Classes at Marin Arts Council
All classes held at:
555 Northgate Dr.
San Rafael, CA 94903
There are no classes scheduled at this time.
Mary Edwards is a teacher, coach, and arts administrator with 20 years of business experience. She works with emerging and mid-career artists who want to reach the next level in their professional development. Mary also coaches leaders of arts and cultural organizations. She was on the founding Board of Art Works Downtown in San Rafael, and served as its Executive Director for five years. Mary has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and is certified as an Executive Coach. For more information, see www.coachingforartists.com.
Nina Wise is known for her provocative and original performance works. Her pieces have garnered seven Bay Area Critics' Circle Awards, and she has received, among other prestigious honors, three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her written pieces have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Nina lives in San Rafael, California.
Donna Seager was born in New Orleans and received her education in Art History at the University of Texas in Austin. This is her 31st year in the art business, having started in New Orleans in 1978. She went on to direct Marlborough Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston and moved to the Bay Area in 1989. She worked with Robert Green of Robert Green Fine Arts for ten years. Throughout her career, she has written articles about artists and exhibitions for various publications and juried many shows in Northern California. Donna is married to journalist Paul Liberatore and lives in Mill Valley. In November of 2005, she opened her own gallery in San Rafael, winning Best of Marin in 2008 and 2009 and becoming a member of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association. She has distinguished herself in part for her belief in artist books as well as her keen eye and energetic support for the art and artists of the Bay Area. She believes strongly in the role of art in refining the sensibilities of the community and that involvement in the arts greatly enhances the quality of life for all. www.donnaseagergallery.com
Stephen C. Wagner is an artist, art educator, and motivational speaker on Professional Development For Artists. He brings years of valuable and comprehensive experience to audiences of all ages with clear and concise recommendations, informative examples from real life, and a high level of energy and enthusiasm that is both inspiring and contagious. Stephen encourages artists to commit to their artwork and take the steps necessary to become more successful. His lectures offer artists insight to jump-start their artist career, obtain clear focus on their intention for their artwork, create a strategic plan for their artist career, compile an impressive artist packet, and master the business of art.
Stephen has been a guest speaker for art organizations and colleges throughout southern California, and has taught workshops and classes at Rock Paper Scissors Collective in Oakland, City Art Cooperative Gallery in San Francisco, Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, Society of Local Artists in Silicon Valley, and Los Gatos Art Association in Los Gatos.
Dana Teen Lomax is the author of Disclosure (Dusie, 2009), Curren¢y (Palm Press, 2006), 
Room (a+bend press, 1999), and the co-editor of Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books, 2008). Her work has received the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson prize for poetry among other awards and has most recently appeared in UbuWeb, Jacket, Poets & Writers, and The Bay Poetics Anthology. She served as the Director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco and currently teaches writing
at San Francisco State University. Her latest projects include finishing a poetry manuscript in progress entitled Shhh! Lullabies for a Tired Nation and editing Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, & Stories for Children.
Dan Dion is a location photographer based in San Francisco. He is the house
photographer for The Fillmore Auditorium, The Warfield Theater, Cobb's Comedy Club, and The Punch Line. Recognized as the world's premier photographer of comedians, with permanent exhibitions in New York, LA, Sydney, and SF, his first book will be published by HarperCollins in the Spring. He is known for his quick and painless (non-candid) backstage portraiture of musicians and celebrities, as well as a casual manner that puts his subjects at ease. He has taught graduate-level courses in location lighting and color theory at the Academy of Art in SF.