Meet Our Staff
Linda Stauffer Jamie Roman Taryn Day Rebecca Lawerance
Megan Paden Teresa Giedgowd Gloria Lieght Valerie Martz Melinda Rose
Linda Stauffer
President and Founder
BS in Art Ed. KU, 28 years teaching in the Easton Area School District. A potter for over 30 years . Linda is a Macintosh expert and Webmaster, designer of numerous web sites. Adobe Photoshop user for over 10 years
Publish your Photos!
Using our computers, Linda walks students through the process of publishing their own Photo or memory books. Students use their photos to create a professional hard-bound book. Students can create Professional Portfolios, Wedding and Family Albums, the possibilities are endless. Makes an excellent gift for that someone special or for yourself
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Jamie Roman
Excutive Director
Jamie Roman is a Digital Artist. Working in Photoshop, she uses Digital Drawing techniques, as well as photo manipulation techniques to create original pieces of digital art and photographic Montages. Jamie is also an experienced web designer and manages many websites, specializing in the arts community.
PhotoShop
Bring your photos to class and get ready to have fun! Learn to edit, resize, & retouch your photos. Ages 12 and up.
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Taryn Day
Adult Drawing and Painting
Taryn Day is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was a recipient of the Ware Scholarship for European Travel. Taryn has her BFA, from the University of Pennsylvania. She has exhibited widely in the Philadelphia area, and recently completed an artist residency in Taos, New Mexico.
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Megan Paden
Ceramics
• Bachelors in Fine Arts, Concentration in Ceramics
• Certification K-12 Art Education
• 8 Years of Teaching Experience
• Megan was chosen to participate in a six week immersion to China, where she studied with Masters of Chinese ceramics
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Teresa Giedgowd
Fiber Arts and Children's Arts
• Associates in Early Childhood Education with extra credits in Family Psychology
• 30 Years of Teaching Experience
• Attended three WECAN [early childhood] conferences at Sunbridge College
• Attended two week-long sessions of Introduction to Waldorf Kindergarten at Sunbridge College
• Early Childhood Waldorf training
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Valerie Martz
3 Dimensional Paper Art
Create 3 Dimensional Paper Art that you can adapt to your scrapbooking. Students will make items such as Swivel Cards and Illusion Braids and Pysanky Traditional Eggs: Create a Traditional Ukrainian Pysanky Painted Egg, decorated using a wax-resist (batik) method.
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Melinda Rose
After a long productive career as a writer and Montessori teacher, Melinda Rose returned to college and graduated (summa cum Laude ’03) from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts/Photography. Her innovative approach using the image as a tool for healing has been used on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and more recently in Louisiana’s Bayou communities impacted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In 2007 Melinda became certified to teach art in Louisiana’s Public Schools.
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