Index of Regional Directors and Staff

• Michael Herships - Project Leader
• Candyce Brokaw - Art Director
• Melicia Greenwood - Webmaster/Graphic Design Director
• Mark Kramer - System Administrator
• Marietta Dantonio-Fryer - Outreach Coordinator
• Dee Dee Brower - Coordinator of Volunteer & Community Services
• Kim Schneiderhan - Southeastern Regional Director
• Bonni Hall - Australian Regional Director
• Ellen Ehrlich - U.S. Regional Director, Connecticut
• Dan Rhema - Mid-Atlantic U.S. Regional Director
• Joel T. Keener - Outreach Technology Coordinator
• Marcus Schubert - Curator

Marietta Dantonio-Fryer
Deleware
Outreach Coordinator
brenmar96@aol.com
Director of the Art Department and professor of Art at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Marietta Dantonio-Fryer is a survivor of childhood abuse. She graduated Kutztown University with her BS in Art Education, and continued her education at Marywood University where she received her MS in Education. After graduating she taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania, where she was also the district art coordinator. In 1982 she opened Dantonio Art Center, which she directed until it closed in 1998. During the 16-year history of DAC she worked with chapters of the National Art Honor Society and Junior National Art Honor Society, which created many murals that have been donated to various organizations over the years. Marietta has taught at Delaware State University and Springfield College. She is currently on the faculty at Wilmington College, where she teaches art and education classes. She also is working as an Art Therapist at Elwyn, Inc. in Media, PA, where she is creating a mural with the students in the Second Chances program. She has also co-created a Therapeutic Arts curriculum, with Joel Keener, that is being used by Ferris School for boys, a maximum security prison for boys from the ages of 8 to 19. Marietta was the Art Educator of the Year for the state of Deleware for 1998. She currently holds memberships in the American Art Therapist Association and National Art Educators Association. Her expertise is in working with survivors of trauma, physical and mental; these include at risk youth, incarcerated adults, persons with AIDS, senior citizens, survivors of sexual abuse, special needs and victims of cultural cleansing. She has also worked with the US Army, by traveling to various bases, to help soldiers find creative outlets for stress and separation anxiety.

Dee Dee Brower
Ridge, New York
Coordinator of Volunteer & Community Services
http://dreams.asarian-host.org/
http://www.kenliworthart.com/BelskyArtSociety/index_.htm
Ms. Dee Dee Brower is a published writer and artist. She has helped SAF is a variety of capacities:
preparing for shows, public relations, preparation and attending recognition events and administrative capacities for SAF. Ms. Brower has received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service, and is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook 2000 with a M.A. in English. She is the Editor-In-Chief of The Graduate Times newspaper, as well as the Assistant Editor of FOCUS a journal for women. Ms. Brower is a strong advocate for people with disabilities and has presented at a number of venues dealing with issues surrounding disabled individuals. She plans to continue volunteering and hopes to have a career in Disability Advocacy.

Ms. Brower's art focus on multimedia, with a strong interest in expressing emotions related to her own experience with incest, sexual abuse, homelessness, mental illness, while also expanded to address trauma's suffered by others. Her writings run the gamut of poetry, playwrighting, essay, and news articles. Ms. Brower has a strong belief that people's experiences should be validated and recognized in which SAF is the perfect forum for such expression.

Noel Clark
Vermont
NorthEastern Regional Director and Member/Research Consultation
http://asarian-host.org/inpsyte - Trauma Psychology
http://asarian-host.org/beaumond - Fiber-arts
Noel Clark currently is a co-facilitator of therapy groups for sex offenders. She is in the process of obtaining her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology. She has extensive knowledge in victim's issues relative to childhood sexual abuse. She plans to obtain her Ph.D. upon completion of her Master's level work and focus on the counseling of victims, offenders and education of the judicary/courts within her State. She is currently updating the Governor's 1992 Study of Treatment Programs for Victim's and Offenders within the State of Vermont as part of her Master's thesis. She has chosen to share her knowledge with other survivors and recovering offenders by designing and hosting her own trauma psychology site, URL given above. As a natural extension of this Noel is active in survivor support newsgroups and internet chat groups.

She is a handspinner, dyer and weaver who has owned her own business since 1975 and operates under the company name of Beau Monde Fiber-arts Studio. At her Beau Monde studio she teaches fiberarts lessons to adults and children, sells and reconditions weaving equipments, designs custom goods using her own formulated dye palette of colors based on percentages. She is well versed in html editing and hosts a site for other beginner and advanced fiberartists at the url above.Noel is a grandmother of two and has actively headed organizations since her mid 20's relative to education, government and leisure time activities.

Kim Schneiderhan
Florida
South Eastern Regional Director and Member/Research Consultation
http://www.survivorsartfoundation.org
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/kimssafeplace/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/kimssafeplace/gallery.html
Kim Schneiderhan, a survivor of child sexual abuse/incest, began healing from her past in February, 1997. In July of that same year, never painting before since childhood, and with no training in art, she decided to purchase some paint and canvas in the effort of expressing herself where words had failed her. Since that time her work continues to express the fear, loneliness, and depression she has carried for a lifetime, and also the joy and wonder of healing from the effects of her difficult past. It is indeed a miracle that this talent which lay dormant until Kim began her healing journey at the age of thirty four, came out of a place that was hidden so deeply within. She has finally found her true passion in her creativity within her craft, and sharing this process with others.

Along with her other new beginnings, Kim has web authored and web mastered, the site "Kim's Safe Place." A place for the healing, prevention, awareness of child abuse. The site includes a moderated message board, chartroom, poetry page, a huge resource center, a bookstore, art gallery and guest-book. Kim developed and co-hosted/moderated a weekly on-line support chat with topics for discussion "Striving Toward Thriving" at the web-site, Incest/Abuse Support at the Mining Company. Kim was the 1998 Art Exhibit Director for the VOICES IN Action 16th Annual International Conference for victims of sexual child abuse, and will be the director at this year's VOICES Art Exhibit in May, 1998 a joint venture this year by VOICES In Action and the Survivors Art Foundation. Kim participated in "The Diaries Project" (working name) a documentary for PBS on sexual abuse survivors and the creative healing process, due out some time next year.

Presently, her artwork is featured in the on-line publication "The Write Brain," a compilation of short stories, poetry, essays and artwork created by consumers, caregivers, and mental health professionals, at http://www.mhsource.com/writebrain.html. In addition, a piece entitled "Solstice" is featured in the online publication "First Person," which aims to provide a forum for opinions and to let people share their experiences relating to mental, emotional and spiritual health, at http://www.1stpm.org/index.html. Foremost, Kim says she is her kid's Mom.

Bonni Hall
Australian Regional Director
bonni@bonni.net
Bonni Elizabeth Hall was born in New York City in 1964. Formally educated in fine and applied art and design, her interests are diverse and include history, humor (particularly parody and satire), theology, psychology, ballet and theatre, bad films from the fifties, internet culture, folklore and urban legends, poetry and literature and all kinds of music. Bonni is a computer and networking professional, as well as being a freelance web page and graphic designer, digital artist, poet, and essayist. Her art gallery and related works may be viewed at http://www.alicorna.com

Ellen Erlich
U.S. Regional Director, Connecticut
Ellie758@aol.com
Ellie Ehrlich is a Board certified Art Therapist and currently the president of the Connecticut Art Therapy Association. Ellie has worked with children in the past, currently works at The University School, a private alternative high school in Bridgeport, serving adolescents at risk, and at Family Services Woodfield in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program for adults, leading an art therapy group that includes trauma survivors.

Dan Rhema
U.S. Regional Director, Mid-Atlantic
http://www.danrhema.com
drhema@aye.net
Dan Rhema came to be a visionary artist/writer through a near death experience when he contracted Dengue Fever (also known as Break Bone Fever) and Spinal Meningitis. During his recovery, Dan began to create works of art using locally collected wild thorny vines which to him represented the damage the fever had inflicted on his brain. Later, in Tucson, Arizona, Dan began to write children's books and to collect objects found during walks in the desert.

After moving to Louisville, Kentucky in April of 1995, Dan felt compelled to create multimedia collages, sculptures, and masks from his collection of found objects. It was at this time that Dan began to fully understand the healing power of his art. He began to paint, capturing the images flowing through him in a unique three dimensional style. His self taught art has been heavily influenced by his illness, his readings in comparative mythology, and his own search for spiritual meaning.

Dan's near death experience and subsequent creative healing art has brought forth a unique collaboration of Louisville playwrights, poets, actors, video producers, and dancers. "A Quest For Healing," a monologue, poetry reading, and dance program performed in the midst of Dan's visionary art, has been well received in the Louisville art community. In 1997 Dan was the subject of the documentary "Altered Visions: the Dan Rhema Story," produced by VSM productions.

Prior to becoming an artist, Dan had an extensive background in not-for-profit work. Beginning in 1982, Dan has held the positions of Appropriate Technology Trainer; Project Representative and Director of Operations with various low-cost housing development projects in: Maryland; Georgia; Arizona; Kenya, East Africa and Peru, South America. In 1990, Dan was the co-founder and president of El Centro, Inc. Intercultural Training and Retreat Center in Santiago Tuxla, Mexico. Dan has served on the board of directors for many not-for profit organizations including: The Second Street Neighborhood Association; The Divine Wind School; Indians for Housing and The Loading Dock. Dan received his BA in Geology from Georgia Soutwestern College and was named The Outstanding Graduate in Geology.

Joel T. Keener
Outreach Technology Coordinator
Professor, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania and Wilmington College

Marcus Schubert
Curator
Marcus Schubert, a freelance photographer, sculptor and educator is currently principal curator for the American Visionary Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland. Recently he was awarded an inaugural senior residency at Tryon Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. He retains membership on the International Advisory Boards for both Raw Vision Magazine (U.K.) and the Survivor's Art Foundation of Long Island, New York. He is also a principal correspondent for the U.S. based Meta Museum - a global, collaborative league of artists, curators and educators.

A graduate of Media Studies at Ryerson Polytechnic University’s Department of Film and Photography (1976-1981), he is the recipient of numerous Canada Council for the Arts grants and awards for his work in landscape, architectural and portrait photography. Mr. Schubert, an active member of the Toronto Photographer’s Workshop since 1979, has held positions there on the board of executives and exhibitions committee, and has served as juror for the Ontario Arts Council. He resides in his birthplace (b.1955) of Toronto, Canada.

Fellowships/Residencies
Inaugural Senior Artist-in-Residence, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Principal Exhibitions
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA., New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans, LA., Museum of Art & Design, University of N. Carolina, Raleigh, NC., Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, Winthrop University Galleries, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Rock Hill, SC., Durham Arts Center, Durham, NC., Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City, Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC., Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, OH., Yucatan Cultural Institute, Merida, Mexico, Aaron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Ill., Colleen Greco Gallery, Philadelphia, PA., Montebello Park Gallery, Suffern, NY., Center for Visual Arts, Newcastle, ON., Presentation House, Vancouver, BC., Toronto Venues: Italian Cultural Institute, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Wuohela Galleries, Toronto Image Works, l’Alliance Française, Market Gallery.

Noteworthy Publications
Self-Made Worlds, Aperture, New York, Outsiders II: Visionary Environments by Marcus Schubert, Kyoto-Shoin, Japan, Raw Vision: The International Journal for Outsider Art, London, U.K., Inner Architecture as Outsider Art: The Photographs of Marcus Schubert, an essay by John MacGregor Ph.D., San Francisco, California.

Lecture Engagements
Museum of American Folk Art, New York City, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, ON., University of Akron, School of Art, Akron, OH., Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC., Winthrop University - School of Visual Art, Rock Hill, SC., Haliburton School of Fine Art - Sir Sanford Flemming College, Haliburton, ON., Three Arts Club, Chicago, Ill., Meta Museum, Black Mountain, SC., Eigensinn Art Park, Singhampton, ON.

Teaching Engagements
Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, ON., Photography: Studio & Darkroom Techniques.
Sir Sanford Flemming College/Haliburton School of Fine Arts, Haliburton, ON.., Wire Sculpture.
Southampton School of Fine Art, Southampton, ON., Ferro-Cement Sculpture, Wire Sculpture.
Meta Museum, Black Mountain, NC., Creative Biscotti, Styles of Sushi.
Georgian Bay School of Art, Collingwood,ON., Beyond Basic Photography, Ferro-Cement Sculpture, Wire Sculpture. Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC., New Photographic Processes: The Giclée Print.

Collections
The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, PQ., Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON., Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MA., Presentation House, Vancouver, BC., New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.,Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC., Bibliotèque National, Paris, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chartres, France, Musée de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, Outsiders Archive, London, U.K., Museo Zoologico della Specola, Florence, Italy, Istituto di Anatomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Museo Storico Nazionale delle Arte Sanitaria, Rome, Italy, Maogräflich Badische Verwaltung und Museen, Salem, Germany, Toronto Collections: Toronto Image Works, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Centre for Visual Resources, Ryerson Polytechnic University.

Curatorial Projects
“Breaking the Walls of Bias” - Survivor’s Art Foundation, Hofstra Musum, Long Island, NY.
“Treasures of the Soul: Who is Rich?” - American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
“Introit for a Third Millennium - The works of Paul Lowry” - Gallery 44, Toronto.
“Offerings from the Dharmakaya” - l’Alliance Française, Toronto.
“Landsites: Ryerson Alumni” - Harbourfront Photographer’s Gallery, Toronto.
“Distant Lands, Imagined Worlds” - Centre for Visual Art, Newcastle, Ontario.

Grants & Awards
Millennium Arts Fund: 1999 - 2000
Canada Arts Council: 1987, 1985, 1983, 1981, 1980
Ontario Arts Council: 1989, 1986, 1983
Photoperspectives Œ85 Purchase Award
Ontario Society of Artists Juried Exhibition - Award of Excellence

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