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Megan Austin: Precious Metal Clay: Teresa Barnes: Glass Fusing and Pottery: A potter for 10+ years, my interest in the arts drives me to experiment with forms and formulas. Many awards over the years reinforce my desire to learn and do more. Recently, fused and slumped glass pieces have been added to my treasures. This new venture has endless possibilities. An artist will spend a lifetime learning their craft, but at some point the need to give back becomes important. I have been teaching pottery for the last ten years to both adults and children. I now teach for Cobb County at the Art Station and for the City of Kennesaw. Adults can also learn glass fusing and slumping in my classes at the Art Station. Children delight in my Kids Hand Building classes. They have fun building fanciful creatures, castles and functional items like bookends and candleholders. Please visit my website. It is full of Treasures. www.treasuresbyteresa.net Gary Curtis: Watercolor Workshops: At age 35, I made the major decision to leave a successful career in business to start my own business as a full-time artist. I believe my personal growth is predicated on self-scrutiny and education. I owe it to my buying public to continually strive to improve myself and therefore my work. I work in watercolor, a medium I find best captures the translucence of light and shadow. My watercolors have won numerous awards and are part of several private and corporate collections including Coca-Cola, BellSouth, First Union Bank, First Atlanta Bank, Post Properties, Atlanta Magazine, IBM, Crosland-Erwin Associates, Belk Brothers, Amoco Fabrics, Barnett Bank, Senior Corporation, Hilton Hotels, HBO & Company, and Red Wing Shoes. My museum collections include the Daytona Beach Museum of Arts & Sciences (Daytona, FL), the Hunter Museum (Chattanooga, TN), and the Ohr-O-Keefe Museum (Biloxi, MS). Please visit my website, http://www.garycurtiswatercolors.com. Jessica Durrant: Drawing and Painting: Shannon Lindsay: Creative Dramatics and Acting: Originally a native of the Central New York area, Shannon graduated from Niagara University, magna cum laude, with a B.F.A. degree in Theatre Arts. She has been performing and directing in professional, community and children's theaters in the Boston area for more than a decade. Shannon has performed in over a dozen productions for Pocket Full of Tales children's theatre company and with several Boston area theatre companies including Stanley B. Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Theatre Co-Op and Comedy Theatre Productions. She has appeared in commercials, industrial films and in the feature film Mona Lisa Smile. She began teaching acting and creative arts classes for Pocket Full of Tales Theatre Company in Natick, MA and Chelsea Youth Theatre in Chelsea, MA in 2005. Upon moving to Georgia in 2008, Shannon founded Shannonigans Theatre Workshop. She believes in process-based hands-on learning focused on encouraging creativity, discovery and imagination. Shannon has performed locally with Theatre on Main and My Michelle Productions School Day Theatre programs. For Curtain Call Youth Players Shannon directed casts of 5th through 12th graders in the full length productions of Aladdin and The Phantom Tollbooth, and assistant directed Bye Bye Birdie. She has served as Artistic Director for CCYP since August 2009. Shannon has worked with children in one way or another for her entire life and is the proud mother of 2 beautiful young boys. Please check out her website at www.ShannonigansTheatre.com. Hugh McKay: Scratchboard Illustration: For Hugh, growing up on Long Island was a wonderful experience; only 40 miles from New York City and surrounded by water, there was always something to do. From a very early age, Hugh also had an interest in antiques and art. In his third year of art school, he discovered scratchboard illustration. (Scratchboard essentially looks like wood engraving but is achieved through a different process.) In addition to doing freelance illustration, his first job after graduating in 1994 from Rhode Island School of Design was at a letterpress shop in Oyster Bay, NY as a press operator. In 2001, after Hugh received an MFA degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design, he opened a letterpress shop in Savannah's "City Market." Today, he lives in Marietta with his wife Staci and their young daughter Isla. Laura Moorman: Adult Pottery on the Wheel: Tori Breeden Waters: Sculpture and Handbuilding:

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