Flora Cardenas Flora is a Colorado native and earned a degree in business management from Metropolitan State University of Colorado. She started her own floral and gift business “Flowers By Flora & Gifts, Inc.” located in Arvada. Her passion and love of flowers is centered on sharing, caring, and designing beautiful floral creations for others. Flora teaches floral design for the City of Westminster.
Beth Buglione Beth Buglione first picked up a camera at age 10 and instantly feel in love with the medium. A self-taught photographer, she graduated from the University of Oregon with a BA in Journalism. She worked a variety of communication jobs, including photojournalist for the Capital Press and Gazette-Times newspapers. “I believe in minimal computer processing as nature is plenty striking on Her own. Staying true to my craft motivates me to expose one-of-a-kind images that I hope touch people in deeply healing ways.” Beth’s photography includes collections from Iceland, Australia, Thailand, Canada, England, Puerto Rico and the United States. She has won numerous awards including international recognition for work in the United Kingdom and a People’s Choice award in Sydney, Australia.
Chromatix Afsheen Ahmad and Rafya Faridi design and teach all of the Chromatix classes. Their classes are simple and easy to do, and they allow students to explore their creativity and imagination. Afsheen’s background is in architecture and art has always been a big part of her life. She has studied drawing, painting and sculpture. Rafya has always had a knack for arts and crafts and has a background in business marketing. She loves to sew, draw, design Henna paintings, and create recycled art pieces.
Mary Anne Getchell Mary Anne began knitting and sewing while in elementary school. In fact, throughout college, most of her wardrobe was home-sewn and she even knitted ski sweaters for her college friends. She spent 32 years working as an elementary school teacher in South Texas where after a long work day she would unwind by working on a knitting or sewing project. Mary Anne teaches knitting and sewing classes for the City of Westminster.
Caren Johannes Caren has a degree in geological engineering but has had a life-long interest in rocks, minerals, jewelry, and gems. She began her journey as a jewelry artist in 1989 and branched into wire working and silversmith work in 1995. Caren has been teaching jewelry-making classes for more than 20 years.
Marva Moir Born in Toronto, Canada, Marva is a self-taught artist that has been painting fmost of her life. From a very young age Marva had a deep desire to draw and work with colors, and when she moved to the U.S. in 1980 she started teaching at an art studio. Marva has taught oil painting for the City of Westminster for 14 years.
Melissa Burkhardt Moore Melissa Burkhardt Moore loves all things art! After receiving her BFA and MFA in studio art, she began a career as a scenic artist in professional theater, working all over the country and eventually landing at the Denver Center Theater Company. She painted there for six seasons, before heading to Santa Fe, NM to raise a family. There she started her business Re.Cycle.D where she made and sold jewelry and purses from upcycled bike parts and tubes. She also created an ETSY store where she sold hand sewn mermaid skirts. Melissa teaches batik and jewelry classes for the City of Westminster.
Dana Schoeneshoefer Dana is a fine art sculpture and painter from Colorado. She studied at the University of Northern Colorado and then went on to study in Italy. Her love of traveling has highly influenced her art. As an artist she studies her subjects’ mass, movement, and lighting and applies this to her work. Each piece has a sketch done before to look at these elements then the piece can be set in motion. Dana teaches drawing and watercolor classes for the City of Westminster.
Joseph Sikora Joseph was trained in small woodcarving studio in Bavaria, Germany. He worked under the guidance of a master carver for 8 years. In 1991, he returned to the U.S. and opened his own business in Colorado. He teaches wood carving classes for the City of Westminster.
Cyndi Baker Cyndi’s love for clay began in high school when she had a wonderful pottery teacher. She went on to attend Red Rocks and Pikes Peak Community College and then pursued a career as a graphic designer, but Cyndi was continuously working with clay in her spare time. Cyndi has been teaching pottery at the City of Westminster for 12 years and teaches Thursday evening classes.
Martha Cofran Although Martha didn’t take pottery classes until she was in college, she’s been fascinated with ceramics since childhood. Once her children were grown and she was well into her career as a software engineer, she took night classes to become proficient in working with porcelain, her medium of choice. She retired early and has been working in her ceramics studio in Evergreen, CO, and teaching adult pottery at City Park Recreation Center in Westminster, CO ever since. Working in porcelain, Martha creates one-of-a-kind functional pottery with elegant shapes and with surface designs that try to achieve a balance between positive and negative spaces, light and dark colors, and curved and straight lines. In the September/October, 2020 issue, Pottery Making Illustrated published an article she wrote titled “Functional Mandalas” that details the entire process.
Shannon Long Shannon began working with clay in high school and then earned his BFA in Ceramic Art from Arizona State University in 1990 and his MFA in Ceramic Art from Texas Tech in 1996. He has taught ceramics at Texas Tech University and Metropolitan State University. His ceramic art has been exhibited in AZ, NM, TX, CO, KS, OK, and AL. Shannon works as the Studio Coordinator for the City of Westminster and teaches many of the pottery classes as well.
Alicia Maddison Alicia has had a passion for clay for about a decade. She is a certified k-12 art teacher. She enjoys working with students of all ages and different skill levels. Alicia teaches youth and parent & child pottery classes for the City of Westminster.
Will Mantor Will Mantor has a BFA from Oklahoma State University and a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught a Pottery All Levels class for the City of Westminster since 2019 and loves working with beginners!.
Johanna O'Connell Johanna originally enrolled in a pottery class offered at City Park Pottery Studio as a student and was later hired as an instructor. Her background is in elementary education and she has lived in Westminster since 1975. She has worked for the City of Westminster as a pottery instructor for the past 30 years and teaches teaching all levels and Majolica workshops.
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