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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”

KID CAROL

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Visual Arts

Kidcarol – Carolyn – is a 21-year-old painter, digital and crypto artist, clothing designer, and model. Her preferred mediums are oil and acrylic paintings, but she also exercises her creative power through gouache, watercolor, digital drawings, pen & ink illustrations. Her art is inspired by personal experiences depicted through surrealist and abstract styles. She also uses symbolism and spiritual elements in her work incorporating themes such as duality, interconnectedness, and healing. Her most profound accomplishments have occurred in the last 6-months. They included a solo gallery exhibition at The Parliament Arts, her first clothing release with sales reaching across the U.S., acceptance as an artist in residence for The Parliament Arts, her status as an emerging crypto artist, and her role as an event manager for a local vintage retail store.

Jeannine Dabb

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Illustration, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor; collage

Jeannine Dabb-Artist Statement I spent the past few years feeling as if I am balancing on the fulcrum, much like the “rocking rider“who has emerged as the main subject in my recent paintings. The fulcrum point is the point where the lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots. I have spent the past few years living with challenges that included finding and balancing myself on the fulcrum and being prepared to swing my roll in different directions as needed, especially with constantly changing social climates. Personally, learning how to navigate a world as an immune-compromised individual in a world struggling with civility and beliefs in modern science. This year of my Appell fellowship, at Marketview arts and the Center for Community Engagement has been spent working with the public, and students, volunteering, making art, and Covid. Pressure and weight are always resting on one’s shoulders when you care about your actions. My body of work is based on my life experiences over the past few years. It is a diary of sorts. Paintings are based on pure emotions, and abstractions, focusing on the positive in this overwhelmingly negative world. I paint landscapes, people, and animals, how I view them and respond to the events that personally affect me. My goal is to evoke positive feelings. I use brilliant colors, found objects, dynamic lines, gold leaf, cut painted paper, and mica. These elements work together to inspire the viewer to see the brilliance still evident in this wild world. There are stories told between the colors and found objects, personal and complex responses to how I feel in these places or interact with the people that occupy them. I want to create a sense of brightness, revitalization, and excitement for the viewer despite the sometimes depressing and heavyweight we feel. Learning to enjoy the ride and pivot in response to difficult times and situations is important. This is about balancing the load or getting back on when you fall off the horse.

Curtis Doll

Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Glasswork, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts, 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, Visual Arts, 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, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts, 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: Literary Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Photography, Storytelling, Visual Arts

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 served as editor of the literary magazines Shaking Like a Mountain and Story. As a photography, I am interested 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 shoot portraits and commercial photography and teach creative writing at York College of Pennsylvania. At this time I am honored to hold the position of Poet Laureate of York.

Robert Hammer

Graphic Arts; Pen and Ink

Robert Hammer is a Wrightsville based artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art from Millersville State College in 1981. After graduating, he freelanced as a graphic artist for the College, designing and illustrating several school publications. He pursued a full-time career in the Graphic Arts field working at various printing companies in Lancaster, PA. He gained valuable work experience in many phases of commercial offset, web and screen printing. As a continuing education student at PCAD, he has widened his knowledge in digital print and web design. Recently he has pursued a fine art career by joining the York Art Association and participating in various art shows in the area.

Hollie Johns

Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 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. Hollie attended Maryland Institute College of Art where she gained a BFA in general fine arts, with a focus on photography and illustration. Although she now considers herself a painter, she 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 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. Since then she has worked for many local organizations teaching inner-city art classes and creating murals for Creative York(formerly YorkArts), The Salvation Army, The Lighthouse Children’s Home and several local urban gardens. She has helped start and run many art programs and yearly art festivals that still exist locally. Her love of helping other artists show and market their work took a new avenue this year when she opened Virtue Local Art Market in Hellam, PA with her husband and two friends. Together they are showing 45 local artists and crafters, working to start a Second Saturday Event in Hellam, Wrightsville and Columbia, and offering free space for artists, non-profits and children’s events to happen every Saturday from May-October.

Jessica Lee

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts, 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 member of the King’s Courtyard Artist Collective and exhibits her work at their gallery at 124 East King Street, York. She has also been a featured artist at i-ronic, Small Star Art House, York Blue Moon, Gallery @227, 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. She has participated in group and juried exhibitions at the York Art Association, Creative York, The Maryland Federation of Art, and more. 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. “Living with a mental illness and raising a son on the autism spectrum, much of my more personal and serious work expresses these challenges and raw emotions. I work intuitively to create an abstract visual language rich with mark-making, symbolic use of color, and infusing the work with intention.”

Leah Limpert Walt

Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts, 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.

Luz Marrero

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Painting, Performing Arts, Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Vocal, Works on paper; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Painting, Performing Arts, Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Vocal, Works on paper; body painting

I was born of very creative Puerto Rican parents in Reading Pa 1983, I have 4 younger sisters. My father was hired for a metal fabricating factory in York Pa on W. Philadelphia Street…and in 1993 we moved to York Pa. I attended Phineas Davis Elementary School, Hannah Penn, and William Penn H.S. graduate of 2002. After graduating I acquired several positions locally in the Non Profit world. As life unraveled before me so quickly I had also experienced becoming a mother of 3 sons, tried and failed at marriage and a few other hiccups in life. 2013 I took a leap of faith, and with my newborn child I embarked on an emprenueral adventure in the world of face painting. Between talent, personality, and social media, I gained major leads within the community events to keep me afloat, but face painting wasn’t enough for me, I learned the craft of henna tattooing and began experimenting painting on my drawings. After selling several pieces, I decided to add both henna tattooing and painting parties/workshops to my business. I am now going on 10 years of business, here in York Pa. I was a former artist in residence at The Parliament arts organization, I very recently have moved from there to a residence above a local vintage shop. I am still learning and growing but sharing the joy and love of art along the way. Thank you for taking the time to learn a little about ME. For a closer look at my work go to www.artistrydeluz.com

Missi McLaren Ritter

Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Literary Arts, Painting, Visual Arts

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

Visual Arts: Crafts, Jewelry, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor; Heritage or Cultural Fine Art/Crafts

These works are unique manifestations of my self working to integrate thoughts and experiences. Initiated by instinct, they be come my teacher. Line, rhythm, color, contrast, and composition reminding me my first language, making sense of complex emotions, memories, and intentions. Here I am, releasing them into the world or sending them to you. – JMc 2022 Jess McPherson is a multi-disciplinary fine artist, master artisan, and arts & culture strategist, born and raised in North Hopewell Township, York County, PA, currently residing in Spring Garden Township. She is a Native of the lower Susquehanna, a Susquehanna Indian of Shawnee and Pennsylvania German descent. Jess has worked professionally as an artist since 2004 focusing on fine art and fine craft. She has been invited by communities and cultural institutions to sell her unique hand-wrapped threadwork jewelry at festivals and events from New York to North Carolina. Jess’ work has recently been recognized by the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen as master quality work with a unique and innovative voice earning her the title of Master Artisan.

Christine Mercer-Vernon

Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts

Christine Mercer-Vernon is a contemporary painter living and working in south central Pennsylvania. Motivated by the beauty of nature, her paintings capture glimpses of fleeting moments. Visual reminders, not of beauty, but that nature is energetic, ever-changing, and impermanent—hopeful and symbolic reminders that we should live in the moment, no matter how brief it may be.

Liette Monic

Performing Arts: Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Vocal; Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Vocal; 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 Drinkut

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

——–Bio———- Sarah (Noble) Drinkut is a visual artist, who primarily works in oil paint and drawing. 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 pieces from our natural world painted as allegorical harbinger through painting. Interplay of abstraction and natural representation used in the paintings, juxtaposition of forms, along with nuance of color creates a coded personal narrative within each work. 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. ———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: Architectural Illustration, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Music, Painting, Performing Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Textiles, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Music, Painting, Performing Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Textiles, Visual Arts, 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’s recent works and current artistic discoveries can be seen on her Instagram at @fielstudio and @pfiel.

Troy Patterson

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Visual Arts, 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, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts, 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, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts, 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) 😉

Sergio Rengifo

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Film, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts

Sergio Rengifo (born September 9, 1988 in York, Pennsylvania), known professionally as Sergxo88. Sergxo88 is a Latin American artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career in 2015, initially painted in 2D abstract and later realized in digital and 3D like artworks. Some of his characters are his own creations while others are reworked versions of existing icons.

Ivy Rodgers

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

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