Jo alam - Drawing and Painting
An accomplished, practicing artist, Jo has run her own art workshops in the UK since 2015. She is also a therapeutic art counselor and has offered successful adult art workshops for the past several summers at Les Tapies. Her energy and enthusiasm for painting and drawing are contagious and she also uses clay sculpture as part of her teaching technique. Jo teaches our Drawing and Painting major and minor courses and this past summer her work in the Les Tapies art studio enabled students with a wide range of abilities to produce outstanding work.
Rina Miyakawa - DRAWING AND PAINTING
A graduate of the University of Sunderland in the UK, Rina has taught Art and Design Technology at St Dominic’s International School and TASIS Portugal, where she presently oversees the dynamic Makerspace Lab. Her courses emphasize problem-solving through creativity and innovation. She will assist in the Drawing and Painting Major and offer jewelry making as a Minor.
Fernando Gonzalez - Architecture
Fernando Gonzalez earned a BA in Visual Studies from Harvard University and studied architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He taught photography, art and architecture at Phillips Academy and at The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) , where he served as Chairman of the Art Department. He has been Administrative Director of the TASIS Schools and Summer Programs in Europe and has directed summer programs and led student trips throughout Europe for the past 40 years. He has overseen TASIS campus development projects in England, Switzerland, France and Greece and in 2002, he co-founded the TASIS School in Puerto Rico. His love of vernacular architecture has led to his restoration of Les Tapies over the past 40 years.
Barry Iverson -photography
Barry Iverson was a photographer for Time Magazine for 25 years covering the Middle East from 1981-2007, photographing all of the major events of the region during that time. These included such paradigm changing events such as the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the takedown of the Taliban in Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11, coup d’etats, archaeology and famine. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to research the history of photography in Egypt, and concurrently taught photography at the American University in Cairo. His fine art work is represented by galleries in New York and Cairo, with his work being held in many public and private collections.