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Meet the Yardies

The Founders

Nick Bauta

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Clay Rockefeller

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The Staff

Drake Patten Executive Director

Drake Patten is a graduate in History and Material Culture from Skidmore College and holds advanced degrees from the Uni... read more →

Beth Allard Americorps*VISTA Program and Outreach Assistant

Bethany Allard is a self-proclaimed arts-education-addict. She received a dual degree in Visual Art and Educational Stud... read more →

Alma Carrillo Youth and Outreach Coordinator

Alma M. Carrillo López graduated from Brown University with a MA in Public Humanities in 2008. Born and raised in... read more →

Brian Dowling Shop Manager

Brian Dowling has a BFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and has worked on large-scale public sc... read more →

Jackson Morley Volunteer & Communications Coordinator

Jackson Morley started his love for mechanical objects and mechanisms like many gear and metal heads; by tinkering with ... read more →

David Sharp Program Director

Dave Sharp was born and raised in Washington, D.C. After graduating from Middlebury College, he moved down to Providence... read more →

Howie Sneider Public Project Coordinator

Howie Sneider has been teaching at the Steel Yard for a few years now. He really likes it. He also enjoys listening to m... read more →

Emily Lindberg Americorps VISTA (Reycle-A-Bike)

Emily Lindberg graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in June, 2009 with a BFA in Interior Architecture. She i... read more →

The Board

Peter Gill Case Chair

David Karoff Secretary

Mark Hellendrung Treasurer

Kipp Bradford

Lisa Carnevale

Nate Nadeau

Frank F. Previti

Monica Shinn

The Instructors

Blacksmithing

Lu Heintz

Lu Heintz began metalsmithing when she was fifteen. Her studio has produced sculpture and architectural commissions sin... read more →

Ceramics

David Allyn

David Allyn is the founder of the Steel Yard clay department and a RISD MFA graduate. He has taught ceramics at RISD an... read more →

Peter Lutz

Peter Lutz was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas where he spent much of his youth climbing trees; yes there are tre... read more →

Heather Sancomb

Heather Sancomb has recently completed her MFA in Artisanry at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She has many years... read more →

Glass

Jacqueline Knight

Jacqueline Knight is an Australian artist currently working in Providence. Her work contains blown, solid-worked, and c... read more →

Joan Wyand

Joan Wyand is inspired by the life and detritus that exists all around her. Her color palette is one of the most develop... read more →

Jewelry

Heather Guidero

Heather Guidero is a 2002 RISD graduate with a BFA in jewelry and metalsmithing. After 3 years of goldsmithing in NYC, s... read more →

Patrick McMillan Jewelry Cooperative Coordinator

Patrick McMillan has been a practicing metalsmith since 2003 and received his MA in Jewelry and Silversmithing in 2007 f... read more →

Islay Taylor

Islay Taylor was born in Wakefield, Rhode Island. She is a contemporary art jeweler, who uses the body as a pedestal to ... read more →

Welding

Dan Neff

Dan Neff has been a professional welder for 8 years. In that time, rumor has it he has attached every weldable object to... read more →

Nora Rabins

Nora Rabins received her MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is interested in domestici... read more →

Peter Scheidt

Peter Scheidt has been welding and tinkering ever since his shop teacher dad realized a son could hand him tools better ... read more →

Monica Shinn

Monica Shinn is a painter, welder, and metalsmith. She does all three most of the time and has experience as a set desig... read more →