A growing business is always evolving. Sometimes that means growing in new ways and sometimes that means stopping something that you have been doing. Linda Lineman made the decision to close her second studio #N, that she was using as a classroom, in the National Transit Annex Building. She decided that since it wasn’t being utilized to its full potential, she wanted to look for other ways to expand her business.
Linda, along with other artist in the National Transit Artist studios, are working on holding more activities and open studio time in 2025. Instead of just Shop Small Saturday and Artist Sunday, there will be special days and events that they will invite the public to attend. They are working to get this new program started in the near future.
Lineman was honored to be chosen again to teach classes at the Crestfield Camp and Conference Center in Slippery Rock for the Town & Country Decorative Painters 26th Annual Retreat in April 2024, and for the Golden Triangle Pittsburgh Club Retreat in October. She is scheduled to teach two new classes in 2025 and will be submitting projects to teach in October also.
Always looking to further her own education, Linda takes seminars and classes when she can. She arranged a three-day seminar at the PA Porcelain Artist club in Mercer with Marci Blattenberger, a porcelain art teacher from Tennessee. Under Marci’s teaching, she was able to paint a self portrait that her father requested her to do for him.
Lineman and Diane Kellogg from Oil Creek Originals were on the staff of the First Annual Painting and Crafts Expo in the Chattanooga Convention Center in Tennessee last June. It was sponsored by Painting World Magazine and Viking Woodcraft. They worked to help get ready for it, supported it during the show and also as vendors, where they sold their patterns, surfaces and painting supplies. Both taught make-it-take-it’s, and Lineman was able to teach four acrylic classes.
Lineman chose to set up to sell her art the Gingerbread Tour at Cooks Forest last November for the first time and is already planning on being at this show in 2025. Look for her there in the Sawmill class room.
She is a member of the International Porcelain Artist & Teachers Assoc., Pa. Porcelain Artist Assoc., the W. Pa. Porcelain Artist Club and the Town & Country Decorative Painters Club. She is also President of the following clubs: Pa. State Porcelain club and the Town and Country Decorative Painters.
Lineman announced that she will be scheduling a variety of classes in 2025. Information can be found for these classes on her business Facebook page or call for information.
Lineman’s Porcelain and Painted Memories Studio is in the National Transit Building at 206 Seneca St., #2M, in Oil City. Her art and gifts can be purchased at her studio, Victorian City Art & Frame in Franklin, the Transit Art Gallery & Gifts and on her website. Bold color or delicate beauty can be custom designed especially for you. Everything from baby birth announcements, wedding gifts, pet portraits, holiday items and gifts for any occasion can be ordered. For more information, visit www.lpmchina.com or her Facebook page at www. facebook.com/lpmchina.
