learned to quilt and never looked back. She's an award-winning quilter, an active member of her local guilds, and a popular teacher at the local and national level.

For over 35 years, Bobbie Pell has shared her love of story with audiences of all ages through written works, storytelling performances, and workshops. Her specialty area, Celtic folklore and traditions, focuses on faerie lore, ballads, and archetypical myths. Her first book, THE HIGHLAND HEART, explores themes of true love, faerie encounters, and a hero's journey to wholeness.

I’m Hayk Barseghyan, an award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in Armenia, with nearly 20 years of experience capturing nature, cityscapes, and human stories through photography and film. My work has been featured by National Geographic and Al Jazeera, including a documentary on decades of displacement in Gyumri.

Bonnie East Educate. Lead. Strengthen. Thrive EDUCATION Ohio State University, M.S. Family and Consumer Science, 1987 Concentration: Education Ohio State University, B.S. Family and Consumer Science, 1987 Concentration: Family Relations and Human Development WORK EXPERIENCE - Writing ● Published Columnist for award-winning Smoke Signals newspaper ○ Created and wrote Tapestry, a…

Residing in Salt Lake City, Utah, Emily is an experienced educator in leading university courses for Utah State, Weber State and Brigham Young University as well as outreach education and children's programming for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

For 29+ years, Christa Schoenbrodt has been the owner of Studio Haus, a multi-disciplinary design studio that embraces various processes. Most recently, she has consistently been exploring surface design and enjoys blending the artisan quality of hand-printed pieces with her digital expertise.

Elaina is the shepherdess at Avillion Farm in Efland, NC where she tends flocks of Shetland and Jacob sheep, Angora goats, Suri Alpaca, and cares for a large herd of Angora rabbits. After 30+ years raising fiber-producing livestock and experiencing lots of fibers in various stages of preparation and utilization, I still enjoy all aspects of fiber production, processing and making.