is a community based, nonprofit arts association dedicated to providing
affordable, year round arts education on the North Oregon coast.
Our goal is to offer a rigorous, intimate and informal setting for students of all ages to pursue their talents, focus their energies and hone their craft. To this end, our faculty is composed of working artists with years of experience in their field. More than a school, Tolovana Arts Colony is a community of artists.
TAC offers classes with affordable tuitions year round and will begin offering workshops in the spring.
We at TAC have a broad definition of art; as in, any work done well becomes art. Our efforts are being supported by a wide spectrum of local organizations -- The Cannon Beach American Legion, Chamber of Commerce, Historical Society, City Government, etc. -- and individuals. Funds are raised through benefits, raffles, grants and individual donations. (Donations can be tax deductable; just ask.)
Please feel free to contact billy@upperleftedge.com or call at 503.436.2915 if you have any questions or want to get involved in any capacity. We are growing and invite everyone to join us.
Registration Form — Classes & Workshops
Instructors
Kathy Delumpa Allegri is a plein air artist and instructor since 1992 and paints on location in Provence, on Hawaii, throughout mainland US and “Canada. She has a Bachelor of Science in Art from Colorado State University (Pueblo), is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon and Portland Plein Air Painters and is represented by White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach. A native of the Phillipines, she embraces her island roots with He Makana O Aloha Hula Halau and Teatro Bagong Silangan (Theatre of the New East).
Christen Allsop has studied and practiced yoga for 15 years and began teaching two years ago. Her practice is influenced by lyengar yoga and vinyasa flow.
Michael Burgess is an author, columnist and award-winning journalist who also teaches writing at Tillamook Bay Community College.
Allyn Cantor is a mixed media artist who has worked with several mediums including painting, drawing, found objects, resin & fiber. She has an MFA in fiber art from Syracuse University and her work has been exhibited nationally, most recently at Fiber International (Lancaster Museum of Art) and the American craft Show in Baltimore.
William Eldridge, PhD is a retired existential psychotherapist and social work professor (Ohio State University) with 40 years experience teaching, consulting, researching and writing about various dynamics of human growth, development, self-actualized living, psycho-emotional harmony and balance, inspirational living and healthy communities. He was the founder of the Center for Peace Studies and Community Development in Columbus, Ohio.
Hank Johnson has been a devotee of James Beard’s American cookery for forty years. His mocha rye bread won the Oregonian-James Beard Recipe Contest in 1976.
Jennifer Myers, an Oregon Coast native, was introduced to yoga in 1987 at Portland State University and completed a year-long anusara yoga teacher training with Sarahjoy Marsh in 2004. She has been teaching yoga for four years.
Lauren Sheehan is a nationally renowned blues/roots recording artist.
Susan Simon has studied at Oregon School of Arts and Crafts and Pacific NW College of Art, exhibited at the Whitebird Gallery and Cannon Beach Arts Association, and taught at Clatsop Community College. She has practiced encaustic painting for six years.
Lorain Trzyna has a degree in music education (choral and instrumental) from Illinois State and performed graduate work at Cardinal Stritch University. She has taught general music, piano and voice since 1989.
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Arts Colony
Cannon Beach, Oregon
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