Meet Our Exceptional Teaching Staff
Shaping Creativity, Inspiring Minds
At the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center, we are lucky to have a team of truly talented and dedicated individuals who make up our esteemed art teaching staff. Passionate about sharing their knowledge and love for the arts, our instructors are paramount in creating an environment where creativity flourishes, skills are honed, and artistic dreams become a reality.
With an innate ability to connect with students of all ages and abilities, they strive to cultivate a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where everyone feels encouraged to explore their artistic abilities. Whether a complete novice or a seasoned artist, our teaching staff caters to individual learning styles, fostering personal growth and creative expression.
We firmly believe that art has the power to transform lives and shape communities. Join us and experience the transformative power of art under the expert guidance of our extraordinary teaching team. Unleash your creativity, expand your horizons, and embark on an artistic journey like no other.
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Heather is an award winning artist and educator, active in the industry for more than 25 years. She strives to combine a love of vivid imagery, science, history and nature in her work, ultimately hoping to communicate a new perspective to her viewers.
She works primarily in acrylics, but also uses oils, watercolor, gouache, and digital paint tools.
Heather has brought visual arts programming to institutions and individuals, children as well as adults, throughout the Greater Philadelphia area since 2012. Organizations that she has worked with include Bartram’s Garden, Morris Arboretum, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Mt. Airy Homeschooling Co-op, and the Lewis J. Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
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Christine is a local artist, parent and art instructor. She has taught in various art programs and currently teaches at a neighboring art center in Conshohocken. She strives to offer friendly and welcoming classes where students have the freedom to tap into their own unique visual voices through art. She believes everyone can benefit from exploring their own creativity and offers a supportive class to do just that!
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Following a rich 40 + years of teaching and mentoring students and teachers in Philadelphia, I returned to my life-long passion of art. My art is dominated by a deeply rooted fascination with form, light and color. As an inherent scavenger, bits of paper, small objects of unique textures, colors, shapes, and subject matter become the materials for my work; a design on a box of tissues, a piece of wrapping paper, cloth, images in magazines, candy wrappers (my favorite being those enfolded in foil.) Hundreds of found oddments are housed in one of about 15 drawers, each devoted to a color, shape, texture, and theme. I begin to put said findings into configurations marrying light, color, and balance in ways that will narrate a story.
Having been raised in a family where the fight for social justice, equality, and admiration for all cultures, ethnicities, and partnerships, was imperative, many of my pieces include combinations of women representing strength, historical importance, and beauty.
And Collage Collections was born.
Margo Ackerman
Collage Collections by Margo
