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Alison Rosen worked in the field of education and children's mental health. In her retirement she spends all of her time and money on art.
Brenda Leach is a jewelry artist, author, and arts educator with many years of experience teaching people of all ages. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches which engage multiple art forms. She earned the M.Ed. in Arts and Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and has studied jewelry design and fabrication at the Jewelry Arts Institute in NYC.
Cait Deane is a multimedia artist and a resident of Carlisle, PA. In 2017 she graduated from Arcadia University with a BA in Fine Art ceramics, and a minor in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship. Cait's primary artistic love is pottery, she specializes in surface decoration such as sgraffito, slip training, and carving into the clay. Cait has experience teaching both adults and children, and enjoys assisting students of all abilities as they navigate their creative journey.
Carol Reed is a natural dyer. She runs Dye Lab (www.dyelab.org) a natural dye studio and teaches courses in natural and indigo dyeing. Most of her dye material is sourced from her own dye garden or through connections with local farmers and community members. Her professional website is www.carolreed.org.
Demi Hauseman graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Masters in Art Education from Kutztown University. She retired from K-12 art education after thirty years. Currently, Demi works with bookmaking, recycled sculpture materials, clay, and fibers.
Dennis Baker is an experienced educator and photographer. Since completing a 35-year career in public education as a teacher and administrator. Dennis has worked as a free-lance photographer, photographed around the world, and has taught photography classes at several local institutions. Dennis is President of the West Shore Photography Club. His work is displayed on his website: www.dennisbakerphoto.com.
Ella works primarily with clay and actually learned how to throw at CALC almost 8 years ago. She teaches classes like the Wheel Workshop, Teapots, and Play with Clay. Ella is mostly interested in making functional ware and makes her pots at her home studio here in Carlisle, PA.
Photo by Sarah Shatz
Ellie Park is a former teacher and current change management consultant who fell in love with the pottery wheel at CALC. When she’s not running her two children here, there, and everywhere, she spends her time elbow-deep in mud, both at CALC and at her small home studio, “Two Hands Pottery.” A passionate teacher, Ellie loves to work with students of any age or ability level. There is nothing at all like using a little pot you made with your own two hands every day!
Jeanney Wharton, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a Specialization in Graphic and On-line Design from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. Originally from the bayous of southern Louisiana. My career path has been diverse but my favorite and most rewarding experiences have been owning and operating a small gallery/frame shop, being a commercial graphic designer and evolving as an artist that can’t decide which medium is my favorite. Jeanney enjoys creating mosaics, stained glass, jewelry, clay, acrylics, watercolor, oils, sculpture, paper art… the list goes on.
Jóh Ricci is an artist working in a variety of fiber techniques including, although not limited to, crochet, weaving and knotting. Her passion began at an early age when a Great Aunt taught her how to create fabric using yarn, her hands and a crochet hook. As a freshman in college, a weaving class was chosen which sparked a creativity to pursue and earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.
Jóh is self taught in many of the techniques she currently uses and continually challenges herself in expressing a creative voice by creating one of a kind works of art.
John Guarnera is a ceramic artist who uses various firing types; low fire oxidation and primitive pit fire along with 23K gold gilding and occasionally acrylic or oil paints are utilized separately and in combination. Completed spontaneously from prepared slabs, thrown elements are taken apart and rearranged in a wholly different direction.
After spending 13 years living abroad, Kara is back in the US with her husband and young kids. Personal family tragedy and a venture into art journaling brought her back to the artistic passions of her youth. She now brings groups of people together to express their life journeys through mixed media art. Her motto is that "joy and sorrow can be held together"; one doesn't have to negate the other. You can find her swimming, hosting friends in their hundred-year-old home, visiting local playgrounds, and meeting all the foreigners in Carlisle.
Lea Anne McGoldrick is an art educator with over 20 year’s experience working at local schools, day camps, workshops and cyber schools. She graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Art Education and minor in Photography. She has taught ”School’s Out Art’s In” classes and children summer camps at CALC.
Lea Anne has been active in the local art scene by participating in the Harrisburg Mural Fest and other community events. Her artistic love of pottery was reignited after attending a CALC class and has since participated in Surface Design and Raku classes.
Lina Ferrara has a bachelor’s degree from PSU and has pursued post graduate study in art history and Italian at Bucknell University. During one of several visits to Florence, she studied gilding and furniture painting in the grotessca style popularized by Raphael. She conducts workshops across the US both privately and for conferences such as for the Heart of Ohio Art Convention and the World of Color Expo in VA
The Society of Decorative Painters designated Ferrara as a Certified Decorative Artist and she has received the district star award as a Liquitex Certified Instructor. Additionally, her work has been featured on several publications including The Decorative Painter, Painting, and Paintworks. Ferrara is a member of the Lewisburg Artist Guild, SVPAP, Oil Painters of America, and the Society of Decorative Painters and served on its board of directors.
Linda Young, a Pennsylvania-based artist, is known for her impressionistic yet modern watercolor paintings that capture the world around her. Her soft palette is complemented by the occasional bright pop of color, layers of transparent paint creating depth. The artist’s choices are planned in advance and mood. Through her gestural brushstrokes, Linda’s paintings bring back happy memories of home sitting around the kitchen table watching her mother doodle on scrap paper as dinner was cooking on the stove. Her style is nuanced by a range of inspirations, including landscape and still life. Linda works from her home studio with a fireplace, lots of natural light and a variety of music playing in the background. Her flower garden is a constant inspiration. Depending on the subject, her paintings create a sense of place and calm in a recognizable subject and an imaginative visual experience.
Linda ‘s main focus is watercolor but the use of other mediums such as acrylic, alcohol inks and oil pastel in her paintings may be present.
Lori Cropper graduated from Kutztown University of PA with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design. She has taught many drawing classes over the years as well as private drawing lessons. Her specialty is drawing people and animals in colored pencils, but she also loves doing stippling.
Maureen Joyce is a ceramic artist native to Pittsburgh now residing in Carlisle PA. When living in the Asheville, NC area she rekindled her love for clay and alternative firing processes. While the human face and figure are commonly sculpted in her work, she also makes functional ceramic ware. She directs a creative program for Survivors of Suicide Loss and, along with co-curator Carrie Breschi an upcoming exhibit, “i’m fine.” This is a community engaged project dedicated to sculpting mental health awareness and support.
Michele Randall is an American artist. She explores the lasting impact of cultural narratives written for women during the past century. Her work incorporates abstract narrative, and abstract elements.
Randall is an instructor, conducting regular workshops in encaustic and cyanotype printmaking both virtually and in person. She currently lives and work in Pennsylvania. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Penn State and Susquehanna University.
Mo Geiger is an interdisciplinary artist. She is an active proponent of experiential learning and collaboration, and she creates work using a local, context-specific approach. Spanning multiple genres and media, her projects have been produced and shown in art galleries, museums, theaters, artist residencies, local organizations, and a variety of public and unconventional spaces. More information about her work can be found here.
Rachael Fahnestock has an associates degree in Graphic Design from Harrisburg Area Community College. Jewelry design and handcrafting jewelry became a hobby later in her life and she now enjoys it as a full time profession.
Sarah Kersh is an experienced educator who has been throwing functional ceramics since 2005. She lives in Carlisle with her family.
Scott Meier received his BFA in Illustration from the University of Hartford. Scott later took a workshop with portrait artist Daniel Greene. Having done book cover illustrations, Scott turned to portraiture and did portrait commissions across the country. Scott works from his studio in Central Pennsylvania and has taught figure drawing at the Art Association of Harrisburg and has given portrait painting demonstrations for various art groups. Scott’s work can be seen at MeierArt.com.
Sue Marrazzo is an award-winning experimental artist who works in collage, mixed media, acrylic, sculpture, printmaking, and encaustic painting. Sue’s art tends to be influenced by fashion, interior design, and art history. She believes, “Art is about learning to see.” Sue’s strengths as an artist are with color theory and composition. She describes her art as: “Bold, Colorful, Experimental, and Individualistic.”
Traer is a Nebraska native. She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
She moved to Carlisle with her husband Allen, and they have resided in Carlisle with their three boys for almost two decades.
She has worked in various forms of art including home decor and design. She also owned her own vintage and home decor store, Feathers in the Nest, for eight years in Carlisle, before its closing.
Currently Traer enjoys teaching art to children, decorating her home, and building her own artistic skills in various mediums.
Traer is also an avid world traveler, and enjoys taking groups of women to Paris, France.
You can follow along with her @traerloves instagram or traerloves.com
Brooke is a ceramic artist and potter living in Carlisle. She lives in town with her husband and 2 pups. Brooke received a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Therapy with a minor in ceramics, from Marywood University in 2015. She has an art studio next door to CALC at The Pond and her art celebrates movement and fluidity through wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramic wares. She sells her pottery and her husband’s woodworking creations through their small business called Humble Hand Co. Brooke teaches wheel throwing and hand building clay classes, and she is also the Ceramics Coordinator at CALC.