Instructor Profiles

Leah Bailly is an experienced arts instructor, a global thinker, and bilingual creative writer. Her theatre, fiction, and poetry have appeared in publications and on stages across North America, and she was recently awarded a Canada Council grant for her first novel, based on research she acquired in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Leah is teaching After School Art for the Fall 2011 session.

Amber Butler Amber Butler
Amber Butler is a local Sea to Sky multimedia artist. She now calls Squamish home and has her studio at Homebase Studios. Amber has been teaching art classes since the early nineties, and her passion is helping others ignite their creativity.  For more information or to check out her website visit amberbutler.ca

 

 

 

Maureen Coles Maureen Coles
Maureen is a very popular art teacher who has instructed arts for many years in a variety of capacities. She has worked with children of all ages in camps, schools, community centres and special events. Maureen is teaching After School Art and Adult/Youth Acrylic Painting for the Fall 2011 session.

 

 

Tanille Geib - Tanille has been developing her artistic expression for over ten years. She is a writer, director, producer, painter, and poet. She has worked with many companies such as Sage Theatre, Theatre Utopia, Alberta Theatre Projects, 8-0-8 Productions, theatreBOOM, and Theatre Junction. Her play Alone Beautiful won an emerging artist award in 2005, and in 2010 she won an award for book Love and Cooking. "In order to be talented, you have to practice your passion." Tanille taught Summer Camps and is teaching After School Art in the Fall 2011 session.

Jeanne Krabbendam Jeanne Krabbendam
Jeanne was born in The Netherlands and immigrated to Vancouver in 1999. She received formal training in the European art tradition in The Netherlands and France. Jeanne has extensive exhibit experience both national and international; she has her art studio on Granville Island and teaches as a sessional instructor at Emily Carr University.  Over the years her paintings have found homes in Europe, North - and South America, Australia, South-Africa, China and Japan.