Instructors
Crafts Center instructors are accomplished artists who provide unique learning experiences for students.
2017-2018
Mixed Media
- Laura Azzi: watercolor painting
- Austin Caskie: acrylic painting, drawing
- Yan Ma: Chinese brush painting
- Anne McLean: bookbinding
- Carol Fountain Nix: calligraphy
- Hayley Nordstrom: art journaling
- Jillian Ohl: drawing, fashion illustration
- Dominick Rapone: screen printing
- Smote: papermaking
Clay
- Colleen Adair: pottery
- Gaines Bailey: pottery
- Edge Barnes: pottery
- Marina Bosetti: pottery
- Jake Goodnight: pottery
- Barbara McKenzie: pottery
- Sherry Nicholson: pottery
- Charlene Poisel: pottery
- Gretchen Quinn: pottery
- Heather Rhymes: pottery
- Jennifer Siegel: ceramics
- Jo Ellen Westmoreland: pottery
Fiber
- Grace Bilbao: crochet
- Claudia “Claude” Bolger: knitting
- Jane Bynum: spinning wheel
- Wanda Borrelli: hand-dyed silk scarves
- Peggy Forster: art quilting
- Gina Fry: sewing
- Maggy Inman: weaving
- Natalie Kaelin: tapestry weaving
- Bailey Knight: sewing, indigo dyeing
- Barbara McGeachy: basket weaving
- Roberta Morgan: felting, wool quilling
- Hayley Nordstrom: crochet
- Jo Ellen Westmoreland: silk transfer dyeing
- Anne Willson: basket weaving
Glass
- Jean Cheely: fused and slumped glass
- Jonathan Davis: off-mandrell borosilicate flameworking
- Kathy Driggers: lampwork beads
- Danene Groenke: fused glass
- Kaleigh Hessel: lampworking
- Deborah Rodgers: stained glass
Jewelry & Metals
- John Fetvedt: chain maille & fold forming metals
- Barabara Gautreaux: leather jewelry
- Leigh Griffin: metal jewelry
- Kaleigh Hessel: PMC3 jewelry
- Lillian Jones: metal jewelry & enameling (cloisonne)
- Ndidi Kowalczyk: enameling
- Gary McCutchen: silversmithing
- Robert Morgan: jewelry from recycled materials
- Alicia Moya-Mendez: wire wrap jewelry
- Naomi Profesorsky: beaded jewelry
- Linda Searcy: metal jewelry
- Sarah Tector: metal jewelry, casting
- Amy Veatch: metal jewelry
- Jo Ellen Westmoreland: beaded jewelry, chain maille jewelry
Lapidary
- Bob Bendelow: faceting
- Neil Chernoff: cabochons
- Linda Searcy: cabochons
Photography
- Fahad AlSuwaidi: pinhole photography
- Gary Knight: B&W photography/darkroom, digital photography, green screen photography, studio photography
- Katy Walls: B&W photography/darkroom, pinhole camera photography
Wood
- Tim Bevacqua: woodworking
- Tal Bevacqua: woodworking
- Norm Cloutier: woodturning
- Zach Gregory: woodworking, woodturning
- Leon Harkins: wood carving
- Maria Lai: scroll saw
- Alan Leland: woodturning
- Stephen Reeves: Shopbot CNC Router
- Bob Reuss: woodturning
- Hilary Smith: longboard skateboards
- George Thomas: woodworking, carving, wood turning
- David Trueblood: woodworking
- Bill Wallace: woodturning
- Jim Wallace: woodturning
- Beth Woody: marquetry
Specialty Classes and Workshops
- Angel Cruz: handmade soaps & lotions
- Gina Fry: leather work
- Sam Mayes (NC State student): electric cigar box guitars
- Alexis Mitchell (NC State student): bike repair & maintenance