Jenny Crone
Jenny's Class: Exploration of Color.Jenny Crone studied drawing and painting at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts and City College of San Francisco. To learn more about the gallery process, she interned at Dolby Chadwick in San Francisco. She has a bachelor degree in Art History from Southern Methodist University. After university, Jenny studied art in Grenoble, France and did a photography apprenticeship in Italy. Jenny was born in the Bahamas and spent her formative years in San Antonio.
Marcia Dahlman
Marcia's Class: Hand-Building with Clay.Marcia Dahlman has been a full time potter in San Antonio since 1978. She began her education in clay at the San Antonio Art Institute and San Antonio College. Later, she attended classes and workshops at the Southwest School of Art and Craft and other areas of Texas with some of the best artists/teachers in the field. In 1990 she attended a summer course in the graduate program of Texas Tech University in Junction, Texas, studying with James Watkins.
Marcia’s work consists mainly of raku-fired vessels and wall pieces in five series: ancient instruments, map series, fertility figures, southwest vessels, and masks. In addition, she makes high fired stoneware fountains and garden art.
Marcia’s work has appeared in American Style Magazine, San Antonio Woman Magazine, Clay Times Magazine, Southern Living Magazine, and The San Antonio Light Style Magazine.
Angel Davila
Angel's Class: Latin Dance.Angel Manuel Davila was born and raised in Puerto Rico. As a child growing up in the city of Loiza, he learned the rythms of the real salsa music from the best salsa bands in the world. At the age of 6, he was singing and imitating salseros such as EL Gran Combo, Hector Lavoe, Ismael Rivera and La Fania All Stars. Salsa music was where his heart was, and at the age of 15, he started taking professional salsa lessons. At the age of 23 he founded a salsa organization of students in the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. One year later he joined one of the best Salsa dance companies in Puerto Rico, Salsa West Mambo. Davila then joined the Army as an officer and also became a dance instructor of latin dances like Bachata, Merengue and Cha Cha Cha in Oklahoma. At the age of 27, after being diagnosed with leukemia, he used salsa dance music as a therapy. As a retired officer of the armed forces and a cancer survivor, he became part of the salsa dance company Mamborico, as an instructor and performer. Angel Manuel goals now are to enhance his own professional skill as a dance instructor and provide joy and motivation to those who have the desire to learn the art of salsa dancing.
Dayna De Hoyos
Dayna's Class: Life Drawing. Painting Unlimited.Born in Austin, Texas, to a single parent, Dayna De Hoyos grew up in San Antonio in the same house with her mother, grandmother, and grandfather; two aunts, an uncle, and great grandmother lived in the house next door. She won her first art contest in second grade and began painting on canvas board in third grade. She studied painting, photography, and theater at Incarnate Word High School. De Hoyos continued her study of art at San Antonio College under Mark Pritchett, Tom Willome, Ed Rodriguez, and Susan Witta-Kemp. She later received her Bachelor of Arts in Painting from the University of Texas in San Antonio.
Dayna is currently the executive curator/owner of Stella Haus Art Space at the Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center Complex in San Antonio, Texas. Her space was founded in memory of her grandmother who passed away before De Hoyos graduated from college. De Hoyos has shown her art in Texas and Louisiana. She has also begun to curate shows and write art critiques. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.
Marian Haddad
Marian's Class: How to Create a Strong, Highly-Crafted Poem. How to Create a Strong, Highly-Crafted Poem. Telling Your Story. The Prose Poem. The Prose Poem. Writing Prose: Memoirs, Personal Essays and Short Stories. Writing Prose: Memoirs, Personal Essays and Short Stories.Marian Haddad, MFA (poet and writer), is the author of Saturn Falling Down (April 2003), a chapbook of poems compiled at the request of Texas Public Radio in correlation with their Hands-On Poetry Workshops, and a full-length poetry collection, Somewhere between Mexico and a River Called Home (Pecan Grove Press 2004), which appeared on the El Paso Times’ Top Five Book List (October 2004), and is recommended reading by The Valparaiso Review and Small Press Review. Haddad received her B.A. in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. She studied “The Prose Poem” at the graduate level at Emerson College and was the recipient of an endowment from The National Endowment for the Humanities to do graduate work at The University of Notre Dame. Her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. Her work has been profiled on The Hallmark Channel and various media venues. And her works-in-progress include two collections of poetry and one collection of personal essays/memoirs. She has taught Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and Northwest Vista College and International Literature at St. Mary’s University. She currently resides in San Antonio where she works as a manuscript consultant, visiting writer, creative writing workshop instructor, public speaker, and private writing and publishing mentor. See Haddad’s web site for more information.
Jim Keller
Jim's Class: The Language of Photography.Jim Keller received his BA in Television and Film Production from Trinity University. He has taught photography at Trinity University, San Antonio Acadamy, and Cambridge Montessori School. Keller holds four patents related to panoramic photography, and has been comissioned by VIA Metropolitan Transit, Retama, and the Nature Conservancy. He is represented as an art photographer by the Olana Group.
Linda Lang
Linda's Class: Contemporary Painting and Drawing.Linda Lang received her formal art training from the University of North Texas and from the University of Texas at San Antonio, with a concentration in painting and drawing. She has over seven years of teaching experience as an art educator. Lang has shown in numerous invitational and juried exhibitions in San Antonio and surroundings, including the HCAF, the 1550 Gallery, The University of Incarnate Word, and most recently the Joan Grona Gallery.
Matt Morris
Matt's Class: Urban Drawing Studio.Matt Morris is both Artist and Architect. In his early career he studied under famed San Antonio Architect O’Neil Ford in the early 1980’s. He joined Lake/Flato Architects in 1993 and was named partner in 1997. His in-house “design review process”, established 14 years ago in the firm has become the cornerstone for the design success and contributed substantially to Lake/Flato being named the American Institute of Architects Firm of the Year in 2004. Matt’s exceptional artistic achievements include 7 state level awards by the Texas Society of Architects, one of only two architects in the state to receive this number of awards. Matt was recently invested into the college of Fellows in 2006, second only to the Gold Medal Award with the American Institute of Architects. Matt brings experience to the classroom most recently from his co-founding the Lake/Flato Design Studio with the Graduate Program in the Architectural School of UTSA. Matt explores and expresses the environment through his art through many varying media: pencil, pen, watercolor, pastel, color pencil and oil.
Isabel Rico
Isabel's Class: Mexican Art History: Conquest to Muralismo.Isabel Rico has been the curator and exhibits coordinator at the Instituto Cultural Mexicano since 1985. Originally from Mexico City, she received her BS in Art History from the Universidad Iberomericana in 1983. In addition to her curatorial work at the Instituto Cultural Mexicano, Isabel has worked as an art history professor, research department head, and Mexican consul.
Cristina Salgado
Cristina's Class: Movement/Meditation.Cristina Salgado was born and raised in Chicago, IL. She studied psychology and anthropology in Mexico City before moving to San Antonio in the late 70s. Salgado received her Massage Therapy license from St. Phillips College in 1994, and it was there that she was introduced to the Feldenkrais Method ®. She began to practice the Method on her own in 1997, as there were no practitioners in San Antonio at the time. Salgado received her Feldenkrais Method ® Certification in Berkeley, Ca in 2003, after the completion of the four year training process. She has a Teacher certification for Bones for Life, which is a Feldenkrais Method ® based program for stimulating bone strength through movement.
Salgado currently teach Awareness Through Movement classes at her home. She teaches yoga and Feldenkrais ® at a local Pain Management Clinic, in addition to having a home-based practice where she addresses individual students» unique physical needs.
Missi Smith
Missi's Class: Mixed Media Painting.Missi Smith has studied art at Loyala University, Tulane University, and the San Antonio Art Institute. Since her first group show in 1993, Missy has exhibited locally in over a dozen galleries. She has had one person exhibits at the Mexican Cultural Institute, Gallery Nord, The Center for Spirituality and the Arts, and several other spaces.
Michelle Valdez
Michelle's Class: Dada Collage.Michelle Gonzalez Valdez works as an art critic and performance artist in San Antonio, TX. She writes for Artlies Magazine, Glasstire and contributes to a collaborative art blog called Emvergeoning. Her sobriquet, Bunnyphonic, is an ongoing performance art project that has been invited to the Texas Biennial, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, The Rider Project in New York and a residency in Barcelona, Spain. She is currently working on an outdoor sculpture for the artist lecture series at the McNay Art Museum.