Diane Brigham, Executive Director joined Ryman Arts in March 2002 after serving as Head of Education at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she worked for 14 years. She has over twenty-five years experience in art and museum education, beginning as a public school art teacher and holds a B.S. and M.Ed. in art education from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. Diane has served on the national board of directors of the National Art Education Association and recently participated in the Los Angeles County Arts Commission Arts Leadership Initiative, including completion of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Leaders in the Arts.
Tiffany Galindo, Administrative Coordinator, is delighted to be a part of Ryman Arts since 2009. Tiffany attended The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and earned her BFA in dance from The Boston Conservatory. She has danced professionally and taught in Boston, New York and Los Angeles. Tiffany enjoys salsa dancing, reading and traveling in her free time.
Walter Marsh, Operations Manager, joined Ryman Arts in 2007. Walter earned his MFA in Classical Guitar Performance from UCLA in 1995 and has worked in nonprofit management since 1996. His experience includes nonproft accounting and financial mangement, operations management, event production, and music education.
Rebecca Tuynman, Education Manager, oversees all Ryman Arts classes and student activities. She earned her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2005, is an artist working in photography, and has taught studio art at all levels since 1997 in a variety of community organizations, schools, universities, and museums. She earned a BA in History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. She has been with Ryman Arts since 2005.
Teaching Artists
Holly Boruck has an MFA in Painting from Cal State University Northridge and a BFA in Interior Architecture from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has received several awards including a Durfee Grant in 2009 and a George Sugarman Grant in 2003. She has taught at Moorpark College, Pierce College, Cal State Univ. Northridge, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts and is a volunteer art instructor for CoachArt in Los Angeles. Holly's work has been exhibited internationally with recent shows at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Mark Wolfe Contemporary in San Francisco and the Ferencvarosi Gallery in Budapest, Hungary.
Chuck Huang, MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and BFA, University of the Arts, Philadelphia. He is a painter, and exhibits his work in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Orange County. He also teaches at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, and Mt. San Jacinto College. Chuck joined Ryman Arts in 2006.
Robin Palanker, BFA, California Institute of the Arts. Robin exhibits nationally; most recently her pastel drawings were shown at Santa Monica’s Hunsaker/Schlesinger gallery and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Robin has taught at California State Summer School for the Arts, Art Center College of Design, University of La Verne, Art Institute of Southern California, and Vermont College. She joined Ryman Arts in Fall 2003.
Sergio Rebia is an artist born and raised in California. He obtained his Bachelor’s in Fine Art in 2004 and his Master’s in Fine Art in 2008 from Laguna College of art and Design (LCAD). While Sergio was still in college he taught several workshops and classes at LCAD. After graduating from LCAD he has taught in colleges and universities all over Southern California such as: Cal State University Long Beach, Mt. San Antonio College, Saddleback College, and of course LCAD, where he currently teaches. Sergio now dedicates his time to teaching, raising a family and developing a body of work in his studio in Santa Ana. There is only one thing that Sergio enjoys more than teaching and that is painting original works of art for exhibition.
David Schoffman, BFA, Rhode Island School of Design. David also teaches at Brentwood Art Center and the L.A. County Museum of Art. He has been an instructor at the California State Summer School for the Arts and was the Mattel Arts Teacher of the Year for Southern California in 2002. He was the Ryman Arts 2006 Sharon D. Lund Master Teaching Artist Award recipient and traveled to Rome and Venice to examine characteristics of Tuscan and Venetian Renaissance and Mannerist painting and drawing. David joined Ryman Arts in Fall 2003.
Cathy Stone lives and works in Los Angeles where she is the director of the gallery Another Year in LA. She was an artist in residence at Monet’s Gardens in Giverny, France and an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for The Arts in Sausalito, California. Internationally she has shown in Berlin, Germany at the Zweiter Berliner Kongress Fur Performance Und Visual art in Berlin. Ms. Stone has been a mentor for Transart Institute for the past two years, an MFA program in Austria, where she works with students individually here in Los Angeles. She joined Ryman Arts in 2007.
Jamie Sweetman, MFA, California State University at Long Beach, and BA from UCLA. She has exhibited her drawings widely since the ‘80s, and is currently teaching drawing at the USC as well as anatomy to artists at California State Long Beach. Jamie joined Ryman Arts in 2006.
Malaika Zweig, MFA Massachusetts College of Art, BFA California College of the Arts. She teaches painting and drawing at UCLA Extension and at Citrus College. She also teaches painting at California State Summer School for the Arts. Zweig has exhibited her art on both coasts as well as in Paris. Visit MalaikaZweig.com to see her work. She joined Ryman Arts in 2007.
Teaching Assistants
Ashley Healy is currently a full time student at California State University, Long Beach and is working towards her BFA in Art Education and Illustration. She does freelance work for local music artists and other businesses in the Long Beach area. Ashley graduated from Ryman Arts in 2006 and her future goals are to become a teacher and/or work artistically in the entertainment business.
Christina Saucedo received her BFA in Communication Arts at Otis College of Art & Design and graduated Ryman Arts in 2005. She is a Graphic Designer currently on the board for One Nation, freelancing for an online fashion magazine, and helps coordinate alumni events. Her future goals are to have her own business in the fashion industry.
