Faculty Information
Instructors for Children & Teen Studio Classes
Billie Marie Aber
BS in Art Ed. Moore College of Art; MFA Univ. of Georgia; seventeen years teaching art from K-12 and college level.
Ivy Antonio
BA, Western Connecticut State University. Major in Graphic Design, minor in Illustration. Formerly a Design Director at HBO in NYC. Award winning designer, presented and participated in several industry portfolio review conferences for art schools in NYC.
Doug Baron
Creator/artist, self-publisher of ongoing comic series; instructor, Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Arts.
Wanda Blake
Studied at Parsons, The New School, MOMA and DuCret; exhibited at Nabisco; works in collections of NJ corporations.
Jennifer Braun
BAFA Art Education Montclair State Univ.; AAFA Assoc. Degee in Fine Arts, Bergen Community College; art teacher at Oak Street School, Basking Ridge, NJ.
Brian Buniak
Instructor at Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art; professional cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Cracked Magazine, with cartoons appearing in many DC Comics "Big Books."
Peggy Davo
BA, Montclair State Univ. Fine Arts Ed.; Fashion Institute of Technology AS Jewelry Design; instructor Albrook Montessori School, Basking Ridge and other local middle and elementary schools.
Jennifer Dietrich
Bachelor of Science, Art Major, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Art Eduation K-12; teaches art at Tinc Rd Elementary School, first through fifth grades.
Joanne Farley
BA in Studio Art from Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY. Does private commission work under the name of Fine Animal Portraits. Exhibits with and is public relations director for New Jersey Equine Artists' Association.
Andrea Gianchiglia
BFA, University of Hartford Art School, major in illustration, minor art history; Exhibitions: many solo, group and juried shows at various galleries; award winning animal portrait artist; teaches at Hunterdon Art Museum and NJ Visual Art Center, Summit, NJ.
Sarah Grunstein
BA, Rutgers Univ., Visual Art & Jewish Studies; MA, Kean Univ. Fine Arts; taught in Highland park schools.
Anne Kullaf
BS Graphic Design & Fine Art, University of Bridgeport; Art Students League, NYC; elected artist member Salmagundi Club, International Guild of Realism, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; full-time award-winning artist and instructor; works exhibited at the National Arts Club, NYC and featured in 2008/2009 traveling museum exhibit "The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century."
Richard Lane
BFA.,The School Of Visual Arts, NYC; Member of "The American Society of Marine Artists", and has exhibited extensively throughout the east coast of the US from Newport, RI to Florida.
Christine McGovern
BA, Susquehanna Univ., Selinsgrove,PA, elementary Education; Grad.student at Kean Univ, MA Art Education; taught Kindergarten, Suburban Hills School, Chester, NJ.
Caren Frost Olmsted
BA in Theatre Design from Bates College; BS in Art Education from Appalachian State University; 4 years teaching K-12 Art and 5 years as a professional artist.
Yelena Piatigorsky
BA, Moscow University; MFA, Mason Gross School, Rutgers; over 20 exhibits, including shows at Trenton City Museum, Audubon Artists and Nabisco Gallery.
Jarrett Rutland
BFA,Maryland Institute, College of Art; National Art Awards, Congressional Art Award, NASA Award, Wildlife Federation Award; youth leader and developer of A.L.I.V.E. Program for young people.
