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Four adults and a baby look at each other, smiling, at CraftStudies' annual fundraiser, BowlFest.

OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sharon Gouveia Comeau, President, Hartford Community Leader, Yoga Instructor & POST Shopkeeper

David Allen, Treasurer, Retired, Healthcare Management & Consulting

Patricia Palao, Secretary, Director of Marketing & Development, Advanced Transit

Sarah Glass, Art Teacher, Hanover High School, Studio Monitor & Teaching Artist

Patricia Glowa, Retired Family Physician & Studio Monitor

David Goudy, Former Executive Director of Montshire Museum of Science

Mark Hardie, Director of the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

Amy Somerstein, Retired Software Engineer & Studio Teaching Assistant

Tina Wendon, Artist, Portraiture & Paintings

Jack Nobel, 2025-2026 Tuck School of Business Board Fellow

Rosemary Orgren, Board Member Emeritus, Past President

OUR TEAM

CraftStudies' Executive Director Lisa Brahms smiles at the camera. Lisa has brown curly hair and wears a light chambray shirt. Behind Lisa is a quilt made of blue and white triangles.

Lisa Brahms

Creative Media Manager Katie Kalata Rusch looks closely at the camera, smiling. She has red curly hair and green eyes. Katie wears green and brown cat-eye glasses and a saffron cardigan.

Katie Kalata Rusch

Ellie Dutcher

OUR ARTISTS

Artists are the heart of our organization. Through their dedication to the highest quality of teaching and learning, their commitment to keeping our studios and equipment clean, safe and functional for community access and use, and through their love of creating, collaborating and innovating together, these professional and emerging artists nurture the true spirit of community by which CraftStudies has come to be known.

The image features Tim McCosker, a teaching artist, seated at a pottery wheel. He is smiling while holding a ball of clay on the wheel with his right hand. Tim has short, grey hair and wears glasses and a University of Alaska sweatshirt.

Clay Studio Teaching Artists

Allison Riese
Brian Glenney
Charlotte Lamm
Deb Churchill
Elie Katz
Ellie Dutcher
Eric Moore
Jill Koppers
Kathleen Peters
Samantha Radcliffe
Sarah Glass
Tim McCosker
Tony Luckino

Metals Studio Teaching Artists

Case Hathaway-Zepeda
Katie McCabe
Kerstin Nichols
Rosemary Orgren
Sandra Seymour

Fiber Studio Teaching Artists

Amy Marcoux
Amy Somerstein
Amy VanderKooi
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Carol Devins
Ellen Minard
Emma Percy
Fern Strong
June Albright
Katie Kalata Rusch
Larry Antonuk
Leah Fosco
Mary Worrell
Rachel Donegan
Tracy Gillespie
Valerie Dearing

Guest Artists & Partners

Studio Monitors

Our Studio Monitors are experienced craftspeople who support CraftStudies’ programs and operations by volunteering their time to assist other students and maintaining the studios. In exchange they receive access to shared studio use, affordable materials, collaborative feedback, and community mentorship.

Sandra Seymour

Tony Luckino

Brian Glenney

Allison Riese

Pat Glowa

Becca Osborne

Steve Sliver

Anita Onofrio

Dawn Dahlstrom

Kathy Jacobs

Robin Davis