We host a series of brief lectures by York, PA's makers and doers, who talk about their craft. Our speakers come from varied backgrounds, but they all work systematically and intentionally to create visceral experiences.
PechaKucha Night York utilizes the 20x20 PechaKucha presentation format: 20 slides that automatically advance every 20 seconds. Learn more at PechaKucha.org.
Featured Speakers AT JUNE 27, 2015 INAUGURAL Event
Our first event was “Powered by PechaKucha.” PPK events are one-off events that are separate from regular city-based PechaKucha Nights, and are usually held as part of festivals and conferences, but can also act as standalone events.
Josh Carney
Glorified Caves
The evolution of the craft of creating buildings, and why it is so much different than any other creative enterprise.
Joshua M. Carney, P.E. is President of Carney Engineering Group (CEG), a structural engineering firm located in York, PA. A 1994 graduate of PSU, Josh has designed everything from bridges and buildings to climbing towers and ziplines. He has a passion for the art of engineering, and is somewhat of an old building junkie. His interests lie in everything from study of ancient stone masonry techniques to digital modeling and visualization and everything in between.
Averie Clark
Collective Craft
Thoughts on the who, what, where, when, how and why of coming together to craft.
Quilting bees, spelling bees, and honeybees have all influenced the life of Averie Clark, founder of Collective Courage, LLC, a creative reuse enterprise based in York, doing business as The Bee: gathering with purpose. Clark’s rural central PA upbringing provided hands-on experience with traditional home arts based on values of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and stewardship, which she enthusiastically shares and promotes in her current urban community.
Nate Fochtman
Creating Value Through Sensory Experiences
Through the inundation of marketing and selling in the modern world, it is crucial to create memorable sensory experiences with your target audience. Nate Fochtman will lead you through the journey of creating value through sensory experiences that will outlast any tangible promotional item or event
Nate Fochtman has been building brands and consumer experiences for over ten years, working with everything from global brands to niche local brands. Fochtman's career has spanned through sales, marketing, nonprofit fundraising, business development and entertainment.
Patrick SElls
Time and Materials = Craft
Here we are on earth in a body with opposable thumbs, a big head, and 5 senses tuned to manipulate our material surroundings. Patrick Sells took the hint and applied his senses to a life among the materials. Seeing that perfection is impossible and undefined, he seeks the defects in cast-off materials, re-crafts them to share a story, and calls them perfect.
Patrick Sells is co-founder of local architectural design-build firm Salvaging Creativity. He fabricates furniture, staircases, signage and lighting for residential and commercial space. Patrick spends the remainder of his time working to improve the public urban landscape as a partner in York City's public sculpture program. For the past year, he has joined with Erin Casey and a group of talented community leaders to build the community Makerspace, Working Class. Working Class will serve as a hub for space, tools and knowledge, enabling anyone to build something.
Shane Speal
Seduced Into Crafting: My Life As A Sound Searcher
Shane Speal details his life as a musician, searching for a sound and ending as a cigar box guitar builder.
Shane Speal is the world's foremost master of the cigar box guitar, a primitive stringed instrument cobbled together from discarded wood, guitar strings and an empty box. He is responsible for the modern resurgence of the cigar box guitar, a once forgotten instrument of American blues and roots music. He has been featured in the LA Times, Guitar World and Premier Guitar magazines, and his concert has been featured in the PBS documentary Songs Inside the Box.
Sheldon Yourist
The Fine Art of Shape Sleuthing
Sheldon discusses his experiences with giving companies, brand owners, and salespeople what they want in shape design by utilizing his skills as an artist.
Sheldon Yourist is Global Director of Design for Graham Packaging Co., LP. He is a graduate of Indiana University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honors, majoring in both Printmaking and Sculpture. He has worked in the opera design, architectural ornamentation, sculpture, giftware, tabletop and packaging industries from Los Angeles to York, PA. He has sculpted & designed for PIETRO Studios in Hollywood, Teleflora, Pfaltzgraff and currently, Graham Packaging. He has won numerous awards within the housewares and packaging industries. He is an inventor of electronic sculpting techniques and currently has over 160 patents in the U.S. and around the globe with dozens of pending applications for package designs worldwide.
Brenda Wintermyer
The Fauves (Wild Beasts)
A colorful depiction of Brenda Wintermyer’s art and how it is partially influenced by the French Fauve artists of the early 20th century.
Brenda Wintermyer's high-energy art has become popular in the York art scene, making her art one of York's most recognizable. A native of York County, Brenda has been keeping a studio downtown York for the past 12 years. She has a rich history in the art industry, having been an illustrator for 25 years and then a college professor, teaching illustration and drawing, for 10 years. She now is proud to claim herself as a full-time painter.
