 |
| |
John Pack has directed the Aegean Center since 1984 where he also teaches digital photography. A ferociously proud autodidact he began his formal education in the arts in the Bay Area in the late 60s at the California College of Arts and Crafts. He very quickly became disillusioned with large school pedagogic methods and began his own intrepid educational journey. The seeds of what he considers is the idea of true education were planted during his work with Leon Ginsburg and Ignacio Peri at Laney Experimental College in Oakland California in 1970.
After leaving the Bay Area John lived several years on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. Upon leaving the Navajo Nation he taught photography at the University of New Mexico-Gallup for almost three years. While at U.N.M. he developed and directed his “Tour of Light” photographic workshops with which he brought UNM students to the U.K. to study, or in his words, “...have 15 days of influence...”, with select British and Scottish photographers. Also a two time scholarship recipient with Ansel Adams, it was during this time he began further refining his own philosophy and approach for a small group Socratic/mentor based educational program in the arts. He came to Greece December of 1983.
He has taught master classes in fine printing at two schools in Athens Greece, Photo Kyklos and Focus. He has exhibited widely and his work is held in museums and private collections world wide, including: Museum of Man, San Diego, California; Museum of Northern Arizona; Wheelwright Museum of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Navajo Tribal Museum; Chase Art - New York City; New York Public Library, New York City; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris; Rivellis Collection, Athens, Greece. He is currently finished a book of photography in collaboration with British poet, Peter Abbs. His portfolio on the Navajo, with whom he lived in the late 70s, has become a museum piece. John most recently exhibited his photographs, The Greater Journey, in Canterbury, England.
The Greater Journey Website |
|
| |
 |
Head of studio arts at the Aegean Center for twenty years, Jane Pack is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Her BFA from is from Colorado State University and her MFA from the University of Illinois. She has had many solo and group shows in Europe and in the United States. She worked for several years in a fine arts foundry casting bronze and at a display company where she acquired experience in a multitude of materials. She is especially interested in traditional methods of oil painting and her abiding love is the art of the Renaissance and Greek vase painting. Jane will be exhibiting her recent body of paintings next year at the Somerville Manning Gallery.
Jane Morris Pack's Personal Website |
 |
Jeffrey Carson grew up in New York, where he was educated at Stuyvesant High School and New York University. He did his post-graduate work at Schiller International University. He has lived on the island of Paros since 1970, and has taught at the Aegean Center since 1974, teaching writing, literature, and art history. He lectures regularly on Art History for ElderHostel, was the art book reviewer for many years for New York’s Art Information Report, and lectured on late Roman architecture at the Irish Institute of Classical Studies in Athens. He has published two books of poetry, two of translation (The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis from Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1997, expanded 2004, is one), two of travel, and one of literary criticism. His chapbook, The Cow and the Lyre: Archilochos the Poet, was published by the Iowa International Writing Program in 2006. His articles, reviews, poems, translations, and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals. He has lectured at the Symposium on Mediterranean Literature in Malta, the International Symposium on Archilochos, and the Seminar on Odysseus Elytis in Rome. He has given poetry readings at Harvard, New York University, the Athens Center, The Muses’ Workshop on Spetses, and many other places. |
 |
Elizabeth Carson was born in New York and did her undergraduate work at New York University in cinema; she also studied photography with Joseph Breitenbach. She has lived on Paros for thirty-eight years. She teaches Photography and the History of Photography at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts. She has had solo and group shows in Greece and Italy and her work is in many private collections. Her photographs have appeared in many periodicals, such as The Athenian, MondoGreco, The NY Times, and The Athens News, and in several books. In 1997 her portfolio on Paros’ great church, The Church of A Hundred Doors, was published by Enosis/Adam. She has published reviews and articles in Art Information Report, The Athenian, and Paros Life, and also writes for Fodor’s Greece. Her portfolio of photographs of Traditional Agricultural Work of Paros is currently a major exhibition at the gallery of the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives. |
 |
Orfeas John Munsey received his Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory with specializations in singing and music history. Post-graduate studies were with Karl Schmitt-Walter at the Bavarian State Conservatory and Corrie Bijster at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He studied the French Art Song with Pierre Bernac and Janine Micheau and the German Lied with Hans Hotter. From 1973 to 1979 he was Professor of Singing and Music-Theater at the Arnhem Conservatory in Holland as well as singing teacher at music schools in Amsterdam and Den Helder. He conducts choirs and vocal ensembles and trains young singers in his studio in Amsterdam. His love of the vocal music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance led him to study classical Hindustani singing (Dhrupad) with the Dagar Brothers in New Delhi for nine consecutive winters. He was vocal artist-in-residence in Auroville, South India in the winters of 1995 and 1996. |
 |
Peter Abbs was born and grew up on the North Norfolk coast in England. He has written and lectured widely on the nature of creativity and the poetics of culture. In 2004 he was Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, Arkansas. He is the Poetry Editor of Resurgence and Editor of Earth Songs, the first Anglo-American anthology of contemporary eco-verse. He has published nine volumes of poetry including Icons of Time, Personae, Love After Sappho, Viva la Vida, The Flowering of Flint and most recently The Greater Journey. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Sussex and working on his most ambitious project to date, The Story of Self, examining the development of the self in western culture. Some early sections of this study have been published in The London Magazine and in Encyclopedia of Life Writing edited by Margaretta Jolly.
More on Peter Abbs |
 |
Jun-Pierre Shiozawa was born and raised in New Jersey and then Minnesota. He received his Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in painting. During his studies he attended the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts where he studied under Jane Pack and Elizabeth Carson. He has held several solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Japan. He is also interested in comic book illustration and has studied under Scott McCloud. This will be the second year he has been teaching at the Aegean Center in the domains of painting and drawing.
Jun-Pierre Shiozawa's Personal Website |
|
|
The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts
Director: John Pack
Mailing Address: Paros 84400, Cyclades
Phone: +30 22840 23 287
|
|