Teaching Artists
Teaching Artists are what makes The DRAW and MKAD such a valuable resource for Midtown Kingston. They provide access and support for the arts to advance, engage, unite, and enrich a vibrant community in Midtown Kingston. We couldn’t do it without them and all of their amazing hard work.
Rakel Stammer
Rakel Stammer is a Danish-American interdisciplinary artist, puppeteer, printmaker, and award winning cartoonist.
Christine Domino
Christine Domino is a Kingston, NY–based collage and mixed media artist with over 40 years of experience as a maker.
Daniela Arizmendi
Daniela Arizmendi is an educator and artist. Her work takes inspiration from the cycles of the seasons and uses natural materials.
Coryn Nadeau
Coryn Nadeau is an art teacher and art therapist. She has worked to connect different age groups and settings with the arts and wellness.
Dilara Miller
Dilara Miller is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the Hudson Valley. Dilara Worked in community print studios for over 7 years.
Alyssa Gougoutris
Alyssa Gougoutris is an artist based in Kingston, NY. She has a background in Fine Arts and received her BFA majoring in printmaking.
Sophia Bon
They primarily work with sculptural book forms, paper making, and drawing on the subjects of touch, communication, environment, and relation.
John Quinn
John Quinn is an animator who works in both hand-drawn and stop-motion animation. He’s interested in the tactility of analog methods
Lora Shelley
RISD Graduate, (BFA - Illustration ’94), Lora has been exhibiting her work near and far for over 30 years.
Riss Principe
Riss Principe is a mixed media artist and educator. They believe making art is for everyone and aim to translate that in their art education.
Allanna Rebbeck
Allanna has a professional background in digital and architectural design. She approaches education as a practice of deepening connection to ourselves.
Olga Joan
Olga Joan creates modern handcrafted homegoods, made locally, with ethical and sustainable methods in mind.
Tatana Kellner
Tatana Kellner, Co-Founder of Women’s Studio Workshop, has been printing, assembling images and artists’ books for over 35 years.
Ezra Heller
Ezra is a teaching artist at multiple arts organizations and is passionate about building community through learning and teaching.
Vaea Dang
Vaea Dang is a French-Polynesian visual artist, workshop facilitator, and sketchbook keeper. Vaea helps people reconnect.
Beth Humphrey
Beth Humphrey studied printmaking at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and surface design at Oregon College of Art and Craft.
Maxine Leu
Maxine Leu is an interdisciplinary artist, art educator, and environmentalist from Taiwan. Her work focuses on the environment, communication, and identity.
Chris O’Neal
Chris O'Neal was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He works in a range of media, from drawing and painting to poster and website design
Lara Giordano
Lara Giordano (Founder, Director of The D.R.A.W.) is an arts advocate, artist, retired Kingston High School art teacher and art educator.
Cole Solis
Cole Solis Jativa is an Ecuadorian interdisciplinary artist with a passionate lens in printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and poetry.
Judith Hoyt
Judith Hoyt has been making art with found metal, paper collage, and encaustic wax for over 35 years. She has received national honors and awards.
Larry Jackson
Larry Jackson works as a designer, maker and educator to make enduring art education projects, concepts and experiences.
Maureen Cummins
Maureen Cummins received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, where she studied Fine Art with an emphasis on Printmaking and Book Arts.
Marielena Ferrer
Marielena Ferrer is a socially engaged visual artist and the executive director of Humanamente, a diversity consulting organization.
Joseph Pine
Joseph Pine is an artist His work explores form, surface, texture and patina through metalsmithing, sculpture, drawing and painting.
Laura Moriarty
Laura Moriarty makes process-driven works whose forms, colors, textures and patterns mimic those found in nature.
Joe Gonzalez
Joe Gonzalez has been taking photographs for over 25 years for both personal joy and to share with others.
Jocelyn Bergen
Jocelyn Bergen has been making limited-edition book art for over twenty years. She has BAs in English and Fine Art from UC Berkeley.
Norah Maki
Norah Maki is an artist and social designer interested in complex systems, narrative, and myth. Her work is held in various public and private collections.
Corina Willette
Corina Willette is inspired by the things that make us human: feelings, experiences, perceptions, play and magic.
Lindsey Wolkowicz
Lindsey A. Wolkowicz is a multidisciplinary artist who’s work examines the relationship between us and the spaces we occupy.
Jason Mones
Jason has a passion for providing creative opportunities to Kingston’s underserved communities through fostering active engagement in the arts.
Pablo Shine
Born in Puerto Rico, Pablo Shine first studied painting under his father, Professor James Shine, at the Art Student League in Puerto Rico.
Wayne Montecalvo
Wayne Montecalvo is a multi-disciplinary artist who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
