Fine Art Department - Faculty

The main phone number is 804-354-6800.

Mr. Tim Drummond holds a B.M. in Music Education from James Madison University, and is currently pursuing a Master's in Music Education from Boston University.  He came to Richmond in 2008, and after student teaching in Henrico, Mr. Drummond spent three years teaching chorus and drama in Middlesex County before coming to Maggie Walker.  He has performed with the internationally-acclaimed James Madison Chorale and Madison Singers, the National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and local choirs, including the James River Singers and choirs at several local churches.  Mr. Drummond also maintains a private voice studio.

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Mr. Jeff "Coach" Hall served a total of eleven years in Henrico County Center for the Arts, where he began and built the award winning visual arts program there. A Richmond native, Jeff holds a B. A. in Studio Art from the University of Richmond as well as a Masters from VCU. Among the numerous awards Jeff has earned in his career include: Henrico County Teacher of the Year - 2000, Henrico County Art Teacher of the Year - 2002, Apple Distinguished Educator - 2003, AOL/Governor's Innovative Technology in Education Award - 2004, REB Teaching Award Finalist - 2004, the Best Buy Te@ch Grant for Technology in Education -2006 and the Lowe's Education Foundation Grant in 2008. In 2010, Jeff was a recipient of the prestigious REB Award for Excellence in Teaching which funded his travel to Europe to study classical and contemporary European art.   Jeff is a husband and father of two wonderful young daughters. In his free time, he is either painting or working on his website, www.CoachHall.com.

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Mrs. Kori Mosley has been in Richmond since 1986, after moving from New Jersey to attend VCU’s School of the Arts. Her first teaching position was in Powhatan County, where she taught art at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

After seven years of teaching, she went on to pursue full time graduate study at VCU. With a Master’s Degree in Art Education, Mrs. Mosley went back into the classroom briefly before becoming the Art Specialist for Henrico County Public Schools. In this capacity, she was in charge of all aspects of the art programs K-12. After six years in this administrative position, she realized that she missed the classroom too much - and this led her to the Art Department at MLWGS!

Mrs. Mosley lives in Church Hill with her husband (a 6th grade math teacher), a darling chihuahua named Neps and a precocious min-pin named Bing. Her interests include art (looking at, reading about, making, and collecting), home decorating projects, traveling, gardening, reading, and renovating an old, historic house.

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Mr. Todd Raviotta spent his childhood years in the eclectic culture of New Orleans and relocated to Northern Virginia for high school. He completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in May 2001, specializing in Photography/Film, with an emphasis on Film. He was among the first graduates of VCU's Film program. He completed graduate school with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film from VCU in 2004. Mr. Raviotta has also served as Dean of Students for the annual "Southern Mystique Film Camp," a joint venture between New Millennium Studios and the Central Virginia Film Office from 2001-06. The success of the Film Camp where he coordinated, supervised and taught digital movie making from the story line conceptions and screen writing through the filming and editing, led Mr. Raviotta to Maggie L. Walker Governor's School in Richmond, VA where he teaches the Digital Video Senior Seminar and Film Studies. Mr. Raviotta also teaches in the Film Department at VCU in the School of the Arts and has instructed digital video at the VMFA. In addition to teaching, he makes media work under the banner of Natural Science Productions and edits professionally for regional and national clients.

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Mr. Ed Slipek an architectural historian, has taught part time at Maggie Walker for over 12 years. His classes have regularly included "Survey of World Art History" and senior seminars in architecture and Richmond area history, respectively. He is an adjunct professor in Virginia Commonwealth's Art History Department and in the University Honors College where he has taught courses in the history of modern architecture; the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright; Richmond architecture; the culture and architecture of Southern California; and the history of photography. He regularly leads study trips internationally for VCU groups.

He is also a frequent guest lecturer in art history at the University of Richmond. Mr. Slipek is the co-author of a number of books including, "The Buildings of Virginia" (Oxford University Press) and "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," a history of African-Americans in Richmond (Jefferson Press). He has curated exhibitions on the topics of Art Deco in Richmond (VCU's Anderson Gallery); the architecture of Ralph Adams Cram (Marsh Art Gallery, UR); and the changing physical and architectural landscape of Henrico County (The Arts Center at Glen Allen).

A native of Richmond's Ginter Park neighborhood, he attended Richmond's Chandler Junior High School and John Marshall High School and later Boston University and Virginia Commonwealth University.

For over 16 years, Mr. Slipek has served as a senior contributing editor at Style Weekly, Richmond's alternative weekly where he writes regularly on urban planning, the arts, architecture and local history. His architecture column offers the only regular critical writing by a Virginia journalist on the topic of regional architecture. His writing has been recognized eight times for excellence by the Virginia Press Association. In 2002, the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects inducted him as an Honorary Member.

In addition to landscape design, Mr. Slipek has been involved in design for four years as set designer for Richmond's Firehouse Theater Project.

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Ms. Georgianne Stinnett graduated from the University of Virginia in 1984, and received her MFA in photography from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992 in Photography. In 1989 she left the field of environmental consulting to pursue a career as an artist and educator. Since then she has taught still photography at numerous institutions. In addition to The Governor's School, she currently teaches in the Studio Art program at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Her current work involves traditional wet darkroom photography, digitally manipulated and printed images and digital video. She serves on The Emeritus Board of Directors at 1708 Gallery and also works as a freelance photographer.

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Mr. Karl von Klein grew up in Chesterfield County and holds a B. A. in Music from the University of Richmond and a Virginia Board of Education Collegiate Professional License with endorsements in Music: Instrumental PreK-12 and Gifted Education. He began playing the clarinet and saxophone professionally at age sixteen and has performed in a wide range of stylistically diverse ensembles including the Richmond Symphony and the Maggie Walker faculty band, The Faculty Lounge Lizards.  After touring full time and appearing in Rolling Stone magazine with local music group Fighting Gravity, Mr. von Klein began a career in music education. Since 2001, he has conducted jazz bands and taught privately at The Collegiate School, Harrison's Music, and Trinity Episcopal School.  Mr. von Klein teaches Jazz Band, Orchestra, VCU Dual Enrollment Music Theory, and the Music Composition and Digital Music Production Senior Seminar. 

In his spare time, he enjoys writing and recording songs in his home studio, running outdoors, and watching the Florida State Seminoles and Pittsburgh Steelers win football games.
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