Guest Instructors

Rebecca (Becca) Hall has been creating mixed media art for 40 years and for the last 4 years has been teaching workshops at NWAC. A firm believer that everyone is artistic, she emphasizes creativity doesn’t need rules – only guidelines and encouragement. A mother of one, Becca lives in Snohomish County with her husband and…

Instagram page – @bekabielman Website – www.bekabielmanarts.com Facebook page – Beka Bielman Art Beka Bielman is a fine artist, wife, and mother living in Duvall, WA.  She is a graduate of the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Fine Arts specializing in Painting and Drawing. She has been a printmaker for several years focusing in…

Instagram page – @yanayaart Website – yanayajewelryseattle.com Yana Yakuba is a Seattle-based jewelry designer and author of YanaYa jewelry brand. Yana loves to combine local gems and even pebbles with gold-filled wire, choosing colors and shapes that reflects nature shapes. Similar to abstract artists, she use textures, colors, and lines to express her emotions. Fresh…

My artistic journey began in childhood, but after careers in both cardiology and Montessori education, I was fortunate to return to art in the early 1990s. I started with ceramics and soon expanded into printmaking and painting. A workshop in Arizona introduced me to the process that ultimately captured my heart—Ink on Clayboard—a medium that…