Meghan is is an interdisciplinary teaching artist and educator with extensive experience working with learners of all ages and abilities. She holds master’s degrees in Counseling/Art Therapy and Fine Arts and is a certified arts integration specialist. Her work focuses on resilience, accessibility, and inclusion, using the arts to support meaningful learning and social-emotional growth.
Anne Ackerman, Lead Teaching Artist and Program Coordinator
Anne is an artist and educator, who hopes to instill curiosity, appreciation, and conservation of the natural world through the arts. Anne holds a Masters in Education and a BFA in Art Education from the University of Southern Maine. Anne has presented arts-integrated workshops at national conferences for both classroom and visual art educators, and received the Art Education Discipline Award
Gretchen Berg
Gretchen Berg is a teaching artist/educator with more than 30 years of experience. She is known for her collaborative approach, working with educators and students to integrate theater, dance, visual arts, and classroom curriculum in New England schools, community centers and museums. She received the Maine Alliance for Art Education’s 2007 Bill Bonyun Award for
Sarah Boyden
Sarah Boyden is a resident artist in many local schools, specializing in large scale, collaborative, mixed-media projects. She grew up on a farm on the island of Vinalhaven where she learned the true meaning of being resourceful and building community. She has a particular passion for cardboard and other recyclable materials, making everyday items shine and
Molly Brown
Molly Holmberg Brown is an artist and map-maker. By integrating cartographic design with painting and printmaking she creates custom maps and geographic expressions about place. She discovered cartography at Middlebury College and earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Meg Christie
Meg Christie is a performer, teaching artist, and therapist. Improvising is an integral part of every aspect of her life. She is a founding member of Portland Playback Theatre, playing back stories from the audience since 2006. After working in community mental health for about 10 years, she started a small private therapy practice in
Leah Cross
Leah Cross is an artist and teacher living in Portland, Maine. Leah works in a variety of media including ceramics, paint, textiles, and encaustic collage. She has been working with children in the Portland area for the last 14 years since moving to Munjoy Hill from the woods of western Maine.
Catherine LaBarre
Originally from Québec, Canada, Cat graduated from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières with a bachelor’s degree in theater and visual arts education. She moved to Portland early in 2011 and began teaching at Oak Street Studios. In 2014, she began working as a Teaching Artist at Side x Side.
Pamela Moulton
Pennsylvania-born, Franco-American artist Pamela Moulton currently resides in Maine after spending 23 years in France. A textile and installation artist, she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont and Villa Arson, France. Pamela worked in New York City as a set designer and art director while continuing to exhibit abroad as a fine
Jill Osgood
Jill Osgood is an artist, naturalist, and educator living and working in Maine. Growing up in the woods of New Hampshire helped to foster her sense of wonder and respect for the natural world that has guided her perspective as a human being and defined her work as an artist. She is a certified Maine