Jéssica Carvalho
Faculty
Rabeca (fiddle)/Cavaquinho/Percussion
Jéssica Carvalho recently finished her Bachelor of Music Education degree at Faculdade Claretiano after achieving a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Brasília in 2017. She discovered her passion for music in 2016, after moving to Germany for an exchange program and has since then dedicated herself exclusively to music.…
Lucinda Carver
Artistic Director, Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival
Lucinda was appointed Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival Artistic Director in late 2009. Called “a first rate conductor” by the New York Times, she is active as a conductor / pianist and her orchestral appearances have included the National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Opera conducting credits include the Minnesota Opera, New York City Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.…
Daniel Casella
Daniel graduated from Dominican University of San Rafael with a BFA in studio arts. Before joining Watsonville Wetlands Watch, he was a nursery manager and project foreman for Rana Creek Habitat Restoration. When not at WWW he enjoys being a dad and working in his ceramics studio.…
Claudia Castro Luna
Morning Workshop Faculty
Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018). She is the author of Cipota Under the Moon (Tia Chucha Press, 2022) and Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press, 2017) both shortlisted for the WA State Book Award in poetry, 2023 and 2018 respectively.…
Sara Caswell
Faculty
Violin
Grammy® Nominee Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to the late David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility intertwined with her gift for lyricism continue to attract growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher. …
Jim and Joyce Cauthen
Alabama
fiddle and guitar
In the early 1980’s Jim and Joyce Cauthen began seeking out fiddlers in Alabama who had learned to play from their mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, and neighbors in the years prior to the rise of bluegrass and contest fiddling. They especially encouraged these fiddlers to play family tunes that were no longer being played in their communities; this resulted in the unearthing of several real treasures. …
Conrad Cayman
Ukulele
Conrad Cayman is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist who teaches and plays ukulele (tenor, baritone, and U-bass), and also performs on guitar, plectrum banjo, and bass (upright and electric). An artist for Ohana Ukuleles, Conrad has performed at the Los Angeles Ukulele Festival and UkeCon San Diego, and taught and performed at the Reno Ukulele Festival and the Centrum Foundation’s Acoustic Blues Festival in Port Townsend, WA.…
Dawn Cerny
Dawn Cerny was born in Carpinteria, CA and currently lives in Seattle, WA. Cerny’s sculptures begin with the notion that “furniture” and “mother” are figures that secure a value (to others) for their potential to hold, display, or be absent-mindedly left with things. Putting form and color to work and entrusting no small part to contingency, these works behave as something like gestural understudies for a play about the day-to-day grinding weariness and joyful slapstick absurdity of human relationship—about trying to Work It Out…or not.…
Sabrina Chacon-Barajas
Faculty
Sabrina Chacon-Barajas graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a BA in Studio Art and is currently working on her M.Ed at UW Bothell. Her artwork incorporates multi-media art to represent the intersectional identity of being a woman of color from immigrant parents. Sabrina is a teaching artist that cares about representation in the classroom through the power of the arts.…
Swagato Chakravorty
Swagato Chakravorty (he/him) is an Indian American curator and critic whose work ranges across modern and contemporary art and visual culture, focusing on questions of materiality and cross-cultural histories of diaspora and migration, especially in relation to the Global South. He is Associate Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and a PhD candidate at Yale University.…