Nicole Wells
Nicole Wells

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Nicole Wells has over 11 years of experience in Latin, ballroom, jazz, ballet, and social-partner dancing. She competed on the UC San Diego Dancesport team and served as Team President from 2017 to 2019. Currently she competes in international Latin dance with her fiancé.

 

On top of her dance experience, Nicole is pursuing a master’s degree in school psychology. In her work with children she has held many roles, including teaching assistant, nanny, and camp director. As a former behavior therapist for children with autism and other developmental disabilities, Nicole welcomes and encourages children of all ability levels to join her classes.

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Jeff Yeomans
Jeff Yeomans

Jeff Yeomans’ experience as an illustrator and graphic designer for the San Diego Reader in the 1970s eventually led to a career working in television as an award-winning San Diego broadcast designer and art director. In 2003, his wife encouraged him to consider painting full-time, and in 2014 he also began to teach. He enjoys painting many different subjects, and much of his work has explored the fragile beauty of California and the connected urban landscape, that ultimately impacts it. “As a regional painter, I feel a responsibility to document California as it is today. Someone told me, ‘paint what you know,’ so having grown up in Southern California, I paint to document where and how we live.”

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Lizzie Zelter
Lizzie Zelter

Lizzie Zelter received her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2022 and a BA in the Program in Literature from Duke University in 2018. Originally from New York, she has recently returned to San Diego after working at an immigration legal services non-profit in San Ysidro in 2019. Her art practice questions our relationship to public and private space through painting, sculpture, and installation. She utilizes fracturing, mirroring, and scale shifts to expose the strangeness of our built environment, putting viewers in a position to negotiate what surrounds them. Her work has been exhibited at ChaShaMa Gallery, Half Gallery, Spring/Break Art Show, and Winston Wächter Fine Art.

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