Board of Directors
The Board consists of individuals with backgrounds as practicing artists, art lovers, teachers, education administrators, business, marketing, non-profit service, development, fundraising, and recent users of summer intensive programs like Mount Gretna School of Art. While the primary duty of the Board is to the fiduciary integrity of the school, they also perform important advisory, fundraising, and volunteer roles to its programming, management and activities.
Olivia Hiester
Olivia Hiester is a painter and printmaker living and working in her native city of Philadelphia, PA. She graduated with a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was a recipient of the James J. and Frances M. Maguire Artistic Excellence Scholarship and the Raymond and Estelle Rubens Travel Scholarship. She has attended the Mount Gretna School of Art’s summer intensive program three times and was awarded the Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Painting Residency in 2023. She holds a Barnes-De Mazia Certificate from the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. In 2024, she received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.
Drew Hostetter
Treasurer
Drew Hostetter(CPA) graduated from Bloomsburg University summa cum laude in 1976 with a BS degree in accounting. During his business career he worked for PriceWaterhouse, Equitable Bancorporation, MNC Financial, NationsBank and Susquehanna Bancshares. He retired from Susquehanna in 2013 as EVP and CFO. He currently resides on several non profit boards as a financial advisor including Bloomsburg University Foundation, Camp Conquest, Etown Grace Church, Gretna Music, Mt Gretna School of Art and Lancaster County Therapeutic Riding.
Patricia Hottenstein
Pat Hottenstein graduated from Messiah College in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science in education. After teaching middle school for a few years, followed by a period at home with her two adopted sons, she changed careers and began working at Merrill Lynch as a Financial Advisor.
Since her retirement from Merrill Lynch in 1997, she has devoted considerable time to serving on various non-profit boards and committees, focusing on the arts and services for the disabled. She has been especially active in supporting the arts in Mt Gretna.
In her free time, Pat enjoys her own artistic pursuits such as cooking, interior design, and creating fiber artworks. She lives in Mt Gretna with her husband Dan and little dog Marley.
Garrett Moore
President
Garrett Moore lives in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania with his wife Liza and son Clemmeth. He received his BFA in Fine Art from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design (2015). During the Summer of 2016, he participated in the 6-week Intensive School at Mount Gretna School of Art to draw and paint from direct perceptual observation alongside motivated painters, while engaging the community. He previously volunteered on the school’s board of directors as an alumni representative, and now serves as board President. He also serves on the marketing team of Poiema Visual Arts, a Pennsylvania-based ministry infrastructure facilitating discipleship, education, and community for Christian visual artists.
Carrie Patterson
A longstanding advocate for the arts, Carrie Patterson served for many years on the Board of The Painting Center in New York, and the St. Mary’s County Arts Council. She has authored How to See for The Great Courses, The Teaching Company. She is the founder of thegesso.com (an arts education company dedicated to helping creative teens), and theyellowline.co (a k-12 art education curriculum company). As an artist, she creates geometric paintings that embody a poetic, physical translation of space. She earned a BFA from James Madison University, an MFA from The University of Pennsylvania, and was a student resident at the New York Studio School where she worked with Charles Cajori, Mercedes Matter and Rosemarie Beck. In 2021, Patterson received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. In 2020- 2023 she served as the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of the Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she is a tenured Professor of Art.
Lou Schellenberg
Secretary
Lou Schellenberg is a landscape painter whose work is in numerous private and public collections. Raised in NY and New England, Lou studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the University at Albany, NY. She is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Elizabethtown College where she taught painting and drawing for 20 years. She was one of the founding board members of MGSOA in 2013.
When not painting Lou volunteers as a Habitat Steward in Lancaster County and is a Riparian Ranger for the Chesapeake Bay Alliance.
Her work is currently represented by Lancaster Galleries in Lancaster, PA.
Michael Shank
Michael Shank graduated from York Academy of Arts with a major in Interior Design. A
productive career led him to the position of Director of Design at Interiors Home, Lancaster, PA.
After 45 years in the Interior Design profession, Michael retired to his present more relaxed
schedule as a freelance designer.
Among his many interests are travelling in the USA and abroad, going to museums, reading,
creating art and exploring antique and flea markets. Michael resides in Mt. Gretna, PA with his
wife and two Pomeranians.
Matt Stargel
Matt Stargel is a Georgia native who attended undergraduate at Mercer University and graduate school at The University of Georgia in Athens. He has spent most of his career in industrial manufacturing in the chemical, automotive, and cpg industries. In 2017 he co-founded Canopy Foods a food and beverage manufacturer. In 2019, he co-founded PackLabs, a CBD beverage manufacturer that was sold to private equity in 2021. Currently he is a partner at and leading business development, sales, and software development for Founder’s Market, a specialty food and beverage logistics innovation company. He resides in Manheim, Pa. with his wife Ashley and his on Lincoln.
Pam Tronsor
Born and raised in a suburb of NYC, Pam Tronsor was a Thomas Hunter Honors Scholar at Hunter College, with a concentration in Classical Studies, German, and Art History. Following completion of a Certificate Program in European Archaeology in Oxford, England, Pam worked as a Researcher at the Oxfordshire Archaeological Institute in Oxford.
To prove that a liberal arts major prepares one to pursue any field of work, she had a long career as a labor union organizer and international representative for the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO. Her responsibilities included contract maintenance and negotiations, handling grievance and arbitration issues, political mobilization, advocacy for and representation of workers' rights and education, and the training of stewards and Union officers. Additionally, she has served as Secretary and Trustee of the Lancaster Labor Council, AFL-CIO. This career in the labor movement is the work of which she is most proud.
This commitment to social justice has continued since retirement. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Lancaster Chapter of the NAACP, and a member of the Board of the Lancaster Bail Fund.
Pam is a lifelong supporter of the arts. She has volunteered as a docent at the MMA's Cloisters Museum and as a program volunteer at the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC. Furthermore, Pam has a history of interest in and an extensive collection of original WWI posters, focusing on images of women. She has curated two shows of her collection: at the Lancaster Literary Guild in 2014 and the Hess Gallery of Elizabethtown College in 2018. Her interest in ephemeral at-posters and postcards-has led to her position as a member of the Board of the Lancaster Postcard Club. She also passionately collects original paintings, prints, and drawings, with many works by artists with a connection to the Mount Gretna School of Art.
JD Young
JD Young is a Partner in Young and Young, Attorneys at Law.
He graduated from Manheim Central High School, Gettysburg College and Delaware Law School.
In addition the serving for the Mount Gretna School of Art board, he has served as President and Trustee of Danner Home, Past President of Manheim Tennis Club, Advisor Board Member of Fulton Bank, and Elder at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ.
He has two children, Molly and Steven, and his hobbies include tennis, hiking and fishing.