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 forty 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; Member, The Copley Society of Art, Boston; 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 forty years) Art and Humanities / Art teacher - including Special Ed classes - (Cranston Elementary & High schools); Advertising Art (RISD); Since inception, teacher at East Side Art Center.

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.

EXPERIENCE: Don has been President of Sunrise Corporation, a marketing / design / advertising firm that, for over thirty-five years has specialized in public awareness for over 200 non-profit organizations and scores of small to medium-sized family-run businesses. His graphic design, copywriting and marketing skills have created everything from business cards to billboards, album covers to in-store point-of-purchase displays, and everything in between... locally and nationally. Sunrise Corporation's non-profit graphics and marketing workshops have been conducted from Maine to Pennsylvania.

Sally Caswell

TRAINING: M.F.A., U.Mass/Dartmouth; M.A. Equivalency, RI College; B.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art; Stone Lithography with George Lockwood; Ceramics with Larry Lee Chin.

TEACHING: (over forty years) Private workshops on location in Rhode Island and Massachusetts; ESAC Florence, Italy Workshop Director with Carolyn Simon; Adult Education at Attleboro Museum School, the Chautauqua Institution and RISD; Johnston High School teacher (nine years); Degree programs at U.Mass/Dartmouth, RISD (summer session), CCRI.

EXPERIENCE: Ms. Caswell is a published book illustrator with award-winning oil and watercolor paintings, drawings and prints in museums and gallery collections in the USA and Japan; she was a finalist in a 1990 American Artist Magazine national competition, and has exhibited at Silvermine Galleries (CT), Pittsburgh Art Museum, and the Golden Art Center (CO); a Copley Artist member of Copley Society of Boston and a member of 19 on Paper.