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Artist: Jamie Jay

Occupation: Artist / Designer

Specializing in: Fine Art and Design

 

Experience:

Graphic Designer: William Fox Munroe (Design Firm in Shillington, PA - www.wfoxm.com): Focusing on package design for Hershey candy company. 1998-2001

Wall Muralist: Largest mural can be found at the Oakes Museum in PA.

Web Design: www.pasnacks.com, www.mwalberg.com, www.sunburypa.com, www.artonthepark.com, www.collectibletoyshop.com, www.stampsbydesign.com, www.coincurrencysupplies.com

 

Career Accomplishments:

  • Designed candy packaging and sales materials for Hershey Foods

  • Permanent wall murals at the Oakes Museum in Grantham, PA

  • Designed full page advertisements and spreads for Arts of Asia international magazine

  • Works on display at Carnegie hall for The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Gold Keys awarded

  • 3/24/10 1st Place in Rat Fink Global Makeup Design Contest

  • 12/1/11 Grand Prize Winner in the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) Creative Mind Challenge (from the show Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind) with video entry titled, “Inspiration is Everywhere!” featuring scribbles on recycled mail envelopes which were then turned into art using an ordinary black marker. Theme: "What Inspires You".

 

Art Career Credits and Training:

Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts, York, PA

1998 Graduate - Associates Degree in Specialized Technology

Major: Graphic Design

Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, Erie, PA

1995 Graduate (Scholarship)

Major: Video and Animation

Minor: Creative Writing

Computer Honors Program, PA

1990 Scholarship

Apprentice of international Muralists, Elma and Jerome Connolly

1988-2002

Designer and Photographer for Mark Walberg Fine Art and Antiques

2003-2011

 

Exhibits / Showings

Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art

August 20, 2011 - March 17, 2012

Opening Reception: September 21, 2011

P.O. Box 33, 176 Water Company Road

Millersburg, PA 17061

 


Artist: Jennifer Haupt

Occupation: Artist / Photographer

Specializing in: Children, Adult, & Animal Portraits, Murals, Sculpture, Photography

 

Experience:

Wall Muralist: Largest mural can be found at the Oakes Museum in PA. Apprenticed under parents and grandparents who have painted murals in museums such as the Smithsonian.

Photographer: For Mark Walberg Fine Art & Antiques

Free Lance Artist: Decades of experience - Specializing in portraiture.

 

Education:

Art Apprentice

Under Elma & Jerome Connolly (National Muralists and Wildlife Artists)

 

Exhibits / Showings

Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art

August 20, 2011 - March 17, 2012

Opening Reception: September 21, 2011

P.O. Box 33, 176 Water Company Road

Millersburg, PA 17061


Artist: Jerome P. Connolly

Occupation: Artist / Muralist

Specializing in: Murals and Wildlife Art

 

Experience:

Wall Muralist: Has completed more than 125 diorama murals in 35 museums in the United States, Canada, and Taiwan; including the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the William Penn Museum in Harrisburg, the Oakes Museum in Grantham, PA, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles, the Vanderbilt Museum in New York, among many others.

 

Career Accomplishments:

Born and educated in Minnesota, he began his career on the staff of the Illinois State Museum in Springfield and the Natural Science for Youth Foundation in Westport, CT, painting diorama backgrounds in museums painting subjects from Amazon jungles to Pennsylvania woodlands. He began a freelance career in 1965, working closely with such renowned artists as Francis Lee Jaques. Connolly is also a productive freelancer, having illustrated 16 books and countless magazine covers and articles over the years.

 

Exhibits / Showings

Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art

August 20, 2011 - March 17, 2012

Opening Reception: September 21, 2011

P.O. Box 33, 176 Water Company Road

Millersburg, PA 17061

 

Jerome Connolly: Master Muralist

The exhibit included murals, field studies and sketches, illustrations and many of Connolly's large easel paintings of landscapes and wildlife. It also included works by Connolly's late wife, Elma Troutman Connolly, who was his artistic partner for decades (and whom he met when they were both hired in 1973 to paint a mural at the William Penn Museum) as well as their children and grandchildren, who collaborated with them on many murals. The exhibit was presented in cooperation with the State Museum of Pennsylvania and the Connolly / Troutman family.