Ana Lucia Araya
Website: highlighterpencil.myportfolio.com/workAna is a graphic designer, bookbinding artist and instructor with over 11 years of teaching experience. A member of the Urban Sketchers Columbus chapter, she brings a thoughtful appreciation for craftsmanship, materials, and design into her work. She has participated in national and international bookbinding exhibitions, reflecting her dedication to the craft and its evolving traditions. Inspired by a love for fine paper and patterns, Ana explores the intersection of bookbinding and urban sketching by incorporating unique fabrics and materials into her handmade books. Her approach encourages artists to create sketchbooks that are both functional and deeply personal.
Crawl in 2025.
Chris Greco
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John Hancock
Website: johnahancock.com
Long before he studied art in college and grad school, John began his love of “urban sketching” when he regularly drew among the brownstone buildings of downtown Wichita (KS). Later, as an art and design professor, and now as an independent artist, John continued his practice of sketching in widely varied locations. For the past 10+ years, he has regularly taught sketching, sketching the city, sketching with inks, and watercolor sketching to adults in both workshop and small class formats locally and regionally. John also helps organize and administer the Charlottesville Urban Sketchers group. He regularly attends other chapters’ sketch meet-ups and workshops to see how they organize and how fellow instructors teach their workshops. He attended the Chicago International Symposium in 2017, the Buenos Aires International Symposium in 2024, the Ohio Regional USk Summit (Columbus) in 2024, and the Carolina Sketch Crawl in 2025.
John has been fortunate to get opportunities to teach workshops for USk chapters in San Francisco, Chicago, DC, Richmond, Cincinnati, and Fredericksburg (VA). He taught “Sketching with Soluble & Permanent Inks” (Chicago Seminar, 2019), “The Positive Power of Negative Space” (Chicago Seminar, 2023), “Sketching on Toned Paper with Inks & Watercolor” (Chicago Seminar, 2025), and “Sketching with Soluble & Permanent Inks” (Ohio Regional Summit in Cincinnati, 2025).
Nancy Lick
Website: nancylick.com
Nancy is an award-winning artist from Cleveland who works in a variety of mediums, including watercolor, collage, and printmaking. She has taught drawing and design courses at Ursuline College, Tri-C, and Baldwin Wallace. Nancy currently teaches Illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She works from her home studio in South Euclid and shows her work regularly in several galleries.Jeff Suntala
Website: suntalawatercolors.com • Instagram: @jeffsuntala
Jeff is the Admin of Cleveland Urban Sketchers. He's been part of the group since the Sketch Crawl days back in 2007. His experience will help you have the confidence to wing it when designing the page and tweak it along the way.Jenny Jing Zhang
Website: jingsketchbook.com • Instagram: @jennymouse2003
Jenny is a Chicago-based artist and urban sketcher who loves capturing cities with loose lines and playful watercolor. With a background in architecture, she enjoys exploring places through drawing and helping others discover the fun and freedom of sketching on location.