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Continuing Education Faculty

Continuing Education (CE)

PAFA's Continuing Education program boasts a stellar faculty of practicing, professional artists who enthusiastically encourage and support their students.

Kassem Amoudi

Continuing Education Instructor

Roger Chavez

Continuing Education Instructor

Anthony Ciambella

Instructor

Meghan Cox

Continuing Education Instructor

Morgan Dummitt

Continuing Education Instructor

Dona Duncan

Continuing Education Instructor

Pavel Efremoff

Continuing Education Instructor

Richard Estell

Continuing Education Instructor

Larry Francis

Continuing Education Instructor

RA Friedman

Continuing Education Instructor

Linda Gist

Continuing Education Instructor

Al Gury

Professor, Painting and Drawing, Art & Medicine, Pre-College

Sherif Habashi

Continuing Education Instructor

John Horn

Associate Professor, Sculpture and Drawing

Frederic C. Kaplan

Continuing Education Instructor

Sheryl Kessler

Continuing Education Instructor

Michael Kowbuz

Adjunct Faculty

Christine Lafuente

Continuing Education Instructor

Phyllis Laver

Continuing Education Instructor

Douglas Martenson

Professor, Painting and Drawing

Dan Miller

Professor, Printmaking and Sculpture

Alicia Mino Gonzalez

Continuing Education Instructor

Charles Muldowney

Continuing Education Instructor

Steven Nocella

Associate Professor, Sculpture

Colleen O'Donnell

Continuing Education Instructor

Michelle Oosterbaan

Continuing Education Instructor

Roberto Osti

Continuing Education Instructor

Carolyn Pyfrom

Continuing Education Instructor

Deon Robinson

Associate Professor, Computer Illustration and Typography, Digital Painting, Drawing and Painting

Anthony Rosati

Professor, Printmaking

Michael Rossman

Continuing Education Instructor

Shushana Rucker

Continuing Education Instructor

Jill Rupinski

Chair of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing

Hiro Sakaguchi

Continuing Education Instructor

Bruce Samuelson

Professor, Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking

Kate Samworth

Continuing Education Instructor

Christine Stoughton

Continuing Education Instructor

Joseph Sweeney

Continuing Education Instructor

Lisa Sylvester

Continuing Education Instructor

Allison Syvertsen

Continuing Education Instructor

James Toogood

Continuing Education Instructor

Patricia Traub

Continuing Education Instructor

Peter Van Dyck

Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing

Robert Waddington

Continuing Education Instructor

David Wilson

Continuing Education Instructor

Ted Xaras

Continuing Education Instructor

PAFA is licensed through the Pennsylvania State Board of Private Licensed Schools and is a nonprofit institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Program structure and details are subject to standard academic and accreditation review and may be updated accordingly.

Contact Continuing Education

Thank you for your interest in PAFA's CE programs. Join our community of dedicated artists of all ages and skill levels: Continuing Education offers exceptional studio art classes and workshops for beginner to advanced artists outside of PAFA's degree programs, available to both museum members and the general public.

Telephone: (215) 972–7632

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