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.

  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.

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.

Due to Covid 19, Creative York’s Member exhibition will be showcased online in early June with the intention of being on display in the Kerlin Gallery from October 1-November 14, 2020.  The theme for this exhibit is hope and resilience.

STANDARDS & ELIGIBILTY

Participation in the Creative York Members Exhibit is open to all 2020 Creative York Artist Members or artists who would like to become members. Fine art and fine craft in all mediums are acceptable. Entries must be original, completed within the past two years, and not previously shown at Creative York. Work should be of high quality and craftsmanship. 

MEMBERSHIP

For information about membership visit: https://creativeyork.org/membership/

RULES FOR ENTRY

• All entries must be received by June 8, 2020.

• Due to space limitations, each artist may enter up to two pieces, no larger than 36” in any direction.

• All entries must include properly labeled digital images, and an artist bio.

• All entries must be submitted via email (gallery@creativeyork.org), in jpeg format at 300 dpi and not larger than 3MB in size. Please label image file with artist’s name and piece dimensions using this format (Example: jones_HxW.jpg). Please write “2020 Members Exhibit” and artist’s name on email subject line.

• Entries must be of work available for the exhibition that has been completed in the last two years.

• Entries must not have been previously exhibited at Creative York.

• We hope to include ALL submitted artwork, however in the instance of more artwork submitted than we can hang in an orderly fashion, a lottery system will be used to select final artwork.

• Artwork drop-off TBD

• Artwork must be framed / ready to hang, or otherwise ready to display. 

• Emailed entries must arrive prior to or on June 8, 2020 to gallery@creativeyork.org.

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.