ART FACULTY INFORMATION

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Ted Wolter

Ted has been teaching Art for over 28 years, the last 17 of which have been at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. He finds teaching a rewarding and fulfilling experience, especially in the southeast valley where students bring so many different perspectives to their studies. Ted received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Illinois and has a wide range of experience teaching art. He currently teaches drawing, life drawing, computer graphics and photography. He also has experience teaching painting, watercolor, graphic design, airbrush, and illustration. In addition to teaching, Ted is active in the fine arts and graphic arts. He has an extensive exhibition record of over 90 exhibits, including 10 one-man shows. His work is in several permanent collections and he frequently serves as an art juror and guest lecturer. Ted also freelances as an illustrator and graphic designer. His client list includes ASU, Harbinger House Publishers, Gorsuch Scarisbrick Publishers, Mesa Youth Theater, Galeria Mesa, and Ray Vote Graphics. Teaching remains Ted's favorite activity and he finds his greatest satisfaction when interacting with students.

Kelley Kirkpatrick

Kelley Kirkpatrick joined the faculty of CGCC in August 2000, following eleven years at Mesa Community College. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art from Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. Kelley is currently teaching all levels of Photography and Computer-Photographic Imaging. She is excited to be part of the growing program at CGCC and hopes to expand the photography area to include more advanced and special interest classes. Kelley is actively exhibiting her own work, which she describes as documentary portraiture. For the last four years she has been photographing in Portugal, focusing primarily on musicians, artists, and her own experiences as an outsider awkwardly navigating through Portuguese language and culture. In June of 2000 she taught her first workshop there, in a converted convent in the town of Montemor-o-Novo. Kelley's photographs have been shown recently at Northlight Gallery in the School of Art, Arizona State University, the Mesa Art Center, the University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Amore Mills Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona.

Kate O'Mara

Kate O'Mara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Art History from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, and a Master of Arts degree (MA) in Art History from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. In addition to teaching at CGCC since 1990, Kate also taught at Mesa Community College, Northern Arizona University, Prescott College, and Grand Canyon University.

Keith Canham

Adele Lewis

Regina Skouson

After attending the University of Illinois and graduating from Arizona State University with a degree in Arts Education in 1976, Regina continued her training in that field at the graduate level. She joined the Fine Arts facility at Chandler High School in 1976 and has been teaching there ever since. In her 24 years at Chandler High School she has taught many of the visual art disciplines but has concentrated mainly in Photography. Since 1987 she has taught Photography at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.

Regina has been a faculty consultant for the College Board's Advanced Placement program since 1990. She has been a presenter at over 20 AP workshops and institutes all across the country. She has been an Advanced Placement grader at the annual national grading of Studio Art portfolios for the past eight years.

Regina was appointed to be a commissioner on the City of Chandler's Arts Commission in 1993 and has served in this position ever since. This commission oversees the City's public art program. She has also served as a juror on several selection committees for the City's various art exhibits.

For the past two years Regina's high school Photography students have won First Place as well as other high awards in the American Bar Association's Annual Law Day Photography Contest. Because of her work in encouraging and supporting students in this endeavor, Regina was the 1998 recipient of the State Bar of Arizona's Award of Appreciation.

Roy Pope

"When in a hurry dress slowly" - fortune cookie

Ghost towns. Rippling trout streams. Winter wharves. Few artists capture the depth of black and white photography as does Roy Pope. His deep passion for photography takes him through the four seasons to capture the spirit of nature. His images reveal the twisted knots of an aged tree and the sun-weathered paint of an abandoned house...the beauty of things we no longer see.

Inspired by his love of nature, Roy photographs the simple things around him and creates images of admiration. One need only encounter a season's beauty to understand why.

Roy had studied at Columbia College in Chicago; is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and has his Master of Arts degree from Governors State University. Throughout the years, he has attended workshops to hone his craft by studying with the master photographers, artisans, and technicians of our time.

Roy's background is multifaceted; working in a variety of media related positions inclusive of: medical, government, education, corporate, catalog, fashion, and photojournalism.

His passion is his view camera, his darkroom, and the production of fine prints.

Roy photographs the world through a pair of loving eyes and a hugging heart.

Al Pace

Al Pace is a native Arizonan. After earning his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Fine Art from Arizona State University, he has dedicated three decades as the ceramics instructor at Chandler High School in Chandler, Arizona, and is currently chairman of the art department. Al also has been teaching ceramics for CGCC since 1996.

Al considers his work to be,"...magic. The art of turning mud into stone, a lump of clay into a vessel of beauty." Al's work is vessel oriented and he certainly credits Japanese and African pottery as a major influence on his life's work.

Robert Burget

Mary Lou Stewart

Mary Lou Stewart received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Painting/Drawing/Printmaking from Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio, and a Master of Fine Art (M.F.A) degree from Arizona State University.

In addition to teaching Design for Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Mary Lou has also been teaching art at Glendale Community College since 1998.

Besides teaching, Mary Lou is the founder and administrator of the Creative Art Academy in Phoenix, and has served a year as the coordinator/program specialist for the Shemer Art Center in Phoenix.

Mary Lou has an extensive exhibit record and her work is in the following collections: Arizona University, Price Waterhouse, Bank of San Diego, Boise Cascade, Troom Country Club, Department of Economic Security, Washington DC, First American Title, Founders Bank, Harris Trust Investment Co., Hughes Aerospace, and Ohio State University. She says of her work: "My paintings symbolize an intimate integration of my life's experiences, and day to day encounters."

John Parrish

J.D. Parrish was born John David Parrish at Lone Pine, California on January 22, 1956. His name was geared specifically to be nicknamed by his initials, and he has been J.D. all his life.

Parrish's first exposure to the art world came in college where he fell in love with the Old Masters and the Classical paintings of the 19th century. Parrish devoted most his studies to the figure and believes that any emotion can be communicated and evoked through the expressions and articulations of the human form.

In 1983, Parrish attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and majored in Illustration. With the intense training he received there he was able to work with a wide variety of mediums and techniques. The principles of communication and form he practiced and learned at the Art Center have proven invaluable in his work. After graduation in 1986, Parrish went to work as an illustrator in the Los Angeles area until 1988, when he moved to Arizona.

Currently Parrish teaches drawing and painting at CGCC, and continues to paint and work as an artist. Some of his clients include Touchstone; Paramount Pictures; Universal Studios; Warner Brothers; Disney Studios; CBS Television; Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus; Marriott Inns; Red Lion Inns; Double Inns; America West; Honeywell Corporation; and Swensens.