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Zack Gardner

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration

I work professionally as a graphic designer and freelance as a character artist / illustrator. I’m fluent in fantasy culture as well as tabletop gaming, an avid storyteller, father, husband, sometimes monster, and an overall nerd.

Lori Garling

Performing Arts: Dance; Ballet

Lori Garling has served the region as a professional dance educator, pageant coach and certified member of the prestigious National Registry of Dance Educators since 1982. Garling is a dance teacher, choreographer, private coach, musician, grant writer, designer of costumes and sets and a performing arts community leader. She has taught in the South Central PA region for over 30 years. She is a teacher of classical and contemporary ballet and also a freelance choreographer and teacher for area schools and colleges, health clubs, and musical theatre organizations. She is an arts advocate for the community of York. Lori Garling is an expert in the development of pre-professional dancers, and her passion is to bring all people to share and experience the love of dance. She believes that the arts matter, especially in the lives of children and that all children should have the chance to dance with no regard to their ability to pay.

Dizz Gavins

Graphic Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Film, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor

Duane Gavins Jr, primarily known as Dizz/Dizzuane, now 30 was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, and has been in York, PA since 2006. Dizz’s creative skills can be seen in many different mediums fusing in fashion, graphic design and fine art. His free flowing drippy style earned him the name “Dripped Gawd” by his peers. By creating his own lane he’s been able to work with several brands/artists including New Balance, PUMA, Levis & 21 Savage just to name a few. Dizz has Murals in the York, Lancaster, Columbia & Harrisburg area. Dating 2016-2022 “Unlimited Vibe”2017 Royal Square District, York (Sprocket Mural) “Melt” 2020, 28 S Dewberry St, Harrisburg (Sprocket Mural) “Free Flow”, 2022, Columbia Kettle Works (2nd floor), Columbia As a creative designer he finds himself merging creative ideas with business strategies to create branding. Creating collections of visual art including video, marketing, clothing and illustration. “Dripped Gawd Supply” – Clothing & Merchandise www.drippedgawd.com “DizzWasHere Studios” – Creative Solution Art Studio “Only Soxx” – Non-Profit Organization “Dummie Love Apparel” – Clothing & Merchandise Dizz often engages with younger artists to help share skills and experiences as an artist. Most recently leading classes to teach painting with Positive Energy Arts in York, 2021 and Digital Illustration with the Eat Brand in DC, 2022. Dizz also provides tutorials of creative ideas to peers on streaming platforms Twitch and Youtube. Starting in a small art community, Dizz worked to network and connect with individuals and groups outside the city to build connections to create more opportunities. These connections inspired his solo venture of creating his own sneaker in 2021 and collaborations with the York revolution in 2022. Here are a few examples of Dizz’s projects and events. Dripped Gawd Summer Art Tour – 2018 – Sponsored by DTLR & PUMA – This Pennsylvania area tour where Dizz traveled to York, Lancaster, Harrisburg and Chester PA. At these events, he led sip and paint classes for adults, live shoe painting & pop up shops. Black Lives Matter Mural – 2020 – Baltimore, MD – Street Mural painted in collaboration with Dizz and three other artists, he used his dripped style to create the word Matter in the mural. Dripped Gawd Sneaker Release – 2021 – Dizz designed and released his first signature shoe called “Hoop Dreams” for his brand Dripped Gawd. York Revolution Collaboration & Dripped Gawd Night – 2022 – Sponsored by Parliament Arts Organization. Dizz was blessed with the opportunity to design a collection of jerseys for the York Revolution baseball team collaborating with his brand Dripped Gawd. The jersey inspired an event called Dripped Gawd Night where the players and staff wore the designed jerseys & the jerseys were later auctioned off for charity. Mental Health Awareness Activity Book – 2022 – Sponsored by DTLR & Adidas. This activity books created by Dizz includes words of encouragement, coloring pages and gives children a way to explore mental health in a new way. His latest accomplishment is the opening of his studio in Columbia, Pa,2022. DizzwasHere studios is the creative hub for everything listed above. Feel free to contact Dizz if you have any questions-infodizzuane@gmail.com.

Blake Gifford

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Works on paper

I’m an architect, and I’ve lived and worked in downtown York for the last seven years. I serve on York’s Historic Architectural Review Board, on the York County History Center’s Building and Grounds Committee, and for the last year and a half I’ve been sharing my hand-drafted pencil-and-ink portraits of York’s historic buildings under the name York Architecture Illustrated. I grew up in a place called Cypress (a suburb of Houston, Texas) which, while originally mostly rural, was developed heavily and haphazardly through the late 1970’s into a series of planned suburban communities. Throughout my life, the environment around my home was changing so frequently that physical ties to community and history were often lost at a rate too quick for preservation. This regular feeling of loss – even grief – left me seeking a sense of place and shared identity that eventually led me to Pennsylvania, and later York. It was through living and working in York City that I arrived at a way that I could truly engage with the surrounding environment by combining my practical skills with my passion for preservation. I have some experience drawing in pencil and ink, and as an architect, I have a few years of hand-drafting classes under my belt. While this skill is no longer used in practice, it felt fitting to revive the techniques of historic architects to shine a contemporary light on York’s beauty, as well as return the favor to a place that has made me feel at home.

Kacie Gilgore

Visual Arts: Illustration, Printmaking, Works on paper

Hey there! I’m Kacie, but most people call me Kace. Born and raised in York, PA, my journey as an artist isn’t your typical story. I’m a self-taught artist, printmaker, and content creator with an intuitive approach that defines my work. My creative side came back to life serendipitously when I stumbled upon a block printing kit at a craft store during the turbulent days of 2020 – just days after buying my first house AND losing my full-time job. The printmaking process, and its satisfying carving techniques, became my meditation, saving my mental health and my life. I began sharing the journey on social media to help others feel that same peace – and the rest is history! With every piece I create, there’s an undercurrent of playfulness and depth—a nod to the American traditional tattoo aesthetics, yet filtered through my lens. As illukace, I merge “illustrate” with “Kace”, aiming to spark conversations, evoke emotions, or simply bring color to someone’s day. But beyond just making art, my mission is to spark creativity in others, so they can pursue their own creative journey. Each process, each video, and each story I share is an invitation to explore, to fail, to learn, and to create fearlessly. While my journey has had its share of ups and downs, it’s shaped my belief: art is transformative, and everyone deserves a canvas to share their story. I’m here, carving out mine, and I invite everyone and anyone to join me on the ride!

Andrea Gingerich

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Works on paper

Andrea Gingerich is a York, Pennsylvania artist and photographer with a background in environmental science. Her artwork often portrays nature in a whimsical, abstract form with bright colors, linework and patterns. All of her artwork is intuitive with no set plans in the creation process, which she finds to reduce stress and anxiety. Andrea enjoys being a maker more than a buyer to reduce her carbon footprint, save money and create something unique. Andrea is a caretaker for her 93-year-old grandfather from whom she has inherited her spirit of being prolific, adventurous and living each day as if it were her last. She believes in living several lifetimes’ worth of experiences within one lifetime. These experiences have influenced her artwork and the person she has become. Andrea loves being outdoors, traveling, learning and her two guinea pigs.

Austin Gingerich

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Storytelling; Visual Arts: Film, Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor; Creative Director, Community Builder, Producer, Connector

I’m Austin Gingerich, a co-founder of Silo Creative Community. 👋🏼 Silo creates environments that Creatives of all kinds feel safe in. We understand how important it is these days (and for young adults) to have places where they can be themselves through self-expression, connection, and experiential learning. Our goal is to activate that deep passion inside of people to follow their dreams of becoming an artist by ACTUALLY showing them that it is possible to attain their dreams and aspirations. Our “why” is simple. We were in the same place a lot of artists were in, not knowing how to break through the noise of social media and feeling lost on how to make an impact greater than ourselves in our community. We are in process of learning the ins and outs of creativity, burnout, and boundaries, right alongside everyone else — owning our shortcomings and turning them into teachable moments for ourselves and others. Behind it all is our mission is to build meaningful and sustainable community. We want to activate, empower, invest, equip, inspire, and give opportunities to those around us. There is power in being able to convert internet followers into in-person attendees, and we believe that comes from lifting eachother up. Over the 4 years we’ve had the pleasure of participating in community, we’ve amassed over 2,700 Instagram followers, held over 20 in person events, averaging above 60 attendees per tentpole event.

Rod Goelz

Performing Arts: Dance, Music, Vocal

Rod Goelz is a local musician who has “gone international” with his teaching methods. The Associated Press has called Rod a “Six-string surgeon.” He has been mentoring musicians and making great music for almost 30 years. A native of York, PA, Rod attended Berklee College of Music and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music Industry Studies from Millersville University. Rod has taught guitar, bass, drums, and mandolin to hundreds of musicians, and he is credited for his ability to creatively mix diverse areas of music, including hip-hop, funk, rock, country, metal, bluegrass, jazz, pop, reggae, and just about any style his students can think of. Known for his involvement with such diverse bands such as Paradise Movement and American Hollar, Rod is also the founder of Groove Jones, The Rod Goelz Project, and Boompop Coalition. Rod makes learning fun and exciting by tailoring his lessons to his students’ interests and goals. There is no Kumbaya in Rod’s studio. He meets his students where they are and journeys with them to nurture their unique musical voice. Rod brings his trademark sense of humor and ability to teach on the fly into session, making his online and in-person lessons feel more like a jam session than a rigid music class. Rod leverages his years of performance and teaching experience to build solid, confident, lifelong musicians.

Annalisa Gojmerac

Visual Arts

Pattern and predictability, color, motion, and time have always been consistent and iconic design communicators in my visual work. Permanence and fragility offer balancing counterweights in my messaging. My professional arts background (BFA- MICA, Johns Hopkins, MFA- Cranbrook, in printmaking, cartography and political science) currently functions in an environmental role as creator and steward, participant and observer. In this particular set of documentary photos, with self-grown artfully arranged organic vegetables, I exist as a joyful minx, as well as nostalgic record-keeper. I cleaned out poisoned soils for 30 years in Baltimore, Detroit and now York, creating cooling green spaces throughout urban heat islands, these now restored sites function as carbon sequestering banks and nutrition generators for people and creatures. Urban areas long neglected now provide pleasing vistas, healthy invigorating experiences, and introspective moments, where we are free to be amazed at often overlooked beauties of our natural world. Something as small as a beautifully shaped, colorful vegetable can hold the promise of a hopeful future, exist as a pleasing and whimsical visual art image, as well as signal loss and nostalgia for what we once took for granted. Seen here as art, the lowly common vegetable rises to an elevated role, as icon of a once thriving history, that promised a future. My work, when critiqued in this manner, functions as warning, enticement, and mournful trigger.

Chris Gold

Visual Arts: Painting

Chris Gold is a resident of York, PA who started painting later in life. Her creative journey began in 1999 when her daughter came home from school with a pot she made in her ceramics class. They began taking some private ceramics lessons and she discovered the joy of creating something functional from a lump of clay. After 15 years of being frustrated with the occasional unfixable failures coming from her kiln she felt she needed a different medium for her creative outlet. In addition, pottery did not allow for the degree of self expression she desired. As a child she grew up being fascinated watching her father paint with colorful, creamy oil paints, so she picked up a brush to try it for herself. Paint is now her chosen medium because it allows her the flexibility to change a work to suit her aesthetic through to completion. She also finds painting a better vehicle to express her appreciation of the God given feminine strength and beauty she finds in nature. Her art education is not a formal one, but rather gained by taking workshops and classes from local professionals. She paints in a range of genres including acrylic or mixed media abstracts as well as traditional and surrealistic landscapes. Now a retired nurse practitioner in women’s health, she has much more time to devote to the canvas and is showing her work in area galleries and online social media. She has been accepted into juried shows through the York Art Association and is showing work at the York Jewish Community Center, Ironic coffee bar and Parliament Art. She is a member of the York Art Association and a juried member of the Oil Painters of America.

Lola Gonzalez

Alcohol Ink

My name is Lola and I reside in York Pennsylvania. I am a self-taught artist who has put in many long nights trying to learn different techniques from watching videos, trial, and error as well as learning from other artists throughout the years. I am proof that it is never too late to follow your dreams! Thank you so much for following me on my ink journey.

Angela Gonzalez

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Storytelling, Theatre, Vocal; Visual Arts: Photography

Angela Gonzalez (She/Her/Hers), also known as Angela of York, is a photographer and performer currently based in New York City. With her photography work, she specializes in live performances and portraits. Her work has been awarded within the YorkFest Fine Arts Festival, presented through an exhibit at The Parliament Arts Organization, featured on York City Bus Stops, and graced El Periodico Vip’s cover. Angela is also working toward her BFA in The Performing Arts: Music Theatre at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Her most notable on-stage roles have been Daniela in “In The Heights”, for which her company was awarded Best Original/Creative Performance, and Marta in “Company”, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical.

Daniel Good

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Painting, Textiles; Painted furniture

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Freddie Graves

Media; Visual Arts: Film, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Photography

A 2014 MFA graduate from Maryland Institute College of the Arts (MICA), working throughout the York PA area. I focus on 3 main means of expression: Videography: From music videos to full length features provide the opportunity to explore the struggle inherent in relationships, dealing with the frailty of the mind and body, to campy fun. For the past 9 years I have been working on a docu- series called “Peeled”. “Peeled” provides a look into the world of Featured Performers. With in-depth interviews and dynamic performance video, see the struggles and triumphs of these traveling showgirls as they build careers in this highly competitive field. Issues discussed include Sex workers rights, racism in the industry, managing injuries, and loneliness while traveling. After the suicide of rising star Vayda Kiss, Peeled also sheds light on mental health and access to resources within this often misconceived community. Graves’ Black Box YouTube series, provides local artists and poets with free videos and promotion of their work. Photography: Most of my photography stems from his near death experience in 2012. Nude distorted human figures presented as a dysmorphic mosaics; and single light source photography, with completely black backgrounds, the figures absorb and emanate the light within and without. Mixed Media Sculpture: Using reclaimed and recycled materials, I attempt to make functional pieces that question the over-processing present in our consumer goods.

Timothy M Gregory

Performing Arts: Music; Visual Arts: Painting; Watercolorist

Timothy M Gregory creates unique abstract-realism watercolor paintings that capture the natural and surreal elements of our world. ”I approach watercolor painting by allowing the medium to do what it organically wants to do while encouraging it to capture my vision. This collaborative effort results in something that the painter alone cannot create. It is uniquely spontaneous and challenges oneself to accept what is beyond their control.” Creativity is essential to life. It is meditative. It provides a necessary balance and fluidity in a highly structured world. My creative expression has taken shape in many forms; playing & recording music, lyrics/poetry, pointillism, furniture making, pyrography, graphic design, wood carving, drawing, and painting. Each art form continually enhances the other.

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

Vito Grippi is a photographer, filmmaker, poet, and musician. He cofounded the literary journals, Shaking like a Mountain, and v cv magazine, teaches photography workshops, and is an instructor of creative writing at York College of Pennsylvania. He served as Poet Laureate of York from 2017-2020. Vito has spent much of his creative life searching for the intersection of where his multifaceted artistic approach, and his desire to fully communicate and express his emotions, finally become one. In many ways, his years of musical performance and his advanced education and exploration of creative writing are what have lead him to photography. His photography work blends documentary with the surreal to reach for the kind of truth only found when we are able to see past what is before us. The act of creation becomes an act of discovery and excavation. In that way, the photographic lens becomes a tool to not simply capture our surroundings, but to see the poetry that dances just under the surface and beyond the borders of each frame. His most current body of photographs, titled THIS IS DUST AND THIS AND THIS, has been part of multiple solo exhibitions and explores a common thread that bonds us in the human experience; we all return to dust. The project is an act of seeing, of reflecting, of accepting—an act of solidarity and a celebration with the absurd, mysterious, and whimsical moments happening around us. The photographs in this collection are a poem about you and me, about our ability to hold one another, about knowing that life is just one fleeting moment in a perpetual carousel. Additionally Vito continues to explore the ways in which visual, musical, and literary arts converge through the creation of short films/video, photo essays, and interactive or multi-sensory experiences. Most recently, he has begun the process of bringing a community dark room to the city of York to give film photographers and artists the ability to develop and print their own work and provide education and resources surrounding the craft of making photographs.

Brandon Gross

Visual Arts: Crafts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture

I’m a rebellious kid in a grown man’s body. My work is refined yet messy. I’m heavily influenced by cartoons, street art, 80s and 90s pop culture, horror iconography. I’ve been making legal street art in York City since the mid 2000s. I’ve painted murals all over the city, places like Reid Menzer skate park and the Revolution Stadium. I’m also a father of 2 daughters.

Judy Grupp

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

There is a box of 64 crayons in every one of my paintings. Those crayons are my first memory of making art, of going down the rabbit hole and giving life to my imagination. My favorite medium is colored pencils with collage coming in a close second. I am a mixed media artist in the truest sense. My painting style is a blend of realism and abstract, with an illustrative quality. Acrylic paint, colored pencils, and collage ephemera are my favorite materials. My art can be seen at Studio Gallery 234 in York, PA, and, Riverview Gallery in Havre de Grace MD. My paintings are conceptual, coming from the ideas living in my head transformed into art. Even though my paintings are planned and methodically created, it is still my imagination in the rabbit hole leading the way. My art is everything I wish I was in real life. I am the crayon box and my art is the magic that lives inside.

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