Dorothy Jannone
is co-founder and director of The Farm Arts Camp, and President and CEO of Ballibay Camps, Inc. Originally from Newark, NJ, and attended East Side HS there. She holds a BA in Art Education and an MFA in Studio Art. She attended Newark State (Kean College), The New School, and NYU. She taught Art in Mountainside, NJ for 14 years before making Ballibay her full time profession in the mid-1960s.
Dottie lives full time at the camp, and is the owner and lead designer of Jane Piatek Design
Claudia Friedetzky
is Assistant Director of The Farm Arts Camp
Claudia Friedetzky grew up in the bucolic countryside of southern Germany near Munich, where she spent hours as a girl traversing forests and fields, collecting frog eggs, tadpoles, lizards and other critters that were released after a period of observation in home made aquariums. Her interest in wildlife and habitats culminated in the pursuit of an undergraduate Biology degree. She also majored in Social Sciences and in her early 20s, Claudia came to the United States on the prestigious North America Scholarship awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service to study women's history.
After a career in state and federal public policy administration with an emphasis on gender equity, she returned to her lifelong passion for art, nature and animals, studying visual art at the University at Albany, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute, horseback riding at the Kensigton Stables, and volunteering in habitat conservation and animal welfare.
She founded the organization Parents for Climate Protection, and has previously taught printmaking and directed the horseback riding program at Camp Ballibay. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her children Anselm and Marcel.