2008 Senior Artist Project Grant Recipients

The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation is pleased to announce the 2008 Senior Artist Project grant recipients. Click on each artist’s name below for a brief biography and a description of each project. 

Shirley Cole – Seamstress, Clothing Designer
Project: Sewing projects with inner city teens at North County Lifeline

Sue Diaz – (renewed) Professional Writer, Author, and Freelance Journalist
Project: Writing workshops at the San Diego Vet Center and Veterans Village for service men and women home from deployment.  

Tim Harlan – Glass Artist and Teaching Artist
Project: Hands-on glass art projects with seniors, teens, and children at LifeSTEPS low income housing sites 

Joel Harris (renewed) – Mixed Media Artist and Illustrator
Project: Art expression injured service men and women at Scripps Brain Injury and Rehabilitation Facility, and the VA Hospital in San Diego

Jane LaFazio (renewed) – Mixed Media Artist and Teaching Artist
Project: Hands-on art-based projects focused on art, natural sciences, and international culture for low-income youth at Escondido Children’s Museum

Lucie Lukens (renewed) – Accomplished Knit Artist
Project: Individual and group knitting instruction for low-income seniors the Vista Senior Center

Pat MacGillis – Visual Artist, Painting and Mixed-Media, Teaching Artist
Project: Hands-on visual art projects focused on “Wishes and Dreams” for children ages 6 to 14 at The Boys and Girls Club, Encinitas

Bonita Maffei – Expressive Art, Eurythmy Movement Therapist
Project: Art Instruction and Therapeutic Eurythmy classes to developmentally disabled adults at Community Interface Services in Carlsbad

Enrica Marshall – Artist, Printmaker
Project: Printmaking with inner city Latino Youth at Comunidad y Familia in San Juan Capistrano

Adrienne Chavez McMillan – Story Teller, Performer
Project: Interactive storytelling and story theater program for minority and inner city youth at Rueben Martinez Literacy Enrichment Achievement Plus (LEAP) and Joplin Youth Detention Center

Kathleen McVey – Artist, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Project: Art classes for homebound elderly living in Encinitas and low-income seniors living at Mercy Housing of Encinitas

Randy Renner – Performing Artist, Recording Studio Artist
Project: Teach inner city youth sound engineering and instrumentation at the Boys and Girls Club in Oceanside

Chanara Casey Richmond – Singer, Composer, Recording Artist, Producer
Project: Sing along programs for assisted care seniors who are physically or cognitively unable to leave their residences at four skilled nursing facilities in North County San Diego

Richard Rivera – Sword Combat Choreographer, Nationally Recognized Writer and Producer
Project: Staged sword performance art using the works of authors such as Shakespeare, Rostand, Dumas with low income youth living in a rural location at Valley Center Library

Rebecca Toft Van Dyke (renewed)– Visual Artist, Art educator
Project: Visual arts with children who have been removed from home because of abuse and neglect living at Casa de Amparo in Oceanside

Nancy Torbitt-Stewart – Visual Artist
Project: Art lessons with children receiving treatment for cancer at the new out-patient infusion clinic at Children’s Hospital of Orange County

Roger Turk – Visual Artist, Art Educator
Fine art classes for active duty service people and their families at the Camp Pendleton hobby shop

Lynn Underwood – Expressive Artist, Coach
Project: Visual arts activities for battered women and their children at the Women’s Resource Center, Oceanside

Johnny "V" Vernazza –Performing Artist, Guitarist
Project: Guitar lessons for active duty marines and their families at the Camp Pendleton Arts and Crafts hobby shop

Ron Woskow (renewed) – Professional Musician and Music Educator
Project: Ukulele lessons and singing with low-income seniors at San Marcos Senior Center – Expressive Artist, Coach