Our Instructors

Patti Pease Johnson
Patti Pease Johnson creates and teaches art workshops in three mediums: liquid dye on silk, soft pastel, and watercolor and has been teaching at Volcano Art Center for 16 years, along with other locations.
She has home and fashion accessory lines in galleries and gift shops around the state and her original artworks are in homes around the world because there are so many travelers from many places in Hawaii.
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She has had nine solo exhibitions, been in numerous juries art competitions, and has been curator of four major multiple artist exhibits. She has been a long time board member of art organizations.
Mrs. Johnson is a self-taught artist who relishes taking intensive art workshops, and is enjoying journeys of learning to work with clay, metal forming and acrylic painting.
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Shawne Cooper
Shawne Cooper is a NYC-based artist, as well as an award-winning copywriter and creative director.
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She is a longstanding sketcher in the Urban Sketchers community who is always exploring new ways to tell stories, especially ones that combine the visual and the verbal.
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Shawne loves inspiring others, too, and has led workshops at Pratt Institute, for the NYC Urban Sketchers community, at the NY Public Library, and in a tiny hilltop village in Italy.
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Her work has been exhibited in galleries, at the Philippine Consulate, and even as a flag flying over Rockefeller Center (a Chinese dumpling flag, at that!).
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CONTACT
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(808) 933-0416
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VISIT
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@the Wailoa Center
Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 4PM
Saturday 10:00AM - 3:00PM
Sunday: closed
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Address
200 Piopio Street
Hilo, HI 96720
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