About the Faculty

Joseph Blajda is a graduate of Plymouth State University and has formerly taught art at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and the New Hampshire Youth Development Center. He concentrates mostly on oil painting, but has experience in drawing, pottery, clay, animation, graphic art, and screen-printing. He has shown his work regionally. His artwork is currently on display at the Artstream Studio in Rochester, NH.

Sylvia Brofos is a graduate of the Chelsea School of Commercial Art in London England. She has taught art at The Kimball-Jenkins Art School as well as at the NH Institute of Art, Chester College, and the Currier Art Center. She is a member of the NH Art Association, and the NH Art Educators Association. She has exhibited extensively throughout NH and the New England region.

Becky Darling is an artist/educator who lives in Warner, NH.  She has a degree in Art Education fromSalem College , N.C. and has taught art to all ages from preschool to adult. She has focused on Watercolors and has studied with W. Robert Paine, Carlton Plummer, and Don Andrews as well as others. She has provided trainings and workshops for the NH Reads program as well as for teachers and for VSAarts.  She is an exhibiting member of The New Hampshire Art Association and is represented by McGowan Fine Arts in Concord , NH.

Mike Howat is a painter working out of Concord, NH. Since earning his B.F.A. from New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2014, he has been actively engaged in the New England art scene. He has worked with Kelley Stelling Contemporary, Mill Brook Gallery, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, Nahcotta Gallery, Chase’s Garage and other galleries in the region. He focuses on painting, but works routinely with large-scale graphite drawing, monotype printmaking and etching. Howat recently started dabbling with curation and is a curatorial advisor for the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. He has taught at Kimball Jenkins since 2016. When not in his studio, he’s likely wandering the coast or the White Mountains. www.mikehowat.com

Lee Johnson MAT in Visual Arts from Plymouth State University. He holds degrees in Visual Art and Museum Studies from New Hampshire Technical Institute, BA in History and Studio work from University of New Hampshire, and a Commercial Art Degree from Monmouth County Vocational in New Jersey. Lee has completed art classes at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and Art Education and Human Development at Lesley University. Since 2008 Lee has been teaching art classes for kids, teens, and adults, and is the director of the Summer Art Camp Program at Kimball Jenkins School of Art. He is also a public school art teacher for middle school.

Mary Mead has taught adult learners in a variety of settings throughout New England, and taught printmaking at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH for a number of years. At Kimball-Jenkins, she has offered classes and workshops for a variety of age groups including summer teen art camp. She works across mediums with, since 2001, a particular concentration in printmaking.  She is a member of the Boston Printmakers Society and has a long exhibition history. Mary Mead received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and an MFA from Tufts University and the Boston Museum School, with an emphasis in sculpture. www.summithousepress.com