SUMMER STAFF

Isabella Carrozza holds a bachelor’s degree in art education and certificate in community arts from Tyler School Of Art in Philadelphia, PA. During the school year, she teaches middle school art in the Albuquerque Public School system. She has worked with children and teens teaching art and literacy in day camps, after school programs, libraries, and community venues. Isabella’s personal art interests include art history, fiber arts, narrative art, and found object sculpture. 

Katherine received her BFA in Native American Studies, double minoring in Women’s Studies and Cultural Psychology. Receiving an MFA from California Institute of Arts, she studied Curatorial Studies in Paris, France. Katherine’s taught Studio Art workshops at the Detroit Institute of Art and currently teaches Youth Fiber Arts with Española Valley Fiber Arts Center. Alongside art-making, Katherine’s farmed across the U.S and created youth urban garden in Minneapolis, New York and LA. In 2018, she created, alongside youth at Moving Arts Española, a public art weaving installation and heirloom garden. Katherine’s mixed media has exhibited nationally with upcoming 2020 exhibitions.

Jessica Krichels is an experienced teacher and artist originally from Maine. She has worked in a wide range of teaching settings – from Mexico, to Alaska and more – in elementary schools to all age summer programs, to high schools. She is primarily a printmaker, and greatly enjoys spreading the joys of printmaking and unexpected techniques techniques whenever possible. She also loves teaching drawing, painting, photography and combinations of all the above with great enthusiasm. Jessica is co-owner of Remarque Printshop in Albuquerque NM.

Hollis Moore currently lives in Albuquerque, NM and is an artist and educator working in field research, printmaking, and installation. Moore earned her MFA from the University of New Mexico in Printmaking and Art & Ecology. Moore’s place-based approach to art led her to investigate environmental issues with an International Research Grant in Siddharthangar, Nepal and an MFA Thesis Grant revitalization projects in the Colorado River Delta in Baja and Sonora, Mexico. Moore participated in artist residencies with Women’s Studio Workshop, Land Arts of the American West, LEAP at the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, and Signal Fire Arts.

Kate Overton graduated from UNM with a BFA in studio art. She has been a part of various local exhibitions and has eagerly volunteered her passions for art in various settings, such as teaching drawing classes to elementary students in Watts, LA. For Kate, being an artist and a teacher are equally important and symbiotic–both are spaces of altruistic problem-solving and inform one another. Her imagination wanders through process from everything to collaborative video pieces with caterpillars to annotating books with spinach anthotypes. Her heart is to encourage people to see and steward the art we are called to make.

Victoria was born and raised in New Mexico. She has been an artist for over 20 years, starting as a young child and continuing throughout her collegiate career. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a BFA in Studio Art, and she is currently finishing her MA in Art Education at UNM. Victoria believes that all students, regardless of race or background, should have their lives enriched by art. Art has the ability to transform us for the positive. Her goal is for her students to have a visual relationship with the world around them, and to be able to navigate through it.