Faculty
David Hornung, Artist & Visual Arts Educator: RISD, Pratt, Skidmore
David Hornung is a painter and collage artist whose work has been exhibited in the US and UK. Over the course of a long career he has served on the faculties of The Rhode Island School of Design, Indiana University, Skidmore College, Pratt Institute, and Adelphi University. He is the author of Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers, a color theory and practice textbook used in art schools and private studios around the world. It has been translated into six languages.
Dr. Anu Androneth Sieunarine graduated from Columbia University with a Doctorate in Arts Education. Her research focused on "Cultural Embossing and the Layering of Identity through Visuals and Voices." She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of the Art Education program at Brooklyn College.
Dr. Androneth Sieunarine, Artist & Visual Arts Educator: Brooklyn College
Veronica Lawlor, Artist & Visual Arts Educator: Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute
Veronica is on the faculty of Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute. She conducts drawing and reportage workshops worldwide. Her expressionistic reportage drawings have led her around the world, creating award-winning illustrations for a diverse group of clients, including the Hyatt Hotel and Chase Private Client. She brings those same sensibilities into the studio, creating abstract paintings reflective of the energy and atmosphere of the locations she has documented. Her 2023 solo exhibit, Material Memory, was presented by Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, NY.
Mildor Chevalier, Artist & Visual Arts Educator: New York School of the Arts, Studio in a School
Mildor Chevalier is a Brooklyn-based visual artist best recognized for his large-scale abstract figurative paintings. His work has been shown globally in different biennials, triennials, art galleries, and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic ( 2015), the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum in New York City (2018), Centro Leon Museum Santiago, Dominican Republic (2015), The US Embassy in Santo Domingo ( 2015), the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wausau, WI ( 2021), The New York Latin American Art Triennial, Pace University Gallery (2022). Mildor is the 2022 recipient of the award Artist of the Year by the Darryl Chappell Foundation. He is an artist instructor at Studio In A School and a professor at the New York School of the Arts, where he teaches Introduction and Advanced Abstract painting classes. Mildor has also collaborated with the British art manufacturer Daler Rowney, designing instruction manuals with step-by-step lessons to launch their product line, Simply Master Artist. In partnership with Darler Rowney, he created and published an Art Therapy coloring book titled World Culture.
Joan Ffolliott, Artist & Visual Arts Educator. RISD, Woodstock School of Art, SUNY Ulster
Joan Ffolliott received her BFA from the University of Washington in sculpture and printmaking. She went on to earn her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for emerging artists. Joan has exhibited her work in numerous shows around the country and she is included in many private collections. In addition to teaching at RISD, Sonoma State University, and Wheaton College, she is currently a member of the faculty at SUNY Ulster Community College, the Woodstock School of Art, and the owner of Ffolliott Design. She lives and works in Malden-on-Hudson, New York.
Tina Piccolo, Artist & Visual Arts Educator Brooklyn Friends School
Tina has been a Middle and Upper School, visual arts educator for twenty-three years at Brooklyn Friends School in NYC. Her love of imparting confidence and joy in adolescent’s art-making, has flowed into a desire to offer opportunities to adult artists and educators through providing spaces to enrich their existing knowledge and process. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union, Visual Arts Teaching Certification from Bank Street at Parsons School of Design and an MFA in Art Education from Brooklyn College. She has mentored art education, graduate students over a course of 15 years. She lives and works in both Saugerties, and Brooklyn , New York.
Susan Greenstein, Artist & Visual Arts Educator:The Art Annex, Brooklyn Friends School, Studio in a School
Susan Greenstein received her BFA from Pratt Institute in fine arts. Susan is a long time exhibiting member of 440 Gallery in Brooklyn NY and has participated in numerous shows at: Ossam Gallery, Tree Collective at Industry City, La Bodega Founder’s Workspace and other venues in NYC. Her paintings are included in many private collections.
She has illustrated a number of children’s books and editorial illustrations for the Delaware Fine Arts Museum, Random House, National Geographic, The New YorkTimes,, Travel and Leisure magazine, The Daily News and August House. Susan currently teaches adult, watercolor classes at The Art Annex in Brooklyn N.Y and was formally an elementary, visual arts teacher at Brooklyn Friends and Studio in a School. Susan lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. You can frequently find her painting on a street corner or in one of the many gardens and parks around NYC.
Arm of the Sea Theater and Tidewater Center
Arm-of-the-Sea Puppet Theater has been bringing to life Hudson River history and ecology since 1982, with expansive and accessible visual dramas. Arm-of-the-Sea Theater is a not-for-profit arts organization based in New York’s scenic Hudson Valley. Their touring company travels to cultural centers, festivals and community venues throughout the Northeast and beyond.
The Tidewater Center is an ongoing project, that when completed will consist of an outdoor performance space on the Esopus Creek in Saugerties Village with an adjacent marine research facility.
Arm-of-the-Sea Puppet Theater Founders, Marlena Marallo and Partick Wadden
Co-Creator, and Artistic Director, Marlena Marallo creates mythical masks in a process combining sculpture and papier-mâché. She fabricates all puppets and props, as well as creates the hand-dyed backdrops and collage for all Arm of the Sea performances..
Partick Wadden, Director and Writer of all performances, orchestrates magical theater that informs on the miracle and interconnectedness of life, history of the Hudson Valley as well as environmental and political topics of concern.
Emmy Howe, Educator & Co-Director of National SEED Project for Inclusive Curriculum
Dina Peone, Writer & Educator University of Chicago
Born and raised in Saugerties, Dina Peone teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Chicago. She has received numerous awards for her teaching and published writing, including: the Lucy Grealy Prize for Poetry; a Writer-in-Residence Award at the Jack Kerouac House; and a Pushcart nomination for her debut work of cultural criticism on Freddy Krueger. Founding Reviews Editor of Rolling Stone, Greil Marcus, featured her essay on karaoke in his time-honored column, "Real Life Rock Top Ten." In addition to hosting solo art shows around the Hudson Valley, Dina has founded an art and literature anthology at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a contributing writer and the editor of "New Icons," an exhibition catalog featuring Realist portraits of burn survivors by the painter Grace Athena Flott. Dina also writes creative copy for Emmy award-winning directors at the next-gen production company, ArtClass.
Rachel Gisela Cohen, Artist & Visual Arts Educator. Museum of Arts and Design, SVA Residency Program
Rachel Gisela Cohen is an artist, educator, and independent curator based in NYC. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, exhibiting at The Spring Break Art Show 2020, Armenia Art Fair, Pierogi Gallery’s The Boiler, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and Hunter College Art Galleries. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, COPE NYC, and the Montclair Art Museum. She received her M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute and a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from Drew University. Currently, she teaches as an Artist Educator at the Museum of Arts and Design and manages the School of Visual Arts Artist Residency Programs in New York City.
Kathleen Clinchy, Educator & Administrator: Brooklyn Friends School
Kathleen sees herself as equal parts educator, athlete and artist, and brings all parts of herself into her work with students each day. Raised by a family of teachers and coaches, Kathleen attended Franklin and Marshall College where she majored in English and minored in Studio Art. Kathleen has worked in public, charter and private schools for the past 15 years in NYC. She holds a Masters in Educational Leadership from Fordham University and is currently Assistant Head of Middle School at Brooklyn Friends, where she has been a teacher, softball coach, and Dean of Students. Kathleen firmly believes: 1) Who we are is how we lead 2) We should all aspire to be learners, not knowers 3) We should try to leave places better than we found them 4) Schools can be communities of true belonging for our students. Kathleen is incredibly excited for this opportunity to work with talented, curious and ambitious educators like you!