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The Leadership Team
This dedicated team is 100% volunteers!
Email paaguild@gmail.com if you are interested in joining the efforts.
Elected Board
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Jeanne Petrosky - PRESIDENT / Eblast
Jeanne Petrosky brings all the experience that comes from being a self-employed, full-time artist for 36 years. She found out that passion, persistence, courage, faith, and the graciousness of others, are what helped her through the years.
Her hope is to expand the message that the arts are a vital part of a healthy revitalization effort.
Her hope is to expand the message that the arts are a vital part of a healthy revitalization effort.
Anne Mitchell Reid - VICE PRESIDENT / Online Gallery
Anne Mitchell Reid, born in Glasgow, Scotland, studied at the Scottish College of Textiles and Edinburgh University's College of Art.
After running a design and craft business in the Scottish Highlands for a decade, she has spent over 40 years as a weaver, selling her work in galleries and shops across the Atlantic.
Anne also works with pastel, mohair, and found objects. Since 1989, she has been based at Spring City Mill Studios in Northern Chester County, USA.
After running a design and craft business in the Scottish Highlands for a decade, she has spent over 40 years as a weaver, selling her work in galleries and shops across the Atlantic.
Anne also works with pastel, mohair, and found objects. Since 1989, she has been based at Spring City Mill Studios in Northern Chester County, USA.
Michele Guy - TREASURER
Michele Guy joined the Guild in 2024; her artistic efforts focus on watercolor. Michele plans to bring her 40 years of IT and office support experience to her new role as the Guild’s Treasurer.
Rebecca Carpenter - SECRETARY / Show Photographer
Rebecca Carpenter is a mixed media collage artist, primarily a photographer.
She loves to explore and photograph the figure in abandoned spaces, as well as dynamic landscapes.
Rebecca also loves to play with textures in encaustic, especially a lot of the vintage papers and fabrics that she has collected over time.
She loves to explore and photograph the figure in abandoned spaces, as well as dynamic landscapes.
Rebecca also loves to play with textures in encaustic, especially a lot of the vintage papers and fabrics that she has collected over time.
Board
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Mia Curran - PROGRAMS / Hospitality
When Mia Curran was seven her father, an artist, photographer, and teacher, handed her the first 35mm film camera. Now, an award winning artist, she captures her images with an iPhone which is always ready for the unexpected.
With a BA in Anthropology from Penn State, Mia continued her education with master classes in Anthropology (Temple), Education (West Chester), and Accounting (Penn State).
With a BA in Anthropology from Penn State, Mia continued her education with master classes in Anthropology (Temple), Education (West Chester), and Accounting (Penn State).
Sabah Faroog - EXHIBITIONS /Memers' Show Chair
Multicultural, multilingual, global citizen. Sabah Faroog has grown up in five countries, and had the fortune to start painting at the age of nine, when an American GI in Turkey put her in a room and told her to paint.
Art has been a passion and a parallel journey for her, with a 40-year professional career in the field of diagnostic ultrasound entailing clinical, entrepreneurial, consulting and marketing in the highly competitive medical imaging field.
Sabah is an award-winning artist in the Phoenixville and Pottstown area. She is passionate about building bridges with words, poetry, and the visual arts.
Art has been a passion and a parallel journey for her, with a 40-year professional career in the field of diagnostic ultrasound entailing clinical, entrepreneurial, consulting and marketing in the highly competitive medical imaging field.
Sabah is an award-winning artist in the Phoenixville and Pottstown area. She is passionate about building bridges with words, poetry, and the visual arts.
Naomi Jones - INTERNAL COMMUNICATION / Website
Naomi Jones is a graduate of Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia where she earned her BFA, Art Education and is working towards her Master’s degree in education.
Naomi has her DOE K-12 Art Education certificate and a Barnes deMazia Certificate from the Barnes Foundation and has been studying the arts for over 25 years.
Naomi has been working with students of all ages for all of her professional career and enjoys being an impactful part of others’ lives.
Naomi has her DOE K-12 Art Education certificate and a Barnes deMazia Certificate from the Barnes Foundation and has been studying the arts for over 25 years.
Naomi has been working with students of all ages for all of her professional career and enjoys being an impactful part of others’ lives.
Douglas Wilson - OUTREACH / Alt Spaces / Press Releases/ Community Events
Douglas Wilson moved to Pottstown in 2022 from Chicago.
He's a sculptor and gardener who retired from teaching after 36 years. He and his partner, Kevin, enjoy traveling and have been all over Europe and Asia.
He's a sculptor and gardener who retired from teaching after 36 years. He and his partner, Kevin, enjoy traveling and have been all over Europe and Asia.
EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION
Working with the Social Media, Design & Marketing teams.
Committees
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Robyn Burckhardt - Membership
Robyn Burckhardt, a veteran artist and workshop leader, works from her studio, "The Nest," in Spring City. Currently, she is painting anchorages along the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern Shore, where she and her husband spend summers on their sailboat.
Her works capture flat landscapes and shallow waters, with expansive skies that burst with color, evoking a sense of calm.
Her works capture flat landscapes and shallow waters, with expansive skies that burst with color, evoking a sense of calm.
Steve Fabian - Graphics
As Steve Fabian’s career in advertising and design winds down, he looks forward to more time to paint.
Throughout the years he has had the privilege of studying drawing, painting, and other art forms under many wonderful people.
Steve is inspired by the good, the bad, and the ugly. The human experience. The old masters, as well as contemporary artists. “By the natural world, and by human nature.
I paint because I have to. It is who I am and how I express my feelings. I believe that all forms of art are a celebration of what it means to be human.”
Throughout the years he has had the privilege of studying drawing, painting, and other art forms under many wonderful people.
Steve is inspired by the good, the bad, and the ugly. The human experience. The old masters, as well as contemporary artists. “By the natural world, and by human nature.
I paint because I have to. It is who I am and how I express my feelings. I believe that all forms of art are a celebration of what it means to be human.”
Fran Parzanese - Masters of Art
Fran Parzanese has been painting for over forty years, primarily in watercolor and alcohol ink.
A former elementary teacher, she honed her craft by taking numerous workshops all these years.
She's a former Berks Art Alliance president and currently runs their still life workshop. She maintains a studio at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts where she teaches watercolor.
A former elementary teacher, she honed her craft by taking numerous workshops all these years.
She's a former Berks Art Alliance president and currently runs their still life workshop. She maintains a studio at the Goggleworks Center for the Arts where she teaches watercolor.
Shanthi Manickam - Historian
Shanthi Manickam is a talented fine artist from Pennsylvania.
She specializes in creating stunning oil and acrylic paintings in a representational style.
Her subjects range from landscapes and florals to portraits and figures.
She showcases her work in art shows across various cities in Pennsylvania and also online.
She specializes in creating stunning oil and acrylic paintings in a representational style.
Her subjects range from landscapes and florals to portraits and figures.
She showcases her work in art shows across various cities in Pennsylvania and also online.
Nicole McGonigal - Juried Show Chair / Show Photographer
Nicole McGonigal is a professional mixed media artist whose work transforms repurposed materials into richly textured mosaic surfaces. Using a combination of paint, marker, pastels, and pen, she creates vibrant, layered compositions that explore the beauty of animals, people, and places. Nicole’s innovative approach to texture and form has earned her multiple first-place awards in gallery exhibitions and features in national art magazines. Her work celebrates creativity through sustainability, inviting viewers to find depth, movement, and meaning in every surface.
JoAnn Moy - Design Team
JoAnn Moy is an award-winning artist with a studio in Spring City Mill Studios and a graduate of Drexel University's Nesbitt College of Design Arts. Her abstract landscapes began with views of her own backyard and the ever changing skys along her morning commute down Rt 422.
Brooke Steytler - Design Team
Brooke Steytler is an animator and art educator.
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