Faculty

Lisa Brandt | BFA

Lisa Brandt is a German born and raised illustrative artist, now living and working in the metro-Detroit area. She studied graphic design at Oakland Community College and later graduated from College for Creative Studies in 2021 with a BFA in Illustration. Maintaining her studio and commission work, Lisa has also begun working on public art projects. Among her latest projects are a playable public art piano, organized by Music Shapes and Paint Creek Center for the Arts, which is now on display at the Rochester Avon Recreation Authority (RARA), and the co-conceptualization and design of a public mural for the Trolley Plaza Garage in downtown Detroit (Washington Blvd. side), led by CCS Illustration Chair, Don Kilpatrick, and Founder and Curator of the Nicole Tamer Art Gallery, Nicole George.

Jennifer Callahan | BFA

Jennifer provides many of our printmaking and felting classes here at PCCA. Stay tuned for a formal bio.

Kären Childs Elder | BFA

Kären graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Toronto’s OCAD.  Kären’s work is focused on landscape with a human element, as well as collage with miniature painting, sculpture and found objects, and is currently exhibiting at Shoreline Arts in Suttons Bay.  She has found delight in teaching art to both children and adults for the last 29 years.

Cody Davidson | BFA

Bio coming soon!

Mary Dudek | BFA

Mary Dudek is a visual artist working in Metro-Detroit. While primarily a figure sculptor, her practice ranges from drawing, to painting, to ceramics, to metal. Her passion for her faith and awe of the human body fuels her work prompting her to create mostly liturgical art and representational figure sculpture. She studied drawing and sculpture at Studio Art Center International in Florence Italy and earned her BFA from the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design. She teaches a variety of classes and workshops throughout the Metro-Detroit area and maintains her studio work and commissions.

Nicole Jendrusina | BFA

Nicole Jendrusina received her degree in Studio Art: Photography with a minor in Art History from Oakland University. Throughout her studies, she has worked in many different types of art media, but ultimately fell in love with the photographic process and the science behind it all.

Primarily working in portraiture, she is motivated by the ability to make her subjects feel confident with themselves when they see their resulting images. Her artistic work focuses on human nature and the way we experience emotion. Often, her work is inspired by music and her previous art studies and explorations.

Emanuel Rus | BFA

Kris Schaedig | MFA

Carolyn Shoemaker | BFA

Carolyn always knew art would figure prominently in her life, professionally and personally. She earned her degree from College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She worked as a professional graphic designer for over 25 years and was always painting in her free time. In the last three years she has been focusing on painting and began a new passion for teaching.

Carolyn loves to share her knowledge and enjoys seeing the outcome of her students accomplishments.

She has exhibited her work in a number of galleries in and around this beautiful state of Michigan where she and her family love to travel. Gardening is another passion, which is why painting florals is one of her favorite things to paint along with landscapes and abstracts.

Jenny Stacey

Jenny Stacey is PCCA’s Manager of Galleries & Digital Media. She leads illustration and design courses at PCCA.

Robin Ziebert | M.E.

Robin is a mixed media artist teaching classes at Paint Creek Center for the Arts!

Noah Zirpoli

Bio coming soon!