Instructors
The instructors for the Maurice River School Master Class sessions are all highly regarded professionals who will offer participants group and one-on-one instruction during the week-long course.
Nancy Witt Mulick
Workshop Director / The Barn Studio of Art Director of Special Programs
Currently resides in Columbus, Ohio where she chaired the art department at the Wellington School. She teaches everything from drawing to 3-D design. She has taught hand paper making at Rhode Island School of Design and is a practicing artist working in handmade paper and mixed media. Nancy has been returning to The Barn every summer for the past 39 years to teach papermaking, drawing and painting.
Bill Ternay
Has had a long and varied career as an illustrator, painter, and teacher in the Greater Delaware Valley. He has taught at University of the Arts, The Mainline Center for the Arts, and was chairman of the Illustration Department at Moore College of Art and Design. Bill is past president of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society and has been a guest instructor at The Barn Studio of Art for many years.
Stan Sperlak
Studied painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and with Pat Witt at the Barn Studio of Art. He maintains a studio where a marsh, farm and forest meet on the Crow Creek in Goshen, NJ. Stan is a member of the Pastel Society of America, the Maryland Pastel Society, The Mid Atlantic Plein Air Painters and the Cape May County Art League.
Patrick Connors
Is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. He was awarded an Oxford Fellowship in Painting and Anatomy. He currently teaches at the PAFA, New York Academy of Art graduate school and Grand Central Academy of Art. He has lectured at Yale University and is the recipient of numerous awards for painting. He has successfully completed many private and public commissions.
Jill A. Rupinski
Is an Assistant Professor at the Academy, teaching drawing, painting and color. She has a Certificate from the Academy and a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1977. B.F.A. Philadelphia College of Art 1981. Spanish Exchange Program for one month travel in Spain from the Creative Artists Network Philadelphia 1989. Landscapes Oils and Pastels Philadelphia Art Alliance 1996. Lecture: Color-Earth and Prismatic Reading Public Museum 1998. Collections: Colgate University Hamilton NY; Villanova University.
Larry Francis
Is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and currently teaches painting at PAFA. His work is represented by the Gross McCleaf Gallery of Philadelphia. He is the recipient of numerous prizes for painting and his work is in numerous collections including the Noyes museum Collection. His primary painting medium is gouache.
Ruth Formica
Is in her 4th at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is an experienced “en plein air” painter who has studied painting under Pat Witt at The Barn Studio for the past 15 years and also color theory with Lois Griffel at the Cape Cod School of Art.
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