Judi Tentor is a book artist, photographer, and educator living in San Diego. She earned her bachelor’s degree at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and her MLA at Ohio State University. Her work focuses on issues of the environment, aspects of memory, analog photo print processes, and the history of photography.
Read MoreSteven Topham fell in love with stop-motion animation while making a short film with some fantastic components that couldn’t easily be made with live action. Immediately realizing the unlimited potential available within animation and the additional tricks that stop-motion affords the medium, he set about creating animation and didn’t look back. Steven works as a freelance artist in San Diego and runs the after school, nonprofit program Animate A Way, which teaches social awareness issues and how to convey them to others through animation and storytelling.
Read MoreTammy Hills is a teacher at La Jolla United Methodist Nursery School. She graduated from UCSB with a B.A. in Psychology in 2011 and in 2021 completed her M.S. in Child and Family Development from SDSU. Over the years, she has worked in various spaces and learned to love every age group. She is passionate that play-based learning offers limitless learning opportunities and growth.
Read MoreVicki Walsh has been a professional artist for over thirty years, working both as a medical illustrator and fine artist. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout San Diego County and the entire state. Several critical essays have been written about her work in a wide variety of local and regional publications. She earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has taught a number of painting and illustration classes in local colleges since that time. She is often invited to lecture at local museum and art group functions, conducts master classes, and gives private painting lessons, while continuing with her prolific and successful studio practice.
Read MoreNEW INSTRUCTOR! Susan Walters has taught art (K–6th grade) at the Gillispie School for over 30 years. She studied fine art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and The Art Students League of New York.
Read MoreNEW 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.
Read MoreJeff 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.”
Read MoreLizzie 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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