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Four adults and a baby look at each other, smiling, at CraftStudies' annual fundraiser, BowlFest.

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tina Wendon, Board President, Artist, Portraiture & Paintings

David Allen, Treasurer, Retired, Healthcare Management & Consulting

Chris McLeod, Secretary, Content Strategist, King Arthur Baking Company

Rosemary Orgren, Past President, Juried Artist in Metals, League of New Hampshire Craftsmen

Mark Hardie, Director of the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

Patricia Glowa, Retired Family Physician

Sharon Gouveia, Hartford Resident, Yoga Instructor & POST

Patricia Palao, Director of Marketing & Development, Advanced Transit


OUR TEAM

CraftStudies' Executive Director Lisa Brahms smiles at the camera. Lisa has brown curly hair and wears a light chambray shirt. Behind Lisa is a quilt made of blue and white triangles.

Lisa Brahms

Creative Media Manager Katie Kalata Rusch looks closely at the camera, smiling. She has red curly hair and green eyes. Katie wears green and brown cat-eye glasses and a saffron cardigan.

Katie Kalata Rusch

creative media manager

Clay Studio Coordinator Becca Osborne smiles while holding a puppy golden retriever. Becca has her long, light brown hair pulled back. She wears a mulberry puffy winter parka. Behind her snow is on the ground. The puppy is adorable.

Becca Osbourne

cLay studio coordinator


OUR ARTISTS

Artists are the heart of our organization. Through their dedication to the highest quality of teaching and learning, their commitment to keeping our studios and equipment clean, safe and functional for community access and use, and through their love of creating, collaborating and innovating together, these professional and emerging artists nurture the true spirit of community by which CraftStudies has come to be known.

The image features Tim McCosker, a teaching artist, seated at a pottery wheel. He is smiling while holding a ball of clay on the wheel with his right hand. Tim has short, grey hair and wears glasses and a University of Alaska sweatshirt.

Clay Studio Teaching Artists


Metals Studio Teaching Artists


Fiber Studio Teaching Artists


Guest Artists & Partners


Studio Monitors

Our Studio Monitors are experienced craftspeople who support CraftStudies’ programs and operations by volunteering their time to assist other students and maintaining the studios. In exchange they receive access to shared studio use, affordable materials, collaborative feedback, and community mentorship.

Sandra Seymour

Tony Luckino

Brian Glenney

Allison Riese

Pat Glowa

Steve Sliver

Anita Onofrio

Dawn Dahlstrom

Kathy Jacobs

Robin Davis