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Tony Bonazzi

Tony BonazziTony Bonazzi is a graduate of Vesper George School of Art in Boston and had Robert Douglas Hunter and Robert Cormier, two distinguished artists from the Copley Society in Boston, as his instructors.

A graphics professional for 23 years, Tony has been employed as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, a technical illustrator, a production artist, a graphic designer, a Photoshop specialist, a web designer and an art director. He currently is employed as a graphic designer/prep person with The Menu Company, a subsidary of Clipper Magazine.

Six years ago, Tony started showing his work in galleries and being more involved in the art community. He works in pencil, pen & ink and watercolor. Originally from Massachusetts, Tony and his wife, Jody, moved to Lancaster County three years ago.

Virginia Caputo

Virginia Caputo, instructor of Computers & the Internet: Tools for ArtistsGinny is a fine art photographer who uses both traditional and digital means of creating images for print and the internet. She designs and maintains several websites including the LCAA's. and uses computers and the internet regularly for research, communication, business, artistic, and personal projects.

The recipient of many awards nationwide for her traditional film based photography and her creative camera-less images, Ginny is the President of the LCAA.

George Clark

George Clark: Collage and Watercolor InstructorGeorge has won numerous prizes at both the Lancaster and York Art Associations for his watercolors and collages. In 2005 he won three prizes in the Philadelphia Watercolor Show and the Rottler Award at the York Art Association.

He was featured in Watercolor Magic Magazine as one of 10 artists in the United States to watch. In 2006 he won the Gracie Award and Best of Show at the International Society of Experimental Artists. He will be included in the March 2008 issue of Artist Magazines’ Artist over 60 feature.

He is a signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Baltimore Watercolor Society and the Philadelphia Watercolor Society and a candidate member of the International Society of Experimental Artists. An active instructor, he has been sharing his knowledge and talents with students at the LCAA as well as at other arts organizations, high schools, and a retirement community for several years. Many of his students have gone on to win prizes and earn signature memberships in various societies.

John Esworthy

A multitalented artist, John paints in all media, carves wood, and creates stained glass objects and mobiles. He has taught the art of stained glass at the LCAA, at the Octorara Art Association, at the Octorara High School in the evening, at several senior organizations, and in his own studio over the past 25 years. He has been painting for more than 47 years. His curiosity has inspired him to research all things of a fine art nature.

Linda Gaston

Linda Gaston: Watercolor InstructorLinda graduated from Penn State in Art Education and continued with graduate level courses in painting and education studies at Purdue.

Teaching on a private level followed naturally, and for fifteen years she taught classes in her home, averaging about 20 to 25 students a week, ranging in age from 10 to 20 years. During those same years she taught adult classes through the local school system, and taught classes at the local art association and at a local gallery.

Maret Headley

Maret Headley, PMC InstructorMaret is a PMC (Precious Metal Clay) artisan and instructor certified by both PMC Connection and Rio Grande, and is a member of the PMC Guild, the Chesapeake PMC Chapter (mid-Atlantic region) and the New Jersey PMC Chapter. She teaches PMC Workshops year round in the Delaware Valley.

Maret studied fine art at Ohio University and commercial art at the University of Cincinnati. She has worked creatively in the marketing field for 29 years, most recently at Winterthur Museum, where she was Creative Director and Direction of Production.

Maret also serves on the Junior Board of Christiana Care in Wilmington and the Board of the Philadelphia Chapter of Ikebana International.

Carol Herr

Carol Herr: Painting Instructor & LCAA Exhibit ChairCarol is an award winning artist, well known for her impressionistic landscape oil paintings. Her work is in both corporate and private collections across the United States and abroad. A graduate of the York Academy of Art where she majored in Fine Art, she also studied at the Art Students’ League in New York. Carol has been teaching painting to all ages and skill levels for the past 25 years.

Carol is the Head of the Exhibit Committee at the LCAA and teaches classes in painting with oils and acrylics.

Roy Hershey

Roy Hershey: LCAA pottery instructorRoy is a well-known master potter from Lancaster County. He received his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute where Ken Ferguson was his teacher and mentor. In 1991 Roy received his MFA at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He uses creative methods and unique glazes to create stunning ceramics. He teaches classes in the art of throwing pots and working with clay.

Barbara Keen

Barbara Keen: Stained Glass InstructorBackground: As a retired educator without formal art education degrees, Barbara teaches to share her enjoyment of stained glass. A Lancaster County resident for 40 years, her education in the glass art forms started through a class at HACC, and continued with classes at Hour Glass Studio in Manheim, Rainbow Vision Stained Glass in Harrisburg, and LACC. She works with Tiffany-style stained glass for herself and others in her Millersville home.

Artist Philosophy: "Working with stained glass gives me the opportunity to use color, texture, shape, mass, and light flow, yielding an art form that appears to be possibly solid or liquid. Stained glass can be enjoyed by many people, with their sensual interpretations varying with the flow of light."

Dianne M. Miller

Dianne M. MillerDianne Miller began beading jewelry many moons ago, as a child. Back then, her "creations" of wire, beads and bits of fabric and thread resembled bugs more than actual jewelry. Then, in 2000, while watching Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, while looking at the jewelry a couple of the actresses were wearing, she thought, “gee, I could make that.” So she did. Then she made some more, and some more. Then she took some classes, read some books and made more and more and more and . . . you get the picture.

The thing about beads that intrigues her most is that beads are the oldest way of adorning humans known to man. It is the first accomplishment of man that did not have a functional purpose other than the simple enjoyment of something beautiful. Beads have been around for many thousands of years and part of what she enjoys about creating jewelry is the long legacy that entails.

Her work can be found on her web site at www.capitalwjewelry.com

Kate MylinKate Mylin

Kate hopes to ignite creativity in young children through gentle encouragement and practicing basic skills. Children's fine motor skills are honed as they discipliine themselves to draw in their sketchbook regularly. Kate earned her Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood & Elementary Education from Kutztown University. Since 1997 she has helped to direct Masterpiece Art. Sam and Kate Mylin are currently educational support staff at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington.

Sam Mylin

The founder and director of Sam Mylin: LCAA InstructorMasterpiece Art, a business which seeks to serve people by igniting creativity & developing relationships, Sam Mylin is a graduate of the Antonelli Institute of Art and has been a working artist since 1981. He is a graphic design artist with a concentration in Commercial and Fine Art and holds an Associates degree in Technical Art. Sam and his wife, Kate, are part of the educational support staff at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington.

Sam has been teaching home schooled children in and around Lancaster County for a decade. He has created numerous children's shows, has Art Clubs throughout Lancaster County including the Pink Flamingo Club at the LCAA and teaches adult art classes.

Sam enjoys baseball, cartooning and drawing with kids. He is a freelance artist who teaches the Basic Elements of Design to everyone who can push a pencil! He teaches art in Home Schooling classes at the LCAA. He also offers classes in Cartooning and Drawing (The Control of the Pencil) and offers Summer Art Camp at the Association.

Mary Beth Shenk

Mary Beth ShenkMary Beth has had a diverse career as a professional artist. After earning a BFA from Kutztown University, she worked as an artist for an exhibit house and a printer. She freelanced for many years as a calligrapher and a product and fashion illustrator. Mary Beth has painted murals as her main occupation since 1992. The past few years have seen an increase in commissioned paintings in acrylic and watercolor. She has taught adult calligraphy and drawing classes through several organizations.

Steve WilsonSteve Wilson

Steve received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kutztown State College in 1981 in Communications Design. Steve has had his own Graphic Design and Illustration business for 14 years. He is a member of many watercolor Associations, being a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society. His love of the outdoors and sense of design and light is evident in his work. He offers workshops in watercolor at the LCAA.