Instructors

Jason is primarily a representational painter whose work covers a wide variety of subjects including landscape, still life, narrative scenes, and paleo art. Across subject matter, Jason’s work is united by its use of dynamic light, atmospheric color, and attention to detail.

Throughout his career Jason has worn many hats. He started exhibiting his work in commercial galleries during his junior year at MICA. In 2006 he opened and co-managed a gallery in downtown Lancaster, PA. Around the same time he developed a consistent plein air practice and began teaching classes and workshops at the York Art Association. A longtime goal of becoming a professor of fine art was achieved in 2016, when Jason began teaching at The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. In 2022 he was a resident artist at the North Museum of Science & Nature, a relationship that remains productive today.

Jason is a working artist currently living in Lancaster, PA and teaching in the undergraduate program at The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. He received his art education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.

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!

Dot is a Signature Member of the Maryland Pastel Society. She has studied at the PA Academy of Fine Art, the Philadelphia College of Art and under a number of Master Artists including Maggie Price, Albert Handell, Lorenzo Chavez, Barbara Jaenicke, Robert McKinley, William A. Schneider, and Lynne Yancha. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the LCAA, Lancaster General Hospital, C.S. Carlson Gallery and Strawberry & Co. Gallery and in group shows at the LCAA

In 2006 she completed four murals featuring the Susquehannock Riverside to compliment the “Natives of the Susquehannock” Collection Room in the North Museum.

In her Artist Statement she says: “I have always been drawn to the outdoors.  My goal is to paint its romance without saccharine.  Pastels are not a delicate medium.  They are down and dirty and powerful especially for landscapes.  A great pastel takes my breath away, and that’s how I wish anyone viewing my art to feel.”

Aura Rose LaSorda is a Multimedia Artist. She received the The Pennsylvania Governor’s Award For The Arts that allowed her to develop mixed media skills while attending Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), University of the Arts, Moore College of Art, Fleischer Art Memorial & other local institutions.

She also studied with Masters of different Media at Colleges in California and in Pennsylvania & on Personal Journeys around the World. She has enjoyed a Professional Career producing fine art, fine craft, writing, performing, and healing arts. artist. She had an Art Production Studio that served commercial enterprises like Whole Foods Market, small business shops, has been represented in Galleries and enjoys maintaining connections with aficionados of her Art from all over the world. She believes in the importance of local Art Centers to foster Art development at any age and is happy to share her life experience and detailed expertise. 

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.

Jason Herr graduated with a BFA from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in 2015. He has shown in galleries in Lancaster, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York City, and Leeds England. He won best in show for the Thrive exhibit at the Sunshine Gallery in 2014. A piece of his was published in the current issue of Lifted Brow magazine and he regularly publishes his own books.

Dan Graziano is an award winning, nationally exhibited artist whose paintings capture the hidden beauty found in the unexpected places and fleeting moments of everyday life.  Incorporating dramatic light, shadow, color and perspective, his painterly compositions feature a diversity of subjects - from a simple still life to rugged coastlines, the dynamic activity of urban life, small rural towns and forgotten roadside relics.
In recent years, his paintings have included a focus on café culture - busy bartenders, waiters, chefs and all its lively inhabitants. His work has been featured in numerous art publications and is in the collections of private and corporate collectors throughout the world.

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. 

Carol Dale has a degree in Art Education from Millersville University with additional studies at The University of the Arts and Eastern Mennonite University. Having taught art at Lancaster Mennonite School and Lancaster Bible College, she is comfortable teaching students of all ages. An award-winning artist, Carol shows her work in local and regional galleries. She is a member of Lancaster County Art Association where she currently holds the position of president.

Carol has taught a number of different classes at LCAA including, painting, hand-built ceramics and Art Camps for children as well as leading the Fair-Weather Plein Air Group.

“Painting outdoors with the Fair-Weather Plein Air group provides a shared experience with other artists as we learn from each other. Creating art is an adventure, so I enjoy working in a variety of mediums. Whether it is oil, acrylic or watercolor, I try to capture the atmosphere of the location or an interesting moment in time.”

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. He works in pencil, pen & ink and watercolor.