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.
Dorothy Frey
Secretary
Dorothy Frey is as Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Millersville University in Millersville, PA. Previously, she was the Fine Art Department Chair and Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, in Lancaster, PA. Dorothy has also taught drawing at Chautauqua School of Art in New York, and was a student in 2002. She received degrees from American University and Millersville University. Dorothy’s administrative experiences in the arts will help the Mount Gretna School of Art with ongoing administrative insight. Dorothy’s studio is in Willow Street, PA, on the farm she owns with her husband David Fisher. Her paintings are influenced by the surrounding landscape and domestic interiors. She amplifies and exaggerates forms, spatial tensions, and color relationships to serve as metaphors for individualized experiences.
Jeff Grimshaw
Jeff Grimshaw is a cofounder and principal of consulting firm MGStrategy. In recent years, Jeff and his team have helped hundreds of senior leaders on six continents to align people, strategy, and culture in support of important business outcomes. Jeff is the lead author of two books: Leadership without Excuses: How to Create Accountability and High Performance (Instead of Just Talking about It) (McGraw-Hill, 2010) and Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage (Logos, 2019). A University of Utah graduate, Jeff lives with his wife Tanya in Mount Gretna.
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.
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
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.
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.
John David Wissler
President
John David Wissler received his Master of Fine Arts in 1989 from Parsons School of Design in New York, where he studied with Leland Bell, John Heliker, Paul Resika, and Larry Rivers. He also studied with George Sorrels at Kutztown (PA) University, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts. His studies included travel to France, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Wissler has been awarded Artist Residencies at the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation on Cranberry Island in Maine (2009) and The Borgo Finochietto Tuscany, Italy (2012). In addition to teaching and lecturing for fine art classes at institutions in Pennsylvania, he has taught at the prestigious Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in Gatlinburg, TN.
John David is represented by Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster Pa., Islesford Artist Gallery, Islesford Maine and Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford CT. Recent solo exhibitions at Lancaster Galleries include: Italy; Drawings: Great Cranberry Island; Wissler: Recent Paintings; John David Wissler: Paintings – Early 2011; Wissler’s England (essay by Irwin Richman, PhD) and Gathering Light: The Landscapes of John David Wissler (essays by Michael Allen and Ruth Bernard). Selected group exhibitions include Three Artists, Three Views – Golias, Kocher, Wissler, From Observation: An Invitational (catalogue with essay by John Goodrich), Lancaster Galleries, Pennsylvania; Maine as Muse, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York; Pennsylvania Seen, Lancaster Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Continuing Views , Prince Street Gallery, New York; Visions of the Susquehanna, (originating at the Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA traveling to Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY and elsewhere); The Art of the Landscape (curated by Susan Miller, Orange Hall Gallery, SUNY Orange, Middletown, New York; Friday Friends: Michael Allen, Bill Kocher, Kurt Moyer, George Sorrels, & J.D. Wissler (Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA). Public and corporate collections of note include Hershey Chocolate Corporation; The Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence; Kutztown University; Trout, Ebersole, and Groff; Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College; and the Parsons School of Design.
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 La 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.