Summer Faculty
Adele Caemmerer
After coming to the Guild as a staffer in 1987, Adele met and married Mike, Guild founders, Richard and Liz Caemmerer’s son. Adele and Mike ventured overseas to teach in international schools. Along with their two daughters, they travelled between Asia and America, spending many summers in Plain with the Guild community. Alongside teaching art, […]
Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in August, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in September, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in October, FSA Week 2 | Practicing Presence: Mark, Pause, Breathe, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in November, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in December,
Jan Krist
Detroit born singer-songwriter Jan Krist was raised on rock, and schooled in the folk of the 60’s and 70’s. Today, Krist's work reflects the power and poetry of having matured as an artist in that place and time. Throughout the 70’s and 80’s, Jan performed her songs in pubs, churches, cafes, and coffeehouses. In 1992 […]
Mary McLeod
Mary McLoed has a Masters of Education degree, with a specialization in iIntegrated Arts from Lesley University. She studied calligraphy with master calligraphers Lloyd Reynolds, Carole DuBosch, and Reggie Etzell. She taught art and music in public schools for thirty years. For 22 years, she has been a teacher in the summer program at the […]
Kristen Gilje
Kristen Gilje is a full-time artist who works in her Bellingham WA studio on art commissions for sacred spaces. She makes large colorful works on silk for seasonal use, which can be seen in churches from coast to coast. Kristen spent 9 years as Artist in Residence at Holden village, near Chelan WA, where she […]
Trung Pham
Trung Pham is a Vietnamese-born, Seattle-based artist, educator. He currently works as an assistant professor in the Art and Art History Department at the Seattle University. Pham earned a MFA at the Pratt Institute in New York and also received a Licentiate in Sacred Theology with a concentration on Theological Aesthetics from the Jesuit School […]
Oriana Sage
Oriana Sage is a visual artist who specialises in ink drawings and vibrant oil paintings that celebrate the intricacies and wildness of nature while simultaneously seeking to illuminate deep and unseen treasures of the soul. She is fascinated by the interactions of light bursting through shadow, the two-dimensional emerging into animated form, and color conveying […]
Sara Nordling
Sara Nordling has been involved in fiber art in many forms for most of her life; weaving however, didn’t enter until Sara was an adult and she was hooked immediately. What began as a hobby turned into a passion and a return to school for a B.F.A. and then an M.F.A. in studio art/textiles. Sara […]
Mike Caemmerer
Mike grew up with artistic parents, professor/painter dad and weaver mom, always in an environment that allowed dabbling in one art form or another. He first sat at a potter’s wheel at the Grünewald Guild pottery in 1988, and has mostly been self-taught ever since with the help of amazing mentors along the way, especially […]
Vonda Drees
Vonda Drees is a visual artist whose love for the questions in life fuels her creative practice. She added a studio partner in November 2024, a curious and playful black lab named Ren. When not in the studio, the two are likely out frolicking in the natural beauty of the Driftless Region in Wisconsin. Vonda and her husband Jim served […]
Shan Wang
Shan (b. 2000, United States) received a B.F.A in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA) in 2022. They work with acrylic media as well as sculptural and functional ceramics. Shan exhibits their work in group exhibitions nationally. They have worked as an Education and Curatorial Intern at the Smithsonian Asian […]
Jean Tudor
My ongoing life as an enamelist: This all started in the late 1950s when I received a Trinkit enameling set for Christmas. What a great hobby! Watching powdered glass fuse to a piece of copper, using a hotplate kiln! But very quickly that wasn't quite enough, so in a few years I got a bigger […]
Carla Erickson Orlando
Carla Orlando, M.Ed, is an educator, spiritual director, retreat facilitator, and artist who teaches discernment, reflective writing, and tools for contemplative prayer. Her professional associations include Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, Ignatian Spirituality Center, SEEL Puget Sound, Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative, Grunewald Guild for Art & Faith, and PRH International School of Adult Development She […]
Hannah Bartels
Hannah Bartels is a writer whose work blends personal narrative, introspection, and vivid observation, published on her Substack Qbird. Her stories and essays explore lived experience with an unflinching openness, often weaving memory, vulnerability, and emotional reckoning into intimate first-person narratives. https://qbird.substack.com/
Kerrie Steffan
Kerrie Steffan is a stained glass artist from Bellingham, WA. Recently retired from her work as a physical therapist, Kerrie has worked with glass for many years including windows, lamps, and art pieces.
Becky Anne Smith
Becky Anne Smith (she/her/they) has been a fiber artist from a young age - 30 years in total! She began weaving at 8 years old when an interactive exhibit at a history museum gave her the tools and instructions to start. Weaving in particular has caught her interest as an expansive and creative process. She […]
Ash Sparks
Ash Sparks is a writer who calls the Pacific Northwest home, where she resides in Kitsap County with her wife and two kids. She writes fantasy, magical realism, and poetry. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and has received her master's degree in Creative Writing from Harvard University. Her recent works can be found in […]
Patty Huffer
Patty Huffer lives in Washington state and has been weaving since 1981. After graduating from Central Washington University, with a dual education degree in Home Economics and Physical Education, she took a summer weaving class. This began her 40 years of weaving and teaching others to weave and spin. The love of fibers and teaching […]
Hannah Charlton
Hannah Charlton studied art at Whitworth University, where she first became interested in medieval art. This was encouraged by an internship at the Grünewald Guild, an arts retreat center that held classes in stained glass, calligraphy, and icon writing. She teaches workshops on illuminated manuscripts.
Cypress Manning
Cypress Manning is a queer + trans writer, artist, and educator from Taos, New Mexico. They received their MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2019, and were a 2022-23 Hugo House Fellow. They are in a two-person cribbage league with their mom, and live in Seattle with their partner and cat, Riso. They […]
John Thompson
John received his degree in Fine Arts from the University of North Dakota, were intaglio (etching) and drawing were his foundations. Asked to design the ponies for the Carousel for Missoula, his work with the carousel became a transitional point into carving and sculpting. John is serious about art but his art is full of humor. […]
Amanda Roth
Amanda Roth is a writer, folklorist, and multi-disciplinary artist living in Central Texas. Her debut poetry collection, A Mother's Hunger, was released in 2021. She is a poetry reader for Longleaf Review and co-host of the fairy tale podcast, Retell Me. Her poetry and essays appear in Okay Donkey, Poetry South, Portland Review, Literary Mama, and […]
Nancy Marsh
Nancy has taught 4-12 harness weaving for over 40 years. For 14 years, she taught weavers ranging from beginning- to MFA-level at Valparaiso University. She has also taught for individual guilds and both regional and national conferences across the country. In 1987, sge received the national award for teaching from the Handweavers Guild of America. […]
Nicki Lang
Nicki has always been a maker. From cutting up catalogs when she was a kid, to running a leather goods business, to most recently painting landscapes with oils and a palette knife, Nicki finds her way in the world by creating. When she is not making things with her hands, Nicki can be found writing […]
Bro. Mickey McGrath
From Bro. Mickey's website: In a nutshell, I paint, write, and tell stories- and then travel all over the place telling the stories behind what I paint and write. My first formal art lessons were at the Moore College of Art in downtown Philly, my hometown. They had classes for young people on Saturday mornings […]
Laurie Rudel
Laurie Rudel is a retired pastor who served the congregation of Queen Anne Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Seattle for nearly 26 years before retiring in 2017. Throughout her life, she has nurtured a love affair with the arts: music, dance, writing, fiber arts, as well as visual arts. She has formal training as […]
Jill Ross
Jill Ross is a visual artist, writer, and poet who has experience as a studio artist, teacher, exhibiting artist, and published poet. For the past decade, her primary medium has been glass mosaic. She also works in clay and mixed media. Her mosaic art is incorporated into a project called "Making Wholeness From The Broken […]
Ron Cole
Ron Cole is a digital artist, songwriter, and potter. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Kentucky, Ron first came to the Guild as an intern for the 2013 Summer Program, then stayed on as an Artist in Residence, and later returned to work on staff for a few years. He currently resides in Plain, Wa […]
Nathan Himes
Nathan grew up in the Pacific Northwest just outside of Seattle. He graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a BFA, emphasis in sculpture and ceramics. He has worked as a pottery instructor teaching kids and adults as well as a retail manager and kiln technician at Clay Art Center in Tacoma. Five years ago Nathan […]
Janet Gruman
Janet first learned about negative space in a drawing class at Lassen College. The instructor, Ben Barker, told the class to look at a particular tree and draw everything—every shape—we saw, except the tree. She was 19 years old, and though it wasn’t her first art class, she hadn’t ever heard of negative space. Years […]
Suzanne Halvorson
Suzanne Halvorson has been a Bloomington studio artist/weaver and Bloomington Spinners and Weavers Guild member since 1977. She became a charter member of By Hand Gallery in 1979- present. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Fibers at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University, teaching weaving. She has taught weaving […]
Emilie Bouvier
Emilie Bouvier is an artist and community organizer in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Emilie works in historic/alternative process photography and clay, finding her practice fueled by the process-oriented nature of these mediums. She is drawn to the places where land history, story, and spiritual/theological traditions meet – and how those intersections can open up through image-making. […]
Sarah Sprouse
Sarah Sprouse is a visual artist, educator, and art historian from the greater Seattle area. She holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art History from Azusa Pacific University, with research focusing on women, ceramics, and community in the mid-century. Sarah serves as the Executive Director of the Grünewald Guild, an art education and retreat […]
Tamzin Darden
Tamzin is originally from São Paulo, Brasil and was raised in a family passionate about the arts. Her mother was an avid painter and sculptor. Tamzin’s creativity is not a hobby but a way of life! She loves to do all forms of art and currently spends her time making jewelry, sewing, making pottery, and […]
Trung Pham
Trung Pham is a Vietnamese-born, Seattle-based artist, educator. He currently works as an assistant professor in the Art and Art History Department at the Seattle University. Pham earned a MFA at the Pratt Institute in New York and also received a Licentiate in Sacred Theology with a concentration on Theological Aesthetics from the Jesuit School […]
John Thompson
John received his degree in Fine Arts from the University of North Dakota, were intaglio (etching) and drawing were his foundations. Asked to design the ponies for the Carousel for Missoula, his work with the carousel became a transitional point into carving and sculpting. John is serious about art but his art is full of humor. […]
Amy Foster
In her artwork, Amy Foster (she/her) explores the intersection of hospitality, nature, and spiritual relationship. With historic ties to iconography and botanical illustration, Amy finds that homemade egg tempera paint best allows her to express her unfolding understanding of God’s character. Amy is an active member of both the artistic community and, as a Christ […]
Cypress Manning
Cypress Manning is a queer + trans writer, artist, and educator from Taos, New Mexico. They received their MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2019, and were a 2022-23 Hugo House Fellow. They are in a two-person cribbage league with their mom, and live in Seattle with their partner and cat, Riso. They […]
Shan Wang
Shan (b. 2000, United States) received a B.F.A in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA) in 2022. They work with acrylic media as well as sculptural and functional ceramics. Shan exhibits their work in group exhibitions nationally. They have worked as an Education and Curatorial Intern at the Smithsonian Asian […]
Jan Krist
Detroit born singer-songwriter Jan Krist was raised on rock, and schooled in the folk of the 60’s and 70’s. Today, Krist's work reflects the power and poetry of having matured as an artist in that place and time. Throughout the 70’s and 80’s, Jan performed her songs in pubs, churches, cafes, and coffeehouses. In 1992 […]
Mary McLeod
Mary McLoed has a Masters of Education degree, with a specialization in iIntegrated Arts from Lesley University. She studied calligraphy with master calligraphers Lloyd Reynolds, Carole DuBosch, and Reggie Etzell. She taught art and music in public schools for thirty years. For 22 years, she has been a teacher in the summer program at the […]
Kristen Gilje
Kristen Gilje is a full-time artist who works in her Bellingham WA studio on art commissions for sacred spaces. She makes large colorful works on silk for seasonal use, which can be seen in churches from coast to coast. Kristen spent 9 years as Artist in Residence at Holden village, near Chelan WA, where she […]
Chuck Kirchner
Chuck Kirchner is a photographer and workshop leader based in Tucson, Arizona after many years in the Puget Sound region. His subjects include rituals, dance, spirituality, and world cultures. The range of photographs represents the spirit of the places Chuck has had the privilege of visiting over the years and the people met along the […]
Amanda Roth
Amanda Roth is a writer, folklorist, and multi-disciplinary artist living in Central Texas. Her debut poetry collection, A Mother's Hunger, was released in 2021. She is a poetry reader for Longleaf Review and co-host of the fairy tale podcast, Retell Me. Her poetry and essays appear in Okay Donkey, Poetry South, Portland Review, Literary Mama, and […]
Oriana Sage
Oriana Sage is a visual artist who specialises in ink drawings and vibrant oil paintings that celebrate the intricacies and wildness of nature while simultaneously seeking to illuminate deep and unseen treasures of the soul. She is fascinated by the interactions of light bursting through shadow, the two-dimensional emerging into animated form, and color conveying […]
Sara Nordling
Sara Nordling has been involved in fiber art in many forms for most of her life; weaving however, didn’t enter until Sara was an adult and she was hooked immediately. What began as a hobby turned into a passion and a return to school for a B.F.A. and then an M.F.A. in studio art/textiles. Sara […]
Mike Caemmerer
Mike grew up with artistic parents, professor/painter dad and weaver mom, always in an environment that allowed dabbling in one art form or another. He first sat at a potter’s wheel at the Grünewald Guild pottery in 1988, and has mostly been self-taught ever since with the help of amazing mentors along the way, especially […]
Vonda Drees
Vonda Drees is a visual artist whose love for the questions in life fuels her creative practice. She added a studio partner in November 2024, a curious and playful black lab named Ren. When not in the studio, the two are likely out frolicking in the natural beauty of the Driftless Region in Wisconsin. Vonda and her husband Jim served […]
Tamisha Tyler, PhD
Dr. Tamisha A. Tyler is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Theology and Culture, and Theopoetics at Bethany Theological Seminary. A sought-after coach, speaker, and facilitator, she hosts workshops and discussions around diversity, community, and art. Her latest project: Articulating Sensibilities, focuses on the field of Theopoetics and the work of literary geniuses Octavia E. Butler. […]
Adele Caemmerer
After coming to the Guild as a staffer in 1987, Adele met and married Mike, Guild founders, Richard and Liz Caemmerer’s son. Adele and Mike ventured overseas to teach in international schools. Along with their two daughters, they travelled between Asia and America, spending many summers in Plain with the Guild community. Alongside teaching art, […]
Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in August, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in September, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in October, FSA Week 2 | Practicing Presence: Mark, Pause, Breathe, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in November, Cyber Studio: Wednesday Mornings in December,
Jean Tudor
My ongoing life as an enamelist: This all started in the late 1950s when I received a Trinkit enameling set for Christmas. What a great hobby! Watching powdered glass fuse to a piece of copper, using a hotplate kiln! But very quickly that wasn't quite enough, so in a few years I got a bigger […]
Carla Erickson Orlando
Carla Orlando, M.Ed, is an educator, spiritual director, retreat facilitator, and artist who teaches discernment, reflective writing, and tools for contemplative prayer. Her professional associations include Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, Ignatian Spirituality Center, SEEL Puget Sound, Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative, Grunewald Guild for Art & Faith, and PRH International School of Adult Development She […]
Nancy Marsh
Nancy has taught 4-12 harness weaving for over 40 years. For 14 years, she taught weavers ranging from beginning- to MFA-level at Valparaiso University. She has also taught for individual guilds and both regional and national conferences across the country. In 1987, sge received the national award for teaching from the Handweavers Guild of America. […]
Nicki Lang
Nicki has always been a maker. From cutting up catalogs when she was a kid, to running a leather goods business, to most recently painting landscapes with oils and a palette knife, Nicki finds her way in the world by creating. When she is not making things with her hands, Nicki can be found writing […]
Bro. Mickey McGrath
From Bro. Mickey's website: In a nutshell, I paint, write, and tell stories- and then travel all over the place telling the stories behind what I paint and write. My first formal art lessons were at the Moore College of Art in downtown Philly, my hometown. They had classes for young people on Saturday mornings […]
Laurie Rudel
Laurie Rudel is a retired pastor who served the congregation of Queen Anne Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Seattle for nearly 26 years before retiring in 2017. Throughout her life, she has nurtured a love affair with the arts: music, dance, writing, fiber arts, as well as visual arts. She has formal training as […]
Angela Mietzke
Angela Mietzke is a multi-media artist, poet, and singer-songwriter. She has been teaching on and off in Waldorf Education for 18 years bringing music, painting, fiber arts, woodworking, handwork, and storytelling to enliven curriculum for children and adults alike. Angela has a passion for creating unique ways to experience and express our connection to one another […]
Matt Whitney
Matthew Whitney is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and pedestrian and lives in Seattle. He works between drawing, painting, photography, collage, video, performance, and group facilitation, with a focus on the metaphorical and spiritual power generated through life’s everyday rhythms – walking, riding the bus, gardening, making things, and meditation. He is Creative Director for Spiritual […]
Jill Ross
Jill Ross is a visual artist, writer, and poet who has experience as a studio artist, teacher, exhibiting artist, and published poet. For the past decade, her primary medium has been glass mosaic. She also works in clay and mixed media. Her mosaic art is incorporated into a project called "Making Wholeness From The Broken […]
Ron Cole
Ron Cole is a digital artist, songwriter, and potter. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Kentucky, Ron first came to the Guild as an intern for the 2013 Summer Program, then stayed on as an Artist in Residence, and later returned to work on staff for a few years. He currently resides in Plain, Wa […]
Nathan Himes
Nathan grew up in the Pacific Northwest just outside of Seattle. He graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a BFA, emphasis in sculpture and ceramics. He has worked as a pottery instructor teaching kids and adults as well as a retail manager and kiln technician at Clay Art Center in Tacoma. Five years ago Nathan […]
Janet Gruman
Janet first learned about negative space in a drawing class at Lassen College. The instructor, Ben Barker, told the class to look at a particular tree and draw everything—every shape—we saw, except the tree. She was 19 years old, and though it wasn’t her first art class, she hadn’t ever heard of negative space. Years […]
Suzanne Halvorson
Suzanne Halvorson has been a Bloomington studio artist/weaver and Bloomington Spinners and Weavers Guild member since 1977. She became a charter member of By Hand Gallery in 1979- present. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Fibers at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University, teaching weaving. She has taught weaving […]
Emilie Bouvier
Emilie Bouvier is an artist and community organizer in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Emilie works in historic/alternative process photography and clay, finding her practice fueled by the process-oriented nature of these mediums. She is drawn to the places where land history, story, and spiritual/theological traditions meet – and how those intersections can open up through image-making. […]
Mary Ann Sinclair
Mary Ann Sinclair is a self-taught fiber artist based in Spokane, WA. She has experience working in a variety of wool and other protein fibers She raised her own Shetland sheep for 25 years for the use of their wool. She enjoys spinning, weaving, and felting. Her work is inspired from nature and her love of […]
Sarah Sprouse
Sarah Sprouse is a visual artist, educator, and art historian from the greater Seattle area. She holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art History from Azusa Pacific University, with research focusing on women, ceramics, and community in the mid-century. Sarah serves as the Executive Director of the Grünewald Guild, an art education and retreat […]
Tamzin Darden
Tamzin is originally from São Paulo, Brasil and was raised in a family passionate about the arts. Her mother was an avid painter and sculptor. Tamzin’s creativity is not a hobby but a way of life! She loves to do all forms of art and currently spends her time making jewelry, sewing, making pottery, and […]