Teaching Artist Courtney Esser is an actor, facilitator, and playmaker who uses theatre, movement, and voice to cultivate imagination, empathy, and perspective through the art of storytelling.
Andrea Moore is a social artist and community organizer who uses writing, performance, and installation art to explore themes of social and cultural belonging. Her approach centers accessibility, inclusion, disability justice, and anti-oppression.
Peter, a former National Juggling Champion and award-winning choreographer, is dedicated to bringing joy and education to children through physical theatre and circus arts.
Eileen’s teaching fosters connection with the natural world through art making across a variety of mediums including botanical illustration, printmaking, filmmaking, sculpture, natural materials, kaleidoscopes, sun prints, and collage. Eileen teaches social emotional learning workshops, looking to our natural world as a guide — using patterns, forms and materials found in nature to inform art projects.
Puppets & Things on Strings has been entertaining and teaching ventriloquism and puppetry for over fifty years for elementary / preschool kids.