Instructors

With a background in drawing, painting, and photography, Nancy Call Torres has been working professionally in the arts for over 33 years. Being both an artist and an educator, in 1995 she began the popular “Nancy Call Torres Art Studio,” teaching oil painting, crafts, and theater to thousands of bay area children. In 2005, she founded “Art Attack!”, a local studio that offers fine art instruction for children, teens and adults.

Nancy is passionate about making the fine arts more accessible to local audiences while infusing those she works with, with her joy of creating. Nancy is an accomplished plein air painter who travels regularly, painting what inspires her. Her travels have taken her to Arizona, Hawaii, France, Meixco and Italy, but her favorite place of inspiration is her home state of California.

Her paintings are in private collections around the world and she is currently represented by The Studio Shop in Burlingame, CA. Nancy is a member of Local 365, a movement in the San Francisco Bay Area that combines live art and live music, collaborating with some of the Bay Area’s finest local musicians. She has painted live and exhibited with them at Yoshi’s, San Francisco, Grant and Green, Anna’s Jazz Island, The Elbo Room, Club Deluxe, The San Francisco Jazz Heritage Museum, MAPP, Space Gallery and 111 Minna Gallery.

Audrey was raised with an art teacher as a mother and an oil painting studio in her garage. She’s been surrounded by art her entire life, and has a deep appreciation for color and creating. Her artistic interests span many mediums, including oil paint, photography, letterpress, and stained glass. Her current passion is modern calligraphy and hand lettering, and her wedding signage has been featured on Style Me Pretty and Borrowed & Blue.

Audrey has worked with children for over two decades. At age 11 she founded her own theater arts summer camp, collaborating with campers to write and perform an original play each week. She ran the camp for 5 years before closing its doors, at which point she began working with Art Attack every summer. Now she is with the studio full time, managing registration, teaching kids and teen classes, and leading Summer Camp.

Rachael Dominguez started painting and drawing as soon as she started writing. She followed her passion for painting to Art Attack, where she further developed her skills. Now an accomplished award-winning artist, her work has been featured in numerous shows and resides in several private collections.

Besides oil painting, Rachael enjoys making jewelry, cross stitch, needlepoint, and various fiber arts.

“I’m so excited to be working with young people. Their energy is what fuels the world and I absolutely love it. Creating and teaching go hand in hand for me because then the mind and spirit are working together”.

A native of San Mateo, Diane is thrilled to be back in the Bay Area following her graduation from UCLA, and a long career in the travel and hospitality industry in Southern California. She’s always had an eye for beauty, creativity and adventure, which shows in her diverse resume. She’s held positions in the cruise ship industry, followed by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, and then the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa. There she designed entertainment industry events such as the Emmy’s and Grammy Awards, as well as White House and Presidential visits. Additionally, she worked at the Getty Center in Brentwood as the Catering Manager for special art events. Most recently she left a tenured position at the Stanford Faculty Club as the Director of Catering Sales and Marketing.

She’s always made an effort to have art in her life, and during her summers home from college she taught watercolor for children at the Beresford Recreation Center in San Mateo. Finally her quest for an adult program was fulfilled when she met Nancy Torres at a social event in 2012. She happily became a student at Art Attack and continues painting with the studio today. She loves big shapes and bright colors, and is always striving to grow as an artist.

One of KC’s earliest memories from childhood is from second grade when she dressed up for career day as an artist, knowing from then on out that she would do anything to make that dream a reality. As someone who was always drawing, doodling, or coloring, KC took as many art classes as she could growing up, where she got to use clay, printmaking, and photography to extend her love of art past just painting & drawing. In high school, she started working at a summer art camp where she learned that her love of art and being around children were a perfect match.

That dream has became a reality! After graduating with her BFA in Painting & Drawing in May of 2020, KC finally got the chance to start teaching art. With that experience under her belt and the knowledge of what she wants for her future, KC made the big move  from her hometown in Georgia out here to California. Living in the Golden State has been a dream of hers and she cannot wait to get to share her love of art to her new students in the Bay Area!

Emily’s love for art started at a very young age. She’s always loved everything to do with crafting and creating, but her love for oil painting started 7 years ago when she attended a summer camp week at Art Attack. Instantly smitten, a single week of camp turned into weekly classes that she has continued every semester since. She has worked her way up from kid student, to teen student, to camp counselor, to class assistant, and is now thrilled to be joining the teaching staff. 

Some of her favorite memories of growing up are doing arts and crafts with her grandma. She was very creative and whenever people ask where Emily’s love for art comes from she credits her grandmother. Her mother also fanned the flame, bringing Emily to shop at Michael’s and Joann’s where they constantly find new mediums to try. 

Currently in college as a history major, Emily plans on combining her love of art and history by becoming a museum curator.