Description: Learn basic hand-building techniques. Glazes are lead-free and safe to use in the home. During the first three classes, we’ll construct pieces, and during the last we’ll glaze them. We’ll use high-fired porcelain and fire the pieces in a gas kiln. Materials will be provided by the instructor, and classes will meet in his studio, located outside Fairfield.
Instructor: Jack Handshaw
$10 materials fee - Materials fees are payable to the class instructor at the first class meeting.
 

Introduction to Acrylic Painting
Level: Adult
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 17-26, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Member $95

Non-Member $105

Description: Learn the basics and discover the versatility of water-based acrylics. Experiment with color mixing, brush and palette knife applications, and creating solid compositions. A materials list will be provided.
Instructor: Dorothea Barrick
 

Chainmaille Jewelry Making
Level: Adult
Time: Wednesday, June 18 & 25, 6-8 p.m.

Member $47.50

Non-Member $52.50

Description: Make a beautiful bracelet and a set of earrings using rings of sterling silver in a decorative jewelry-making method reminiscent of chainmaille. You'll learn proper tool use and care as well as how to finish your projects so they look professional. A materials kit, including two pairs of jeweler’s pliers, sterling silver rings, ear wires, and a clasp, will be provided by the instructor.
Instructor: Margery Erickson
$65 materials fee - Materials fees are payable to the class instructor at the first class meeting.
 

Introduction to Watercolor Painting
Level: Adult
Time: Tuesdays, July 1-22, 6-8 p.m.

Member $95

Non-Member $105

Description: Designed for beginning painters, this class will include an introduction to the materials and how to handle them. The focus will be on completing a simple painting. Bring watercolor paper, brush, and paints to class.
Instructor: Ron Schloyer
 

Digital Photography: The Basics of Adobe Photoshop Elements
Level: Adult
Time: Mondays, July 7-28, 6-8 p.m.

Member $95

Non-Member $105

Description: Learn the basics of digital photo manipulation and enhancement using Adobe Photoshop Elements. You’ll learn how to improve digital photographic quality and alter digital photographs for artistic expression. Designed for those who are comfortable with their digital camera but want to improve the quality of their images.
Instructor: Bert Danielson
 

Telling Your Story: The Art of the Memoir
Level: Adult
Time: Wednesdays, July 9-30, 6-8 p.m.

Member $95

Non-Member $105

Description: In this class, you'll learn what you need to know to write a memoir that you, your children, and your grandchildren – perhaps even the world – will enjoy reading. Discover how to tap into your memories and write creatively, and you'll get started on your memoir, receiving valuable feedback from your instructor and fellow students along the way. Bring a lined journal or notebook, a copy of Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter, and a pen or pencil to class.
Instructor: Cheryl Sobun
 

Clay Sculpture
Level: Ages 10-adult (younger children welcome with parent or guardian)
Time: Thursdays, July 10 and 17, 6-9 p.m.; final class meeting to be arranged

Member $95

Non-Member $105

Description: Create one large sculpture project (a castle), or two smaller projects (like animals, flowers, etc.) out of stoneware. Our final, two-hour class meeting will take place at the instructor’s studio, at a time to be determined by class participants, to glaze the pieces. This is a great class for a parent-child team! Materials will be provided by the instructor, and students should bring to class pictures of objects they’d like to sculpt.
Instructor: Lori Nelson
$20 materials fee - Materials fees are payable to the class instructor at the first class meeting.
 

Introduction to Pastels
Level: Adult
Time: Saturday and Sunday, July 26 and 27, 1-4 p.m.

Member $71.25

Non-Member $78.75

Description: Students will learn different pastel-drawing techniques using chalk pastels, such as smudging and layering color. We’ll sketch some outdoor landscapes, looking at light, shadow, and color, as well as drawing from observation and from images. Students should bring paper and chalk pastels. Oil pastels are optional.
Instructor: Holly McCabe
 

Make the most of your weekend with a Saturday class

The Art of Leadership: The Many Faces of Leadership
Level: Adult
Time: Saturday, June 14, 1-4 p.m.

Member $35.50

Non-Member $40

Description: No single leadership style suits every person or situation. We’ll explore civilian and military Civil War role models who stepped up to responsibility and leadership. Through case studies and team discussion, we’ll analyze their leadership behaviors and learn how they found innovative solutions, managed inadequate resources, cut through red tape, and convinced others to support them. Included in our study are Frederick Douglass, Clara Barton, Walt Whitman, and Robert E. Lee, among others.
Instructor: Antigoni Ladd and Everett Ladd, Jr.
 

Art-Clay Silver Jewelry-Making
Level: Adult
Time: Saturday, June 28, 1-5 p.m.

Member $47.50

Non-Member $52.50

Description: Art Clay Silver is a moldable clay composed of .999 percent fine silver particles. It can be shaped, textured, dried, torched- or kiln-fired, and polished. Students will learn basic handling of Art-Clay Silver and create a finished jewelry component for either a pair of earrings or a pendant. Some jewelry-making experience is helpful for finishing the piece. Materials will be provided by the instructor.
Instructor: Michele Quattrocchi
$25 materials fee - Materials fees are payable to the class instructor at the first class meeting.

 

Faculty

DOROTHEA BARRICK founded the art department at Mount St. Mary’s College in 1973. She has taught with Frederick County Adult Learning, Frederick Community College, Common Ground at Western Maryland College, Hoffman Homes for Youth, El Centro, HACC, and Gettysburg College. Barrick has exhibited internationally, and her work is included in numerous private and public collections. She holds a BFA and MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.

BECKY BROWN has worked in Pen and Ink for thirty years. She has studied art throughout her life and participated in various solo and juried shows. Most recently, she has exhibited at the Adams County Arts Council’s juried shows in Gettysburg. She is intrigued by the contours of graceful plants and flowers as well as the more complex play of light and shadow on buildings.

BERT DANIELSON is a photographer focusing on scenic images and some cityscapes. His images have appeared in such regional publications as Carroll magazine and Celebrate Gettysburg. He has shown his work regionally at art shows across the eastern seaboard, and locally at Gallery 30 and the Adams County Arts Council’s fine art show. Danielson received his photographic training at Howard Community College. He shoots and processes all of his work digitally.

MARGERY ERICKSON has been a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen since 1991. She is juried in hand-weaving and specializes in wearable art. She has been creating jewelry since 2003 by using silver and fused glass to form the jewelry that accents her wearable art. She has won awards through the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, WITF-TV, and the Pennsylvania State Farm Show. She holds an M.Ed. degree from Millersville University in special education.

HOLLY FOX has performed with the Towson Ensemble Dancers, Towson University Dance Company, Meyer Dance Company, Broadway Dance Center, and the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble. Her choreography has been staged locally at the Gettysburg College Summer Theater Festival, Gettysburg Area High School, and the Gettysburg Dance Center, where she is founder and director. She holds a BFA in dance performance and education, and teaches at the Gettysburg Dance Center and Harrisburg Area Community College.

JACK HANDSHAW has been a potter in Adams County since 1979 and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. From his studio in the mountains outside Fairfield, he has conducted classes and workshops for many organizations. He traveled for many years selling at shows under the name of his pottery, “Hobbitt House Pottery.” He has done Raku but now works in porcelains and does some commissions in redware.

EMILY KNOWLES-KELLETT worked as an artist-in-residence in Chicago and New York City schools for 10 years. She later earned her master’s degree and certification in teaching Social Studies, and infused history classes in Frederick and Gettysburg with art activities to help students connect with course material. She also works in digital media, creating special event and biographical videos.

KIM DANA KUPPERMAN is the managing editor of the award-winning national literary journal The Gettysburg Review. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Brevity, Hotel Amerika, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, and elsewhere. Her honors include a Best American Essays 2006 reprint, honorable mentions in the Pushcart Prize XXXI anthology and Best American Essays 2007, the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize, and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Contest. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, home to the miniature periodical Food for Thought.

ANTIGONI LADD is academic director of Tigrett Corp.—Leadership Lessons from History. Prior to establishing the leadership company with her husband, Antigoni was senior vice-president of the Consumer Bankers Association and served for 15 years as director of the Graduate School of Retail Bank Management at the University of Virginia. She has more than 25 years of experience in leadership education, as both program designer and instructor.

EVERETT LADD, JR., is president, business manager, and guiding spirit of Tigrett Corp. Formerly president of Northampton (MA) National Bank, he has served on several college boards, chambers of commerce, museums, and business and arts groups. He co-founded Tigrett Corp. with his wife in 1984, to offer management workshops that teach through historic example.

AMY LINDENBERGER has taught colored-pencil classes to adults for 23 years. She is currently on the faculty of the Botanical Art and Illustration program at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Her work has been included in a wide variety of regional and national exhibitions, as well as in the books, The Best of Colored Pencil and Creative Colored Pencil Portraits. Her portraiture is on display at her gallery, Civil War Fine Art, located at 333 Baltimore Street, Gettysburg. Lindenberger holds a BFA in drawing from the University of Akron, and she is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.

SARAH SCHAEFFER MACLAY has lived in Adams County since 1992. Her love for the area’s rural landscape is a major influence on her work, which she has shown in galleries and exhibits throughout the area. She believes that while there are many technical and learned skills in the field of art, the most important tool is the artist’s imagination. She recently earned her BA in art education from Shippensburg University.

HOLLY MCCABE is a high school art educator living in Woodstock, New York. She teaches a range of courses that includes Computer Imagery, Fashion Illustration, Studio Art, Media Art, and Advertising Design. She holds a BA from Gettysburg College in art history and studio art, a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA in studio art from the State University of New York. An accomplished painter and pastel artist, she has exhibited her work in New York, Gettysburg, and Chicago.

CATHLEEN MCGOWAN is a certified art educator who has taught art school students as well as adults. She has taught drawing, painting, pottery, sculpture, printmaking, design, and 3-D computer animation. McGowan holds an MA in education from Loyola College (MD) and has studied art at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Catonsville Community College, and Bowie State University.

ANTHONY MESSANO is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where he majored in advertising. He has taught kindergarten and high school art and creates commissioned murals and art work locally.

LORI NELSON received her fine arts degree from Messiah College in 1988, concentrating in clay, sculpture, and textile design. She taught art to home-school students for five years, teaches fine arts at Camp Nawakwa, and was recipient of an art award for WITF’s Art Auction. She has been a working artist since 1987 and continues to work in her Gardners studio, Nelson Pottery, and sells her work wholesale.

MICHELE QUATTROCCHI works in a variety of artistic media to create works in precious metals, natural materials, and glass for jewelry, stained-glass pieces, and art objects. She is a graduate of the Pensacola Christian College and holds a senior level certification in Art Clay Silver.

JILL RAKOWICZ teaches art in the Littlestown Area School District. A graduate of Shippensburg University and Kutztown University, she has exhibited widely throughout Cumberland and Adams counties.

JOH RICCI began experimenting with hand bead-weaving techniques in 1992. Since then she has exhibited and sold her work at juried art and craft shows along the East coast and across the Midwest. She holds a BFA from Kutztown University with a concentration in fibers and has taught bead-weaving classes at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Alverno College, and a number of local bead shops.

DANA SAUERS, former Hanover Poet Laureate, has been an educator for 30 years and a poet since she was ten. She is co-editor of the literary journal Digges' Choice and a founder of the Hanover Poets. Her work has appeared in One Tree, Many Branches, 2001, Somewhere on George Street, and Central PA Magazine. A collection of her work, Between the Space of Grace and Gray, was published in 2006. Sauers has won the Reader's Cafe Poetry Contest as well as the Riverwalk and Yorkfest poetry competitions. She presently leads an open mic night at Gettysburg’s Ragged Edge Coffeehouse on First Fridays.

RON SCHLOYER traces his love of watercolor to an Andrew Wyeth exhibition he saw as a young adult; he has been painting with watercolor ever since. He has studied at the Schuler School of Fine Arts, McDaniel College, and in many workshops. An award-winning member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and the Baltimore Watercolor Society, Schloyer has also received awards from the WITF-TV Art Auction, the York Art Association, the Adams County Arts Council, and the Hanover Area Arts Guild.

CHERYL SOBUN has been writing and editing for 21 years, working with a number of magazines, newspapers, and publishing companies. The author of Basic Woodworking: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started and 100 Ideas for Better Patient Relations in Registration, Billing, and Collections, she recently finished writing her first children’s book. She holds a journalism degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and teaches writing at Penn State Mont Alto.

A. D. TARBOX is the author of Already Asleep (Moo Press) and the six-book Nature's Bounty series (Creative Education). She was born in Florida but has lived in many places including Japan, Germany, Alaska, and New Hampshire. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland.

SHEILA WATERS was born in England and studied calligraphy at the Medway College of Art and the Royal College of Art. A fellow of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and the first president of the Washington Calligraphers Guild, she has completed commissions and projects for royalty, museums, corporations, and collectors. Her best-known works are the illuminated manuscript of Dylan Thomas’ “Under Milk Wood” (now owned by Sir J. Paul Getty, Jr., of Oxford, UK) and the Roundel of the Seasons. Her textbook Foundations of Calligraphy was published in 2006.