Sibyl Rubottom

Sibyl Rubottom holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was awarded European Honors and studied in Rome for a year. For over 25 years Sibyl made fabric art for the interior design trade. She is former proprietor of Bay Park Press, which was a small fine arts press specializing in limited edition artists’ books and fine intaglio prints. Sibyl is currently manager of the Print Studio at the Athenaeum Art Center. Sibyl’s books are held in numerous collections, including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, John Hay Library at Brown University, Sterling Library at Yale University, Geisel Library (Mandeville Special Collections) at UCSD, the Malcolm A. Love Library at SDSU, the Athenaeum, and various public and private collections.

Angela LynchSeptember 6, 2020Sibyl Rubottom

Katie Ruiz

Katie Ruiz is a Chicana artist who resides in San Diego. She was raised in Los Angeles and Northern Arizona. Ruiz has a strong connection with nature and often uses natural objects like rocks, shells, leaves, and sticks in her weavings and sculptures. Ruiz is figure painter, sculptor, and weaver. Best known for her blanket series, Ruiz portrays couples standing or lying under colorful Mexican blankets. Geometric patterns and bright colors are reiterated throughout her work. Her travels to over 22 countries have influenced her work, especially the patterns that are primarily derived from Latin American textiles.

Angela LynchSeptember 5, 2020Katie Ruiz

Esteban Saltos

NEW INSTRUCTOR! Esteban Saltos is an Origami interpreter and designer with 25 years of experience. He's been invited as a guest speaker and exhibitor to origami conventions in over 10 countries worldwide.

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 5, 2020Esteban Saltos

Sage Serrano

Sage Serrano is a San Diego native who received her MFA in painting and printmaking from SDSU in 2021 and her BA in visual arts studio with honors from UCSD in 2015. For her, drawing is a meditative process that helps her recollect and reflect on personal experiences. Her research is a culmination of studio experimentation, line, body, play, collecting the self, bookmaking and papermaking. She is currently teaching drawing at SDSU and printmaking at San Diego City College. She also teaches bookmaking workshops throughout San Diego and is a member of the North American Hand Papermakers.

Angela LynchSeptember 5, 2020Sage Serrano

Claudia Strenger

Claudia Strenger is originally from Colombia, where she studied Graphic Design. Her studies carried her to live and work in places like Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eventually ending up in San Francisco, California, where she spent several years working as a graphic designer for Toyota and Apple. While living in SF (in 2010), Claudia took her first calligraphy class with Friends of Calligraphy and absolutely loved it! She was surprised and impressed by the amount of time that it takes to learn, to practice, and to create—truly a labor of love.

Angela LynchSeptember 4, 2020Claudia Strenger

Lauren Siry

Lauren Siry is an artist, curator, and director of 1805 Gallery in San Diego. Siry received a BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. As a practicing studio artist, Siry has completed studio fine art programs at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Studio Arts College International in Florence, with a strong focus on drawing and painting the figure.

Angela LynchSeptember 4, 2020Lauren Siry

Anna Stump

Anna Stump is an artist and arts educator living in Twentynine Palms and Los Angeles. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Occidental College and her MFA at San Diego State University. She is currently developing an artist residency and arts center in the High Desert.

Angela LynchSeptember 4, 2020Anna Stump

Judi Tentor

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.

Angela LynchSeptember 3, 2020Judi Tentor

Steven Topham

Steven 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.

Angela LynchSeptember 3, 2020Steven Topham

Vicki Walsh

Vicki 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.

Angela LynchSeptember 2, 2020Vicki Walsh

Susan Walters

NEW 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.

Angela LynchSeptember 1, 2020Susan Walters

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.”

current instructorAngela LynchSeptember 1, 2020Jeff Yeomans

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.

Angela LynchAugust 31, 2020Lizzie Zelter

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