Michelle Posner

Michelle Posner is a local painter and collage artist. She is a NYS certified art teacher and teaches full time at NYIT. She also teaches at Art Studio E in Miller Place and private lessons from home. Michelle is happily involved in the Long Island art scene and is affiliated with such associations as FRESH Art Collective, The Tryst and Art Studio 85. She has been featured in exhibitions at Gallery 2444, The Southampton Parrish Museum, the Roger Smith Hotel in Manhattan, Studio East Gallery in Greenport and many others. Michelle is delighted to teach at the Smithtown Arts Council and hopes to pass on her excitement for art.

 

Michael Parisi

  
Michael Parisi of Port Jefferson specializes in commission work for people and pets. A member of the Portrait Society of America, he has had extensive education in art, and graduated from the Manhattan Institute of Drafting and Design, and the American Art School.  He has had various exhibits across Long Island and is regularly invited to do demo shows at private parties, hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and art groups. He teaches adult and children’s portrait classes in charcoal, oil or pastels. Michael has loved art all his life; in fact, he calls art his passion. In his career, he has completed over 5,000 portraits and has a special love for Long Island landscape.
 Jenna Matthews obtained her Masters in Art Education from the School of Visual Arts this past summer 2009.  She received her BA from Stony Brook University in 2007.  There, she dual majored in Studio Art and Art History & Criticism, while obtaining a minor in digital art.   Jenna is currently New York State Certified in the Visual Arts for grades PreK-12.  She worked  his past school year as an art-specific substitute for several schools in the New York City Public School System.  Jenna creates her own personal artwork in several different mediums including paint, printmaking and digital media.  She has participated in several group shows throughout Long Island and New York City.  Besides the creation of art in the classroom she is passionate about her students’ visual literacy and recently finished a year-long research project about it for her masters program.

Jenna Matthews

 

 

Christine Doherty

 Christine Doherty, a native of Stony Brook, currently attends Boston University's College of Fine Arts.  She will graduate with a BFA in Painting and a minor in art history as well as earning her Masters in Art Education. In the fall of 2011, Christine will be studying abroad in Venice, Italy, where she will further her artistic career.  Aside from teaching art classes at Smithtown Arts Council, Christine works at a pre-school in Boston, and volunteers in Boston Public Schools to bring after school art programs to students who have had art cut from their school budget.  Christine is so excited to work at STAC and continue to share her passion and enthusiasm for art with the students in her classes.  She enjoys exploring different mediums and surfaces for her artwork, especially recyclable materials, an interest that will come across in her teaching.  She has had a profound love for art-making ever since she was a little girl, and hopes that her students will share that same passion and joy that art has brought to her life.