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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

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.

Toni McGraw

My name is Toni McGraw and from a very young age I knew that when I grew-up, I wanted to be an artist. I paint and I paint a variety of subjects most of them using acrylic. In addition to painting, the challenge of creating a new function and making pretty work out of discarded common items interests me as well. I hope these artworks, that have been created using using common discarded items, bring awareness to our fragile environment. As a child I took sporadic private lessons, throughout my life I took risks and seized many art opportunities. I have painted many murals (Challenger Space Center, Arizona) and have taught High School Art. I have and continue to exhibit my art in many of the local Harrisburg and surrounding area galleries. I love art as much today as I did as a child. I am an artist!

Anita Williams

Anita Williams loves to make art.  Nature, movement and color have long been her inspiration. Anita seeks to find the magical element in nature, whether it is in trees or flowers, waterways or twisting vines.  She hopes to transfer her sense of beauty to her audience.

Anita grew up in on the New Jersey shore.  She met her husband while living as a young adult in Philadelphia and moved to York County 35 years ago.   She earned her Bachelors in Art Education at Millersville University while raising her two daughters.   Anita taught Art at Spring Grove Area School District for 15 years. While teaching, Anita earned an M.S. in Education from Wilkes University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Wilson College in 2017.  Anita retired from teaching in June and has been working as a full time artist ever since.  She has a studio on the third floor above the Handsome Cab restaurant in York.

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.

Holly Davis

Holly Davis BWHolly Davis is an artist, wife and mom from York, PA. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Beaver College, completed her PA Art teaching certification through Millersville University, and received her Masters in Education from Wilkes University. She also studied at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Holly has exhibited work throughout Pennsylvania, in Scotland, and in North Carolina, and she was the recipient of a PA State Grant for the Arts. Holly loves clay and teaching art, especially ceramics. She has taught artists of every age and has a passion for sharing her appreciation of clay with those she gets to work with.

Lara McKusky

Lara McKusky holds a dual BA in Elementary Education and Liberal Studies from the Notre Dame of Maryland University, magna cum laude. She is also a graduate of The Brainery: Online Speculative Fiction Writing Workshops and Resources, having taken the Short Fiction course on a scholarship. Finally, her writing credits include Technorati, Today’s Mama–Parenting Column for York, PA, and Fresh Fiction.

In addition to writing, Lara has been a lifelong artist, and attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh—Online Division, getting over 40 credits in graphic design under her belt before life intervened. Lara’s artwork often reflects her love of reading, fantasy, detail and high contrast.

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.

Kate Rush

Kate Rush CookKate is a mother of two daughters and a self-taught artist who resides in York, PA. She has been an active member in York County and the State of Pennsylvania as a Crime Victim’s Rights Advocate and  has recently returned to her artistic roots. Kate enjoys working with a variety of artistic mediums, designing adult coloring book pages, and creating custom art pieces and commissions.  Kate regularly participates in group exhibits at Hive artspace and other artistic opportunities as they become available. She loves sharing her passion for the arts with children and teenagers. Presently, Kate is working as a program monitor for Teen Art House and teaching private art lessons through Creative York.

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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