Teaching
Artists Cohort

2026 Teaching Artist Cohort

The 2026 Teaching Artist Cohort at the Everson Museum of Art invited applications from talented local teaching artists to participate in a program designed to support and amplify our outstanding creative community by offering robust teaching opportunities, access to the Museum’s 3,000 sq. ft education center facilities, professional development, and community building. This inaugural cohort welcomes five talented visual artists with backgrounds in teaching a variety of ages and abilities. Workshops led by these teaching artists will be available throughout the year and will offer a wide array of themes and materials to explore. Visit our Events & Activities page for the latest workshop opportunities and learn more about this year’s talented cohort participants below.

Kirstin Dunlap

Kirstin Dunlap’s work is deeply rooted in her understanding of the personal connection between the body and the Earth. Every individual’s life experience is shaped by their relationship with these two bodies—both of which undergo growth, erosion, and decay processes.

Greg Lendeck

Greg Lendeck is a sculptor, mixed-media artist, and arts educator whose practice blends traditional studio methods with intuitive experimentation. Lendeck creates work that merges material and conceptual exploration with a personal cosmology, connecting people to place, memory, and ecology. Each piece evolves from an intuitive process into a larger non-linear narrative that explores the intersections of nature, science, and human experience.

Ashe Martin

Ashe Martin is Cortland-based artist and the owner of Forged from Ashe Studios, a multi-medium art studio where she teaches with a focus on the art of mosaics. With over 20 years of experience, she encourages all age ranges and skill levels to get creative. Martin is a live painter, installation artist, public art advocate, teaching artist and mural painter expressing a love of color and texture in her work.

Catherine Spencer

Catherine Spencer is a Central New York–based artist whose work explores the intersections of human experience, ecological resilience, and constructed environments. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes and materials of her childhood, she transforms found and human-made materials into biomorphic sculptures and imagined ecosystems that invite viewers to consider the shifting relationships between nature, memory, and transformation.

Deborah Walsh

Deborah Walsh is an artist and educator working in Central New York. A Syracuse university graduate, Walsh studied painting (BFA) and art education (MS), and retired after teaching art in Liverpool, where she was both inspired by and a guiding force for thousands of creative students. Her own art draws inspiration from her meticulous observation of the world around her. Painting in a photorealistic style, Walsh is concerned with capturing the way light falls on reflective objects, which she distorts, and manipulates, pushing the boundaries of realism to create a more meaningful piece.