Brooke Delello has been a part of the ArtQuest faculty since she began her teaching career in 2006. Brooke graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Photography and her teaching credential from Sonoma State University. She is the National Art Honor Society advisor for SRHS as well as the AP Art & Design Teacher. She is a member of various arts organizations including the NAEA and CAEA and she works for the National College Board as an Advanced Placement judge. Her work with ArtQuest is ever-expanding and she wears a lot of hats, but thankfully she can pull off a hat. Never one to like a stagnant routine, her various titles keep her busy and always working on something new.
Lauren Frost holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from The University of Kansas, and a Single Subject Credential in Art from Dominican University. Lauren began her teaching career in Sonoma County in 2003 and has experience teaching music, environmental science, cultural geography, ceramics, studio arts, graphic design, AP studio art, and digital photography. She is a member of various arts organizations including the NAEA, CAEA, and Adobe Education Exchange. Lauren is a graphic designer, painter and illustrator and enjoys spending time with her husband, a musician, and their two daughters.
Jereme Anglin is an actor, director, and educator whose career has taken him from the streets of Paris to the stages of both U.S. coasts. He holds an MFA in Acting and has trained at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard, and the University of Connecticut. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for over 20 years, Anglin has performed in a wide range of productions, served as fight choreographer for numerous shows, and brings the precision of his second-degree black belt in Aikido to his work in physical theatre. A devoted practitioner of the Suzuki Method of actor training, Anglin taught for a decade on the East Coast before joining ArtQuest, where he champions rigorous, imaginative, and physically dynamic performances.
Lea Brown Ferguson is an alumna of SRHS, and has been a dance instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College since 2006. Lea has danced, choreographed, taught, directed, and coached dance and cheerleading locally since 1998 at SSU, Mendocino College, The Dance Center, The Movement Lab, Dance Innovation Studios, and other K-12 educational institutions. Lea has her BA from CSU Long Beach and a Masters degree from SSU. She was a Warrior Girl for the Golden State Warriors and a Gold Rush Cheerleader for the SF 49’ers.
Danielle believes in the power of storytelling. She strives to create a theatre space where students can develop their storytelling voices as actors and writers. Danielle has been a working theatre artist in the North Bay for 30 years - acting, teaching, coaching and directing. She was on the theatre faculty at Sonoma State University for 25 years and at Napa Valley College for 13 years. She works regularly as a voice, accent, audition, and Shakespeare coach. As a theatre administrator, she’s been an associate artistic director, casting director and media relations manager. She teaches CSU summer Shakespeare courses in London. Danielle received her BFA in acting from the University of North Carolina School of Arts. Both of her children are proud graduates of ArtQuest Theatre Arts.
Tim Decker is an alumni of Santa Rosa High School, graduating in 1998. After graduation from SRHS he earned a Bachelor's of Music in Music Education degree from Sacramento State University, where he studied Instrumental Conducting with Dr. Robert Halseth. Tim has been honored as the Prudential Education Foundation Outstanding Teacher in 2009, The Rohnert Park Patch Readers’ Choice Best Teacher in 2012, and was twice awarded the SF Giants and Wells Fargo Step up to the Plate for Education Grant.
Jonathan Gregory has a Master of Arts in English Literature from San Francisco State University, his Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, his English teaching credential from SSU, and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Indiana University-Bloomington, with a minors in Psychology and Economics. Before becoming an English teacher, he worked for twelve years as a civil litigation attorney. Jonathan is a songwriter, singer and guitarist with recording and local performing experience, and enjoys painting, reading and writing about art, and studying art law.
John Sappington has retired from ArtQuest but can still be found teaching at the SRJC, among all of his other interests that he now has more time for.
Marla Tusa grew up in rural Canada where she developed a love of choral music. Marla has a Bachelor of Music degree from Brandon University and a Bachelor of Education from Vancouver Island University. She has over 15 years of classroom experience, 20 years of private piano and voice lesson experience, and has directed youth and adult choirs, musical theater productions, rock bands, and concert bands. She has taught music at many elementary schools, most recently at Proctor Terrace Elementary. Marla has sung with choirs her whole life and now sings alto with the chamber ensemble Cantiamo Sonoma.
Megan Whyte has been an English and Fine Arts Drama teacher at Santa Rosa High School since 2001. She joined the ArtQuest program in 2011 where she teaches ArtQuest English to mostly 9th and 10th graders. She earned degrees in Social Science, Fine Arts & Humanities, and English at Sonoma State University. She enjoys playing music, mostly guitar and piano, and enjoys performing in occasional community theater productions.
Hollis Fennen began teaching English at SRHS in 1997. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in History with Honors from Pacific Union College, she earned her English Teaching Credential from Sonoma State University. Her aptitude for helping others learn new skills began as a teenager, teaching harp lessons and martial arts classes. In addition to teaching ArtQuest English and Advanced Placement Language and Composition, Hollis enjoys being an editor for the ArtQuest anthologies.
Janet Fisher has retired from ArtQuest but is still beloved by the students and colleagues she left behind. Her two children are proud ArtQuest Alumni and we are working on getting Janet to become a contributing member of Friends of ArtQuest.
Casey Elsa has been teaching English since the dawn of time. She teaches freshmen ArtQuest and Honors English, and is the current English Department Chair. Over the years she's worked with other AQ teachers on the AQ Anthology, short films representing the creative works of her students, and Poetry Out Loud. She graduated from UC Riverside and went on to obtain her teaching credential. Casey also publishes and advises the student newspaper, The Santa Rosan and the student yearbook, The Echo. Her daughter was a member of AQ for her four years at SRHS and loved her time within this community.
Jason Pedri, our Video Arts teacher is world-renowned filmmaker who has traveled the world and beyond, while also contracting every disease known to man. Though he has a limited vocabulary, his grunts and arm gestures are expressive and entertaining. His smell, some describe as interesting, is a culmination of work ethic and lack of showering. His film knowledge is vast and ever growing… Like his waistline. The kids love his class because he is easily manipulated and often forgets their names. He is loved by the entire staff, well, almost the entire staff… ok, none of the staff like him, but he was the only person to apply for the job.
