Kathleen is a graduate from American Academy of Art in Chicago with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree in Illustration. She specializes in children’s illustrations and has created work for children’s theatre in Chicago. Her favorite mediums include pen and watercolor as well as digital painting. Her love of art comes from the process of learning through visual material. Teaching at Unicoi has strengthened that ongoing passion.

Dionne Victoria Milton studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2012, she travelled abroad to teach English to Korean children. She also learned how to use arts to teach English as second language. In 2012 she worked as a youth development worker at the YMCA and began volunteering at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center facilitating therapeutic art. She teaches art classes and facilitates therapeutic art through the Urban Retreat Center of Chicago, in grammar schools and the Sacred Heart Home, a rehabilitation center. She currently works as a studio manager for The Johnson Artistry and a teaching artist for Unicoi Studio and the South Chicago Art Center.