Jo alam - Drawing and Painting
An accomplished, practicing artist, Jo has run her own art workshops in the UK since 2015. She is also a therapeutic art counselor and has offered successful adult art workshops for the past several summers at Les Tapies. Her energy and enthusiasm for painting and drawing are contagious and she also uses clay sculpture as part of her teaching technique. Jo teaches our Drawing and Painting major and minor courses and this past summer her work in the Les Tapies art studio enabled students with a wide range of abilities to produce outstanding work.
LAUREN BESHELLI - DRAWING AND PAINTING
Lauren is a practicing artist and a freelance illustrator. She graduated from University of California at Davis with a Bachelor of Arts and earned an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught ESL and Art at the TASIS Summer School for 5 years and is a Teaching Assistant in art at the University of Texas. Lauren is a Fulbright Scholar and was a guest artist at Les Tapies last summer, assisting in the Drawing and Painting Major and teaching an Art Installation Minor.
Fernando Gonzalez - Architecture
Fernando Gonzalez earned a BA in Visual Studies from Harvard University and studied architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He taught photography, art and architecture at Phillips Academy and at The American School in Switzerland (TASIS) , where he served as Chairman of the Art Department. He has been Administrative Director of the TASIS Schools and Summer Programs in Europe and has directed summer programs and led student trips throughout Europe for the past 40 years. He has overseen TASIS campus development projects in England, Switzerland, France and Greece and in 2002, he co-founded the TASIS School in Puerto Rico. His love of vernacular architecture has led to his restoration of Les Tapies over the past 40 years.
Barry Iverson -photography
Barry Iverson was a photographer for Time Magazine for 25 years covering the Middle East from 1981-2007, photographing all of the major events of the region during that time. These included such paradigm changing events such as the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the takedown of the Taliban in Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11, coup d’etats, archaeology and famine. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to research the history of photography in Egypt, and concurrently taught photography at the American University in Cairo. His fine art work is represented by galleries in New York and Cairo, with his work being held in many public and private collections.