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Girl Scout Classes

Creative York gives your troop the opportunity to earn the creative art badges! We provide exciting classes for troops that will earn every level requirement for each badge that is offered.

Girl Scout Creative Art Badge Classes

Professional teaching artists lead these creative Girl Scout badge classes! Each scout will join the classroom via online video conference. Virtual Girl Scout Badge Classes are open to individual Girl Scouts as well as troops.

Brownie Pottery Badge Class

After learning about clay, where it’s found, and what we use it for, Brownies will use air dry clay to create both a piece of pottery and a unique sculpture. Scouts will then finish their pieces with colorful paint! Due to the nature of air-dry clay, these pieces will be for decorative use only and not food or dishwasher safe.

1-hour class • $40/scout or $25/scout group rate (4 or more scouts) • optional $15 art supply kit (+$8 shipping) 

Scouts may provide their own art supplies or purchase an Art Supply Kit from Creative York. Each art supply kit provides necessary supplies for one scout and includes 3 lbs of air-dry clay, washable paint, paintbrush, acrylic gloss coat, and a GS Brownie Pottery Badge. Art supply kits are shipped to you or may be picked up ahead-of-time by a troop leader. 

To schedule call us at 717-848-3200, or email Director of Education at ivy@creativeyork.org 

Junior Drawing Badge Class 

Junior Girl Scouts will learn about various styles of drawing including still life, shading, perspective, and graphic design. Each girl will create a masterpiece of her own! 

1-hour class • $40/scout or $25/scout group rate (4 or more scouts) • optional $15 art supply kit (+$8 shipping) 

Scouts may provide their own art supplies or purchase an Art Supply Kit from Creative York. Each art supply kit provides necessary supplies for one scout and includes several sheets of 8.5″ x 11″ drawing paper, an artist drawing pencil kit, a kneaded eraser, a set of colored pencils, and a GS Junior Drawing Badge. Art supply kits are shipped to you or may be picked up ahead-of-time by a troop leader. 

To schedule call us at 717-848-3200, or email Director of Education at ivy@creativeyork.org 

Cadette Comic Artist Class 

Cadettes will delve into the world of comics and create a visual story using different art techniques. Girls will choose a story to tell, draw it out, frame it, and add words. They will learn about the elements of art while creating their own comic strip.   

1-hour class • $40/scout or $25/scout group rate (4 or more scouts) • optional $15 (+$8 shipping) art supply kit 

Scouts may provide their own art supplies or purchase an Art Supply Kit from Creative York. Each art supply kit provides necessary supplies for one scout and includes several sheets of 8.5″ x 11″ drawing paper, a pencil with an eraser, a set of colored pencils, a black illustration pen, and a GS Cadette Comic Artist Badge. Art supply kits are shipped to you or may be picked up ahead-of-time. 

To schedule call us at 717-848-3200, or email Director of Education at ivy@creativeyork.org 

 

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Teaching Artists This Session

Cisco Soto

Cisco’s partnering to create and join Washington Winnona Images is a story of a father of three with a career continuing to find the time to follow his dreams. Following High School, over the last 17 years Cisco continued work in both sales and management in addition to completing Film School online. Cisco has partnered locally to provide photography and on film projects for friends. Cisco brings to Washington Winnona Images an assertiveness for organizing projects, production, direction and operations. He believes the experiences of having worked in management and sales at AT&T and other organizations will ensure an added thoroughness for project implementation and completion. Cisco is a graduate of Full Sail University and also a 2002 graduate of William Penn Senior High School and still believes to this day that he should have been class clown.

Rhiannon Harbold

Rhiannon Harbold is a twenty-one year old multimedia artist and illustrator from Red Lion, Pennsylvania. She is earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art from York College of Pennsylvania. Her work has been featured in multiple galleries around York County, including The Parliament Arts Association, HIVE Artspace, and Marketview Arts. Also, her work was recently featured in Take Care Zine (2021), a publication based in the United Kingdom.
Rhiannon loves to create fantastical and surreal artwork that emphasizes color, emotion, and whimsy. She also enjoys writing comics and stories that feature casts of playful fictional characters.

Darian Hoke

My name is Darian Hoke and I am a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. I am working towards writing and illustrating my own books. I am a big fan of fantasy and science fiction, the afternoon anime I would watch as a kid is what got me hooked on manga and visual storytelling. From there I developed a passion for art, but my purpose never strayed from making up characters and imagining all of the things that happen to them.

James O’Shea

  James O’Shea is a York based artist working in a variety of mediums such as, acrylic paints, oil paints, pastels, charcoal and even digital media. He is a York College graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree and has been included in a variety of exhibitions. Some of which included Emerging Visions at Creative York Galleries, York, PA, and Rapidity at the Coni Wolf Gallery, Marketview Arts, York PA. He placed 1st in the 2021 Fine Art Senior Exhibition and won Second Place in the 2021 Annual Juried Student Exhibition (Juror: Susanne Slavick). As of August 1st, 2021 O’Shea was named the first Marketview Fellow at Marketview Arts in York, Pa. During his time as Fellow he hopes to work closely with his community to broaden their interests in art and to help educate a new generation of artists.

Carol Clark Williams

Carol Clark Williams is poet laureate emerita of York, Pennsylvania, and a founder of the poetry tent readings for Yorkfest outdoor arts festival. She is a rostered artist with the PA Council on the Arts in Education.  A founding member of York Poets, she was state chairperson for the Pennsylvania Poetry Society’s Pegasus student poetry contest, and received the NFSPS Above and Beyond Award for her work with young people. Williams has won state, national and local awards for her poetry, and is published in Margie, Mad Poets’ Review, Harrisburg Review, Fledgling Rag, Encore, PPS Prize Poems, Welcome to the Resistance, Writers Eye, Bards Against Hunger, and online at Megaera, Steelpoint Quarterly, Poetry Superhighway, Shirazad, and Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival Poetry Contest winners, 2020 and 2021.

Rosa Catterall

As a Latina immigrant from Peru, Rosa Luz Catterall expresses a curiosity to understand people, cultures and community. This led her to pursue careers as a social worker, an art therapist and a self taught artist. Her work in the community focuses on themes that address cultural diversity, hope and healing and creates spaces that promote support and safety to express freely. The unique qualities that she brings to her practice help connect with people on a human level.

Rosa Luz was born in Peru and grew up in the U.S. from the age of nine in Queens, New York.  She graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in Sociology. Rosa Luz completed her graduate education at N.Y.U. and practices as a bilingual licensed social worker and a registered art therapist. She is an independent contractor for Hershey Medical Center, Conewago Place Drug and Alcohol Residential Treatment, Wellspan, and Olivia’s House.  She has an art studio/gallery at Marketview Arts where she paints, plans community projects and coordinates art wellness groups . Rosa Luz has made a commitment to give back to the community. In the past five years she has volunteered as an art therapist at York County Prison Women’s Wing and participated on mission trips to Guatemala and Ethiopia. Most recently she is a board member of Creative York and  an active participant in the Racial Equity  and Gallery Committee.

Karla Myers

Karla Myers brings her love of beauty and the created order to the art classroom and studio. Mrs. Myers received her bachelors degree in Art Education from Kutztown University, a degree which she used abundantly in homeschooling her 8 children. Most recently, Mrs. Myers has been conducting art workshops within the local
community and for her neighbors and friends. Mrs. Myers often incorporates art history into her lessons, and she enjoys the use of many varied media and surfaces, including watercolor, oil pastels, ceramics, acrylics, chalks, collage, wood, tempera, and markers.

Amy Diamond

Amy Diamond is a graduate of Millersville University, with a degree in Art education with a concentration in Inclusive Education. Her main focus is in ceramics, and Amy has attended multiple National Conferences dealing with ceramics and art education. While working with her own peers in class and her students in her middle school internship, she’s grown to appreciate the studio culture of collaboration. Amy enjoys learning through play and the educational and cultural benefits of creating art with others. She believes that all individuals have the ability to grow and learn and that art is a pathway to do so.

Ellen Ehlenbeck

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Ellen Ehlenbeck holds a BFA in painting from Penn State and a MA in graphic design from Savannah College of Art and Design.  A working artist, Ellen has exhibited her work widely in the region, in both solo and group shows, as well as juried exhibitions.  She loves to teach, and currently serves as a Resident Teaching Artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts as well as teaching at Harrisburg Area Community College, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and Creative York.

 

Elizabeth Morrison

Elizabeth Morrison has been a watercolor artist for 50 years and counting.  Also working as a classroom teacher for 17 years, she has had a great deal of experience teaching beginners the ins and out of this fascinating material. At Creative York she has teaches fibers and painting classes in the Teen Art House program, leads Arts Discovery Camps over the summers, and holds art classes for adults and children.

Annelise Vuono

Annelise Vuono is an artist whose style is characterized by figurative elements within abstract environments. Her paintings in particular feature strong color schemes and an emotional presence. Originally based out of Central Pennsylvania, Vuono is the daughter of an art educator and designer. She began drawing at a young age finding inspiration from fantasy films, music, graphic novels, and nature. Later, she graduated with a BFA from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. Vuono has been working for the past decade in various visual arts fields, has been published in books and magazines, and worked as Program Coordinator for Creative York’s Art in the Parks Program. Annelise has a passion for community involvement and raising awareness in the arts.

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