Learn from Great Arts Teachers

Melanie Bailey Cox is a spinner and weaver with a passion for textile arts. Melanie is a member of the Burlington Handweavers and Spinning Guild and through the guild she became exposed to and involved with handweaving and hand spinning. With her engineering background she has always had a love for processes and enjoys understanding how to make things.

Australian clarinettist Emma Scott has over 20 years experience as a professional clarinet player and teacher. She is originally from Perth, Western Australia and has also lived, studied and worked in the Netherlands for a decade, performing with orchestras throughout Europe and the UK.

Elizabeth Whitton is a mompreneur who turned her love of wool into a thriving family-run needle felting business called Felted Sky. A self-taught needle felter, she has a knack for designing beautiful small projects that she has turned into a line of needle felting kits suitable for beginners.

Cynthia Dianne Haney, a spindle maker, is passionate about teaching people how to spin. She designs spindles and turns them on the lathe to aid students with high quality performance. Enabling students to make the yarn they want with a spindle. Teaching beginner spinners, of all ages and abilities, since 2011.

I am a full time woodturner, teacher, artist and creative. I teach private lessons as well as virtual demos both nationally and internationally. For the last 5 years I've been one of the primary Woodturning instructors at the Craft Alliance School of Art and Design in St. Louis MO and have been an assistant instructor for Kirk DeHeer at the John C Campbell Folk School.

Sarita Westrup is a Mexican-American craft based artist who lives and works in between TX and North Carolina. Westrup was raised in the Rio Grande Valley of the south Texas borderlands and earned an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of North Texas in 2016.

I am a cellist, specialized in Tango, Argentine folklore, contemporary music and education. Cello teacher at the C. Guastavino conservatory in Buenos Aires, the province's orchestra and choir program and the city's "music for equity" program. I also work as a children's orchestra director, arranger and occasional composer. Graduated from the A.

Hi! I’m Chris — a NYC-based drummer, music director, and educator who’s spent the last decade-plus performing, touring, and helping build shows with Blue Man Group. I’ve played thousands of shows across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, trained new performers, and held multiple Music Director roles with the company.

Dia Robinson is the owner of Twisted Urban Fiber Arts, an accomplished indie dyer, spinner, crocheter, and weaver. She has taught at the Greenville Center of Creative Arts in Greenville, South Carolina, and has organized two fiber art gallery showcases at Greenville Technical College’s Benson Campus Art Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina.

**BRIEFLY OPENING LIMITED SLOTS, PLEASE MESSAGE ME IF INTERESTED** I am a multi-instrumentalist who makes music arrangements on YouTube! I've been playing the violin for nearly 25 years, and have added many other instruments to my arsenal over time. I am a graduate of Nazareth College of Rochester (2016) with a Bachelor's Degree in Music.