Junior Artist's Center Faculty

David Bauman: (SAG, AFTRA, AEA) earned his MFA from UCLA. Originally from Wisconsin, David is an actor, director, and children’s book author now living in Los Angeles. He has written and directed several serials for Sacred Fool’s Theater’s late night Crime Scene. He has worked with the Blank Theater Company’s Young Playwrights’ Festival and directed for their Living Room Series. He has worked with The Blank, Sacred Fools, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Evidence Room Theater, and Buzzworks Theater companies in classic and contemporary productions. Bauman has taught acting at UCLA, for StageCoach Schools at CrossRoads in Santa Monica, and is currently teaching and directing at the Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. He has written interactive children’s books for Golden Books in Wisconsin and Meredith Publishing in Iowa, and hopes to publish his own collection of children’s poetry, Tales From Bedside Manor.

Mallory Cremin: MFA in Photography, ASU, Tempe, AZ; BA in Art History, Kenyon College, Gambler, OH. A freelance photographer for 23 years, and an art educator for the past 17 years, her award winning photographic work has been exhibited across the country and is in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography and City of Mesa. She has taught at Cal State San Bernardino, Chaffey College, University of Redlands and other local colleges as well as the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Her personal work specializes in printing and alternative process emulsions on fabric and subjects of environmental concern. In 2009 she opened a commercial portrait studio in the town of Idyllwild, Mallory Cremin Photography.

David Delgado is in his final year studying Sculpture at the College of the Arts in Oakland, California. He is well versed in traditional handbuilding techniques and the potter’s wheel for utilitarian and sculptural purposes. This will be David’s fifth year working for the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program.

Linda Fuller Otis Arts Institute; BA, Art, Antioch University, Los Angeles; Early Childhood Degree, Center for Early Education, Los Angeles. Linda has taught for several schools in the Los Angeles area, including the Midtown, Westland, and Los Encino schools, The Center for Early Education, and Crossroads Elementary School. As the Arts Specialist for Crossroads for fifteen years, Linda integrated art into the social studies curriculum and worked with both the theater and music programs, creating scene designs, masks, and murals. Linda also served as Arts Specialist and Consultant for the Melrose Avenue School and the Valley County School in the San Fernando Valley. Other teaching includes working as the Arts Specialist for the I. E. (Innovative Education) Program, associated with Hollywood High School, where she led field trips to Watts Towers and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and then guided the students to create sculptures and drawings based upon their experience. She also gives workshops for CAIS (California Association for Independent Schools) and CAEA (California Art Education Association). Linda continues to work with museums in New York to enhance and develop their children’s art programs and exhibits her artwork in Los Angeles and New York. In addition to contributing to set designs in NY and San Francisco theatres, she worked with children to create art for the film I Am Sam. She teaches art to under privileged children in various schools in Los Angeles as well as private art classes at her home.

Lori Jaroslow's professional life combines her many years working as a performer, writer and teacher. She is currently at work on both a musical theater piece with composer Fonda Feingold, Project Baby, and a memoir about the joys and sorrows of substitute teaching in the Los Angeles public schools. Lori attended the UCLA professional screenwriting program and has written plays, musicals, screenplays and personal essays. Also a classically trained actress, Lori has performed on and Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally, in such shows as Grease and Fiddler on the Roof. She also directs and performs on the award-winning CD audiobook series Tell Me A Story.

Tim Labor: Ph.D. in music composition, UCSD. Currently a faculty member in the UC Riverside Dept. of Music, and a member of the Circle X Theatre Company. He is a composer and sound designer whose recent projects include Laura Comstock’s Bag Punching Dog for Circle X Theatre Company, and The Laramie Project for Mira Costa High School. In 2002, Tim received an LA Weekly award nomination for best original score for Paul Mullin’s world premier play American Book of the Dead, The Game Show.

Fred Marinello: BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology. Painter, photographer/digital artist, printmaker, watercolorist and studio arts instructor. Web Gallery at www.fredmarinello.com. He has received awards from the Committee of Excellence in Higher Education, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); The White House Commission On Presidential Scholars, “Distinguished Teacher”; National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and Arts Recognition and Talent Search. Fred has been an Idyllwild Arts Summer Program instructor for twenty years. Recent exhibitions include: Bonita Museum, Escondido Municipal Gallery, San Diego Art Institute, Spanish Village VI Balboa Park, Poway Center for Performing Arts in California and Tubac Center of the Arts in Arizona.

Johanna McKay (AEA, SAG, AFTRA) has directed and written adaptations of Shakespearean plays for young teens and has taught acting to children for over fourteen years. She teaches drama during the year for P.S. Arts in Los Angeles. Johanna has earned her BFA in acting from The Theatre School, DePaul University (Sarah Siddons Award), and her MFA from UCLA (Jack Nicholson Award). Johanna’s acting credits include work at the Steppenwolf, The Goodman, Dallas Theatre Center, San Jose Repertory Theatre and the Hollywood Bowl. She’s been nominated for and Ovation and Los Angeles Weekly Best Actress awards and won the Santa Barbara Independent Theatre Award for her performance as Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest (Rubicon Theatre) and a Dramaloque Award for Mary Barnes (The Odyssey). Film/TV credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Malcolm in the Middle, Mr. 3000, The Babe, and The Bernie Mac Show.

Michael McLean: BA in Music Education from Eastern Illinois University in 1981. Michael has completed two levels of Kodaly Training and taught several music methods survey courses for the Los Angeles Unified School District Teacher Intern Program. He presently serves as a peer coach for the elementary music teachers in the LA Unified district. Before he began his teaching career, Michael recorded and toured with a Los Angeles based country band, The Lonesome Strangers from 1984-1991. This is his sixteenth year of teaching with the Los Angeles Unified School District. He is currently working at Parmelee Avenue Elementary and Liberty Boulevard Elementary.

Bruce McMenamin:  Director of Children’s Center. BA in Art: Sculpture, SDSU. Sculptor, Graphic Designer, Arts Administrator. He has held numerous positions during his 40 years at Idyllwild Arts, including student services, arts faculty and administration.

Carrie Meeker: BA in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley; MA Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara. Carrie returns to her fourth year at Idyllwild, bringing along her experience working with a variety of media including ceramics, watercolors, photography, fiber arts, and the written word. Her work in visual arts have received recognition and awards in public exhibitions.

Linda Miller: For over twenty years, Linda Miller has been a member of We Tell Stories, and has been entertaining and educating children by bringing stories to life through a blend of storytelling and audience participatory theatre. She is currently working in the classroom with teachers and students using improvisation and storytelling techniques to turn stories into plays. She has also served as program facilitator/staff coordinator for Dramatic Results, an art therapy program that focuses on at-risk children in the Long Beach Public School system. As an actress, Linda has performed throughout Los Angeles at such theaters as South Coast Rep, The Met Theatre, Sacred Fools, The Coast Playhouse and Circle X Theatre Co. Her film and Television credits include 17 Again, Grey’s Anatomy, Without a Trace, Carnivale, Better Luck Tomorrow and Turner and Hooch.

Jim Morford: Degrees in Digital Media Arts from and multimedia instructor at Cerro Coso Digital Animation Academy and College of the Sequoias, using Flash, 3ds max, XSI, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Photoshop. He began his graphics career creating the AniMax computer graphics system and has designed graphics and facilities for the environmental field and contributes to the development of the Papervision3D rendering engine and the Blender 3D authoring environment. Jim owns and manages VisualInertia, a studio creating digital, 2D and 3D interactive content for animation and game design and development.

Felice Moskowitz brings over 30 years of teaching experience to Idyllwild. Her extensive experience in choreography includes her work in The Wiz, Music Man, Once on this Island, Guys and Dolls, and Footloose. She is past board member of the International Network for Performing and Visual Arts Schools, and Dance chair for the Oregon Board of Physical Education. Currently Felice teaches at the Arts and Communication Magnet Academy, and is assistant director of Dance West, a pre-professional training company.

Cat Orlando earned an Arts degree with an emphasis in three dimensional design, with Highest Honors. She has been part of the family at Idyllwild Arts since 2000 teaching Bearmaking during Family Camp. She has taught children various forms of art over the last twenty years including art classes for the Palm Springs Unified School District G.A.T.E. program. She has been teaching all forms of dance since 1998 for students age two years old to adult. Her dancers have won numerous awards and the Desert Theater League awarded her Best Costume and Make-Up Design. She also runs an arts camp for children called F.A.M.E., Fine Arts & Music Education which opened in July 2002.

Robert Petitmermet: BFA, Sculpture, Illinois Wesleyan University, MFA, Sculpture, Southern Illinois University; artist/educator; currently Art Department Chair and fine arts instructor, AP Portfolio Classes, Sculpture and Seminar-In-Art, Torrey Pines High School; involved in curriculum development and technology applications in arts classes. Active in Artist Trading Card venues. Idyllwild Arts Summer Program instructor for twenty years.

Jessica Schiffman has illustrated fifteen children’s books for publishers (among them, Harcourt, Ottenheimer, and Zaner-Bloser) including Much, Much Better, which received two awards. She is currently working on her sixteenth book, to be published in 2010. Her comic strips and cartoons have appeared in publications nationwide. Jessica is also a painter, represented by galleries in Palm Desert, Idyllwild and Mountain Center. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, UCLA, and the Art Academy of Los Angeles. Jessica has taught Graphic Storytelling at the Idyllwild Arts Academy for seven years