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Sam Halterman

I have been making art my entire life, but it wasn’t until high school that I realized it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I attended Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and graduated with a BFA in illustration in 2017. Since then my art has been changing and developing into what it is now. I love painting and drawing anything botanical (especially mushrooms) and creating surreal illustrations. I love making art accessible. Aside from having prints and originals, I also love making stickers and other smaller pieces (like keychains, magnets, and pins) as well as handmade sketchbooks with hand painted covers! Creativity is such a huge and important part of my life, and I want to share it with the world!

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.

Heath Hardin

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Music, Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Performers and Writers; Furniture

Utlilizing my 20-plus years as an educator and writer, this summer I am teaching a Creative Writing class at Windy Hill Senior Center. I am encouraging these seniors to create, share and embrace the amazing stories of their lives. I was raised for much of my life in Southern York County . My music , art, poetry and furniture draws heavily from my experiences here: the rural landscapes, the farms, the woods and streams. The gritty people who inhabit this beautiful area of Pennsylvania inspire me. I am a blues and Americana musician and perform under the name Olds Sleeper. My music is a mix of originals that draws from Delta blues, old country, folk and Americana. I have released over 20 albums of music that reflects my experiences in this region. My music can be found @ www.oldssleeper.bandcamp.com I have been featured on WITF as an artist of the month https://www.witf.org/2017/03/09/witf_music_olds_and_the_absolution/ , have been nominated as an artist of the year by Saving Country Music, (https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/?s=olds+sleeper) I was also featured as an emerging artist at the 2018 Susquehanna Folk Music Festival. I play extensively over the Lancaster/York/Gettysburg area. I will playing this October as part of the Parliament arts Courtyard Concert series. Also, this year I was honored to be included as part of The Kable House concert series in York. Over the past few years, I have played regularly at The King George Speakeasy, Wyndridge Farm, The GarryOwen in Gettysburg, and I also host a monthly show at Stoll and Wolfe distillery in Lititz, Pa. I love this region, and feel as though music helps me connect with many diverse characters. As an avid photographer, my work tends to focus on farm animals and the rural surroundings of York and Lancaster, Co. I love long drives with no plan. I also design and build primitive, one-of-a-kind furniture pieces inspired by German woodworking and Shaker styles. I used upcycled barn wood and reclaimed lumber to produce benches, hanging boxes, small cabinets and rustic frames. These pieces are never the same and are sold locally. I love to pour myself into creative endeavors, and I feel an obligation to share and encourage others to pursue their creative passions. I love the “chase” of art and music, and am always waiting for the next idea to drop.

Steven Heffner

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts

Doug Henderson

I dream big, I love hard, I believe in people, I am insatiably curious. My filmmaking career is difficult to summarize. I’ve worked on nearly 100 narrative film projects and approaching 300 corporate and commercial videos. The nature of my work has spanned from being a Production Assistant on student films to producing and directing feature films for international distribution. Filmmaking is a team sport, and I am in love with he process of creating and telling stories as part of a team. Whether I am directing the project, setting up the lighting, or performing as an actor, the thing I love most is collaborating with people that I know, like, and respect with the goal of creating something bigger than any of us could have created on our own. In addition to my personal goals, I am passionate about building the film industry in York. I’ve volunteered time and resources to the York Film Office, created educational internships for students, worked with tentpole organizations in our community to advance filmmaking initiatives and advocate for legislative reform, and am currently in negotiations with two local colleges to bolster their film programs.

Scott Higgins

Visual Arts: Illustration, Visual Arts, Works on paper; Charcoal

I’m a York PA based artist who grew up in Lancaster and have been an artist practically my entire life. When I was seven years old I remember my first drawing being put on the refrigerator (it was a race car speeding to the finish line!) I felt so proud and that is the exact moment when my art career began. I find daily inspiration in my pets and how they make me feel. I attended the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster and majored in Illustration. This is the first place where I was introduced to Vine Charcoal, my preferred medium. I regularly participates in art markets in York and Lancaster where I sells prints of my work as well as original pieces. I’ve participated in several group shows at Mulberry Art Studios where I was awarded Best in Show in 2019 and 2020. I was also featured at Mulberry Art Studio in a solo exhibit in December of 2019.

Mallory Hoffman

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts, Works on paper; Watercolor

I am a watercolor artist who loves to blend colors together. My paintings are fun, whimsical and inpsiring. I tend t0 use dark humor in some of my works.

Steph Holmes

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts

I make art about empathy. There is little difference between the miraculous structures of our lungs, lungs which move every few seconds to pull life-giving oxygen into our bodies, and the systems that keep a tiny beetle living and breathing. The beetle’s life is fragile, like our own. The joy it feels is real joy and the suffering it feels is real suffering. In fact, everything feels fresh and fragile and full of stories, and this sense of empathy is poured into everything I create. York Crafted Presentation: Art and Exploring the Self

Rob Homan

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Visual Arts

Rob’s always been fascinated with the grain patterns in wood and loves the material because it’s versatile, durable and soulful – so this is the medium he always gravitates to. His journey working with wood has taken a scenic route, trying all the ways to shape and repurpose wood, but ultimately found that carving is his preferred method. He has an equal affinity for home cooking, so the first thing he was meant to carve was a wooden spoon. Over a few years, his woodcarving grew into other cooking utensils, fruit bowls, cutting boards, small tables and stools. As much as he loves making functional wooden objects, he was eager to do something larger and with a different expression. Rob recently found inspiration in his Polish heritage – not only in cooking, but in the folk art and designs. Wycinanki (paper cutting/layering) and Pysanky (beeswax designs on dyed eggs) are two vibrant art forms that resonated immediately because he saw his grandmother doing this when he was young. Using the traditional folk art as inspiration, he decided to take his own approach by carving these designs out of wood and at a much larger scale. Wood tones are beautiful, but they are muted earth tones. Rob wanted to get those bright colors used in wycinanki into these pieces, so he began experimenting with acrylic and spray paint to contrast the wood grain and texture.

Penelope Hornock

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor

I am a painter whose work focuses upon the landscapes of paths travelled by location and interpretation. Important to my work is how light evidences form by its revelation of surface qualities in layers. My joy is sharing the experiences of observation , location and cross cultural contexts in the places where I travel. I endeavor to use formal qualities of observation to express myself in the visual language and medium of my choice.

Camille M Hunt

Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts

Hello! Thank you so much for checking out my work! I’m a self taught Artist specializing in pet portraits. I love animals and I love art so it all just kind of came together. I was born with a burning desire to draw, paint, and create. I’m forever grateful to my mother, who is also an artist, to nurture my creativity throughout my life. I’ve been fortunate enough in my career as a freelancing artist that I am able to paint pet portrait commissions full time. While I love pet portraits, I am also dedicated to learning new techniques and mastering new subjects to continue to flourish my art career and broaden my horizon’s. I am excited each new day to see where my creativity takes me and to have endless possibilities unfold.

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