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The next workshop will start in October 2026 - more detail will be posted soon.
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Past Faculty
Angie Tabor
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About
Angie Tabor (they/them) is a performing musician, music educator and composer based in Port Townsend, WA. They are known for being highly versatile, performing with jazz ensembles, symphony orchestras, music theater productions, and Top 40 & tribute acts. They can also be heard performing on steelpans with their Caribbean-infused trio, Caribe. As a music educator, they have taught grades K-12 and college. In 2017, they founded the Port Townsend Steel Bands – communty-based beginning and intermediate steel bands devoted to sharing the enchanting sounds of the steelpans with the community while honoring the traditions and history of the instrument. Angie also maintains a studio of private students. Read MoreJoe Seamons
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Kristen Barron Kinney
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About
Kirsten Barron Kinney graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine in where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Choreography and in Dance Performance. While attending UCI, she was a member of Donald McKayle’s modern company Etude Ensemble, Fresno Ballet under the direction of Donald Bradburn, and has returned to UCI as a guest choreographer for Bare Bones Dance Theatre in 2007, and as a guest performer for the Donald McKayle’s Tribute in 2009.
Read MoreMargie McDonald
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About
Margie McDonald is the artistic director for the Port Townsend Wearable Art Show now heading into its sixth year.
Margie’s work in Wearable art and sculpture has been exhibited in the New Zealand World of Wearable Art Exhibition, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, Museum of Northwest Art, Northwind Arts Center and Simon Mace Gallery.
Maude Eisele
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About
Maude is a founding ensemble member of Saltfire Theatre in Port Townsend. Her passion for collaborative theatre has brought her into many theatre ensembles over the years: from Poor Players, a bold and wacky Shakespeare ensemble rehearsing in the shadows of Balboa Park in San Diego…to world and regional premiers with the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company…to the Colorado Shakespeare Company’s touring troupe’s explorations of bullying behavior and its remedies through Shakespeare’s words.
Read MoreOllie Brickman
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Rachel Kessler
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Rachel Kessler is a writer, artist, and educator in dᶻidᶻəlalič. She co-founded interactive poetry collaborations Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society, and collective Wa Na Wari, a residential reclamation project centering Black art and media in Seattle’s Central District. Her poetry appears in many publications and she has taught creative writing for 25 years to youth, teens, elders, and college students. Her work is deeply rooted in place: her public art pillar representing the CD’s Jewish history will be installed on the street her ancestors immigrated to, lived and died on. As artist-in-residence at public housing project Yesler Terrace (her great grandparents’ home), she and community members activated a vacant apartment slated for demolition with poetry, live music, storytelling, potlucks, dancing, and collective murals. Her illustrations of the PNW urban shore feature in Cascadia Field Guide: Art Ecology Poetry.
Read MoreTaylor Dow
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