Mary Beth Mikiel
holds a masters degree from SUNY New Paltz, and was awarded a New York Summer School of Arts Award. She did her undergraduate work at the School of Visual Arts, has taught in Kingston, studied photography at Ithaca College, and currently teaches art in the Spackenkill Schools. Marybeth works in ceramics and photography.

Liza Mills
is a K-12 certified art teacher with six years experience teaching in public schools. She holds a B.A. in art education and an M.A. in sculpture, and works with clay and mixed media. Lisa has taught at the Mill Street Loft and The Art Institute for several years, and sells and exhibits her work locally.

Adrienne Monzet
is a NYS certified, pre-K -12 art educator. She received her B.S. degree in Art Education, with honors, from SUNY New Paltz. Adrienne has worked with students of all ages in a variety of settings. Currently, she is an art teacher at Gayhead Elementary School.

Godwyn Morris
Runs “Dazzling Discoveries,” an interdisciplinary arts and science after school program in New York City. Her specialty is “art you can play with.”

Teresa Pellegrini works in collage, glass, painting and ceramics. She is a NYS certified K-12 art teacher, and a registered art therapist. Teresa is trained in Sivananda Yoga, Yoga for the Special Child, Yoga Ed, & Partner Yoga, and teaches advanced ceramics, art therapy, yoga and yoga therapy in multiple schools.

Kathi Poteet
is a graduate of Cooper Union and a partner in the graphic design firm Pen & Ink Creative. A designer for 12 years, she has done work for the Discovery Channel, Wildlife Conservation Society, Revlon, Scenic Hudson, Dutchess County Tourism, City Lore, and Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Kathi also home schools her three daughters.

Todd Poteet
has taught at Pratt Institute’s prestigious Saturday School, LaGuardia High School for Visual and Performing Arts, and at The Art Institute of Mill Street Loft. He holds a BFA in illustration and a Master’s in Art Education. Since he became Director of The Art Institute, the program has helped more than 500 Hudson Valley students obtain college scholarships in the visual arts. Todd has received numerous awards including the “Congressional Medal for the Arts” in 1988, the Mill Street Loft’s “Friend of the Arts Award” in 2001, the Dutchess County Executive Arts Award for Art Education in 2002, The Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce “Shaker Award” in 2008, and the Dutchess County Legislature Award in Art Education in 2009. He also owns Pen & Ink Creative, a graphic design firm specializing in not-for-profit work.

Amanda Reardon
received Bachelors degrees in 2006 from SUNY New Paltz in Visual Arts Education and Fine Arts in Ceramics. She is an artist assistant to local ceramicist Anat Shiftan, and enjoys creating large scale ceramic sculptures that combine nature and the female form.

Brian Reid, Director of Dutchess Arts Camp Red Hook, taught elementary school for more than 20 years and is on the faculty of the Poughkeepsie Day School.  He has introduced scores of students to stained glass, paper marbling, kite making, environmental education and more.

Jeffrey Roberts
is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, poet, and all-around wonder-er who delights in making music with children and adults, and creating opportunities for joy and empowerment through the arts. A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, he has taught children’s music classes in Philadelphia and in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Roberto Romani
Teaches stained glass at the Dutchess Arts Camp and is on the faculty at Spackenkill High School and an adjunct teacher at SUNY New Paltz. Roberto holds degrees in Liberal Arts and Humanities from the Universidad de Barcelona, a Bachelor’s in art and sculpture from Buffalo State and a Masters in Art from SUNY New Paltz.

Steve Rossi
holds degrees from Pratt Institute and SUNY New Paltz, and has studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. He has taught sculpture courses covering woodworking, metalworking, and plaster casting techniques, and works at Polich/Tallix Art Casting Foundry where he has been involved in the fabricating of sculptures and architectural elements for a number of artists, designers, and architects.

Alice Seeger

Nick Seeger
is a singer-songwriter whose songs run the gamut from old to new, and folk to blues, with some ragtime in between. His original compositions include personally inspired songs, SAIL ON FLYING DUTCHMAN, SHENANDOAH MOUNTAIN, and GOOD GARDEN DIRT, among others.

Daniel Hendricks Simon
Movie actor, filmmaker, editor, photographer, producer and writer. His work has been shown at film festivals in Sun Valley, New York and Poughkeepsie, and he has also directed commercials and worked on industrials. Daniel has coached and taught acting and attended Columbia University’s film and TV department and Brooklyn College’s Communication department.

Beverly Sloane is a graduate of Vassar College and holds her MA from Claremont Graduate U. She coauthored four books on health administration with her husband, teaches memoir writing at Bard College, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Writers Association.

David Soman
A core artist at The Art Institute of the Mill Street Loft, David teaches children’s book illustration and life painting in watercolor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and life painting in watercolor at the Art Students League. His work has been publishsed in 16 books and he has won the Ezra Jack Keats/UNICEF Award and the Coretta Scott King Honor Award, among others. He is painter who works in charcoal, watercolor, oils and collage.

Laura Evonne Steinman holds a BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters in Art Education from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a teaching artist at The British School in Warsaw, Poland for two years. Laura works with people of all ages facilitating art-making in schools, community centers, neighborhood backyards, in religious institutions, senior centers, orphanages, and hospitals.

Elizabeth “Tilly” Strauss created a coloring book for Dutchess County Tourism and her art was featured of three regional magazines. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Colorado U. Boulder, Tilly’s “Treasure” map is installed at the Poughkeepsie NY, Metro North train station.

Nina Tantillo-Elton has developed many innovative programs to teach art, creative movement and “out of the box” thinking to children, teachers and adults. She is Adjunct Professor at SUNY New Paltz and the College of Mt. St. Vincent in Yonkers, NY, and owner of Elton Associates, a marketing & public relations firm.

Maria Taylor received her degree in art education from SUNY New Paltz with a concentration in painting and drawing. She has participated in Mill Street Loft’s Arts For Healing program at Vassar Brothers Medical Center and taught at Dutchess Arts Camp.

Ann Miceli Teed, Director of Dutchess Arts Camp Millbrook, is a teacher, a visual and performing artist, professional musician, and author of the book and DC, A Journey to the Land of Imagination, which received the 1999 Parent’s Choice Gold Award. Ann is a faculty member at the SUNY New Paltz Art Education Department, attended the Lincoln Center Institute training and is working on her PhD at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Nicole Teed
is a certified art teacher K-12. She has worked in Mill Street Loft programs for the past ten years and has been teaching art in the Poughkeepsie City School District for the past three years. Nicole emphasizes learning the core elements of art, a love of the arts, as well as artistic expression through the art-making process.

Laura Hammond Toonkel is an adjunct lecturer and internship coordinator at Marist College’s Department of Art and Art History. She holds a MFA from Pennsylvania State University and a BFA from School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is included in corporate & private collections.

April Weber holds a BA in Studio Art and K-12 Art Teacher certification from SUNY Potsdam and is working on her MS in Visual Art Education at SUNY New Paltz. She has taught art in the Adirondacks K-12 and specializes in ceramics and photography.

Marlene Wiedenbaum, PSA,
an award winning pastelist, is a member of such prestigious organizations as the National Academy of Professional of Plein Air Painters, the Pastel Society of America, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum among others. Marlene has studied in Italy and is currently working on a unique environmental art project in the Hudson Valley. Her work is represented in New York by the Pritzker Gallery in Highland and the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson.