Nicholas Crombach
Sculpture | Life Drawing |
Nicholas Crombach (BFA, 2012) has been awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. His solo exhibition, The End of the Chase, travelled in 2018-2019, exhibiting at New Art Projects in London UK, Art Mûr Berlin and Art Mûr Montréal. In 2019 Crombach produced an exhibition of collaborative works with artist Nurielle Stern entitled Whale Fall, presented at The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo. Crombach's work has been reviewed in Border Crossings Magazine and Vie des Arts.
Crombach was commissioned by the City of Kingston to create Horse and Cart which was installed in Victoria Park in June 2021. From 2016-2017 Crombach participated in a year-long residency at The Florence Trust (London, UK) and has been invited to take part in a MASS MoCA residency (summer 2022) in Massachusetts. Courses: Sculpture | Life Drawing
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Dominika Dembinski
Children's Programming |
Dominika Dembinski is an experienced artist and educator. Driven by student success, she takes pride in providing students with the skills and tools necessary to pursue their artistic expression and develop idiosyncratic styles. Dominika is a current Master of Education student at the Queen’s Faculty of Education. She has a Bachelor of Education with a concentration in Indigenous studies and a Bachelor of Fine art specializing in oil painting.
Courses: Teen Drawing, Painting & Mixed Media
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Jill Glatt
Printmaking |
Jill Glatt is a Katarokwi/Kingston-based illustrator, printmaker, arts educator, and French teacher with the Limestone District School Board. She has developed and delivered programming for the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, Kingston Arts Council, Centre Culturel Frontenac, and Juvenis Festival. Jill is also the Volunteer Coordinator for the Skeleton Park Arts Festival and sits on their board of directors. This partnership with the KSOA was made possible by Grassroots, Independent, Professional (GRIP) Artists Kingston’s spaceshare program.
Courses: Introduction to Linocut Printmaking
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Tiina Kukkonen
Children's Programming |
Formally trained in painting and drawing, Tiina uses a range of media in her work but specializes in pencil drawing and acrylic painting. She is also a self-taught felt artist, approaching felted landscapes much like painting whereby colours are combined and layered to achieve visual effects. As an arts educator and researcher, she has taught visual arts to students of all ages and advocates for equal access to arts education opportunities for rural and underserved communities. Tiina holds a Ph.D. in Education from Queen’s University, where she is also an instructor of visual arts education.
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Maureen Sheridan
Acrylics |
Since studying Fine Art at Queen's University, Maureen Sheridan has been painting professionally, being represented in various Canadian galleries. Her art is in private, corporate and international collections. For many years Maureen has taught painting, drawing and art history at St. Lawrence College, the Kingston School of Art and Loyalist College.
Maureen has been an award winner for painting in various art exhibitions including 'Best Painting' at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition She enjoys working with students to develop their artistic potential and skills in art. Courses: Creative Impulse | Paint Like Tom Thomson
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Alicia Moura
Children's Programming |
Alicia Moura is a young artist and elementary certified school teacher who wishes to connect all children to the joy of artistic expression. Since her time obtaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts and teaching licence at Queen's University, Moura has been working with young children to develop their foundational artistic skills within a variety of mediums. In her classes, focus is placed upon merging classic techniques with student innovation! Students should expect to create fun projects, discuss art history and practice creating with a growth mindset!
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Bruce St. Clair
Oils| Watercolour | Acrylics | Drawing | Coloured Pencils |
Since studying at OCA, Bruce St. Clair has been painting professionally for more than 50 years, showing at Toronto galleries (Aggregation, becoming Wynick/Tuck, then later Nancy Poole's Studio and Joan Ferneyhough Gallery in North Bay) as well as teaching drawing and painting courses for well over 30 years, most recently at Loyalist College, the Kingston School of Art and Kingston's Senior's Centre. A past gold medal winner for Realism in an international competition in Italy – the Grollo d'Oro, he won the People's Choice Award in the Kingston Arts Council's 2014 juried show for his watercolour Three Gables, again in the Quinte Arts Council's Expressions 2015 show for his acrylic painting Bailey's Blanket, and again in the 2016 Nonesuch Awards for works on paper (opening in Parrsboro NS, then Montreal) – once more for Three Gables. He has also three times juried the Kingston Paint the Town show and co-juried the 2018 Juried Exhibition and Sale at the Window Art Gallery.
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Majella Turcotte
Mail Art| Origami| Woodworking |
Majella has been doing art all of her life. Her creativity spans a wide variety of skills and mediums. However, Majella now refers to herself as a "paper artist," after spending a year in Japan and immersing herself in the paper arts. She also is a woodworker, a beader, origami instructor, and mail artist. Majella makes sure to set aside a bit of time each day for art. It's good for the soul!
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Paul Whittingham
Graphic Design | Branding and Logos | Adobe Suite |
Paul Whittingham pours creativity into each project while keeping the message purposeful and clear. Paul fuses marketing intelligence and creative problem-solving to produce the most creative, memorable, and effective communications possible. Based in Kingston with over 20 years experience in design, Paul has worked for many companies, locally, nationally and internationally. In Ad Agencies, in the private sector and now as a designer for the City of Kingston. For Paul, design is about communication, not just decoration. This approach has led to national and international awards for his work including the Lieutenant Governor General’s Award. Paul has a passion for design and teaching and combines both to give students genuine and real world experiences in his classes.
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