Andrew Alcasid
Andrew Alcasid

Andrew Alcasid is graduate of the museum studies program at San Diego Mesa College and previously studied figure drawing at Miramar College and North Park Drawing Group. He has held artist residencies at Bread & Salt and (now-shuttered) Helmuth Projects. As a mostly self-taught artist who started by experimenting with street art, Alcasid has over sixty works displayed on San Diego electrical boxes. His public murals include the "Omega Mural" in Mira Mesa and “Cube, Palm, Orchid” at the corner of Adams and Hawley in Normal Heights.

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Joe Annino
Joe Annino

Joe Annino grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and served his country in the US Air Force between 1952-1956. Shortly after that, he earned a B.F.A degree at Texas Christian University where he majored in Art education and minored in Spanish.

In 1967, he studied Studio Arts including drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking at the University of Miami and decided to focus on teaching once he was done. Over the years, Joe has been a teacher, graphic illustrator and physical conditioning instructor, in locations that included Cupertino, Santa Cruz, and San Diego.

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Shawnee Barton
Shawnee Barton

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Shawnee Barton is a Texas born multimedia artist, writer (poker player and mom) living in San Diego. She earned her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches at Cal State Long Beach.

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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.

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current instructorAngela LynchJill 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.

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current instructorAngela LynchLisa Bebi
Lydia Boehm
Lydia Boehm

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Lydia Boehm is a La Jolla native. She is an alum of Gillispie School and Bishop’s. After graduating from Oberlin College with a dual degree in Studio Art and Art History, she moved to New York where she assisted two artists and worked at an Auction House. In 2018, she received a Masters in Art studying painting at the Royal College of Art in London. Currently, she spends most of the year in London, splitting her time between painting in her studio and working at a handful of elementary schools as a substitute teacher.

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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.

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current instructorAngela LynchPierre 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.

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current instructorAngela LynchFrol Boundin
Axel Brecht
Axel Brecht

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Axel Brecht has been  printmaking since he was a young child. He attended OXBOW school in Napa, CA where he focused on Etching. He has worked as a printing assistant at Jungle Press in New York City, where he helped produce Etchings and Lithographs for various artists and has been a facilities manager at the Atheneum art center in San Diego.

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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.

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current instructorAngela LynchRivian 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.

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current instructorAngela LynchJudith Christensen
Donna Cosentino
Donna Cosentino

Donna Cosentino has been passionately engaged in photography since she experienced that first moment of darkroom magic in 1971. The street-shooting genre she practiced in the 1970s led to a job as a photojournalist at a daily newspaper, where she worked for eight years. Following that she taught photography at Palomar College and Grossmont College. Her teaching credits include creative processes, landscape, photojournalism, darkroom, and photographic portfolio. Donna has juried and curated multiple exhibitions and has lectured at the Museum of Photographic Arts, the California Center for the Arts, and camera clubs throughout Southern California.

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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.

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current instructorAngela LynchMarty 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.

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current instructorAngela LynchSharon Carol Demery
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.

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Melissa Ewart
Melissa Ewart

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Melissa Ewart is a graphic designer that loves crafty projects. She received a Visual Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (ICAM) from UC San Diego. Her career started in the hospitality industry working for a destination management company planning, staffing, and designing collateral for special events. Afterwards, Melissa managed a student-centered design and communications studio and advised a student-run apparel and promotional products company at UC San Diego, for almost 15 years. Melissa recently started her graphic design business, Other Duties as Designed LLC, focusing on digital and print work. In her spare time, she tries to keep up with her teenage daughter, loves taking Athenaeum watercolor classes, and works part-time as a field staff for special events.

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current instructorAngela LynchMelissa Ewart
Kirsten Francis
Kirsten Francis

Kirsten Francis is a collage and mixed-media artist living in Encinitas, California. She received a BFA in printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon. Francis creates intricate, dimensional collages using images sourced from magazines and books. By altering these images, Francis subverts their meaning, transforming them into visual expressions of her own thoughts, emotions, and anxieties. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Southern California.

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Jamie Franks
Jamie Franks

Jamie Franks is a multimedia artist living and working in San Diego. Her installation and video work has been exhibited at ICE Gallery, William D. Cannon Gallery, Bread & Salt, and Art Produce in San Diego, and at the Sesnon Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Kaori Fukuyama
Kaori Fukuyama

Kaori Fukuyama is a multi-disciplinary artist from Kumamoto, Japan, who currently lives and works in San Diego. Her practice spans paintings, drawings, sculptures, and site-specific installations that explore the interactions of color, light and shadow. She works with a variety of materials in pursuit of a deeper understanding of our visual perception. Fukuyama was an artist in residence at Bread & Salt in San Diego in 2018, completed a large-scale public art installation in North Park (San Diego), and is a recipient of San Diego Art Prize 2020. Her work is in private collections internationally and has been exhibited at multiple institutions, including Oceanside Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Diego Art Institute, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, and William D. Cannon Art Gallery.

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