Fleming College

Sheila Mahut

Sheila Mahut has been a glass artist and educator for over 30 years. She has exhibited internationally and successfully developed many blown and sculptural glass series. Teaching in the full-time program at Sheridan College for 18 years and at the Corning Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, she has a diverse repertoire of skills and techniques in both kiln-formed and blown glass. In 2019 Sheila completed an MFA at the Alberta University of the Arts. She is known as an enthusiastic instructor who encourages her students to explore the joy of creating with glass.

Ken Hussey

Ken Hussey, Ward World Champion in the Contemporary Antique Decoy category, has been carving duck decoys since 1982. Armed with a Mechanical Engineering diploma and further studies in graphic design, he enjoyed a varied career that culminated in many years as a graphic design instructor. He began carving decoys when, as an avid hunter, he noticed how much better wooden decoys performed than plastic ones. His efforts started with working decoys, progressed to decorative, and evolved into what would become the contemporary antique category of decoys. Ken has firmly established a reputation for excellence and is a sought-after instructor.

Clelia Scala

Instructor for:

• Puppet Design & Construction

Clelia Scala has been animating the intimate since she can remember. She is a visual artist whose work includes mask and puppet design, installations, collage and illustration. Her explorations into the fantastic and uncanny stem from a lifelong engagement with tales and myths and her interest in the theme of human interaction with the natural world. Clelia has studied puppet design and performance at the Humber Puppetry Intensive with CLUNK and the Puppet mongers, at the New England Puppet Intensive with David Lane, and at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Centre with Alice Gottschalk and Jim Napoletano. As a designer and fabricator for theatre, Clelia has worked with a variety of theatre companies and organizations, such as Carousel Players, the Calliope Collective, Guilty by Association, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Odyssey Theatre, Suitcase in Point, University of Missouri-St Louis Opera Theatre, Yale University, and Zacadia Circus. Sometimes, she puppeteers. Clelia teaches theatre, mask, puppet, and prop design in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University. You can read more about her work at www.clelia.ca.

Paulus Tjiang

Paulus Tjiang graduated from Ontario College of Art in 1988 and continued his studies both at Pilchuk Glass School and as a resident at the Harbourfront Craft Studio until 1989. Utilizing primarily Venetian techniques with remarkable skill, he brings intense colour, precise detail, and an elegant disposition to his work. Paulus owns and operates Frantic Farms Clay and Glass gallery in Warkworth, ON. www.franticfarms.com.

Karyn Gingras

Instructor for:

• Millinery - The Art of Hat Making

Karyn Gingras, when signing up for a night school class in tap dancing, was told that the course was full. But, they added, the millinery course had lots of space. The rest, as they say, is history. Karyn is the owner/designer of Lilliput Hats, three decades old traditional millinery. As all the Lilliput hats are crafted on site in the studio/atelier, the store has become a curious landmark in the city, where visitors can glimpse old-world techniques while their hat is made before their eyes. Lilliput hats are carried across the country at Holt Renfrew and other fine boutiques in Canada and the US. The hats are in the collections of Whoopi Goldberg, Celine Dion, and former Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson. Karyn's many theatre, television, and film credits include Mama Mia, Music Man, and The Evelyn Dick Story. Most recently, she created the hats worn by Gord Downie on the Tragically Hip's Man Machine Poem tour. She is the recipient of several awards, including the 1999 City of Toronto Accessories Designer of the Year, the One-of-a-Kind Show Best Traditional Craft, and the One-of-a-Kind Show Hall of Fame. She has taught at the International Academy of Design and Ryerson University of Design. www.lilliputhats.com

Lisa Barry

Instructor for:

• Ceramics - Pottery II
• Youth/Teen - Pottery

Lisa Barry is a graduate of Sheridan College's Ceramics Program and has also achieved a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Lisa has a broad range of experience with various pottery techniques as well as kiln firing processes. An artist of note, she has exhibited nationally and continues to develop herself as an artist through workshops and learning opportunities. Lisa brings a passion and energy to her teaching that ensures a lively and creative atmosphere for her students.

Jane Lewis

Instructor for:

• Music in the Air! Improv Singing
• Singing Harmony by Ear

Jane Lewis has been leading vocal groups since 2008, from "finding your voice" and "how to sing harmony by ear" workshops to various choirs, Circle Singing, and community singing events. She has been studying improvisational singing with Rhiannon, and during the pandemic, attending Musica do Circulo music improv training workshops online. As a singer-songwriter, she is often compared to Carole King, playing piano-based music that draws on her strength as a lyricist and singer. She performs most often with the folk duo Gathering Sparks (with Eve Goldberg), nominated for a 2014 Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year. Jane has released two solo recordings, and Gathering Sparks released their newest album on Borealis Records in September 2019. www.janelewis.ca

Michael Letki

Michael Letki has been making jewellery for over 50 years. After graduating from art school in England, he came to Canada where he and partner Paula Letki operated the jewellery studio Letki Designs for over 20 years. Michael has taught at Sheridan and Mohawk Colleges and was involved in the training of many apprentices through his own studio, many of whom went on to be successful artists/jewellers. He has been teaching at the Haliburton School of Art + Design for over 25 years. Michael has received several awards for his work, notably from the Ontario Arts Council and the International Gold Corporation. He has also held the position of studio advisor for Sheridan College and Harbourfront Craft Studios. Currently, he is pursuing his arts interests in image making and jewellery making.

Rose Pearson

Rose Pearson earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from York University, majoring in painting and drawing. She went on to receive her education degree and has over 30 years of experience teaching art in both the public school system in Alberta and Ontario, privately from her studio in Haliburton County and for the Haliburton School of Art + Design. Rose is the coordinator of the Visual and Creative Arts diploma at Fleming College. In addition to creating bodies of work for public gallery exhibitions, she is a member of the Haliburton Highlands Studio Tour. www.rosepearson.com

Jp King

Jp King is an artist, designer, and educator with a career crisscrossing artistic, scholarly, and commercial terrains. The founder of Paper Pusher, a Risograph-driven publication laboratory and design studio, King is currently the Creative Director of Papirmass, an innovative subscription service that delivers art prints to subscribers all over the world. He holds an interdisciplinary MFA from OCAD U, where he was 2015 President's Scholar. His documentary film and research concerning discard culture and the world of waste has been supported by SSHRC, and The Banff Centre, and was nominated for a Governor General's Innovation Award. As an illustrator, his client list includes: Fast Company, Oxford University Press, Penguin UK, and Chronicle Books. He currently teaches at the University of Toronto, the Haliburton School of Art + Design and is visiting faculty at Concordia's Centre for Expanded Poetics, in Montreal. He lives and works closely with his wife, Kirsten McCrea, in Toronto.

Putzy Madronich

Putzy Madronich is an award-winning professional visual artist and educator. She studied at McMaster University, Fleming College, and Ecole France Langue Paris and has participated in international exhibitions. Working with outreach organizations (drug and alcohol addiction, survivors of cancer, sexual assault, brain injury, mental health, teens at risk, and the homeless) she delivers arts programming to promote healing and wellness. She has also been a consultant and artist educator for the Royal Conservatory. She works primarily in watercolour, mixed media, acrylic, collage and alcohol inks, but she also enjoys printmaking, painting floor cloths, encaustics, and jewellery making. Her work explodes with intense colour and is generously textured. Putzy's work is largely inspired by her travels in Europe, North Africa and South-East Asia. Visit her on Facebook at Putzy Madronich.