Instructors

 

 
Robert Fifield

Joe Hooten

Joe Hooten earned his Bachelors of Science in art with an emphasis in art education in December of 2005 from Illinois State University. Experimenting throughout his life in many different musical and visual media, he inevitably acquired a great fondness for the arts. Joe has taught elementary, middle school, and high school art in McLean county public schools. He has been teaching beginning and advanced techniques in ceramics at MCAC. Joe is a practicing and exhibiting artist working with a wide range of media that is inspired by his life experiences including being a stay-at-home father to two wonderful boys and his marriage to a Normal Community High School art teacher.

 

Kirk

 

 

 

Kathleen Kirk
Kathleen Kirk is the winner of the Ekphrasis Prize from Ekphrasis Journal. Her work appears in more than 70 print and online literary journals, and she is the author of 4 poetry chapbooks.  She has taught English and Creative Writing at DePaul University and Lincoln College.  A former editor of RHINO Magazine, she ran RHINO’s poetry workshop in the Normal Public Library for several years.  She is currently the poetry editor for Escape Into Life, an international online magazine of art, literature, and culture.

Roger

 

 

 

 

Roger Harris
Roger Harris received his BFA with an emphasis in printmaking from Southwest Missouri State University and studied landscape with painter M. Charles Rhinehart in the early 1980s. He has displayed his work in many galleries throughout the Midwest and beyond. Roger finds his strength lies within artistic cooperation between other artists and creative thinkers. The sharing and developing of ideas and methods with other people is an extension of his teaching philosophy which many students have come to admire.

 

 

 

 

Teryn Brown
Photographer Teryn Brown completed her Bachelors degree in Art Photography at Illinois State University. During her time as an undergraduate, she served both as a freelance photographer for Illinois State University's Marketing and Communications department and as an assistant photography teacher in the Art department. Brown continues to work as a freelance/event photographer while still keeping up with producing artwork.