Natalia Bernal
Natalia brings to BCD her Spanish background and love of teaching music in the classroom to create an environment that gives children the opportunity to sing, dance, and play using immersive approach based themes. Her talents also include music production having worked with the Youth Symphony Orchestras, World Projects.
Dana Piazza (’06 2S) is an artist, graphic designer who received his BFA Magna Cum Laude from the School of Art+Design at Purchase College. His work was recently exhibited at Gallery 263, Limner Gallery, and The Arts Center of the Capital Region. He was featured at the Geoffrey Young Gallery, Muriel Guépin Gallery, and Room 68 in December 2017, and at Albany Center Gallery in 2018. His work is held in Pierogi Gallery’s Flat Files. In addition to creating artwork, Piazza has provided graphic design services for Ellsworth Kelly Studio and MASS MoCA, and worked as an artist assistant for LoVid. Currently, he is the Gallery Manager of Sohn Fine Art Gallery, in Lenox Massachusetts. http://
Ari Cameron is our teaching artist in the Painting and Drawing Studio. She is an artist and educator having graduated from the New School with a B.A. in Visual Arts and Poetry. Ari has worked as a teaching artist across age ranges, designed curriculum for after school programs and summer camps, managed community arts projects, and facilitated group dialogue with teens and adults. Her poetry has appeared in Vinyl, Hinchas de Poesia, The Offing, and PANK among other places.
Ben Evans has worked at IS183 Art School in Stockbridge, MA as the Ceramics Studio Manager. He has taught Wheel Working, Hand Building, Tile Making, and Slip Casting, and he has been the Summer Camp Ceramic Instructor. Ben received his BFA, majoring in Ceramics, from the State University of New York at New Paltz. His other teaching experience includes work at Morningside Elementary School in Pittsfield, the after-school program at Taconic High School, and as an art club teacher at Richmond Consolidated School. He has also worked as a studio assistant for Michael Brod in Rhinebeck, NY, and Mary Roehm in High Falls, NY, and as a teaching assistant for Jeff Zamek at the Penland School of Crafts in NC.
