Our Instructors
Jason Bagatta
Jason Bagatta is an Artist-educator living and working in New Hampshire. Jason is the Founder and Lead Instructor at Art House Studios.
With more than 20 years teaching experience at the college level, he has taught in the Graduate (MAE) and Undergraduate (BFA), Youth Arts, Community Education and Pre-College art programs at The Institute of Art, in Manchester, NH. Jason is currently teaching Painting & Drawing at Plymouth State University in NH. He is also a Visiting Teaching Artist working with Veterans, adults and teens at The Currier Museum of Art in NH, as well as an Arts Instructor in the Continuing Ed program at MASSART, in Boston.
Jason has taught various levels of painting and drawing, design courses, mixed-media, figure drawing, and conceptual art at Chester College in NH and Goddard College in VT.
Jason Bagatta has a Master’s degree in Fine Art & Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in VT, with a focus on Painting and Conceptual Art. His work has been displayed, performed and experienced nationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions.
Instructors who teach Workshops at Art House Studios
A series of POETRY Workshops with award-winning Poet, Derek Thomas Dew.
Derek’s debut poetry collection “Riddle Field”, received the 2019 Test Site Poetry Prize from the Black Mountain Institute/University of Nevada.
Derek’s poems have appeared in a number of anthologies, and have been published in a variety of journals, including Interim, Twyckenham Notes, The Maynard, The Curator, Two Hawks Quarterly, Ocean State Review, and Cathexis Northwest Press.
“Dew is an exciting and complex new voice in contemporary poetry” – Publishers Weekly
This is a workshop centered around self-trust with regard to self-expression.
In the mission to fine-tune our poems, special attention will be paid to the indeterminate, “weird” aspects of ourselves and our utterances that we might find untranslatable to readers.
Participants will bring one poem per workshop which they wish to discuss and strengthen. Each poem will be read out loud by the author, and then again by another participant. We will then, as a group, dig into everything from the music and structure of the poem to the diction and tone, all the while keeping in mind the author’s intent, the goal being to bring the poem into the most effective form possible. Remember: every masterful, finished poem began as a rough, often confused first draft! No fear or judgement here; we are all lifelong students of this artform.
