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Eastern
Shore's Own Arts Center
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15293 King Street
Belle Haven, Virginia (757) 442-3226
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(757) 442-3226
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INSTRUCTORS
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Explore
your creative spirit
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INSTRUCTORS
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Eastern
Shore's Own
(ESO) Arts Center
Instructors

Registration for any
class can be submitted online or give us a call at:
(757) 442-3226
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Dana
Floyd, Ballet & Modern Dance Instructor
Ms. Floyd attended
Atlanta Ballet School at four years of age. She was accepted
in the Joffrey School of Dance Scholarship program in New
York City at the age of twelve. She performed professionally
with the Atlanta Ballet Company in Atlanta Georgia and was
accepted as one of 12 professional dance instructors to attend
The Paris Opera Ballet workshop for dance instructors at New
York University in the summer of 1997. She has taught ballet
and modern dance at the ESO since 1989. She choreographs and
is Dance Director for two ESO student productions per year.
She is the Dance Director of the ESO Repertory Dance Company.

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Amy
Betit, Piano and Violin Instructor
Ms. Betit received
a B.A. in Music from Bennington College and an M.A. in Clinical
Psychology from Antioch University. She has additional training
in voice, piano, violin, percussion and conducting. Ms. Betit
was previously on the staff at Bennington College as a piano
instructor and conductor. She had an active career as a concert
composer and conductor, and her compositions were performed
both in the United States and abroad. She also appeared as
guest conductor with numerous symphonies and ensembles, performing
20th century works of her own and other composers. In 1980,
she received an NEA grant to compose an orchestral work with
baritone solo. She is currently a faculty member of Atlantic
University in Virginia Beach, and teaches piano and violin
lessons privately.
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Thelma
Jarvis Peterson, Watercolor Instructor
Ms. Peterson has been painting professionally for over thirteen
years. Her work is found in galleries nationwide, as well
as in private and corporate collections. Paintings have been
selected and reproduced as limited edition prints by such
environmental and conservation groups as The Nature Conservancy,
The Conservation Fund and Ducks Unlimited. She has earned
the prestigious Palette and Chisel award and was chosen as
Artist of the Year by the Eastern Shore Chapter of Ducks Unlimited.
She is currently Artist in Residence at the Eastern Shore
Community College.
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David
Poyer, Creative Writing Instructor
Mr. Poyer grew up in Pennsylvania and attended the U.S. Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He has written numerous books
which include The Dead of Winter, Winter in the Heart, As
the Wolf Loves Winter and Thunder on the Mountain, literary
novels set in Pennsylvania; The Med, The Gulf, the Circle,
The Passage, and many others of the modern Navy and Marine
Corps; White Continent Star Seed, The Shiloh Project, Stepfather
Bank, science fiction; and historical novels about the Civil
War. Mr. Poyer has taught and lectured at the University of
Pittsburgh, Cape May Institute, ODU, Joint Forces Staff College,
UNF, and other institutions. He now resides on the Eastern
Shore of Virginia with his family and is a creative writing
instructor at ESO.
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Anna
Sterrett, Voice and Youth Chorale Instructor
Ms. Sterrett has a BA in Music and a year of post-graduate
study in Opera. She has over 15 years of stage experience
and has been teaching voice lessons since 2009.
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Carole
Boggemann Peirson, Artist, Oil Painting Instructor
Originally,
Dutch artist Carole Peirson viewed art as essentially a
commercial occupation. Her degree in Design & Communication
in 1996 at
the Ichthus Polytechnic in Rotterdam, started her off as a
graphic
artist. However, her greatest pleasure and fulfillment came
from
creating impressions of things that fascinated and inspired
her
personally, non-commercial artworks that captivate the viewer.
Art had at
first been primarily the nuts and bolts of a fast-paced job
at an advertising agency in her native Holland. Then, in the
summer of
2000, she moved to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The initial
culture-shock of moving from the crowded Dutch city to rural
America
changed not only her life, but her view of life itself. When
she saw
the beauty of nature around her, she knew she could never
go back.
You can see
examples of Carole's work by visiting her website at
www.artworkbycarole.com
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Lenore Hart, Creative Writing Instructor
Ms. Hart is the author of Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky
Thatcher; Waterwoman, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award
novel; Ordinary Springs; Black River; and in Norway, Of Svart
Frikt (A Dark Wood). Her other book-length works are T. Rex
at Swan Lake, a picture book, The Treasure of Savage Island,
a historical novel for young adults, and The Raven's Bride.
She wrote the lyrics for an oratorio, Nativity in Black and
White, in which Stefan Dulcie composed the music. Ms. Hart
has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Florida
Fine Arts Council. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award
from Old Dominion University in 2006.
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Elizabeth
Hunt, Pottery Instructor
Ms. Hunt has
taught since 2000 at ESO, including Summer Camp. She has her
own Pottery Studio at the Historic Onancock School Community
& Cultural Center. She studied Art at Georgia State University.
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Anne
Warren Holland, Painting & Figure Drawing Instructor
Ms. Holland received
her Associate in Arts Degree in 1965 from Bennett College
in Millbrook, New York and in 1987 from Tidewater Community
College, Norfolk, Virginia. She received her B.A. Art Education
in 1989 from Virginia Wesleyan College and continued her education
from 1997-1998 with Graduate Courses in Painting at the Virginia
Commonwealth University. During her tenure as an Art Teacher
at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Virginia from 1990
to 1999, Ms. Holland received numerous Awards and Honors to
include Best in Show, Eastern Shore Art League Member Show,
2001; Central Virginia Watercolor Guild - Juried Show, 2000,2004,2005,
2006; Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition Juried Show, d'Art Center,
2006; and Montpelier Center for Arts & Education Juried
Show, 2006.
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Robert
Buckner, Karate Instructor and Drums Instructor
Mr. Buckner
is a black belt Karate Instructor and holds a 3rd degree Black
Belt in Okinawin Shorin-Ryu. He is also an Instructor on the
Drums and has been playing drums since 1973, currently with
local favorite band "Mr. B and the Boys".
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Robert
Arthur, Creative Writing and Poetry, Fiction & Songwriting
Instructor
Mr. Arthur has been teaching college-level Creative Writing
since 1975 and previously taught at the University of Richmond
and Tidewater Community College. He has a BA and MA from the
University of Richmond and an MFA from the University of Arkansas.
He is an award-winning poet, playwright, and fiction writer.
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Gene Dolmovich
{Chuckles the Clown}/Magic Instructor
Mr.
Dolmovich has been performing as a clown professionally
on the Eastern Shore and in the Tidewater area for over
25 years. He has mastered the art of entertaining children
of all ages from preschool age to the young at heart.
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Charlene
Huh, Children's Art Instructor
Ms. Huh has
an extensive background in early childhood development. She
operated a childcare center for fifteen years in Connecticut
which concentrated on children with ADD and ADHD. She continued
to take courses at Bridgeport University and later moved to
Tennessee where she continued her coursework at Chattanooga
State College. She worked as a teacher at the Child Development
Center in Tennessee and is now an Art Instructor with ESO
teaching the Abrakadoodle Program.
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Lynn
Williams, Banjo and Fiddle Instructor
Mr.
Williams is from Upstate New York and a former President of
the Champlain Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association in
the Outer Adirondacks area. He played bugle as a child and
later progressed to string instruments. Mr. Williams now plays
the guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin. He has accompanied
local groups such as the Turkey Pen Pickers and the duo of
Thelma and Erika Peterson.
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Lisa
Brasch, Tap Instructor
Mrs.
Brasch teaches all levels of tap dance and is qualified to
teach Beginner Jazz. She has taught since 2003. She performed
off-Broadway in Herndon, Va. Mrs. Brasch studied at the Broadway
Dance Center in New York, in Fredericksburg and in Stafford,
Va
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Barbara
Hall, Fitness Instructor
Mrs.
Hall has been teaching group fitness for nearly three decades,
including at health clubs, colleges, corporate fitness centers,
parks & rec departments, and senior retirement communities.
Since moving here in 2002, she continues to bring her passion
for teaching fitness classes to the Eastern Shore. She is
certified by ACE (Group Fitness), PiYo, STOTT Pilates (Mat)
and YogaFit. She also holds a Drums Alive Specialty certification
and is CPR/AED certified through the American Heart Association.
She currently teaches Dance Fit, PiYo, Sculpt & Tone,
Stretch & Flow, and Yoga here at ESO. Other classes she
has taught over the years include: Abs, Cardio Circuit, Drums
Alive, Hi/Lo Aerobics, Kickboxing, Senior Fitness, Step Aerobics,
STOTT Pilates Mat, Water Aerobics, Zumba and Zumba Gold.
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Mary
Onley ("Mama Girl"),
Papier Mache Sculpture
Mama Girl has obtained national recognition for her unique
folk art creations, and is a self-taught artist. She has held
exhibitions regionally including ODU in Norfolk.
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Mark
Jensen - Musical Instruments Instructor
Mark offers
instruction in guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, brass, woodwinds,
percussion and keyboard. Mark has a B.A. in Musical Performance
- Trumpet and took Applied Studies of orchestral instruments
at the college level. He has taught at ESO, Arts Enter, and
privately since 1990. He has many years of musical performance
in various ensembles.
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Vesna
Zidovec, Conversational Spanish Instructor
Ms. Zidovec taught Spanish 101 and 102 at the Eastern Shore
Community College from 1988 to 2008. She attended college
in Argentina. Vesna is also an gifted potter, well-known for
her beautiful mirrors and wall hangings which often feature
dragonflies, butterflies, crabs, and jellyfish.
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Ally
Tarwater, Woodwinds & Brass Instructor
Ally offers instruction in flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe,
trombone, tuba, and other "low brass" instruments.
She has a Bachelor of Music and Masters in Music Education
(Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
She has taught privately in middle and high schools and was
chosen the Outstanding Graduate Student in Music Education
at U.T. Knoxville in 2010. She is a member of the Orchestra
of the Eastern Shore.
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Diana
M. Davis, Watercolor Instructor
An award-winning artist, Diana grew up on the Eastern Shore,
and began painting watercolors at age 18. Diana's originals
can be found in businesses and private collections throughout
the U.S., Canada and Europe. She has participated in one man
and juried shows around Virginia, and is former president
of the Eastern Shore Art League. Diana has taught in many
localities on the Eastern Shore and in the Tidewater Virginia
area. Diana finds inspiration in color and light, and showcases
the beauty of nature that God has blessed us with - lovely
flowers, butterflies, fresh vegetables, old machinery, landscapes,
and antique tractors.
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Chris
Glennon, Photography Instructor
Mr. Glennon
has over 25 years of photography experience and has been self
employed in the photography field for 20 plus years as of
2012. He holds a college degree in visual communications technology
and an advanced certification in Photoshop. Recent publications
include New York Post, W magazine & Hampton Roads Magazine.
Mr. Glennon has photographed many of the events in and around
Cape Charles & Northampton County.
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Stevon
Sample, Sketching/Cartooning Instructor
Mr. Sample attended
Eastern Shore Community College, and currently works in mosaics
at New Ravenna in Exmore, Va. He owns his own graphics business,
Dominion Multimedia, specializing in graphic art and printed
media. Mr. Sample participates in art shows and draws caricatures
in restaurants and at festivals.
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