Deanna Agresti is a RISD graduate with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and a Masters of Arts in Teaching. She teaches graphic design at CCRI and middle school art education at Highlander Charter School in Providence. Not only is Deanna a practicing artist; she is also a freelance designer.
Trisha Barry is a graduate from Rhode Island College with a Bachelors in Art Education and a Minor in Ceramics. She has been an art educator from seven years in the North Kingstown and East Providence School districts. Trisha is currently teaching an array of creative projects to middle school students that include clay, printmaking, painting, mixed media, and drawing. She is also the director of the RI Scholastic Art Awards Program and a member of the Rhode Island Art Education Association.
Rich Camp is an independent filmmaker, his passion for filmmaking started when he was twelve years old. To pursue his interest, he went to receive his Bachelors Degree from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts for Film & Television Production. After graduating from NYU in 2009, he went on to accomplish his first feature length film, Lumberjacking. He continues to work on film projects while sharing his knowledge and passion with others as a teacher.
Betty Cotter is the author of the novel Roberta's Woods, which was released in 2--8 by Five Star. She holds a MFA in writing from Vermont College, where she studied with novelists Clint McCown, Abbie Frucht, Ellen Lesser and Laurie Alberts. In 2006, she was named the 2006 fiction fellow by the RI State Council on the Arts. Her book reviews have appeared in several magazines and newspapers. She teaches writing to a community group at the Neighborhood Guild in Peace Dale and for the North Kingstown Arts Council, and for the past three years she has been a guest panelist at URI's Ocean State Summer Writing Conference. For the past 28 years she has worked in newspapers, for the past 12 years managing editor of Independent Newspapers in Wakefield.
April Gray An appreciation for the arts began at a young age for April Marie Gray. She pursued her creative calling at The Savannah College of Art & Design, receiving a B.F.A. in Photography in 2005. Studying a summer abroad in Provence, France led April to fine-tune her personal aesthetic and grow as an aspiring young photographer and artist. After spending three years in Baltimore, MD working as a portrait and wedding photographer, April then moved to Rhode Island and now is pleased to call this beautiful, coastal landscape home. Her work is described as ethereal, dreamlike; as if it was taken from a single memory in time. When she's not traipsing through the forests or beaches of Rhode Island with her Canon 50D and Polariod Camera, you can find April in her Historic Shady Lea Mill studio expanding her one-of-a-kind card making business, Imagine Card Crafts. Crafting since childhood, her deep connection with nature and passion for history, has inspired these paper creations. April teaches photography and paper crafting workshops at Bishop Hendricken HS & The Beacon Charter HS for the Arts.
Bobbie Schaeffer has worked as a polymer clay artist and teacher for 20 years. Her classes have taken place in after school programs, community centers, art centers, art camps, girl scout workshops, and private birthday parties. She has developed an impressive array of creative clay jewelry projects specifically for children. Her classroom is filled with creative fun.
Deanna Agresti is a RISD graduate with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and a Masters of Arts in Teaching. She teaches graphic design at CCRI and middle school art education at Highlander Charter School in Providence. Not only is Deanna a practicing artist; she is also a freelance designer. 
Trisha Barry is a graduate from Rhode Island College with a Bachelors in Art Education and a Minor in Ceramics. She has been an art educator from seven years in the North Kingstown and East Providence School districts. Trisha is currently teaching an array of creative projects to middle school students that include clay, printmaking, painting, mixed media, and drawing. She is also the director of the RI Scholastic Art Awards Program and a member of the Rhode Island Art Education Association.
Rich Camp is an independent filmmaker, his passion for filmmaking started when he was twelve years old. To pursue his interest, he went to receive his Bachelors Degree from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts for Film & Television Production. After graduating from NYU in 2009, he went on to accomplish his first feature length film, Lumberjacking. He continues to work on film projects while sharing his knowledge and passion with others as a teacher.
Betty Cotter is the author of the novel Roberta's Woods, which was released in 2--8 by Five Star. She holds a MFA in writing from Vermont College, where she studied with novelists Clint McCown, Abbie Frucht, Ellen Lesser and Laurie Alberts. In 2006, she was named the 2006 fiction fellow by the RI State Council on the Arts. Her book reviews have appeared in several magazines and newspapers. She teaches writing to a community group at the Neighborhood Guild in Peace Dale and for the North Kingstown Arts Council, and for the past three years she has been a guest panelist at URI's Ocean State Summer Writing Conference. For the past 28 years she has worked in newspapers, for the past 12 years managing editor of Independent Newspapers in Wakefield.
April Gray An appreciation for the arts began at a young age for April Marie Gray. She pursued her creative calling at The Savannah College of Art & Design, receiving a B.F.A. in Photography in 2005. Studying a summer abroad in Provence, France led April to fine-tune her personal aesthetic and grow as an aspiring young photographer and artist. After spending three years in Baltimore, MD working as a portrait and wedding photographer, April then moved to Rhode Island and now is pleased to call this beautiful, coastal landscape home. Her work is described as ethereal, dreamlike; as if it was taken from a single memory in time. When she's not traipsing through the forests or beaches of Rhode Island with her Canon 50D and Polariod Camera, you can find April in her Historic Shady Lea Mill studio expanding her one-of-a-kind card making business, Imagine Card Crafts. Crafting since childhood, her deep connection with nature and passion for history, has inspired these paper creations. April teaches photography and paper crafting workshops at Bishop Hendricken HS & The Beacon Charter HS for the Arts.
Bobbie Schaeffer has worked as a polymer clay artist and teacher for 20 years. Her classes have taken place in after school programs, community centers, art centers, art camps, girl scout workshops, and private birthday parties. She has developed an impressive array of creative clay jewelry projects specifically for children. Her classroom is filled with creative fun.