Visiting Artists

Jan Wier

Jan was born in Texas, raised in Arkansas, and has a business degree from the University of Arkansas. As a child, she fell in love with art, and took lessons and classes right through high school. Even though she changed tracks to study business in college, the love of the creative field has s ...

Peg Belcastro

Peg studied ceramics at Bloomsburg University and enjoyed creating pottery and sculpture for a number of years. Although she was born and raised in south-central PA, living in Alaska for 10 years deeply influenced her approach to art making. It was during her time in Alaska that she returned to her ...

Jordana Saunders

Jordana is a portrait artist based in Lancaster Pennsylvania. She studied architecture and design at Washington University in St. Louis, and continues to practice residential architecture professionally. In addition to her creative studies as an architect, Jordana has loved painting since she was a ...

Robert Patierno

Robert received an MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University. He is an internationally renowned printmaker, draftsman, and painter. An avid fisherman, his graphic works often reflect his time spent outdoors along the Susquehanna River and surrounding rural landscapes.

Olivia Hiester

Olivia is this year's recipient of the CX Carlson Summer Residency Program. She attends Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Molly Sanger Carpenter

“Exquisite”and “Magical” are two of the descriptions used for the unique work of classically-trained and internationally-collected artist Molly Sanger Carpenter’s intricate and precious objets d’art. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and shows, and is in private collection ...

Terry Wise

Terry lives in Berkshire County, western MA. Her paintings are filled with the printed patterns and lively colors of textiles, and celebrate home, family and community. Terry has evolved into being a painter by way of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Textile Design from Indiana University, studies ...

Sherri Trial

Sherri lives and works in Pennsylvania. She has garnered many awards in national and international juried exhibits, combining lettering and the abstract. Materials used are watercolor, acrylic gouache, 23K gold leaf, calf- or goatskin, and paper. “I interpret text to create a visual mood, where ...

Dave Krantz

Dave Krantz has a B.S. in Art Education from Kutztown University. His childhood memories of life on a Lancaster County farm and how light plays against buildings and objects often enters into his work.

Gaylen Bray

Gaylen received a BFA from Moore College of Art & Design and a M.Ed. from Cabrini College. She taught at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and in the School District of Lancaster. Her paintings and collages mix literary and visual elements, inspired by nature. “Though I use a wid ...

Melissa Bryant

I paint quiet moments and places. Collectively, they are my response to my need for silence and reflection in a contemporary culture that is often excessive and loud. The act of painting reminds me to tread softly through life and observe fleeting experiences. When I do, they are ordinary moments th ...

Susan Gottlieb

Susan's art celebrates the colors and depths of life. Her paintings are a layered response to the strata of time, the experiences and stories she discovers on her travels. Susan lives and works in Lancaster, PA. "Much of my painting is prompted by evoked sensations elicited from journeys that ha ...

Justin Johnson

Justin is from Lancaster and graduated from the PA Academy of Fine Arts. He works in both oil and metal point. As an artist and avid reader, literature has always played a major role in Justin's life and work. The appealing narratives that he explores in books have taken on a new fascination th ...

Lynnette Shelley

Lynnette Shelley is an award-winning Pennsylvania artist specializing in contemporary mixed media animal and nature paintings. Having a great love of wildlife, patterns and archetypes, Shelley fuses these influences into her striking artworks. Her highly detailed and complex compositions are created ...

Jonathan Whitlock

Jonathan Whitlock is an artist from Lancaster, PA. At Southern Virginia University he studied studio arts and ended his freshman year with his first art exhibition. During summer break, June 1999 in Lancaster, Jonathan sustained a traumatic brain injury when he was involved in a car accident. Despit ...

Lucy Smucker, This Year's Mitch Lyon's Clay Scholarship Winner

Lucy is a Senior from Lampeter Strasburg High School. She won this year's Mitch Lyon's Clay Scholarship.

Carol Fastuca

Carol received a BFA in printmaking from Penn State and an MFA in painting from Queens College in NY. Her teaching jobs include Syracuse University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Albright College, where she taught Painting and Drawing. She returned to southwestern Pennsylvania tw ...

Kristen T. Woodward

Kristen received a BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and an MFA from Clemson University. Her mixed media works combine painting and printmaking, and encaustic. Kristen is currently a Professor of Art and Department Chair at Albright College. "Contradictions between the destructive a ...

Jean Zaun

Jean was born and raised in Central Pennsylvania, surrounded by open farm fields and the freedom to run barefooted-reveling the wonders of nature. She received her BS in Art Ed from Kutztown University and currently lives in Fredericksburg, PA. Her works reflect the intimate experiences of the ...

Kelsey Showalter

Kelsey is originally from Lancaster but now resides in Morgantown, PA. Her current work focuses on layering various dry and wet acrylic media playing with transparent layers, gritty texture, and chunky paint. It's a mixed media process that she founds both intriguing and challenging. The end result ...

Michelle Spiziri

Michelle's art is characteristic of Abstract Expressionism. However, she has an uncanny ability to bring out unique and evocative imagery while revealing unexpected visual stories. Inside the core of Michelle's art there exist layers of complexities which pulls the viewer in close to explore the jo ...

Carol Lesher

Carol resides in Kennett Square, PA. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Delaware in 1985. Carol is known for her expressionistic landscapes and her works are represented in many public and private collections. "My work interrogates the balance between representation and abstr ...

Jacqui Fehl

Jacqui Fehl is a mostly self taught mixed media artist residing in Asheville, NC. Her bold recognizable style can best be described as a modern blend of abstracted whimsy and grunge. Influenced by music, lyrics, feelings, stories, other artists, and the materials themselves, Jacqui’s art is as ...

Gay Cox

Gay P. Cox, who was born and raised in England. She studied at what is now Leeds Beckett University, Yorkshire England, with a double major in education and art. Continuing her education at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston. Influenced by artists such as: Wassily Kandinsky, Van G ...

Kim Smith

Kim is a Lancaster County native. She earned her BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University and has owned TCG Design in East Petersburg for more than 27 years. Although she is in a creative business, Kim decided to pursue her love for painting and has become an accomplished artist, develo ...

Matt Johanning

Matt Johanning is a contemporary artist living in Lancaster, PA. His carefully considered compositions are a playful celebration of environments and communities. Simple and innocent, the intention of the images is to convey a sense of peace.

Kristin Blanck

Kristin Blanck lives in Lancaster, PA. After graduating from West Chester University with a degree in Anthropology/Archaeology and a minor in Art History, she received a Masters in Fashion Design at Drexel University. Working in oils, she finds herself drawn to still life compositions. As with many ...

Katheryn Stott Buxton

Katheryn received her BFA from Brigham Young University, UT in 1993. Katheryn's work balance color and light to create peaceful environments; a quiet visual escape. She refers to her enclosed intimate spaces as "nature's cathedral". "The light in my paintings has an underlying composition, the ...

Lynn Davison

LYNN DAVISON resides in Naples, FL. Davison, a graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design, is a figurative painter who hopes to provoke introspection through her work. Intending to reveal a universal truth of what it means to be human – sometimes disconnected and vulnerable. "I strive f ...

Steve R. Coffey

Capturing the atmosphere from the immensity and grandeur of the plains to the human mark etched upon it, Steve's plaintive and expressive palette of light and movement draw both from his past and from the present day of all that surrounds him. He received an MFA from U of Regina in Canada in 1990. ...

Abigail Dudley

Abigail Dudley is a graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, PA. She received The Raymond D. & Estelle Rubens Travel Scholarship for European travel and a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield Grant. In addition to studying at PAFA, Abigail has spent the past S ...

Jerry Brown

Jerry is a watercolorist, enthralled and under the spell of the medium. Most people in Lancaster would remember Jerry as The Monkey Man. For 52 years, he traveled the nation, performing in theaters, schools, churches, fairs, festivals, and community events as a variety entertainer, and for 30 of ...

Richard Ressel

Richard is both painter and sculptor. Known for his earthenware striped bowls, he is also proficient with egg tempura, watercolor, and casein. He is a member of the National Watercolor Society and several of his pieces have won at the national level. "It is difficult for me to come up with a ...

Teresa Haag

Teresa resides in Phoenixville, PA. She works in oils on top of newspaper covered board. She sketches her subject directly with paint and works in thin layers allowing areas of the newspaper to show through, creating noise and adding depth to each piece. "Art has been the constant in my life. ...

Jenny Germann

Born in Hutchinson, KS, Jenny now lives in Lancaster, PA. She holds a BFA from the University of Kansas and is earning her MS from Eastern University. Jenny Germann’s work is based on locations that hold significance in her life. She uses landscapes to convey experiences, often drawing influ ...

Rhoda Kahler

Rhoda is a ceramic artist living in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and received her BFA from Wester Chester University in 1995. Her clay tile work is inspired by nature. Each piece embodies the emotion felt by a relationship to the source of inspiration. "I have found that most of my art manifests ...

Holly Dudley

Holly Dudley is an artist from New Jersey. Holly is pursuing her BFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was the 2022 recipient of the CX Carlson Summer Residency. "In my work, I focus on geometry, rhythm, and light to create space. I look to artists like Piero Della Fancesca, Degas, ...

Robert Libby

Robert's paintings show three distinct worlds of reflected surfaces as they simultaneously act and collide. Born in Philadelphia, he now resides in Phoenixville, PA. Robert received his BFA from Millersville, PA and his MFA in painting at the University of Arts in Philadelphia (2011).

Beth Bathe

Beth Bathe is a Plein Air painter. A Virginia Commonwealth University graduate, Beth is highly influenced by American Regionalist painter Andrew Wyeth. She refers to much of her subject matter as “the vanishing landscape.” Her representational paintings have been described by art critics as ...

Katherine Horst

Katherine Horst, a graduate of Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, lives in Manheim, PA. Katherine has developed a refined skill as a collage artist-incorporating various materials such as layered paper and paint to convey a sense of space, dimension and beauty. Her knowledge and experienc ...

Marilene Sawaf

Marilene is a New Hampshire artist, born in Egypt, grew up in Italy and the Middle East. After Marilene's arrival in the USA in 1980, her first paintings were inspired by her education in Interior Design and Architecture and her taste for enigmatic, colorful images. Although she started with l ...

Laura Luce

Laura began at Moore college of Art and Design in Philadelphia, but graduated from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in 2010. She currently lives in Lancaster. Her collage techniques explore a charted experimentation of living a life in transition.

Eric Fowler

When not teaching at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Fowler works as the Collections Manager for the Society of Illustrators Museum in New York City, curating, conserving and installing great works by the world’s best artists.

Portia Mortensen

Pennsylvania is Portia's adopted home. "Moving from Zimbabwe to the East Coast has opened me up to the generosity of color offered by each season. Spring heralds in longed-for warmth and flowering trees, in summer the daylilies shimmer in heat and humidity, fall sees the leaves dazzle in death, and ...

Allison Miller

Allison attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She also studied sports science at the University of Delaware. Her paintings are not just about the subject matter, but are melancholic self-portraits that hopefully create an emotional or visceral experience.

Terri Amig

erri Amig attended The Corcoran School of Art and California Institute of Art. Having grown up in central Pennsylvania, she is now based on the coast of southern New Jersey. Her work addresses the laws of nature that bind us all, primarily through animal imagery.

Sheri Bare

Sheri Bare a Lancaster County native has a passion for working with clay. Primarily self taught she draws on her professional experience as an interior designer and love of color pattern and texture when working on her pieces. Sheri owns Room with a View in Mount Joy for more than 27 years.

Stuart Dunkel

Stuart was born in Fair Lawn New Jersey in 1952 and currently lives in Boston. He began painting and playing classical music at age five and went on to a long career with top orchestras in Boston, New York, and Hong Kong. In 1994 he transitioned from music to fine art where he received his classic ...

Mark Dennis

Native to York County, PA. Mark Dennis has a BA in Technical Theatre from Mansfield State College. Developing his sculpting skills in multiple mediums, Mark evolved into one of the top doll makers. Currently he has opted to return to a relaxed style by utilizing architectural epoxy in which he can ...

Jake Johnson

I live and work in Waynesboro VA. I exhibit my work nationally and sell through galleries and occasional art fairs. I think that feeling of animation and energy has remained constant, and it is this which I view as the defining characteristic of what I produce.

Alicia Irwin

Alicia Irwin was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied the principals of art and design while attending Millersville University. There is real delicacy in her conscious planning and execution, while maintaining the utmost care to retain the objects visual and historical integrity.

Roberta Little

Whacky Wooden Whimsical Wall Sculptures created from found objects and intricately painted surfaces! "Being a survivor of Hurricane Katrina that blew apart households on the Coast of Mississippi, I understand tiny pieces from a life’s past become an integral positive part of the future, elevat ...

Scott Cantrell

Scott Cantrell currently teaches drawing and painting at Lampeter-Strasburg High School. He earned his Masters in Art Education from Millersville University in 2007 and his Masters in Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Art in 2011. Since graduating with his MFA, Scott has exhibited in sever ...

Jeff Schaller

Jeff Schaller graduated at Beaver College. His pop art paintings tie together his love of silk screen, encaustic, and acrylic. His work has been on the hit TV show 'Friends'. He has done murals for all 21 Iron Hill Breweries. His work is in collections both here and abroad.

Dennis Martin

As a boy Dennis doodled, sketched and drew on school tablets while his teachers lectured. He went on and spent 25 years as a management consultant, traveling 50 weeks a year throughout the country. Upon retiring from consulting he settled in Hershey and reengaged in art.

Adam Bunting

Adam currently teaches Art at Garden Spot High School where he is also head wrestling coach. He received his M.A.Ed from Millersville University. Wildlife, Landscapes and nature inspire his exploration of color, texture and composition.

Elizabeth Staz

Elizabeth's paintings are an expression of life filtered through the spirit of one human being. Her feelings about the excitement of living are visually translated via interactions with friends and family, moments in nature, and ideas from books or current events.

James Maria

James earned his BFA in painting at Kutztown University, PA. He now resides in Reading, Pennsylvania. His work reflects inspiration from his local environment and community; finding beauty in what is often overlooked.

Jennifer Hartz

Jennifer received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is a Printmaker and Mixed Media Artist from Southeastern PA. Her work explores themes of identity, memory and the fragility of the human body.

Jill Peckelun

Jill grew up on a farm in Lebanon County, PA. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Albright College, Reading and moved to Allentown where she studied drawing and painting at local art schools. She took private classes in painting with John N. Booth for over eight years while employed by the City ...

Matt Savitsky

Matt Savitsky was born in Lancaster, PA,1982. He is a multidisciplinary performance artist who lives in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and his BFA from Cooper Union. He is currently a professor of film & video at the University of San Diego and of Photographic Practices at Cal St ...

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