Kaitlin Harrison
ArtWorks Gallery & Studio's Senior Program Coordinator. She oversees the all creative expression that the ArtWorks Gallery and studio an art program driven by Keystone Community Resources. A graduate from Keystone College with bachelor's degree in Visual Art and specialization in Art Therapy. Kaitlin's passion for immersing individuals with intellectual disabilities into the larger arts community has been expressed through the continuous growth of the ArtWorks program. Kaitlin has instructed children & adults with intellectual disabilities and autism, along with community based classes for over 10+ years. She has exhibited her art work in galleries throughout the mid-Atlantic region. She has been commissioned in several permanent installations and mural works. Her passion is to continuously explore various processes and expressions through primarily clay and printmaking.
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Delia O'Malley
Delia studied Interior Design at Cazenovia College. She also attended Keystone College where she concentrated on Business and Fine Art. In February of 2016, Delia joined the Artwork’s team as an Art Instructor. Delia is currently the Program Manager of the ArtWorks Gallery & Studio. Along with Delia's leadership responsibilities, creating community relationships through creative expression has been a passion of hers. She specializes in oil painting, charcoal & pastel drawing. Delia expresses her passion for the arts by continuously expanding and creating opportunities for individuals with disabilities and autism. |
Margie Makowski
is a graduate from Marywood University, Magna Cum Laude with her Bachelors of Arts in Art Therapy and Art History, Minor: Psychology. Margie also studied at Studio Arts College International (SACI), College of Art & Design, Florence, Italy
Margie's creative practice centers on research and reading. For her, scholarly research and reading are as important to the creative process as the physical act of painting. She aims to translate learned ideas, histories, and theories into an emotional response through mixed media and painting. I aspire to find the human interaction and particularly a feminine essence in very concrete and objective concepts. Dried flowers and plants are often incorporated into my work to reflect the life source and belief that the creative process is much like a rhythmic life cycle, always modifying itself and evolving. New ideas are born from learned processes, and mature into a tangible object. I hope to emphasize the unity between creating and learning, exploring new paradigms of powerful expression. |
Tony Grigas
Anthony W. Grigas is a mixed media artist and educator living in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, focusing primarily in the art of photography, and continued expanding his understanding of traditional and digital photography while attending classes at Savannah College of Art and Design, located in Savannah, Georgia. He discovered a love of art education while assisting for N.E.I.U. 19’s Arts Alive program. Since then, he has been involved in several art- and education-focused workshops, including the SCAD Summer Seminars and the Artist Educator Forum, both located in Savannah, Georgia. He also was a general education instructor for elementary and high school students in the foreign city of Tbilisi, Georgia, before becoming the Everhart Museum’s Coordinator of Interpretive Programs in December 2014. In 2019 Anthony joined the ArtWorks Gallery team as an Instructor. |
Colleen Germain
Colleen is a Fulbright Scholar to Thailand and received her MA in decorative arts and design from Bard in New York City. She possesses curatorial experience at the Met, the Museum of Arts and Design, and Sotheby's Home. Her experience living in Italy helps her appreciate all forms of creativity, and informs her methods of fostering intellectual curiosity in the classroom. Colleen paints in oil and enjoys portraits and landscapes. She is motivated to design exciting projects for her students using found materials especially vintage jewelry, comics, and textiles.
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Peg McDade
Peg McDade, professional fiber artist, is well-qualified to teach special needs students at ArtWorks Gallery. For eight years as a consultant/teacher and lead team designer in the Title 1 Arts Program in the Scranton School District, Peg taught hand- and loom weaving, stitchery, pottery, and drawing concepts with special needs students in grades one through high school, and at adult levels. This Program, which served six public and six private schools, was granted a Pacesetter in Education Award from the PA Department of Art Education for its excellence. Currently at ArtWorks, students are learning needle weaving and basic embroidery stitches.
Peg has taught Fiber Arts, Pottery, Drawing , Color and Design, History of Costume, and Art Appreciation at Marywood University and Keystone College; and History of Art at Luzerne Community College. She exhibits in galleries regularly. Her large commissioned artworks are installed in institutions and office buildings. Peg’s one-only art-to-wear is treasured by over 350 private collectors. |
Steve Werner
Steve Werner is a multi-instrumentalist and Scranton native. He plays the handpan among many other instruments. A graduate of West Scranton High School, Werner studied human development and family studies at Lackawanna College and Penn State Worthington. He is employed by Keystone Community Resources and works as a vocational job coach. He lives in Scranton. Steve is also apart of the county program run by Maureen McGuigan called Arts Heal. Where he plays music in the ICU. Steve provides lessons to a multitude of people, anywhere from children, people with developmental disabilities and autism, to patients in the ICU. We are proud to have Steve apart of the ArtWorks Instructors.
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Michaela Moore
is a Theatre Devisor/Producer/Performer who has premiered shows locally, nationally and internationally. She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has a graduate certificate in devised theatre from The Pig Iron School for Advanced Performing Training and is currently pursuing her MFA in devised theatre from The University of the Arts. She is the founder of both All About Theatre Performing Arts School and “Camp Create”, a comprehensive arts camp for children with intellectual, emotional and physical disabilities. She was awarded the “Woman of the Year” award from Parents Loving Children Through Autism and was featured as a “Northeast Woman” in the Times Tribune in February of 2012. She is currently directing a devised theatre piece in Philadelphia called “Exposure” that explores the world of physical disability and hope to bring awareness to the challenges, bodily harm and dangers that millions of people with physical disabilities face on a day to day basis. She feel privileged to be an instructor at ArtWorks and is grateful to all of her students and all that they teach her. |
