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.
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.
Actor and mask maker Michael Gunst performs a Wabanaki tale with masks and puppets, and offers mask making workshops.
Dan Hiester draws from over forty years of experience as a professional theatre artist and educator for his dynamic program offerings.
Ilasiea Gray is a multi-hyphenate social practice artist (actress, performing arts educator, director, writer, creator) who teaches a variety of theatre/drama-based activities, movement, and socially relevant (including SEL) programming.