Meet our Teachers!

Tatana Kellner

Tatana Kellner, WSW’s Artistic Director has been printing, assembling images and making prints and artists’ books for over 35 years. Tatana’s work was been featured in over 30 solo exhibitions in USA and abroad. Tatana is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Banff Centre for the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, Saltonstall Art Colony, Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artpark, Blue Mountain Center, Jentel, Fundación Valparaiso, Hessisches Landes Museum in Darmstadt, Germany, Ucross Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, Siena Art Institute and The Ragdale Foundation. Her work is featured in Catherine Nash’s new book, AUTHENTIC VISUAL VOICES™: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic.

Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis is a painter and printmaker who is work is primarily concerned with art of observation of both the sociopolitical and natural world. In that sense, his work is unique in that  that it inhabits to distinct genres; naturalism and political art, but the artist sees his practice as incorporating the same principals in the creation of both bodies of work -they are tied together by the artists unique ability to articulate realities that only become obvious thru monastic observation and study.

Thomas Sarrantonio

Thomas Sarrantonio studied Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He also holds degrees in Biology (Fordham University) and English Literature (University of Pennsylvania).  He is Professor Emeritus of Art from SUNY College at New Paltz and has exhibited his paintings widely. He lives and maintains a studio in Rosendale New York.

Kate Hamilton

Kate Hamilton is a sculptor, costumer, and designer based in the mid-Hudson Valley. Her practice explores the architecture, experience and nature of garments in work ranging in scale from palm-sized to room-sized. Hamilton’s kinetic sculpture has been installed in museums, galleries and alternative spaces in the USA. Her costumes and sets have appeared in art performances, events, and festivals in New York, Berlin, Canada and Zürich. Kate has taught body-based sculpture classes at Parsons, and for many years taught costume to teenagers at St. Ann’s School, Brooklyn and the West Kortright Center in East Meredith, NY. www.katehamiltonstudio.com

Kelly Mcgrath

Kelly divides her time between two passions, teaching and pursuing her studio practice. While living in the Hudson Valley of New York she recently completed graduate studies at Hunter College in Art Education. She was the Director of Education at R&F Handmade Paints from 2014-2017 and has taught studio based classes through a variety of organizations including: Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, R&F Handmade Paints and in private studio settings.

Suky Kearney

Susanna Kearney began drawing as a child and never stopped. Today she is a full time artist with a studio in Kingston, NY where she goes everyday to draw and paint. She has years of experience teaching art to children, teens, and adults in New York City where she moved from recently with her husband and two young adult sons. Susanna is a professionally trained artist with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri and a Master’s in Creativity Development from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Maureen cummins

Maureen Cummins graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art, where she studied Calligraphy, bookmaking, and Graphic Design. After studying with printers and binders in California and New York, she set up a working printshop in Brooklyn NY. She has been making limited edition artist’s books for over twenty-five years.

Amanda carella

Amanda is a Kingston High School alumi & SUNY New Paltz graduate with a degree in Art Education. As an illustrator, one of her goals is to  write and illustrate children’s books. She currently works with adults with disabilities.