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Kate Keely.

Harold Shapiro.

During my career as a sculptor/furniture maker, functional and non-functional objects through their form, familiarity, materials, and stance have always interested me. Designing and building is a great adventure. The physical aspect of drying, cutting, sawing, carving, turning, and finishing is my focus, with wood becoming my primary language. My process includes working in my onsite studio, preparing the sustainably harvested wood that I procure on my farm as well as using a variety of rare woods from around the world that have been collected over time. Currently my focus is on commissioned work with an emphasis on sculptural ceremonial vessels. These are intended to remind us of the value and beauty of the important moments in our lives.

The poetry of objects, the unique qualities that deserve to be respected.

Shows and Publications

Upcoming show: "Four Sights" November 2022 Washington County Arts Council Hagerstown, Md.

Past Shows:

American Craft Council Shows (ACC) Baltimore, Md.

Providence Fine Furniture Show Providence, RI

Gallery showings or Collections

Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Gallery Boston, MA

Neiman Marcus Permanent Collection Coral Gables, FL

Ronald McDonald House Hershey, Pa.

Individual Private Collections and Clients

Currently:

Commissioned work

Ceremonial Urns

Publications

500 Cabinets: A Showcase of Design & Craftsmanship Book publisher Lark books 2010

Tikkum Olam (Repair the World) obelisk Series

Dee Henry.

Dee graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Art Education and began teaching art in Emporium, PA. During the 80's and 90's, the artist lived and worked in Emporium, Oil City, Waynesburg, and McConnellsburg. She continued her education at Wilson College, East Stroudsburg, and PSU. She taught in the public schools as well as private lessons to adults and children. Dee worked for a time as a designer at Overly-Raker, a manufacturer of soft sculpture items, and also did freelance design work for craft magazines. The artist has recently retired from teaching in the Central Fulton School District. With diminished family responsibilities, she has more earnestly pursued her dream of being an artist. In 2010, Dee had the privilege of being chosen as "artist in residence" for the month of July in Acadia National Park, Maine. She has exhibited her work in many local and regional shows and recently had her collagraph print “1976 v2” written about in the Washington Post. She is a member of the Franklin County Art Alliance, Valley Art Association, and Penn's Woods Printmakers.

Heirloom

Finding an unfinished piece of a hand-sewn double wedding ring quilt top in 1986 was the inspiration for this work entitled “Heirloom”. I grappled with what I should make of the unfinished textile. I wanted to honor the unknown, unsung woman who had so lovingly pieced these tiny swatches of color— probably printed feed sack cotton calicos— into this intricate design. I had a family member photograph me in my rocker pretending to sew. I used this to help me create the figure of the woman sewing. Parts of the figure of the woman are painted onto fabric and appliqued to the larger background section. To build out the form, sections are stuffed lightly from the back in trapunto fashion. The textile itself hangs down so that the viewer can inspect the careful hand sewing and piecing of the original seamstress so long ago. Because I used myself as the model for the figure, the piece became a self portrait of me at age 28. Over the years it has become a testament to the adage: “When life gives you scraps, make quilts”.

Story of 1976 v2

This monoprint was made from the blue jeans I wore every day my senior year of high school in 1976. These jeans became an evolving work of art as my hand sewn patches and embroidery grew into thick layers. As life moved on, I couldn't part with the jeans. At some point, after college and marriage, children and divorce; I cut out just the beautiful rear end of the jeans. I was thinking that "down the road" I would make something of it. So this much loved rag moved with my belongings until 2019 when I saw Pauline Jakobsberg's printed shirt at the Black Rock Center print biennial. I literally became emotional when I saw her work because I finally knew what I had to do with the 43 year old "textile of my life". After returning home, I began to stiffen the old pants with acrylic medium. At Wilson College in Chambersburg, I used the large press to make 4 collagraph images. This is version 2 and on it I hand sewed tiny collagraph prints that I made on my small home studio press. These tiny collagraphs are made from heavy cardboard on which objects are glued. When dry, I seal these plates with acrylic medium. The plates are inked with Akua soy inks and run through my basement studio press. I placed the prints onto the jeans and sewed them in place with embroidery floss much as I did with the patches on my faithful blue jeans so many years ago. This work is about life as a woman artist-- growing, changing, aging-- but still hanging onto the dreams and loves of being 18 --- through my art. There is nothing better than getting excited about an artistic idea and seeing it through to completion and this particular project held an extra dose of this feeling for me.

jim mackey.

i have been doing Art for over 50 years, with some gaps in that time, but, always thinking about Art in those gaps.

All i can say is it’s been mainly a rough road; with mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, a couple rehabs, jail, outpatient services, a couple divorces, and many ruined relationships. Art has been a salvation. And, all i can say is there’s a God, and I’m not it.

Life is an ongoing tragedy.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of life as far as I can tell is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.

Jordan Peterson

Box trap #2
the space and time is different inside the box, then the space and time of the viewer of the box — Box trap #2 the space and time is different inside the box, then the space and time of the viewer of the box

Aric Sites.

Art Educator

Shippensburg Area School District grades 9-12

Both works are selected from the series Away from the Words. This recent body of work is comprised of over forty mixed-media paintings of various sizes and formats. The linear characteristics and mark quality of maps and the process of reimagining these visual traits anew have heavily informed the work. After editing existing map imagery of its identifiable features, it is further modified and incorporated with wide ranging materials and techniques attempting to convey a sense of anonymity and isolation - both literally and figuratively.

Who are we?

Where are we?

Where do we go?

Brandii Kligge.

My husband was clearing out some of our field and he pulled lots of honeysuckle vine from the locust trees. It seems this vine is partial to this tree. He collected a huge stockpile of vine for me and I just started weaving it for the Woven exhibit at the SHAPE Gallery. The trunk came first and I built it from there up. I was working on it during the hottest days of summer and had it on the ground. I needed to weave the frame. I didn't realize how large it was until I was ready to stand it up. I hung it from a nail on a full sized door and was shocked to see the size. Like all my art I just began and it unfolded as I went along. It took about a hundred hours. The finishing was inspired by things I found like the stephanotis flowers.. I had the rose petals and painted the pistachio nut shells to nest on them. I had the lights already and it all came together. I called it The Wedding Tree because of the ring and the flowers. Very serendipitous. I finished a honeysuckle Angel for the Christmas show at SHAPE and am working on a third piece, two figures for some exhibit in the next year. I've been an artist all my life. I don't make art it comes through me. I've been with the FCAA since 1986, helped found the SHAPE Gallery. I am multimedia including painting, etchings, sculpture, drama, dance, poetry, song writing, and music and am writing our story. I am very blessed.

Pete Mazzone.

Pete's website

My work is an effort to speak the language of color. The richer and more vibrant the better. Color is its own language and while we do not speak it we live it daily. We move through the world immersed in shape, form and colors. I work within this language and try to create arresting moments where color, with all its signifiers, creates a moment of beauty. A singular snapshot where the world as we know it gives way to something else entirely. Something that holds you for a moment, causes you to linger and live in the luxurious world of vibrant color.

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”

Georgia O’Keefe

Florentine silk
Acrylic on canvas
72" x 36" — Florentine silk Acrylic on canvas 72" x 36"

Belonging
Oil on canvas
72" x 36" — Belonging Oil on canvas 72" x 36"

February, I love you.
Oil on canvas
72" x 38" — February, I love you. Oil on canvas 72" x 38"

Penn Woods Printmaking.

Penn’s Woods Printmakers is a group of artists working in Chambersburg, PA, under Sarah (Sue) Frotscher, a graduate of Penn State’s Master of Fine Arts Program. Sue also studied at the Slade School of Art in London, and has won many awards for her prints. A specialist in the process of etching, she has worked with class members who have created both soft and hard-ground etchings and aquatints, as well as relief prints, monotypes and collagraphs. Subject matter includes landscape, still life, figure and abstraction.

PWP members include:

Lynda Beckwith, Mercersburg, PA

Dawn Burgoon, Greencastle, PA

Anne Finucane, Chambersburg, PA

Sarah Frotscher, Newburg, PA

Ethel Heckman, Shippensburg, PA

Dee Henry, McConnellsburg, PA

Mary Kallio, Mercersburg PA

Brandii Kligge, Newburg, PA

Chris Mcdonel, Walnut Bottom, PA

Ruth Ann Smith, Fayetteville, PA

Marti Yeager, Fayetteville, PA

The group’s works are all hand-pulled prints; it is our goal to create original works of art that are created by the artist with an original plate run through a small press, one at a time, on high quality art paper, striving for high standards of creativity and technical excellence.

Our printmaking group originated in 1997, under the late Shippensburg University Professor William Davis. Davis offered members of the Franklin County Art Alliance the opportunity to come to the University’s printmaking and sculpture studios – two areas that most artists have no facilities in which to work. With retirement approaching, Professor Davis handed off the group to Frotscher, who continued the tradition of bi-weekly meetings, but at Wilson College, in Chambersburg. The group appreciates the generosity of Wilson College’s Art Department in providing the space where they work.

Penn’s Woods Printmakers contact:
Anne Finucane (artist member)
2760 Springview Drive
Chambersburg, PA 17202
717-267-1396
ahf53@comcast.net

Penn’s Woods Printmakers – “On the Shelf”

The PWP Giant Print project was created for Wilson College’s Art Day in October 2018. Bob Dickson, art professor, printmaker and photographer, inspired us, as well as groups of students, to create large wooden blocks carved with the designs of our choice, to be printed by a “steam roller” on the college’s central lawn in front of the Lenfest Student Center. We carved for many weeks, to be ready for this event!

Our giant print was a truly collaborative project: many of us worked on a mix of subjects even where we are not listed, as we neared completion and wanted to tighten up details.

Also, the panel was taken to the North Square Farmers Market in Chambersburg on Sept.22 as a public art project: members of the public took their turns carving!

Giant Print Artists

Lynda Beckwith, Mercersburg

Dawn Burgoon, Greencastle

Anne Finucane, Chambersburg

Dee Henry, McConnellsburg

Mary Kallio, Mercersburg

Brandii Kligge, Newburg

Chris Mcdonel, Walnut Bottom

Garnet Yeager, Fayetteville

Marti Yeager, Fayetteville

Exhibition History

April 9, 2005
Wilson College Giant Print Project, Chambersburg, PA

April 22 – May 28, 2005
Gallery Exhibit at Council for the Arts of Chambersburg, PA

Oct. 14 – Nov. 16, 2005
Exhibit, F&M Trust, Memorial Square, Chambersburg, PA

November 2-16, 2006
Exhibit, F&M Trust, Memorial Square, Chambersburg, PA

November 1- 13, 2007
Exhibit, F&M Trust, Memorial Square, Chambersburg, PA

Jan. 23- Feb. 22, 2008
Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA

July 1-28, 2009
Washington County (MD) Arts Council, Hagerstown, MD

January 27-31, 2010
IceFest, Chambersburg, PA

January 15 - March 11, 2011
Council for the Arts of Chambersburg, PA

January 26-28, 2012
IceFest, Chambersburg, PA

January 31-Feb.2, 2013
IceFest, Chambersburg, PA

November 1-30, 2013
Washington County Arts Council, Hagerstown, MD

The shows above have all featured the Penn’s Woods Printmakers as a group. Individual members’ works have earned awards in many area exhibitions, and entry into regional juried exhibitions including Washington (DC) Printmakers, Harrisburg Art Association, Adams County Arts Council, Washington County (MD) Council for the Arts and Washington County (MD) Museum of Fine Arts.

Sarah Frotscher

Nov 28-Dec. 31, 2008 Art Association of Harrisburg

Her intaglio etchings reflect traditional methods in printmaking, with prints individually hand-pulled on her etching press. Born in Georgia, Frotscher has spent many years in Pennsylvania, where she finds her inspiration. While a student at Penn State, she attended the Slade School of Art, University College, London. While a graduate teaching assistant at Penn State, she studied with Bruce Shobaken, renowned printmaker, and received her MFA in 1970. She is an international and national juried show award winner.