Camp Staff Biographies
Summer in the Arts at Northern hires many talented individuals for the summer camps. NIU faculty, students, and alumni, as well as area teachers, are among the staff. Pictured above are Ron Carter, director of the NIU Jazz Camp, Lynn Stockton, director of Visual Arts Camp, and Melanie Parks, director of the theatre camps.
NIU Jazz Camp
Ron Carter (camp director, big band director)
Geof Bradfield (saxophone instructor)
Kimberly Branch (trumpet instructor, counselor)
Larry Brown, Jr. (guitar instructor, co-director, Latin Jazz Combo, counselor)
Bryan Carter (percussion instructor, co-director combo, head counselor)
Quentin Coaxum (trumpet instructor, counselor
Mark Dahl (big band director, saxophone instructor)
Willerm Delisfort (combo director, piano instructor, counselor)
Christopher Dorsey (big band director)
Marquis Hill (trumpet instructor, co-director combo, counselor)
Christopher Johnson (trombone instructor, counselor)
Marybeth Kurnat (saxophone instructor, counselor)
Ian Letts (saxophone instructor, counselor)
Bernard Long, Jr. (percussion instructor, co-director Latin Jazz Combo, counselor)
Jerry Lowrey (saxophone instructor, counselor)
Christopher McBride (saxophone instructor, combo director, counselor)
Scott Mertens (combo director, piano instructor)
Wesley Morgan (bass instructor, counselor)
Matt Poulos (trombone instructor)
Theatre Arts Camp Senior and Theatre Arts Camp Junior
Melanie Parks (camp director)
Greer Blaustein (storyteller, Theatre Jr.)
Stanton Davis (instructor)
Chelsea DuVall (instructor, counselor, Theatre Jr.)
Anna Gelman (instructor, counselor)
Carolyn Guido (instructor, counselor)
Kevlyn Hayes (instructor, counselor)
Bailey Hayman (assistant to a director, counselor, Theatre Jr.)
Natasha Martin (instructor)
Ryan Massie (instructor)
Joel Moses (instructor, counselor)
Jose Ochoa (counselor)
Alice Pacyga (instructor, counselor, Theatre Sr.)
Amy Powell (instructor, counselor, Theatre Jr.)
Kristina Rausch (instructor, counselor, Theatre Sr.)
Nathan Wyman (assistant camp director, instructor, head counselor)
Visual Arts Camp
Lynn Stockton (camp director and co-instructor, Drawing Realism)
Brandon Barber (instructor, Acrylic Portraiture, counselor)
Peggy Dee (instructor, Life Drawing)
Lisa Doll (instructor, Mixed Media Collage)
Aleksandra Giza (instructor, 2-D Design)
Brian Hierstein (instructor, Sculpture/3-D Fiber Character Creation, counselor)
Evan Jarzynski (counselor)
Bjana Lunde (instructor, Self Portrait and Drawing Studies, counselor)
April Macantagay (instructor, Sculpture, 3-D Experience, counselor)
Courtney McManus (counselor)
Frank Matas (instructor, Acrylic Painting)
Becki Miller (counselor and co-instructor, Drawing Realism
Shauna Ubersox (counselor)
Elizabeth Woodyatt (instructor, Abstraction with Oil Pastel)