Steve has been creating large-scale art and making monsters and fantasy characters out of paint, clay, latex, silicone and foam for more than 30 years. In 2021 he created Art Academy of Milton, which serves the central PA valley in all things creative, theatre performance, and music.

His award-winning video work can be seen in feature films THE FEED (2010) and THE LOST WITHIN (2017), as well as numerous shorts, music videos and commercial projects. Clients include Transitions of PA, the Campus Theatre ltd, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Bucknell University, Clark University, Mackey Strategies, and dozens of retail, online, corporate, government, and independent agencies.

He is a published writer, a cinematographer, producer, director, audio designer, and editor, who also happens to dabble in fine art photography. 

Barbara Anna Andreassen is a self-taught, intuitive artist who uses her craft to sift, distill, and translate her studies of liminal and interstitial space, collective lore, and psychic/intuitive terrain into visual language. Her work is unscripted, surreal, and often biomorphic in nature. You can view her art in her working studio & gallery on the 1st floor of the AAoM. 

Lauren Burkhart, a multifaceted artist, uses her years of experience in painting and drawing to create vibrant, colorful works inspired by various aspects of her life. Through her artistic endeavors, she finds solace in managing chronic pain. Lauren balances teaching watercolor classes and creating artwork to nurture her creativity. With new challenges and adventures, she plans to continue growing as an artist.

Michael has been teaching writing and film studies since 1996, after leaving his home in the Pacific Northwest. He brings a diverse background to the prose writing workshop at Art Academy of Milton and hopes to inspire creativity in the community by empowering people to express their style in writing. Michael discovered writing early in life and journaled his way through short stories, poetry, then back to prose, finally stumbling into graduate school after the sonic years of early 90s Seattle. He studied writing instruction with a concentration in cinema studies at Northeastern University in Boston and fell into teaching naturally. Has it really been 26 years?

Michael is an avid cyclist and hiker. When he’s not teaching, riding, or hiking, he’s scribbling on and on about this place, this time, this history…

​Beverley is an award-winning pastel artist who is skilled in portraiture as well. Several of her historical portraits are property of the Pennsylvania  Museum Commission. She is also a fiddler and teaches fiddle. She collects local ghost stories and often has story telling sessions. Several of her books are available on Amazon and locally. In recent years she created The Dead Fly Project – one hundred works of art of a dead fly. Some of her pieces are now hanging in her AAoM studio. She will be offering lessons in art as well as music.

​The Arcane Noir Variety Troupe is a Magical, Musical, Mystifying collection of performance Oddities. Join the journey and learn the story of what happens when family and friends put their skills on display. We've got Musicians, Magicians, Illusionists, Burlesque Dancers, Hoop Artists, Fire Performers, Clowns, Pirates, Vampires, Fortune Tellers and so much more. Sit back, but don't get too relaxed. We are always looking to add to this cabaret of curiosity.