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Alika Middleton

March 1, 2023 by Waterford Craft School


Art & Nature Exploration (Ages 6-10)

Alika Middleton is an artist and art educator who empowers her students to trust their own creative process. She has taught visual art for the last nine years in international and private schools ranging from early childhood to high school. She is the founder of Wild Wonder Creators, a program that brings creative arts and nature together in a playful and explorative way. As an educator, she values the importance of social-emotional learning by making sure all of her students feel safe, seen, and fully supported.

Filed Under: 2023, Camps, Health & Wellness, Instructor, Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: nature, painting, printmaking, surface design, virginia artist

Jill Evans-Kavaldjian

October 18, 2022 by Waterford Craft School


Block Printed Holiday Cards

Jill Evans-Kavaldjian has a background in painting and printmaking.

Her paintings, drawings, and mixed media work focus on the relationship between light, shadow, and form, and how these affect our sense of reality.

Her prints are bolder, with strong graphic elements and lighthearted humor. She has taught block print making workshops to students of all ages at the Waterford Craft School, and demonstrated and taught her craft in our booth at the 78th Waterford Fair.

Filed Under: 2022, Instructor, Mixed Media Tagged With: block printing, carving, paper art, printmaking, surface design, virginia artist

Vyvyan Rundgren

October 18, 2022 by Waterford Craft School


Barn Quilt Painting

Vyvyan Rundgren became interested in painted floor cloths (both on canvas and linoleum), which gave a new dimension to her life-long love of art. For eight years she was an instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School in NC and also taught workshops throughout central Virginia. The painted floor cloth concept expanded to include floor quilts (fabric) and floor pages (paper). Her book, Floor Cloths, Quilts & Pages was released in 2015.

Vyvyan serves as an officer on the Board of Directors for the Art Guild of Greene County. Through the Art Guild and with the support of the Greene County Economic Development & Tourism she founded the Blue Ridge Barn Quilt Project and it has grown to be the largest barn quilt trail in Virginia, now having over 150 artworks on display. She not only paints many of the barn quilts, she also conducts workshops to teach others how to create their own.

Filed Under: 2022, 2023, Instructor, Mixed Media, Painting, Woodworking Tagged With: barn quilt, Gardening, painting, surface design, virginia artist

Cory Ryan

October 18, 2022 by Waterford Craft School


Pine Needle Basketry

For Cory Ryan, art was always a hobby and her therapy from a stressful IT job. She started with folk art and had a goal to learn something new as the years went by. She learned to make baskets with longleaf pine needles from a friend’s mother, who had learned from her mother! She is pleased to carry on this heritage craft tradition. She teaches a variety of classes, ranging from quilling to pine needle basketry, and is serving her fourth term as President of the Art Guild of Greene in Greene County, VA. Now retired from the corporate world, Cory creates art to display and sell at a local craft shop in Ruckersville, VA.

Filed Under: 2022, 2023, Basketry, Fiber Arts, Homesteading, Instructor, Mixed Media, Weaving Tagged With: baskets, natural fiber, pine needle basketry, stitch, virginia artist

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