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Edith Isaac-Rose is director of Art Workshop International; painter, teacher, and graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, B.A.E. She’s represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York. Isaac-Rose’s been a Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2003; and Vermont Studio Center Fellow, 2005. She’s exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, taught at Ohio State, Columbia, Princeton Art Association, and in her studio. In addition, she has lectured and critiqued in various schools in the Northeast and conducted art workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is in the Hirshhorn Museum and other important collections. |
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Bea Kreloff, director of Art Workshop International, is a painter, teacher, and former head of the art department, Fieldston School, New York. She’s taught painting workshops, seminars, and lectured on art at Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan College, Women's Caucus for Art, The New School for Social Research, The College Art Association, and numerous art groups. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in a number of private collections. Kreloff has conducted art workshops in the U.S. and overseas for more than 25 years; this is the 27th year for the Art Workshop International program. |
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Caterina Bertolotto has taught Italian at the New School University for over 25 years and received a Distinguished University Teaching Award. She teaches workshops in the latest methodologies for learning/teaching foreign languages. Bertolotto has developed her own teaching method which is extremely effective, step-by-step, filled with variety and fun, and helps you achieve superb communication skills. She’s co-authored four textbooks and produced a two-volume Italian Language CD and a dialogue CD in PowerPoint. Caterina is also an accomplished artist. |
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Ellen Eagle is represented by Forum Gallery, New York (see link below). She teaches at the Art Students League and The National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York. Her pastel portrait and figure paintings are the cover article of "The Pastel Journal," June 2006, and the subject of "The Empathic Portrait" in "American Artist Magazine," Dec. 2004. She has had three solo shows and exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Frye Art Museum, National Academy of Design, and New Jersey State Museum, among others. Recently she was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center. |
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Scott Edelstein is the author of THE COMPLETE WRITER'S KIT (Running Press, 2005), 100 THINGS EVERY WRITER NEEDS TO KNOW (Perigee Books, 1999), and 12 other books on a wide range of subjects. He's published over 150 short stories and articles in anthologies and magazines, as well as regular features in "Writer's Digest" and "The Artist's Magazine." For over a decade Scott taught in Hamline University's M.F.A. program in creative writing; he currently teaches at The Loft literary center. He's ghostwritten several books and edited books for many well-known authors. Edelstein is also a writing and publishing consultant and literary agent. |
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S.J. Rozan was born and raised in the Bronx. She's the author
of eight books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of the standalones ABSENT FRIENDS, which Booklist called "one of the best crime novels of 2004," and IN THIS RAIN. She also edited the short-story collection BRONX NOIR. Her WINTER AND NIGHT won the Edgar, Nero, and Macavity awards for best novel. Earlier books have won the Shamus and Anthony awards for best novel and have been Edgar nominees. Her short story "Double-crossing Delancey" won the Edgar for best short story, and two more stories were nominated for it. She's at work on another series novel, THE SHANGHAI MOON.
Rozan is a former Mystery Writers of America National Board member, a current Sisters in Crime National Board member, and ex-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. She speaks and lectures widely and for years interviewed writers at New York's 92nd St. Y in a series she originated, "Mysterious Conversations." In January 2003 she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A former architect in a practice that focuses on police stations, firehouses, and zoos, Rozan lives in lower Manhattan.
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Annie Shaver-Crandell became an artist specializing in plein air landscape after her first career as a medievalist and professor of art history at The City College of New York. She is represented by the Outskirts gallery in Hope, Idaho, and shows regularly at Paula Barr Chelsea and the Salmagundi Club. She teaches watercolor at her loft in Manhattan.
Shaver-Crandell travels extensively to paint, from the American Rockies to the Provence area of France. She’s attracted to boundaries—the garden wall, the water’s edge, the place where the cultivated field, pasture, or vineyard gives way to the woods and hills. You may contact her at annie@annieshavercrandell.com or 212-677-4045.
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Chris Spencer, a director of Art Workshop International, manages publications, travel, and coordination with teachers, students, and organizations. She is an artist and a board member of Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. A retired financial executive and Certified Financial Planner, Chris also taught continuing education classes and wrote investment columns for local newspapers. She is a partner in Trigance Press, which won Franklin and Midwest Book awards. |
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Jayne Wenger is an award-winning director, dramaturg, and producer focused exclusively on original material. Throughout 30 years of professional theater experience, she has been dedicated to the development, direction, and production of original plays and solo performances. She was the Artistic Director of the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and previously the Women’s Ensemble of New York. Wenger has developed the work of acclaimed playwrights nationwide. Her direction of the world premier of Claire Chafee’s “Why We Have A Body” at the Magic Theater in San Francisco won numerous awards. Wenger leads workshops on new play development at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska, and has been a guest artist at many universities and theater programs. She's nationally recognized for her work on new plays and has extensive experience working closely with playwrights in the development process. |
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RONALD RAND is an internationally acclaimed playwright/teacher/performer. Alec Baldwin has called him "one of the great, dedicated professionals of the theatre." His plays have been performed across American and around the world. He has taught over 20 years at universities, colleges, conferences, and international festivals. Rand continues to perform his celebrated solo performance play, "Let It Ba Art! Harold Clurman's Life of Passion." He is the founder and publisher of The Soul of the American Actor, the only newspaper in North America devoted to theatre. Rand's recent book is ACTING TEACHERS OF AMERICA: A VITAL TRADITION. -- LAUREN BOND has taught classes in conscious awareness and developing creativity across North America for over 25 years. Author of nine books and a CD, she is committed to educate through experience, to expand connection of soul consciousness. Bond co-starred in award-winning films, "Late Bloomer" (Sundance Film Festival), and "Particles of Truth." Her articles and poetry have been published in magazines in America and abroad. Her articles and poetry have been published in magazines in America and abroad, and she is a regular contributing writer for The Soul of the American Actor. She co-wrote the film, "It's All Good." Her play, "Neighbors," co-written with Ronald Rand, was in the recent 2nd Annual Edward Albee Great Plains Theatre Conference.
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Dinitia Smith is the author of three novels, including her latest, THE ILLUSIONIST (Scribner), which Stephen King praised for its “mesmerizing, erotic suspense.” Until recently, Smith was a cultural correspondent for the New York Times based in New York, where she wrote on literary subjects. She has taught at Columbia University and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and has also written several screenplays. Smith won an Emmy Award for an NBC documentary and her work has been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum. Her short fiction has been published in many literary journals. |
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Leslie Garis’s memoir, HOUSE OF HAPPY ENDINGS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was a top-ten choice for 2007 of New York Times book critic, William Grimes. He called it “The House of Atreus transplanted to New England." People Magazine wrote, “It’s a rare achievement and House a superb work.” Although Garis has written for many national magazines and newspapers, she is best known for her New York Times Magazine profiles of such writers as John Fowles, Harold Pinter, Marguerite Duras, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Rebecca West and Georges Simenon. She has helped prominent writers bring their work to fruition and has lectured at Fairfield and Wesleyan Universities
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Amy Schor Ferris is the author of A GREATER GOODE (Houghton Mifflin) and contributing author to THE BUDDHA NEXT DOOR anthology (Middleway Press). She is also a film (movies "Funny Valentines" and "Mr. Wonderful") and TV writer ("Jack's Place - NBC, "Tattingers"- CBS, and "All Fall Down" - Showtime). Schor Ferris co-created the annual Women's issue of Living Buddha Magazine, and was editor-in-chief of the women's issue of Milford Magazine, and senior editor/writer for Urban Refugee Magazine. She co-writes the Culture & Arts column for Feminist.com and is co-founder of "Souled out: an evening of all things women." Schor Ferris was writer and creative consultant for International Community of Artists for Peace and is on the Advisory Board of the Women's Media Center. |
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Rosellen Brown is the author of five novels - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER, TENDER MERCIES, CIVIL WARS, and the critically acclaimed and best-selling BEFORE AND AFTER. Her most recent novel, HALF A HEART, received tremendous attention throughout the United States. Her most recent book of poems is CORA FRY'S PILLOW BOOK. She has also published another collection of poetry, a book of short stories, and the ROSELLEN BROWN READER. Her stories have appeared frequently in O'HENRY PRIZE STORIES, BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and the PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY. She has received an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Rosellen Brown was one of Ms. Magazine's twelve Women of the Year in 1984. Widely known and admired as a wise, experienced teacher, she is a member the creative writing faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Kay WalkingStick, has had over 30 solo shows, 9 of them in museums. The first was in 1969 ; the most recent was in the fall of 2007 at the June Kelly Gallery in NYC. She has been an active part of the rennaisance of Native American fine art in the US and was honored as the 2003 Distinguished Artist by the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. Her work can be found in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum in NY, the National Gallery of Art in Ottawa, CA, the National Museum of the American Indian in DC, the Isreal Museum in Jerusalem and the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit, MI. The H. R. Janson History of Art, ed of 1995 & 97, features her work as have many other art books. WalkingStick is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She has retired from Cornell University where she was a Professor of Art from 1988 until 2005. |
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