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CURRENT TEACHING STAFF Victoria Arriola received her BFA with a specialty in Ceramics and her Masters in Advertising and Design. She has been an Art/Creative Director both in the US and Europe for the past 19 years and an Arts Educator for 20. She has taught visual art in elementary schools K-6 on site and privately, taught design, advertising and digital tools at USC, E.LA College, and CalStateLA. She chaired the Arroyo Vista Art Docent Program for 6 years and continues to be actively involved in arts administration, education and teaching through Place. She spends much of her time in Denmark and currently operates ArriolaCREATIVE in South Pasadena where she designed the Buster’s Mural and soon to be released SP Farmer’s Market logo. Alison Bell is the author of the five-book ZIBBY PAYNE fiction series for children as well as 10 non-fiction books for kids.  She makes frequent school and library visits to talk to students about writing.  She writes for a variety of national publications and is currently finishing a novel for adults. Siri France is a painter from Edinburgh, Scotland, now based in Los Angeles. She studied fine art in Northumbria University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has a post-graduate diploma in art therapy from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Her art therapy training has contributed to her teaching approach in many ways. She sees the practice of art in terms of a personal journey through which self-realization and fulfillment can happen. Siri teaches drawing and painting classes throughout the Los Angeles area and works from her studio at home in Silver Lake. www.sirifrance.com Christine Frerichs is a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles.  Group and solo exhibitions include ACME (Los Angeles), Sweeney Art Gallery (Riverside), Duchess Presents (Chicago), Center for Contemporary Art (Sacramento), Riverside Art Museum (Riverside) and Young Art (Los Angeles).  She received her MFA from UC Riverside, her BFA from University of Arizona and currently teaches drawing and painting courses at Place, Otis College of Art and Design and East LA College. Katrin Jurati holds a Dual Degree in Elementary/Exceptional Education from Buffalo State University, an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and is Montessori Age 3-5 Certified.  Trained at Columbia through Studio In A School in NYC, Jurati has taught K-12 art for over 15 years, devised a child-as-artist centered approach, emphasizing art history, process, and conversation, and trained art teachers at the District Office in her own curriculum.  She is proud mom and paints on silk, represented by Jancar in Chinatown, LA. She has taught at Cal Arts, Eagle Rock Elementary, and Place.   Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin received her MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a national exhibiting artist and Fulbright Senior Scholarship recipient. Her work has been published in several photography magazines, most recently Black+White (UK), Black & White Magazine (US) and LensWork. Kathleen teaches photography at Loyola Marymount University, Pasadena City College and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Shannon Leith is passionate about helping people see.  She loves exploring the world and learning about people, and uses her photography as a way to be more present in her daily life.  She has owned her own photography business for five years and also works as a fine artist, showing in places like Bergamot Station and Hibbleton Gallery.  She received her BFA in fine art photography from Biola University and enjoys living and working in her pink vintage house in South Pasadena, California with her pet bird, Cosmo. Check out her website to learn more: www.shannonleith.com Karen Merchant-Yates has been a teaching artist in elementary schools for eight years. She coordinated the Trash for Teaching visual arts program in LAUSD and is currently coordinating the Arts in the Classroom Parent Volunteer program at Odyssey Charter School. She recently completed certificates for Parent Educator at the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting and in the Teaching Artist Apprentice Program (TAAP) at the Music Center. She works in early childhood settings to make learning visible through expressive materials and storytelling, and has a Reggio-Emilia inspired commitment to the examination and exploration of everyday life, a pre-school approach formulated for 40 years ago in Italy. Clay is Karen’s favored medium for working with children. Marie Miller received a BS degree in Industrial/ Environmental Design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She has eighteen years of experience in the design and production of audience experiences for museums, corporations, and theme parks. In addition, Marie has worked as a concept developer, designer and art director for Walt Disney Imagineering and BRC Imagination Arts. She has taught art at Arts Center College of Design and Woodbury University, and to children at Arroyo Vista Elementary and for the SPEF after-school program. Joan Swayze has an art degree from California College of Art and has been teaching art to children in South Pasadena for 7 years. The natural artistic impulse of children is something she feels passionate about supporting in a variety of ways in her classes. Artists, such as Paul Klee, who have drawn from the art of children in their own work, inspire her teaching. Rebecca Tager has an art Degree from CSUC with an emphasis in ceramic sculpture.  She has further art education from the San Francisco Art Institute, and Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle.  She has had the privilege of teaching various art mediums to children in South Pasadena for  over 5 years.  She believes in and teaches the philosophy that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.   Val Trimarchi has a BFA from Art Center College of Design,  attended Parson's School of Design, and has a BA from UCSB.  She has taught art since she was 15 in her neighborhood and has taught at Marlborough School,  Polytechnic School,  and is currently teaching full time at Westridge School where she is Chair of the Art Department.  She was an art docent at Arroyo Vista for 9 years where she realized, after 18 years of freelance painting, illustration, and murals, that she had a passion for teaching art and sharing the joy of the creative process.  Val is a girl scout leader and has been very active in her life in South Pasadena where she calls home.  She and her husband, Blue, have two teenagers, a chocolate poodle, two English budgies, and 12 goldfish.   Régine Verougstraete is a Belgium born artist who consciously began using her art as a self healing tool in 1986. Journaling with images and performing symbolic self-healing rituals became an integral part of her life and her work.  Régine’s professional artwork, shown in Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris and Brussels, is a small representation of the body of her work.  The raw, sometimes painful and vulnerable, sometimes wild and unedited part of her artistic production, she kept to herself for many years.  Becoming a Brennan Healing Science practitioner in 2010 gave her the opportunity to consciously integrate her two passions: healing and art.  She brings 25 years of hands on, heart filled experience in the field of Intuitive Healing art. http://www.arriolacreative.com/arriolacreative.com/Home.html http://www.sirifrance.com http://www.shannonleith.com/ shapeimage_8_link_0shapeimage_8_link_1shapeimage_8_link_2