Spencer Tinkham developed a fondness for the natural world, investigating the water’s edge throughout his childhood.  Before passing away from cancer, his grandfather instilled a lifelong passion for carving at age eight.  Nothing enthralled Spencer more than large flocks of hungry waterfowl wintering behind his home.  His first carvings were from small wood scraps.  Next, Spencer carved life-sized duck decoys to lure waterfowl closer and to critique his work next to wild birds.  As a teenager, he twice won the Youth World Duck Decoy Carving Championship.  His sculptures are no longer utilitarian, but Spencer still uses many reclaimed materials.  Entirely self-taught, his recent body of work was inspired by a feather he closely examined on a daily walk during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Colors, shapes, and textures in natural objects, which are not easily discernible to the human eye, inspired his “macroscultpures.”  Spencer’s work is collected and exhibited internationally.  He is a David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year 2023 finalist and has pieces in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and Dollar Tree, Inc. collections.

https://www.facebook.com/SpencerTinkhamArt @spencer.tinkham.art https://www.spencertinkhamart.com

Douglas Garey, Blacksmith, is an artist who combines his keen observation of shape and form with his love and respect for nature. His degree is in entomology, but his training in blacksmithing from Frank Turley in Santa Fe in 1982 set him on his present path of architectural, functional and artistic ironwork. He resides in Ingram , Tx. During his Penny Redmon Workshop, Doug led participants in creating several pieces using blacksmithing techniques.

Lyn Belisle, nationally-known San Antonio mixed media artist, works with Texas clay and wood, beeswax, found objects, paint, paper and sinew to produce unique spiritual and symbolic assemblages, collages, and paintings. She is an active member of the San Antonio Art League (Past President), the Fiber Artists of San Antonio (Co-President), The San Antonio Potters' Guild, the Encaustic Art institute, the International Encaustic Artists (Vice-President), and the American Craft Council. During her Penny Redmon Workshop, Lyn led students in encaustic collages, focusing on how to tell unique stories through layering.

https://www.lynbelisle.com

Marley Foster is a mixed media artist teaching and creating in Houston, TX.

In the workshop, Marley discussed quilting techniques and history in the U.S. and covered basic quilt block patterning and embroidery skills. Community members created two quilt patches: one to contribute to the community quilt, the other to take home. Attendees will used simple embroidery techniques to stitch words or phrases of things that protect them onto repurposed fabric.

https://www.marleyfoster.com

Delaney Smith is a visual artist, designer and educator. She primarily works with handmade paper to create sculpture, and explores text and typography within her work. Her interactive books emerge from the inherent qualities of material and develop as the viewer alters the pages. As a result, each book is a unique story of marks based on unpredictable outcomes. In the same vein, she alters common materials in her sculptures, such as tracing paper and receipts, creating rich landscapes with incidental textures.

During her workshop, students learned the basics of using natural dyeing and used pre-dyed cotton fabric to coil a two-toned medium sized bowl.

http://www.delaneysmith.studio/

Caryl Gaubatz is a fabric artist from Garden Ridge, TX. Dyeing her own fabric and creating from it garments that are both narrative and symbolic.

In her workshop at Rockport Center for the Arts, she lead attendees in several dyeing techniques.

http://www.carylgaubatz.com/

Tabitha Whitley is a Brooklyn based artist with a focus in oil painting and relief printmaking. Tabitha received her BFA in Painting from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009, then went on to receive MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2011. She is the current President of the Alumni Association of the New York Academy of Art and a serving member of the Board of Trustees. Tabitha has had her work shown in galleries throughout the United States, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

In her workshop, students created and printed linocut.

https://www.tabithawhitley.com/

Elizabeth Misitano is a Long Island based artist working primarily in oil paint and ballpoint pen. In her work, she explores the concept of sentimentality and nostalgia that people have for objects, places, and animals. She holds a Bachelors in Art, with a concentration in painting and a Minor in Art History from Adelphi University in 2007 and a Masters of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting and artistic anatomy from The New York Academy of Art.

In her workshop, students learned ballpoint pen drawing techniques to create a variety of textures, and the pros and cons of working from photo reference.

Diana Corvelle is a figurative artist born in New York. She received her MFA in Drawing from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Diana works primarily in gouache on paper, layering small cross-hatching marks to build realistic color and form. She has shown in exhibitions across the country and internationally, including her residency at Eden Rock Gallery in St. Barths, French West Indies, that culminated in her solo show The Delicacy of Memory: Studies on Paper. Her public works include large scale and commemorative projects at South Nassau Community Hospital and the Rockville Centre Public Library. She curated the group exhibition of fine art in lockets - Love It, Locket, Leave It - for Island Weiss Gallery in New York, which was later exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts store in Washington, D.C. Her last solo exhibition of works on paper, Yes All Women, was shown at Dacia gallery in NY in April, 2019. Diana currently lives and works in the Bay Area.

In her workshop, students worked with gouache and papercutting.

Michael Meadors is a realistic figurative artist living and working in NYC/New Jersey.

In his workshop, students worked with graphite.

Jessie Brugger is a painter, drawer, and sculptor who uses all mediums to create stop motion animation videos. Her work is about her personal story: Being a Woman, living in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and growing up in Auburn, Washington. She is interested in how women are projected both presently and historically. The Catholic Church was a big influence on her life and work; as it is the first place she understood hierarchy, power struggles and gender injustice, at the same time experiencing beauty, light, and spirituality.

In her workshop, Jesse led both adults and high school students in creating stop-motion animation videos that screened at the Rockport Film Festival.

Lauren Amalia was born in Naples, Florida in 1987, and studied at Northwestern University (BFA) and New York Academy of Art (MFA). She lived and worked in Queens, New York for seven years following graduate school. In 2018, she and her husband co-founded H&R Studio in Naples, where they both produce artwork, lead programs, and teach privately.

Lauren works primarily in silverpoint, and her subjects include portraits of her family and heritage to self-portraits as an astronaut. In her workshops, students worked with both silverpoint and goldleaf.

http://www.laurenredding.com

Andrea Williams was educated as a figurative artist in the tradition of working from life. Her work explores perception and persistence. What do we create and what fragments remain? What are the indelible physical effects of our actions? She creating bold prints to imagine and interpret the interior space of the body, its function and fragility.

In her workshop, students explored monoprints.