CVPA faculty

  • Fri, 01/12/2024 - 13:18

    Edrie Means Weekly, "rock star of vocal crossover” (The Cultural Feed), is an internationally recognized expert in training singers in all vocal styles and an active professional singer.

  • Fri, 01/12/2024 - 12:58

    Born in Washington D.C., Ian McEuen has garnered praise for his “focused, warm and consistently clear tenor,” and “vivid characterizations,” in both operatic and theatrical productions.

  • Mon, 01/08/2024 - 15:27

    Wesley Hunt (he/him) is an award-winning cinematographer in the D.C. Metro area with over ten years of experience as a freelancer. Though he makes a living shooting educational and corporate videos, his real passion is genre filmmaking.

  • Mon, 01/08/2024 - 15:20

    Meagan Arnold is a FAVS Alumnus and visual storyteller who has worked across the film and media industry as a Director of Photography, Camera Technician, and Camera Operator. 

  • Tue, 12/12/2023 - 13:16

    Dr. David Perkel, is a versatile orchestral and jazz artist. He was a titled member of the Richmond Symphony and has performed with many other orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, and the Harrisburg Symphony.

  • Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:16

    An award-winning industrial designer, woodworker, photographer, and sculptor from the D.C. area Cristian Wicha has been designing furniture for production for the past 25 years.

  • Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:10

    Jeremy Kunkel

  • Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:02

    Erik Thor Sandberg (b. 1975, Quantico, VA) lives and works in Washington, D.C. Sandberg is known for his masterful oil paintings of the human figure and landscape. Creating inventive imagery ranging from panoramic to intimate, Sandberg pushes the skillful illusionism of master painting to the contemporary edge of Magic Realism.

  • Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:23

    Vianey Martinez Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico who currently lives and works in Washington D.C. Her work explores the vulnerabilities and violence of her community and narrates her experience crossing the U.S.-Mexico border daily, questioning the political corruptness of this division.

  • Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:17

    Joey P. Mánlapaz is an accomplished contemporary realist painter recognized for her multifaceted roles as painter, educator, curator, and juror of art exhibitions, and advocate for the elderly through art.