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and improve student's creativity. All experienced instructors are professional artists and have
graduated from major art schools around the world.
David Gista, Carlo Locascio, Aviva Ginzburg, Bliss Feldman, Elena Crumbaugh,
Dayanara Garcia
David
Gista
BA, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris; exchange
program with Parson
School of Paris and the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. Gista has had
numerous exhibitions
in France and Germany the United States and is currently represented by
Galerie Darthea
Speyer, in Paris and Thomas Masters Gallery in Chicago. Gista has shown at
The Art Center
Highland Park, The University Club of Chicago, and the Union League of
Chicago.
www.davidgistart.com
Carlo Locascio
Masters in
Architecture, University of Architecture, Palermo Italy; Fine Art
Teaching Degree,
Istituto Publica Istruzione, Rome, Degree in Fine Art, Academy of Art,
Palermo. Award winning
artist and architect.
www.carlolocascio.com
Dayanara
Garcia studied Art & Illustration at Columbia College in Chicago Il.
She received a CDA certificate in 1995 from the state of Illinois
for Early Child Development and taught preschool for 6 years. During
that time she was a volunteer Arts & Crafts teacher for a Girls
Camp, at Camp Far Horizons for 3 years for girls 12-18 yrs old. From
2007 she is on the Board of Directors as acting secretary and head
of the planning /exhibit and programs committee, where she has
planned and worked hands on in collaborative art projects in and
around the city of Chicago( with Pros Arts, Collibri Gallery, Calles
Y Suenos, School of the Art Institue). With Cuentos she has
organized art programs for children and adults. She organized the
Gale School Poetry Walk where she brought the poems and art work of
the children alive for the children and the community of East Rogers
Park, with the help of community leaders, local artists, teachers
and parents. Last year she organized an art interchange/ service
project, where children in the north side of Chicago, conceptualized
and painted a mural, then it was grafted and put up by community
volunteers at a preschool in west side of Chicago. She is also
active in service projects that help the community and teaches
children that they also have a voice and can make a difference with
their actions and art, and stresses the importance of education. She
is also a working artist/ toy maker and designs and makes toys in
the Waldorf tradition for children and their parents that delight
and sparkimagination.
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