Mount Gretna School of Art

This event is for anyone, anywhere online, who wants to make our program affordable to deserving students, provide opportunities to artists and keep MGSoA fiscally sound.

Every year since its founding in 2013, Mount Gretna School of Art (MGSoA) has granted scholarships to York College of PA students and York County residents to attend its one-of-a-kind residential art programs. More than $55,000 has been given since 2013 to help deserving York area students afford our top-tier opportunities.

In 2025, we were able to fund a full need-based scholarship to a deserving student from Shrewsbury, PA who has since graduated from York College. We'd love to help her get a start with some job experience in the arts industry. Funds raised will help to provide her with a paid assistantship and also to provide MGSoA with some much needed help as we stretch our staff to both conduct our flagship summer intensive program this year and develop our own classroom building construction project by 2027.

It's an exciting time for the school and the surge of help through GLY 2026 is well timed to make a huge impact!

At Mount Gretna School of Art, we provide life-changing and transformative opportunities for artists to develop from the time they are students through their emergent careers.

• Our 7-week summer Intensive School attracts college through graduate-level students with a special interest in painting outside in the landscape from direct perception while living in the area’s iconic summer cottages. Students live, eat, and breathe art all day, every day.
• Four Pillars Artist Residency is a non-profit service of MGSoA that attracts early-career artists to develop a body of work, while MGSoA works to promote their art to new audiences with special exhibits, like what we conducted at Marketview Arts.

Give Local York (GLY) is a big part of our funding success each year. Anyone can help with a donation of any amount. It's as much about numbers of donors as it is numbers of dollars.