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About the Artists & Educators 20011 / 2012
 Cellist Greg
Adamson has taught in Fullerton's All the Arts for
All the Kids program for ten years. In 2008, he was the only music
teacher in Orange County to receive the "Honor an Educator" award
from the College of Education at California State University, Fullerton.
Mr. Adamson is also on the faculty at the St. Paul Academy of the Arts,
and sits on the All the Arts for All the Kids Foundation's Board of
Directors. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Concordia University
and Azusa Pacific University. He is a certified Orff-Schulwerk educator
through Chapman University. In great demand as a performing cellist, Mr.
Adamson was awarded the Principal Cello position in the Mozart Classical
Orchestra in 2008. He is also the Associate Principal Cellist of the
San Bernardino Symphony. He has performed with the Long Beach Opera,
Long Beach Ballet, Redlands Symphony, Redlands Bowl Summer Festival
(Assistant Principle Cello), Burbank Chamber Orchestra, Hutchins Consort,
Riverside Philharmonic, Santa Barbara Ballet, Pasadena Pops. He has
toured and recorded internationally with such luminaries as James Galway,
James Taylor, Elton John, The Who, Rod Stewart, Guns 'n Roses, Burt
Bacherach, Michael Crawford, Shirley Bassey, John Williams, Roger Williams,
Yo Yo Ma. (back to top) Click for feature
on Greg
Christine Angeli has
been teaching a variety of art classes to both adults and children
for over 25 years. She also teaches on cruises ships and was a regular
guest HGTV for 6 years. She has published more than 12 art books and
50 articles on a variety of subjects including floral design, candle
making and rubber stamping. She currently teaches an Art Integration
for the Graduate Department at Whittier College and designs curriculum
for Princess Cruise Lines.Christine is a longtime resident of Fullerton
and has had 3 children in the Fullerton School District. For more information
on Christine, you can visit her website atwww.craftwithme.com.(back
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Veronica Moody Anderson has
her B.A. in Art with emphasis in teaching, along with a B.A. in Theatre.
In addition to teaching for All the Arts for All the Kids, for the
past five years she has taught 3-D art at the Art Camp through the
Fullerton Foundation at California State University Fullerton. Through
Veronica’s many travels around the world as a hand courier, she has
collected folk arts and project ideas from 15 different countries!
As a member of multiple galleries, there are frequent showings of her
artwork, which include watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings, etchings,
and tole painting. There are four murals for public viewing in the
LA area and Veronica has had numerous artwork credited on T.V. and
film. (back to top)
 Arias
Collins has a BA in Art, with a minor in Psychology, as
well as her California Teacher's Credential. She teaches Three Dimensional
Design at Orange County High School of the Arts, was an Arts Coordinator
for the city of Fullerton, and is pleased to be a Visual Arts Teacher
for All the Arts for All the Kids. Her latest passion has been threading
her needle and stitching hats, stuffed owl pillows, and quilted purses
to sell and trade at local craft fairs. (back to top)
Chelsea Davis earned
her Bachelor's degree from Chapman University in music therapy, and
has completed her music therapy clinical training at MusicWorx of California
in San Diego. She is also a co-owner of a drum circle facilitation
company for private and corporate events. Chelsea is a singer\songwriter
and is currently recording her first album. Chelsea found a true love
in teaching, and enjoys providing kids with hands-on musical experiences,
including percussion ensembles, singing, songwriting, and recording! (back
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 Rosina
Didyk has performed as a soloist for AMAN Folk Ensemble,
Karpatok Hungarian Folk Ensemble, Viviane’s Egyptian Dance Theater
and toured internationally with The Brigham Young University Folk
Ensemble and Collage Dance of Boston. She has toured independently,
as well, in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Turkey and Macedonia. In addition,
Ms Didyk was the Artistic Director of AMAN from 1998 until it closed
its doors in 2004. She has been teaching folk dance in Southern California
schools for 18 years. Now, as a founding member of the Aman Dance
Educators, she is exploring new ways to share these dances, incorporating
creative components that allow students to more deeply understand
these traditions by re-creating them for themselves. (back
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 Kyle
Dykes is a visual artist specializing in photography and
cinematography. Originally from Oregon, Kyle has gradually found
his place in the California sun. He holds a degree from Chapman University
in Film production with a minor in photography and continues to expand
his skills working on set and in the stuido. Always learning, Kyle
continues to explore new visual styles and approaches to telling
a story. He now learns more from the students he teaches through
Fullerton School District's All the Arts program than he did during
his four years of film school. Kids are naturally visual thinkers.
Their eyes see beyond reality and their imaginations create masterpieces.Kyle
hopes to continue working creatively and watch the Arts program grow
to it's fullest potential. (back to top)
Kathryn Farquhar-Ayehhas
a M.F.A. from U.C. Irvine. Since 1974, she has been active in elementary
schools systems, as a dance instructor as well as a classroom teacher.
She also has performed professionally as a choreographer, artistic
director and dance concert instructor for children and adults in Los
Angeles, Orange County, Davis, Malawi (East Africa) and Ghana (West
Africa). She enjoys teaching the arts and dance to children and adults. (back
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Coley Fisher is
an experienced classroom teacher with an extensive theatre background
including professional stage and film credits. A published arts-based
curriculum author, Coley has spent years as a drama resource teacher,
seminar speaker, director, scriptwriter, and performer. Teaching life
skills through theatre based integrated thematic units is Coley’s passion.
She had spent years creating and producing original children’s productions
and considers it a privilege to spark a child’s creativity. (back
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Dawn
Dyson is in her fourteenth season with the All the Arts
program. Dawn was a dancer and educator with the AMAN Folk Ensemble
for ten years, performing and teaching folk dance to children within
the Los Angeles area and across the nation until the company’s closure
in 2004. She has a degree in Dance Performance with a minor in Educational
Dance from Ball State University. Originally from Indiana, Dawn moved
to Los Angeles to pursue her dance career. (back to
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 Katherine
England is a muralist as well as an art teacher extraordinaire.
Though born in Hawaii she was lucky to be raised a child of the '60's
near San Francisco. The colors and movement in art during this decade
profoundly influenced her as a youth and show up as such in her art.
Her favorite medium right now is glass and she loves breaking, nipping,
melting it and coaxing into playful patterns and whimsical figures.
Her largest mosaic piece is 40' by 8' but she also enjoys playing
with tinier pieces. To see her work check out katherineengland.com (back
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Bryan
Green is an improviser who has work for many years with
high school arts programs through Comedy Sportz. He is currently
a character on The High, an improvised teen soap. He is a member
of the 2005 National Comedy League tournament champions, and was
a founding member of the long-form group Ninja Vanish. (back
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Janell Hunt is relatively
new to All the Arts for All the Kids, but is no stranger to the classroom.
She grew up in Oregon among a family of administrators and educators.
Over the years, Janell has worked as a substitute, para-educator, classroom
volunteer, and tutor. She has years of experience teaching private
music lessons to students of all ages. Her passion and pursuit of music
drove her to get a certificate in Vocal Performance. Janell writes
and records jingles, songs and does voiceovers as well as singing many
genres of music including worship, bluegrass, musicals and jazz. (back to top)
Dale
Jones has worked with children’s theater since 1985 and
with All the Arts for All the Kids since 1998. He has performed at
Knott’s Berry Farm, at various civic light operas and dinner theaters,
and in the European tour of the musical “Fame.” He was actor and manager for the Imagination Company, a touring
children’s theater group, for 12 years. Dale directs a complete musical
production each year for the students of Mariners Elementary School
in Newport Beach. (back to top)
Marsha Judd is an internationally
exhibiting artist who has taught children and adults for nearly two
decades. Ms. Judd is also an instructor in art education and ceramics
at California State University, Fullerton. (back to
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Brian Kohl holds a Bachelor
of Fine Art in Animation and Ceramics, as well as a Master of Fine
Art in Ceramics. He has created numerous film projects, including two
ceramic documentary/instructional films. In addition to working as
a film artist/educator on the Arts LAB, Brian is also a professor at
Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga. In Brian’s (very minimal) spare
time he is the Podcast Director/Host for the National Council on Education
for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and a member of the Green Task Force of
NCECA. (back to top)
John-Paul Lewis has
been an upright bass player for 20 years and has played in several
professional orchestras. He has also played the electric bass for fifteen
years playing contemporary religious music. Singing has provided him
added joy as he has sung with Opera Pacific in the Orange County Performing
Arts Center in such Operas as “The Elixir of Love,” “Susanna,” “Carmen,” and “Aida,”
as well as singing solo performances with the Yorba Linda Symphony.
He has also played with OCMCO orchestra at Segerstrom Hall as a double
bassist. (back to top)
Kimberly Patten has
been with All the Arts for All the Kids since 2000. Kim comes to us
with education in Acting and Psychology and a wealth of teaching experience
as an artist/educator on the Arts LAB. Kim’s many talents and abilities
offer a unique experience for the kids of Fullerton School District
and she enthusiastically imparts her love of the arts, life, and creativity
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Dawn Dyson Platero is
in her fifteenth season with the All the Arts for All the Kids program.
Dawn was a dancer and educator with the AMAN Folk Ensemble for ten
years, performing and teaching folk dance to children within the Los
Angeles area and across the nation until the company’s closure in 2004. She
has a degree in Dance Performance with a minor in Educational Dance
from Ball State University. back to top)
Sari Rose Poll received
her B.F.A. in Drama at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is dedicated
to bringing expression through the arts to kids and young adults. She
teaches and creates lyric-writing, improv/theatre, and musical theatre
curriculum through different organizations such as Reprise, The Johnny
Mercer Foundation, and All the Arts for All the Kids. Most recently,
she designed the curriculum for Reprise and ASCAP’s lyric-writing program
“Free Style” and was Associate Director on the production at the Ford
Amphitheatre. She is currently acting as Education Manager for Reprise
and continues as West Coast and National Program Coordinator and Teaching
Artist for The Johnny Mercer Foundation where she teaches throughout
low-income communities around the country. When Sari is not teaching,
some of her performing credits include--Annie Get Your Gun (Annie),
The Wild Party, The Pajama Game (Babe), Fallen Angel (NYFringe Festival
Winner), new works with ANMT and has guest-starred on Ed (NBC), The
Awkward Stage, Wolves, and performed in a cabaret for BRAVO. back
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 Linda
King Pruitt has taught theatre skills with Fullerton?s All
the Arts for All the Kids since 1996. As a storyteller and a storyteacher,
Linda has performed and taught storytelling workshops across the
U.S and has toured Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands with Academic
Arrangements Abroad as a storyteller. Linda has been the storyteller
for the Pacific Symphony?s Class Act Program since 2006. A member
of South Coast Storytellers Guild, The National Storytelling Network,
Youth, Educators and Storytellers Alliance (YES!), and State liaison
for the National Storytelling Network, Linda enjoys teaching and
telling to young and old. (back to top)
Ashley Rickman has
her B.A. in Dance from Chapman University and has been performing modern
dance with Backhausdance since 2006. As a member of Backhausdance,
she has taught workshops throughout Orange County school districts
for the past two years through the Orange county Performing Arts Center.
Ashley has experience in a variety of dance forms but she appreciates
the freedom and creativity inherent in modern dance. (back
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 Cynthia
Ryanen has worked in all facets of theatrical production
for nearly two decades. She studied with Brown and Beneditti at UC
Riverside’s Intensive Theater Program and trained at HB Studios in
New York. She is a founding member of Stages Theater in Fullerton.
In addition, she has taught and performed for children of all ages
in a variety of capacities across Southern California. She brings
to her job as a theatre artist/educator on the Arts LAB extremely
strong presentation skills, a dedication to perfection, and the ability
to inspire creativity. (back to top)
Wilfried Souly is
a choreographer, dancer, drummer and Takewondo expert. He was born
in Burkina Faso and has been performing for nearly two decades. He
is the co-founder of Compagnie Ta, has collaborated with choreographers
from around the world, and has performed extensively internationally.
In addition to being a guest artist several times at the University
of California, Los Angeles, Mr. Souly has performed and taught dance
and drumming at universities and festivals throughout France, England,
Germany, Tunisia, Cameroon, Senegal, Canada, Spain, French Guyana and
the United States. (back to top)
Istvan Szabo was born
and raised in Hungary where he received his formal dance training at
the prestigious Hungarian Ballet Institute where his major was Hungarian
Folk Dance. He was the Dance Director and choreographer for the Aman
Folk Ensemble of Los Angeles for many years and has taught dance workshops
throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. (back
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Julia Thomas has
a M.S. credential, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and a Minor
in Art. She teaches with All the Arts for All the Kids, as well as
at a local high school. Prior to teaching art, she was the Creative
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Melanie Vogel. In
addition to teaching All the Arts for All the Kids for the
last 18 years, she is an art education instructor at California State
University Fullerton and the director of the university’s Children’s
Summer Art Program. She is a board member of the All the Arts for All
the Kids Foundation and is involved in the design of the Children’s
Art Museum and Creativity Center. She continues to teach art classes
for young elementary students in after school programs and gives teacher
and private art workshops around Orange County. She works in mixed
media assemblage and recently showed her work at the Irvine Studio
Arts Festival. Melanie finds the rewards in teaching to be most inspiring
when students are not only excited about art, but discover their creative
self in the process of making art.. (back to top)
 Brandon
Eddy Wade. Early on in life I discovered that my passion
was filmmaking. Through my experiences tutoring and directing film
crews I have learned my calling: Teaching. When I found out I could
combine the two in an emerging technological world that allows even
elementary students the chance to make movies, I new that it was
fate. Getting the chance to nurture young minds to appreciate expression
and the arts has been a great privilege and I always aim to teach
to the back row, to the child who thinks, "school isn't for
me". I think we can save kids from losing interest if we seek
them out early and show them a way to tap into their creative energies
through educational film experience. I'm a filmmaker to share my
thoughts with the world, but I'm a teacher to help everyone else
get the ability to do the same.
Cynthia Wilson is
a graduate of Chapman University receiving a BA in Communications with
an emphasis in Theatre. As a performer she has been involved in numerous
theatrical productions as well as entertaining for Disneyland and Knott’s
Berry Farm. Teaching is also a large part of Cynthia’s life. She enjoyed
working at Chapman University for the past twenty where she taught
theatrical makeup. Cynthia is also a director for The Music Room School
of Performing Arts, where she directs three musical theatre productions
a year including children ages 5 to 18. Cynthia finds much enjoyment
working with children and sharing her gifts through the arts. (back
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