Meet Our Instructors

The Living Arts & Science Center offers a wide variety of private lessons in many different mediums from our professional artists. 

For more information and pricing please contact our Director of of Education, Callie Northern

Lessons start at $50/hr and support local artists

John Clark Baker is a visual artist from Lexington, Kentucky who focuses on photorealistic portraits of humans or animals all done with colored pencils. While actively drawing throughout his life, he started to study visual art in fourth grade while attending the School for the Creative and Performing Arts, in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from Northern Kentucky University in 2022 with a major in Graphic Design and a minor in Entrepreneurship. In 2013, he received a Scholastic Gold Key for a painting done with oil, but started doing colored pencil pet commissions in 2019.