FLAMily STAFF
Lovely Shanti Kelly
FLAM Director / Event Manager
Founder - Contemporary Art Salon
Department Chair - Visual and Digital Arts LVCP HS
Lovely Shanti Kelly believes that art making is an exchange of creativity and material, of thought and process, of artist and meaning. Ms. Kelly presents her work at regional, national and international art education conferences where she enjoys blending the boundaries of making, learning, and participation. She is interested in the intersection where process meets accessibility and encourages participation so that interactions form and connections are made which take on new meanings in the art and learning spaces we create. Her work is project based, collaborative and conceptual exploring concepts of identity, socially engaged art practice and valuing the self. Her teaching focuses on offering opportunities for co-constructivist learning with project based essential question driven curriculum whereby her students act as collaborators. She has an M.Ed. in Art Education from Lesley University and an MA in Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practice from Goldsmiths College at the University of London. Her contemporary art curriculum design has enabled her to work both within museums such as Dia:Beacon in New York's Hudson Valley, and as a teaching artist and museum education consultant with the Jewish Museum of London, Ben Uri Gallery. Selected for the pilot art21 Educators program, she has been actively teaching with contemporary art for over a decade. She lives with her Changemaker 9 year old daughter in Oakland, CA.
FLAM Director / Event Manager
Founder - Contemporary Art Salon
Department Chair - Visual and Digital Arts LVCP HS
Lovely Shanti Kelly believes that art making is an exchange of creativity and material, of thought and process, of artist and meaning. Ms. Kelly presents her work at regional, national and international art education conferences where she enjoys blending the boundaries of making, learning, and participation. She is interested in the intersection where process meets accessibility and encourages participation so that interactions form and connections are made which take on new meanings in the art and learning spaces we create. Her work is project based, collaborative and conceptual exploring concepts of identity, socially engaged art practice and valuing the self. Her teaching focuses on offering opportunities for co-constructivist learning with project based essential question driven curriculum whereby her students act as collaborators. She has an M.Ed. in Art Education from Lesley University and an MA in Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practice from Goldsmiths College at the University of London. Her contemporary art curriculum design has enabled her to work both within museums such as Dia:Beacon in New York's Hudson Valley, and as a teaching artist and museum education consultant with the Jewish Museum of London, Ben Uri Gallery. Selected for the pilot art21 Educators program, she has been actively teaching with contemporary art for over a decade. She lives with her Changemaker 9 year old daughter in Oakland, CA.
Sabbath Rain
Copy Writer
Now supporting FLAM as an alumni, Sabbath was LVCPs class president for all four years. She is an actress, poet, not-so-great-but-still-determined painter, Starbucks Barista, and extravaganza planning extraordinaire. She never leaves the stage. Even when she is rocking the behind-the-scenes setting, she brings the overbearingly exuberant fabulousness that we all know and kind of love her for. There is no art form she can or will not attempt. She tries to dance, sings off key, paints outside the lines, and she writes to make every English teacher cringe and cry tears of joy, at the same time. Sabbath has refused to simply survive life, and has instead devoted her life to living in each and every magical moment the world has to offer.
Copy Writer
Now supporting FLAM as an alumni, Sabbath was LVCPs class president for all four years. She is an actress, poet, not-so-great-but-still-determined painter, Starbucks Barista, and extravaganza planning extraordinaire. She never leaves the stage. Even when she is rocking the behind-the-scenes setting, she brings the overbearingly exuberant fabulousness that we all know and kind of love her for. There is no art form she can or will not attempt. She tries to dance, sings off key, paints outside the lines, and she writes to make every English teacher cringe and cry tears of joy, at the same time. Sabbath has refused to simply survive life, and has instead devoted her life to living in each and every magical moment the world has to offer.
Student Production Team @ LVCP
Marianne Calub
Ney Hoato (Alumni)
Kevin Mack
Bryanna O'Callaghan
Kailey Ornelas
Isaiah Perez
Laura Rogers (Alumni)
William Steinberg
Emma Stoneberger
JiaJie Wang
I.T. Wizard: Carter Sande
FLAM TA: Piper Tramayne
Faculty Support Team @ LVCP
Brett Shapiro
Emmy Spencer
Marianne Calub
Ney Hoato (Alumni)
Kevin Mack
Bryanna O'Callaghan
Kailey Ornelas
Isaiah Perez
Laura Rogers (Alumni)
William Steinberg
Emma Stoneberger
JiaJie Wang
I.T. Wizard: Carter Sande
FLAM TA: Piper Tramayne
Faculty Support Team @ LVCP
Brett Shapiro
Emmy Spencer
Global Steering Group
FLAM is grateful for the input from our artist and art educator consultants from the United States and abroad. Their works, research, energy and passion in contemporary art & art education inspires us.
Carla Goldberg
Mixed-Media Fine Artist
Curator & Gallery Director - Skylight Gallery NYC
Originally from Palm Springs, California she has made New York her home since the 90's. She works primarily with resins and ink on glass and acrylic panels. Her imagery explores water and memory concepts in one form or another combining non-traditional, industrial materials with traditional art mediums where her inventiveness pushes her materials constantly into new forms. The resulting work is intricate, delicate and ethereal. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in museums, universities and galleries. Goldberg is the Director of Skylight Gallery in Manhattan and the Beacon Artist Union.
Mixed-Media Fine Artist
Curator & Gallery Director - Skylight Gallery NYC
Originally from Palm Springs, California she has made New York her home since the 90's. She works primarily with resins and ink on glass and acrylic panels. Her imagery explores water and memory concepts in one form or another combining non-traditional, industrial materials with traditional art mediums where her inventiveness pushes her materials constantly into new forms. The resulting work is intricate, delicate and ethereal. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in museums, universities and galleries. Goldberg is the Director of Skylight Gallery in Manhattan and the Beacon Artist Union.
Clive Niall
Founder & Artist Headteacher
The Creative Arts Free School
Sensing an increased authoritarianism in educational structure in the United Kingdom, CAFS is deliberately positioning itself as a free-floating, nomadic pop-up school, resisting a status as a static institution fixed to one site. Its methodology, combining a creative arts based pedagogy with a democratic school structure seeks to swim against current, narrow conservative thinking in the field of education.
The school, committed to 'an education worth having' based on achievement through motivation and engagement through arts learning is also unorthodox in working not only as a school for young people but providing arts learning within the field of mental health and community settings.
Founder & Artist Headteacher
The Creative Arts Free School
Sensing an increased authoritarianism in educational structure in the United Kingdom, CAFS is deliberately positioning itself as a free-floating, nomadic pop-up school, resisting a status as a static institution fixed to one site. Its methodology, combining a creative arts based pedagogy with a democratic school structure seeks to swim against current, narrow conservative thinking in the field of education.
The school, committed to 'an education worth having' based on achievement through motivation and engagement through arts learning is also unorthodox in working not only as a school for young people but providing arts learning within the field of mental health and community settings.
Lala Thorpe
Head of Department
Art & Design
Hackney New School
London, England
Lala Thorpe has over 20 years experience of being an Arts Project Manager and working in arts education with a wide range of UK and International artists and arts organisations, galleries, arts venues and schools. Lala is Director of Artescape, an independent Saturday art programme for children based in North London. Lala is currently exploring aspects of pedagogy through informal learning and socially engaged art practices and the impact in a variety of contexts through her art and research.
Head of Department
Art & Design
Hackney New School
London, England
Lala Thorpe has over 20 years experience of being an Arts Project Manager and working in arts education with a wide range of UK and International artists and arts organisations, galleries, arts venues and schools. Lala is Director of Artescape, an independent Saturday art programme for children based in North London. Lala is currently exploring aspects of pedagogy through informal learning and socially engaged art practices and the impact in a variety of contexts through her art and research.