Barbara Benish

ArtMill's founding Director, Barbara Benish, is an artist raised in the U.S., who moved to the Czech Republic in 1993, after completing a year as a Fulbright scholar in Prague. Benish’s own work has been shown at P.S.1 Museum in New York, U.N.E.S.C.O. Headquarters in Paris, the Venice Biennalle in Italy and a survey exhibition at Pomona Museum of Art, at the Claremont Graduate University in California, (her alma mater). Her work is represented in public and private collections around the world including the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Stadtgeschichtliche Museen in Nürnberg, Germany.  She has had over 40 solo exhibitions internationally.

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Tomáš Hrůza

has been described as a photographer with an activist spirit.  He studied in the studio of Pavel Baňka at the Faculty of Art & Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem.  Travel is his principle means of artistic representation and travels every year far beyond the borders of Czech Republic.  Tomáš works as a photographer and editor of Fotograf Magazine and is the co-author of ArtMap, an information platform mapping contemporary art in Czech Republic.  He is also a founding member of the organization Pilgrim, which deals with the creation of pilgrim routes and lectures connecting art, science, ecology, psychology, philosphy and civic activism.

Miriam Tobin

holds a Master's degree at New York University and is the founding Director of the NYC theatre group, Modern But Classical Theatre (MBCT).  She is currently collaborating on a children's book about the environment based on folktales from Bohemia.

Marianka Dočekalová

holds a degree in Education  from Charles University in Prague, with an emphasis in Arts Education.  She works as a an author and lector at the Department of Educational Programs of Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague and previously taught art at MUM (Mother's Center), before establishing her own preschool program Kružitko. Her graphics and sculptures have been shown locally.

Sunil Garud

is an artist living and working in Mumbai (Bombay), India.  In the past he has worked as an art director in the advertising industry and has always been very curious and passionate about drawing, painting, design and photography.  He is particularly inspired by nature, travel and culture, which is often at the heart of hisself-directed work.

Alex Nichols

is an artist and writer from San Francisco.  Last summer, she was an Artist in Residence at ArtMill where she got everyone hooked on her 'concrete poetry'.  Alex thrives on the challenge of working on-site, creating work from the materiality of her surroundings, learning the history of a place and the goals of the community, land and culture.  Learn about her past exhibitions and current work on her website.

Markéta Mrázová

is ArtMill's Studio Manager and the Assistant Director of Galerie Califia.  She holds a degree in business administration and has been active in youth scouting & recreation for many years.  She is also affiliated with Domě dětí a mládeže (House of Children & Youth).  In her free time she likes to go mountain & rockclimbing.

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Michael Carrington

was born in London but spent every summer of his childhood in the former Czechoslovakia.   He teaches animation at FAMU (Film & Television Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague and also works as an independent animator, storyboard & layout artist, visual designer and director.  In 2009,  he was commissioned by Czech Television to author the film, 'Transmorface' to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

Heather Hendrickson

is a landscape designer and horticulturalist working collaboratively with artists and architects to create spaces that engage the senses and return us to the delights of nature. She has practiced yoga since 1990.

Russell Decker

is from New Orleans, Louisiana.  He has spent the last 6 months teaching in Santa Cruz de Benzana, Spain and also holds a Spanish Cooking Certificate.  He views art  as an amazing way to express oneself with unlimited boundaries and has been influenced by  his mother and grandmother, both artists.

Alex Katis

is ArtMill's Program & Project Manager.  She first came to Prague as a Fulbright Scholar in Film Studies and stayed to shoot an animated film.  She's been teaching animation & photography since 2006.  Check out some of her photos @ alexvision.blogspot.com.  When she's not at ArtMill she's out there somewhere on her bicycle.

Mark Cervenka

is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Houston, Texas where he teaches figure drawing, painting and art appreciation and also works as the Director of the O'Kane Gallery.  His own creative work was shown at the 1989 exhibition Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the first American work to be shown in the then Soviet bloc country since the 1960s.

Merritt Fletcher

holds degrees from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is working on her MFA at the University of Southern Florida.  She creates artworks that examine human and non-human relationships with the natural world.  Her work functions collectively as a garden, grown to speak about the fragility and incredible power of the human psyche.  She is taking part in ArtMill's Work/Study Program this summer.

Jerome Paquet

is a journalist form Lyon, France.  He holds a degree in Youth Empowerment.  His interests include sports, writing and theater improvisation.  

Floyd Newsum

theater improvisation is a Professor of Arts & Humanities at the University of Houston where he teaches drawing, painting and art appreciation.   His paintings and prints are in private collections, public museums, universities, and public institutions.  His  public art projects include two Houston Metro Light Rail Station art designs and seven sculptures for the Main Street Square Station in Houston, Texas.  In 2008, Floyd was one of ten Artists to receive the Artadia Artist Grant from New York.