Meet the Teachers  at Ethel Walker School (Simsbury, Connecticut)

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Marissa Forde
Visual Arts Teacher
B.A., Jacksonville University
M.Ed., University of Hartford
 
Corina Alvarezdelugo
Art Faculty, Visual Arts Department
Gallery Director

Corina S. Alvarezdelugo is originally from Venezuela where she received formal training in drawing and painting with the Venezuelan master painter and sculptor, Luis Alvarez de Lugo. As a young adult, she studied at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, and later on earned her B.F.A. with Honors and Distinction from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven while raising her three children. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Lesley University ... read more
 
Ben Barker
Photography and Movie/Video Production Teacher

Ben Barker earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia in England and is a graduate of the Connecticut Film Industry Training Program from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. Ben spent over 20 years in the environmental industry conducting laboratory analysis, site investigations and indoor air quality studies. His specialty was the creation and operation of mobile laboratory businesses and he became a State of CT Depa ... read more