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.
Chuck Hall
A professional painter, Chuck has a MFA from the University
of Chicago. He has
taught art at Penn State, The University of South Dakota Extension and
Bucknell
University (Jan-Plans). He has also conducted summer art workshops for ten
years
and was the director of Pike Art Workshop in Philipsburg, PA for five
years. He has
exhibited widely and has works in private collections throughout the U.S.
and in
Europe and Japan.
Terry Johnson
After obtaining her MFA in 1981, Terry began her tile making
career as a studio
production artist 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 Program.
Jennifer Kane
Jennifer, a native of Southern Illinois, holds a BFA in
painting and an MFA in Costume
Design for Theatre from the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana. She
has
participated and won prizes in many regional juried art shows, including
Art of the State
in Harrisburg and the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. She has a
successful
business selling her own work, which she started in 1999. Examples of her
work can be
seen at
www.jenniferkaneart.com
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.
Sandy McBride
Alexander (Sandy) McBride has been teaching painting and
drawing at the college
level since 1964. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA,
1962) and
Cornell University (MFA, 1964). His teaching career has taken him form
teaching six
years in New England to Pennsylvania (1970-present) and, in addition,
England, France,
Germany and China. In addition to painting, McBride works professionally
in three
additional media: drawing, photography and computer imaging (Computer Art
and
Digital Photography). For more information and to see more of his work,
visit his website
at www.mcbstudio.com.
Ken Plattner
Ken is a stained glass artist who has worked in the area
since 1977. He started producing
stained glass to help pay for his engineering studies at Penn State, but
decided that
glasswork was what he really wanted to do. Ken has taught in the area for
many years. His
business, Abbey Stained Glass, is located on Main Street in Boalsburg. His
works are
installed worldwide and seen in numerous public and private places
locally.
Michele Rivera
Michele is the
founder of Artistic Horizon Art Center and the Bears That Care program.
She is originally from Brooklyn, N.Y. but left the city to raise her children
in Happy Valley.
She graduated from The School of Visual Arts at Penn State and
Kingsborough
Community College in New York. Michele works in ceramics, metals, and
watercolors.
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 is devoted to full-time work in studio painting
and drawing,
concentrating on high quality production of artwork. She gives private art
lessons to both
children and adults. Her gallery is posted at
www.VeronicasArt.com. She has
collectors
for her work in both the U.S.A. and Russia. Veronica's most recent solo
show was held in
downtown State College in November, 2006 and this summer was juried to the
2007
Three Rivers Arts Festival Artist Market Emerging Artists Program. Her
paintings,
drawings, and photos were published in several editions of literary
magazines as well as
in "Date book 2004" by Syracuse cultural workers, NY. She enjoys traveling
and shooting
pictures, many of which become subjects for artwork. Her native country is
always a
source of cultural inspiration and contrasting values. Veronica lives in
State College with
her husband and son enjoying the views and lifestyle of the country.