Instructors
Crafts Center instructors are accomplished artists who provide unique learning experiences for students.
2016-2017
Art on Paper
- Kirk Adam: acrylic painting, screen printing
- Laura Azzi: watercolor painting
- Yan Ma: Chinese brush painting
- Anne McLean: bookbinding
- Jillian Ohl: drawing
- Gabby Seider (NC State student): origami
- Susan Soper: linoleum block printing
Clay
- Colleen Adair: pottery
- Gaines Bailey: pottery
- Edge Barnes: pottery
- Marina Bosetti: pottery
- Barbara McKenzie: pottery
- Julie Olson: pottery
- Charlene Poisel: pottery
- Gabby Seider (NC State student): pottery
- Jennifer Siegel: ceramics
- Wah Tran (NC State student): pottery
- Stephen Waddell (NC State student): clay flutes
- Conrad Weiser: pottery, raku firing
- Jo Ellen Westmoreland: pottery
Fiber
- Azlyn Arnett (NC State student): crochet
- Claudia “Claude” Bolger: knitting
- Jane Bynum: spinning wheel
- Wanda Borrelli: hand-dyed silk scarves
- Peggy Forster: art quilting
- Maggy Inman: weaving
- Shelly King: weaving
- Barbara McGeachy: basket weaving
- Roberta Morgan: felting, wool quilling
- Natalie Kaelin: tapestry weaving
- Carol Sell: Kumihimo (Japanese Braiding)
- Jo Ellen Westmoreland: silk transfer dyeing
Glass
- Jean Cheely: fused and slumped glass
- Jonathan Davis: off-mandrell glass
- Kathy Driggers: lampwork beads
- Betty Fetvedt: fused glass & lampwork beads
- Janie Jones: lampworking
- Kaleigh Hessel: lampwork beads
- Danene Groenke: fused glass
- Eva Johannes: stained glass
- Deborah Rodgers: stained glass
Jewelry & Metals
- Azlyn Arnett (NC State student): wire wrap jewelry
- John Fetvedt: chain maille & fold forming metals
- Barabara Gautreaux: painted leather
- Leigh Griffin: metal jewelry
- Kaleigh Hessel: PMC3 jewelry
- Lillian Jones: metal jewelry & enameling (cloisonne)
- Kathy King: beaded jewelry
- Ndidi Kowalczyk: enameling
- Li Marcus (NC State student): wire-wrap jewelry
- Sissy Marshall: jewelry & metals
- Gary McCutchen: silversmithing
- Sandra McEwen: enameling (cloisonné)
- Alicia Moya-Mendez: wire wrap jewelry
- Naomi Profesorsky: beaded jewelry
- Linda Searcy: metal jewelry
- Sarah Tector: metal jewelry
- Jo Ellen Westmoreland: beaded jewelry, chain maille jewelry
Lapidary
- Bob Bendelow: faceting
- Neil Chernoff: cabochons
Photography
- Gary Knight: B&W photography/darkroom, digital photography, green screen photography, studio photography
- Katy Walls: B&W photography/darkroom, pinhole camera photography. digital photography
Wood
- Roger Austin: woodturning
- Alex Barnes (NC State student): woodturning
- Tim Bevacqua: woodworking
- Norm Cloutier: woodturning
- Leon Harkins: wood carving
- Maria Lai: scroll saw
- Alan Leland: woodturning
- John Metzler (NC State student): scroll saw
- George Thomas: woodworking, carving, wood turning
- David Trueblood: woodworking
- Bill Wallace: woodturning
- Jim Wallace: woodturning
- Beth Woody: marquetry
Specialty Classes and Workshops
- Kirk Adam: guitar lessons
- William Barnes: bike repair & maintenance
- Ben Chiles (NC State student): skateboard decks, scroll saw imagery
- Sallye Coyle: CNC Router/ShopBot
- Angel Cruz (NC State student): handmade soaps & lotions
- Caleb Gallentine (NC State student): skateboard decks
- Christopher Holmes (NC State student): bike repair & maintenance
- Sam Mayes (NC State student): electric cigar box guitars
- Sam Patterson (NC State student): bike repair & maintenance, skateboard decks
- Jayne Redman: Jewelry/metal (Keum-boo process)
- Hilary Smith (NC State student): skateboard decks
- Sophie Wiseman-Floyd (NC State student): leather work