HEARTWOOD FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATION
Berri Kramer, PresidentSusan Wilder, Dean of Admissions
Stephanie Bacon, Executive Assistant to the President, Bursar
FACULTY
Jayne Adams is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire with a BFA in painting. She has been a visual artist since early childhood and was greatly influenced by her high school teacher, Robert Hughes. She lives a life of artistic discovery and exploration which is demonstrated in her strong figurative work in oil and experimental imagery in printmaking and paper.
Chris Becker is a photographer who earned his BFA at Ohio University and his technical and artistic sophistication is evident in each image he captures. Chris' work is in the collection of Saachi and Saachi and has been featured in New York Magazine, National Geographic Adventure and Down East.
Alice Carroll earned a BFA from Portland School of Art and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsman. She was an artist-in-residence from 1992-1994 at Penland School of Crafts and was the studio coordinator in the metals department from 1993-1994. Alice has current gallery affiliations throughout the United States and has been included in many invitational shows. Her skillful work in functional and nonfunctional metals complements her articulate teaching methods.
Amy Clark Amy Clark holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has studied, taught and sold pottery throughout New England for the past 13 years. She apprenticed at Highland Pottery in Northern Vermont, learning the art of traditional, wood-fired production pottery and later worked as the head potter there. In October of 2009, Amy opened Ocean Fire Pottery, an artist-owned and operated studio and gallery located in York Village, Maine, featuring her handcrafted wheelthrown stoneware. In her studio, Amy combines elements of the earth to create functional art that evokes joy every day.
Margaret Cummings attended Rhode Island School of Design after receiving a BA degree, cum laude, in Studio Art from Kenyon College and an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught Painting and Drawing at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Bristol Community College (Fall River, MA), and most recently, in France and Italy. Her work has been exhibited and won recognition throughout southern New England.
Lawrence Dorr holds a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Management Science from Johns Hopkins University, as well as an MS in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland. At Heartwood he teaches Geometry for Artists, a course for which he developed the curriculum and text book.
Gayle Fitzpatrick is an eminent printmaker and active in printmaking circles in Maine. With a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art, she continued her studies at Salem State and Boston State Colleges, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts and in Japan with Tsuneo Naito. Her work has been included in more than forty juried shows. She maintains her own studio, making etchings and prints for commercial art endeavors. Gayle teaches printmaking and etching.
Don Gorvett is a board member of The Boston Printmakers. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he was awarded a Ford Fellowship. Don is widely recognized for his work in the reduction woodcut technique and has exhibited his prints nationally and internationally. His published work includes book illustrations for 'Kon Tiki' for the National Geographic Library. Don has taught reduction woodcut throughout New England. His prints are included in dozens of collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam.
DeWitt Hardy is nationally known for his watercolors, drawings and set designs. He has had 16 one man shows in New York City and has pieces in over 35 museum collections including the Farnsworth, Portland Museum of Art, The British Museum, The Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. An Art History major at Syracuse University, DeWitt founded the well known North Berwick figure drawing group. He is featured in American Realism (20th Century Drawing and Watercolors) published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. DeWitt teaches watercolor, advanced drawing and printmaking.
Steve Harvey has a Master of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon and a Masters in Humanities from Penn State University. Steve teaches Comparative Religion and Great Books. The combination of his work in the field and his humanities background makes him a perfect role model for art students seeking to bridge theory and practice.
Sean Hurley earned his BFA from the University of New Hampshire in 2008. He currently lives and works in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is the gallery manager at Piscataqua Fine Arts Printmaking Studio. A member of the Boston Printmakers, Sean has taught workshops in reduction woodcut and etching and his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Peter Kellman is an author, lecturer and labor scholar with a passion for world history and an extensive background in workers’ rights. In 1965, two years after graduating from high school, he traveled to Alabama as a civil rights worker. After working in several “blue-collar” professions, he became actively involved in labor law through positions as a local union president, Director of the New Hampshire Coalition on Occupational Safety & Health.
Berri Kramer, President of Heartwood College of Art, received her BFA in Design and Crafts, with a minor in art history at Kent State University. She earned a Masters degree from Lesley University in Fiber Arts. She also studied at the City and Guild Art School of London and the University of London. For eighteen years she was a designer for Better Homes and Gardens and extensively explored color theory through quilt making. Her teaching philosophy, tempered by home schooling four children, is founded on profound respect for student ability and potential. Berri teaches color and design, exploration of crafts and folio book.
Stuart Nudelman has a B.A. degree from Adelphi University, a MS from the City University (NYC), and has studied at the International Center of Photography with Cornell Capa, Ernst Haas, and Harold Edgerton. He was the founder and director of the Ogunquit Photography School and has taught at the Bronx Community College, the University of Southern Maine and the Portland Museum of Art. Stuart's work is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Portland Museum of Art and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. His work has been exhibited locally, nationally and abroad. Stuart teaches photography and history of photography.
Dennis Rafferty attended Emporia State University for a Bachelors in Art Education and did graduate work at Kansas University with a primary focus on painting. He has studied with Richard Slimon of Emporia State, Bill Brawley of Kansas University, Stephen Quiller of Creede, Colorado, Caleb Stone and Guy Corriero on Monhegan Island, and Mel Stabin in Cape Porpoise, Maine. In 1998 he moved to Kennebunkport and has shown locally in the Mast Cove Galleries for the past six years. He is the manager of The Cygnet Gallery in Portland, Brunswick, Blue Hill and Northeast Harbor, all in Maine. He paints in both oil and watercolor, and calls Maine "the perfect artistic venue."
Carl Schmalz received his BA, MA and PhD at Harvard and has taught at Amherst College, the Eliot O'Hara Watercolor School and at his own watercolor workshops in Kennebunkport. In addition to teaching, he has authored several books, essays and exhibition catalogues on watercolor. Schmalz is an extraordinary watercolorist whose paintings can be found in numerous collections throughout the United States.
Susan Sheftel
Susan Wilder is a painter in water-based media. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Drawing and Painting. She also studied scientific illustration and worked in the field before publishing some of her illustrations. In addition to her work as an artist who has exhibited widely in California and in New England, Susan has taught art at the Newport Art Association School in Rhode Island and was the Art Director for L. A. GOAL/Inside Out Productions in California for fifteen years. She teaches acrylic, gouache, and drawing.
Wade Zahares is an artist and children's book illustrator who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Color and whimsy burst from his work which can be seen in the permanent collection of the Decordova Museum, in numerous children's books and in magazines such as the LA Times and Sesame Street.
VISITING ARTISTS AND FACULTY
(Join us for intensive three credit courses in the spring)Timothy Brooke was educated in London and holds a National Diploma in Design. He has lived in Kenya most of his life. Timothy Brooke is a master of landscape painting. Though he generally paints in oil, he particularly treasures watercolor for its ability to render light in the manner of 18th and 19th painters.
Kate Cathey's primary passion is enameling, the process of fusing glass to metal with heat. In her work she uses various enameling techniques to fabricate both jewelry and sculptural objects. She holds an MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University. Her thesis work consisted of a collection of enameled vessels that explore form, surface and function.
William Duffy of Baltimore, MD is widely recognized for his intricately designed sculpture compositions which are in both private and public collections. He works most often in bronze, stainless steel and granite to create durable works designed to withstand time, weather and human contact. William has an MFA degree from University of Maryland.