Panthea has been a professional art teacher for over 11 years in the Osborn School District. During the school year she teaches visual arts to students ranging from kindergarten through 8th grade as well as coaching after school sport programs. Panthea received her  BFA, and M Ed from ASU. After graduating with my BFA in painting, she spent time oil painting and print-making. She started teaching as a means to support her art career. At that time she worked as an art teacher and coach at various places that include Montessori schools, girls clubs and after school art programs in Phoenix and Tucson. She has exhibited work in local coffee shops and art venues in the Phoenix area and also worked at an art gallery that manufactured prints and paintings. Currently, Panthea creates art to sustain her teaching career. It's her means of expression and relaxation. Panthea's favorite mediums include acrylic painting, ceramics, and various forms of fiber arts. She is the mother of two boys, age 16 and 10 years old. 

 Michelle Gurnee has been teaching art for 14 years in schools located in two very different locations; one in the mountains of Colorado and now in Phoenix.  She is an art teacher at Phoenix Country Day School, where  she recently received the Excellence in Teaching Award.

Michelle is a self-directed enthusiastic art educator with a passionate commitment to planting the seeds of creativity and innovative thinking in children to help them grow academically through both skill building and in knowledge of art and art history.

Michelle enjoys teaching because there is a suprise everyday in a comment or approach a student may have to a project. 

  Christine is an artist who dabbles in a variety of media, but her true passion is 
  ceramics.  She has exhibited work in local shows and has work held in private
  collections in Phoenix and Tucson.  This is her eighth year teaching Visual Art to
  Kindergarten through 8th grade students, most recently for Liberty Elementary
  School District in Buckeye, Arizona.  She lives in Goodyear with her fiance and
  two dogs Scout and Goose.  In her free time she enjoys watching movies,
  traveling and working in the ceramic studio. 
      

Barbara believes she was very lucky to go to college for 4 years at the Kansas City Art Institute. Everyone there was studying some kind of art. For someone who loves art, it was like heaven on earth. After she moved to Arizona I went to ASU for my teaching certificate. Barbara has been teaching for 22 years. 

Barbara lives with her 3 sons .  She loves to travel, to spend time with  family, friends, and with her cat Toshiro and to paint watercolors.

 Linda Pullinsi is a Phoenix artist who is known for her use of rich, bold color to create uplifting works of art. Linda is a juried member of the Arizona Watercolor Association and has served on their board. She has received numerous awards in watercolor and portrait competitions. Her works of art are in corporate collections throughout the United States and in private collections throughout the world. An encouraging teacher, she is a popular instructor of both children and adults. Her positive nature helps corporate groups to free their creative spirit and express themselves with paint, wonderful for team building!  Linda also leads small watercolor retreats to beautiful locations throughout the Southwest. Linda has been a volunteer with Free Arts of Arizona for the past twelve years sharing the healing effects of the arts with abused and neglected children and was voted Volunteer of the Year for 2006. This past May, Linda was honored by the Governor's Commission for the Arts as Mentor of the Year 2010.

  Barbara is a full time artist and enjoys stirring the artistic essence in her students by providing a creative yet comfortable atmosphere. Her classes emphasize
the classical elements of art and balances that with creativitiy and passion which results in powerful and original pieces of art. Barbara has a Fine
Arts degreee from Loyola Marymount University and Arizona State University. She is honored to be the recipient of the Plein Air Painters of America Award and has received various other awards. She has exhibited in various local and national shows including Santa Fe, Sedona, Tucson and Cincinnati.  Her work is held in many private collections and she is currently exhibiting at Rich Designs Gallery in Colorado.

  Joseph Wolves Kill’s passion for the arts has taken him into the classroom to mentor aspiring young artists of the future. He has shown his powerful visual reflections throughout the U.S., as well as in Europe and Japan. Images of his work have advertised and promoted conferences and organizations such as the Inter-tribal Council of AZ, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts (murals), and ATLATL, (National Native Arts Network).  Commercially, Joseph has illustrated a children's book and designed book and album cover artwork.  He currently resides in Tempe, Arizona. Mr. Wolves Kill has received the Artist Circle Award for Artist Educator of the Year from Scottsdale Arizona 2006.