2019 Faculty

Atlanta, Georgia

Dave Holland is a dynamic performer, teaching artist and interactive rhythm facilitator. As founder of Beatin’ Path Rhythm Events & Interactive Rhythm, Dave promotes community, teamwork, and diversity through rhythm-based events. Dave facilitates drum circles at schools, community festivals, health fairs, and corporate events. He’s traveled to Cuba, West Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East to pursue his continuing education of world cultures and drumming traditions. Dave has been a presenter at the International Orff –Schulwerk Conference, the Percussive Arts Society’s International Conference, the National Drum Circle Facilitator’s Conference, and numerous statewide music educators’ conferences across the country. As an active roster artist with Georgia Council for the Arts, Arts Now, and The Fulton County Teaching Museum, Dave is creator and presenter of many highly acclaimed assembly style school performances, workshops, and drum circles. Dave is the author of Drumagination, Interactive Rhythm, and Body Jammin', widely regarded rhythmic guidebooks for music educators, music therapists, and drum circle facilitators. He’s also the creator of “Circle Play Cards” and the “Interactive Rhythm Line” of instruments.

Perkins, Oklahoma

A student of history, Mike Larsen researches the past events of the subjects he paints and sculpts. As an ongoing student of art, he is influenced by the beauty of the world around him. The more he creates, the more he concludes that learning is a lifelong pursuit—especially in art. Larsen has been a professional artist for nearly 50 years. In the past 27 years, he has been commissioned to work on six mural projects, including “Flight of Spirit” at the Oklahoma State Capitol, with a total of 26 separate canvases, and five monumental-sized bronzes. In addition, he has been commissioned to create individual paintings and groups of paintings for companies and governments. He is known for his very large paintings, and also for one very tiny one: the U.S. postage stamp commemorating the Oklahoma Centennial in 2007.

Thomaston, Maine

Elizabeth Greenberg is an artist and educator living on the coast of Maine. She is an explorer of places and memories of that which has never been seen. Elizabeth’s passion for photography is her guide for living a life and career immersed in a daily conversation about looking at and making pictures. She is the VP of Academic Affairs at Maine Media Workshops + College and teaches in all programs at Maine Media, including a workshop in Hawaii. With her camera, Elizabeth explores as an archeologist of memories and myths. She looks for evidence of secrets, to tell stories of magic, mystery, love, loss, and memories of things never seen. Elizabeth’s photographs suggest fictitious memories of moments and places as imagined, as if she is the first to discover them.

Corvallis, Oregon

Yuji Hiratsuka was born in Osaka, Japan. He has a B.S. in Art Education from Tokyo Gakugei University, and degrees in printmaking from New Mexico State University (MA) and Indiana University (MFA). He currently is a professor of printmaking at Oregon State University. Some of the public collections that include Hiratsuka’s art are The British Museum, Tokyo Central Museum, Panstwowe Museum in Poland, The House of Humor and Satire in Bulgaria, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, and The Smithsonian Institution's museum of Asian art.

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Dave Lucas was born and raised in Cleveland. He studied literature and poetry at John Carroll University (BA, 2002), the University of Virginia (MFA, 2004), and the University of Michigan (PhD, 2014). His first book of poems, Weather (VQR / Georgia, 2011), received the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Named by Rita Dove as one of thirteen “young poets to watch,” he has also received a “Discovery/The Nation Prize and a Cleveland Arts Prize. In 2018, he was appointed the second Poet Laureate of the State of Ohio. A co-founder of Cleveland Book Week and Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery, he lives in Cleveland, where he teaches at Case Western Reserve University.

Freeport, Maine

Suzi Pond is an awarding-winning digital journalist, producer and storyteller. She cut her journalism chops at Boston magazine as Online Editor and later at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram as a multimedia producer specializing in audio and video production. In 2011, Suzi became Chief Storyteller at United Way of Greater Portland where she created audio and video stories to further community engagement. In 2015, Suzi founded two audio and video storytelling companies–Redbird Media Group and revel+spark. A graduate of the radio documentary program at the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, her audio work has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” In 2011, she won two First-Place NEAPNEA awards. In 2008, her collaborative documentary film “Let’s Make a Deal” won First Place in the Portland Phoenix Short Film Festival. Her teaching experience includes audio editing at WMPG in Portland, Maine, as well as basic audio and multimedia production techniques to photography and writing students at the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies. She is based in Freeport, Maine.