Irene Dennis Drama

“Drama education offers many avenues to explore creativity – through acting, movement design and production.  There   is something for each student, and best of all, the chance for everyone to make a meaningful contribution to the work as a whole.”

Irene Dennis is an award-winning actor and director, originally from Boston.  She studied at The Boston

Conservatory before graduating summa cum laude from the University of Maine at Orono.  She has performed in, directed, and choreographed professional and community productions throughout eastern Massachusetts.  Moving to Maine in 1999, she became a founding member of the Penobscot Players, a Native American theatre group, and wrote, produced, directed and performed two one-woman shows: Running the Show: Portraits of Three Pioneering Women of the Theatre, and Passion of the Soul: The Life of George Sand.  She is presently completing a Master’s Degree in Theatre and Anthropology.  Her first project at Vinalhaven School was to direct Remember Me: Voices from Vinalhaven’s Past, written and performed by High School students in Roberts Cemetary.

Erica Hansen Visual Arts

"As a K-12 art educator my work is a mechanism for my students growth, and their explorations are devices in my own process.  My work in education forces me to look intuitively and address intentionally what I consider significant. 

Environmental change, sustainability, natural selection, and evolution, are the themes I am most interested in exploring at this point.  My current body of work addresses the manmade and natural spaces around me, where personal narratives encounter collective experiences. 

My work can be viewed @ Ericahansen.net"

Ms. Hansen graduated from the Maine College of Art in Portland in 2000.  She began teaching at Vinalhaven School in the Fall of 2000.

Michelle Wiley Music

Randy Pitts Technology

Dennis Pratt Physical Education