Continuing & Professional Education

Meet the Instructors!

Elizabeth Adams Marks
...has 25 years experience as an educational illustrator for publishers across the country. For the past five years she has been the K-12 art teacher for Lahr-Well Academy in Glen Carbon. She is completing her degrees in Fine Arts and Art Education.

Gloria Darr
...earned a masters degree in elementary education and has been an education consultant for 25 years. Gloria loves telling stories and has an extensive collection of children’s books. She writes songs for preschoolers and has directed many children’s musicals and plays.

Brad Keim
...earned his BFA from SIUC in drawing/painting. While attending SIUC, he had a comic strip for the Daily Egyptian university newspaper and the Pulse Entertainment Weekly Magazine. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for SIUE's The Alestle, and caricaturist for SIUC's Student Programs and Center Events.

Lisa Lucker
...has been a teaching assistant with Region III special Education Co-op for 7 years. She organizes a lot of student activities for students in many classes, and teaches cooking to special needs students.

Abra-Kid-Abra
...helps kids develop their persentation skills and their confidence by teaching after-school enrichment classes and summer camps. Curriculum areas include magic, juggling, animal balloons, circus skills, and comedy. Abra-Kid-Abra founder, Jeff Lefton, has performed and taught magic professional in the great St. Louis area since 1969.

Sara Miller
...is a Certified Kinderdance Early Childhood Movement Specialist. She teaches dance, gymnastics and creative movement to young children, and has taught ballet for 11 years at a local studio.

Susan Millard
...has been the Love and Learn Coordinator for the Carlinville School District's Birth to Three program for nine years. She enjoys cooking with her kids and likes to travel.

Chrystal Gallaci
...is an accomplished musician, vocalist and instructor of Spanish language and culture. She has lived, taught and travelled in several Spanish-speaking countries and has worked with children of all ages.

Yvette Booker
...is an award-winning local artist and weaver whose artistry has been featured at the St. Louis African Arts Festival, Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, and in the annual ArtEast studio tour.

Mary Willis
...is a talented artist and cartoonist who will graduate this Spring from Lewis and Clark Community College. This Fall she will continue her education and develop her love of teaching at SIUE where she will pursue a B.A. in Art Education.

Amy Harmon
...earned an Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from SIUE and currently teaches Design I and Art History at Lewis and Clark Community College and Drawing I at Jefferson College.

Jason Lux
...is a dedicated student of art who is finishing his Associates in Fine Arts degree at Lewis and Clark Community College. He has specialized in outdoor drawing for more than 15 years.

Snail Scott
...Snail Scott has been a sculptor for 15 years, exhibiting from New York to California. Snail earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico and her Master of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. Snail works primarily in clay, bronze and mixed media. She has taught at Lewis and Clark Community College, the Nevada Museum of Art, Washington University, and the Cambridge Montessori School.

Monday-Friday, July 16-20, 1:00PM – 3:00PM N.O. Nelson Campus, Edwardsville CECK 469-W1 Amy Harmon, instructor

Monday-Friday, July 16-20, 1:00PM – 3:00PM
N.O. Nelson Campus, Edwardsville
CECK 469-W1
Amy Harmon, instructor