Instructors
In addition to our Resident Artists, the Lux Center also employs local and regional artists and professionals to lecture, run workshops and educate the community. If you are interested in teaching for the LUX center, contact Natalie Nelson, Education Director, or download the instructor application PDF and submit your information.
Margaret Berry
Margaret Berry received a Bachelor of Arts from Creighton University and a Master of Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She began painting in encaustic (hot wax) in 2003 and is a charter member of International Encaustic Artists. She organized the first Nebraska encaustic exhibition called Hot Wax/Cool Artists in 2006 and serves as an artist-in-residence for the Nebraska Arts Council while also teaching in her home studio. Margaret teaches encaustics workshop for adults at Lux Center for the Arts.
Learn more about Margaret at www.margaretberryart.com.
Lindsey Clausen
Lindsey Clausen grew up in Lincoln and is currently pursuing a BFA in Studio Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Clausen has worked her way up at the LUX Center from a student, to a volunteer teaching assistant and to the lead instructor for Tweens on Wheels. Her passion is to work with youth to develop their skills and inspire them to learn about the rich history of ceramic art.
Sara Martin
Sara Martin is a native of Nebraska. She received a BS in Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2002 and is certified in K-12 art by the state of Nebraska. In addition to working with the art programming at Eagle Elementary School, Sara owns and operates her own custom framing business. Sara is a new instructor at the LUX Center teaching on-site and off-site classes for youth in painting, drawing, printing and sculpture.
Natalie Nelson
Natalie grew up in Northern California, moving to Lincoln for college where she received a BS in Textile and Apparel Design with an Art History emphasis from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln In 2008. Natalie differs from many fiber artists in that she works in a variety of materials and methods in a single piece; she sews, weaves, knits, felts or screenprints her way to her final piece. Natalie teaches classes for youth in basic fiber techniques integrated with cultural studies. In May 2009, she became an artist-in-residence at the Lux Center in fibers.
Natasha Overholtzer
Natasha Overholtzer received an MFA in jewelry and metal arts from the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa in 2007. Natasha works in a variety of medium including metal, clay, wood, and fabric while drawing her inspiration from a variety of sources including nature, geometry, ideas of permanence and preciousness. She teaches jewelry and metal arts classes for youth and adults as well as beginning jewelry for Doane College at the center.
Learn more about Natash at www.designsbynatasha.com
Eric Petersen
Eric Petersen was born in Lincoln but has lived in many places in the western United States. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology, extensive experience in art outside of academia, and an intensive education in ceramics at several universities during the past 6 years. He has been teaching at Lux Center for the Arts since 2003. Eric teaches painting and ceramics classes for Doane College at the center.
Learn more about Eric at www.burrobranch.com.
Lora Rocke
For more than 15 years Lora Rocke has been traveling regionally and nationally, teaching and talking about quiltmaking. She has taught local and national quilters, and had the pleasure of teaching for QuiltNebraska, International Quilt Market, Innovations-a Machine Quilting Conference and the National Quilting Association. She has published many books on machine quilting and appliqué . While working from her studio, she has explored many aspects of quiltmaking over the last 25 years. Experimenting, perfecting, eliminating and finally focusing on portraits in fabrics. Her process includes drawings, appliqués, machine quilting, painting, dyeing, and experimenting. Enthusiastic, entertaining and encouraging are words used to describe her classes and lectures. Sharing her color sense and focus on design, she encourages students and quilters of all abilities to take the plunge and try something new. Her mission is to inform, excite, enlighten and entertain quilters.
Patricia Scarborough
Nebraska native Patricia Scarborough has focused on painting the Nebraska landscape since her graduation from Kearney State College with a degree in Fine Art. After settling in Geneva, Nebraska with her family she discovered the medium of pastels, and found that her unique vision could be realized using calligraphic strokes of rich color. Scarborough recently returned to oil painting and has found additional success and satisfaction in this genre as well. Patricia Scarborough has studied with nationally known instructors and teaches workshops across the state. She was recently awarded Best of Show at the Wings Over the Platte Exhibit at Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Ne. Recent exhibits include a solo exhibit at the Burkholder Project in Lincoln, acceptance into the MidAmerica Pastel Society’s Members Only Juried Show held at Buttonwood Art Space in Kansas City Mo., and recent one-person shows at Graham Gallery and the Minden, Ne. Opera House. Her work has also been included in the International Association of Pastel Societies Juried Exhibit, the Pastel Society of New Mexico’s Pastel National Exhibit, as well as exhibits in Nebraska. Her pastel painting “Photo Op” is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney.
Susan Stark
Susan Stark holds a BFA in Studio Art, a BS in Art Education, and a BS in Theatre Arts from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Before coming to the LUX Center, Stark was an art specialist for grades 7-9 at Brimhall Junior High School in Mesa, Arizona. She has also taught ceramics workshops for youth and adults at the Mesa Arts Center and the Phoenix Art Center in Arizona. Since October 2009, Stark has been a ceramics artist-in-residence at the LUX Center and now teaches community classes for youth and adults.
Jess Starkel
Jess Starkel was born in Omaha, NE. She studied English and Fine Art at Nebraska Wesleyan University before going on to earn her masters degree, with honors, in jewelry & metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Jess's work has been shown at SOFA, New York and in Metalsmith magazine. Jess teaches jewelry making classes for adults at Lux Center for the Arts. She will also be presenting rubber casting demonstrations and a lecture on her work during the Art of Fine Craft Conference in October 2009.
Torie Thoendel
Torie Thoendel is originally from David City, NE and is an Art Education major with an emphasis in ceramics at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Torie has been the director of art for the Vacation Bible School program at her church for the past two years. She teaches ceramics classes for youth at Lux Center for the Arts.
Sara Walters
Sara Walters received a BA in Art History and Studio Art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2007. Sara teaches classes that incorporate art history into drawing and painting projects. She has taught at the Lux Center since January 2008, working with both youth and adults to develop their basic skills in observing and recording the world around them.
Aileen Wiles
Aileen Wiles grew up in Gillette, Wyoming. She received a BFA in studio art with an emphasis in printmaking from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006. Her work explores various printmaking methods such as screen printing and woodcuts. She also enjoys painting and creating handmade books. Aileen is a new instructor at the Lux and teaches classes for youth and adults in drawing, painting and printmaking.
Lauren van Wyke
Lauren van Wyke received a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2007 and is currently pursuing a Masters of Education at the same institution. Lauren takes a mixed media approach to creating 2-dimensional works of art, combining her knowledge of painting, drawing, printmaking, papermaking and photography. She is a new instructor at the LUX Center teaching off-site classes for youth and on-site classes for adults in various media.
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