CEYA Professional Artist Instructors
Jeffrey Chapline
Executive Director, Creative Aging Programs, Institute on Aging
Jeffrey Chapline is Executive Director of Creative Aging Programs at the Institute on Aging in San Francisco. A 2007 recipient of a Center for Social Innovation Fellowship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders (EPNL) in the Arts, and a 2009 attendee of the EPNL Next Step Program, Chapline also serves as Artistic Director for the Center for Elders and Youth in the Arts Program (CEYA). CEYA is an innovative cross-generational program which he designed and implemented at the Institute in 1996. The program has been cited by the United Nations, the National Council on Aging and the California Arts Council for its pioneering approach. The program is also one of three projects participating in a groundbreaking study by George Washington University that evaluates the effects of community-based cultural programs on the health of participating seniors. In 2009 CEYA maintains it’s standing on the National Endowment for the Arts Best Practices in Creative Aging Programs list for providing community accessibility to professional arts programming.
Chapline earned an MFA in Design from UCLA in 1984, and a BFA in Design from the University of Kansas in 1980. His glasswork, painting and sculptures have been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States. As a result of his work at the Institute on Aging, in 1995 he was one of 8 recognized leaders to speak at the White House Conference on Aging’s Mini-conference on Arts and Humanities, and in 2001 presented at the International Association of Gerontology in Vancouver, B.C. Chapline continues to lecture on community arts programming and the CEYA model nationwide.
Jessica McCracken
Program Assistant, CEYA
Jessica McCracken holds a Masters in Public Administration from San Francisco State University. She emphasized in nonprofits arts management and cultural policy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theater from Adrian College, with Minors in Art and English Literature. Jessica is the founding member and Artistic Director of Trash Mash-Up (TMU), a community arts program. Trash Mash-Up received national recognition from American’s for the Arts as an outstanding eco-arts program.
Silvi Alcivar
Writing, Poetry
Silvi Alcivar received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction Writing in 2007 from Pennsylvania State University. She has read her work publicly at Planet Cruz Radio Hour (2008-09), the Marsh Cafe Reading Series (2008), Dublit (2008), The Space Gallery (2009), Muni Diaries Live (2010), and with The San Francisco Public Library's Poets 11 (2010). Her work has been published in Common Ties (2007), 6S (2008), RedBubble (2009), and in the upcoming volume of Poets 11. Currently, she is the owner and poet of a small business, The Poetry Store, which has written and sold over 700 poems in the Bay Area since 2010. Her poems are currently for sale at Secession Art & Design Gallery and have been featured on local blogs and websites throughout the Bay Area.
Laura Anderson
Visual Arts, Painting
Originally from Chicago, Laura Anderson received a B. A. in studio art from Eastern Illinois University, and an M.F.A. in fine art from the University of Kansas.She earned second place in the 12th National Juried Exhibition at the Baker Art Center in Liberal, KS in 2010. In 2009, Anderson was selected to take part in the Emeryville, CA Flora and Fauna Poster Series where her work was displayed in bus shelters.
Thomas Centolella
Artist—Writing, Poetry
Thomas Centolella received his MA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, before becoming a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His writing has won the American Book Award, The National Poetry Series, the SF Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship. He has published several books of poetry, including Views from along the Middle Way (2002), Lights and Mysteries (1995), and Terra Firma (1990), all by Copper Canyon Press. Tom has been published in the Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, the Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares and the New England Review, among other prominent publications. His work has been featured in many anthologies, including Don’t Tell Mama: Italian American Writing (Penguin Books), as well as on National Public Radio. In 2008, Mr. Centolella was the Contributing Poetry Editor for Narrative Magazine.
Marika Brussel
Movement, Dance
Marika Brussel most recently performed in the 2008 San Francisco Black Choreographers Festival. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2007 she has performed with the San Francisco Youth Ballet, Moving Arts Dance, and the Alameda Ballet. She studied dance at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, New York. Prior to her work in the Bay Area she was a company member with Ballet Theater of New Mexico. Since 2006, Ms. Brussel has been a ballet instructor with the National Dance Institute. In 2007, she choreographed, Cutthroat, for the Ballet Theatre of New Mexico.
Paul Finocchiaro
Artist—Writing, Playwrighting, Performance, Music
Paul Finocchiaro received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from C.W. Post College and a Master of Arts degree in Theater from Long Island University. From 2003-2009, Paul has participated in European Tours with the Word for Word Theatre Company of San Francisco. Mr. Finocchiaro has taught acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco since 1992 and Chabot College since 1995.
Santiago Gervasi
Visual Arts, Painting
Santiago Gervasi was born in Lima –Perú. He has lived in California since the early 80’s. Mr. Gervasi holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from CCA (former CCAC). He has taught Painting and Drawing in several art programs in the Bay Area, including Cal. State Hayward, Richmond Art Center and U.C. Berkeley Extension. His artwork has been shown extensively in galleries and alternative art spaces, which include: Olga Dollar Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Robin Ficara Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA), SFMOMA Artists Gallery (San Francisco, CA) and Cervini Haas Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ).
Michael Namkung
Visual Arts, Mark Making
Michael Namkung earned his MFA from San Francisco State University in 2009. He uses the human body in motion as a source for drawing. His investigation into mark-making is informed by a language of athletic practice and performance, and manifests in videos and drawings that record bodily motion over surfaces and through spaces. He was featured most recently in the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in Fine Arts Exhibition (2008), as well as in Introductions 2008 at Root Division. In 2009, he was selected to exhibit in Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is currently in North Dakota with the James Rosenquist Artist in Residency program.
Nanilee Robarge
Textiles
Nanliee Robarge received her MFA with emphasis in textiles in 1994 from San Francisco State University. In January 2008 she was featured in a group textile show at the Bucheon Gallery in San Francisco. Ms. Robarge had Residency at the de Young Art Center in 2004 and served for two years as a Board Member of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Textile Arts Council.
Judy Shintani
Visual Arts, Sculpture and Assemblage
Judy Shintani earned her Masters in Transformative Art from JFKU in Berkeley in 2006. Some of her interests include community and collaborative art. Shintani shows her work in many Bay Area galleries. She recently had her art featured in two the juried shows: Balancing Perspectives: East Asian Influences in Contemporary Art, organized by JFK University in association with the De Young Museum in 2008, and Lineage at the Red Door Gallery, 2009.
Augusta Talbot
Painter and Sculptor
Augusta Talbot received her BFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1973. She has exhibited her works in numerous museums and galleries across the United States. In addition, she has illustrated a series of children’s books called The Elf Books, written by Pamela Myers, for the San Francisco School. In 2009, Ms. Talbot had a solo exhibition with San Francisco Open Studios and a group show in October of 2009 at the Garage Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
Zimou L. Tano
Artist—Visual Arts, Painting
Zimou Lawrence Tan was named a "Chinese Master Artist" in December of 2007 by the Chinese government. Tan was born and raised in Canton, China and graduated from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco in 1999. There he earned degrees in both Traditional Illustration and Fine Arts. In 2006 Mr. Tan won Best of Show at the Morro Bay Art Association Group Exhibit. In 2005, he was the Gold Medal Winner at the Hudson Valley Art Association’s 74th Annual Exhibit.
Angela Tirrell
Visual Art, Muralist
Angela Tirrell received a diploma in Decorative Painting from the Pardon School in London, England in 1984. She has since gone on to develop a successful career in mural commissions. In 2008, she led a team of MFA students from Academy of Art University in the creation of a three story interior mural, Nuova Porziuncola, in San Francisco.
Kelvin
Young
Visual Artist
Kelvin Ming Young was born in Taiwan and raised in San Diego, California. Mr. Young received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, BA from the University of California at Berkeley, and Post-Bacc. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has an accomplished teaching background including UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. Mr. Young’s recent exhibits include group shows at Togonon Gallery in San Francisco (2009) and a solo show at June Steingart Gallery in Oakland, CA (2006). He was featured in Open Studios Press out of Boston, MA (2008). His work has received honorable mention in the Expressions West 2007 exhibit at the Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon (2007).
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