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By bringing a variety of
experienced artists to our
teaching staff, students will
have the opportunity to tap into
their wealth of art knowledge
and expertise while learning the
fundamental elements of many
types of art.
Karen Abel
is a glass and
ceramic artist with extensive
experience teaching clay to
elementary and middle school
students as well as hosting
ceramic and glass workshops
for adults. She is currently
an artist-in-residence in the
Issaquah School District where
her focus is developing
ceramic courses that are
sequential, educational, fun
and result in treasured
projects. Karen works in
clay, fused glass and
lamp-worked beads; her passion
is combining these materials
with wire and found objects.
Her background
includes numerous studies at
Pratt Fine Art Center, BCC and
Kirkland Art Center in
addition to an advertising
degree from the University of
Washington and more than a
dozen years in corporate
Americai managing wacky,
creative teams. From these
diverse experiences she’s
learned the value of
enthusiasm, devotion to a
mission and making space for
dreaming and grand attempts.
Her approach to teaching both
adults and children in the
ceramic arts reflects this
philosophy of inspiring and
energizing others.
She is a member
of the National Art Education
Association, the Art
Collective Issaquah, past
board member of Intiman
Theater and cofounder of
Tales Well Told, a
non-profit organization for
the support of storytelling.
Sarah Dillon
Sarah grew up in Yakima, WA
where, as a teenager, she
dreamed of being a
professional artist.
Sarah received her
Bachelor of Arts from
University of Puget Sound in
Tacoma where she majored in
studio art and minored in
music. She attended a study
abroad program during her
undergraduate years in Cork,
Ireland where her fiddle
playing began to flourish and
influence her visual work.
Sarah
holds a Master of Fine Arts in
painting from Boston
University, where she studied
under painters John Walker and
Richard Ryan and printmaker
Deborah Cornell. She is
a figurative painter and
prolific woodblock printmaker
influenced
by artists Max Beckmann, Susan
Rothenberg, Käthe Kollwitz,
Philip Guston and her mentor,
Nathan Oliveira.
Sarah taught at Boston
University as a Teaching
Assistant, at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston as an
Adjunct Faculty Member, and at
Trinity Lutheran College in
Issaquah as an Adjunct Faculty
Member. In addition to
her teaching experience, Sarah
worked in several university
affiliated galleries in
Boston. She acquired
curatorial knowledge base
through graduate coursework
taken in conjunction with the
Museum of Fine Arts
Contemporary Art Department in
Boston, her association with
Boston University and the MET
Graduate Arts Administration
Program. Before attending
graduate school, Sarah was the
Public Programs Coordinator in
the Education Department at
Tacoma Art Museum.
Sarah
presented her work in several
group and solo exhibitions at
various galleries in Boston
and in the Northwest as an
emerging artist before her
move to Seattle in September
of 2006.
Since her move, she has
been featured in two group
exhibitions at the Form/Space
Atelier Gallery, and presented
an artist talk at the gallery
as a part of the Visiting
Artist Lecture Series.
Sarah recently had her public
art proposal accepted by the
Pike Place Market Pigs on
Parade to be a part of the
2007 Artist Roster List
celebrating the market’s
anniversary.
Sarah is currently represented
by Gallery 110 as an affiliate
member.
Recently Sarah was a
participating artist in "Pigs
on Parade" to help raise money
for Pike Place Market,
celebrate it's centennial and
more!
Click
"Pigs on Parade" for more
info.
 Todd
Gamble
Todd Gamble is an award
winning Artist and RPG
Cartographer.
Working with many of the
leading D20 game companies,
Todd has created fantasy
genre cartography, diagrams
and spot illustrations for
RPG’s, novels and major game
related magazines.
His credits appear on
hundreds of Wizards of the
Coast / Hasbro, Inc.
products including game
board art for the Avalon
Hill brand, including,
revised Axis and Allies,
D-Day, Guadalcanal and
Diplomacy strategy games as
well as Sword & Skull Pirate
game. Also, Dungeons and
Dragons brand products
including the Dungeons and
Dragons website,
Pokemon TCG, G.I.Joe and
Star Wars RPG’s and is the
author/artist of “Todd
Gamble’s Cartographica”
published by Green Ronin and
Map Folio 2, published by
Wizards of the Coast.
His education includes a
degree in “Promotion
Graphics” (Advertising
design) and a BA in Fine Art
with an emphasis on drawing
and sculpture. He has been a
member of AIGA and has
embellished many communities
by working on several not
for profit projects.
Projects which include; The
Private Industry Council (PIC),
Turtle Bay Park and Museum
with the McConnell
Foundation, Children’s
Hospital and church
organizations. Todd has
volunteered his time and
talent by serving as a
trustee on the advisory
board for the Northwest
Railroad Museum in
Snoqualmie, Washington. Home
to the oldest operational
railroad depot in the state.
Todd is one of the finest
scale-model scenery builders
around. He is the author of
many “how to” articles on
model scenery crafting,
including N-scale Magazine
and Mainline Modeler
Magazine produced by Hundman
Publishing. He has enjoyed a
multitude of hours teaching
children and seniors alike
the skills of creating
three dimensional scenery.
Todd has designed and
created scale models for
interpretive exhibits and
film for such organizations
/ companies as; The Redding
Museum of History and Art
(CA.), Shasta Dam Visitor
Center (CA.), Shoreline
Historical Museum (WA.),
Burney Falls State Park
Docent station and Visitor
center (CA.), Privateer
Press (WA.)Seattle Super
Sonics TV ad (WA.), Safeco
Insurance co. (WA.), The Bon
Marche/ Macy’s Christmas
Window Train set (WA.),
Overlake Hospital (WA.),
Cholula Salsa TV ad with
film director, Aaron Jones
(WA.), and Hasbro Toys and
Games (RI.),
Todd has over 20 years
experience in visual
communications. He has
created award winning
corporate identity, logo
design and other printed
collateral while working
with his father (Charlie
Gamble Advertising and
Design). This duo-team
has won awards and
recognition in American
Graphic Design Magazine,
Print Magazine and
Communication Arts Magazine
for superior imagery design.
Donna
Gelinas
I have
always been fascinated with
how things are made and how
they work. Life is
always a bit of a puzzle from
solving a design problem in
creating a jewelry piece to
figuring out the figurative
switch to the "light bulb" in
helping a student understand a
concept and apply it. I
am passionate about creativity
in people and in the world
around us, encouraging
students to discover that
creativity and express it in
the form that works best for
them. I love to learn,
and am always delighted to
discover a new technique or a
different way to do things.
Often I learn as much from my
students in a class as I teach
them.
My
teaching experience began by
teaching computer software
programs to new clients of a
small software company.
I then moved to a larger
company and worked with fellow
employees as helpdesk
troubleshooting software
problems and also presenting
productivity software classes.
For the past 6 years I have
been teaching the art elements
with many mediums, pastels,
watercolors, ceramics,
sculpture and jewelry as an
art docent in elementary
school.
I have
taken workshops in jewelry
making to learn basic
techniques in all kinds of
jewelry creation from beading
to metalsmithing to working
with Precious Metal Clay.
I am certified as a Precious
Metal Clay instructor.
For the most part I am self
taught artist learning by
reading, experimenting and
"playing" with different
mediums. I have found
that there is not only one way
to do things.
Tina Oldenburg
Tina is an
energetic artist with a
variety of artistic experience
including: drawing,
painting, mixed media collage,
layout/graphic design, stained
glass, wood-burning and
jewelry design. Tina received
her degree in Visual
Communications from Fashion
Institute of Design and
Merchandising - Los Angeles,
after also taking classes at
Otis Parsons School of Design.
Tina worked in
both graphic design and visual
communications for 7 years
before becoming a mother of 3
children. She has 9 years
experience teaching K - 6th
grade age children through
volunteer work at a local
elementary school, and enjoys
seeing the excited faces of
the children as they learn the
principles of art along with a
bit of art history. Tina has
also spent 12 years teaching
adult cooking classes, and
loves the rapport she quickly
attains with "students" of all
ages.
Michele Rushworth
Michele has
been a professional artist
for over twenty years and is
a member of the Portrait
Society of America. She
studied under such modern
masters as William Whitaker,
Tony Ryder and Juliette
Aristides. Rushworth
also completed extensive
Fine Arts studies at Queen's
University and the Ontario
College of Art in Canada.
Her work has been exhibited
at New York City's
Salmagundi Club, the Allied
Arts Club in New York City,
and in numerous other juried
shows and galleries. She is
represented by Portrait
Brokers of America and is
listed in Who's Who in
American Art.
Michelle Rushworth has
taught at the Kirkland Arts
Center, has been a guest
lecturer at the Gage Academy
of Fine Art and will be
holding workshops at the
Fall City Fine Arts Center.
She is also available to
teach private workshops. The
organizer of the workshop
attends free of charge.
Contact Michele for more
information.
"I get
tremendous pleasure from
creating an object of beauty
and importance. Knowing that
my portraits carry so much
significance for the people
who commission them, and for
the subjects depicted, gives
me great pride in my work. I
get a deep feeling of
satisfaction from watching a
portrait become an almost
living presence under my
brush". —Michele
Rushworth
 Joel
Scholten
Joel grew up in Sheboygan
Falls, WI with his parents and
two brothers. He was always
interested in art. By age 10,
Joel had started water-based
painting lessons, much like
the ones here at Museo. As a
teenager he began taking
private lessons with Kitty Lyn
Klitch, a locally renowned
artist. Joel gained
recognition in a handful of
National art competitions for
teenagers.
As Joel moved to college, he
continued to pursue his
passion for art, and
periodically enrolled in an
art class. after a 3 year
stint as a youth minister in
Iowa, Joel earned his BA in
Fine Arts with an endorsement
in K-12 Art Education.
Throughout his college career,
Joel's work had been featured
in numerous juried
exhibitions, and a solo
exhibition at the TePaske Art
Gallery. Joel has
experience in teaching in
classrooms of many different
age levels, and private
lessons for aspiring
students.
Joel married in July of 2007,
and moved to Seattle to
further pursue a career in Art
Education.
Lynnea Washburn
My passion for
art began at an early age and
inspired me throughout the
years to work towards and
obtain a Master’s Degree of
Art in Painting from San Jose
State University in
California. Finding my
niche came to pass in a
marketplace that could reflect
both my love of beautiful
artwork and inspiring verse ~
namely, the “Social
Expressions” Industry, or
Greeting Cards for short.
I’ve been
working in this industry since
1989 in a variety of roles,
most currently as a freelance
illustrator. I license
my artwork onto a variety of
paper products, packaging,
fabrics, home décor, social
books and gifts.
Acknowledgments for which I am
grateful include a number of
“Louie Awards” (the Oscars of
the Greeting Card industry), a
Silver Medial from the Society
of Illustrators and other
regional Merit Awards.
My education in
Fine Art gives me a bent on
discovering and communicating
a personal point of view.
Having explored collage,
watercolor, acrylic and mixed
media ~ I tend to gravitate to
watercolor as a preferred
medium. Watercolor is
like a relationship ~ both the
artist and the water have a
voice in where things go.
It’s a give and take
interaction in that sometimes
you’re in control, and
sometimes you’re not.
It’s best to accept and learn
to enjoy the spontaneity as
part of the experience.
I find
inspiration in nature to be
endless! Sunlight
streaming through a flower’s
petal is a brief and beautiful
moment I love to capture.
However, in my line of my
work, I also need to be aware
of social trends, visual
trends, changing color
palettes, current fashions,
books and films ~ anything
that may influence the way we
see things. Ultimately,
my work aspires to become the
item that people want to live
with for a while ~ to become
part of their world for a
time.
When not at my
painting table, I thoroughly
enjoy living in Washington
with my husband and our three
“young men”, volunteering at
school, cheering at the
sidelines, living a life of
faith and health, and getting
it all done by drinking lots
of Starbucks coffee.
For more information, please email us at
info@MuseoArt.com
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