SCOSAG STAFF

Lori Allen, Program Director

Amy VanDonsel, Director of Marketing and Development

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

Emily Hemeyer

Emily Hemeyer is SCOSAG’s 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.

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 teaching artist and camp counselor at SCOSAG.  http://www.18andCounting.com; http://dropmoneybags.blogspot.com

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 eaching artist, class instructor, and camp counselor at SCOSaG. To learn more about Simiya and to check out her art, visit her blog: www.systematist.wordpress.com.

Michael Bolton

Michael is a long time supporter of SCOSaG as a Wall Ball artist, and is Summer Camp Director. He has 11 years of educational experience and is currently a 4th grade teacher at Washington Elementary School. As a prefessional teaching artist, his paintings have been widely exhibited throughout the St. Louis community and are held in numerous private collections throughout the region. In addition to his background as an artist, he has previously devised and implemented art curriculum for K-6th grade students and was Camp Director at the Ballwin Art Camp. Michael has a B.S. in Elementary Education with Minors in Art, Language Arts, and Social Studies.

Ashley Bolling

Ashley Bolling is a Summer Camp Counselor at SCOSaG. She graduated in 2006 with a B.F.A. in Ceramics from Missouri State University and was an artist in residence at Springfield Pottery, serving as the coordinator for the “Claymobile,” a community arts outreach program for youth K-12. Since moving to St. Louis, she has developed youth programs and taught clay classes at Al Salaam Day School, Shriner’s Hospital, and Turner Center for the Arts where she is currently the Youth Coordinator. She also substitute teaches at Whitfield School and supports adults with disabilities at Bridges Community Services. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts, Ceramics, with a Minor in Art History, and is currently completing her Master of Arts in Teaching with an emphasis on K-12 Visual Arts. She loves engaging students of all ages and abilities and being inspired by their creative energy.

Laura Coppinger

Laura is a Summer Camp Counselor at SCOSaG. She stays busy during the school year as a Theatre Arts Teacher at Margaret Buerkle Middle School and a teacher for Arts in Mind, an after school enrichment program at Woerner Elementary. She loves the outdoors and has been working at camps since she was 15, including positions as the Unit Leader and Outdoor Education Counselor at Kiwanis Camp Wyman and Activity Specialist at Camp Eagle Hill in Elizaville, N.Y. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and Music as well as a Teaching Certification in 9-12 Education, Theatre, and Speech Education.

Michael Pupillo

Michael is a Summer Camp Counselor at SCOSaG. He holds a B.A. of Fine Arts and an Arts Education Teaching Certificate. His experience includes teaching in both California and at Confluence Academy Old North, where he taught K-8th Art education. He has also been the Youth Art Show Facilitator for The Urban Studio Cafe. As a visual artist he is inspired by the likes of punk rock, sub-cultures, social activism and graphic design. His style is best described as a hybrid of drawing and painting. Michael is a second year Wall Ball artist.