Abby Demarco Castle
Bachelor of Science in Education from SUNY Buffalo with a concentration in Art Education and a Masters Degree in Computer Education from Nazareth College. For the past 14 years Abby has been employed by the Naples Central School District as an art and technology teacher. She has also been an Adjunct Instructor in the area of Educational Technology at the graduate level at Nazareth College of Rochester.
Shelle Chentow
Teaches pottery. She taught at the Genesee Center for the Arts and gives private lessons in her home. Shelle studied ceramics at Penland School in the mountains of western NC, where she studied with wood, salt and sofa fire potters. SHe has juried into Salt Soda National Exhibit. Her work is available through local galleries
Denise Heischman
BFA Miami U. Oxford OH; MFA in Printmaking and Painting RIT; Adjunct Prof.: RIT, Nazareth, U of R, SUNY Geneseo, Brockport, MCC, Wendell Castle School of Furniture Design, Roch. Mem. Art Gallery; Co-Director of Mill Art Center; Teaches teens and adults. Works in all mediums.
Jessica Kanaley
BS in Art Education, Nazareth College Rochester, New York. New York State Initial Certification Art Education birth- grade 12; Studied art, New Castle University, Callaghan, Australia; Teaches hand building & wheel throwing, Rochester Folk Art Guild; CDS, Webster, NY Ceramics consultant in an art therapy setting; Community Place of Greater Rochester Youth Worker- after school caretaker children with developmental disabilities.
Debra Jean Horan
BA Art History/Studio Arts, BA Anthropology, SUNY Geneseo; Founder and current Co-Director of Mill Gallery; Teaches children, teens and adults. Works in pastel, oil and acrylic.
Colleen Milisz
BFA in Metals at RIT; MST in Art Education at RIT; teaches Elementary Art in public schools and Summer School of the Arts in 2007. Teaches jewelry making. Is currently exploring visual language, internationally, as communication. "Art is a global language that crosses borders and speaks to the masses".
Lanna Pejovic
MFA in Painting, Tyler School of Art; teaches drawing and painting at RIT, the Creative Workshop, Memorial Art Gallery, Linwood Gardens Workshops. Works in all mediums.
Jane O'Donnell
BA in Art Hisory, Boston University; MBA Finance and Economics, Univ. of Rochester; studied pastels at Schuyler School of Art, Baltimore, painting at RIT, Univ. of Buffalo, the Creative Workshop and Mill Art Center; teaches pastel and portraiture.
Betsy Taylor
BFA in Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design; Painter, Illustrator, Scenic Painter; Commercial Artist; MCo-director Mill Art Center; Gallery Council member, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester; Teaches teens and adults. Works in all mediums.