Course Instructors | Winter 2025
Kath Yarkosky
Kath is an educator, printmaker, and fine art printer. Her work primarily focuses on industry, labor, socio-economics, and their impacts on the environment, both physically and psychologically. Kath has been at Frontline since 2022, and serves as the studio tech and production printer. She is the Printer at the Experimental Printmaking Institute and an adjunct professor at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. yarkoskykl.com
Kath’s next courses: Pressed for Time
Gene Kim
Gene is a Korean-American storyboard artist who has worked on shows for Netflix, Amazon Studios, Angel Studios, HBO Max and more. He was previously a CG artist at Disney's Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Rio) and a CG intern at Pixar Animation Studios before then. His own award-winning original animated and live action work has played internationally on the film festival circuit. genekk.com
Gene’s next class: Comic Book Art: Crafting Stories
Len Merlo
Len is a full time artist and activist living and working in South Plainfield, NJ. He has 25 years of experience teaching art in NJ Public Schools and has taught workshops in ceramics, sculpture and printmaking. He served on the Board of Directors at The Print Center of New Jersey, and The Arts Guild of New Jersey. He is also a member and workshop instructor at Frontline Arts. lenmerlo.com
Len’s next class: Non-Toxic: Tetra Pak Intaglio Plates
Ingrid Marie Harbour
Ingrid is an interdisciplinary artist who enjoys experimenting with different mediums, including drawing, painting, and printmaking. Originally from Seattle, Washington, Ingrid moved East after studying art at the UW, including drawing with notable professors Zhi Lin and Emily Gherard. While living in NYC, Ingrid worked as a teaching artist at the Art Lab at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, teaching painting to teens and adults, where she participated in the Summer Studio Scholarship Program (SSSP) annually for several summers. The SSSP included a 6-week intensive of figure drawing and oil painting, including plein air on the grounds of historical Snug Harbor in Staten Island. Now based in New Jersey, Ingrid balances life as an artist, producer, and homemaker. She is currently participating in Somerset County’s Open Air / Open Space project as a plein air landscape artist, capturing the natural beauty of local parks. ingrid.art
Ingrid’s next classes:
Dave DiMarchi
Dave is a queer, multi-disciplinary artist working in printmaking, papermaking and sculptural book forms. Nurturing ideas into singular and editioned works, he engages in a relentless material practice. As a multi-disciplinary artist, he has exhibited works on paper, installations and books in the US and internationally. In autumn of 2022, he was announced as the Arts Council of Princeton’s Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence, through which he developed a practice of collage-based multimedia and print works. He also serves as the Arts Council’s Printmaking Studios Manager and Master Printer, and is Instructor of Printmaking at Mercer College. For nearly 15 years, he has created his own work, curated exhibitions, provided print exchange opportunities, and published fine art prints as 9INHANDPRESS, a fine art printmaking and education studio located in New Hope, PA. 9inhandpress.com
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Kristian Battell
Kristian is an artist practicing in Jersey City, NJ. She completed her Masters of Fine Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. Battell always considered herself more of a traditional printmaker, having a BFA in Printmaking and Art of the Book from Purchase College, but the pandemic has shifted her practice to sculpture and installation. These sculptures focus on climate change and upcycling the materials that surround her in her everyday life. She loves bringing this practice to a wider audience through her installations and teaching about our impact on the environment and the change we can make through art. Battell has had solo exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ) and Warren Community College (Washington, NJ). Select group exhibitions include the International Print Center of New York (New York, NY), Local Projects (Long Island City, NY), SlowBurn (NYC), Mana Contemporary (Jersey City, NJ), Art150 (Jersey City, NJ), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT), Ice Cream Social (Port Chester, NY) and the Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ). She has been artist-in-residence at ChaNorth, Frans Masereel Centrum, Newark Print Shop and Index Art Center. She is currently a teaching artist at Frontline Arts, the Montclair Art Museum, and the Visual Art Center of New Jersey.
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