Artreach at Lillstreet : STAFF, BOARD, and VOLUNTEERS -

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bruce Robbins
Founder of Lillstreet Art Center

Annika Mitchell
Attorney

Anne Wagner
Branding and Identity Expert

Angela Spinazze
ATSPIN consulting

Jen FitzGerald
Artist and Attorney

Isabel Mikell
Sales Associate for Coldwell Banker

Kelley Long
CPA and financial coach

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING ARTISTS

	Meaghan Burritt Meaghan is an artist and art educator who is inspired by the places she lives and looks for ways to creatively intervene. Be it in the studio or classroom, Burritt’s work is often defined as interdisciplinary and site-specific as she looks to explore local place, memory, narrative, and everyday living through sculpture, installation, and arts education. Her creative process often involves researching local sites through object and waste collection, photo documentation, and audio recordings as a way to excavate and materialize narratives hidden within rural and urban landscapes. Burritt has developed and facilitated art projects at CPS public schools and is currently a teaching artist with Hyde Park Art Center Outreach, Pros Arts Studio, and Lill Street’s ArtReach Program. Burritt has a BA (2002) in Anthropology and a BFA (2008) from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a MAT (2010) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. www.meaghanburritt.com
	David Trost David received his MFA in Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his BFA in Ceramics from Penn State University, and also teaches at SAIC and Lillstreet. David says, "Working with children, I would see them pick up a lump of clay and begin to model it into whatever they wanted to see. Often, their creations looked little like what they were attempting to build except to their own eyes. I began to really admire the way they build with a fearlessly intuitive hand, no need for references, no need for accuracy, only the raw desire to see the product of their work and the sheer joy of making." www.davidtoddtrost.com
	Christina Doelling Christina is a sculptor and metal-smith living in Chicago Il. Her work is inspired by nature, her grandmother, and her hometown of St. Louis MO. She loves alpacas, gardening, baking pies, and most of all her cat Spats. She is currently an art student at Columbia College Chicago.
	Eleanor Katz Castellano Eleanor is an actor, voiceover artist, tap dancer and educator. Originally from New Jersey, Eleanor holds an MA in Acting from East15 Acting School in London, England and a BA in Theatre Arts from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. Fairly new to Chicago, she loves exploring the city with her husband of nearly 2 years, Justin.
	Cathi Bouzide Cathi is an agriculturally-inspired artist. Her art explores aging, agriculture, nature and science, the concepts of plenty and want, reuse, food systems, and being human through a variety of media including high-fired clay, artist books, events, growing, installation, found objects, fiber and cast metal. http://www.casbah3d.com/
	Yvonne Yvonne did her undergraduate studies in the sculpture department at Shanghai University. She carried on her studies abroad after her graduation from Shanghai University in China. Yvonne jumped at the chance to study at Academy of Art University for her Master’s degree, where she feels she finally received the education she had hoped for all along. After learning how to inform her work and create good, significant art, she knows the Academy has laid the foundation for her to forge ahead with her new skills and continue to broaden her work by exploring new materials and teaching to the public.
	Mayra Palafox Mayra is a Chicago based artist. She is an alumna from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied Fiber and Material Studies and Education. She was awarded one of the top tuition scholarships and was able to travel to different countries for study trips. She has been a part of the Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots program where she was given the opportunity to travel to Tanzania to do conservation projects. She has worked in numerous arts and education institutions like the Field Museum where she developed drawings for a conservation book and traveled to Peru to do conservation workshops with indigenous communities. She is now the main printmaking teacher at Little Black Pearl where she integrates ecology and arts. She is also working at CAPE for Jacqueline Vaughn High School were she is doing artists books as well as a community garden where the students can have different roles in their school. Her passion is to work with different Chicago demographics and works for Lill Street Arts Center for ArtReach where she does community outreach with different schools where art is being scaled down or eliminated and helps students express themselves creatively.
	Mara Cosillo-Starr Mara Cosillo-Starr is a bilingual (Spanish-English) informal educator. She has over twenty years of museum education background. Her work includes managing museum teacher resource centers, developed various environmental science and social science kits with curriculum projects, and developed training workshops for teachers and parents at a natural history museum. She earned an Early Childhood degree in Guatemala. In the early 1980’s she moved to Chicago where later earned a Bachelor’s degree in General Studies and Museum Education, and a M.A Ed. in educating adults. She has experience teaching Latin American Indigenous people folklore art and history.
	Marisa Hricorsky BIO coming soon
	Patrick Micelli Head of Painting Dept. at Lillstreet. Also teaches clay classes with ASM.

VOLUNTEERS

Michael Webster
Volunteer mentor

Joanna Foley
Volunteer