Sarah Ahearn Bellemare is a mixed-media painter who lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her ecologist husband and precious, yet adorable little girl. She’s been an artist for as long as she can remember and she feels extremely fortunate that her passion and career have merged and that being an artist is now her job. Sarah’s mixed media paintings are layered with found images, fragments of text from old books, and pieces of vintage maps. These ephemera become the fabric and focus of her whimsical paintings, many of which are inspired by her childhood memories of time spent by the seashore on Cape Cod. Her first book Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks and Mixed Media(Quarry Books, May 2011) can be found on bookshelves nationwide, on Amazon, and at your favorite local bookshop. She’s taught students aged 2-82 in a variety of settings, most recently in-person at Squam Art Workshops, and online through her popular workshop series Painted Pages Workshop.
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Molly Hatch is the daughter of a painter and an organic dairy farmer, Molly's childhood was divided between physical labor, play and creating art. Molly studied drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics receiving her BFA from the Museum School in Boston in 2000. After 5years and several ceramic residencies and apprenticeships in the US and abroad, Molly went for her MFA in ceramics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, graduating in 2008. In 2010, while earning a living as a studio potter, Molly was approached by Anthropologie {a women's clothing and homewares retailer based in Philadelphia} to design a line of ceramics. This laid the foundation for what has become a career as both an artist and a designer. Molly continues to develop her brand at Anthropologie as well as designing in collaboration with many retailers worldwide. Molly works from her home studio in Northampton MA where she lives with her woodworker husband, border collie 'Mac' and 4 year old daughter.
Molly teaches a Tableware course at RISD once a year as well as lots of ceramics, surface design and illustration workshops. Molly has taught workshops at The Makerie in Boulder CO, Haystack in Deer Isle ME, Arrowmont in Gatlinburg TN, Mudfire in Atlanta GA and so many other places!
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