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Robert Rubock Patricia Stein
Bob graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer and an Pat Stein has been working with glass for over 15 years and has created many
MSEE from the University of Connecticut. He began his career in electronic commissioned pieces. She started her glass career by taking stained glass
warfare at United Aircraft but eventually turned to design of spacecraft for classes at a local college working with stained glass, foiling and soldering.
humanitarian purposes at NASA. Bob likes to say; “Engineering made the After attending an expo in Allentown, Pennsylvania, she found a new love
dough, Cosmology makes me go.” His courses require no math or formal and passion for glass - FUSING. To further her knowledge and skill set in
scientific training, but a good sense of humor is mandatory. Bob believes fusing, she attended a fused glass symposium in Corning, New York in 2007.
that starting a class with good jokes improves the learning process. Bob’s She has studied under nationally renowned artists, Michael Dupille, Lisa
other passion is rock climbing, having traveled around the U.S. and Europe in Vogt, Kerry Tanstrum and Dan Streifel. In 2012, Pat began working heavily in
its pursuit. mosaics and has added classes in mosaic mirrors, as well as garden mosaic
Well, It’s About Time - Part II...........................................................................................................33 art using both glass and tile. She recently participated in a mosaic workshop/
class with a local Maryland artist, Yulia Hanenson to study layered mosaics.
Pat is currently teaching classes at: Cecil College, Frederick Community
Jodie Schmidt
College, Harford Community College, Howard Community College and the
Jodie Schmidt discovered her love of oil painting while earning a Bachelor Bowie Senior Center through Prince Georges Community College’s SAGE
of Fine Arts at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. After graduating program. Pat has also been a guest artist at The Baltimore Museum of Art
with honors, she continued studying art on her own and through classes and is a recurring guest mosaic artist at The Loading Dock in Baltimore
with local artist and teacher, Rebecca Pearl. She studied watercolor, oil teaching DIY classes in tile mosaics. Check out her Facebook Page - Pat Stein
painting and pastel for several years before deciding to become a teacher. Glass Art - to see some of Pat’s work as well as her students’ creations.
She recently joined the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Frederick Mosaic Mirrors ......................................................................................................................................22
Community College in 2019, as an art instructor, teaching pastel and drawing Glass Fusing Jewelry: Pendants, Bracelets and Pins ............................................................23
classes. Previously she worked as a short-term substitute art teacher at Garden Mosaics ...................................................................................................................................24
Buckingham’s Choice, in Adamstown, MD.
Classic Drawing ......................................................................................................................................6 Jeffrey Steinberg
Introduction to Oil Painting ..............................................................................................................6
Introduction to Pastel 101 .................................................................................................................7 Jeffrey Steinberg is both an analyst and practitioner of U.S. national security
Continuing Pastel: Landscapes .......................................................................................................7 policy. He has been an investigative journalist for more than 40 years,
serving since 1986 on the editorial board of a weekly publication, Executive
Intelligence Review, and writing for a range of international newsletters
Jason (J.P.) Sloan
and magazines; and has also participated in various advisory capacities
J.P. Sloan is a speculative fiction author ... primarily of urban fantasy, horror for U.S. government officials on a wide range of national security issues,
and several shades between. His writing explores the strangeness in that from strategic defense policy, to the war on terrorism, to the war on illegal
which is familiar, at times stretching the limits of the human experience, or narcotics, to the economic dimensions of national security. He has lectured
only hinting at the monsters lurking under your bed. A Louisiana native, internationally on issues related to national security. Steinberg is the author
Sloan relocated to the vineyards and cow pastures of Central Maryland after and/or co-author of hundreds of articles and special reports on a wide range
Hurricane Katrina, where he lives with his wife and son. He worked in the city of national security issues, current affairs, and history.
of Baltimore for several years, a setting which inspires much of his writing.
The Constitution and the Presidency .........................................................................................16
Creative Writing Workshop .............................................................................................................37
Manuscript Critique Workshop .....................................................................................................39 Denise Sullivan
Dee Sullivan wasn’t just soothed by Bob Ross “You can do it. “ In 1995, Dee
Sharon Smith
found her own Joy of Painting and became a Bob Ross certified instructor.
Sharon Smith has a B.A. in Speech Communication and English, an M.A. C. T. First in landscapes, Dee went on to become certified in Florals in 1996,
(Masters of Arts of College Teaching) in Speech Communication/Theatre with and Wildlife in 2000. Though her focus at the time was raising a family and
a secondary emphasis in English, and an M.A. in Thanatology. She has taught working as a nurse, since retirement in 2013, Dee found teaching helped
high school English and public speaking at FCC. Sharon is a member of the fulfill her lifetime dream of becoming an artist. The Bob Ross technique
Frederick Memorial Hospital Advance Care Planning Committee and her role inspired Dee to put brush to canvas and her goal is to help bring students
in the community is presenting on Advance Care Planning topics. the same courage, confidence and fulfillment painting “Happy Little Trees”
Advance Care Planning: Your Life, Your Plan ...........................................................................25 brought her.
Happy Little Trees: The Bob Ross Painting Class ......................................................................8

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