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Geoff Allen

Geoff Allen

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Geoff Allen received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in California and taught drawing, design, and painting courses at the college level. He lives in the San Diego area and is a member of the San Diego Watercolor Society, California Art Club, National Watercolor Society, and American Impressionist Society. Geoff is a Signature Member of the Laguna Plein Air Painter’s Association.

Allen is an award-winning plein air artist, who most recently received the first-place Artist’s Choice Award at Sonoma Plein Air Invitational 2023, the Hilbert Museum of California Art Award at the Laguna Plein Air Invitational 2023, among many other awards.

current instructorAngela LynchOctober 2, 2020Geoff Allen

Carmen Baca Barnard

Carmen Baca Barnard

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Carmen Baca Barnard was born in Michoacán, Mexico, and has lived in both the United States and Mexico since infancy in a bicultural and bilingual family. Carmen has taught art to children and young adults through UCSD’s Rec Department, has volunteered in local North County schools, and has taught privately in her hometown of Morelia. There, she trained for over 17 years under the tutelage of Alfredo Zalce and for 2 years under Gilberto Ramírez—both second-and- third-generation Mexican School artists—focusing on mixed technique easel painting and printmaking.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 30, 2020Carmen Baca Barnard

Jill Badonsky

Jill Badonsky

Jill Badonsky is an internationally recognized creativity mentor and creator of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification. She is a multimedia artist, playwright, and author-illustrator of three inspirational books about creativity—The Muse Is In: An Owner’s Manual to Your Creativity, The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration, and The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder—that have freed the creativity of thousands of individuals. She teaches workshops throughout the country and in France, runs biannual creativity retreats in New Mexico, and teaches creativity classes in San Diego.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 29, 2020Jill Badonsky

Lisa Bebi

Lisa Bebi

Lisa Bebi, since a small child, has loved two things: looking through snapshots in her family album and painting as expression. For over three decades, the San Diego native has married these two things together, and her work has received international awards and recognition for its content, style, and color. Lisa received her BA in fine arts from San Diego State University (SDSU), where she developed as a colorist, straddling representation with abstraction. Daughter of a journalist, Lisa always finds ways to tell the untold story she sees in snapshots.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 29, 2020Lisa Bebi

Pierre Bounaud

Pierre Bounaud

Pierre Bounaud is a San Diego–based ceramic artist working from his home studio overlooking the scenic Talmadge neighborhood canyons. Born and raised in the Provence region of France, Pierre studied chemistry before clay took over his life and became his muse. Combining his love of experimentation and architecture, Pierre creates original, colorful, and textural functional wares, as well as sculptural vessels and geometric abstract structures. Pierre is a member of the San Diego Potters’ Guild, exhibiting in the guild’s gallery and twice a year during the guild’s semiannual shows.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 28, 2020Pierre Bounaud

Frol Boundin

Frol Boundin

Frol Boundin was born in 1974, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia), where he received his initial artistic training in the traditions of social realism from his grandfather, the painter Victor Boundin, and at the Leningrad School of General Arts. After moving to the United States, he received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Boundin lived and worked in Chicago for 10 years, focusing on large-scale abstract paintings and prints, collaborative installations, and graphic design projects. In 2013, he earned an MFA from the University of New Mexico.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 27, 2020Frol Boundin

Rivian Bütikofer

Rivian Bütikofer

Rivian Bütikofer earned a BA in painting and printmaking from SDSU and an MA in education from Point Loma Nazarene College. As an artist and longtime educator, Rivian combines her educational experience and extensive background in art, drama, and art therapy with an enthusiastic and encouraging teaching style. She has been an artist-in-residence and a visual arts resource administrator, K–12, for the San Diego Unified School District and has taught at the secondary level in several area schools. Rivian has also taught at her own art school, The Magic of Art, as well as at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), and San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), and was a consultant to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 26, 2020Rivian Bütikofer

Judith Christensen

Judith Christensen

Judith Christensen has been making books for 25 years. She has taught book-making at Grossmont College and has been an artist-in-residence at numerous elementary schools in San Diego County. Working with San Diego Book Arts Education and Outreach Programs and the County and the City Schools’ Deaf Education Program, she has designed and directed artists’ books projects for K–8 students, teachers, and school administrators. Her artist’s books are widely exhibited and are included in the UC San Diego Special Collections, the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts, and the University of Washington Libraries' Special Collections, among others.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 25, 2020Judith Christensen

Marty Davis

Marty Davis

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Marty Davis is a sculptor, illustrator and animator whose work has appeared in video games for Sega, Sony and Disney/Pixar. As a sculptor, Marty assisted former La Jolla Athenaeum instructor and master sculptor A. Wasil on many San Diego public sculptures over the years, including the Stations of the Cross at Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, and Mary Star of the Sea in La Jolla. Additionally, Marty taught at the La Jolla Athenaeum for many years prior to moving away from San Diego. Now that he and his wife have moved back to town, he is excited to resume his association with the Athenaeum.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 25, 2020Marty Davis

Sharon Carol Demery

Sharon Carol Demery

Sharon Carol Demery moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, where she studied and began her career. There she developed her modern art with an affinity for vibrant color, purity, and simplicity depicting images of abstraction that retain their cohesiveness. She was associated with the 1970s Abstract Illusionism movement. Primarily considered to be an abstract painter, her artistic facility and mixed-genre style depict an artist capable of eluding classification working in both abstraction and representational painting. Sharon has shown in galleries and museums around the country, and her work is in many private and public collections.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 24, 2020Sharon Carol Demery

Anna DiMartino

Anna DiMartino

Anna DiMartino is an artist, writer and educator. She has a BA in Art with an emphasis in Printmaking from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry from Pacific University. Anna enjoys ceramics, printmaking, wood carving and fiber arts.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 23, 2020Anna DiMartino

Tomory Dodge

Tomory Dodge

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Tomory Dodge (b. 1974, Denver, Colorado) received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence) and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts (Valencia) in 2004. Tomory is the subject of recent, current, and forthcoming exhibitions at Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, for solo exhibitions, Newfoundland and Back and Hair into Gold and Back Again, and the group exhibition Pocket Universe.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 23, 2020Tomory Dodge

Ken Goldman

Ken Goldman

Ken Goldman studied at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, and New York Studio School. A recipient of numerous awards, Ken has exhibited widely in various group shows and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Holland, Paris, Mexico, China, Italy, Greece, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and San Diego. Ken’s work is included in the permanent collections of SDMA, Hilbert Museum of California Art, North Carolina’s Hickory Museum of Fine Art, the San Diego Museum of Natural History, and the Zuo Wen Museum in Qingdao, China.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 21, 2020Ken Goldman

Stephanie Goldman

Stephanie Goldman

Stephanie Goldman is known for her richly colored figures, insightful portraits, boldly painted miniatures and dynamic charcoal, graphite, and ink drawings. Having studied with and been greatly influenced by artists Ken Goldman, Wolf Kahn, and Nelson Shanks (at Studio Incamminati), she imbues her work with focused creativity and experimentation. Memorable exhibitions include 15 unique portraits of children entitled I Am A Child at the Riverside Art Museum; Bearing Exquisite Witness at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego; and many national and international group exhibitions.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 20, 2020Stephanie Goldman

Stan Goudey

Stan Goudey

Stan Goudey, AWS, SDWS, WFWS, started painting in grade school. He received formal training at Grossmont College and studied figure drawing and illustration at the Art Center of Design, Los Angeles. He was commissioned for illustrations for books and magazines, including Psychology Today and Oceans. His constant goal is to try to paint to the standards of the masters—the old ones as well as the new. Personal favorites include Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Arnie Westerman, John Salminen, and Ted Rose.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 19, 2020Stan Goudey

Emily Grenader

Emily Grenader

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Emily Grenader is an artist and arts educator living in San Diego. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Emily uses various mediums in her artwork and enjoys sharing a multidisciplinary perspective with students. Her work has been published and exhibited across the country.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 18, 2020Emily Grenader

Suda House

Suda House is a photographer of national and international reputation living and working in San Diego. She has taught photographic processes since 1977, first in the Los Angeles area. Since 1980 she has been a professor of art and photography at Grossmont College, where she has also served as Art Department chair and coordinated the Digital Media Arts Lab.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 17, 2020Suda House

Kevin Inman

Kevin Inman

Kevin Inman was born in Honolulu and grew up on US Military installations around the world. He attended the Universitat de Valencia, Spain, graduated from the University of Virginia, and earned an MFA in oil painting from Radford University. Inman formerly worked in IT. During graduate school, he transitioned from large abstract canvases to an approach informed by the Bay Area Figurative School and the Spanish Baroque. He has traveled extensively around Spain and Italy studying painting, especially the Venetian school. The recipient of numerous awards for plein air painting, Inman has been a professional artist for 10 years.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 16, 2020Kevin Inman

Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly

Pat Kelly is an accomplished and versatile artist known for her large-scale floral paintings in oils. Proficient in plein air, landscape, and still life, she is especially admired as a colorist and for her color theory workshops. A dedicated and experienced painting instructor, her teaching method includes elements of art history, classical painting technique, and color theory. Pat received a BA in visual art from UCSD and currently maintains a studio in Ramona. She teaches painting classes and workshops at the Athenaeum and The Art Center in Ramona and is represented by Santa Ysabel Art Gallery.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 16, 2020Pat Kelly

Canada Kerwin

Canada Kerwin

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Canada Kerwin has worked as a K–Grade 2 art volunteer since 2005, creating age-appropriate lessons that include introduction to art theory and artists’ biographies and tie-in to curricula as needed. Retired from the healthcare field, Canada also served in the US Navy. She applies her background experience to her ongoing art studies at Mira Costa College, focusing on the human form through life drawing and sculpture. She says, “Capturing the infinite expressions of the body through gesture and line is a very fascinating and gratifying practice.”

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 15, 2020Canada Kerwin