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 Nurnberg, Germany. . She has had over 40 solo exhibitions internationally.

Miriam Tobin

is a working on a Master's degree at New York University as well as founding Director of the NYC theatre group, Modern But Classical Theatre (MBCT).  She is helping as an ArtMill liaison on the East Coast of the USA. 

Clyde Mailes

grew up in Southern California where he worked at an elementary school's after school program for five years. He graduated from Humboldt State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism with an emphasis in Broadcast and a minor is Environmental Ethics. While there he was the general manager for the university's radio station. He also has a great passion for the outdoors and environmental issues.

Holly Boruck

works in painting, drawing and sculpture. She received her MFA from Cal State University Northridge and has a BFA in Interior Architecture from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She lives in the Los Angeles area and teaches art at Moorpark College, Pierce College, Cal State Univ. Northridge, Armory Center for the Arts and Ryman Arts.  While not teaching and working in the studio, she volunteers as an art instructor for CoachArt in Los Angeles and dances ballet.

Adriana Contreras

is from Venezuela. She graduated from University of Los Andes (Venezuela)  with a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts and MA in Education from Alejandro Humboldt University. She has been teaching Spanish as a Second Language in Prague at  elementary and High School´s  for four years. She loves to draw and paint.

Danny Shain

is an artist from Southern California.
His work has been exhibited locally and internationally, participating most recently in the 2009 Venice Biennale. His paintings are included in several private and public collections, including the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the permanant collection of the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

He is a graduate of Pitzer College, in Claremont CA.
Danny has taught classes at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA.,and he has been a guest teacher at other schools in Pasadena, such as Mayfield, Westridge and Art Center

Betina Shain

Betina was born in Rosario Argentina, and came to the United states as a child. Her studies included a year in Madrid, and she is a graduate of Cal State Fullerton, and Chapman College in Orange, CA. She is a child and family therapist specializing in social emotional develoment.

Martina Kocmanová

Mary Berkery

is a Relax Kids Coach, Life Coach and Holistic Health and Beauty Educator and live nutrition advisor...just to name a few!

Mary has been running seminars, classes and events in Ireland and abroad for the past 20 years on Natural Vitality, Beauty and inner awareness.  Her work with youth involves classes and one to one coaching/mentoring on ways to access ones own intuition, calm and creativity. She brings to ArtMill her expertise in running groups, her Celtic Irish spirit and her ability to help and assist young people to deal with challenges such as poor self-image, body image and peer pressure.  Her classes at ArtMill incorporate movement, stretching and breathing exercises, as well as simple peer massage and self-esteem games.