Meet The Staff

ICAP Children’s Summer Program Director

A public educator since 2006, Mrs.Tai Matthews obtained a BS in Business Administration from Montclair State University with a focus on Management and Retail Merchandising. At William Paterson University, she went on to earn a B.A. in English, an M.Ed. in Special Education, and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership. Throughout her educational career, she has been fortunate to have completed coursework through Rutgers University School of Continuing Education in both Teacher Preparation and Gifted Education, in addition to several other experiences, certifications, and recognitions. She is a married mother of one daughter, Taylor, and a son, Noah. She enjoys taking vacations with family, participating in community service activities, supporting her children in their extracurriculars, and interior design.

Arts Director

Holly Suzanne Rader is an internationally exhibited contemporary American artist born in Appalachian Tennessee. Her work is inspired by fashion, nature, street art, pop punk culture, film noir, French and Americana romanticism. She began her fine arts career over 20 years ago as a classically trained portrait painter, but has since evolved to a mixed media artist who creates collage portraits using photo transfer techniques, acrylic, spray paint and cut crystal embellishments.

She has exhibited her work in New York City, Paris, Hong Kong, Atlanta and Norway. 

She now works and lives with her husband John Bednar and two sons in the greater NYC area.

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