Meet Our Staff
Tina
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Meet the Artists & Teachers
Barbara Guerriero
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Barbara is a certified New Jersey State Art Teacher with a BA in Art History and a BA in Sociology. She has a Master's Degree in Art Education and graduated from Kean University undergraduate and postgraduate. She received museum training at the Metropolitan Museum of Art specializing in Egyptian, Early Christian and Renaissance Art. Upon graduation, Barbara was employed at an outpatient psychiatric facility both as a social worker and Art Teacher.
She is currently Teacher of Art at Morris Union Jointure Commission and teaches children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Emotionally Disturbed, and Multiply Handicapped ages 4-21. She has been teaching Art for 25 years. In her spare time she enjoys visiting museums, painting and printmaking. |
Denise Carr
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Denise is a freelance seamstress and sewing teacher with over 30 years of experience specializing in apparel, home décor and costumes. After spending much of her youth learning from her very talented sewing mom and working in a fabric store, she earned her BS in Marketing from Bloomsburg University and her MBA from Temple University. While working in the corporate world she continued to follow her passion for sewing until her sewing client base took over full time. That passion she is happy to share with “children of all ages”.
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Amy Ewans
Amy provides mixed media classes including but not limited to monoprinting, Zen doodling, drawing, painting, and collage. She uses an endless list of products and prefers to create pieces with a sketchy, illustrative nature. Her mixed media and art journaling classes will be offered at Scrap U in the future. She will also be present for selected studio events where she will offer mini make & take classes.
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Susan Niedt
Susan Niedt is a Certified Aromatherapist, Reiki I and Reiki II, and a Certified Positive EFT Practitioner. She studied Aromatherapy at Aromahead Institute and Aromatic Wisdom Institute. She is an active member of NAHA. Her love of plants and their unique healing properties brought her to the world of Aromatherapy, through which she discovered that combining both the therapeutic and energetic properties of essential oils with EFT and Reiki protocols, deeper levels of healing can be experienced. See our programs page for a list of classes with Susan.
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Itoko Kobayashi
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Itoko came from Japan. She loves to share her origami art work with others. She started her craft working exhibitions, fairs, and finally by teaching others. Itoko loves to see others reaction to her work, especially of children. She wants people to know the possibility of creativity with paper.
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Anjali Masaldan
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Anjali is a professional teacher but her true calling is creating art. She loves colors, paints and all that goes with it. Anjali is extremely creative and experiments with a wide variety of media like stone, ceramics, canvas, wood, cloth, handmade paper, leather and even canvas shoes. She has a passion for Mandalas, Dot Art as well as Indian folk art forms like Warli and Madhubani. Anjali is a committed teacher and enjoys spreading her passion right here in Hillsborough!
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Dominique Brancato
Dominique is an undergraduate student at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She is majoring in Visual Arts with a concentration in painting. She spent the last 4 years teaching painting classes to people of all ages, but specializes in kids and camps. Dominique loves to create artwork with all different types of mediums and wants to share that knowledge.
You can follow her artwork here: instagram.com/dominiquebrans.art/
Or check out her work on her website.
You can follow her artwork here: instagram.com/dominiquebrans.art/
Or check out her work on her website.
Anna Nestor
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Anna studies both art history and studio art at Lafayette College. She is also working for her art education certification at Moravian College. Anna has extensive experience in creating lessons that encourage students to explore their own ability and the beauty of the world around them. Some of her favorite things include painting, performance art, and Baroque art history.
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Kathy Lang
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Kathy Lang is the mother of 2 and is a soap maker from Hillsborough, New Jersey. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology and has been active in the special needs community for over 13 years. She has been a crafter throughout her life and has been soap making, with her daughter Taylor, for over 7 years.
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Taylor Lang
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Taylor Lang is a soap maker from Hillsborough, New Jersey. She has been making soap, bath bombs, and paper crafts for over 7 years. In her free time, Taylor enjoys running a theatre-based YouTube channel, planning her next Disney trip, and playing the guitar. She is currently teaching classes at Scrap U. You can visit her on Instagram @badpicsoftj or @broadwaysoapco.
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Olivia Wischmeyer
Olivia is a Rutgers Student studying Visual Arts & Agriculture. She is a painter and freelance illustrator who has published her own children’s book and worked to illustrate three more. She has worked in teaching small lessons in crafts and watercolor with youth. She is passionate about sustainable development, painting and advocacy art.
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Donna Lewin
Donna Lewin is the owner and director of Music Together Learn and Grow. Donna has been a registered Music Together teacher for the past 3 years after spending 5 years as a Music Together mom with her children. Donna studied singing at Rutgers where she sang with the Rutgers Queens Chorale and performed in many musical theater productions. Donna's goal is to make the world a more musical place one family at a time.
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Chris Niedt
Chris Niedt is a Yoga Teacher, Elementary Paraprofessional, Reflexologist and Reiki Master Teacher. He enjoys teaching restorative yoga, gentle yoga along with instructing others in meditation and breathing techniques. He works at Ivy Counseling as a bodyworker. As a Paraprofessional in Montgomery for over 8 years, Chris has experience working with special education students of all ages. Passionate about the Arts, he enjoys acting and singing. "Play" is a fundamental philosophy of his life and he enjoys teaching children yoga and movement as well as instructing them in theatre, sports and games. To sum it up, he believes in MotiPlaytion: "motivation through playful interaction". Chris will be teaching Meditation, Yoga for kids and adults and kids rhythm classes.
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Meet Tina, Owner and Designer
Founder, Tina Rear has lived in Hillsborough for over 17 years and has always been an active member of her community but when her dream of opening an art studio became a reality it opened up a whole new world of art to our community!
"I got the teaching bug when my friend Maryann asked me to create and teach a scrapbooking program for Amsterdam School's enrichment program. I fell in love with the program and returned every year there after. Being creative is my passion, I love to watch students try new things, grasp new concepts and apply them to school projects and at home in their own freestyle art! The kids are excited to share their masterpieces and I am always amazed at how talented and expressive children are or how often I've heard a parent remark that they didn't know their children were that talented"!
"I have always wanted a Studio where people stop in, take a class, do some freestyle art, take creative risks, hang out and meet new people. Art is not only therapeutic but socially a great tool to bring people together. Scrap U & Artistry Too is a safe space both personally and professionally for every guest who enters. Our warm, inviting climate is most important to me. I want each of our guests (adult and children alike) to have the opportunities to experience new, amazing art programs and learn a variety of different art mediums from talented professionals in their craft that they would not otherwise get to experience. Hillsborough has not had a one-stop shopping location for all their artistic needs and now they do! Plus you can shop! Our new pop-up vendor shop allows artists and entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their talents and products. It's a win for the guest and supports other community members in their endeavors."
Tina's commitment to support her community comes from years of volunteer and non-profit work. Tina has established a corporate relationship with Safe + Sound Somerset, Domestic Violence Center in Hillsborough as the primary contributor of Scrap U & Artistry Too's fundraising efforts (details on our Community Involvement page). Tina's resume of volunteerism includes many other organizations: Hillsborough's Cultural Arts Commission, Organization for Autism Research (OAR) as well as coordinating family events & fundraisers throughout Hillsborough schools. In 2008, Tina founded a non-profit organization, Care to Share Support Network, that worked with families of children with special needs throughout Somerset County. During the lifespan of the charity, Tina was recognized for her work and significant contributions to Hillsborough's Special Education Department. Tina received proclamations from Hillsborough Township, the Magic 98.3 award for “Women Who Make Magic” and Somerset Counties "Women of the Year" for Volunteerism.
"I got the teaching bug when my friend Maryann asked me to create and teach a scrapbooking program for Amsterdam School's enrichment program. I fell in love with the program and returned every year there after. Being creative is my passion, I love to watch students try new things, grasp new concepts and apply them to school projects and at home in their own freestyle art! The kids are excited to share their masterpieces and I am always amazed at how talented and expressive children are or how often I've heard a parent remark that they didn't know their children were that talented"!
"I have always wanted a Studio where people stop in, take a class, do some freestyle art, take creative risks, hang out and meet new people. Art is not only therapeutic but socially a great tool to bring people together. Scrap U & Artistry Too is a safe space both personally and professionally for every guest who enters. Our warm, inviting climate is most important to me. I want each of our guests (adult and children alike) to have the opportunities to experience new, amazing art programs and learn a variety of different art mediums from talented professionals in their craft that they would not otherwise get to experience. Hillsborough has not had a one-stop shopping location for all their artistic needs and now they do! Plus you can shop! Our new pop-up vendor shop allows artists and entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their talents and products. It's a win for the guest and supports other community members in their endeavors."
Tina's commitment to support her community comes from years of volunteer and non-profit work. Tina has established a corporate relationship with Safe + Sound Somerset, Domestic Violence Center in Hillsborough as the primary contributor of Scrap U & Artistry Too's fundraising efforts (details on our Community Involvement page). Tina's resume of volunteerism includes many other organizations: Hillsborough's Cultural Arts Commission, Organization for Autism Research (OAR) as well as coordinating family events & fundraisers throughout Hillsborough schools. In 2008, Tina founded a non-profit organization, Care to Share Support Network, that worked with families of children with special needs throughout Somerset County. During the lifespan of the charity, Tina was recognized for her work and significant contributions to Hillsborough's Special Education Department. Tina received proclamations from Hillsborough Township, the Magic 98.3 award for “Women Who Make Magic” and Somerset Counties "Women of the Year" for Volunteerism.
This is Miley, the craft cat! Miley works from Tina's home office because she understands that some of our guests may be allergic to her fur. Miley likes to "help" create new designs for our classes!
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