Omega Arts & Crafts Teen Camp is perfect for "artists" of all experience levels! Our fantastic faculty teaches you how to channel your creative genius in a variety of exciting classes. Find fun and inspiration while building your own ceramics, making jewelry, painting, sewing, and so much more. Join us on the journey to discovery by diving deeper into your artistic passion, and yourself.
Leya Williams-Albert is a fiber artist and photographer living in Philadelphia. Her grandmother taught her to sew when she was eleven, which opened her up to the fantastic world of creating with fabric. She studied architectural design and photography in college. When she's not photographing her surroundings or creating mixed media artwork, she loves to draw and print on fabric. Some of her craftiness can be found in Plush-O-Rama Book & Kit: Curious Creatures for Immature Adults by Lark Books.
Shari Jesteadt is an innovative and insightful yoga teacher, shamanic healer, Reiki practitioner, artist, and avid traveler. She is a commissioned painter and produces intuitive promotional design for commercial clients. Shari has studied studio art in the United States as well as fine art in Spain. A returning teacher to Omega Teen Camp, she is ecstatic to channel her energy into the creative awakening of each individual teen during Omega Arts & Crafts Teen Camp.
Robyn Tauss holds a master's degree in art education and is a certified art teacher. She has studied ceramics at SUNY New Paltz and SUNY Potsdam, as well as in Tours, France. Robyn has taught at the Garrison Art Center Summer Institute and Cortlandt Community Center for the Arts. She has exhibited her ceramics in solo and group shows throughout the Hudson Valley of New York.
Ahna Riechmann is a visual artist, performer, and activist working in Portland, Minnesota, where she helps run The Dooryard, a collective art/music studio and gallery space. A returning Omega Teen Camp counselor, she is also a member of a traveling circus and various Portland dance troupes. Ahna moonlights as a living statue and loves to print, draw, write, paint, make costumes, sing, and discuss the world!
Eileen Sohn has been an artist since she was old enough to pick up a pencil. She has an associate's degree in fashion design and paints wall murals professionally. Eileen was one of the art teachers at Omega Teen Camp last summer and is looking forward to this summer's Omega Arts & Crafts Teen Camp. It will be a lot of fun!
Atticus Kelbley has worked at Omega Teen Camp since 2008 and has been making art in the Omega community since 2002, when he worked arranging flowers for the Omega Institute's main campus. When Atticus isn't building sets for film and television, he's building his own projects and crafts at home-everything from miniature cities to bird houses to dining room tables. At Omega Arts & Crafts Teen Camp, Atticus guides campers through small woodworking projects that aspire to make the utilitarian beautiful.
Painter Justin Love's best collected works are his brilliant, colorful pastel paintings. During his more than 20 year career, he's sold over 2,200 works of art, and is currently creating his new electric light paintings. An accomplished musician, singer, and composer, he has recently recorded a new album with his band in Negril, Jamaica.
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