ArtSpan Faculty Bios

Sue FunkCartooning

Sue Funk has a BA in Fine Art and is a Massachusetts certified teacher. While she is active in the professional fine arts world, Sue is also an illustrator, specializing in children’s literature. Combining her two loves—children and drawing—Sue has been teaching for over 15 years.

Deborah Goldman Children’s Yoga

Deb Goldman, MA is a graduate of Lesley College’s Expressive Arts Therapy Program with a specialization in dance/movement therapy, The Radiant Child Yoga Teacher’s Training, the Contemplative Dance Year-Long Program, and The Celebrant USA Institute. A dance with training in a wide variety of forms, she also brings 26 years of interest in yoga and 18 years of experience co-creating and co-facilitating psychoeducational, movement and spiritual groups, seasonal rituals and personalized lifecycle and life transition ceremonies for individuals, couples and families. Also, she is a mother of a wondrous six-year old son. It is with much enthusiasm and appreciation for the depth of richness that we have to offer each other, that she leads her classes and groups.

Claudia Hauert Woodworking for Children and Adults

Claudia Hauert graduated as an Elementary teacher and holds an MS in Biology from Switzerland. She gained professional experience in designing and building exhibitions at the Natural History Museum in Bern. She engages all her students in the creative process of building wooden toys and gadgets and believes that woodworking promotes and requires and even balance of manual skills, patience and endurance. Claudia loves to run around in her overalls with a drill, saw and other tools, and she enjoys working with children and adults alike.

Patricia Hyland Graffiti Art and Graphic Novels

Patricia Hyland earned her BFA in Painting from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. She has since worked in public schools in Boston and Arlington and also at Advances Learning Center in Watertown. She is excited to be teaching Graffiti Art and Graphic Novels, a course of her own design, at ArtSpan.

Peg Kane Half Day Arts & Discover Painting and Drawing

Peg Kane holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Mass College of Art and a Masters in Painting from Pius Xii Institute in Florence, Italy. She also teaches additional art classes, including Acrylic and Colored Pencil courses at The Brookline Arts Center. Peg works in acrylic, colored pencil, collage and mixed media and has shown her art throughout the Boston area.

Andrea Karis Jewelry Making for Teens and Adults

Although by day Andrea Karis is a legal recruiter, she has a passion for the arts and for teaching. She has a background in painting, drawing, and modern languages, and she is an established jewelry designer. Her classes are the perfect combination of experimentation, creativity and skill building. Her students leave each day with new jewelry pieces to wear along with their smiles!

Jason Miller Comic Book Illustration

Ana Reyes Photography

Ana M. Reyes is a California-bred, Boston-based photographer, videographer, and video editor. Although she prefers traditional film processes, she is well versed in digital photography. Ana's classes will emphasis knowledge of photographic basics, while encouraging people to have fun and cultivate their vision. Ana spends too much time photographing weddings and not enough time revisiting her Super 8 films!

Micah Schatz Advanced Drawing and Painting

Micah has been teaching with ArtSpan for four years and is a member artist of Lexington’s Depot Square Gallery. He received a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and continued his studies at The Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.

Adrienne Sloane Beginning Crochet and Sculptural Knitting

Adrienne Sloane is a self-taught fiber artist who has been working with yarn since childhood. For many years she designed and knit wearable art, which she exhibited throughout the Northeast. For the past five years she has engaged a new body of work using traditional techniques in more exploratory ways. She has worked with knitting projects in Bolivia and Peru and has works in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Goldstein Museum of Design. Adrienne keeps a studio at The Munroe Center and continues to exhibit both locally and nationally.

Melanie is a graduate from Alfred University where she studied ceramics, glass, wood, metalsmithing and art education. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a teaching certification in New York State. She has worked at several summer camps teaching ceramics, including Munroe’s ArtSpan and was recently the site director of an after school program in Cambridge. Melanie continues to work with ceramics and glass and metals in her own artwork.

Chris has worked with theaters across the country, but most recently with Stoneham Theater and with New Repertory Theater in Watertown. As an actor he has been a member of The Borealis Theater Company, The New World Repertory, Foothills Theater Company, Boston Theater Works and the Tony-award winning Denver Center Theater Company. He co-founded Starving Artist Theater Company, which seeks to combine literature, poetry, music and fine art with theater. Chris has taught for the Denver Center Theater Company, Illinois Institute of Art, Stoneham Theater’s Young Company, The Woburn Boys and Girls Club and the United South End Settlements in Boston. Chris holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the National Theater Conservatory, a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Performance from Western Michigan University, and he also trained with the Marymount University London Drama Conservatory.