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get your hands into the arts at essa!

2008 ESSA Staff

Executive Director
Peggy Kjelgaard, Ph.D.
Eureka Springs

Assistant Director
Patt Carmichael
Eureka Springs

Program Coordinator
Sabina Miller
Holiday Island

2008 Board Members

President - Eleanor Lux
Eureka Springs

Vice President - Ron Morrison
Eureka Springs

Secretary - Mary Springer
Eureka Springs

Treasurer - Bobbie Foster
Eureka Springs

LeRoy Gorrell
Eureka Springs

Dana Jones
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sandra Lockhart
Rogers

Elise Roenigk
Eureka Springs

Doug Stowe
Eureka Springs

Dick Trammel
Rogers

Larry Wagner
Cassville, Missouri

Jan Wallace
Eureka Springs

Session Five/July 9-13

Kids (8-11 year olds)
Morning 9 am-12pm
Scholarships Available

Mary Tait
Basic Children’s Sewing

Studio
5 Day Class (9am-12pm)
Tuition: $110 (includes lab fee)
Materials: $10

Sew clothes for your life size doll! Children will create an image of themselves or classmates, design two simple outfits, cut patterns and learn to sew them into reality. Students will use sewing machines, hand techniques, and fabric scraps from Mary’s sewing studio.

Mary has a BFA in Painting from Louisiana Tech in Ruston, Louisiana. She has been a three-dimensional fiber artist since 1974. Mary has had a successful interior fabrication businesses in both Eureka Springs, Arkansas and New Orleans, Louisiana. She has done work for both the cinema and its stars.