26 Rochambeau Avenue    
Providence, RI  02906    
401-331-2021    
eastsideartcenter@msn.com

Instructors

Carolyn Simon

TRAINING: Art Students' League (NYC); Hunter College (NYC); BFA (Painting / Education), Rhode Island School of Design

TEACHING: (over thirty-five years) Classes and private workshops in Florence, Italy, Providence; Art Teacher in Cranston and Woonsocket schools; For the past seven years, Director of ESAC's Block Island and Italian Workshops

EXPERIENCE: As "C.C. Wolf", a practicing, professional artist exhibiting paintings and prints in museums, galleries and private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia; one of the founders of 19 on Paper, a Rhode Island-based group of artists whose work is exhibited all over the world; President, East Side Art Center.

You are invited to view some of Carolyn's recent work at www.ccwolfstudio.com

Don Simon

TRAINING: New York University; Manhattan School of Music; BA (Art History) Middlebury College; BFA (Graphic Design/Education), Rhode Island School of Design

TEACHING: (over thirty-five years) Art and Humanities / Art teacher - including Special Ed classes - (Cranston Elementary & High schools); Advertising Art (RISD)

WORKSHOP PRESENTER: Rhode Island Community Development Training; Sunrise Community Housing (Providence); Connecticut and Vermont Departments on Aging; New England ACTION; RI Library Association; National Society of Fundraising Executives; Pennsylvania Prevention Directors Assn.; President, Sunrise Corporation.

Eileen Mayhew

TRAINING: B.F.A. Lyme Academy of Fine Art; Covino Academy of Art; Gloucester Academy of Art; Cape Cod School of Art; John Sanden Mentoring Program.

TEACHING: Providence Art Club; Bristol Public Schools;Wickford Art Association. Private and workshop instruction.

EXPERIENCE: Eileen Mayhew has been doing portrait commissions professionally for nearly thirty years. Her portraits, in the classical realist tradition, hang in public and private collections and have earned her membership in the prestigious American Society of Portrait Artists, Portrait Society of Atlanta, the Portrait Institute, and she is a founding member of Imago Gallery of Art & Fine Crafts. Eileen has exhibited widely and is a recipient of several awards, including the Cianfarani Award.

Kristin Schonfarber Street

TRAINING: B.F.A. (Studio Art, Sculpture), Maryland Institute College of Art; M.F.A. (Textile Design) Rhode Island School of Design

TEACHING: Moses Brown School

EXPERIENCE: An award-winning teacher and artist, Kristin works in a variety of media. A long-time teacher at Providence's Moses Brown, she is also the curator of the school's Krause Gallery and a member of 19 on Paper. Her work is widely exhibited in museums and private and corporate collections throughout the United States.