Aurora Media Art Instructors

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Aurora Picture Show Media Arts Instructors

	Kelly Sears Kelly Sears is an animator and filmmaker living in Galveston, TX. She is a current resident at the Galveston Artist Residency Her work has been shown at MOMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Anthology Film Archives, Sundance Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and venues internationally. Her collage films are created from discarded periodicals, books, archives, and orphan films and combines experimental and documentary filmmaking with stop motion and digital animation. She is often found in second hand book stores looking for images for films.
	Lindsey Sarah Thompson Lindsey is a bit non-commital when it comes to medium, but has at least narrowed it down to some degree. She enjoys film, indulging in one frame or many successively. Digital isn't all that bad, so working with imagery via pixel, be it photographic or design work, is a mild addiction of hers. Movement is life, so she dances. People are the most generous way of expanding one's understanding, therefore she is taught as she teaches. After graduating from the University of Houston with a BFA in Photography and Digital Media, Lindsey enjoyed teaching high school students in suburbia photography and electronic multimedia for a few years. Since then, teaching through some of Houston's finest arts organizations, Aurora Picture Show and Houston Center for Photography, has afforded her the flexibility and time to continue her movement as well. She has been dancing with Suchu Dance since 2004 and enjoys working with a variety of other choreographers when she gets the opportunity, as well as creating her own work. She recently began LSarah Creative (link to http://lsarahcreative.com/) and has become integral to promoting some of the artwork being produced in Houston through her design and photography.
	Jenny Lim Jenny was born in Seoul, South Korea, raised in northern New Jersey, and moved to Houston to attend Rice University, where she majored in philosophy and visual arts. She is a filmmaker, writer, and educator who hopes to collaborate in learning experiences that inspire mutual positivity, empowered self-expression, and conscientiousness. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, (trying to) writing fiction, reading, listening to music, and watching movies. Some artists/writers she is currently inspired by include Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgenev, and Nicholas Roeg.
	Che Rickman Che Rickman received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Houston in 2005; and is an accomplished and recognized professional artist working in Houston, Texas. For the past 8 years Che has taught Sculpture & 3D Art, Documentary & Mocumentary Film-Making, Light Painting Photography and CASE Ambassadors, through CASE, Cooperative for After School Enrichment & Harris County Department of Education. Che is also co-founder/creator of Thin Line Film Fest in Denton, Texas; and is currently working on her second Documentary. She is also excited to have recently joined the team of Stop-Motion and Film Instructors with Aurora Picture Show.
	Kelly Quarles Kelly Quarles is an artist/educator from Houston, TX. She holds a BFA from the University of Houston with an emphasis in photo/digital media. She is currently a teacher at Cy-Ranch High School where she is building an Electronic Media program as well as teaching Photo1 and Art1. She is the sponsor for their GSA and started the Art Appreciation club to bring kids from the suburbs into the heart of Houston to show them all of the various artistic opportunities available to them in their very own city. Kelly enjoys motivating students to become excited about what art can do for them but really enjoys that most of her day is spent making art with kids. Right now, if you asked to see any of her own work, she could curate an interesting array of high school art examples she has created over the past few years.
	Christine Gwosdz Adventure is Christine’s favorite thing in the whole universe. Having that mentality she has found herself in several parts of the world where she assisted in teaching art, building houses and deep exploration. Since she has only shared only twenty-two years with us on this little green planet, she is finishing up her last year of schooling at the University of Houston where Sculpture is her focus. Once she graduates, Christine hopes to build movie sets around the world and gradually get her masters in film. She is also a strong supporter of visual learning, the arts and a mentally free society. Christine is also interested in molecular science and quantum physics, which is apparent in some of her art. The rest of her work is an experimentation of bringing fiction to life. So far she has achieved more than she thought she ever could, which is taking her imagination to new heights.
	Emily Triantaphyllis Emily Triantaphyllis previously worked in the social work field and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi. She has worked with the producers and directors at Arts Engine, DCTV and HBO Family. She produced the documentary, What’s Organic About Organic? and is currently co-producer for a documentary in post-production about the loss of crop diversity in agriculture. Emily continues to work as a consulting producer on other documentary projects.
	Felisa Prieto Felisa studied fine arts with emphasis on photography at Broward College in South Florida under photographer Teresa Diehl. In 2007, Prieto transferred to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a scholarship and two grants to finish her career as an Installation and Environmental Artist. She worked at the Art Institute of Weston in South Florida as the Head of the Photography and Mix-Media departments, and as a Ceramic Instructor. Felisa volunteered for the Houston Center for Photography assisting the visiting artists with the technical implementation of an itinerant exhibition; and for the Bronx Museum assisted the resident artist create a mural with the help of the children in the community, teaching them how to draw and paint.