Rosie Getz is the Director of Creative World. Rosie received her BA in Fine Art and Performance Arts from Bard College a while ago and has been an exhibiting artist and art teacher in the Los Angeles area ever since. Her art explores painting, drawing, fabric, and mixed media. Rosie started at Creative World as a teacher in 2010 where she developed the diverse programs offered in Summer Art Camp, After School, Weekly Art, and Arts Bridge. She has taught Fine Art, Digital Art, Giant Puppets, Fabric and Fiber, Graphic Novel, and World Arts to students of all ages. When not at Creative World, Rosie enjoys cooking, time with family and playing with her 14 chickens.
Renee Bovinette is an Associate Director and Lead Teacher at Creative World. She received her BFA in ceramics, BA in music on the violin, and her teaching license for K-12 art education from the University of Iowa in 2013. She also obtained her California state teaching license for art education in 2014. Over the past decade she has taught many subjects including ceramics, fiber arts, art and anthropology, photography, drawing, sculpture, painting, costume making, music, and puppet making, to students of all ages. Her current work explores paper arts, watercolor painting, and fiber arts. She loves working with children and is always inspired by their creations and hilarious jokes!
Alexander Eng is an Associate Director and Lead Teacher at Creative World. He received his BFA in drawing and painting from Laguna College of Art and Design. His personal work consists of representational still-life, portraits, and landscapes using oil paint and other traditional materials. He joined the CW teaching team in 2019 and has been teaching a wide range of classes, including fine art, comic book making, game making, and drawing classes.
Alison Kizu-Blair is an Associate Director and Lead Teacher at Creative World. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Hunter College. Alison’s art works across a wide variety of mediums, and multitude of materials and techniques including drawing, painting, collage, zine writing, fabric dyeing and batik, sculpture, ceramics, performance, and video. Alison also loves cooking, hiking, and reading fantasy fiction.
Renee Yang is a Lead Teacher and Director Emeritus of Creative World. Renee received her BA in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and her MS in Instructional Design from California State University Fullerton. She is a self-taught artist with over 15 years of experience working with children. She enjoys teaching Mixed Media Art, Graphic Novel, and Drawing & Painting at Creative World.
Carly Lake is Lead Teacher. She is a painter, illustrator, muralist and fiber artist. She received her BFA in Illustration with a minor in Native American Cultures from California State University at Long Beach. Alongside teaching, she creates imagery for storyboarding, magazines, and picture books. Carly loves teaching art to children and help them create a space for personal exploration, collaboration, and self-confidence.
Eva Grello is a Lead Teacher. She is an illustrator and printmaker. After graduating from the LA County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), she received her BFA and MFA in Illustration from Cal State Long Beach. Eva has been working with young artists for the past 8 years and loves all that she learns from her fantastic students! She also teaches illustration at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Long Beach. Her cute & joyful work explores the small delights that are abundant in life.
Alina Kawai is a Lead Teacher at Creative World. Born in Hyogo, Japan, Alina received her MFA at the University of California, Santa Barbara and BFA from University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Alina’s work focus on color, form, and symbols, which inquire how one is connected to a broader culture, also becoming an introspective quiet space.
Marilyn Dubner is a Lead Teacher of Performing Arts at Creative World. Marilyn received her BFA in Theatre and her Master of Education Degree in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley College in Cambridge, MA. She has been working as a performing arts teacher and director.
Lena Gavenas is an Associate Teacher at Creative World. Lena is a multi-media artist with a focus in sculpture and painting - her work is usually cartoony, outlandish, and a little spooky. She received her degree from UC Berkeley in art and biology. She is also a nature enthusiast, roller skater, amateur sailor, and improv comedian.
Josiah Columna is an Associate Teacher at Creative World. He received his BFA from San Jose State university and freelances on motion graphics and animation projects. He teaches Graphic Novel at Creative World and in his spare time enjoys cooking, playing bass and making comics for fun!
Kaitlyn Gorbet is an Associate Teacher at Creative World. She received her BA degree in Art History from Cal State Long Beach. She has always found art history interesting, and her goal is to pass on this creativity and knowledge to her students.
David Juarez is a Lead Teacher at Creative World. He is an illustrator and storyboard artist. He earned his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Having attended several youth enriching arts programs as a child, he understands first-hand how essential arts education can be to creative young children and teens. Teaching and inspiring the next generation of artists and creative innovators is important to the success of aspiring professionals and the communities they'll contribute to.
Paulina Cardenas is an Associate Teacher at Creative World. She attends Arizona State University pursuing a BFA in Ceramics. She works with all kinds of arts media but is a classical ceramicist, exploring form, texture and finish through different glaze and firing processes. She finds joy in the creativity of her students and likes to have fun with them. When not throwing on her wheel or teaching, she loves to travel and play with her puppy.