The Lancaster County Art AssociationInstructors
Tony Bonazzi
Tony 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 25 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.
Seven 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 six years ago.
Virginia Caputo
Ginny 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 a past president of the LCAA.
George Clark
George 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 was 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.
Carolyn Coyle
Carolyn is an exhibiting artist who has drawn and painted for many years. She has attended Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster. She received her Certificate of Fine Art and her Master of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
In addition to teaching pastel class at LCAA, she has taught art in an Adult Education program as well as intergenerational drawing and painting in private classes. Carolyn has also done portraits and illustration work on commission.
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.
Karen Frattali
Karen Frattali has been a fine arts watercolorist for twenty years in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Following a number of years in the field of education, she studied drawing and painting at Philadelphia College of Art and the Delaware Museum of Art.
She has taken workshops worldwide and has studied informally with a number of accomplished painters from her area. She has participated in dozens of annual juried exhibitions and has been affiliated with a number of galleries. Her paintings are in many private collections across the country and a small sampling can be viewed on the internet at www.boundlessgallery.com.
Francine Fox
Francine Fox is an exhibiting artist who works in the mediums of oil, watercolor, graphite and ink. Through the integration of the figure, animals, tattoos, mazes, conjoined bodies and conjoined worlds she creates images that both question and adhere to the mingling of identity philosophies. She received her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Delaware and her BFA in painting from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
She currently teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, is a member of the New Wilmington Art Association and her artwork is carried by Kenise Barnes Fine Art of Larchmont, New York ( www.KBFA.com). For more information on Francine Fox and to view images of her artwork please visit her website at www.francinefox.net.
Linda Gaston
Linda 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.
Brad Gebhart
Brad Gehhart is an award-winning artist with work in private and public collections around the world.
Mr. Gebhart graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg Virginia. He continued his education in Graphic Design and Illustration at the Maryland College of Art and Design and began his master’s education at Arizona State University in Tempe Arizona. He is a painter, cartoonist and muralist. In his career as an artist he has worked with the National Gallery of Art, the Phoenix Art Museum and the Phoenix Art Institute. His design experience includes working for the Neiman Group, Veda Design Group and El Pregonero Newspaper.
Mr. Gebhart helped write film and produce radio and television commercials for Univision, Radio Mundo and Radio Viva. He created, developed and managed the A.R.T. (Artists Resisting Tobacco) Show, an annual event that brought together professional artists, youth and the arts community to present art depicting the dangers of tobacco. In addition he was Editor in Chief of the “Nicotiana Tabacum Chronicles” an anti-tobacco comic book.
He has published two other comic books: “Netman” and the “Adventures of Two Guys”. He was instrumental in developing the first A.R.T. Video contest in coordination with the Phoenix Art Institute, a county wide event for students.
Maret Headley
Maret 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. Her work can be viewed online at www.maretheadleydesign.com.
Carol Herr
Carol 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 LCAA's Gallery Director. She also is the head of the Exhibit Committee, co-chairs the Instruction Committee and teaches classes in painting with oils and acrylics.
Richard Huck
Richard Huck has been exhibiting his drawings on an international level for close to 30 years. Beyond the "Best of Colored Pencil" series his work has been published in several books and magazines including "Outstanding American Illustrators", "The Society of Illustrators Annual" and "Art Visionary" magazine.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Colored Pencil Society of America's prestigious "Cippy Award" for his colored pencil work. He has been teaching art on the high school level since his graduation from Millersville University. He has also been working as a free-lance illustrator and designer in addition to his fine art.
Barbara Keen
Background: 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."
Samantha McClusky
Samantha McClusky moved here recently from Colorado, where she had been an artist and art educator. She has three degrees; a BA in graphic art, a BFA in painting, and a MA in art education. She went to art school in England and Denver, CO.
Samantha is an avid painter, her medium being acrylic, with a new interest in mixed media. She is a passionate animal lover and enjoys her new home here where she is able to keep her horse, goat, dogs, cat, and two children, on a beautiful 3 acres! Samantha enjoys studying the history of art and is glad to be able to pass on her knowledge in new and exciting ways to her students.
Dianne M. Miller
Dianne 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
Pat Mortenson
Before she moved to Willow Street, Pat was a well-known ceramic artist in New Bern NC, and a prize winning fused glass artist in Maryville, TN. Before that she was a marketing manager for COSMIC, which is responsible for NASA software marketing, an editor for A.M Best, the insurance rating agency, and an academic counselor for the School of Science at Purdue University.
Kate 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. She also serves on the Board of the LCAA.
Sam Mylin
The founder and director of Masterpiece 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. He co-chairs the Instruction Committee at the LCAA.
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.
Bill Puglisi
Bill Puglisi works primarily in pastels. He originally used the pastel medium for preparatory studies and on site sketches and liked the impressionistic feeling he achieved. He has continued to explore various approaches to pastel painting, finding it a happy marriage of drawing and painting. Bill has won many awards for his pastel paintings.
Bill reflects on his work, “I only know that it is the creative form of expression by which I have chosen to convey my abiding love and respect for the world of nature in which we live. I want my work to be evocative of the places to which I feel physically, emotionally and spiritually attached. I want to capture the essence of a place filtered through memory, imagination and creative design.”
Leslie Scott
Leslie Scott has worked with glass for 30+ years beginning with a professional stained glass studio in Dublin, Ireland. She began fusing glass in the 1990’s while finishing her art degree and has exhibited her work in New Mexico & Ireland with later exhibits here in Pennsylvania.
She became a certified PMC teacher/artisan through the PMC Guild in 2004 and has had numerous exhibits/shows locally. Her work has also been included in the PMC Guild Annual Publication. She has taught PMC, Fused Glass and Mixed Metal Clay classes since 2004.
Mary Beth Shenk
Mary 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.
Andrew Small
Andrew Small is a practicing fine artist. He was born in Harrisburg, PA in 1981. He holds an MFA from Purchase College SUNY and a BFA from Kutzown University.
He has exhibitied his paintings at various galleries both nationally and interntionally. Currently an instructor at the Art Institute of York, he has also taught at Mercy College and the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.
Beth Stepenaski
Beth Stepenaski is a freelance animator with a degree in Animation from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. Specializing in animation, character design and illustration, she has worked with award-winning studios in both the Graphic Design and Animation fields. Through them, she has worked for such household names such as HBO, Scholastic, and Hershey.
Henrietta Thomas
Henrietta Thomas has been teaching art for 25 plus years. She has degrees in art from the college and the university level, primarily in sculpture. In addition to sculpture, she also does painting in various mediums and printmaking. Her sculpture is inspired by human and animal forms, sometimes by the abstract, while her paintings are influenced by landscape and buildings. She has been exhibiting her work for many years and has won numerous prizes. Henrietta states that "Art has always been my metier: nothing else has as much meaning. If I can move my students to produce what satisfies them, that's success!
Steve 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 and a past president of the LCAA. His love of the outdoors and sense of design and light is evident in his work. He offers workshops in watercolor at the LCAA.
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