Artisan
Seven friends, one dream
Group of local artists open bluebrick gallery
By Adam Kulikowski
Photography by Noel Kline
It started as a dream, something that had the potential to come true.
That dream remained in the back of art teacher and painter Lisa Gohr Harman’s mind for nearly a decade.
“She’s been waiting for this,” says Shawn Heiges, an art teacher at Biglerville Elementary School. “She was just waiting for the right time.”
The time to make that dream a reality came about a year ago when Gohr Harman asked six of her artist friends—Shawn Heiges, Wendy Spicer Heiges, Sarah Schaeffer Maclay, Jill Rakowicz, Amy Thrush-Dreves and Deborah Yargar-Reed—to join her in opening an art gallery.
“She is the one who said to the six of us, ‘I’m ready, are you ready,’” Heiges remembers.
As several of the artists involved in the gallery recently enjoyed dinner and wine at a Gettysburg establishment, Rakowicz recalls the work it took to clean up the first floor storefront on 18 N. Washington St. that would become their dream gallery:
the bluebrick gallery.
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