She was also a popular workshop leader at the Young at Arts studio in Langley. Diana has illustrated numerous children’s storybooks, including Worm Sandwich with Linda Rogers and Peanut Butter Waltz with Joan Stuchner. She is a Learning Through the Arts graduate and has taken children’s writing courses at Simon Fraser University.
*Diana also teaches Hand Coloured Photograhs with us.
Craig Spence has taught Story Building workshops to intermediate aged children in schools and has a keen interest in encouraging creative activity amongst young people and adults. He has published two works of juvenile fiction:Josh & the Magic Vial, which was short listed for the BC Book Prize; and Einstein Dog, which was shortlisted for the BC Teacher Librarian's Chocolate Lily Award. He has been a journalist and communications manager and brings a broad range of collaborative and technical skills to the workshop table.
www.craigspencewriter.ca
Lorraine Douglas has taught art classes and workshops since 1984 and worked as a teacher and a children’s librarian. She loves creating monotypes, water media and collage, book sculptures and calligraphic art. She has exhibited since 1990 and her work has been chosen for juried shows and solo exhibitions in Canada and Japan including Art of the Book. Lorraine is a graduate of the Universities of Alberta and Manitoba and received her Certificate in Visual Arts from the Vancouver Island School of Art in 2009.
Susan Underwood loves sharing her enthusiasm for printmaking with children and young adults. In her career as an educator she has taught primary, middle, secondary, and university level students. Her prints have been shown in the Sooke Fine Arts show, the Victoria Art Gallery, and annual shows of Ground Zero Printmakers Society and Xchanges Artists' Gallery and Studios. Susan has a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University and a Masters of Arts from University of Victoria.
Lorraine and Susan are partners in the Cecelia Press Printmaking Studio in Victoria, BC.
Liz Rubincam is a Toronto-born artist and educator who until recently was based in New York City. She is now happy to embrace a slower pace of life in Victoria with her husband and young son. She is a graduate of Ryerson University’s photography program and also studied documentary and photojournalism at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her images have been published in The New York Times, Time Magazine and Marie Claire Magazine and she is a contributing photographer to Getty Images. In addition to photography, Liz has been an avid bookbinder and collage artist for the past ten years.
www.lizrubincam.com
*Liz also teaches Intro & Intermediate Book Binding with us.
Ottlie Short is an emerging photographer with a deep curiosity for the world of images. She is a student in the University of Victoria’s Visual Arts Program and practices analog photography using conventional and historical processes.
Inspired by boxes of photographs and cameras left to her by her father, her work focuses on experiencing life through the record of photographs. She collects orphaned photographs and cameras and can often be found riding her motorcycle or cuddling a cat.
She keeps a blog at www.anotherwayoftelling.tumblr.com
Emmy McMillan is a full-time professional photographer in Victoria BC. Her first camera was a blue plastic Kodak with disposable single use flash and 35mm film. Her favourite cameras now is her Voigtlander Vitessa range finder and her Canon 5D DSLR. Emmy and her husband Aaron have been portrait and wedding photographers with their company EA Photography since 2007 and has had her work featured in international online publications.
When Emmy is not using her camera she volunteers with the adaptive recreation program at Power To Be Adventure Therapy working with children with autism in experiential education and adventure therapy. In 2010 she completed an MA in Dispute Resolution at the University of Victoria. She is also passionate about all things hand-made and each year she produces The Owl Designer Fair in Fernwood showcasing Victoria's art and design
talents.
Her recent personal work in photography is a series in progress on family members and their home based workshops and hand-made projects. So far she has documented her Grandfather in his workshop, her father with his handmade dory, and her husband Aaron working on palladium printing in his darkroom. Photography with children has long been an interest for her as photographic career started with her first camera and she is excited to share this art form as an instructor in the children's photography program.
Quinton Gordon is an award winning photographer, educator, publisher and multimedia producer. Since 1990 he has focused his photographic work on portrait, fine art, and social documentary. His images have been featured in national and international publications including Canadian Geographic, Explore, Outside, and National Geographic Adventure, as well as in projects for corporate, government, aboriginal and non-governmental clients.
Quinton holds degrees in Art History, Photographic Arts, and Arts education. From 1996 through 1999 he taught in the Photography Department at Massey University's School of Design, in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a contributing photographer to PhotoSensetive, a non-profit collective of professional Canadian photographers working to raise awareness of international social issues. Quinton is the founder and co-owner of Lúz Gallery | for the Photographic Arts, you can also find him teaching & lecturing throughout North America, with Leica Akademie. Quinton will be releasing his first self published artist book, Mile Zero in early Spring 2012.