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DION
NITTIS:
BA, U. of Michigan, MA, Ph.D. in English, UCLA. Dr. Nittis - educator,
painter and poet - has been a professor of English at Boston University,
Indiana University, Cairo University, and the University of the Andes
in Venezuela, and a Fellow at Tufts University's Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy. He also served as Fulbright Professor at
the University of Haiti, and was for three years a Literature Specialist
with the Fulbright Commission in Egypt. His extensive international
experience includes lectureships at universities in Brazil, Japan
and Greece, and administrative positions as Director of the American
Section of the Lycée Marcel Roby in Paris, and International
Baccalaureate Coordinator for the International School of Prague.
His publications include four books of poetry and a translation of
the seventeenth-century Cretan verse drama The Sacrifice of Abraham. • Click here to see more of his work |
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BARRY TAGRIN: Painter and Writer (Art and Academic Director): Masters Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. His varied and substantial teaching career began with the establishment of the Greenwich Painters and Writers Workshop in San Francisco, and has included over the years faculty positions with Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, Rikkyo University in Japan and the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain. He has exhibited his paintings worldwide, read and lectured internationally with the Fulbright Commission, and held classes and workshops in Poetry in venues as diverse as Japan, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Egypt and Mexico. His latest book of poems is entitled Collage of the Soul and is available now on Amazon.com • Click here to see his poems and paintings |
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CAMERON HOCKENSON: A working artist and teacher, with HISA since 2004, Cameron holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as a degree in Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University. A multi-faceted and energetic creator of works across a whole spectrum of the arts, some of his projects are site-specific and remain in place, while others are studio pieces. His most recent exhibitions include inter-related media images and installations, using a wide variety of materials and techniques, often involving video, photography, drawings, and found objects. With his formal background in the arts, but experimental nature, he is at ease with both traditional techniques, as well as those more exploratory. He has designed and built public art projects in San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, and most recently as an artist in residence at the prestigious Skowhegan School Of Painting and Sculpture. |
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GEORGE CRANE: Writer, Journalist, Literary Editor, World Traveler, and in his own words "a very poor Buddhist." B.A. in English, U. of Illinois; MFA, San Francisco Sate University. He has taught at the University of Rabat, Manhattanville College, and U. of Indianapolis. His two books of memoirs, Bones of the Master (purchased by Disney Films) and Beyond the House of the False Lama, are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into 17 languages. Other books include a work of fiction, Yes: A Novel, and A Thousand Pieces of Snow: Poems from the Chinese. |
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YUKO YAMAUCHI is a graduate of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and a Certified Occupational Therapist. For six years she was a Director of Rehabilitation Therapy for the Red Cross Hospital in northern Hokkaido. Her development of the Body Works Program, based on the Holistic, mind/spirit/body approach to a healthy life, is now a permanent feature of HISA's Full Term Curriculum. Ms. Yamauchi presently serves as the Co-coordinator of HISA's Japanese Branch Program. |
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STEPHANIE SAMPSON: Artist/Painter and Professor of Art and Design. Master of Fine Arts, University of Saskatchewan; B.A., Visual Arts, Bath College of Higher Education in England. An accomplished and talented artist, Ms. Samson has exhibited her paintings internationally and is well known for her unique and acutely sensitive and expressive work. She was Professor of Art at the University of Saskatchewan and has taught at the Ottawa School of Art, and at Bradford and Ilkley College in England. She says of her painting: "My aim is to capture a subject's intrinsic character, be it lush, stark, melancholy or rhythmic, using well-considered but quick strokes, in order to retain the freshness of the initial visual impression and feeling - something which excessive hesitation and judgment can hinder." • Click here to see some of her paintings |
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SARAH DRASNER: Painter, Printmaker, and Photographer, received her Masters of Fine Arts from The San Francisco Art Institute, and her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Drasner, who has exhibited her work across America, with recent exhibitions Chicago and at the San Francisco Diego Rivera Gallery, is most well known for her impressive, life-sized, allegorical portraits. With HISA as a teaching artist in painting, photography and art theory, since 2006, she has worked previously for prestigious printmaking firms across the country, including Landfall Press, in Chicago, and as a teacher and Graphic Illustrator at the Cartoon Art Museum and the Field Museum of Natural History. • Click here to see more of her work |
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"In the mountains of Paros." "The poetry patio" |
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