Staff

Multimedia artist and linguophile Skye Enyeart is the Executive Director of Artreach at Lillstreet. Skye is a graduate of Columbia College of Chicago's M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts, started at Artreach as an artist educator, and has participated in the development of other art-based not-for-profits. She has attended numerous universities in Paris, France, including: IES, the Sorbonne, The School of the Louvre, and Speos Photography. Her B.A. from Purdue is in International Relations, and Skye speaks French, Italian, and Mandarin. She is a visual artist who started in photography and has increased her interests to a variety of media including installation, metalwork, and textiles.


Ceramicist Dani Rock is the Program Director and a teacher for Artreach at Lillstreet, and she also teaches for the Lillstreet Art Center. She has spent the past several years studying modern and ancient ceramics at both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and throughout Greece. Incorporating her passion for Greece into her art, her work focuses on individuality. Each piece is very different from the other. While she uses the same techniques and materials for each piece, she adds unique characteristics to every one of them that turns them into one of a kind works of art.


With a B.A. in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Depaul University, Jill Zenoff is the Financial Director of Artreach at Lillstreet. Jill's background in the arts is that of a lifetime student. Her interests extend to ceramics, painting, drawing, photography, and most recently quilting. She began studying Nonprofit Management in Feb '07 shifting from a career in the culinary arts. She learned about Artreach while taking classes at Lillstreet Art Center and decided she wanted to be involved.


Volunteers & interns


Sara Marie Collins, intern
Molly Costello, intern
Diana Kast, administrative
Christa Rolf, grants & research


Artist-teachers


Roz Adams received her BS from Auburn Alabama in Education K-8 and a special Ed. Masters in Guidance and Counseling from University of Alabama. She studied with Eric Jensen in Ceramics at the Evanston Art Center (Clay Technician). She has taught high school clay and mosaics for Gallery 37, adults at Lillstreet Art Center, Truman College, and University of Illinois. She has also taught Mosaic of Medieval Times at Saucedo School, Time Mural with 8th graders at Oscar Mayer, Outdoor Pyramid (tile mosaic) at Edgebrook El. Roz has studied International Programming, Children's Memorial, and La Rabida - Cancer, HIV, and sickle cell anemia.


Jeff Foster is a father of four and is married to Michelle who is a gifted writer. Jeff is currently studying at Moody Bible Institute to become a pastor/missionary. Interested in painting and drawing, Jeff's art background is at American Academy of Art and Robert Morris College for Commercial art and Computers.


Jenny Garver received her BA from Northwestern University in Linguistics. Her personal art experience ranges from metal sculpture, drawing and painting, to poetry writing. Jenny's current art interests include photography and sculpture. She enjoys working with children and has a variety of experience with them.


Sara Hernandez is a transplant to Chicago of 5 years. In Dallas, she was active with the Bathhouse Cultural Center, curating for the annual El Corazon show, as well as showing her work in El Loteria in the same gallery. She currently is working at PaperBoy where she has a card line. She also creates custom cards and wedding invitations. Sara has spent the last seven weeks teaching herself woodblock printing (for invitations, presently) and is in the process of creating wearable wall covering. Sara has a BFA in painting and printmaking with a secondary focus in fibers from the school of the Art Institute.


Jamie Medeiros is a painter who works in oil on canvas, and various mediums on paper. She received her MFA from American University in Italy (2004). Her work explores color, and volume of the subject in a search for its essence. She thinks about the spirit of the eye with a constant investigation of light. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Ten Cat Gallery in Chicago, IL (2006), as well as a group exhibition at Leadway in Chicago, IL (2005). Her work has been exhibited internationally at Galleria D'Arte Piramide(2004), Galleria Sala D'Archi(2003), Galleria Il Labirinto(2003), and Galleria Sala D'Archi(2002) in Italy.


After graduating in 2001 Alexis Lee Ortiz traveled extensively throughout Southern Mexico and Central America working with Save the Children and several independent NGO's focused on the educational integrity of rural schools and community responsibility. He is a Native Chicago Artist dedicated to serving his younger creative counter-parts, exploring the collaborative imagination process; through practice and play and looking forward to sharing what he has learned from his travels and within. "Ive spent a long time detached from what many would claim as their culture and have realized that I am nothing I may profess to be if I'm not a teacher first and foremost. A lot, if not all of my Art (even before I knew it to be such) is a testament to my having been, found and reunited with the graces of our collectively vast heritage in all its beauty, darkness, colorful and loud expressions. Que sigue y sigue!"


Kathryn Province graduated from UIC in 2005 with a BFA in Art Education. There she co-developed "Punk Drawing" curriculum which was awarded the UIC faculty prize and was presented at the 2005 Illinois Art Education Association conference. Her studio concentrations are in sculpture and painting. Kathryn enjoys working with whatever is around (i.e. cardboard, duct tape, garbage, etc.) and encourages her students to do the same. She has taught art classes through Walter Payton High School, the school city of Hammond, Calumet Memorial Park District, South Shore Arts, South Chicago Art Center, and now for Artreach.


Meghan Roach received a BFA form the University of Michigan in 2005. There she studied ceramics and metal smith. She has worked with child art programs at Kingsbury Summer Camp and Pewabic Pottery in the Detroit area. Since relocating to Chicago, she now works as a bench jeweler. On the side, she sells her wares online and at craft fairs.


Adam Rust received his Bachelor of Science in Art from the University of Wisconsin in 2001, and his Master of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago in 2005.He focused on painting and drawing as an undergrad, but since earning a graduate degree, has expanded to sculptural installation and object making. Topics dealt with include aging, gender, technology, sex, art, history, the future, consumerism, society and politics. Some of Adam's signature work includes unconventional materials such as animals and food as a medium. While studying at the University of Wisconsin, Adam began his now widely published off-beat, pop-culture/political satire comic strip "Adam's Rust" in a local independent newspaper. He now contributes comic work to Mad Magazine, The Funny Times, Z Magazine, and is included in various books, including: Attitude 3-The New Subversive On-line Cartoonist, and Small Town, Big City, A Young American Comics Anthology.


Cathy Schilling studied Graphic Design and received her BFA from the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. She has studied printmaking and collage at Art Institute of Chicago as well as various other studio courses at Lillstreet. Currently Cathy is a freelance Art Director at several advertising agencies in Chicago.


David Todd Trost 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. Commenting on working with children, 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."


Angela Yonke has a BFA in Photography and a BA in Art Education from Western Michigan University. Her background is in Discipline Based Art Education which incorporated art history, art criticism, art aesthetics, and art production into every lesson. She has exhibited her art and photography throughout Michigan, Chicago, and Prague. Angela currently teaches art to students ages 2-7 at the Old Town School of Folk Music. She also works for Edward Fox Photography and Sarah Yanka Photography.


Melanie Brown
Cathi Bouzide
Josh Cotter
Lariza Fenner
Patrick Micelli
Susan Tecktiel


Board of Directors

Bruce Robbins, founder & board president
Pamela Miller, treasurer
Barbara Coughlin
Thomas Lucas
Suzanne Oboler

Advisory Board

Roz Adams, Artreach's teacher liaison