Meet Our Educators!
Paint Like a Polar Bear with Louisa!
jamie@kitetails.org
BFA Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art (Baltimore, MD)
A Pennsylvania native, Jamie has recently moved to Maine from Baltimore. While attending the Maryland Institute, she worked at Maryland Arts Place, a non-profit alternative arts space. She has also spent summers working as a teaching assistant at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and has conducted private individual and group art classes with children. Jamie moved to Portland to work at the Children's Museum of Maine and couldn't be more excited about working with children in such a nurturing environment.
Louisa Donelson, Vistor Guide
louusa@kitetails.org
BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
After having lived in Rome and San Francisco, Louisa has fallen in love and settled on Portland. Since graduation she has worked professionally and artistically with homeless and at-risk teens and also as an instructor at Round Top Center for the Arts. She is currently a nationally showing and working artist in a variety of media and has also curated community art events. Louisa is thrilled to have joined the team at CMM!
Reba Short, Theatre Artistic Director
reba@kitetails.org
BA Theatre Arts, Mount Holyoke College, (South Hadley, MA)
Reba is an actress and theatre educator who joined the Children's Theatre of Maine in August 2007. At Mount Holyoke, she explored the use of theatre as a community forum. She has received traditional Shakespearian training as well as physical theatre and clowning techniques. Reba was stationed in Morocco with the Peace Corps (2004-2006) where she started a touring troupe of young actors and taught theatre for development to volunteers and aid workers. She continues to act locally for all audiences, including productions with Mad Horse Theatre Company and The Theater Project in Brunswick, Maine.
Hannah Wilhelm, Science Coordinator
BA, Chemistry Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
After graduating, Hannah helped pilot an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum for college physics students. Since then, she's taught at environmental education programs including Ferry Beach Ecology School in Saco, ME and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA. Hannah has done ecology research, including studying salt marsh plants at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve. She also completed a early childhood teaching apprenticeship at Shelburne Farms in Vermont. Hannah believes that everyone is a scientist and that there is always something new to discover.
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