David Adams
David Adams, Ph.D., has taught art history and introduction to art at several state universities, community colleges, and art schools for thirty years, including Sierra College in California for twenty years. He has also taught and administered in Waldorf schools for nine years. He founded and has been Director of the Center for Architectural & Design Research since 1982 and has also worked as a freelance writer and editor for the J & R Lamb Studios, the oldest stained glass and decorative arts studio in the U.S. He has often lectured and written numerous published research articles, essays, and art exhibition booklets, and occasionally creates as an installation or performance artist. He is the Secretary of the Council of the Visual Arts Section of the School of Spiritual Science in North America and has edited or co-edited the international Art Section Newsletter since 1998.
LAURA SUMMER
Laura Summer is co-founder of Free Columbia, an arts initiative whose mission is to facilitate art in relation to the spiritual aspects of the human being and the world. It is completely grass roots donation supported and has no set tuitions. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Catholic Art and History in New York City and at the Sekem Community in Egypt. She has published seven books, founded two temporary alternative exhibition spaces and initiated ART DISPERSAL 2012-19 where over 600 pieces of art by professional artists have been dispersed to the public without set prices.
Patrick Stolfo
Patrick Stolfo M.A. is an artist and educator. He studied fine arts at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, sculpture at Emerson College, England, and education at the Waldorf Institute of Mercy College in Detroit. Working mainly in terra-cotta, wood and stone carving, cast stone, and drawing, his sculptures and graphics have been exhibited and/or commissioned in Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, California, Sweden, and England. Besides working out of his home studio in Ghent, NY, he mentors art educators and teaches guest blocks in Waldorf schools. He has taught students at the middle and high school levels since 1981 in clay modeling, ceramics, wood and stone carving, drawing, history of art and architecture, and humanities. He has also filled various school leadership positions, including 12 years as high school chairperson at Hawthorne Valley School. Patrick has taught visual arts, the history of art and architecture, anthroposophy, and Waldorf pedagogy in numerous adult education programs across North America, is a founding and core faculty member of the Alkion Center for Waldorf Teacher Education at Hawthorne Valley, and is an adjunct faculty member of the Center for Anthroposophy in New Hampshire.