Art Alliance members Dotty Ford and Gloria Plosky Scaltz display their assemblage artwork at the Downtown Improvement District Office (127 S. Fraser St.) July 7 through the month of August.

Dotty Ford received a BA in Art at Bucknell University. She taught art in the State College Area School District for over 35 years. After retirement, she has focused on being a docent at the Palmer Museum of Art, and volunteering at the Bellefonte Art Museum as curator of their Holiday Show and Sale for 7 years.

Dotty also has led an interest group called Speaking of Art for the University Women’s Club for 6 years. Dotty loves to combine various media in her art with an emphasis on drawing, print-making, collage and assemblage. 

Gloria Plosky Scaltz attended the Pennsylvania State University, studying art and art education. She taught art in the State College Area School District for thirty-nine years.

Making art for most of her life, her main focus is collage and  assemblage, which is art that is made by assembling various objects collected by the artist. She searches the internet, antique shops, and even parking lots for her interesting bits of rust, stone and wood. Now retired, her days are filled with recycling her finds into visual stories.