2010 Summer Workshop Faculty

Elle Azul Duncombe-Mills is a lover of art and animals and grew up with both in Hawaii and Maine. She is a high school student at George Stevens Academy, where she draws incessantly and lovingly for Honors Art classes. She spent many winter weekends in the studios of various local artists through the Haystack Mentor Program. She was first drawn to beading with her older sister, Lila Roo. She deepened her skills in workshops with Ginger Manna. For the past three summers she has sold her earrings (mounted on hand-drawn cards,) at the Brooksville and Stonington farmer’s markets. Her work has also been shown at Bella Calore in Blue Hill, and at present, in the Blue Hill Co-op.

Lila Roo Duncombe-Lieber has been working with both art and children for years in camps, daycare programs and self-made activities. A graduate of Reed College with a major in studio art, she is back with Seamark for her third summer! She has recieved numerous grants and scholarships to complete a variety of art projects that deal with cultural or environmental awareness, and she continues to look for ways that art can help educate in powerful and fun ways. Lila Roo has developed a relationship with the slum community of La Carpio in Costa Rica where children often have barely enough to eat, let alone art materials. To learn more about her work with this community, visit www.bringthebeauty.blogspot.com.

Haley McDonald learned to sew from her mother, and her husband’s grandmother taught her how to create crazy quilts. Haley is a stay-at-home mother and former preschool teacher. She lives in Deer Isle with her husband and two daughters. Her quilts are sold at the Stonington Farmers Market.

Robert Starkey is a landscape artist who lives, and maintains his studio and exhibition space, in Sargentville, Maine. He works in oils and pastels in an Impressionistic style with emphasis on the gesture and color that is inspired by the land. Along with being a professional artist he has been an art teacher for thirty years. His artwork can be viewed at his studio and at www.RobertWStarkey.com.

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