Join us for the creative [noun] discussion series event: an in-person, intimate, limited-seating gathering where
presence is the point. With you present, we’ll meet and talk with creatives in the Hanover area.

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Our Next Discussion:

Wednesday, November 4th, 2026, 7:00 PM
Corey Shultz

Owner of Hanover’s
Southern Pennsylvania Clay

Location:
St. Matthew Lutheran Church

Corey Shultz is a ceramic artist, educator, and founder of Southern Pennsylvania Clay, an inclusive community ceramics studio that recently relocated to Hanover. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Northern Kentucky University, Corey spent years teaching ceramics while continuing his own graduate studies. Rather than completing an MFA, he chose to devote his energy to building a place where people of all ages and experience levels could learn, create, and become part of a growing creative community. He has worked with clay for more than twenty years and has spent much of that time teaching others to do the same. Southern PA. Clay

Founded in 2022, Southern Pennsylvania Clay has grown from a teaching studio into one of the region's largest ceramics centers, offering classes, memberships, private studios, exhibitions, and retail space in its new Hanover location. At the heart of Corey's work is a simple belief: creativity should be accessible to everyone. His goal extends beyond making ceramic artwork. He is building a place where artists can learn, experiment, teach, and support one another while strengthening the creative community throughout south-central Pennsylvania.

Seating begins at 6:30 PM, and the conversation starts at 7:00. We’ll chat informally to end the evening.

Tickets are available now at this link! To keep the evening intimate, we'll have only thirty seats available.

Previous Gatherings:

Brian Shea (he/him) is an improv performer and teacher from Hanover. Despite never performing for an audience before 2009, he now spends every possible moment either on stage or helping others find their joy in front of an audience. Along with performing with multiple ensembles in Baltimore and Lancaster, Brian serves as the board vice president of Highwire Improv, which he and three friends founded in Baltimore in 2020. His extended non-profit leadership experience includes seven years on the board of Hanover Little Theatre, including three as board president, a current position on the board of York nonprofit enroot, including chairing the York Fringe Festival Committee, and previous board positions with several other area nonprofits. 

Jared Reck is a young adult author from Hanover, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife and two daughters and teaches 8th-grade Language Arts. Teaching is central to his writing life: Reck says he would not have become a writer if he had not first been a teacher, because his classroom is where he fell in love with YA literature and learned to write alongside his students. He grew up in Hanover, studied at Clemson University, earned a master’s in Educational Leadership from Shippensburg University, and later completed graduate coursework in McDaniel College’s Writing for Children and Young Adults program, where he has also taught.

Reck is the author of A Short History of the Girl Next Door and Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love, both published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. His books tend to mix humor, heartbreak, first love, family, grief, and the messy emotional life of teenagers. A Short History of the Girl Next Door was a 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, while Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love was named to YALSA’s 2022 Best Fiction for Young Adults and Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults lists and was a 2022 SCBWI Golden Kite Award finalist.

Beck Ravenswood is the owner of The Serpent’s Key Shoppe and Sanctuary, a metaphysical and occult shop in downtown Hanover that has quickly become one of the area’s more unusual and talked-about small businesses. Originally opened in 2023, the shop was created as both a retail space and a community-centered sanctuary focused on Earth-based spiritual practices, tarot, wellness products, classes, and alternative spirituality. Beck’s interest in witchcraft, folklore, tarot, and “anything spooky” began in childhood and eventually developed into a larger public platform during the pandemic, when they built a sizable following on TikTok by sharing spiritual practices, tarot content, and educational videos. Support from that online community helped turn the project into a physical storefront in Hanover.

Through events, readings, collaborations with local artists and businesses, and a strong social media presence, Beck has positioned The Serpent’s Key Shoppe and Sanctuary as both a retail destination and a gathering place for people interested in spirituality, creativity, and alternative culture in south-central Pennsylvania.

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