Meet Our Teachers






Stacey Hanf - Children's Mixed Media Instructor
As a child, I loved to create with everything around me.  I loved to build, paint, and draw.   To infuse my love of art with my love of working with children is a dream come true. I began my career teaching children in high school, working at a preschool and teaching science to elementary students.  At University of California, Davis I earned a BA in English Literature and an elementary teaching credential.  My love for art grew as I studied art history and architecture at University of London.  Traveling though Europe allowed me to see original works of art in France and Italy, in addition to London.  At University of Washington I earned a Master’s Degree in education, majoring in teaching English as a Second Language.  I taught kindergarten and elementary ESL for eight years and I am currently in my fifth year teaching preschool.  As an art teacher, I am a guide, using the elements of art design to encourage children to be joyous, creative, expressive, and self-confident as artists in their everyday lives.  My goal is to give children an artistic voice, so they can express themselves through art.



Debbie Camberg - Watercolor Painting Instructor
"My interest in art started very early with crayons and watercolor paints. I took every art class offered in school, including photography. In 1981, I taught myself how to draw faces and was often commissioned to do portraits of children while sketching on my lunch break. I stopped sketching in 1989 because I hurt my left wrist and arm in a car accident, and I’m left handed. I quit my job as a dietary aid after 11 years of employment, because the hospital was going out of business. I changed jobs to work as a cashier. In 1990 I began a home business called Video Memories that included transferring 8mm movie film to VHS, and wedding and portrait photography. In 1999 I had to be retrained for a new career because of pain in my right shoulder and arm. After recovering from 2 surgeries, I took many computer classes, including photo shop and web design, but I could never get used to using the mouse left handed. I took a semester of beginner watercolor in the Spring of 2000, and 3 months later I was offered a job teaching beginner watercolor at Columbia Village craft store. I almost turned it down because I didn’t think I could do it, but my right arm still hurt so I took the "left handed" job. I took my 2nd semester of watercolor in the fall of 2001 when Columbia Village laid off all of the teachers to remodel the store. While shopping for my class supplies at Michael’s Arts and Crafts, I was hired to teach twice a week. I took my first landscape watercolor painting class in the Spring of 2002. I changed my business name to Camberg Studio in 2004, and began teaching private lessons in the afternoon." "Not many people get to do what they dreamed of as a child. I’ve had many blessings in disguise."
Debbie currently does commissioned art works in acrylic, oil and watercolor from photos.
 



Lila Lindquist - Glass Art Instructor
In 2001, my husband was promoted into a position which required lots of travel.  We had recently moved to Portland and I found myself with extra time and no projects.  I then purchased two mosaic lampshade kits online.  Not included in the kit were the lamp bases.  So, after finishing my lampshades, I went on a search in the Portland area for two lampshade bases.  I ended up at a stained glass studio.  I purchased my bases and signed up for a stained glass class.  For the next year, I took about every class the studio offered in various styles of glass art - fused glass, glass beads, etc.

After that first year as a student,  I started helping out with the classes.  Soon, I was teaching the stained glass classes.  I still teach stained glass classes at that studio but now I also teach mosaic classes and fused glass classes through the Lake Oswego Parks and Recreation Center, Glenn and Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro, and at Art Frenzy in St. Helens.  Come join the fun.  Glass Art is addicting.


Jessica Keller - Drawing, Sewing, Pottery, & Mixed Media Instructor
Art has been my passion in life since I was small.  There isn’t a day that goes by where I’m not creating or thinking about how to create something.  Whether it is drawing, painting, beading, taking photos, sewing, or playing in the mud on the pottery wheel, I’m always up to something.  I enjoy art too much to limit myself to one area of expertise.  For this reason, I have had the privilege of being introduced to others as a potter, a fabric artist, a muralist, photographer, painter, jewelry artist, prop designer, and craft teacher.   
I am a local girl born and raised.  I grew up and went to school in Rainier. Starting out school a Goble Elementary, my favorite time of the day was craft time.  My 1st grade teacher was an amazing artist.  This was wonderful for me, because she incorporated art into every subject.  Throughout middle school and high school, art and music were my favorite subjects and the art instructors were my favorite teachers.  My senior year of high school, our only art instructor was cut.  Therefore, knowing art was an integral part of my future, I spent my senior year attending Lower Columbia College (LCC) taking every art class I possibly could.  While at LCC, I started taking pottery.  Unlike other classes, pottery did not come easy to me, it challenged me.  I’ve been hooked ever since.  
After graduating with my two year, I attended George Fox University with an art scholarship.  I graduated with a BA majoring in studio arts in 2008.  Since then, I’ve been continuing with pottery, delving into the wonderful world of fabric, and heading up our church’s yearly Vacation Bible School.  I am excited to have this opportunity to give back and share my passion for art with the community.  


Stevie Pagano - Poly Clay & Mixed Media Instructor 

There is nothing like that spark that goes off when a discovery is made, it opens the door to creativity and fuels the drive to express it.  How was that made, or how did they do that?  These questions have led me through the world of art from a young child, carving all the bars of soap in our household, to a career as a production artist for the film and entertainment industries.

I started out doing commercial work, every day was different, sculpting, painting, model building, costuming, etc, and I was learning something new every step of the way.  Soon I was offered a job at Wonderworks, building sets for the 1998 film Deep Impact.  Shortly afterwards, I moved to Portland to work for Will Vinton Studios, doing sets & props, and then branched into character fabrication.  Since then I have enjoyed working with a variety of clients, including Cirque du Soleil and The Walt Disney Company, fabricating characters, making puppets and creating my own art.  Some of my art can be found at Elstwhen on Etsy & Artfire.

I have learned from, and with, so many creative people throughout the years, that sharing the spark of discovery is what leads to new ideas and inspires beautiful things.


Kersti Bury - Paper Art & Mixed Media Instructor

I grew up in Portland, Oregon and have lived in the same house for most of my life.  I have always had an affinity for the arts and loved the feeling of being able to create something with my own hands.  My love of art followed me to high school, where a few of my fellow artists and I created a group deemed “The Art Nerds”!

I attended college at George Fox University as an art major and graduated in 2008. While in college, I had the privilege to study art abroad in Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. After college, I attended graduate school at North Park University and received a Master of Divinity degree in 2011.  My M.Div. degree represents, in part, my acquired skills in listening, compassion, and speaking.

Since then, I have been gathering teaching experience by observing classrooms at the high school level and volunteering in a local second grade classroom.  I have also been gaining relational and interpersonal skills with children as a nanny.  I hope to begin taking classes to gain a Master of Arts in Teaching degree in August 2012, in order to become a certified teacher in Oregon.

While I have experimented with various media, my current favorite is a combination of collage and acrylic, built up in layers to create a fun, colorful, explosion with hidden depth.