Teachers & Classes
Elaine Muray
Elaine Muray
Elaine Muray highly theatrical storytelling, integrates movement and narration to deliver tales from around the world. She has performed at the Australian Storytelling Festival and in 2008 was chosen by her peers to perform at the National Storytelling Conference. She has a Bachelor’s in Social Work and is a certified ESL instructor. She is on the roster for Artists in the Classroom for Ventura County and is the founder of the Ventura County Storytelling Guild and Ventura Village Voices, an adult storytelling series highlighting regional tellers.
Michelle Honles
Michelle Honles
Michelle Honles, administrator and Kids’ Arts teacher has been an Art Teacher for 14 years working with children of various ages and abilities. She teaches at Kids’ Arts in Ventura, Pleasant Valley Recreation and Parks District, Camarillo Healthcare District, Misteca Ceramics, and at various private and public schools in Camarillo. In 2004, she began her own company in the Ventura County called “Art’N You”, promoting the arts and instruction in fine arts to kids of all ages, as well as produces her own art. She is married to a talented musician and is the mother of four creative young adults.
Heidi Cameron
Heidi Cameron
Heidi Cameron, Coordinator of Kids’ Arts, has been with the program for over 8 years. She has a BA in Child Development from CSUN, a Crisis intervention and Counseling certificate and has worked with children and youth for over 20 years. She is also a Swedish massage therapist and Reiki certified. Heidi concurrently is the coordinator of the Religious Education program for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura and a YMCA instructor. Heidi loves cooperative games, working with the pendulum, making jewelry, swimming and practicing Spanish & Sign-language and home schooling her son.
Sage Murillo
Sage Murillo
My name is Sage Murillo. I am a teacher at Kids’ Arts which is located in Ventura, California. I have been teaching here for a little over one year. I have studied art formally at Academy of Art Institute, and San Francisco Art Institute both located in San Francisco, California. In 2007 I graduated from Cal State University Channel Islands with bachelors in Comparative Literature. What I find about teaching the visual arts is that it is no different than doing art itself. It is a process, and the reward is far greater than selling paintings in a in some obscure gallery space. It is giving someone lifelong tools that they can further develop, and that no one can take away.
Kristin Frank
Kristin Frank
Carolyn Williams
Bio coming soon!
Carolyn Williams