Staff
Kaylee Gernant
Ceramics Director
Kaylee Gernant
Ceramics Director
Kaylee Gernant is a ceramic sculptural artist based in northern New Jersey. She received her BFA from Alfred University in May 2024, where she primarily studied large scale figural sculpture and hand-built pottery. She gained experience in clay mixing, glaze chemistry, kiln loading and firing, alongside glass blowing, glass casting, and woodshop experience. Kaylee focused on sculpting the female figure, for her senior BFA exhibition, “Body Language”.
The following academic year she started a post baccalaureate program at Syracuse University. During this time, she spent most of her time expanding her portfolio with decorative vessels, pottery and further developed her concepts. She started to incorporate animal features and explore new surface finishes on her figural sculptures, experimenting with many new techniques. At Syracuse, Kaylee was also put into management and technical positions, mixing clay and glaze for the studio, firing the kilns and fixing kiln shelves, for the students.
Kaylee has now come back to her Jersey roots and is an Adjunct Professor of Ceramics at County College of Morris. She is currently developing a new body of work pushing the conceptuality of her decorative vessels as she thinks about the boundaries between species identity and connections of life. They speak to our responsibility to each other, human and non-human alike.
Brittany Goodwin
Guest Liaison
Brittany Goodwin
Guest Liaison
Brittany's bio will be added soon!
Joseph Whitmore
Guest Liaison
Joseph Whitmore
Guest Liaison
Joseph's bio will be added soon!
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We're looking for team members to help us continue to cultivate a vibrant, creative community. If you're interested, send us an email with your resume to info@theamparts.com and let's talk!
Heath Rumble
Guest Liaison
Heath Rumble
Guest Liaison
Heath's bio will be added soon!
Walter F. Rodriguez
Executive Director
Walter F. Rodriguez
Executive Director
Walter F. Rodriguez is an award-winning Puerto Rican artist and arts administrator. After growing up in Dover, he began his career as a touring theatre actor before moving to television on The Onion News Network on IFC and The Onion Sportsdome on Comedy Central. It was during Walter's second season on The Onion News Network that the show won the prestigious Peabody Award. While working in television and living in New York, he began a concurrent career in photography, shooting fashion and editorial spreads for various publications, book covers for publishers like MacMillan, and working with designers like Giorgio Armani and the Kardashian's Dash Boutique on various print and digital projects.
He began further exploring the administrative side of the arts while in New York, serving as the Head Artifact Handler for the Discovery Times Square Exhibition center and helping to create New York Times-reviewed immersive experiences for Harry Potter: The Exhibition, Shipwreck! Pirates & Treasure, and Nathan Sawaya's The Art of the Brick. After moving back to Dover, Walter returned to his theatre roots, teaching and performing at various regional theatres and working in the field of new play development at Playwright's Theatre, the state's preeminent new work theatre. Walter continues to serve the arts community by teaching in the Center for Family Services' Mending Arts program, which helps children who've been through traumatic events to develop healthy, art-based coping mechanisms.
Walter also serves on the Executive Board of Trustees for the Partnership for Maternal & Child Health, Connecting Dover, the Dover Educational Foundation, and is Chairman of the Dover High School Hall of Fame. He proudly served for years on the Board of the Madison Arts & Culture Alliance and is the Youth Director at Commonplace Church in Mount Olive, New Jersey.
He began further exploring the administrative side of the arts while in New York, serving as the Head Artifact Handler for the Discovery Times Square Exhibition center and helping to create New York Times-reviewed immersive experiences for Harry Potter: The Exhibition, Shipwreck! Pirates & Treasure, and Nathan Sawaya's The Art of the Brick. After moving back to Dover, Walter returned to his theatre roots, teaching and performing at various regional theatres and working in the field of new play development at Playwright's Theatre, the state's preeminent new work theatre. Walter continues to serve the arts community by teaching in the Center for Family Services' Mending Arts program, which helps children who've been through traumatic events to develop healthy, art-based coping mechanisms.
Walter also serves on the Executive Board of Trustees for the Partnership for Maternal & Child Health, Connecting Dover, the Dover Educational Foundation, and is Chairman of the Dover High School Hall of Fame. He proudly served for years on the Board of the Madison Arts & Culture Alliance and is the Youth Director at Commonplace Church in Mount Olive, New Jersey.
- Phone:(973) 262-0053
- Email:director@theamparts.com