HOW IT WORKS: 5th-9th graders; 8-10 students per class; 1- or 2-week courses, Monday to Friday. Workshop details are listed below.

SCHOLARSHIPS/TRADES/BARTERS: Coyote has a generous scholarship program & a system of barters & trades of items or services for our auction. This ensures that any young person interested in a course has the opportunity to enroll.

SUMMER WORKSHOPS are COMING! Register NOW!

JUNE 23 – JUNE 27
Morning, 9:00-1:00
        GLASSBLOWING! Session I
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
        GLASSBLOWING!  Session II
        SCIENCE EXPERIMENTING!
JULY 7 – JULY 11
Morning, 9:00-1:00
        COOKING!  Session I
        DEBATE:  BE A LAWYER FOR A WEEK! Session I
        WELDING FOR BEGINNERS!  Session I
        CARTOON DRAWING! Session I
        FICTION WRITING!  Session I
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
       COOKING!  Session III
       HOT GLASS BEADMAKING!  Session I
       DEBATE:  BE A LAWYER FOR A WEEK! Session II
       WELDING FOR BEGINNERS!  Session II
       MANGA CARTOON DRAWING! Session I
       CHAIR DESIGN & BUILD!  Session I
JULY 14 – JULY 18
Morning, 9:00-1:00
        WELDING FOR BEGINNERS!   Session III
        DESSERTS, DESSERTS! Session I
        CARTOON ANIMATION!
        HIP HOP MUSIC!
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
        DESSERTS, DESSERTS! Session II
        SOAPBOX DERBY CARS! Session I
        PHOTOGRAPHY: BL/WH in DARKROOM! Session I
        WELDING FOR BEGINNERS!  Session IV
        ACTING AND IMPROVISATION!
JULY 21 – JULY 25
Morning, 9:00-1:00
        FILMMAKING! Session I
        WELDING! Session V                                                          
        MAGIC PERFORMANCE FOR BEGINNERS!  Session II
        PAINTING!
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
        FURNITURE DESIGN & BUILD!
        BREAKDANCING & GRAFFIT ART! Session I
        HOT GLASS BEADMAKING! Session II
JULY 28 – AUG. 1
Morning, 9:00-1:00
        MANGA CARTOON DRAWING! Session II
        ICING ON THE CAKE!
        WELDING! Session VI!                                             
        SOAPBOX DERBY CARS!   Session II
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
        ADVANCED WELDING!
        CARTOON DRAWING! Session II
        FASHION ILLUSTRATION!
        PHOTOGRAPHY: BL/WH in DARKROOM! Sess. II
AUG. 4 – AUG. 8
Morning, 9:00-1:00
         FILMMAKING! Session II
         ROBOTS, THE REAL THING!
         COOKING! Session II
         SOAPBOX DERBY CARS! Session III
         PHOTOGRAPHY: DIGITAL! Session I
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
        SOAPBOX DERBY CARS!  Session IV
        LOCOMOTION: CARS & VEHICLES!
        DESIGN & SEW!
        ACTING AND IMPROVISATION!
AUG. 11 – AUG. 15
Morning, 9:00-1:00
         MAGIC PERFORMANCE! Session II
         CHAIR  DESIGN & BUILD! Session II
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
        SOAPBOX DERBY CARS! Session  V!
        BREAKDANCING & GRAFFITI ART! Session II
        SINGING
AUG. 18 – AUG. 22
Morning, 9:00-1:00
        PHOTOGRAPHY: DIGITAL! Session II
        GLASS BLOWING!  Session III   
        FICTION WRITING! Session II
Afternoon, 1:30-5:30
        SOAPBOX DERBY CARS! Session VI
        GLASSBLOWING! Session IV
        FASHION: BAGS, BAUBLES & JEWELRY!

ACTING & IMPROVISATION!   Work with a professional actor to build your acting  skills through great theater training exercises. You'll perform improvisation, theater games, and scene work – the same paces that actors go through in professional training! You’ll develop your own characters in space & time.   Beginners and experienced actors, all welcome.
Location: Seattle Central Community College; Fees: $185 tuition
Session I: July 14 – July 18; 1:30 – 5:30    Teacher: Alissa Mortenson
Session II: August 4 – August 8; 1:30 – 5:30    

BREAK DANCING & GRAFFITI ART!  With two BYC Crew members, you’ll learn the basic moves, styles, vocabulary & history of break dancing. You’ll learn stretches & exercises to be able to perform more dynamic moves. You’ll test skills in a circle and battle each other in class. For graffiti art, you’ll create letters, backgrounds, & character designs, find out about graffiti art’s history and influences, & keep track of your artwork in you own book of drawings.
Teachers: Gil Brace & Spencer Smissaert; Madrona Playfield Park House; $185 tuition, $20 lab fee
Session I: July 21 – July 25; 1:30 – 5:30
Session II: August 11 – August 15; 1:30 – 5:30

CARTOON ANIMATION!  Make your own video cartoons in 911’s production lab.  With stop-motion, cut-out clip art, claymation and flip-books, you’ll work solo & team up to create cool cartoon shorts.  You’ll edit, add music & do voice-overs, just like in the industry.  The last day you’ll premiere your masterpieces on the big screen and receive a DVD of your own professional work.

July 14 – 18; 9:00 – 1:00   Teachers: Britta Johnson & Clyde Peterson; Location: 911 Media Arts; Fees: $195 tuition, $50 lab fee

CARTOON DRAWING WITH A PRO!   In this class you will draw, draw, draw, and lay out your own cartoons with a published professional cartoonist.  He’ll help you spiff up those characters, polish lines, gear up the motion, and get your stories told.  You’ll get closer to the world of professional cartooning as your techniques get sharper.  Of course, you draw YOUR favorite characters.
Teacher: Greg Stump; Location: Madrona Playfield Park House; $185 tuition, $15 lab fee
Session I: July 7 – July 11; 9:00 – 1:00 
Session II: July 28 – August 1; 1:30 - 5:30

COOK WITH A PROFESSIONAL!   This professional chef invites you into a huge kitchen to get your hands on all of the equipment and complex ingredients to create scrumptious foods. Each day she’ll challenge you to make a feast of four or five delicious courses. She’s ready for what you all decide to make: chili rellenos, crepes Suzette, elephant ears, Hoppin’ John, mud pie, sushi, all southern or from wherever!
Session I: July 7-July 11, 9:00-1:00; Teacher: Kristina Bartleson; Location: Great Hall, Epiphany School; Fees: $185 tuition, $35 lab fee
Session II: August 4 – August 8, 9:00 – 1:00   Teacher: Sheri Vahey

CHAIR DESIGN & BUILD! Beginning architects and design students all have to do it: design and build a custom chair. The trick is to design a chair that is just right for you – one that can, hold your soda, stash your cd’s, rest your feet, rock back & forth or look like a piece of art.  Working with power & hand tools, you’re in for a functional masterpiece, one that could last a lifetime.
Session I: July 7 – July 11, 1:30 -5:30   Teacher:  James Brandalise; Location: Pratt Fine Arts Center; Fees: $195 tuition; $60 lab fee
Session II: August 11 – August 15; 9:00 – 1:00

DEBATE:  BE A LAWYER FOR A WEEK!   Be a lawyer, witness, or judge in a mock trial based on a scenario from a current popular movie. You’ll learn how trials work and how lawyers plan their cases, all in a fancy law office downtown overlooking Puget Sound.   You’ll meet with a judge AND, on the last day, present your trial in a real courtroom at the King County Courthouse!
Session I:  July 7 - July 11; 9:00-1:00     Teacher: Steve Brown; Location: King County Court House; Fees: $185 tuition, $10 lab fee
Session II: July 7 - July 11; 1:30-5:30

DESIGN IT & SEW IT ON A SEWING MACHINE!  You’ll both design and sew your own wrap skirt with a fashion designer.  You’ll select your fabrics and step beyond a commercial pattern to create your own design elements.  Then on to sewing machines! Big steps: fabric selection, pattern reading, fashion design, sewing machines and skirt construction!
August 4 – August 8; 1:30 -5:30; Teacher: Britt Rynearson; Location: Coyote Madison Valley headquarters; Fees: $185 tuition, $45 lab fee (includes fabric)

DESSERTS! DESSERTS! DESSERTS!  A professional pastry chef invites you to produce scrumptious desserts worthy of fine menus in fancy restaurants.  Think of chocolate truffles & luscious cakes, scrumptious tortes and elaborate pies.  With the guidance of a professional cake decorator, you’ll learn to decorate & present them like pros.
July 14 – July 18; 9:00-1:00   Teacher: Kristina Bartleson; Location: Great Hall, Epiphany School; Fees: $185 tuition, $35 lab fee 

FASHION: BAGS, BAUBLES, & JEWELRY! Choose a style, choose a fabric and choose fabulous decorative embellishments to make your own handbags. Learn how to make hip jewelry with classic techniques using ribbons, beads and stones. All are destined to speak to your fashion style.  You’ll become an accessory artist as you develop fashion skills in design, pattern construction, machine and hand sewing.
August 18 -August 22, 1:30-5:30; Teacher: Britt Rynearson; Location: Coyote Madison Valley studio; Fees: $185 tuition, $40 lab fee

FASHION ILLUSTRATION! Learn a series of drawing techniques as you draw your own fashion designs and fabrics. You’ll have plenty of visual inspiration to spur you on. You’ll learn techniques that show proportion, texture, highlighting, and exaggeration as you work on drawing and painting your own designs of snazzy clothing. You’ll present your design work on drawings of the human figure and leave with
perhaps your first fashion portfolio.
July 28 – August 1; 1:30 – 5:30; Teacher: Britt Rynearson; Location: Coyote Madison Valley studio; Fees: $185 tuition, $35 lab fee

FICTION WRITING!  You will polish your writing by focusing on the stars of fiction, the characters:  how they look, what they think, how they carry on.  You’ll create characters that hook your readers as you develop their secrets, fears, loves, obsessions, and the power that drives them.  This will spur on your imagination and turn your characters into the fire of your fiction. First- time & veteran writers welcome!
Session I: July 7 - July 11; 9:00 – 1:00;
Session II: August 18-August 22; 9:00 – 1:00
Teacher: Ann Teplick; Location: Madrona studio; Fees: $185 tuition, $5.00 lab fee

FILMMAKING AT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM! Go into a professional film-production studio to create short films. You’ll learn and put to use a variety of movie-making tools to tell your own stories on film.  Working in teams, you’ll develop scripts, create storyboards, film, edit, and add music and voice-overs. With high-quality Super-8 film and digital video cameras and editing systems, you’ll do it all & then enjoy a premier showing  before you take off with a DVD of your own films.
Session I: July 21- July 25; 9:00 – 1:00;
Session II: August 4 – August 8; 9:00 - 1:00
Teachers: Britta Johnson & Clyde Peterson; Location: Northwest Film Forum; $195 tuition; $50 lab fee

FURNITURE DESIGN & BUILD!    Enjoy furniture made just for you … because you design and build it!  It can be a table, a chair, a chest, a pet’s house or something never heard of before.  You’ll build it out of wood or other materials you choose. You’ll work with power & hand tools and, no kidding, create a functional masterpiece that can last a lifetime.

July 21 – July 25; 1:30 -5:30;   Teacher:  James Brandalise; Location: Pratt Fine Arts Center; Fees: $195 tuition; $60 lab fee

GLASS BLOWING & MORE HOT GLASS!   Work in a professional art-glass studio and learn the techniques of glass artists. The big focus is teaching you how to blow glass.  Through many projects, you’ll learn glassblowing, solid work, sand casting and glass bead making. You’ll be designing and creating your own glass art: glass ornaments, paper weights, beads, cups & more!

Teacher: David Contreras; Seattle Glassblowing Studio; Fees: $275 tuition; $50 lab fee
Session I: June 23 - June 27; 9:00 - 1:00
Session II: June 23 - June 27; 1:30 - 5:30
Session III: Aug. 18 - Aug. 22; 9:00 -1:00
Session IV: Aug. 18- Aug. 22; 1:30 -5:30

HIP HOP MUSIC PRODUCTION!  In a state-of-the-art recording studio, you will work with a professional hip-hop music producer where you can write, record, and produce original works. Beat production, songwriting, hip-hop history and background scoop, it's all there for you.  You'll learn recording techniques to produce your own music and in time be operating and facilitating a youth-run music production and recording studio for other musicians' works.  You’ll like it best if you have experience in making music – jazz, classical, or hip-hop.
July 14 – July 18; 9:00 – 1:00; Location: Capital Hill recording studio; Teacher: Amos Miller; Fees: $185 tuition, $50 lab fee 

HOT GLASS BEADMAKING: YOU FIRE IT UP!   You are invited to Pratt Fine Art Center's warm shop to create glass beads with propane torches. In making decisions about designs, shapes, and colors, you'll learn to turn out a whole variety of beads. You'll also learn techniques to treat the surfaces and have the pleasure of making incredible jewelry with your cool hot-glass beads.
Session I:  July 7- July 11; 1:30 – 5:30; Teacher: Stacy Frost; Location: Pratt Fine Arts Center; Fees: $185 tuition, $45 lab fee
Session II: July  21- July 25, 1:30 – 5:30; Teacher: Terri Rau

ICING ON THE CAKE!  This professional pastry chef will teach you how to turn cakes and pastries into eye-catching, luscious, showcase- fancy desserts. You’ll practice on cardboard rounds just like the pros as you build your talents to turn out amazing cakes for all occasions. Whether you’re sculpting animals, creating flowers, or turning out intricate patterns and trims, your cakes are destined for center stage. 
July 28 – August 1, 9:00 – 1:00; Teacher: Kristina Bartleson: Location: Great Hall, Ephiphany School; Fees: $185, $30 lab fee

LOCOMOTION: SOLAR-POWERED CARS, ELECTRIC MOTORS, AND KINETIC ACTION!   You will invent and construct a fleet of self-propelled vehicles using electric motors, some powered by batteries and some powered by solar cells. You’ll work in teams to design, build and test the models and to figure out how to make them faster and better.  It’s all about motion, energy and your ingenuity – the keys for testing your mettle in inventing and perfecting your own designs of model cars!
August 4 - August 8; 1:30-5:30; Teacher: Ed Sobey; Location: Madrona Playfield Park House; Fees: $185 tuition, $45 lab fee

MAGIC PERFORMANCE FOR BEGINNERS!   Enter the world of magic, where you will learn the secrets that started Houdini, Blackstone and David Copperfield on their roads to fame. It’s magic with coins, cards, silks & ropes, plus mind tricks and great escapes.  You’ll also puzzle over videos of some of the spectacular performances by the greatest magicians of all time.  You’ll practice together, perform together & by the end of the week, you will amaze & astound.
Session I:  July  21  -  July 25;  9:00 - 1:00  
Session II:  Aug. 11 – Aug. 15;  9:00 - 1:00
Teacher: Ruben Barron; Location: Madrona studio; Fees:$185 tuition, $20 lab fee
    
MANGA STYLE CARTOON DRAWING!  This is your chance to learn the great comic style of Japan! Learn techniques to draw with
expressions & body language, in motion and with perspective.  You’ll learn to develop them into your own comics.  Because Greg is an American cartoonist, you’ll also do some great compare and contrast of these two styles. 
Session I: July 7 – July 11; 1:30 – 5:30
Session II: July 28 – Aug. 1; 9:00 - 1:00          Teacher: Greg Stump Location: Madrona Playfield Park House; $185 tuition, $15 lab fee 

PAINT WITH A PROFESSIONAL!  This talented artist invites you to her studio to learn scores of ways to create rich images with acrylics, oil pastels, art mediums, & water soluble oils. You’ll produce flat canvasses and 3D objects (objets d’art!) and become ever more talented as you learn techniques that truly impress the eye. You’ll learn styles, subjects, and techniques that can magically transform surfaces: faux techniques, handmade stencils, extreme use of collages, and photo transfers.  
July 21- July 25; 9:00 - 1:00   Teacher: Elena Korakianitou; Location: Western Ave. art studio; Fees: $185 tuition, $35 lab fee

PHOTOGRAPHY: BLACK & WHITE  FILM & THE DARKROOM!  Take black & white photographs with an expert & print your negatives in a fully-equipped professional darkroom.  Learn about light and composition as you explore photojournalism, fine art, & alternative printing techniques.  You’ll learn some professional ways to make photos great. It's all there: location shots, darkroom work, & skill with a 35mm camera! Please bring a manual or automatic 35 mm camera (some loaners available).
Session I: July 14 – July 18; 1:30-5:30; Teacher: PCNW instructor; Photographic Center Northwest; $195 tuition; $55 lab fee
Session II:  July 28 – August 1; 1:30 – 5:30

PHOTOGRAPHY: DIGITAL!  In Coyote’s digital lab you’ll learn both technical and creative skills using scanners, printers, laptop computers and PhotoImpact software. You’ll shoot daily assignments, gather inspiration from shots of established photographers and use PhotoImpact to enhance, manipulate, overlay, crop, rotate, resize, & edit.   You’ll store your shots on a disc & print out the best.  Bring a digital camera or contact Coyote if you need one.  And let us know if you’d like to bring your own laptop.
Session I: August 4 – August 8; 9:00 – 1:00; Teacher: Bellen Drake; Coyote Madison Valley headquarters; $195 tuition, $40 lab fee
Session II: August 18 – August 22; 9:00 – 1:00

ROBOTS, THE REAL THING!  You’ll design, build & program your own autonomous robot. You can make a SUMO Bot, ready to compete, or you can create something from your own imagination.  Later you can re-build it and reprogram it on a home or school PC.  First you’ll build an electric car with DC electric circuits.  You’ll learn what robots are and in teams, you’ll help each other build your own mobile robot & then program it….to have for years to come!
August 4 – August 8; 9:00 – 1:00; Teacher: Ed Sobey; Location: Madrona Playfield Park House; $185 tuition, $105 lab fee

SCIENCE MYTHBUSTERS & INVESTIGATIONS; EVEN CSI-LIKE! Mythbusters and CSI Investigations! You’ll do experiments & projects to challenge your talents for solving problems that exist all around you, whether you know it or not. Your use of logic and reasoning will never be the same. You’ll build cars to overcome friction, conduct mythbuster experiments via a series of rockets, become a legitimate CSI-type investigator by using lab techniques to investigate a real live/fantasy murder.
June 23- June 27, 1:30 – 5:30; Teacher: Laurel Pederson; Location: Madrona Playfield Park House; Fees: $185 tuition, $30 lab fee

SING WITH A PRO!  This is the real deal for anyone who wants to sing. With a talented professional singer, you'll train like a professional.  Voice warm-ups, vocal techniques, ear training, and songwriting will lead you into singing great songs, from pop, ethnic, gospel & musicals to vocal jazz. You will learn to sing as a group, and, if you want, you can sing a song of your own. For sure, you'll build up to a grand final performance with your fellow singers!
August 11 – August 15; 1:30 - 5:30; Teacher: Amy Marsh; Location: Madison Valley studio; $185 tuition, $5 lab fee

SOAPBOX DERBY CARS!    Coyote is offering you a chance to design and construct your own LIFE-SIZE soapbox car. You'll come to a fully equipped shop that has all of the power and hand tools you'll need to cut wood into your very own version of a gravity-powered car. Try it out on Greenlake’s regulation track!
Teachers: James Brandalise(Session I) & Brent McDonald (II-VI); Location: Pratt Fine Arts Center; Fees: $195 tuition, $60 lab fee
Session I: July 14 – July 18; 1:30 – 5:30
Session II: July 28 – Aug. 1; 9:00 - 1:00 
Session III: Aug. 4 – Aug. 8; 9:00- 1:00
Session IV: Aug. 4 – Aug. 8; 1:30- 5:30
Session V: Aug. 11-Aug. 15; 1:30 – 5:30
Session VI: Aug. 18 – Aug. 22; 1:30 – 5:30

WELDING FOR BEGINNERS!   The rarest of opportunities brings you to the welding studio at Pratt Fine Arts Center.  You will cut, bend, melt and grind mild steel using arc welders, metal saws, grinders and cold bending systems.  Once you have mastered the basics of welding, make a chair, a bookcase, a skateboard grind rail, a garden trellis, or whatever suits your fancy. 
Teacher: Will Baber;  Location: Pratt Fine Arts Center;  Fees: $195 tuition, $60 lab fee
Session I: July 7 – July 11; 9:00 – 1:00 
Session II: July 7 – July 11; 1:30-5:30 
Session III: July 14 – July 18; 9:00-1:00 
Session IV: July 14 – July 18; 1:30 – 5:30 
Session V: July 21 – July 25; 9:00 – 1:00
Session VI: July 28 – Aug. 1; 9:00 – 1:00 

ADVANCED WELDING!  Since you are now a master of the arc-bead, the sky’s the limit.  You can chop up your bike and reassemble it, make a sidecar or trailer for it, even create an amazing piece of furniture or garden sculpture.  Whatever you take on, the gear, buzz boxes, & PLASMA CUTTER are all there for you to pursue your new talents.
July 28 – August 4, 1:30 – 5:30   Teacher: Will Baber;  Location: Pratt Fine Arts Center; Fees: $195 tuition; $60 lab fee

BUT FIRST, CHECK OUT THESE COURSES IN SPRING

Click on for Spring Mail-In Registration Form

COOKING WITH A PROFESSIONAL IN SPRING!   This professional chef invites you into a huge kitchen to create scrumptious meals.  She challenges you to make a feast of delicious, original courses, based on great food from around the world. You’ll use a true cook’s collection of fine ingredients. She’s ready for whatever the class decides to make: spring rolls, El Salvador papusas, pizza, chili rellenos, elephant ears, or American apple pie!
Teacher: Kristina Bartleson; Sundays; Miller Community Center; 4/20 – 6/8, skip 3/25; 1:00 – 4:00; $180 tuition; $40 lab fee

FORGING & BLACKSMITHING IN SPRING!  Sorry! FULL
This is the art of pounding, cutting, turning and shaping metal while it’s hot in a forge. You’ll be impressed at what you can make metal become.  You could make functional things like CD racks, metal plaques for your door, a jewelry holder, or a small piece of art.  If a bit of welding is necessary for what you want to forge, you’ll weld as well.  For  6th – 9th graders
Teacher: Rusty Oliver; Saturdays; Pratt Fine Arts Center; 4/12-6/7, skip 5/17 & 5/24; $185 tuition, $50 lab fee)

CHOCOLATES IN ALL WAYS IN SPRING!  The production manager of Fran’s Chocolates invites you to learn the most scrumptious tricks of the chocolate trade. With dark, milk, and white chocolate, you’ll make truffles, candies, pastries and decorations. In decorations, he’s talking chocolate roses, chocolate sculptures, and chocolate showpieces. Each week you will be tempering chocolate by hand just like the pros and patience is a must.
Teacher: Bill Raes; Saturdays; Seattle Central Community College: 4/12-5/31, skip 5/24;

Section III: 9:00 – 1:00;
Section IV: 12:30 – 3:30; $175 tuition; $50 lab fee 

FACULTY FOR SUMMER 2008

911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER, one of Washington’s premier media arts center, brings much of the best video production and teaching to the region.
BRITTA JOHNSON has made numerous animated shorts, commercials for MTV and other networks, and music videos for artists including Andrew Bird, Minus the Bear, and Laura Veirs. Recently, she animated films for 12 songs about insects for the live show “Share This Place," which premiered at the Seattle International Children’s Festival in May.  Her website is www.thekmpi.net
CLYDE PETERSON is a Seattle filmmaker and musician, who produces music videos and short claymation films. When not making films, Clyde works with many bands and performing groups, touring the world & shooting super-8 films on the road.  

GIL BRACE and SPENCER SMISSAERT have been performing break dance in the Seattle area and abroad for over 6 years. They are members of the BYC Crew, which has a strong reputation on both the east and west coasts. Gil trains regularly for competitions and dance circles all over the world.  He has shown his painting and graffiti artworks in Kobe Japan, Rio de Janeiro, Vancouver BC, & Seattle. Spencer, a business major, is a self-taught break dancer who has won battles as an independent and as a crew member of both BYC and Flying Sneakers. He has helped establish a crew in Taipei. They have extensive experience teaching kids breaking, gymnastics, & martial arts.   

RUBEN BARRON got hooked on magic as a 10-year-old and now has a young son already determined to become a Mentalist (mind reader).  A professional magician for over 15 years, Ruben performs at comedy clubs, trade shows, company or community events, and private affairs. He has also become a popular performer in schools, where he captivates his young audiences, whether he is performing for them or teaching them magic. His goal is to give kids plenty of tools, practice, and in-class experience to go out and wow their friends and family.

KRISTINA BARTLESON went to college for art only to realize she loved to cook. She graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY., and has since cooked on tall ships, in fine restaurants and at school. She has since realized that desserts flex her artistic muscles a little more and has prepared pastries at Rover’s, Cascadia, and the Four Seasons Hotel.  Her favorite part of preparing food is the presentation – what she calls the “Here, I made this for you.” 

STEVE BROWN, director of kidLAW®, facilitates mock trials throughout Washington.  He shows kids how trials & lawyers work, how to communicate better verbally, how to think at higher levels, and how to master group process skills.  He spent 14 years as a trial lawyer, was a partner at Stokes Lawrence, and was recently a member of the Seattle School Board. Coyote is lucky to join him both at Stokes Lawrence law firm and in an official courtroom for this excellent opportunity.

BELLEN DRAKE, a graduate of Photographic Center Northwest, has been a professional photographer since 1999. She shoots everything from children, families and events to world record champions, fashion shows, snowstorms, and forests. She considers photography a never-ending project and takes photos everyday. A gifted teacher, she has taught for Powerful Schools, Community Learning Center, and Seattle Public Schools.

ELENA KORAKIANITOU is a multi-media artist who turns numbers of different mediums into significant art.  Her paintings and other artwork have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the U.S. and in Europe, and locally at the Pacini/Lubel and the Bellevue Art Museum. She is also a gifted teacher who has inspired scores of students to produce very impressive art, including Coyote’s commission for the windows of Mario’s and a collection of hand-painted silk scarves sold there.

AMY MARSH became a singer when she was six years old, joining a choir at Western Washington University. In her youth she sang as a featured soloist for concerts and recordings of top youth choirs and went on to win top awards in state and regional competitions. A graduate with B.A. in Music and Theatre from the University of Washington, she has performed in, as well as coached and directed singers and ensembles, in numerous musicals, recitals, and concerts.

AMOS MILLER has produced tracks for nearly all of Seattle’s hip hop and R&B talent, including Piece, Choklate, Silent Lamb Project and Vitamin D. He performs as the resident keyboard player at Jumbalaya, Seattle’s weekly hip-hop/soul improv night, and writes piano compositions.  Discovered as a gifted musician by his 7th grade jazz band director, he has made sure to mentor youth through hip hop music production with arts organizations and the C.D. Rotary Boys and Girls Club. He has 4 years of professional training and is a Cornish graduate in music.

ALISSA MORTENSON is an actor, dancer, playwright, and co-founder and Artistic Director of Nebunele Theatre Company, a physical    performance troupe in Seattle. She received her BA in Drama from the University of Washington and her Professional Performer's Certificate from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. She has performed locally with Nebunele Theatre, the International Theatre Collective, Theater Schmeater, 3-Minute Theater, The Island Players, and Annex. She has been teaching acting and improvisation to middle-school students this past year and is excited to be joining Coyote this summer.

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM aims to become the nation’s leading center for film artists. It has aided 250 filmmakers to produce their films and offers some 60 workshops a year.  BRITTA JOHNSON has made numerous animated shorts, commercials for MTV and other networks, and music videos for artists including Andrew Bird, Minus the Bear, and Laura Veirs. Recently, she animated films for 12 songs about insects for the live show “Share This Place," which premiered at the Seattle International Children’s Festival in May.  Her website is www.thekmpi.net. CLYDE PETERSON is a Seattle filmmaker and musician, who produces music videos and short claymation films. When not making films, Clyde works with many bands and performing groups, touring the world & shooting super-8 films on the road.  

RUSTY OLIVER is a founding member of Stronghold Arts Collective, and Founder and directory of Hazardfactory, an industrial arts collective. Rusty runs an independent high end metal fabrication business and has shown art in the area for the last eight years. Rusty is extremely passionate about his art and his medium and happy to share his experience.

LAUREL PEDERSON learns about all things scientific in every way she can. With degrees in Biology (Anatomy & Physiology) and a Master’s in secondary science education, she has collected and created scores of ways to turn her students onto science. Currently teaching 9th grade biology at Todd Beamer High in Federal Way, she has a reputation for getting kids hooked on investigations and problem solving.  Before teaching, she worked in labs and hospitals in patient care and phlebotomy, so she brings real-world application to her teaching talents.
      
PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST, a regional leader in the education and promotion of art photography in the Northwest, offers courses and workshops to novices as well as seasoned professionals.  Its gallery shows present the work of internationally renowned photographers.  For the past several summers, Photographic Center Northwest has invited Coyote students to work in their professional setting with one of their excellent PCNW instructors.

PRATTFINEARTSCENTER, established in 1976, is Seattle's best resource for offering courses to working artists, emerging artists, and students in glassblowing, welding, forging, jewelry smithing, printmaking, drawing, and painting.  Pratt is a major reason that the Northwest has become a leading international glass arts center.
WILL BABER is a talented welder and metal sculptor. His summer Coyote students have turned out projects that earn high praise from Pratt professionals. Will began welding at age 13, and has learned from a gifted sculptor and from 4 years of  intense study at WWU in Bellingham, where he has enjoyed much success at the Welding Rodeos. 
JAMES BRANDALISE, architect and furniture maker, is a very gifted and talented instructor in furniture design and soapbox derby car construction for Coyote.
STACY FROST developed her glass skills at Pratt, and has since assisted several prominent glass artists, been juried into multiple shows, and taken on the role of warm shop instructor herself.
BRENT MCDONALD has helped lead Coyote’s Hit the Streets kids through four summers of major public art making. He’s skilled as an artist, art installation expert (including major construction challenges), and teacher – a veteran soapbox teacher, for one!
TERRI RAU is a Pratt instructor of hot glass beadmaking and glass fusing for middle school students and has taught metal fabrication, glass beadmaking, and enameling to Cleveland High School students.  Her silver and bead jewelry is represented locally at Vetri.

BILL RAES, production manager for Fran’s Chocolates, recently moved here from Portland where he was the manager/pastry chef of a team of bakers at Saint Honore Boulangerie. He was about to finish a PhD. in special education when he took a break to bake and never looked back.  A graduate with honors of the Western Culinary Institute, he packs in more desserts than seems possible into the Coyote Desserts course

BRITT RYNEARSON, textile artist and owner of Chine, whose line of textiles is sold nationwide and including in The Seattle Art Museum, has been in involved in design and fashion her whole life. A painting graduate of Scripps College, she later to studied fabric in Italy, silk weaving in Indonesia, and became trained in the Japanese art of shibori,   She went on to create wearable art, has studied all aspects of fashion, & sews professionally. She is a gifted teacher, drawing from what she has experienced in her personal immersion in fashion.

SEATTLE GLASSBLOWING is one of the largest schools in the country specializing in glassblowing classes, and is reputed to be an excellent place for beginning glassblowers. DAVE CONTRERAS is great with kids as a wonderful and patient instructor.  He has professionally studied glass with Aaron Tate, a prominent glass sculptor, and Bog Riggs, production director at the Glass Eyes Studio.  Seattle Glassblowing Studio welcomes Coyote Central for a third summer.

ED SOBEY, Ph.D., is an expert in inventions.  He is a founding director of the National Inventions Hall of Fame and the National Toy Hall of Fame. In 1990, he launched Camp Invention, which now serves 40,000 kids across the country each summer.  He's a world traveler as a workshop and curriculum presenter, has written several books on the matter, and is obviously the teacher to teach these courses.

GREG STUMP draws and writes a weekly cartoon strip for The Stranger.  He is a regular contributor to The Comic Journal and is co-producer of the comic book The Urban Hipster.  His comics & editorial cartoons have appeared in a host of newspapers & publications.  Coyote is lucky to be in its 9th year with Greg on the boards. He is a classic cartoonist in the American tradition, but by popular demand has taken up Manga and anime drawing for Coyote kids as well.

ANN TEPLICK is a poet, playwright, prose writer, and Teaching Artist in the Seattle area. She works with young writers through Richard Hugo House, Coyote Central and The Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project, where she's facilitates weekly workshops in King County juvenile detention centers and at the Child Study Treatment Center of The Washington State Psychiatric Hospital. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College and spends many a midnight hour engaged in her own writing.

SHERI VAHEY graduated in culinary arts from The Western Culinary Institute in Portland.  She has pursued her love of the arts both in
cooking and baking at The Four Seasons, Queen Mary’s Tea House, and Special Occasions Catering.  She discovered her talents for
teaching when she taught at Operation Frontline, a program for kids through adults.