Donna Coleman

Donna Coleman received her BFA, Honors, in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in painting from CUNY Brooklyn College, New York. She has been the recipient of four grants from the Ohio Arts Council; as well as the Ellen Johnson Visiting Artist Fund of Oberlin College; four grants from the DC Commission on the Arts; Art Matters, Inc.; and the George Sugarman Foundation. She has taught art to young children for many years, and before moving to Ohio in 2000, was an art teacher at Germantown Academy, PA, Rye Country Day School, NY, Browne Academy, VA, Fillmore Arts Center, WDC, and was the Director of the Dreamcatcher Arts Summer Camp and Middle School Art Teacher at Sidwell Friends School, WDC. She has been teaching art at FAVA since 2001 and has been Adjunct Professor in the art department at Lorain County Community College since 2009. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively in her hometown of Washington and in the NE Ohio area and her website is: www.dcolemanpaintings.com

Martha Ferrazza

Martha Ferrazza is a professional mural painter who learned her craft on the job, completing hundreds of murals for private and public spaces. She worked for many years on commercial decorative painting crews, and as a designer for Arhaus Furniture, trained and headed a mural-painting team that travelled from store to store. She is one of the founding artists of Waterloo Arts in Cleveland and is passionate about creating community through engagement in the arts.