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Meet your Instructors & Hosts
Catherine "Cat" Schwenk
Founder, organizer and hostess of all things Zephyr Maine.
Cat had a dream to create a local space to bring together the community around shared love of food, creativity and craft and finally in late 2025, the doors opened to this beautiful space in Freeport Maine that focuses on local and regional talent and learning.
Charlotte Agell
Charlotte Agell is the author/illustrator of fourteen books for children and young adults, as well as one book for teachers. The New York Times has called her work “ebullient.”
She was featured in the NYTimes “Read Your Way Through Maine” essay.
Her picture book Maybe Tomorrow? (illus by Ana Ramirez Gonzalez) won a Maine Literary Award in 2020. A companion book, Just for Today, is due out in May '26
Anna Low
Anna's formal education is in photography and art education, with a BA from Hampshire College, a year studying at Spéos - The Paris Photographic Institute, and a MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After many years of teaching first in the Chicago Public School System and then running an art department at a private school in Rhode Island, she made the leap to full time artist. She now focuses her energies on bookbinding and is the creator behind Purplebean Bindery, a business focused on creating unique, durable and inspiring blank journals. To satisfy her endless creative itch, she makes artist books using a variety of printmaking and photographic processes. She teaches workshops in bookbinding, including at Maine Media Workshops, USM's summer book arts program, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft. Her Photographs and artist books have been exhibited throughout New England and published in several periodicals, including Maine Magazine. Her home studio is bright and sunny, in Auburn Maine. www.purplebeanbindery.com
Kathleen "Kathy" Goddu
A ‘Native Mainer’ Kathleen grew up in the country. Nature continues to be her inspiration. Her primary art form is Japanese Fiber Art, but she also sketches, does colored pencil drawings, and sews. She graduated from the University of Maine with a dual degree in Fine Arts and Speech Correction (having three years of art school prior). She was inspired by Shibori and indigo dye during two Japanese Home Stay trips to Onoe, Japan in 2000-2001. She has studied under many great shibori artists/masters in the United States and in Japan. For her, the possibilities are endless as she explores, experiments and continues to expanded her knowledge of various Shibori techniques.
www.kathleengoddu.com Instagram: @Kgoddu51
Judy LaBrasca
Judy LaBrasca is an artist living in Falmouth Maine. She has taught drawing and painting in various school and private settings including in the BFA and CS departments at Maine College of Art and Design since 2001.
Susan Perrine
Susan constructs introspective textiles ranging from handheld, to wearable and inhabitable.
A weaving apprenticeship led to experience working on Jacquard and Dobby looms.
Susan’s Twig Garden Structures have been installed in several dozen public and private gardens, including Artpark in Lewiston, NY, Converence Sculpture Festival in Newport, RI, Nantucket Island School of Design, Nantucket, MA and Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, ME.
Portland Press Herald interview (https://www.pressherald.com/2017/05/21/artist-susan-perrine-helps-children-tap-into-natural-creativity/#) about Twig Hut Construction Project at Lyseth School.
A stitcher since childhood, Susan is currently turning her somewhat-randomly-dyed-warp, handwoven fabrics into wearables.
Instagram: @SusyFactory
Woolwich, ME
Eliza Guion
Eliza Guion is a visual artist, writer, and educator from Abenaki territory (Vermont, USA). Through textile, print, and sculpture works, she explores land histories and possibilities. She holds an M.A. in Art & Ecology from the Burren College of Art and facilitates lectures and workshops on natural pigments in artistic practice. She enjoys working with students of all ages to experiment with natural color as they explore their relationship to plants and place.
