Eavan O'Neil is a mixed-media painter operating out of Saint Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE), receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting, a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, and a minor in art history. Eavan has experience teaching drawing, painting, digital media, and design courses through the Edwardsville Art Center, Saint Louis Artists Guild, and John Burroughs School. Her classes emphasize art as a playground and use experimentation and feedback as a way to develop technical understanding of the material and grow creative confidence.

Serving as the Art Teacher, Rosaria spent her graduate years studying Foreign Languages and has a degree in Visual Arts, specializing in Comic Design at the Roman School of Comics in Rome, Italy. She has lived and worked in Italy, North Carolina, and California. She loves being able to teach students including those with special needs as they explore their passion for art. As a life long artist, she works with all types of media but focuses her work in painting and drawing paying close attention to detail and believes in helping students develop their art skills and further their imaginative abilities. 

Kenzie Holzinger-Smith is predominately a figurative artist, although her taste varies to a number of mediums and styles. She lives in Illinois with her husband, Nathan. Kenz has a Bachelors of Art from Thomas Edison State University, a Bachelors in Fine Arts from SIUE, a Master in Art from Fontbonne University, and a Master in Fine Arts from Fontbonne University. Kenzie currently teaches at the Edwardsville Arts Center as an instructor, and teaches for SIUE’s Educational Outreach program as a painting and drawing instructor. Kenz will begin teaching at Lewis and Clark Community College this fall. Kenzie has always loved theater, and choreographs musicals, and has performed on the stage herself since she was a child. She uses the unique properties of creating choreography in her art, utilizing movement and the art of composition in both mediums.

Zoe is a New Jersey native and is currently a post-baccalaureate at SIUE, focusing in ceramics. She hopes to pursue a Master in Fine Arts in the near future and continue to teach and share her love of art and ceramics with others. 

Description Daniel Price is a potter in Edwardsville Illinois where he creates unique sculptural and utilitarian ceramics. Hailing from Cape Girardeau Missouri Daniel moved to Illinois in pursuit of his education in the fine arts. Attending Lewis and Clark Community College for his associates degree in fine arts, Daniel realized he wanted to make a career of his passions in art. This led to him transferring to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for his Bachelors in Fine Arts with an emphasis in ceramics. Daniels ceramic work lives between two realms one being the realm of traditional functional ceramics within the style of american folk pottery and the other being of sculptural exploration pulling inspiration from sci-fi horror art and movies. He has been working towards melding the two bodies of work into a functional ceramics with biomorphic sculptural details that gives a little twist to your everyday utilitarian dinnerware.goes here