About Our Instructors
Bob Baumbach
A retired high school art teacher from State College, Bob
taught many mediums and
started the high school photography program over twenty years ago. He has
seen the
photo program at State High through the digital revolution. He has taught
crafts, drawing
and painting and has taught adult education watercolor classes for the
State College
Community Education Program. Bob is also active with Italian Street
Painting at the Arts
Festival and has been a guest artists at other Festivals. You can review
Bob’s
photography and art at his website at
www.rbaumbach.com.
Terry Johnson
After obtaining her MFA in 1981, Terry began her tile making
career as a studio
production artists selling her work in galleries and shops in the U.S.,
England, and
Japan. Terry has been an arts specialist for the Southern Alleghenies
Museum and the
Galaxy programs.
Ruth Kempner
Ruth, a New York native, holds a fine arts degree from Cooper
Union. She has studied
at NYU, Yale, PSU and the Rhode Island School of Design. She lived in
Clearfield for
almost thirty years before moving to State College. Her paintings have won
awards in
many juried shows throughout Pennsylvania, including the prestigious CPFA
“Images.”
Ruth has also served as a juror for a number of Central Pennsylvania
shows.
Mary Lee Kerr
Mary Lee has been creating clay sculpture for 23 years. She
received training at art
schools and studios around the country, including the Torpedo Factor in
Virginia, the
Loveland Academy of Art in Colorado, the Scottsdale Artists” School in
Arizona, and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has exhibited in
galleries and art shows
in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Her work can be seen at
www.KerrSculpture.com.
Jeff Mathison
Jeff received his BFA from Penn State in
1972 and has been the graphic artist for A&H
consultants for twenty years. His artwork has been exhibited in many
galleries and juried
shows. See his work at
www.artbymathison.com.
Diane Maurer-Mathison
Diane's decorative papers have been shown in galleries and
museums throughout
the world. Numerous design commissions include work for Lenox China,
Harper Collins
Publishers and Godiva Chocolates. She is the author of thirteen books on
paper art
and has demonstrated marbling and paste paper design on several television
shows.
In addition to writing, teaching workshops and selling marbling supplies,
Diane
produces collages, handbound books and wearable art for fine crafts
galleries.
Linda Schimmel
Linda has a degree in fine art and interior design from
Florida State University. She
studied oil painting and portraiture at the Fair Haven Gosnel Studios and
increased her
skills in pastel at the prestigious Grenna Studios. Her award-winning
pastels and oils
are included in private collections on the east coast and in Pennsylvania,
Florida,
Texas, and California. She recently had a solo exhibit in the galleries of
National Penn
Investors Trust Company. Linda enjoys the challenge of commissions for
portraits and
other subjects. She also serves as a docent at the Palmer Museum. Examples
of her
work can be seen at her website
www.lindaschimmel.com
Veronica Winters
Veronica is a Russian fine artist who graduated with her MFA
degree in painting from
Penn State in 2005. She currently works with the Galaxy arts in education
program and
gives lessons in her studio in State College. Veronica's work can be found in
private
collections across the U.S. and Europe. To see her recent oil paintings
and colored
pencil drawings visit her website www.VeronicasArt.com . The artist has
published her
catalog "Life in Colored Pencil" available for purchase online. Veronica's
art has been
published in magazines and journals including "Artists and Illustrators"
and "Leisure
Painter", UK art magazines, artist focus page in April's issue of
"American Art
Collector" and many others. Veronica often shows her work in local venues.
Her work
can be seen at www.VeronicasArt.com