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INSTRUCTORS
 DOMNICK BRANDT, a native of Wilkes-Barre, PA, studied design and composition at Wilkes College and oil painting at the Murray School of Art. He has also studied under master artists in the Wilkes-Barre and Harrisburg areas. His paintings, sculptures, and drawings have been selected and exhibited in a significant number of juried art shows and can be found in numerous private as well as corporate collections. Don is a 36 year member of the Seven Lively Artists. He has been a member and guest instructor at The Art Center for over 25 years.
- SUSAN BRITTAIN is a native of Evanston, Illinois. She studied art at the University of Florida and the Art Institute of Chicago. She worked as a graphic designer for the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming before moving to Pennsylvania in 2003. Her work has been exhibited in Gainesville, Florida, Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Harrisburg. Her current interests are drawing and sculpture.
- CLAIRE BEADON CARNELL paints representational oil landscapes, florals, portraits and still-lifes and owns and operates Pine School Studio, Gardners. Claire received a B.A. with honors in Art/English from Shippensburg University. She studied with Wilma Leatherman Shearer, Karl Foster, Patricia Walach Keough, Frank Hobbs and Ron Boehmer. She has won numerous awards in juried and open competitions. Her paintings are part of the Shippensburg University’s permanent collection. Claire is a member of the Carlisle Art Association, the Carlisle Arts and Learning Center, the Mechanicsburg Art Center School and Galleries, the Art Association of Harrisburg, the Adams County Arts Council, and the Perry County Council of the Arts.
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PHILIP COLGAN, a lifelong resident of southern Pennsylvania, has operated a studio and gallery in Hanover since 1982, teaching classes, taking commissions specializing in portraiture, but also various traditional subjects and restoration work. He attended York Academy of Art and conducted a comprehensive self-study of museum works throughout the US and Western Europe. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, his works in oil, watercolor and tempera now hang in private collections throughout the US, France, Germany, England and Ireland.
BRAD GEBHART graduated from the College of William and Mary with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He continued his studies at the Maryland College of Art and Design, as well as Arizona State University. Mr. Gebhart worked as a freelance artist, has exhibited work in festivals, is a caricaturist and has taught art classes for several years in differing venues. On his own he has traveled to Europe, South America and throughout the United States studying art of all forms.
JEANNE HARTMAN is a two-term past president and signature member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. She has studied with John Pike, Ed Whitney, and Charles Reid. Jeanne has won numerous awards and honors.
TIMOTHY HOOVER is a ceramicist and painter whose appreciation of art began after being accepted for the Governor’s School of Arts Program in 1983. He studied art and ceramics at Kutztown University, and worked with several potters in Japan. Tim is a landscape painter and started a “School of Painting”, similar to the Hudson River School. In addition, he creates ceramics from visual imagery of 2-D designs. He is a member of several art associations and guilds, and is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Tim exhibits in the area, and his work is found in private and public collections. Tim resides in Carlisle where he maintains a studio and continues to work in ceramics, paint, and pencil.
 PAT WALACH KEOUGH is a Rhode Island native who lived in Germany, Washington DC, and Durham, NC, before moving to Carlisle with her husband and sons in 1981. She attended parochial and public schools in Central Falls and Pawtucket, RI, as well as RI School of Design in Providence. While continually painting in oil, Patricia has made prints in different media since 1976. Besides silkscreen and woodcut prints, Patricia has printed etchings, collographs, and monotypes with oil and watercolor
MARY KLOTZ is owner of Forestheart, a studio and fiber arts supply shop near Frederick, MD-now in its 28th year. She is multimused, teaching glass beadmaking, beadwork, weaving, spinning, felting, rug hooking, dyeing and watercolor, which she regards as simply variations of dancing with the muse. Her lampworked beads appear in two beadmaking books, and she has written for Beadwork magazine. Mary has studied with various well-known glass workers and attended major conferences of the Glass Art Society of Glass Beadmakers.
PATRICIA KOSCIENSKI has painted vivid, strong landscapes in Germany, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York’s Adirondack Mountains. People are present in most landscapes, interfacing with each other and the natural world. Patricia studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and learned to make monotypes with Kathleen Piunti and Ruth Leaf. Her work has been included in juried shows, private and corporate collections, and galleries in Rhode Island, Ottawa, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina.
BEAU MACGINNES is an undeclared freshman matriculating at Harrisburg Area Community College. Beau, a 2007 graduate of Harrisburg Christian School, was a recent recipient of the prestigious ACSI award in Art for Christian Schools on the East coast. Beau captured both a Silver and Gold Key for Photography and Ceramics (for his Dr. Seuss House) respectively in the National Scholastic Art Competition in 2006 and 2007. Beau was also awarded the Departmental Award in Art his senior year. Beau teaches Youth Pottery at The Art Center.
 DONNA MITCHELL, is a realistic artist whose love for color is vividly portrayed in her paintings. Her choice medium is pastel for its color intensity and wonderful versatility. Donna exhibits in the tri-state area, and has won numerous awards and honors. Her paintings are in private collections of PA, MD and WV. She welcomes commissions.
THOMAS OAKES iis a PA Certified Art Teacher (K-12) and Ceramic Artist. In addition to The Art Center School and Galleries, Thomas instructs at the Carlisle Arts Learning Center.
BARBARA PILLETTE-BUCHANAN is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She has attended classes at York College, York Academy, Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts and York Art Association. She has exhibited at the Society of Illustrators and has produced illustrations for the Bon-Ton and Pfaltzgraff Corp. She has received awards in national and regional shows. Barbara works in watercolor & pastel and her approach is realism. Barbara also teaches at the York Art Association and Lancaster Museum of Art.
 DORIS RISSER is a self-taught artist, specializing in realism. After 26 years of painting with oils, she taught herself how to use acrylic paints to obtain the same realistic paintings. Doris has been painting for over forty years and sells her artwork at many of the arts and crafts shows in the area and also participates in Art Center off-site exhibits. Her subjects include wildlife/animals, landscapes, still life, etc. She previously chaired the Exhibit Committee and continues to volunteer when time allows.
CHRISTY SALIARIS has a Bachelor of Science in Child Development and Family Relations from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She majored in Art at Mechanicsburg High School where she taught after school art programs. She started teaching Pre-School Art in 1999 at the Art Center School and Galleries. Christy is the proud mom of three beautiful children. In her free time, she enjoys writing and illustrating children’s books.
JEANNINE SWARTZ is a signature of the National Watercolor Society, and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Baltimore Watercolor Societies. She has exhibited her watercolors in numerous national juried shows including the American Watercolor Society Annual International Exhibition in New York. Jeannine is a featured artist in the book, The Best of Flower Painting II published by North Light Books. Galleries representing Jeannine’s work include McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD; Village Artisans Gallery, Boiling Springs, PA; and William Ris Galleries, Stone Harbor, NJ.; Visit her website at www.MindsIsland.com/members/Swartz.
 STEVE VAN VOORHEES has his own studio at his home in East Berlin. Pottery has always been a hidden passion of his that has really come out in the past four years. Steve has taken many classes at Hood College and workshops throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. He has experience with gas and wood reduction firing. He is in the process of building his own wood fired kiln at his studio.
MICHELE WHITE, BFA and M.Ed. (PA Certified), Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, has enjoyed teaching art to all grade levels at Bible Baptist School, Shiremanstown, for the past 16 years. Michele has conducted classes for youth here at The Art Center since 2002. She has also initiated Art-Abilities, a program for adults with cognitive disabilities. More recently, Michele has begun Beginning Watercolor classes for adults. Michele’s students have won numerous local and regional awards throughout her career.
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