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2007 ESSA Staff

Executive Director
Peggy Kjelgaard, Ph.D.
Eureka Springs

Program Coordinator
Sabina Miller
Holiday Island

Office Manager
June Easton
Eureka Springs

2007 Board Members

President - Eleanor Lux
Eureka Springs

Vice President - Ron Morrison
Eureka Springs

Secretary - Mary Springer
Eureka Springs

Treasurer - Bobbie Foster
Eureka Springs

RuAnn Ewing
Hindsville

LeRoy Gorrell
Eureka Springs

Sandra Lockhart
Rogers

Elise Roenigk
Eureka Springs

Doug Stowe
Eureka Springs

Dick Trammel
Rogers

Jan Wallace
Eureka Springs

Session Six/Youth Art Week
Youth (12-17 year olds)
July 14-16; 9am-4pm

Mary Tait
Creative Dressmaking (Ages 12-17)

Studio
3 Day Class (9am-4pm: Mon., Tues., & Wed.)
Tuition: $110
Materials: $15

Want to create a party dress? Working from a pattern, participants will sew and embellish a fancy dress using basic sewing techniques such as ruffling, gathering, zippers, and buttons. Some experience on a sewing machine is required.

Mary has a BFA in Painting from Louisiana Tech in Ruston, Louisiana. She has been a three-dimensional artist since 1974. Mary has a successful interior fabrication business in both Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and New Orleans, Louisiana. She has done work for both the cinema and its stars.