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Open First Fridays from 5-8pm & by appt, email [email protected] or call 717-295-1949.
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06/01/2026

PET ARTISTS if you have not picked up your pieces yet please call us at 717-295-1949 to arrange pick up ASAP! Thank you. 💜

05/30/2026

Mulberry Art Studios’ very first artists in residence- Lynne Yancha, Sheryl Brinkman, Pat Updegraf, Sandy Leonard and Gloria Groff- will be featured during the month of September in the 1st Resident Artist Retrospective at Mulberry Art Studios. Original art, prints, carvings, notecards and jewelry will be showcased during this exhibit. A First Friday Artists reception will be held on September 4 from 5:00-8:00.

Mulberry Art Studios is located at 19-21 N Mulberry St in historic downtown Lancaster. For more information, please call 717-295-1949.

05/26/2026

PET ARTISTS, please remember artwork pickup is this week! Please stop in and retrieve your artwork during the following times:

Wednesday, May 27 from noon until 4pm
Thursday, May 28 from 4pm until 8pm

Thank you!

04/20/2026

It’s almost time!!!! 🐶🐱🐹🐰🐸

04/07/2026

ONLY 4 days left!!!

OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS for Mulberry Art Studios’ 8th Annual We Love Our Pets Art Show. This show will be on exhibit for the month of May- National Pet Month- and will benefit The Sebastian Foundation for Animal Rescue. We Love Our Pets is being held in loving memory of April Koppenhaver’s late husband, Charles E Gaul II, and Mulberry Art Studios’ beagle mix mascot, Milo. A First Friday Opening Reception will be held from 5-8pm on Friday, May 1, 2026.

Artwork can be in any medium, but must be on the subject of pets. Please email [email protected] for guidelines for submitting artwork to be considered for inclusion in this exhibit. Open Submission Period concludes on April 10, 2026.

03/19/2026

This April at Mulberry- Sandy Leonard: Reflections on 60 Years of Creativity

Sandy Leonard, who was Mulberry Art Studios very first assistant decades ago, is returning to the gallery with her own collection of artwork. The aptly named Reflections on 60 Years of Creativity will include originals and limited edition Giclee prints. Leonard works in oils using a palette knife, and in acrylic, pencil, and pastels.

Sandy Leonard graduated from York Academy of Art. Continuing education includes studying at the Student Art League of New York, with Kent Carson of CA and Barb Pappendick, a local pastel artist. An award winning artist herself, Leonard has exhibited in solo, group, and national traveling shows.

As a student, Leonard had to create her color palette using only the primary colors, red, blue and yellow. She continues to use this practice today.

Back when she worked at Mulberry, Leonard reflects, the building was a bare warehouse. “Our office was a shed with a space heater in the center of the first floor,” she says. Both Mulberry and Sandy have come quite a long way!

Reflections on 60 Years of Creativity opens with a First Friday reception on April 3 from 5pm-8pm and runs throughout the month of April. For more information, please call the gallery at 717-295-1949.

03/18/2026

Is This Art?
The Collected Works of Donald Shoffstall

This exhibit explores the influence that setting and context has on human reaction to art.

In the late-twentieth century Mr. Shoffstall posted photocopies of unsigned, hand-written pages on random telephone poles in Lancaster.

At a glance his attempts at communication are unintelligible. He followed none of the conventions of writing or graphic design.
He wrote in waves of phrases that flowed in random directions. He used cursive letters and bold strokes that sprawled across a sheet of paper. The unifying element to his distinctive style is that it suggests abstract expressionism.

Messages, like Shoffstall’s, that originate at the fringes of society are often dismissed or ignored—their inherent beauty and meaning overlooked.

When encountering the photocopies on poles or seeing him with his large sign in a streetscape setting, did the public see artistic expression? Did they discern his messages afloat in seas of the random strokes he fashioned?

The curators collected and preserved postings of various sizes and shapes. All show the blemishes and tatters from sun, rain, and wind.

Five surviving examples of his 8 1/2 x 11 postings that are displayed were also given special treatments.

The curators deconstructed each of the five to highlight the location of some phrases to assist the viewer to find his messages. These are on display on the gallery north wall.

The five were also professionally scanned and printed as 18 x 23 enlargements to help the viewer see the messages and expose the artistry. These are on display on the gallery south wall.

Mr. Shoffstall also took his messages to the
public, in person, as seen in photographs of
him parading a sign on Queen Street.

For this exhibit copies of Shoffstall’s postings were placed on poles where he was known to post them in the past and were photographed by the curators. Those images are on display to provide context for how Mr. Shoffstall originally displayed his work.

The curators brought messages from the streets, created by a person living at the margins of society, into a gallery. Here, in a gallery setting, do you see art? Can you discern Shoffstall’s messages? Or would you dismiss his postings as gibberish?

03/01/2026

OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS for Mulberry Art Studios’ 8th Annual We Love Our Pets Art Show. This show will be on exhibit for the month of May- National Pet Month- and will benefit The Sebastian Foundation for Animal Rescue. We Love Our Pets is being held in loving memory of April Koppenhaver’s late husband, Charles E Gaul II, and Mulberry Art Studios’ beagle mix mascot, Milo. A First Friday Opening Reception will be held from 5-8pm on Friday, May 1, 2026.

Artwork can be in any medium, but must be on the subject of pets. Please email [email protected] for guidelines for submitting artwork to be considered for inclusion in this exhibit. Open Submission Period concludes on April 10, 2026.

02/24/2026

Did you know 80% of strokes are preventable according to the American Heart Association?

Life Line Screening provides valuable health screenings to detect the risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease.

Life Line Screening will be at Mulberry Art Studios on Friday, April 17, 2026 and are offering a special screening package for our members. Learn more and schedule your appointment by calling
1-800-324-9458, texting the word circle to 216-279-1607 or visit Life Line Screening’s website at LLSA.SOCIAL/HABC

There is no time like the present to take action!

02/16/2026

“If I could live another day I will do it making art”

Natural Instinct, the latest collection of paintings from local artist Tama Etra, will be gracing the walls of Mulberry Art Studios this March. The show opens with a First Friday Reception on March 6 from 5pm-8pm.

Tama Etra is a senior artist exploring several mediums from collage, oils, acrylics and watercolor.

Tama’s painting is reflective of her love for nature and her desire to preserve it for future generations to come. Tama also invokes spiritual elements to her work. Tama has loved to paint her whole life and dreamed of making a career in Art or at the very least spend her days painting and being creative.

Tama was born in Connecticut and raised in New York. As a child she enjoyed spending long times upstate hiking and camping but also enjoyed the pleasures of the city and of course summers at the beach. Tama attended New York Technical College as a commercial artist in 1978 and completed her Bachelors at Springfield College in Massachusetts. Tama came to Lancaster, PA in 2005 and found true love with all the rich beauty of the area.

For more info and to schedule a private viewing, please call the gallery at 717-295-1949.

Address

19-21 N Mulberry Street
Lancaster, PA
17603

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 4pm

Telephone

+17172951949

Website

http://www.mulberryartstudios.com/

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