Lisa Marie Bruno has been teaching various art studies since the 1980s.  She was the Art Director for the City of Pittsburgh. Not only did she set up all the programs, but she
taught many of the after-school programs when extra staff was needed.

While Senior Program Director at CCAC she taught “Jewelry Making”, Produced a ‘radio drama’ stage play with the South Hills Atria seniors, taught “Memorabilia” classes, “Story Writing” and “Simple Senior Sewing”. Then later, as adjunct instructor she taught classes such as… ‘Mini Modeling’, ‘Fashion History’, ‘Jewelry Making’, “Painting” and “Collage art, and more. While living in Los Angeles, she taught ‘Costume Designing’ for the ‘G.A.T.E’ after school program through 20 th  Century Fox Studios.

As an independent artist and costumer, she has been asked to lead workshops on ‘MCM Sewing Buttons’, ‘The Fashion Design World’, ‘Running a Wardrobe Department’
‘How to Revamp your School Uniforms’, and many more fashion/costume/art topics.

She taught ‘Fashion Illustration’, ‘Color and Design Theory’, and ‘Textiles’ for 10 years at a local design school in Pittsburgh. Her teaching approach focuses mainly on old-
school, hands-on, one-on-one methods of learning but it also encompasses modern updated technology options and approaches.

In recent years she received a grant for her program “Save the Earth…Sew a Button”.  With this grant she is serving the local communities by teaching them to repair their
clothes. To date she has taught over 300 people to do simple sewing instead of tossing garments into a landfill.

While sewing for clientele, film and theatre she began making Art/Junk Journals for fun and relaxation. Lately she has been doing more papercraft workshops. She is a
member of the ‘Keystone Button Club’, ‘Pittsburgh Collage Collective’ and heads up ‘The Joy of Journaling’ in Brighton Heights.

She has an Etsy website under ‘ARTchaeology’ and is one of 20 vendors at ‘Antique Mall on Ohio River’ in Bellevue. She can be reached at lmbmsp@gmail.com