Playing in mud as a child with her two older brothers was the beginning
of Kathy Kobelin’s ceramics career. After earning degrees in education
and applied arts, Kathy taught in a local school district before
teaching children’s art at the Whitemarsh Art Center. Prior to the covid
pandemic, she was the WAC’s Ceramics Program Coordinator and an adult
ceramics instructor. Experimenting with food safe glazes and textured
surfaces has always been a focus of her functional stoneware. Recently
she has been using underglazes under clear glaze. Her wheel thrown pots
are often altered or combined with hand built details.
Joselyn Kinstler-Ney
Joselyn Kinstler Ney was educated in New York City. She graduated from
The High School of Music and Art as an art student. The Fashion
Institute of Technology and Design where she excelled at flower
painting. Her early working years were at Wamsutta Decorative Fabrics.
There she designed and colored fabrics for the home. After raising a
family, she developed then sold her Interior Design firm. Then she
returned to Painting. She won first or second prizes for the last 5
years of the Summer Art program in Philadelphia. She won second prize in
the Plein Air Art Contest at WAC; She won third prize in the Still Life
competition; She won second prize in Animal painting. Her Artwork was
foreordained, she says, by her ancestors - whose legacy is apparent by
her Maiden name, Kinstler, German (or Austrian) for Artist.
Stefanie Lieberman
In order to best articulate my artistic expression through paint, I use a
variety of painting techniques that include pallet knife, impasto brush
work, scumbles and glazes along with paint splatter and scratching out.
These paint applications allow for a more varied paint surface and mark
making that enhances my representational subject matter.