SCOSAG STAFF

Lori Allen, Program Director

I N S T R U C T O R S :

Emily Hemeyer

Emily Hemeyer is SCOSAG’s summer camp director and Artist-in-Residence at St Frances Cabrini Academy. Her nearly 10-years of experience is multi-leveled and generational working with diverse populations throughout the country. Previous summer camp experience includes Camp Kinder land (MA), Camp Wicosuta (NH), French Woods Festival for the Performing Arts (NY) and Columbia Art League (MO). Locally she’s worked with Chesterfield Arts, Metro Theater Company, and Viva Vox as a teaching artist. In Columbia Missouri, Hemeyer ran a ceramics for Parks and Recreation as well as taught darkroom photography through the MSA Craft Studio at the University of Missouri. Early in her career she worked at a Montessori daycare and taught art at a Morningside Elementary, a multiple intelligence focused school, in Columbia. Both philosophies are integral to her teaching style.

Hemeyer holds a BFA degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in photography and fibers. She also attended the Aegean School for Fine Arts in Paros, Greece. Hemeyer is also a 2009 CAT (Community Arts Training) graduate through the Regional Arts Commission.

Hemeyer’s creative work ranges from clothing design and reconstruction, Ragamuffin Designs/Wounded Bird, to sculptural and sound installations as Ghosts I Have Been. She’s worked on feature films, has gone on several national tours and often contributes painting to local fundraisers. Her primary interest is community art and collaborations. Hemeyer recently started a mobile gallery- SPORE projects which she took to the West Coast this past Fall. Locally she works often with Cranky Yellow and is a founding member of Arcadia Studios, Open Lot and the Chautauqua Art Lab lecture series. Hemeyer sees art and life as closely intertwined. She enjoys the fluidity of the process and all of the incredible people she has met throughout her journeys.   www.emilyhemeyer.com

Sarah Paulsen

Sarah Paulsen is an artist and animator and SCOSAG’s Artist in Residence at Marian Middle School.  Her painting, collages, and animations, have been shown at Laumeier Sculpture Park, Morehead State, UMSL’s Gallery 210, Kemper Museum of Art, Open Lot, St. Charles Community College, and the Ragtag Cinema Café.  Paulsen’s animated documentary Que Sera, Sera?, the story of undocumented Mexican youth struggling with immigration issues was  screened at the White Flag Projects, St. Louis International Film Festival, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, and The Foundry.  Her first animated documentary Hablas Espanglish? was made in a workshop through the True/False Film Festival.  While in Columbia, Missouri, Paulsen worked as Gallery coordinator for three years with the CARE Gallery a job-training program for teens.  Community projects she facilitated included, a 1 Mile Print Made Walking Path, a Relief Mural for the Columbia Daily Tribune, and First Night Processional Pieces.  In 2002, Paulsen spent one year working with Mexican youth and Southside Catholic Community Services to create a 113ft mural at Casa Loma Ballroom.  After receiving her MFA from Washington University, she traveled to South America and collaborated on a mural at Aldea Yanapay youth center in Cuzco, Peru.  Recent projects include coordinating the People’s Joy Art Parade and the Cherokee Street Chautauqua Art Lab.  She has taught art and animation through Forest Park Community College, SLAM, Washington University, SCOSAG, Lewis and Clark Summer Institute, and Columbia Public Schools.  She currently teaches at Jefferson College and Marian Middle.  She completed a visiting artist residency at University of Kentucky in January 2010.

Shana Norton

Shana Norton is a local artist who graduated from Webster University with a BA in studio art.  Her emphasis is in alternative photography, focusing on processes such as cyanotypes and Van Dyke browns.  She has used her work to translate the distortion of personal and societal fears into works that are universally tangible.  Ms. Norton's senior exhibit took Best of Show and was a study in alternative photography and textiles.  She hopes to continue to transmute the dark underbelly of society into accessible experiences that transcend fear.  Shana leads our Open Studio Program for youth ages 5-11.

Tim Snyder

Tim Snyder, a native St. Louis artist, has taught cartooning for the Eureka Arts Council, Missouri History Museum, and Valley Park Schools. He has studied art at St. Louis Community College and Savannah College of Art and Design. He enjoys comics, cartoons, film, contemporary art, music making, and swing dancing.  Tim teaches cartooning, anime, and drawing classes at SCOSAG.

Stan Chisholm

Stan Chisholm (a.k.a. 18andCounting) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist from St. Louis, Missouri who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His collages, drawings, and mixed media installations reveal a growing cast of over 700 characters or mascots that serve as a visual lexicon for the moods, personal attributes or feelings explored in his work. Chisholm’s work has been exhibited at Laumeier Sculpture Park, City Museum (St. Louis), the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, and most recently at Art on Track, a one day exhibition on Chicago’s Loop elevated train, organized by SOLVO.  Stan is a summer camp councilor at SCOSAG.  http://www.18andCounting.com; http://dropmoneybags.blogspot.com

Carrie Gillen

Carrie Gillen is a St. Louis artist and teacher.  She instructs grades K-5 at Glenridge Children’s Center in Clayton, Missouri. Her responsibilities include cross-curricular lesson planning, and incorporating art in other sciences. Gillen’s previous work experience is varied and diverse.  She has taught digital imaging at the Donnelley Center for Non-Profit Communications, and digital photography for the National Geographic camp of New Orleans. She has worked as assistant art coordinator for the Louisiana Children’s Museum, and organized children’s workshops for the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans.

Gillen graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a BA in Painting and a minor in photojournalism.  Her personal work consists primarily of large-scale abstract painting.  Her most recent portfolio incorporates sculpture and three-dimensional wall-hangings.

Gillen is involved with the local art community and has just completed a public art project on South Grand Ave.  She lives and works in the Tower Grove Neighborhood of St. Louis and hopes to continue participating in public art works as well as community improvement. Carrie is a summer camp councilor at SCOSAG.

Simiya Sudduth

Simiya is an artist, teacher, clothing and jewelry designer from Inglewood, CA.  She received a B.F.A in Sculpture from Webster University in May 2009.  Simiya has worked with children of all ages and backgrounds through work as a teaching artist in a variety of St. Louis institutions and has exhibited her art work on the local and national level. In addition to art-making and teaching her other interests include the D.I.Y movement and urban farming.  Simiya is a SCOSAG summer camp councilor. To learn more about Simiya and to check out her art, visit her blog: www.systematist.wordpress.com.

Celia Shacklett

Celia is a local singer/songwriter who teaches private lessons throughout the year as well as performing locally and nationally.  She attracts a wide demographic as her following on the St. Louis music scene. Whether performing alone or with her back up band (Celia's Big Rock Band), she welcomes all with a laugh and a smile. Where Celia sings, people gather. Her singing range is broad and her ability with the guitar exceptional: She can belt songs out on a Broadway stage; she can lead the sing-a-long at SCOSAG summer camp. Celia performs solo or with a band.

Because of her first rate charisma, Celia is often called on to be both an emcee and a featured performer for charity events and music festivals. Plus, during the holiday seasons, you can find "Celia's Yuletide Express" performing Christmas classics in local restaurants and nightclubs to the delight and joy of the patrons.  Celia is a SCOSAG summer camp councilor. • www.celiasrock.com

Mark Pagano

Summer camp councilor Mark Pagano is a locally and nationally performing musician with his band Fire Dog. His music is well regarded in the local music scene, generating positive reviews from sources as varied as St. Louis Magazine to Vintage Vinyl.  The band spins sound that shakes and stirs, POPs, and explodes! Serving up a playful attack of soul and surf, fresh and electric, the FIRE DOG sound is full of energy and optimism for the 21st Century. Over the past three years, FIRE DOG has built a dedicated cult-like following. In 2010, FIRE DOG will be touring in support of the new release, “Your HEART is a Muscle” finding ears near and far. The album was produced by Jason McEntire (RFT producer of the year).

It began in the year of the FIRE DOG (2006) according the Eastern Zodiac, when singer and songwriter Mark Pagano joined up with longtime musical comrades Brandon Manitoba and Celia.  The group put out it’s debut record in the summer of that year featuring 12 original songs. The band has toured regionally and nationally with the Love O Rama Tour, a collective that combines live-video mixing, original rocknroll, fire spinning, and independent film for a vibrant night of entertainment! Playing throughout the Western United States, FIRE DOG found fans at venues such as the historic Cafe Club Fais-do-do (Hollywood, CA), Nectar Lounge (Seattle, WA), and Lestat's (San Diego, CA).  Regionally FIRE DOG has found fans at some of the midwest's premier venues: The Off Broadway and Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (St. Louis), The Beat Kitchen (Chicago), The Blue Note (Columbia, MO), The Replay Lounge (Lawrence, KS)!