Kerry Dunn
Kerry Dunn, Guest Teacher at GACA. Kerry’s main focus is on painting people and using line, form and color to communicate character, storytelling and spirit. He serves as principal portrait painting instructor at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia.
Teresa Oaxaca
Teresa Oaxaca, Guest Teacher at GACA. Teresa works in the traditional oil painting techniques of the old masters. She works in her studio in Washington D.C. drawing, teaching online art classes, and is also the host of “Tea Time With Teresa.” Upcoming Workshop with Teresa Oaxaca: Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2022. “Oil Painting Portraiture”
Seth Haverkamp
Seth Haverkamp, Guest Teacher at GACA. Seth is an acclaimed portrait artist and 2019 recipient of the Portrait Society of America International Competition Draper Grand Prize. Seth studied at Studio Incamminiati and derives his inspiration from beauty -- color, form, and the drama of light and dark.
Jon deMartin
Jon deMartin is among the leading figurative artists working today and has taught life drawing and painting for more than twenty-years at the most prestigious academies and ateliers in the country.
Patricia Watwood
Patricia Watwood Guest Teacher at GACA. Watwood’s paintings explore transformative narratives and mythological archetypes using the human figure. Upcoming Workshop with Patricia Watwood: August 22-26, 2022. Painting the Head: Focus on the Features.
Victor Wang
Victor Wang, Guest Teacher at GACA. Victor Wang graduated BFA from The Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in China. He earned his MFA in Fontbonne University and currently lives in St. Louis, where he teaches as a full professor at Fontbonne University. He has exhibited widely and has won various awards for excellence.
Spencer Meagher
Spencer is a Plein Air and studio artist who works in watercolor, oil and acrylic. When he is not traveling he works out of his studio in Mt. Vernon, IL. His work has taken top awards in art competitions around the country, and has been exhibited in many notable galleries.
Sarah Sedwick
Sarah is an oil painter who makes her home in Eugene, Oregon. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1979, she began oil painting at age ten. In 2001, she earned a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art, with a focus on illustration and painting, and a minor degree in art history. Her work focuses mainly on still life and portraiture, painting from direct observation.
David Gray
David's signature style reveals a personal and contemporary expression of beauty and order which pays homage to the Classical Tradition in its craftsmanship. "I'm not simply a "Realist". I find in my best work, my subjects seem to hover somewhere between the visible natural realm and some place divine..." --David Gray
Steven Assael
Steven Assael, Guest Teacher at GACA. Steven holds a BFA from Pratt Institute. He has been a Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art since 1997. His work has been exhibited throughout the US. Upcoming Workshop with Steven Assael: June 27 - July 1, 2022 “Portrait & Figure” Workshop
Mario Robinson
Mario Robinson. Guest Teacher at GACA. Mario’s work fits in the tradition of American painting. His finished works bear a close affinity to the masters of the realist tradition. His work has a timeless quality, and exhibits a distinct turn-of-the-century aesthetic.
Jennifer Gennari
Jennifer Gennari is a classically trained artist. She graduated in 2005 from Ringling College of Art and Design and in 2008 left for Italy to study at the Florence Academy of Art. Jennifer paints animals and is driven by a deeply rooted passion to elevate and legitimize the life we have with them.
David Shevlino
David Shevlino is graduate of the PAFA and the UPenn, and the Art Students’ League in New York. He began making trips to art museums at age 15 and developed a love of traditional figurative painting. After years of experimenting, Shevlino began exploring a looser paint application straddling the line between representational painting and abstraction.