Amber Nicole Cannan is our primary muse/instructor; she is an Adjunct Professor at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and a former president of The New Hampshire Creative Club, New Hampshire’s oldest professional arts organization. With over 10 years of professional arts experience and over 15 years of teaching in its various forms, your student is in good hands.

Amber Nicole’s degree is in fine arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), one of the top 5 art schools in North America. She has a strong background in science and anatomy from Case Western Reserve University and CIA’s Biomedical Art program. This scientific background helps her connect with “nontraditional” art students.

Please view her freelance company’s website, and professional portfolio at www.bioscicreative.com

Brenda Noiseux is one of our teachers. She owns her own consulting company and follows her creative pursuits involving photography, mixed media, tinkering and anything that gets her hands dirty. With over a decade experience in the tech industry, she loves combining science, engineering, technology and math (STEM) with art.

Chadwick Howard is an Instructor. He feels an instinctual need to explore, and experiment with a variety of media. Chad is inspired by biomimicry, and the properties of light; working with light as an artform itself.

While studying art education at NHIA, he felt that classrooms should be intriguing, informative, and a fun, safe environment for students to express their thoughts and beliefs which enabled students to grow into strong individuals.

Ky Flood is our Studio Manager. Her experience creating wearable art out of unconventional materials for cosplay designs means she considers the user experience behind our studio and its organization. She also keeps our teachers organized and well supplied.

She has a degree in Graphic Design from Hesser College and several years of experience working as a tattoo artist- yet another medium that thinks hard about the end user’s experience with her designs and illustration. Her favorite thing about art is working with others to bring that image in their head to life, no matter the media. When not keeping our heads on straight in the studio, she works as a freelance Illustrator and Concept Artist.

Lead Teacher and Studio Assistant Elise is a creator with a heart. She teaches this Oobleck Squishy Science class to a socially distanced classroom from Zoom!  Some student antics come through and she is a delight to follow on this series. Do cover your entire table with newspaper.  When you are done, roll it up and throw it out. Because this slime is primarily corn starch and water, the paper helps dry out the slime and return it to powder.

Heather Morris is a Lead Teacher and BFA student at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She is passionate about sustainability and nature, often using scavenged and found objects in her process. As a mixed media artist she flows freely between painting, book arts, and natural fabric dyeing. Heather is heavily influenced by the community around her and strives to make the arts more accessible through showing the value in alternative materials. For years she has worked with children of all ages in both academic and recreational environments, building the foundation for young creatives.

Susan Earnshaw is a Teaching Assistant and loves everything about art, so she pursued it, gaining an Associates in Art from Northern Essex Community College. She also loves teaching, so she leads Sunday School at The First Church Congregational in Methuen. Her favorite parts were crafts, games, recess and snack time…. Well, all of it!

In her free time, she strives to catch the most spontaneous and priceless moments for people to remember. In addition to her volunteer work with First Church Congregational in Methuen, she works with the elderly in their Activities Program at the Methuen Senior Center.

Susan just loves making art, observing artist and helping others find their way in the many paths of art.

Rossy Pichardo is a Teaching Assistant with the goal of becoming a Lead Teacher and one day teach overseas! She has had an interest in art since she can remember. As a young child she would draw cartoons more than she watched them. Continuing this passion, she obtained an associates degree in fine arts at Manchester Community College. Her favorite mediums include charcoal, graphite, gouache, watercolors, and acrylic. At her core, she loves to experiment and discover.

Melanie Watanabe is a video editor and graphic designer who is a recent graduate from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She strives to provide a comfortable space for viewers through her video and print work. She wants her work to bring people joy, relief, representation, and an overall appreciation for art. She uses flat colors, geometric shapes, and typography most heavily in her work, preferring to stick to a limited color palette to give a clean look. She has been creating ever since she was a child, and will likely continue for the rest of her life. melaniewatanabe.com