Visual Arts Faculty
Sarah Camino
Preschool Arts
Sarah is a graduate of Elementary Education with a concentration in Special Education from Nevada State University. She recently moved to Cleveland from Las Vegas and is loving the change of scenery! Sarah has experience as a tutor and student teacher. She made the switch from general education to art instruction as she is passionate about the positive influence that the arts have on child development. Sarah has over 10 years of acrylic painting experience and loves to dabble in many other mediums. She believes that art should be an outlet for therapeutic self expression!
Jamie Davis
Preschool Arts
With a love of visual arts, Jamie explored many mediums and then found her true passion playing in mud: Creating her own independent studies in ceramics and Raku in college, she fell in love with clay. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Art Education, Jamie boarded the train called life. She married, had two beautiful energetic girls, and started a new path.
Jamie’s days filled with arts and crafts, flash cards, preschool library times, farm park adventures and even time watching Sesame Street. During this at home-time with her girls, she collected a few little ones along the way as she opened up and shared her home for other kids needing childcare in her community. Jamie found Fairmount Center for the Arts, where she can be immersed in the arts community and education while growing and supporting a local non-profit organization. When not at Fairmount Jamie can be found managing their small farm, running her girls to a 4-H meeting, sports practice, music lessons or even taking a class or two at Fairmount.
Elizabeth Elia
Creative Arts
Elizabeth Elia has always surrounded herself with the arts and artists. Elizabeth lives in Solon, Ohio with her husband, children, and cat. She received her Bachelor of Art Education from The Ohio State University and her Master’s of Art Education from Cleveland State University. Recently retired from teaching Art for 34 years in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Elizabeth is looking forward to furthering her artistic endeavors and teaching at the Fairmount Center for the Arts. Drawing and painting are at the core of all art exploration, and Elizabeth is comfortable with many 2-D and 3-D mediums including printmaking, ceramics, collage, and sculpture. When she is not making art, you can find her outside enjoying the Cleveland Metroparks on her bike or taking hikes.
Brigitte Fiorille
Ceramics
Brigitte loved teaching her four sons (now awesome adults) about her love of the arts. Growing from those arts lessons, Brigitte was inspired to pursue a degree in Art Education (Kent State University). Brigitte has grown with Fairmount, as an instructor and administrator and wears many hats each day to support the mission of Fairmount.
When she’s not in the ceramics studio creating awesome art, you’ll find her with the admin team making the arts happen at Fairmount and in the community. When she’s not at Fairmount, you’ll find Brigitte playing with her granddaughter, making the world a more beautiful place with her green thumb, or cooking for her awesome family.
For any inquiries pertaining to our art program or our exhibitions, please contact Brigitte at art@fairmountcenter.org.
Susan Gray Bé
Acrylic Painting
“Expressing patterns of light and dark , blending, and contrasting edges in oil paint and various drawing have been an emergent focus as I teach,” Susan says. Her passion lies in teaching adults in the visual arts field. Susan holds a Masters of Art in Oil Painting from SUNY Albany, NY, a Bachelors in Arts from Hamilton College, a Major in Art and a Minor in Psychology Certificates of Completion & Merit, and has studied at the National Academy of Design’s summer courses at RISD and the University of Vermont. Susan is excited to be sharing her knowledge with us at Fairmount!
Michaelle Marschall
Print Making
Michaelle Marschall has taught art to all ages in the Cleveland area since 2002, after earning her BFA in visual art and BA in English at Lake Erie College. She has worked as a museum educator at The Cleveland Museum of Art for over 19 years. Michaelle has also shared her knowledge of printmaking as an adjunct at Notre Dame College. Since 2016, Michaelle has led Eastern and Western paper production and is the coordinator of Community Arts Education at The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory. Her practice includes reduction woodblock, intaglio, wood lithography, encaustic painting and hand papermaking. The natural world is explored through many layers of ink, pulp, and wax, fusing memory of experience with the imagined. Her works of art have been included in local group shows, as well as regional juried exhibits. Her art has been featured at the Akron Art Museum, Yards Projects, Gallery at 200 Public Square, Transformer Station, Tri-C East, and Fawick Art Gallery at Baldwin Wallace University.
Kaitlyn McKanna
Drawing
Kaitlyn McKanna is a multimedia artist emphasizing drawing from Painesville, Ohio. Her work embraces the beauty of the grotesque and uses it as a vehicle of exploring what it means to live and be human. She often depicts elements of the body, organs, muscle, tissue, with fruit or nature using a variety of different drawing media. She earned her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in the Cleveland Institute of Art Alumni Gallery in Cleveland (OH) and Praxis Fiber Workshop in Cleveland (OH).
Clare Murray Adams
Collage
Clare Murray Adams was born in Canton Ohio and received a BFA from Kent State University with an MFA from Vermont College. She is a retired Professor of Art and former Chair of the Visual Art Department at Malone University in Canton, Ohio, now living in rural Southington, Ohio where she maintains an active studio practice. With a background in contemporary quilting Clare’s work now centers around mixed media collage in its many forms, on both paper and fabric.
Clare was awarded a residency at the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming in 2005. In 2012 she received a Stark County Artist Grant creating “The Handkerchief Memory Project”, working with Seniors in the community to record their memories visually on handkerchiefs.
Her exhibits include two acceptances to Quilt National, exhibits in Canada and Tokyo, Japan, and one-person shows in Ohio, South Carolina, Michigan, and California. She was invited to exhibit in the Third Encaustic Invitational Exhibit held in Tucson Arizona and continues to exhibit her work throughout the US often taking home awards.
Her quilts and collages are in many private collections. Publications include Masters: Collage, Fiber Arts Now, Studio Visit vol.5, Signatures, the Art Journal Collection, and Anderson Creative Annual Catalog.
www.claremurrayadams.com
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Dale Olson
Watercolor
Dale has been involved with art ever since he took painting lessons as a child at the Cleveland Museum of art. He attended Ashland University and received a BFA degree in ceramics and a degree to teach art education K-12. After 4 years of teaching, he switched to computers and eventually continued his family’s business in the construction field. He began concentrating his spare time into watercolors because they were easy to transport, fast to complete and he enjoyed the challenge they presented. Dale has been teaching watercolors for about 10 years at Kenston Community Education and had a very successful following. He is also versatile with many other mediums including oil and acrylic paints, all types of pencils, charcoals and pen and ink. He also enjoys plein air painting and his work has been accepted in many art shows in the surrounding area.
Annie Peters
Watercolor
Annie Peters was educated in Europe and the United States, culminating with a
Masters of Art in Fine Art at Kent State University and a Bachelor of Art in Art
Education from Akron University. As an art educator for 40 years at Grand Valley High School, Annie was awarded “Teacher of the Year” three times and the Ruritans Outstanding Teacher Award. Annie’s students excelled on the local and national level with many students pursuing careers in visual art. Annie received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Grant in Sculpture (1990), was an invited illustrator in ALLISTER CROMLEY’S FAIRWEATHER BELLE (Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups to Tell) written by Shane Portman. Annie is also published in Glencoe McGraw Hill, “Experiences of a Traveling Art Teacher.” Annie has exhibited her work in museums (including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Southern Ohio Museum) as well as national and regional shows. She has been and invited junior and lecturer in Ohio and California. Annie has had her art work in the movie “ALL THAT WE DESTROY” on Hulu, and been and executive producer for the short film “WHERE ARE YOU” and the feature film “RITUAL”.
John Plymak
Drawing
John Plymak grew up in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood, and first became interested in art and graphics by collecting comic books and copying superhero characters. John graduated with a BFA in fine art/graphic design from Ohio Northern University, and has spent his professional career in digital package design and printing technology. John enjoys teaching a range of drawing medium, from colored pencils and pen and ink to charcoal and pastels, and his personal work is often architectural details and cityscapes. John has also illustrated 3 children’s books, one of which he wrote and did the design work on.
Amy Shea
Homeschool, Drawing
Amy Shea received a B.A. from Cleveland State University in Visual Arts, licensed to teach grades K – 12. She taught in public schools for four years before having children. Amy continued to teach Art part time at Lakeland Community College in the Community Education Department and also Art History at Breckenridge Village. Then, she taught at Grace Christian Academy for ten years as she homeschooled her two children. Currently, Amy teaches private and group lessons and is involved with the homeschool community in Lake and Geauga County. Amy also enjoys teaching arts and crafts at a community horse camp during the summers. She loves to work with children in a creative manner and pursues her own artistic endeavors as well. Amy lives in Painesville with her husband and has two adult children.