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TeamWorks Staff
TeamWorks Art’s primary goal is to provide on-going arts engagement for at-risk youth ages 11-18 in Juvenile Justice and in Alternative Education high schools in Marin County. The existing program has been successfully implemented by teaching artists since 1998. TeamWorks teaching artists are professionals working, exhibiting and collaborating creatively in our community. Relationships between teaching artists and partner schools are strong. Within the classroom, artists create a social climate that nurtures collaboration and stimulates creativity.
Program Director, Katya McCulloch, is a co-founding artist of this program, as well as a teaching artist. She has many years experience as a community artist in Marin County and throughout the Bay Area, in remote indigenous communities of central Australia, and Europe. Katya spent most of her early life in Germany, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C., where she graduated from public school. She believes strongly that art is not just an elitist profession, but a universal human need. Ms. McCulloch has taught art at San Quentin State Prison through William James Association Prison Arts Project since 2004. She has over 20 years experience with exhibit lay-out and installation.
William James Association Executive Director, Laurie Brooks, consults on grantwriting, program leadership and evaluation. William James Association is fiscal sponsor for TeamWorks Art Mentoring Program since 2001. She has facilitated Arts-in-Corrections programs for incarcerated men, women and youth since 1989.
Patrick Maloney, co-founder of TeamWorks Art, will be greatly missed. He was a visionary artist and inspirational trail-blazer of community artist as a recognized path.
Current mentor artists are:
Daniel Panko, BA, Community Arts, California College of the Arts, is an independent artist, muralist, and illustrator. He shares mural art and airbrush skills with at-risk youth and all youth of very diverse populations. Mr. Panko facilitates customized art lessons based on student interests. “For me, art is a way of life. Through practice, observation, self-expression, and creation it has the power to bring beauty, consciousness, and self-awareness of the infinite depth of our human psyche." Daniel has been a TW Teaching Artist since 2013.
Louis Murillo, a respected self-taught street artist, brings his energetic painting style, beautiful lettering, and enthusiasm to share his creative talents in his art mentoring, forging excellent rapport with youth. “Guaranteed authentic work, always original, never repeated,” Louis cultivates a serious individualized studio-learning environment wherever he’s teaching. Louis is currently a resident artist at Marin Juvenile Hall, and leads a mentoring workshop after school in San Rafael.
Quintilia Nylin is a mosaic muralist who trained through long-term apprenticeship with master artists in her chosen field. She studied in Montepulciano, Italy with a retired mosaic master, as well as in Venice, Italy. She has worked with mentor artists at Heath Ceramics, Mendocino Art Center, and College of Marin. Since 1993, Ms. Nylin has taught mosaic and clay courses with all ages, from kindergarten to elders. Her well-researched permanent installations tell stories, reflecting a location's human history, its environment, and eco-systems, involving community throughout the process. She has created numerous public art mosaics in elementary, middle and high schools, shopping centers, and parks.
Kathleen Edwards is a professional illustrator and exhibiting artist interested in sharing her many talents. She has mentored TeamWorks youth individually in her studio, she collaborates in creating youth-designed and youth-produced murals.
Esmeralda "Lala" Carrasco, a visiting Chilean sculptor, donated over 150 hours of classroom instruction at juvenile hall during return visits to the US. As owner and instructor of Arteluna, her art school in Santiago, Chile, she brings years of experience working with young people in her county. As a native Spanish speaker she provides artistic experience and positive role-modeling with genuine caring for Marin's high-risk youth.
Guest artists include: Victoria Gonzales, quilting; David Two Hawk Glazier, storytelling and painting.
TeamWorks welcomes volunteers who, after a committed trial period, have the potential of becoming teaching assistants helping resident artists in the high-energy classroom. We also welcome volunteers for exhibit prep and installation, and for many administrative support tasks.
TeamWorks Art Mentoring Program is under fiscal sponsorship of the William James Association. The William James Association is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. Donations are tax deductible. Federal Tax ID # 23-7320163. www.williamjamesassociation.org
Katya McCulloch, Program Director, katya@williamjamesassociation.org, P.O.Box 151066, San Rafael, CA 94915