BAVC Instructors

Catherine Chanse is a freelance multimedia producer and developer focusing on web and graphic design as well as interactive media. She has worked with a number of individuals and nonprofits in the Bay Area, including Neighborhood Parks...

Gus D’Angelo is a game animator at the San Francisco mobile gaming company, TinyCo.  Previously, he worked for Google and Slide, leading the animation team at the popular...

Ken Durso is a native New Yorker who moved to San Francisco in 1989 just in time to participate in the Loma Prieta earthquake. He worked for MacroMind as a product evangelist and then worked for many years as Macromedia's trainer in...

Prior to becoming Director of Photography at Transvideo Studios in Mountain View, Ben was a freelance shooter based in San Francisco since 1996. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Media emphasis)from California State...

Liz Hickok is a San Francisco-based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and currently, Jell-O. Hickok...

Sade Huron is an award winning Media Artist, originating from South
Wales in the United Kingdom. Her work encompasses single channel and
video installation, performance art, cabaret and photography. In May
2000 she...

Daniel is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. He is a digital illustrator with traditional training and creates artwork for a Sonoma county design firm, as well as freelance clients. Using Photoshop as his...

Jarid Johnson holds a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts from San
Francisco State University. He has worked in media production...

Ryan Kleeman is an Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, and Instructor. Currently, Ryan is working as a recording and mixing engineer at Sound Arts, and Ghostcat Studios, as well as an assistant engineer and sound designer at Studio Guapo....

Matthew Levie has been a professional editor for two decades. He has cut the documentaries Honest Man: the Life of R. Budd Dwyer, Curandero and 97 Orchard Street, the PBS television series...

Brandon is lead editor/designer at Photon Creative, a production and post-production studio based in San Francisco. He has been with the company for the past 5 years and was a freelance editor and motion graphics artist before that....

Marilyn McNeal is a San Francisco-based artist and digital media instructor who uses photography, sound / web design and mixed media to explore everyday experience and  develop experimental ways of storytelling. Her works...

Ken Merrylees has been working in the television/postproduction
industry for over 25 years. He started his career with TVOne in his
native New Zealand, followed by five years in London with
Visnews/Reuters, a...

Morgan won his first national art contest at the age of 7 and has won numerous art and design awards in New York and California since then. Morgan has a passion for sharing music, digging for records, Adobe's Creative Suite, spreading art...

Jonathan Parra is an Avid Certified Instructor for Adrenaline, Advanced Editing
Techniques, Color Correction, and Avid Xpress DV/Xpress Pro. Jonathan
has worked on numerous editing projects including feature and
short-...

Trish is a freelance art director, a brand creator, and a pixel perfectionist.

She is happily designing and driving on the social media autobahn with miles of experience...

Linda Peckham is a freelance documentary film editor in the Bay Area.
Since 1991 she has cut programming for broadcast, most recently as the
series editor of Spark and Quest, the award...

Ross Reyman is a freelance web developer/graphic designer, specializing
in typography, interface design and web standard compliant,...

Ivan Rhudick is an Emmy Award winning Final Cut Pro and Avid editor based in San Francisco.  After graduating from the Boston University Film and Video program, he began working in the world of video post production in...

Trish Richman is a leading expert in branding, user experience and design. She has over 15 years of experience as the creative director for leading brands in the consumer product space. Living and working in San Francisco, Trish now works...

Aaron F. Ross is an Autodesk Certified Instructor for Maya and is the author of three books on 3ds Max animation software. He has eight years of experience teaching college level courses in 3D computer animation, video production...

David Santamaria works as a freelance editor and technical consultant on media projects.  In the past,
he served as a Final Cut...

San Francisco based freelance creative, business owner, and educator working in animation, video, sound, and new media installation. From a...

Tim began his design career by teaching himself Photoshop and Illustrator in order to get a job with a small design firm in San Francisco. There he learned about the...

Joanna Silber is a freelance video editor in San Francisco.  She divides her time between cutting documentary, commercial, event, and academic videos for a variety of clients nationwide.  She is the...

Gabriel is a 3D and motion designer who has worked on projects for
clients such as NASA, Cisco, American Airlines and Nokia. Gabriel is...

Soward is the co-author of the WordPress and Flash Cookbook, published by Packt Publishing.  In addition to her many years of teaching for BAVC, she does freelance print and web design and development, illustration, branding,...

Mark Spencer is a bay area-based freelance producer, editor, teacher and writer. He owns Day Street Productions, Inc. (www.daystreet.com),
a production and post studio focused...

Lise Swenson, filmmaker, artist and educator, has been deeply involved
with media arts in the Bay Area since the early 1980s. As a...

Chris Tipton-King (www.ctkfilm.com) is a Bay Area filmmaker and Apple-Certified Trainer. He works in both production & post, specializing in cinematography, color grading and editing. His work...

Louise Vance is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker who has created content-rich stories for television, video and the web for nearly three decades.  After learning production at the NBC...

Carl Weichert is well known as an editor, motion graphics artist and incomparable teacher. As BAVC's former Training &...

Tommi West is a web designer, filmmaker and graphic artist living in
San Francisco. She studied acting and directing at the American...

Doug Garth Williams is a Bay Area based filmmaker, video editor, and artist working primarily in video and multimedia installations. Doug has a Master of Fine Arts from Mills College in Oakland, CA. Doug is a recent...

Christopher Willits is a musician, video artist and expert sound
instructor based in San Francisco. Especially well-known for his...