Sara is a 24-year-old artist from Louisville, Ohio. Her favorite creative endeavors include printmaking and making shirts/posters for local bands. She also loves making large-scale chalk art and has been a featured chalk artist for Canton’s First Friday festival 6 summers in a row.

Sara graduated from the University of Mount Union with a BA in Art Education. Since moving to Athens, she’s worked as a substitute teacher and a bartender. She is SO excited to return to the Dairy Barn this summer and see what our campers will create!

Jessica Held has been a visiting, resident, and teaching artist in schools and art centers for decades. Since earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts, she has taught art enrichment and appreciation classes, interdisciplinary and STEAM lessons, all-ages community art events, and summer art camps in Ohio, Texas, Indiana, and Michigan.

At The Dairy Barn Arts Center, she teaches teen art clubs and summer art camps. Additionally, through Ohio University’s Kids on Campus partnership, she teaches after-school art enrichment for elementary, middle, and high school students in neighboring counties of Southeast Ohio. Recently, Jessica was accepted onto the Ohio Arts Council’s (OAC) Teaching Artist Roster and selected to teach in OAC’s Creative Aging Initiative, a program for aging adults in Ohio.

As a practicing artist, she continues to create, exhibit, and publish her paintings, photographs, and collaborations. Her work has been exhibited in the Women of Appalachia Project and published in the Women Speak book series.

Jessica is the artist and owner of Flux and Function LLC, where she creates functional art, including painted lazy susans, coasters, TV trays, and light switch plates. Also, her detailed photographs are printed on cards, journals, trivets, scarves, and earrings. She prioritizes using locally sourced materials and services whenever possible. Recently, her small business was awarded an Ohio’s Winding Road Seed Grant.

In addition to her art practice, Jessica serves as the Community Marketplace Coordinator for the annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival. She recently had the opportunity to be the art editor for Native Fruit: Poetry and Fine Art Inspired by the Pawpaw.

Chip Wagner is an art educator who works with a variety of media. They have an M.Ed. in K-12 Art Education and a BFA in ceramics, both from Ohio University. Currently, they are the art teacher at Wellston High School. They completed their student teaching at Federal-Hocking.

Chip has led before and after-school art projects for K-8th-grade students for Project SAFE in the Logan-Hocking school district. At The Dairy Barn, Chip has taught at Summer Art Camp for the past three years, was the Ceramic Studio Assistant, and taught Introduction to Pottery classes. 

Teaching art and helping people through the creative process is a precarious endeavor. For an individual, this means ensuring their artwork is significant to themself. Chip’s goal as an art educator is to help others consider themself an artist.

Allyson Pappas has been teaching elementary school in Southeast Ohio for the past 30 years…ranging from 1st to 6th grade, Art, Physical Education, and reading intervention support. She graduated from Ohio University with a degree in elementary education and a minor in visual arts.

Allyson has fond memories of her own daughters attending Dairy Barn Art Camp and enjoys creating similar memories with new campers.

Chloe Ulm is a graduate student in the MFA program at Ohio University, and a practicing printmaker. She loves drawing, printmaking, and exploring new materials in the studio. Her artwork focuses on storytelling and self-expression, and she enjoys using art to share ideas and connect with others.

Chloe believes art should be fun, expressive, and full of curiosity. She is passionate about helping young artists build confidence, experiment with new techniques, and feel proud of what they create. She is excited to support campers as they try new things, take creative risks, and discover their own unique artistic voices.

Sara graduated from the University of Mount Union with a BA in Art Education. Since moving to Athens, she’s worked as a substitute teacher and a bartender. She is SO excited to return to the Dairy Barn this summer and see what our campers will create!

Lana Traum is an artist from Brecksville, Ohio, and a 2025 graduate of Miami University, where she earned her BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Ceramics and a Minor in Theater Arts. 

With experience in theater/vocal performance, costume design/construction and puppetry, Lana loves to bring stories to life! She is interested in repurposing materials, building empathy for nature and each other, learning from the environment around us, and the joy of creativity!

Lana is in her first year as a graduate student at Ohio University, where she is working towards an MFA in Ceramics. She is so excited to join the Dairy Barn team this summer!

Casey Lou Miller is a visual artist originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. She earned her
BA from Utah Tech University in 2018 and her MFA from Utah State University in 2021.
Miller’s work investigates the relationship between the human body and land, exploring
how physical landscapes mirror psychological and emotional states. Working primarily
as a painter in oil, watercolor, and acrylic, she creates large-scale wood cutouts of
botanical forms that examine feminine identity and states of becoming. Her work
references transitions, expansion, rupture, and the oscillation between growth and
decay.
Since completing her MFA, Miller has presented a solo exhibition, Intrinsic Nature, at
Finch Lane Gallery in 2022, and her work has been acquired by numerous private
collectors. She has served as an Adjunct Professor of Art at Utah Tech University, North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and Ohio University. In 2024, she
was awarded the AJ Fletcher Scholarship, which supported her participation in a
summer workshop at Penland School of Craft.
Miller currently lives and works in Athens, Ohio, where she maintains an active studio
practice and teaches at Ohio University. She is preparing for a solo exhibition, Land
Body Breath, scheduled for summer 2026 at Majestic Galleries in Nelsonville, Ohio

Raised in Southern Utah, Sam McCall received his BFA from Utah State University in 2021. Since then,
he has attended various workshops and residencies, including the Red Lodge Clay Center and
Guldagergaard – International Ceramic Research Center. He is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts
in Ceramics at Ohio University.