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  • Kwame Katana
    Kwame Katana
    Performing Arts: Music, Vocal
    I go by the name of Kwame Katana. I am a recording artist from York city. I have been a positive and very influential figure in the York City community for over 10 years. I graduated from Millersville University with a bachelors degree in business marketing. I am very well known in the “717” central Pennsylvania area. I have over 15 millions youtube views, I have over 2 million streams on Spotify, I also have over 2 million streams on Apple Music and I have over 1 million streams on soundcloud. September of last year my single “Don’t Get Scared Now” was playing on national television on the BET network. I was in rotation for approximately 3 months. YDR did a front page article about it. I have released 6 full length studio albums. Every time I release an album I sell physical copies in the community. I have sold over 15,000 copies of my albums during the last 5 years. I take pictures with everyone in the community that purchase any of my albums and you can see that on my Facebook account. I have hundreds of pictures with people of all ages, and races in the York city  area. My most recent album “If Not Me Then Who” was released on July 29th of this year, I also released t-shirts and hats with my album that did very well. I sold over 300 t shirts and over 700 physical copies of my latest album. I took pictures with majority of the people who bought my album and T- shirts which can be seen on my facebook. I’m a independent artist I do everything myself, and i do music full time
  • Sterling Keesey
    Sterling Keesey
    I’m a self taught painter and a musician/lead guitar in the local band, Fever and the Thrill.  I have been painting for the last 4 years.  During my journey as a musician, I realized I needed another outlet to express the other side of my creativity.  In doing so, I have accomplished showing my work in local galleries around York including King’s Courtyard, Parliament, Gallery 110 and Gallery 227.  My techniques include traditional and Dutch wet on wet painting.  My work is an extension of myself, expressing my moods, feelings and dreams.
  • Monique Kelly
    Monique Kelly
    Visual Arts: Mixed Media
    About me … I have had no “formal” art training, aside from the lessons learned from life and tragedy. I’ll back up a little, but promise to keep it brief. My sister is the one with the artistic talents and art degree in fashion from FIT. My talents were more along the human services line as I taught special education for many years. As we know, life takes many turns. My sister is now an OR nurse and I, well, I work in the medical field but my passion is creating…art. After the loss of my best friend and business partner, many years ago, I carried on with business as usual (although it grew increasingly hard as a one woman show) Something “gave” about 4 years later. I was visiting my home town of Newport, Rhode Island, looking at a piece of property I could only imagine owning in my dreams, and I suddenly felt like I was hit by a boat load of gratitude. Out of nowhere, I felt grateful for the beautiful city I grew up in, for the opportunity to have had my senior prom at the Rosecliff Mansion.  I thought that the winding weeds on the side of the rotting tree next to me looked sculptural and beautiful. As I was still mourning the death of my best friend, the mourning turned into gratitude. I knew in an instant that I was so very fortunate to have had him in my life and that I would cherish that friendship forever. I felt happy and invigorated. I started to look at things differently I started to “see” them differently. Over the next few years I was really into photography. When you look through the lens of a camera, you naturally see things from a different perspective. I started to see everything that way, without the lens of the camera. I was finding myself appreciating everything. EVERYTHING! From the mud on my boots to the water I used to brush my teeth. I was no longer irritated by things like traffic, a slow driver, someone preaching on the street…it’s all in how you see things. The mud on my boots meant I had boots to wear and I could walk in the dirt. That slow driver might be a new or nervous driver or someone who was lost. Or that person on the street, preaching whatever it was to whoever was around, realizing that it has nothing to do with the content being preached, but more about the human soul on fire. The PASSION! Fast forward to present day. I’ve always been attracted to flea markets, vintage items, the exciting find on the curb waiting to be rescued and given new life, or as my husband simplifies, I’ve always been attracted to JUNK.  (Hmm, he really should think about that for a minute.) Being able to see things and appreciate them immediately for what they are, rusty, slightly imperfect, not quite as good as new or a diamond in the rough,(kind of like the people in our lives) . Hopefully we appreciate the people and life experiences we encounter, as it’s our experiences that make us who we are meant to be. Since my life changing revelation of gratitude, my art has been thrust to the forefront of my life. I now see the aged and decaying items for what they can be…the beauty is just beneath the surface. In using found objects to create my art pieces, I bring forth a new purpose for the once discarded items and birth an “upcycled soul”. Much like the experiences and people in my life have upcycled my soul.
  • Kristin Kest
    Kristin Kest
    Visual Arts: Ceramics, Illustration, Painting, Sculpture
    The focus of my work has always been squarely located in the natural world. I’ve been an illustrator doing botanical work for over 30 years and in that time I have moved fluidly between science markets and product design, dropping into serious fine art painting with figurative and feminist themes. What holds all of these together is a penchant for storytelling with an understanding that the magic of the story doesn’t negate the real world. What I have found is that by exploring the real world with a keen observation, the inherent magic in it is revealed. My ceramic work is an offshoot of the work I’ve done as a illustrator of the real and fantastic. Bas relief, in particular, scratches my itch for working in a pictorial space; it is another opportunity to tell a human story from the lens of my perspective. I have often wondered about the unique phenomenon that is Art, and humanity’s drive to create it, to have it. It seems to me that Art is just a wild spore, a seed of “the magic” which allows humans to be part of the living force of the natural world. We desire to connect, to feel awe, wonderment, and beauty about our very individual, yet shared human experiences and those feelings are what drive our definitively human existence. It is the artist’s job, then, to leverage open that door as wide as we can to whatever realm of magic we can see and to invite everyone in. I lead a quiet life in the woods, in a 250 year old log house with my wife and 2 cats.
  • B. Jean Klinedinst
    B. Jean Klinedinst
    Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Jewelry, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper
    Jean has done art and creative things all of her life. Since a small girl she has created head turning and award-winning pieces of art. She attended 3 years at York County Vocational-Technical School where she graduated. She then attended 3 years at Pennsylvania School of the Arts in Marietta, Pennsylvania, majoring in Commercial Art & Photography. She has worked as a freelance artist for most of her life as well as worked at various commercial graphics businesses in the York & Lancaster area before starting Jestek Custom Graphics with her husband Steve in 1997. While much of what is done at Jestek is commercial in nature, Jean over time has reached back to her freelance artist roots and is offering her unique and creative art skills for hire for commission art jobs. Jestek gives her the opportunity to blend commercial processes and her original art as well. She is also putting her art out to galleries in the area for display and available for purchase. Jean is also offering private art lessons or small group instructional gatherings. Get one on one attention in an art technique that interests you. Or just make time with your friends to do something relaxing and artistic. ​She really enjoys teaching techniques in drawing, acrylics, watercolor, garment painting/embellishing, mixed media, crafts, and more.
  • Mia Kraft
    Mia Kraft
    Visual Arts: Glasswork
    My name is Mia and I am the sole owner and operator of my own small Queer Stained Glass business, Wild Flower Glassworks. We believe in producing quality glasswork that is affordable and accessible. I started my business in late 2019, after spending 17 years helping my mother with her own Stained Glass business. My mother started her business in 2002 and because of that I absorbed and learned the craft from helping her at events, shows and later at her physical location in our home town of Red Lion. Since then I’ve been working to discover my artistic voice and perfecting my skills. While I have always felt creative, glass in a medium in which I feel that I am an artist. I’ve been able to experience the excitement of making a piece of art, one that not everyone can make as easily. I’ve now learned that stained glass is not a hard art to do, it’s hard to get good at. It took me a full year to  truly improve my soldering, arguably the most important part of the stained glass process. With each piece, I learned how to design better pieces, pick better color palettes and play around with the medium of glass. I find that I enjoy the aspect of turning primarily paintings or photographs into glass. Playing with how I can simplify a landscape and still allow it to be recognizable to the viewer. Nothing worse than hearing someone say they don’t know what they are looking at.
  • Michelle Kreeger
    Michelle Kreeger
    Literary Arts
    Though I am a local business owner, my original path, many years ago, was to pursue a MFA in Creative Writing.  Life happened, though, and I graduated undergrad and headed to work. The past few years, I’ve been working to reignite my creative passions. To this end, I have been working on expanding my past works.  My goal is a full length, published book. My writing has run the gamut, but leans toward characters striving for self discovery.
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