Current Instructors

Here are the talented teachers of our Winter 2025 courses. We’re so happy to present them to you, and we’re so proud of the excellent courses they will deliver around Wellfleet.

Martha L. Rothman
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Martha L. Rothman

Martha Leibowitz Rothman, FAIA, graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1965 with a Master of Arts in Architecture. She joined Rothman Partners in 1971, founded in1968 by her husband Elliot Paul Rothman…

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Grace Hopkins
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Grace Hopkins

Grace Hopkins is a Wellfleet artist, parent, and educator. She is also the steward of the estates of artist Budd Hopkins and art historian April Kingsley: her parents. She earned a BFA in photography from the School of the Fine Arts at Tufts University and has guided the art world for two decades with positions in museums…

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Claude Kerven
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Claude Kerven

Kerven's career began with the debut of his short film "Candy Store," which won an Academy Award for Best Dramatic Student Film. In 1982, he directed a series of Afterschool Specials for ABC-TV, including the Emmy Award winning "Starstruck" and the Director's Guild…

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Marc Strauss
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Marc Strauss

Marc Strauss, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Holland College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Strauss has taught all levels of studio ballet, jazz, and ballroom and theory classes in the history of the musical, dance history…

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