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Ange Bentivegna

Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Kinetic Art. Mobiles

“The process of making art gives me a tool to convey my authentic work in this world. It awakens my senses to the beauty and possibilities that life offers. In all aspects of my life and career, creative problem solving has been the essence of my inspiration. Creating Art is an innate expression, a spiritual connection and an essential commission that renews me. I create art that reflects the light, the spirit and the beauty of Life”

Jeannine Dabb

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor

As an artist, I am an observer by nature. While working as an aesthetician, I learned to look beyond what one sees on the surface of people. One must look beneath the surface to discover deeper meanings, or one only gets part of a story. The content of my work comes from my history of working in the aesthetics industry and having close communication with people. When I paint, I paint people, places, and things to which I have an emotional connection. Because I don’t see things at a surface level, this may be why I work with thick layers of paint. There is a story that is told in the layers of paint and the found objects I sometimes use. These layers can be seen as chapters in the story, that can be visually read beyond a surface level. The ultimate goal in my abstract work is to make people look at the layers and question what they are seeing and what the forms represent. I hope people continue to look for deeper meanings beyond the surface. I use a combination of processes to create my work. There is personal involvement with the subject matter I choose, which is always a place, person or thing that I am emotionally attached to. I paint plein air and also paint sometimes directly from photographs that I have taken. And depending on the work, the materials could include watercolor, pen and ink, gold leaf, and acrylic. I am currently using color choices that fit my mood, which usually involve a brilliant palette with a strong, positive vibration. I use dynamic line and shape to create movement. The paintings are meant to interest the viewer in looking at the subjects and cityscapes in a new light. These works are meant to give visual significance to places and people that are frequently not represented or are misrepresented. My goal is for the viewer to see these places in a different and fresh perspective. I want to show the beauty of the community in which I live, and use my passion to create large and small scale works that will have a place here.

Curtis Doll

Visual Arts: Glasswork, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Works on paper; Monumental Architectural/Liturgical Stained Glass Design

Curtis is a 1977 honor graduate of Fine Art from the York Academy of Arts majoring in painting. In 1997 enrolled at Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts to learn the computer as a design tool. Acquired an Associate Degree in Advanced Technology for Advanced Digital Design and was inducted into the ALPHA BETA KAPPA National Honor Society. Founded CurtisGraphics Design Services on 09/02/1999 – on 04/25/2008 incorporated to become CurtisGraphics Corporation. In 1979 began work at Linauts Stained Glass Studio in Reading Pennsylvania. I have since designed and produced many monumental Architectural Stained Glass projects across the US. From start to finish; meeting with the client, determining the course of the Architectural Glass Design, producing the scaled transparent Lumiére design – after approval, creating the full-size drawing, transferring onto pattern paper and cutting the patterns, selecting the color and texture of the glass, cutting the glass – acid etching – painting – staining the glass if necessary, and overseeing the project to its conclusion. In 1987 was published in Stained Glass Quarterly for six monumental stained glass windows I designed for Tifereth Israel using the Six Orders of the Mishna as the theme which can be viewed at http://www.curtisgraphics.com/asg/ The seventh window in the Historical Alcove in Tifereth Israel was used as the cover art on “This House We Build” – (Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and People Who Dwell There) – http://www.curtisgraphics.com/j_historical.html A beautiful hardcover booklet describing and illustrating the 17 windows residing in the Simpsonville United Methodist Church – (Simpsonville South Carolina) by Linda Pendergrass was published in 2013 and can be viewed at http://www.curtisgraphics.com/smpsnvll/ A poem entitled “The Lark Ascending” was published in the 2002 International Library of Poetry Anthology titled “The Solace of Night”, by Watermark Press, One Poetry Plaza, Owings Mills, MD – http://www.curtisgraphics.com/thelarkascending.html Created 553 designs for door, side-lite, and transom beveled glass – pdf Book of Designs for MIKA International in 1999 can be downloaded at http://www.curtisgraphicscorp.com/crystal_beveled_art_glass.html In the summer of 1999, I created my business website, curtisgraphics.com. Shortly after that, I founded CurtisGraphics Design Services on 09/02/1999 – on 04/25/2008 I incorporated to become CurtisGraphics Corporation. During the 1980s my parents told me I would need to one day learn how to use the computer. I asked them, why? I’m an artist. I use paint, canvas, paper, glass. Why on earth would I ever need to learn how to use the computer? In 1997 I enrolled at Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts to do just that. I was inducted into the ALPHA BETA KAPPA National Honor Society. I learned the quality of art produced with the computer is only as good as my traditional abilities with color, design and composition, and draftsmanship. Yes, it takes just as much dexterity to produce a work of art with a mouse as it takes with a pencil or paintbrush. In point of fact, it is more difficult to master the mouse as a drawing/painting instrument. And it takes a whole lot more technical knowledge to create with a computer. Through Facebook, I became acquainted with the online art community and have joined and have taken an active role in posting my artworks on cybercultures, groups, and online galleries. I have recently been accepted by Singulart, singulart.com, an international online gallery of some renown that sells art to a worldwide audience.

Rob Evans

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking, Works on paper

Rob Evans is an artist and independent curator who lives and works near Wrightsville, PA. Evans’ enigmatic paintings and drawings can be found in more than two dozen prominent public collections across the nation including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Corcoran Museum of Art; Library of Congress; San Francisco Art Museums; Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Portland (OR) Art Museum among others. His paintings have been featured in numerous books, newspapers and magazines and on public radio and television. His work has also been showcased in many blogs and online publications including a recent interview on the Huffington Post. Evans’ work has been showcased in over 100 solo and curated group exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world at such places as the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India; Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia; and the Arkansas Art Center to name just a few. Evans received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1981 and has been awarded numerous grants including two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and a prestigious fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. As an independent curator Evans has organized and guest curated several major museum exhibitions including Transforming the Commonplace: Masters of Contemporary Realism at the Susquehanna Art Museum and the traveling exhibition, Visions of the Susquehanna featuring paintings of this extraordinary river spanning more than 250 years. In 2015 Evans was invited by Governor Tom Wolf and First Lady Frances Wolf to help curate an exhibit of prominent Pennsylvania artists throughout history at the State Museum in Harrisburg as part of the Governor’s Inaugural Festivities. Evans has worked as a community arts activist for the last two decades. He has served on the boards of Yorkarts and the Historic Hellam Preserve (where he is also artist-in-residence), established and curates the Visions of the Susquehanna Art Colletion at the Zimmerman Center for Heritage, is Founding Artistic Director of the PA Arts Experience, and was instrumental in establishing Marketview Arts as a new downtown arts venue in York, PA.

Brett Greiman

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor

In the time following graduation from the York Academy of Arts, Brett has had a wide variety of work experiences. An extensive background in the graphics industry combined with over twelve years college level teaching of the visual arts and the Adobe Creative Suite programs come together in a talented, experienced and knowledgeable visual communicator. Brett also brings that background into his work as a fine artist using both conventional and digital mediums. Visual Communications is a multi-disciplinary field encompassing graphic design, illustration, photography, multi-media, and fine arts. Many years of working and teaching in all these fields have molded Brett Greiman into a professional problem solver capable of delivering your message effectively.

Vito Grippi

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Music, Storytelling; Visual Arts: Photography

I am a singer songwriter, poet, and photographer who believes that art, regardless of the medium, is our most powerful tool of communication. Creation creates connection, and I’m here for all of it. I’ve performed in bands and as a solo act since 2002, more recently focusing on the writing and creation of original work. As a poet and essayist, I’ve published work in national magazines and also founded and editing the literary magazines Shaking Like a Mountain and Story. As a photography, I am interesting in the ability of an image to capture a fleeting moment that tells its own story–not unlike a poem or a song. When not performing or creating my own work, I co-own Story Supply Co., a print shop that creates handcrafted t-shirts and stationery supplies, and teach creative writing at York College of Pennsylvania. At this time I am honored to hold the position of Poet Laureate of York.

Hollie Johns

Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Works on paper; Floral Design and Garden Installation

Hollie Johns has been a practicing artist for 22 years, professionally. Her art has always been strongly influenced by the natural world around her, but more recently she states ” I have felt an increasing need to draw attention and appreciation to this beautiful earth that so many of us take for granted. Working in local urban gardens and creating murals about CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder/Bees) has had a big influence on me”. Her passion for nature and animals was instilled early on, and growing up she expressed this passion through art. She went on to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art where she gained a BFA in general fine arts, with a focus on photography and illustration. Following art school, her plans to be a children’s book illustrator shifted when she was offered an opportunity to take over an art gallery with over 100 artists from her high school art teacher. Hollie had never painted, other than her foundation oil class in college, but she picked up a brush and some craft store acrylics, and has been painting ever since. Her art exudes an honesty that speaks to her sensitivity towards expressing the relationship between the man-made and natural worlds. Within her technique, which is mostly self-taught, she makes changes based on her own whims, and the physicality of the paint. While her art holds private undertones based on observation and personal memories, they are presented to the viewers as avenues which they can interpret in their own way.

Deanna Lamour

Visual Arts: Painting

Primarily a self taught painter, I’ve been working in oil and acrylic on canvas for 30 years. Evaluating and experimenting are the ways I continue to push my creative expression to new levels. I work to develop a style that is uniquely my own – images that are instantly recognizable as mine without having to look for a signature. Originality and self expression within a social context are vital, as are color harmonies/contrasts, large scale format, and figurative elements.

Jessica Lee

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

My work celebrates the artist’s hand in our sterile, flat screen-obsessed world. Jessica Lee is a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania where she received her BA in Fine Art with a minor in art history. She is a former member of the King’s Courtyard Artist Collective and exhibited her work at their gallery at 124 East King Street, York until December of 2019. She has also been a featured artist at Small Star Art House, York Blue Moon and the York Art Association’s Sally Little Danyo Members’ Sales Gallery. Her abstract work has been exhibited at NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, MD, and at the Art Science Gallery in Austin, Texas. Lee focuses on textures, lines, shapes and what she refers to as “surface depth.” A sentiment that has held much personal meaning for her is in the Niche quote, “There are no beautiful surfaces without a great and terrible depth.” Using this as a metaphor for her own personal struggles and triumphs, Lee typically flattens the picture plane and creates instead a depth to her surfaces through translucent layers. Recently, Lee has been including vintage illustrations in her mixed media creations. “They remind me fondly of childhood – and passionate story times with my mom!” – Jessica Lee

Leah Limpert Walt

Visual Arts: Painting, Works on paper

My artistic explorations through imagery almost always begin with reflections on both external and internal landscapes. They’re honest evaluations of trauma, mental health, and philosophical ponderings on purpose, meaning and the mysticism tied to those facets. They are the results of a constant effort towards healing, understanding self, and placement of self in the physical world. The self portrait is a common reoccurrence in my work because of my open evaluation of personal experience. I study realism and landscape because of the rigor of nature, the skill and meditation needed to mimic it, and for the settings that envelope the moments in our lives. I practice surrealism because the psyche is a prism that these environments are filtered through. They’re taken in, fanned out and revealed, then refocused and projected through the lens of ourselves. Our perspectives. I question “What does it look like after the experience of life?” and “What are the moments when the nature of things needs no more a spectrum than what is there?” The correspondence between silent admiration in the present and the thoughtful reflection on those moments stirs up the content of my work. Sometimes the thoughtful is rooted in the psyche, composed of symbols of the natural rather than the physical places as they are observed optically. Instead, the fragmented spectrum that’s filtered through the fractured self. Naturally, those fractals consist of both the shadow and the light.

Missi McLaren Ritter

Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Painting

Missi McLaren Ritter is a York poet and painter. Her poetry collections include Chronicles of the Amazing Broken Girl (Sunbury Press, 2010), Bi-the-Way (MMR Books 2012) and Pocket-Seized Low Fat Love Poems (Poem Sugar Press, 2015). Her poems have also been featured in the first collection of Below the Belt (Poem Sugar Press 2012) authors and in Reclaiming Our Voices (Poem Sugar Press 2013). She is also a visual artist and a member of the King’s Courtyard Artists’ Collective at 124 E. King Street in downtown York, PA.

Jess McPherson

Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Jewelry, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

“When we connect ourselves to our ancestors, we are reminded of our strength. My work is an exploration of personal and cultural identity, jumping hurdles backwards and forwards to reconnect ties and hold tight to fraying ends. I believe in art as our first language. I believe in its magic, its medicine. I trust it to help make sense of things I often can’t put into words. I trust in the making of it and I hold that making sacred. Twining a corn husk basket on the western shore of the Susquehanna, centuries after colonization, I sit re-indigenizing our homelands. Gathering treasures washed ashore with my friend, we build altars to the mystery, to the world around us, to our shared experience, and we litter them with old German magic passed down and down. I teach an artist to make rope and the grass reaches up to join us, we receive its lessons. I grieve a broken heart, children I’ll never have, and work to give strength to strangers, never knowing that these are the lessons held in my trust for the process, the choosing of thread, the rhythms and colors, until the work is complete and I understand its name and I let it go. I wrap thread endlessly for years sharing stories and making connections, part of this continuum. In every piece, I carry our ancestors forward. I tell our histories, celebrate our lives and dream our futures.” Jess McPherson is an award-winning artist, cultural educator, and social impact strategist of Shawnee and Pennsylvania German descent.

Christine Mercer-Vernon

Visual Arts: Painting

York, Pennsylvania based artist, Christine Mercer-Vernon’s paintings explore humanity’s deep connection to the natural world. Her work combines storytelling with minimalism and movement to present each hopeful narrative in a quiet and contemplative composition. A self-taught artist, her work has been shown in galleries throughout the east coast and she is a member of the American Women Artists non-profit organization.

Liette Monic

Performing Arts: Vocal; Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Performance Art; Outside Energy Artist

As an outside artist/creative I’ve combined my psychic/empathic gifts to create a new type of channeled reading. Using wet on wet oils I create Energy Reading Portraits painting what I see & feel of your energy field (aura)-comes with a full interpretation. I’ve painted over 60 portraits from 2016-present. From these portraits I’ve created a Shamanic Oracle Deck of 44 signed oracle cards. This project is complete and working on the means to print/publish. I enjoy hanging my paintings crooked! LOL Painting can be challenging for me as I have no depth perception due to an incident in my 30s which forced me to perceive sight in a different way. I use my creativity in many ways from painting, drawing & singing beginning at gradeschool age, psychic/clairvoyant, playing percussions, running sound, party entertainer, making home remedies, in the 80s I programmed first McCrory’s buyers inventory end user application that connected sales from all stores to inventory giving buyers immediate insight to ordering & creating reports. I received a bonus trip to Israel, Egypt, Greece, & Turkey. This all led me to my current passions of channeled tarot readings, healings, & oil paintings. My visions influence my other paintings. I’ve always followed my heart and my first passion was and still is singing. However, along life’s road as I discovered other passions which I engaged with they always kept my life interesting and learning new things. “Love Is The Key To Life!”

Sarah Noble

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

——–Bio———- Sarah Noble is a visual artist, researcher and educator who primarily works in oil paint and fiber. A central exploration in her work is a use of color as haze that tips the viewer experience of her subject toward that of a shifting visual play between vaporous color and form. Her current subject of interest are nesting Waterbirds and their young through representing them and their habits in her work as allegorical harbingers from our natural world. Fiber felted edge frames and weavings are made for some paintings in a study of an abstract dispersal of the painted color into tactile object. Sarah studied painting at Chautauqua School of Art, The New York Studio School, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The International School of Art, Anderson University, and completed her MFA at Western Carolina University in 2006. Among the galleries she has shown her work are, Denise Bibro Gallery and The Bowery Gallery in NYC, as well as Gross McCleaf Gallery and Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia. She previously taught classes at Pennsylvania College of Art, Logos Academy and currently lives and works with her husband and daughter in York, Pennsylvania. ———Website————— http://sarah-noble.squarespace.com/ ———Research————— In 2015, Sarah discovered the life’s work of previously unknown York, PA Outsider Artist, Ralph Henry Eck, Jr. She has conducted extensive research and documentation of Eck’s life and work over 5 years. She continues to work to preserve the legacy of his life and work through writing, exhibition planning, and aiding plans toward future museum placement at The Kohler Art Preserve. ———Publications———— (essay) https://issuu.com/mucollegeofahss/docs/ralph_henry_eck__jr._catalog (lino prints) http://www.jlconrad.com/species ————Press—————— https://lancasteronline.com/features/the-joy-of-painting-mu-s-eckert-art-gallery-hosts/article_c1b1402a-5bb3-11e9-9ada-eb1be42b3690.html

Fiel Patricio

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Music; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Fiel Patricio is an artist based in York, Pennsylvania who exhibits locally, nationally and internationally. She creates abstract and experimental mixed media works using water-based mediums and integrating collage, linocuts, woodcuts and printmaking into her art. She is a signature member of Philadelphia Water Color Society and Baltimore Watercolor Society. Her work was not only shown in Pennsylvania (York, Philadelphia, Lancaster, Harrisburg, etc.) but also in New York, Maryland, Florida and Paris. She is also a published photographer. In 2019, she was honored as the York FineArts Festival (YorkFest) Featured Artist. Her work was also accepted at the Lancaster Museum of Art as part of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society’s (PWS) 40th International Juried Exhibition, the York Art Association’s 49th Annual Open Juried Exhibition and the Maryland Federation of Art’s 17th Annual “Small Wonders” Show, juried by Corcoran Gallery of Art Curator Emerita Linda Crocker Simmons. Fiel is part of a collective at the HIVE Artspace (126 E. King St.) in York, PA. It is where her gallery (Studio#3) is located.

Troy Patterson

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Letterpress, Graphic Design

Troy Patterson is a graphic designer, design educator, and a letterpress practitioner and collector of things. He received a BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University and an MFA in Graphic Design from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Patterson is an assistant professor of graphic design at York College of Pennsylvania. While working with young designers is his main focus these days, he continues to be deeply involved in his own personal practice at Catch and Release Press. At C&RP he works on a range of projects, both commercial and personal where he makes 21st century digitally based graphic design and experiments in letterpress processes. He lives and practices in York, PA.

Debi Peters

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper; Pastel Painting

Perfection. Is there such a thing? So why are we always trying so hard to find it in all we do? I see no reason to paint perfection. In fact, I adore imperfection. Beauty in the imperfect. No one item is the same, everything and everyone different, not perfect but indeed beautiful! I love to paint a perfectly fine piece then push my paintbrush through it to deconstruct the subject. I rely heavily on color, value and mark making. I rarely blend and mix on the palette, I prefer to allow the colors to commingle and remain bright on the board or canvas. I constantly push the boundaries of color theory. Although I do use local color in my work, I try to punctuate it with imaginative, unexpected color choices. Tons of light and darks. I love to accentuate the shadows and the light. It creates such drama, much like the chiaroscuro used by the old masters. My favorite way to do this is with the alla prima painting method, using common big-box store, household interior paint along with thinned artist acrylic paint. It pushes around the canvas beautifully. Using this wet paint on wet paint, quick painting method is so gratifying, the paint slides and puckers, bumps and bubbles, leaving chunky, sumptuous brush marks. It also forces me to work fast before the paint dries, which allows me to keep from trying to create a “perfect” piece.

Andrius Polonikas

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Ceramics, Crafts, Earthworks, Film, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Tattoo

Creative, self motivated, design-oriented, Fun Loving, and passionate for all things art! A Lithuanian Born Artist residing currently in York Pennsylvania. I moved to America in 1991 and ended up in York studying design, layout, motion graphics and video at Bradley Academy for Visual Arts graduating in 2005. From there my time has been spent working and creating art in or around the York area you may have seen some around at galleries such as Hive Art Space, The Parliament, Studio 117, CoWork 155, Ironic, Marketview Arts, and others. My art also may have caught your eye around the city, since I do large scale window and wall murals (trust me if you seen one you know my work) 😉

Ivy Rodgers

Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Constructions/Collage, Functional and/or Decorative, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

I am a local, York-City based fine artist, illustrator, and writer. I graduated in 2018 from York College of Pennsylvania with honors. I have completed freelance work for Paco’s Tacos, The Cantina, Redeux Vintage Marketplace, York Day Nursery, The Parliament Arts Organization, as well as others. I am an instructor for Creative York, and I have currently been spearheading the Creative Aging program. I am open for freelance illustration, mural, and writing jobs. My studio/office is located in The Grotto Community Center. I have worked with numerous local organizations including teaching at Crispus Attucks Senior Day Center in partnership with Creative York.

Rainbow Ross

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking, Works on paper

_____________The Candid_____________ I’m an artist who is often found drinking a nice cup of tea in between, carving & printing, plotting & planning projects, and gardening or hiking with my pup all while meandering in my mind about infinite possibilities and the orbiting perplexity of things. . . Not so long ago, I wrapped up a 550 mile backpacking pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees down to the most western point in Finisterre, Spain, where I took a cleansing break from art making and dwelled in the peaceful simple gesture of walking. I cannot help but feel a new phase of art making is soon to emerge. What will it be? _____________The Expected_____________ Originally from central Pennsylvania, Rainbow Ross has lived on both the east and west coasts of the United States, as well as intervals abroad. Rainbow has worked as a printmaking teaching assistant at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Pont-Aven, France. She has also taught English and printmaking workshops while living in South Korea, India and the USA. In addition, Rainbow [via: Rainboeliza Studios] annually organizes several art based projects including the Postcard Project, the Print Portfolio Exchange, the Mini Scrap Exchange and Art:Toe. Her previous bodies of work explored nature, meditation, patterns, cultural exchanges, relationships and simple everyday isms. She primarily explores the subject matter through the use of printmaking, but also employs sewing, painting, building, and installation work. Rainbow has had numerous exhibitions while living in the U.S. and abroad.

Dillon Samuelson

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting

I’m a painter and illustrator currently living and working in York city. I graduated from the Fine Art program at York College of Pennsylvania in 2014, and the following year was awarded the third annual Appell Arts Fellowship at Marketview Arts. Since then I’ve also completed residencies with the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, Springboard for the Arts in Minnesota, and have shown work in exhibitions across the US. Storytelling is important to me, and is the backbone of my work, whether a piece is meant to accompany a specific narrative or stand on its own. I’m particularly interested in folklore and mythology, and use painting and drawing as a way to bring these tales to life.

Andi Simpson

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Works on paper

Andi is located in downtown York, Pennsylvania. Andi studied fine art/art history and graduated with a BFA from Frostburg State University. Andi works with a variety of mediums, including acrylics, inks, and oils. She considers her art to be abstract. Her work exhibits an ethereal sense of warmth, light, and love but also elicits the sensitive chaos found in nature. Her paintings begin with a foundation comprised of multiple layers of color and a variety of textures. Building from that background she allows intuition to guide her. Defined shapes and forms present themselves organically as the piece progresses. She does not intend her work to espouse a specific message or extract a uniform reaction. Instead, she hopes to deliver a perpetually novel experience to each viewer, evoking unique visceral responses.

d. g. walczyk

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, New Media/Technology, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor

d. g. walczyk – Fine Artist – Photography, Photo Art, Graphics, Printmaking d. g. walczyk is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin but grew up along the east coast in Ellicott City, Maryland and Greenville & Clemson, South Carolina. He received a BA in English from Clemson University in 1982 and went on to study theatre in the graduate program at Illinois State University. Before completing his master’s thesis, he moved to Lancaster, PA to begin a professional theatre career as a production manager, technical director, and stage manager with the Independent Eye. His nearly 20 year theatrical career included work with the Actors’ Company of Pennsylvania, the Fulton Opera House, Mount Gretna Playhouse, The Acting Company, and others. He is a self-taught fine art photographer, graphic artist, and printmaker. His lens has been known to zero in on landscapes and sky-scapes, garden-scapes and java-scapes, urban-scapes and nature-scapes, the overlooked and the decaying, the living and the dying. No subject is safe from examination, documentation, re-imagining, reconstruction and reinvention from initial capture through its journey in post processing to the final archival pigment print for presentation and purchase. He has exhibited in numerous local galleries including Garth Gallery and Jonal Gallery (Columbia, PA), Hive artspace, King’s Courtyard Artists’ Collective, The Parliament (York, PA), Lancaster County Art Association (Lancaster, PA), Art Association of Harrisburg (Harrisburg, PA), and regularly participates in York Art Association member, open, and invitational exhibits and Gallery Group exhibits in alternative venues such as Off Center Grill at the Yorktowne Hotel, Martin Library Extension, the Law Offices of Richard R. Reilly, and the Cultural Alliance of York County. He has work in the corporate collections of Shipley Energy (York, PA) and Winchester Gardens (Winchester, OH) as well as in private collections, and in 2007 had two works published in Photos That Inspire: Photo Workshop (Lynne Eodice, Wiley Publishing, Inc.) As Daniel G. Walczyk, he is co-owner (along with his partner Shawn Young), photographer, and printing specialist at Vulcania Graphics & Fine Art LLC in downtown York, PA. Vulcania specializes in digital reproduction services for artists including digital capture, editing, and archival printing. Dan also currently serves as 1st Vice President on the Board of York Art Association where he oversees communications for the organization. Additionally, he designed and maintains the York Art Association website and administers the association’s Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and Twitter accounts.

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