Jinghong Chen
Jinghong Chen is a cut paper artist currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. Born and raised in Fuzhou, China, her works are influenced by Chinese folk traditions. She often uses layers of paper or paper-like materials to play with light and shadow and create a sense of space. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration. Her works have been exhibited in Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, and Rhode Island. She is a 2021 Contemporary Art Department Fellow of RISD Museum and a 2023 resident at Peter Bullough Foundation.
For more information visit Jinghong's website here.
Jinghong will be teaching Papercutting, Book Making, and Painting at Middle School Camp and Papercutting, Book Making, and Drawing at High School Camp.
For more information visit Jinghong's website here.
Jinghong will be teaching Papercutting, Book Making, and Painting at Middle School Camp and Papercutting, Book Making, and Drawing at High School Camp.
Mike Tuckner
Mike Tuckner is an Army Veteran, entrepreneur, podcast host and professional photographer. He specializes in sports, music and street photography. He estimates that he has taken over 2.5 million photos over his 13 years as a professional photographer. He has photographed many musical acts including Chris Stapleton, Jelly Roll, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Sheryl Crow, The Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows and Imagine Dragons. One of his favorite things to do as a photographer is to “capture youth”. He believes in the philosophy that every photo taken appreciates in value over time and that if you don’t think photos are important, just wait until they are all you have left.
Mike will be teaching Digital Photography at High School Camp.
Mike will be teaching Digital Photography at High School Camp.
Niki Saludez
Niki Saludez (he/they) from the DMV to NYC, is a dancer, educator, and choreographer with over a decade of experience in his craft. Niki's artistic style is a culmination of years training in hip hop dance, street styles, contemporary dance, and music. His passions for people, movement, and the arts have taken him along the east coast and across the country in a journey to build community and uplift others, both in their craft and in life. Niki has been a part of works by artists including Don Diablo, Katy Perry, and made his Broadway debut in Hell's Kitchen after performing in the show's opening run at The Public Theater. Niki has also trained and featured in works with the companies tedted Performance Group, directed by Teddy Tedholm, and Soul Project Dance Company, directed by Candace Brown. Niki has taught and worked with a diverse group of students of all ages and experience. He has been a faculty member at Broadway Dance Center, Gibney Dance's outreach program Hands are for Holding, and Sitka Fine Arts Camp, sharing spaces where dancers feel safe to explore and challenge limiting mindsets, and to expand on their skills and unique voices as artists.
Niki will be teaching Hip Hop and Street Dance at Middle and High School Camp.
Niki will be teaching Hip Hop and Street Dance at Middle and High School Camp.
Cathryn Klusmeier
Cathryn Klusmeier is a writer living and working in Sitka, Alaska. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She also holds a master’s degree in medical anthropology from the University of Oxford, where her work focused on Alzheimer’s and other non-communicable diseases. Cathryn is the recipient of a 2021 Pushcart Prize, the winner of the 2018 MIT Media Lab’s Resisting Reduction Essay Competition, the winner of the 2018 Crazyhorse Creative Nonfiction Prize, and author in the book Against Reduction: Designing a Human Future with Machines. She has twice been a notable essay in The Best American Essays series and has received fellowships and recognition from the University of Oxford, the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the Sitka Fellows Artist Residency, Agni Literary Journal, the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize, Narrative Magazine’s “30 Below 30”contest, Hunger Mountain’s Creative Nonfiction Prize, and the Southampton Review’s Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. In her spare time Cathryn loves hiking, running, fishing, drawing, and living in Southeast Alaska.
For more information visit Cathryn's website here.
Cathryn will be teaching Writing Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Foundations of Fiction Writing at Middle School Camp.
For more information visit Cathryn's website here.
Cathryn will be teaching Writing Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Foundations of Fiction Writing at Middle School Camp.
Kaasteen Jill Meserve
Kaasteen Jill Meserve is a Lingít artist and language instructor. Kaasteen grew up in Hoonah, and graduated from UAS where she earned her BLA in Alaska Native Languages and Studies. As an artist, she specializes in beadwork, and most recently, Ravenstail weaving. Kaasteen has won the Best in Beadwork during Sealaska Heritage Instituteʼs biennial Celebrationʼs Juried Art Show. She has also sold pieces to individuals such as Sterlin Harjo, creator of Reservation Dogs on FX, Bobby Wilson, writer of shows such as Reservations Dogs and Rutherford Falls, and Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas. She has had pieces featured in the hit show Reservation Dogs on FX.
Her work can mainly be found on her Instagram page, @jill.kaasteen, or on her website here.
Kaasteen will be teaching Beading and Northwest Coast Woolen Weaving at High School Camp.
Her work can mainly be found on her Instagram page, @jill.kaasteen, or on her website here.
Kaasteen will be teaching Beading and Northwest Coast Woolen Weaving at High School Camp.
Jennifer Drake
Inspired by the power of music to connect people, ideas and communities, Jennifer Drake is a conductor, violist, teacher, clinician, and camp director. One of the most enthusiastic musicians you will ever meet, Jennifer is known for her versatility, humor, and energy. Jennifer is the Music Director of the Serenata Orchestra and the Boise Philharmonic Youth Orchestras She has been a guest conductor for the Idaho State Civic Symphony and Opera Idaho. Jennifer is the principal violist for the Boise Baroque Orchestra, as well as a section violist for the Boise Philharmonic. Jennifer has enjoyed an international chamber music career, performing at the 33rd International Viola Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland and the International Bass Clarinet Convention in Rotterdam, Holland. She has performed concerts in Iceland, Holland, Denmark, Romania, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria and Canada. Jennifer is the founder of Idaho Viola Camp. She is also the co-artistic director for the Idaho Orchestra Institute. Both camps provide students with unique outdoor experiences, in addition to high quality musical engagement. Jennifer is a highly sought after teacher and clinician. As a clinician, she is known for her infectious energy and ability to engage with ensembles of all levels. Recent All State orchestras conducted include Texas, Alabama, Nevada, Indiana, South Carolina, New Mexico, and Minnesota. She has also done MEA clinics in Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Montana, Colorado and Idaho. She has also been a featured clinician for Music for All and The Midwest Clinic. She has also been the cover girl for HerLife magazine. When she is not living the obviously glamorous lifestyle that being a conductor and cover girl must afford, she is cruising around in her 1985 Volkswagen camper van, calling the vet for her not-exactly-Corgi dogs Fergus and Cameron, thinking of how to avoid grocery shopping, and planning trips with her husband, Chad Marvin. Jen and Chad climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in January 2016. Jen is a very mediocre CrossFitter, cyclist, and hiker, and will gladly talk your ear off about any of these endeavors.
For more information visit Jennifer's website here.
Jennifer will be teaching String Technique, Orchestra, and Chamber Music at High School Camp.
For more information visit Jennifer's website here.
Jennifer will be teaching String Technique, Orchestra, and Chamber Music at High School Camp.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a professional cartoonist and visual artist from Charlotte, NC. She has a BFA from CalArts and has worked on projects like the Oscar-winning "Hair Love" and as a character designer for "Merry Little Batman." Now in Los Angeles, Erin works as a design artist and teaches at CalArts and CSU Long Beach.
For more information visit Erin's website here.
Erin will be teaching Animation at High School Camp.
For more information visit Erin's website here.
Erin will be teaching Animation at High School Camp.
Claire Shea Duncan
Claire Shea Duncan (she/her/elle) is an interdisciplinary costume designer and researcher from Granville, Ohio. She aims to collaborate with a guiding framework of cultural humility and empathy. She has a strong interest in the intersection of art, linguistics, and education and she believes the convergence of these concepts is storytelling. Claire has been based in France as an educator for the past two years and is incredibly excited for a third summer at SFAC.
For more information visit Claire's website here.
Claire will be teaching at Elementary Camp and teaching Costume Design, Upcycled Fashion, and Stitch Lab at Middle and High School Camp.
For more information visit Claire's website here.
Claire will be teaching at Elementary Camp and teaching Costume Design, Upcycled Fashion, and Stitch Lab at Middle and High School Camp.
Nat Dickey
Nat Dickey serves on the Concordia College faculty as chair of the music department and professor of music, teaching low brass and conducting the Cobber Athletic Band. During the summer, he serves as jazz trombone instructor at the International Music Camp. He is an SE Shires Trombone Artist. Dickey is currently principal trombonist of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, trombonist of the Post-Traumatic Funk Syndrome, and trombonist and leader of The Skipjacks jazz quartet. He has performed with the IRIS Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Vermont Symphony, and Boston Ballet. An active chamber musician, Dickey was a founding member of the Orion Trombone Quartet (winner of the Coleman Competition) and the Brass Mosaic, with which he performed at Carnegie Hall. Dickey performs frequent solo recitals and has performed as a soloist with the U.S. Army Orchestra, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, and numerous collegiate and public school ensembles. He appears on recordings with the IRIS Orchestra, the Post-Traumatic Funk Syndrome, the Paramount Brass, and Boston Symphony Orchestra principal trombonist Ron Barron. Dickey's first solo CD, "Collaborations," was released in 2014 and includes original compositions by Dickey himself, as well as by colleagues and former students. His second solo CD, "Reflections," was funded by a McKnight Fellowship and was released in May 2018. Both albums can be heard on Spotify and YouTube. As a conductor, Dickey has commissioned and premiered works from numerous renowned composers, including Benjamin Taylor, David Avshalomov, Andrew Boysen, Jr., Stephen Paulus, Elliott Schwartz, Mark Camphouse, Carol Barnett, Mary Ellen Childs, and Allen Feinstein. With the Symphonic Band, he directed the annual Composers Concert series, featuring contemporary music, including the work of student composers. Dickey previously served as assistant director of bands at Harvard University. He is a frequent band clinician and adjudicator. Dickey holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory (B.A. mathematics, B.M. music performance), Rice University (M.M. music performance), and the University of Minnesota (D.M.A. music).
Nat will be teaching Brass Technique, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Band at Middle School Camp.
Nat will be teaching Brass Technique, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Band at Middle School Camp.
Franco Zacha
Franco Zacha is an illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. By combining the world he observes with carefully crafted concepts, Franco captures emotions through the lens of solemnity and beauty. Today, his work can be found in publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
For more information visit Franco's website here.
Franco will be teaching Landscape Painting and Pen & Ink at High School Camp.
For more information visit Franco's website here.
Franco will be teaching Landscape Painting and Pen & Ink at High School Camp.
Eliana Athayde
Eliana Athayde is a bassist, singer, and composer living in Los Angeles. She has the pleasure of performing and recording with a wide range of artists including Madison Cunningham, Jon Batiste, Tim Heidecker, the Blasting Company, Weyes Blood, and Pomplamoose, as well as her own original music project, Jacaranda.
Eliana is currently touring nationally and internationally with Waxahatchee, and Tim Heidecker & the Very Good Band.
Eliana will be teaching at Elementary Camp and Rock Band and Songwriting at Middle School Camp.
Eliana is currently touring nationally and internationally with Waxahatchee, and Tim Heidecker & the Very Good Band.
Eliana will be teaching at Elementary Camp and Rock Band and Songwriting at Middle School Camp.
Sarah Diamond
Sarah Diamond is an Audio Producer at The New York Times based in New York City, New York. Previously, Sarah was a M. S. Journalism at Columbia University and also held positions at National Geographic Society, David Hinshaw, Meridian Hill Pictures, PBS, National Public Radio, Tregaron Conservancy, 76 Forward.
For more information visit Sarah's website here.
Sarah will be teaching Narrative Nonfiction, The Art of Storytelling, and Reporting 101 at High School Camp.
For more information visit Sarah's website here.
Sarah will be teaching Narrative Nonfiction, The Art of Storytelling, and Reporting 101 at High School Camp.
Kyle Athayde
Kyle Athayde is a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer, arranger, performer, teacher, and bandleader. A native of Orinda, California, Kyle primarily plays vibraphone, piano, trumpet, and drums, as well as bongo, congas, timbales, string bass, bass clarinet, sousaphone, and vocal percussion. He is the leader, conductor, and principal writer for the San Francisco/New York-based big band, Kyle Athayde Dance Party, a group acclaimed for its versatility in the wide scope of styles it performs. He is also a keyboard, trumpet, and percussion player for the Bay Area collective Jazz Mafia, and is the pianist for The New York Trumpet Ensemble. Influenced by the music of J. S. Bach, Duke Ellington, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eric Dolphy, Dmitri Shostakovich, Louis Armstrong, Igor Stravinsky, Charlie Parker, Olivier Messiaen, Art Tatum, and many others, Athayde composes and arranges music in a variety of genres, with an emphasis on jazz, classical, salsa, and electronic. While an undergraduate student at Juilliard, Kyle was heavily immersed in an interdisciplinary arts environment which included dance, drama, and music, which provided him the opportunity to further develop and refine his programmatic approach to composition. Athayde’s recent commissioned compositions and premieres include a double concerto for the New York Sinfonietta, a tone poem for Bobby Sanabria and The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra (the title track of their most recent album, ¡QUE VIVA HARLEM!), two pieces for choir and band for The University of Scranton’s performing ensembles, and music for the ending credits of the film Diller, Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line. He also arranged the music for the halftime show for the University of California at Berkeley Marching Band in their final performance of the 2013 season. Kyle is currently working on commissions for the Canadian Brass, The New York Trumpet Ensemble, Manhattan School of Music Trumpet Ensemble, and the San Francisco Conservatory Brass Choir. Committed to interdisciplinary educational outreach in the arts, Kyle has offered classes, clinics, lessons and masterclasses at schools, workshops, and camps in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Alaska. A regular visiting faculty member of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp, he recently developed and taught a class on video game music history and composition there, and directed the jazz band and a vocal hip hop class. He is the Director of Curriculum at the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop, and regularly offers clinics and masterclasses to middle school and high school bands throughout Northern California. Kyle has a wide range of interests, and loves to teach and learn about a variety of subjects, which brings a wide stylistic variety to his music, as his diverse interests inspire his work. A passionate fan of American football, the ruthless power and strategy of the sport influence his exciting writing style. An avid gamer, the music of these video games has inspired some of his most unusual and engaging compositions.
For more information visit Kyle's website here.
Kyle will be teaching Music Composition, Jazz Combos, and Electronic Video Game Music at Middle School Camp.
For more information visit Kyle's website here.
Kyle will be teaching Music Composition, Jazz Combos, and Electronic Video Game Music at Middle School Camp.
Zeke Blackwell
Zeke Blackwell has been involved in over 100 productions as a director, performer, writer, designer, and technician, and has had the joy of making theater in Sitka, Fort Worth, New Haven, New York, and Costa Rica, where he directed the world premiere of the Spanish-language version of Once On This Island! With almost two decades of improv comedy experience, he’s performed/taught improv around the country, and most recently at the Boston Comedy Arts Festival and the Wasatch Improv Festival in Salt Lake City. His original play, Still Life, was produced in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Cognitive Science. He served two years on the board of directors for Far Corners Community Musical theater, a non-profit dedicated to providing arts opportunities for underserved youth in isolated regions of the world. Once, he beat-boxed for Lin-Manuel Miranda. This is his 10th season year-round at SFAC as the Young Performers Theater Director.
Zeke will be teaching at Elementary Camp and teaching Clown Theater, Acting, and Shakespeare at Middle School Camp and Directing for the Stage, Shakespeare, and Musical Theater at High School Camp.
Zeke will be teaching at Elementary Camp and teaching Clown Theater, Acting, and Shakespeare at Middle School Camp and Directing for the Stage, Shakespeare, and Musical Theater at High School Camp.
Sarah Branton
Sarah Branton is in her 24th year of teaching and 19th at Cherry Creek High School in Denver, Colorado. She directs several of the school’s choirs and teaches AP Music Theory. Under her direction, choirs have performed at numerous state and regional conventions, Carnegie Hall, and have toured around the world. Prior to Cherry Creek, Ms. Branton taught choir and orchestra in Longmont, CO and Blaine, MN. She currently serves as Assistant Director, Section Leader, and sings with Kantorei, a Denver-based semi-professional choir. Additionally, she has been on faculty at the summer Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Sitka, Alaska, she sings with various ad hoc ensembles throughout the community and is an orchestral and jazz string bassist and served as principal bassist of the St. Olaf Orchestra. She is currently Chair of the Colorado All-State Choir and has previously served on the Colorado ACDA board. Ms. Branton holds music degrees from St. Olaf College and Colorado State University and is studying continuing education through Berklee College of Music.
Sarah will be teaching Vocal Technique, Opera Scenes & Songs, and Choir at High School Camp.
Sarah will be teaching Vocal Technique, Opera Scenes & Songs, and Choir at High School Camp.
Joe Burck
Joe Burck studies History Education for grades 5-12 with a minor in Theater Arts at Augustana College. Originally from Aurora, Illinois, Joe started learning about technical theater as a middle school camper at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp and is eager to return to Odess Theater and the Sitka Performing Arts Center. In his time at Augustana, Joe has worked on productions such as Macbeth (Assistant Sound Designer), Threepenny Opera (Sound Board Operator), Cabaret (Sound Designer), most recently Nine (Sound Designer), and currently works as a Scene Shop Supervisor in charge of managing set production. In the summers of 2022, 2023, and 2024, Joe worked at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp as the Technical Theater Intern, the Assistant Technical Manager, and the Technical Director. Joe collaborated on the 2022 SFAC production of Mamma Mia as the Pit Sound Board Operator and on the 2023 SFAC production of Cinderella as the Technical Director.
Joe will be teaching Live Event Production at Middle and High School Camp.
Joe will be teaching Live Event Production at Middle and High School Camp.
Olivia Cerullo
Olivia Cerullo is a musician, music director and educator. She started at Inspire in 2020 as the vocal music, musical theater and choir teacher. Olivia was raised in Chico and attended Chico State where she received a bachelors in music with a focus on vocal performance. As a musician Olivia has worked for many local theater companies including Theater ETC, Blue Room, Slow Theater and is currently the resident music director for California Regional Theater. From 2012-2018 Olivia was based in the Bay Area where she worked as a freelance music director for professional theater companies as well as a pianist for a collection of orchestras. When Olivia is not teaching she enjoys hiking, traveling, being outdoors and of course making music with friends and family.
Olivia will be teaching Piano, Broadway Song Workshop, and Musical Theater at Middle School Camp.
Olivia will be teaching Piano, Broadway Song Workshop, and Musical Theater at Middle School Camp.
Cleo DeOrio
Cleo DeOrio (she/her) is a Physical Theatre and Dance artist-teacher from Cleveland, Ohio. Cleo received a BA at Baldwin Wallace University, where she focused her studies in Directing and Choreography and an MFA from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, where she developed works such as Citizens of Nowhere and Visions of a Crying Girl. Cleo specializes in storytelling through movement, physical character development, emotional embodiment, and devising. She is on faculty at Dell’Arte teaching Dance and Movement classes.
Cleo will be teaching at Elementary Camp and teaching Acrobatics & Partnering, Mask Theater, and Slapstick Comedy at Middle and High School Camp.
Cleo will be teaching at Elementary Camp and teaching Acrobatics & Partnering, Mask Theater, and Slapstick Comedy at Middle and High School Camp.
Marissa Childers
Marissa Childers is a ceramic artist residing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was born in Florence, Alabama where she earned her BFA from the University of North Alabama. Upon graduating, she worked as a ceramic intern at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and soon after received her MFA from the University of Oklahoma. Her work explores moments of connection and intimacy while celebrating femininity and craft found within domestic spaces. She is often inspired by things that society deems as a ‘craft’ or ‘feminine’ such as quilting, sewing, and decoration. Marissa has exhibited her work at numerous galleries and has received various grants and awards to support her research, including support from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts. She was chosen as one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists of 2022, was an Emerging Artist for NCECA in 2023, and was a long-term Artist in Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in 2023/2024. She is an educator and studio technician at the University of Oklahoma and enjoys traveling around the US to teach ceramics.
For more information visit Marissa's website here.
Marissa will be teaching Ceramic Handbuilding and Wheel Thrown Pottery at Middle and High School Camp.
For more information visit Marissa's website here.
Marissa will be teaching Ceramic Handbuilding and Wheel Thrown Pottery at Middle and High School Camp.
Marco d'Ambrosio
Marco d'Ambrosio loves shaping music and sound, especially the kind that enhances the visual arts. Making music that is evocative, enlightening, and entertaining is a natural result of Marco's creative expression. Marco's musical baptism began shortly after moving from Italy to Boston, when at the age of nine he began playing trumpet. "It really all began in Italy," he reminisces, "when my father would take me to festivals in Florence. He would put me on his shoulders so I could watch the bands march by. I remember falling in love with the trumpet, mostly because it was so shiny! It wasn't until we emigrated to the United States that I had a chance to start playing in elementary school." With an insatiable appetite for all genres ("My first two albums purchased simultaneously were Maurice Andre Plays Baroque Trumpet Concertos and Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic") his musical awareness was soon captivated by film music, particularly the classic collaborations of Fellini and Nino Rota and the scores of Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrman and Jerry Goldsmith. This quickly led him to composition, with a special interest in fusing acoustic and electronic textures, which he pursued as a double major of music and engineering at the Hartt School of Music and University of Hartford. Marco has never been unduly influenced by cultural and stylistic constrictions. He is equally adept at playing and creating pieces that reflect classical, jazz, modern, and ethnic influences, and he thrives on blurring the lines between them. In many of his scores, you can hear various instruments like didgeridoo, dumbek and bodhran drums, melodica, Indian flutes, waterphones, and theremin along with handcrafted beats and stylized synthetic textures. Many of his compositions also reflect a romantic orchestral lyricism that can no doubt be traced to his summers performing and studying at the University of Siena and touring with the Puccini and International Festival Opera Orchestras. An East Coast transplant and Lucasfilm alum, Marco has made a niche for himself in a studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist, he has scored numerous award winning films, documentaries and theater projects including the anime hits Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures, and Fist of the Blue Sky as well as Haiku Tunnel (Sundance 2001), the Emmy-winning BLINK, Double Dare, and Red Diaper Baby for the Sundance Channel. Other scores of Marco's have been on projects produced by 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Lucasfilm Ltd., Dreamworks, Pixar, Columbia and HBO. In 2005, he was awarded a film scoring fellowship from the Sundance Institute, and in 2009 he was selected to participate in the BMI Conducting Workshop in Hollywood. You can also hear some of his noted scores in The Rape of Europa, winner of the Insight Award for Excellence (co-scored with Ben Decter) and 2009 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and Atomic Mom winner of the Gold Medal at the Park City Film Festival. Marco has also been responsible for designing much of the dynamic sound and music heard in the iconic THX logo trailer. Most recently, Marco has composed for H.P. Mendoza, Brian Benson, and long-time collaborators Josh and Jacob Kornbluth. Marco has also enjoyed a stint co-arranging and performing with Bob Weir (The Grateful Dead) and co-writing/producing songs with Michael Caranello (Santana) and Neal Schon (Journey). He has also served as a studio conductor for Disney, on the TV series Off the Map and Intelligence, working on great LA stages, like Capitol and Warner Bros., and is currently a regular conductor at Skywalker, working on larger scores for video games along with baton duty for other composers on their films. When he's not locked up in his mad sonic laboratory, Marco recharges his creative flow working the land at Valle Verde, the Sonoma County ranch he shares with his wife Terri and son Armando, and their dog Diva.
For more information visit Marco's website here.
Marco will be teaching Electronic Music, Music & Sound for Everyone, and Film & Media Composition at High School Camp.
For more information visit Marco's website here.
Marco will be teaching Electronic Music, Music & Sound for Everyone, and Film & Media Composition at High School Camp.
Gaz Ehrreich
Gaz Ehrreich is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator from California, currently residing in New England. Gaz graduated from Rhode Island School of Design where he carved out a path to study miniature modeling within the Illustration Department, alongside traditional drawing and painting. Professionally, Gaz is an accomplished architectural renderer, illustrator, muralist, and craftsman with a love for teaching and a lot of knowledge to give. He specializes in handmade art, fine craftsmanship, drafting, perspective, and lighting. He is also passionate about the connections between art and music, creative writing, humanity, AI, and apocalyptic fiction. He is currently working on a graphic novel and a series of scientific posters with the goal of better understanding the natural world. This summer he will be teaching courses in drawing perspective, stop motion animation, and miniature modeling.
For more information visit Gaz's website here.
Gaz will be teaching Making Miniatures, Drawing Perspective, and Painting at Middle School Camp.
For more information visit Gaz's website here.
Gaz will be teaching Making Miniatures, Drawing Perspective, and Painting at Middle School Camp.