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Angela Sebastian
Angela Sebastian is a Filipina Dance Artist with an MFA in Dance focused on choreography and performance from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM). In the Philippines, she was a member of Airdance Philippines Contemporary Dance and Aerial Arts Company and the University of the Philippines Dance Company (UPDC), wherein she participated in the […]
Summer Week 7 | Attuned Movement: Listening to Our Bodies & Environments,
Kaia Gilije
Kaia Gilje became activated through art and community, finding collaboration as a place of practice. She has worked in dance and performance art and was shaped and influenced by the experimental performance art community in New York city. She has made a wide variety of performance work ranging from solo performances, long term duet collaborations, […]
Summer Week 7 | Attuned Movement: Listening to Our Bodies & Environments,
Kayleigh Lang
Kayleigh Lang (they/them, b. 1990) is an artist currently located in Walla Walla, Washington, the original land of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes. They grew up in Cheyenne, WY, and graduated with a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wyoming. In 2016, they graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art […]
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.
Beth Crowe
Beth Crowe has danced for over 25 years and specializes in contemporary dance and creative movement. She has taught for several studios, performed with Adaptations Dance Company, and started her own dance company, which focuses on uniting dance and spirituality through workshops and performance. This will be her first time teaching at The Guild and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Summer Week 4 | Binding Family Stories: Making Artists Books as Archives,
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. […]
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 […]