Faculty

Our staff is comprised of faculty, apprentice teachers and administrators who enjoy working with teens and who are passionate about their art. Several of our faculty teach at The Putney School during the academic year while many others return from around the country to teach at Putney each summer. Our apprentice teachers are college seniors, recent graduates, and MFA students who oversee, support and guide students in the dormitories and campus activities. Our goal is to encourage students in their explorations and to support them in their discoveries, providing a safe environment for taking risks in their creative expression.

 

Peter Wallis - Animation

Animation and Graphic Novel & Printmaking Teacher, is an interdisciplinary artist and a native son of the Green Mountains of Vermont. Integrating his interests in illustration and printmaking, his approach to trends in New Media is grounded in an appreciation of traditional printmaking techniques and practices. His BFA study was illustration with a double minor in art history and drawing from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. Working at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, he cultivated a connection to graphic novels. Peter has worked with students throughout the state teaching stop-animation, printmaking, and illustration and is the former education director at the Chaffee Art Center. Peter earned his MFA from Goddard College with a focus in printmaking, graphic novels, and peace studies. During his graduate studies, he worked on a graphic novel as artist in residence in the Montserrat Mountains of Catalonia, Spain.

Robert Singley - Audio Art

Audio Art, Songwriting, and Music Composition Teacher, has written over thirty substantial works for various ensembles ranging from full orchestra to soloist. His music has been performed by members of the National Repertory Orchestra, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra, the Duquesne University Contemporary Ensemble, the Duquesne Electronic Ensemble, and the Ithaca (NY) based group Tabula Rasa. He is the winner of several competitions for his music, including the 2009 Vermont Music Educator's Association Composer of the Year commission, the Smadbeck Composition Prize, and honorable mention in the 2006 Brian Israel Prize for new music. He has taught music at Bennington College, Ithaca College and at The Putney School Summer Programs. soundsthesongsofseabirds.bandcamp.com and robertsingley.yolasite.com

Willson Gaul - Ceramics

Willson Gaul began studying ceramics at Marlboro College. After graduating, he worked at a pottery studio in Maine, and is now working at a few different studios in southern Vermont. Most of his work is wheel-thrown functional pottery. He takes a particular interest in glazing and firing processes.

 

Cara Surico - Modern Dance

Cara Surico originally from Dayton, OH, is a choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her B.F.A. in Dance from The Ailey School and Fordham University in 2003.  She is currently the artistic director of SuriCo. - a modern dance company that creates and shares work that brings to light the human experience through the power of simplicity.  Her work has been presented both in and outside of New York City. Surico’s choreography has been recognized through Regional Dance America, where she has twice been granted the Monticello Award for Best Female Emerging Choreographer as well as the 2006 recipient of the National Choreography Connections Award. In addition to her company, Cara is a freelance performer as well as a certified yoga instructor through Mind Body Dancer™. She works privately and in various open class settings and is currently the Children Programs Coordinator for the program.  This will be Cara’s 3rd summer teaching at the Putney Summer Programs and she looks forward to continuing to explore new ways to foster creative expression in her students through the realm of dance.

Michelle Huber

Michelle Huber was born and raised in the woods of Western Massachusetts. Her parents surrounded her with dance and music since she was a baby and her serious study of dance began in college. Beyond studying dance at Sarah Lawrence, she spent a semester studying folkloric dance in Cuba last fall. Currently, she is participating in an art teacher training with the Community Word Project in New York City with aspirations of teaching dance in the future.

Jee Hwang - Drawing

Drawing Teacher, Jee Hwang received her BFA at Salisbury University in Maryland and her MFA at the Pratt Institute in New York. She has been engaged in many nonprofit organizations, working as an intern at the A.I.R. Gallery, New York and at the New York Foundation for the Arts, assisting with their public programs. Jee was awarded the 2009-2010 A.I. R Fellowship and Emma Bee Bernstein award at A.I.R. Gallery and received a partial scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT in 2010. Jee's work has been shown in many group as well as an solo exhibition of her recent works at Porter Contemporary Gallery in New York. Jee also has been taught in many different private art institutions including Oogie Art at New York where she currently work as an instructor. Coming fall semester in 2012, she will be also teaching figure drawing course at Montgomery College, Rockville, MD

Dayna Safferstein

Dayna is an art student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, studying painting, printmaking, and drawing. She currently paints sets at the Tufts Theater Scene Shop, and works as a “seeing eye artist” for a blind silkscreen artist. In previous years she has worked as a silkscreen assistant at an outdoor concert series, and an assistant at a major street art installation in Queens, New York. She has been sewing and making patterns since the age of 10, has taken fashion design classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She lives in a co-op called the Crafts House at Tufts with somewhere around 18 other crafty people who cook vegetarian food, make art, and run the Crafts Center at Tufts.

Jessie Young - Fashion Design

Jessie received her BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MSAE from MassArt, and she has taught computer graphics at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, MA for the past ten years. She uses every ounce of free time to design and construct her own clothes and accessories, which she sells online and at local fairs and events around New England. She's a Putney School Summer Programs alum, a recently retired roller derby queen, and an aspiring accordion player. Jessie's large-scale collaborative art quilt, the Roller Derby Quilt, has been exhibited at art galleries and roller derby tournaments around the country, and she's still getting contributions from places as far as Japan and Australia.

Monica Hoenig - Filmmaking

Filmmaking Teacher, regularly writes and directs short films, focusing on experimental storytelling to explore cinema as a creative fine-art form. She has produced and directed narrative and experimental films, branding films, music videos and documentaries. As assistant camera and grip electric, Monica has worked on feature films including Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids and Roger Corman's Rumble in the Night. She wrote and directed award winning Epitaph, based on events concerning her father's death. Monica recently produced a 25-minute documentary on the diabetes crises in St. Lucia, soon to air on national and Caribbean television. She is currently in production on a feature length documentary chronicling the struggles of nature conservation in Madagascar. Monica has dedicated her career to creating films that bring social issues to light and that require active participation on the part of the viewers. She received her MFA from NYU and is co-owner of Made In Film-Land at film-land.com

Veasna Thoeun

Veasna Thoeun is currently a member of Cambodian Living Arts Dance Training Program. He is a leader in this troupe and often assists the director during their international tours. He also has experience with filmmaking working as a production assistant at Studio CLA. He is looking forward to coming to Putney this summer and to sharing his passion and knowledge of Cambodian dance as well as filmmaking

Tyler Patterson

Tyler Patterson born and raised in Boston graduated in May with a BA in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College. During his time at Bard, Tyler also studied languages, literature, and linguistics. He has made movies on film and in video, in 2D and in 3D and works primarily with 16mm film. Besides filmmaking he also enjoys riding his bicycle wherever he can. He is glad to return to New England this summer and thrilled to share his passion for film with the students at Putney.

Joseph Tracy - Glass Arts

Glass Arts Teacher, has been designing, making, and restoring residential and ecclesiastical art glass since the '80s both for his own and for various studios including Arthur Stern, Cummings Studio, Savoy, and Roger Hogan. Commissions include work for the Oakland Children's Hospital and the Bakersfield College Library. His instructional experience includes three years as a high school art teacher. Joseph enjoys teaching traditional stained glass techniques as well as exploring fused glass as a medium. brooksideglassworks.com

Peter Wallis - Graphic Novel & Printmaking

Graphic Novel & Printmaking and Animation Teacher, is an interdisciplinary artist and a native son of the Green Mountains of Vermont. Integrating his interests in illustration and printmaking his approach to trends in New Media is grounded in an appreciation of traditional printmaking techniques and practices. His BFA study was illustration with a double minor in art history and drawing from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. Working at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, he cultivated a connection to graphic novels. Peter has worked with students throughout the state teaching stop-animation, printmaking, and illustration and is the former education director at the Chaffee Art Center. Peter earned his MFA from Goddard College with a focus in printmaking, graphic novels, and peace studies. During his graduate studies, he worked on a graphic novel as artist in residence in the Montserrat Mountains of Catalonia, Spain.

Jeanne Wulsin Bennett - Metal Jewelry

Metal Jewelry Teacher, is an award-winning freelance metal designer, working out of her home studio in Westminster West and, previously, for custom jewelers in Vermont, New Hampshire, and the Virgin Islands. She has been with the Summer Programs since 1994, as well as teaching jewelry classes during the academic year at The Putney School, the Compass School, and in her studio. She is a juried member of the prestigious League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and, since 2001, a member of the Putney Craft Tour.

Robert Singley - Music Composition

Music Composition, Songwriting, and Audio Art Teacher, has written over thirty substantial works for various ensembles ranging from full orchestra to soloist. His music has been performed by members of the National Repertory Orchestra, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra, the Duquesne University Contemporary Ensemble, the Duquesne Electronic Ensemble, and the Ithaca (NY) based group Tabula Rasa. He is the winner of several competitions for his music, including the 2009 Vermont Music Educatorís Association Composer of the Year commission, the Smadbeck Composition Prize, and honorable mention in the 2006 Brian Israel Prize for new music. He has taught music at Bennington College, Ithaca College and at The Putney School Summer Programs. soundsthesongsofseabirds.bandcamp.com and robertsingley.yolasite.com

Abraham Storer - Painting

Abraham Storer comes to The Putney School Summer Programs after living for the past year in Jerusalem as a Fulbright Fellow. His work included a painting project about the Israeli landscape. Abraham has taught painting and drawing at Indiana University and Mercy College.  To see his work please visit his website at www.abrahamstorer.com.

Jason Buening

Jason began studying painting and drawing at the New York Studio School and went on to earn a BFA in Painting and Art History at Marlboro College. He completed an MFA in painting at American University where he studied for a year in Italy. Jason has taught at Summer Programs since 2005. www.jasonbuening.com

Rachel Aisenson

Rachel Aisenson is a Studio Art major at Skidmore College, with concentrations in drawing and printmaking.  She just completed a semester abroad in Florence, Italy at Studio Art Centers International (SACI) studying studio art, painting conservation and art history. In addition to drawing and printmaking, she also loves painting, sculpture installation, and jewelry-making.  Rachel is excited to work with students at The Putney School Summer Programs this summer!

Tom O'Brien

A Putney School Summer Programs Alum, Tom O’Brien grew up near New York City and spent the summers of 2006 – 2011 in the City, assisting and printing for artists at Two Palms Press. He is looking forward to being out of the city and back at The Putney School Summer Programs this summer!

Jennifer Wilkey - Photography

Jennifer Wilkey is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of mediums. She grew up in the Midwest and received her BFA in Photography and BS in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.  Jennifer graduated from Syracuse University in 2009 with a MFA in Photography, where she continued to teach Color Photography as well as work for the artist Carrie Mae Weems. Additionally, she participated as a teaching artist in multiple art programs in elementary and high schools in the area.  She currently lives in Maine where she continues to teach at the University of Southern Maine and Southern Maine Community College and works for ArtVan, a mobile arts therapy program.  Her artwork has shown frequently in exhibitions and screenings in the US and abroad, including recent exhibits at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York and the Soho Gallery for the Digital Arts in NYC. Her work focuses around the experience of illness and in 2010, she was awarded a Professional Scholarship Grant from the Lucie Foundation in Los Angeles to fund a photography project about her developmentally disabled brother.  Please visit her website at www.jenniferwilkey.com.

Justine Smith

Justine Smith is a recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Graphic Design and Photography and a Book Arts concentration. An avid maker and do-er, Justine’s inspiration and the driving force behind her work comes from her never-ending fascination with nature and its function. Outside of design, snapping photos, and making books, she has recently found a love for fiber arts and a passion for cooking. This is Justine’s second summer at Putney, and she is excited to be back!

Elisabeth Joffe

As a former student of The Putney School Summer Programs, Elisabeth is excited to return as the apprentice teacher for Photography. She has been working with photography for the past five years, and is continuing her studies in Photography, Creative Writing, and Environmental Sciences at nearby Marlboro College. Her focus in photography is primarily experimental and landscape, but has experience in many other genres of photo.

Jason Sandberg - Sculpture

Jason Sandberg is a sculptor from the Midwest. He focuses on industrial forms through the use of various media. His work on fighter jets combined with childhood experiences form the inspiration for Jason's artwork. He received his B.F.A. from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville in 2009. This past spring he received his M.F.A. from University of Madison-Wisconsin. Jason is looking forward to his first summer at Putney!

Samantha Anderson

As a rising high school freshman, Samantha Anderson attended The Putney School Summer Programs, participating in the Painting and Drawing workshops. Throughout high school, her dedication to the visual arts grew, and culminated in her decision to attend Rhode Island School of Design. She now studies Furniture Design, which has turned into one of the greatest creative endeavors she has ever experienced. She is excited to come back to Putney and participate in the program that was her first real commitment to the arts.

Robert Singley - Songwriting

Songwriting, Music Composition, and Audio Art Teacher, has written over thirty substantial works for various ensembles ranging from full orchestra to soloist. His music has been performed by members of the National Repertory Orchestra, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra, the Duquesne University Contemporary Ensemble, the Duquesne Electronic Ensemble, and the Ithaca (NY) based group Tabula Rasa. He is the winner of several competitions for his music, including the 2009 Vermont Music Educatorís Association Composer of the Year commission, the Smadbeck Composition Prize, and honorable mention in the 2006 Brian Israel Prize for new music. He has taught music at Bennington College, Ithaca College and at The Putney School Summer Programs. soundsthesongsofseabirds.bandcamp.com and robertsingley.yolasite.com

Melissa Johnson - Textile Design & Fiber Arts

Textile Design & Fiber Arts Teacher, moved to southern Vermont from Istanbul in 1973 and graduated from The Putney School in 1977. She attended the University of Vermont, Goddard College, and apprenticed to Trudy Walker, a production weaver, before beginning her career as a weaver and knitwear designer. She has taught Fiber Arts at The Putney School in the academic, evening, and summer programs since 1995. In addition to teaching, she is a designer, dyer, and color consultant for The Green Mountain Spinnery. She also creates custom textiles for individuals and teaches workshops on weaving, knitting, and natural and synthetic dyeing.

Rosalie Purvis - Theater

Theater and Writing for Performance Teacher, resides in New York City, where she is a full-time theater and writing educator and practitioner. She has directed plays, readings, and dance theater pieces at the Brick, Dixon Place, the Henry Street Settlement, Manhattan Theatre Source, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Playwrights Horizons, the Culture Project and the Atlantic Theater and many other venues. She has also directed regionally, and in her native city of Amsterdam. Recent projects include My Journey of Decay and Girlmeat by Victoria Libertore, In the Floodplain by Jacob M. Appel, Monotone Poncho Spatula by Mya Kagan, In Dog Years by TD Mitchel. Other directing credits include Charlie the Chicken by Jonathan Levy and The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht. She has also created numerous movement theater pieces and worked as a movement choreographer with White Horse Theater, Prospect Theatre, the Puerto Rican Traveling Company and at LaMama ETC. She is currently writing her own solo show which is called Talking Normal and has performed parts of the show at The Putney School Summer Programs and in several reading series in New York City. Rosalie is a graduate of Bard College (BA in drama/dance and languages/literature; winner of the Ana Itelman Award for Directing and Choreography) and the MFA program in theater directing at Brooklyn College where she was a distinguished teaching fellow. She has taught theater classes to children and teenagers at a variety of academic and summer programs including the Brooklyn College Teaching Artist Initiative and the Governor's School of North Carolina. She currently teaches literature, writing, and theater at Baruch College, Pace University, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

 

Julia Perlowski - Theater/Shakespeare

Julia Perlowski, Theater and Program for International Education (ESOL) Teacher, has worked extensively with improvisational techniques through TheatreSports team in NYC as well as with the Creative Arts Team at NYU. She devises many original works of theatre with teens and adults. Her last piece, Witness Theatre, brought together teens and older adults who spent their own teen lives in England during the Holocaust to make theatre our of shared histories. Julia is an Ambassador for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. She works extensively in the US and in India creating ensemble pieces from Shakespearean text. Julia is the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award from the US State Department and the Reba R. Robinson Award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education. Julia directs two major productions a year and trains teens for regional and state competitions. In 2012, Julia will conduct a community musical theatre project in Sweden and facilitate a forum theatre piece for a pond clean-up project in Gujarat, India.

Jared Stolper - Vocal Ensemble

Jared Stolper has been arranging, composing and conducting music for young voices for over thirty years. He has advanced degrees in conducting, composition, and guitar. His passion for world music and traditional harmony has led him to The Republic of Georgia, Indonesia, the Balkan Republics, and Western Europe. His work has been featured in many composer's forums, and festivals, but he finds his greatest reward in teaching young singers to arrange and perform. Mr. Stolper presently teaches at the Putney Grammar School, and in the Walpole New Hampshire school system. He has been teaching and leading the morning sing at The Putney School Summer Programs since 2007 and is looking forward to another summer!

Brian Mooney - Fiction Writing

Brian Mooney, Fiction Writing and Poetry Writing Teacher, has had fiction, non-fiction, and poetry published in Bellevue Literary Review, Cincinnati Review, Columbia University's Journal of Literature and Art, and lots of other national publications. He is a recipient of a creation grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the NEA, and short stories he’s written for the arts advocacy organization United States Artists have been presented by Leonard Nimoy at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Paramount Studios, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He’s taught creative writing at Marlboro College and the University of Massachusetts, and he’s been with Summer Programs since 1998. He’s currently finishing a book for Colonial Williamsburg about the history of Jamestown. He is also the guy behind The Storymatic ("six trillion stories in one little box"), which can be found in stores throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Michelle Roll

Michelle Roll is a recent graduate of Oberlin College, where she received her B.A. in English literature and creative writing in May of 2012. In the fall she plans on working full-time while applying to MFA programs in creative writing. Michelle is a Dayton, Ohio, native who draws inspiration from her large extended family to write short stories, creative nonfiction, and the occasional moody poem. In addition to leading fiction workshops in college, she has also taught art classes and sexual education workshops. When she isn't writing or teaching, she enjoys taking long nature rambles, reading in hammocks, traveling, and making jewelry. She's thrilled to be working with talented young writers at Putney this summer!

Brian Mooney - Poetry Writing

Brian Mooney, Fiction Writing and Poetry Writing Teacher, has had fiction, non-fiction, and poetry published in Bellevue Literary Review, Cincinnati Review, Columbia University's Journal of Literature and Art, and lots of other national publications. He is a recipient of a creation grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the NEA, and short stories he’s written for the arts advocacy organization United States Artists have been presented by Leonard Nimoy at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Paramount Studios, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He’s taught creative writing at Marlboro College and the University of Massachusetts, and he’s been with Summer Programs since 1998. He’s currently finishing a book for Colonial Williamsburg about the history of Jamestown. He is also the guy behind The Storymatic ("six trillion stories in one little box"), which can be found in stores throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Elise Lasko

Elise Lasko is a senior at Vanderbilt University majoring in a self-programmed study of The Art of Poetry. Her work has been published in Nashville Arts Magazine and Creative Communications, and has had the honor of serving as a poetry judge for Perugia Press's annual book award. Elise attended The Putney School Summer Programs in high school where she studied painting and sculpture, in addition to her summer at the Montserrat College of Art for photography and graphic design. She has interned for arts organizations such as ArtsMemphis, At Home Tennessee Magazine, Nashville Arts Magazine, The Massachusetts Review and Dixon Gallery and Gardens, and is involved in several student publications at Vanderbilt. Elise is from Memphis, Tennessee and looks forward to returning to Putney this summer!

Rosalie Purvis - Writing for Performance

Theater and Writing for Performance Teacher, resides in New York City, where she is a full-time theater and writing educator and practitioner. She has directed plays, readings, and dance theater pieces at the Brick, Dixon Place, the Henry Street Settlement, Manhattan Theatre Source, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Playwrights Horizons, the Culture Project and the Atlantic Theater and many other venues. She has also directed regionally, and in her native city of Amsterdam. Recent projects include My Journey of Decay and Girlmeat by Victoria Libertore, In the Floodplain by Jacob M. Appel, Monotone Poncho Spatula by Mya Kagan, In Dog Years by TD Mitchel. Other directing credits include Charlie the Chicken by Jonathan Levy and The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht. She has also created numerous movement theater pieces and worked as a movement choreographer with White Horse Theater, Prospect Theatre, the Puerto Rican Traveling Company and at LaMama ETC. She is currently writing her own solo show which is called Talking Normal and has performed parts of the show at The Putney School Summer Programs and in several reading series in New York City. Rosalie is a graduate of Bard College (BA in drama/dance and languages/literature; winner of the Ana Itelman Award for Directing and Choreography) and the MFA program in theater directing at Brooklyn College where she was a distinguished teaching fellow. She has taught theater classes to children and teenagers at a variety of academic and summer programs including the Brooklyn College Teaching Artist Initiative and the Governorís School of North Carolina. She currently teaches literature, writing, and theater at Baruch College, Pace University, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Megan Savage

Writing Intensive Teacher has received fellowships from Ledig House International Writerís Residency and Indiana University, where she completed graduate studies in creative writing (fiction) and English, and served as the fiction editor of Indiana Review. Her work has appeared in Spork, Subtropics, and Barn Owl Review, and has been twice nominated for Best New American Voices. She has been teaching at Summer Programs since 2006. She has also taught community workshops with Write Around Portland, and at the Marthaís Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Currently, she is based in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing at Portland Community College.

Sam Martone

Sam Martone is an MFA candidate in fiction at Arizona State University, where he also teaches composition. He graduated from Knox College in Illinois with a creative writing and Spanish double major. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for Origami Zoo Press and as a Special Projects Editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. Sam is looking forward to being at Putney and sharing his passion for writing!

Hilary Maynard - Farm Educator

Farm Educator, has been an educator since 2003. After college, she farmed abroad in Europe thinking she would be a cheesemaker. Instead, she returned to the states and happily spent three years as a member of the science faculty at The Putney School. Since moving West in 2008, Hilary has worked as a math and language literacy instructor in Oakland, CA and as an environmental and ecoliteracy educator in the Caribbean. For fun, she volunteers at school gardens, grows her own food, cooks, and reads. Hilary has a bachelor's in Biology from the University of Massachusetts and will pursue a Master's in Education at UC Berkeley in the fall.

Bobby Leonard

Bobby Leonard, a native Vermonter, attended Warren-Wilson college for a year and a half as a theatre/English major. He spent the past year and half working on farms in California and Vermont. He spent the past winter teaching snowboarding at Whale Back mountain in Enfield New Hampshire. He looks forward to his summer at Putney!

Margaret Mountcastle - ESOL

Since earning her BA from the College of William and Mary in Environmental Studies and Contextual Arts, Margaret has divided her time between teaching in classrooms and teaching in a Maine boat shop.  She has worked extensively with teenagers in both of these settings, providing math and literacy instruction in the Portland City Schools, as well as boat building education at a youth-centered program, the Compass Project.  While not teaching you might find Margaret cooking, canoeing, or learning to build a rocking chair.  She is excited to be joining the Putney community this summer!

Jenny Dean

Jenny Dean received her BA in Classics and Anthropology from Colby College and completed her MA in Classics from Boston College in May. She has tutored Latin, Greek, ESL, and English, and loves grammar, languages, and classical studies. An avid recreational hiker, she has worked two seasons with the Appalachian Mountain Club. She is looking forward to her work with our students studying English as a second language at The Putney School Summer Programs this summer!

Jessica Maffey - Activities Coordinator

Our Activity Coordinator just graduated from Alfred University. She worked as a dorm head/apprentice teacher last summer. Her art is mostly in 2D media, but has also taken courses in sculpture, video, sound, and performance art. In 2010, she studied in Florence, Italy, taking classes in drawing, painting, and etching. Jessica attended The Putney School Summer Programs in 2006 and found it to be an incredibly rewarding experience. She looks forward to returning this summer!

Allison Reilly - Residential Life Coordinator

Allison Reilly received her BA in studio art and political science from Dickinson College in 2008. Since graduating, she has painted en plein air in France, served as an AmeriCorps Resident Teaching Artist at Providence CityArts for Youth, taught a variety of art classes, and most recently coordinated orientations and publications for an international exchange program. She grew up just outside of Washington, DC, and loves to bike, sketch, paint, eat real Italian gelato (yum!), and take good long walks in her free time.

Will Moss - Transportation Coordinator

Will Moss received his B.A. in 2009 from Bennington College where he studied printmaking and ceramic sculpture. Since then he has worked as a museum collections assistant, high school art teacher, and a jeans maker. Will spends his time building huts out of saplings, designing clothes, and inventing ice cream recipes. He can often be spotted in the evenings zooming around Brattleboro on his road bike wearing a button down shirt flapping in the wind.