WELLSBORO — May’s featured exhibit will focus on “Nature in Glass and Paint,” on display from Saturday through May 28 at The Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center, 134 Main St., highlighting paintings by Margaret Kemmerer, of Montoursville, and stained glass and copper pieces by Catheal Weiser, of Loyalsock.

An exhibit titled “Kilnformed Colors of Nature,” consisting of fused glass pieces by Kathleen Schnell, of Wellsboro, will be on display in the Atrium Gallery

The Gmeiner will host an opening reception for the new exhibits from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 6, according to a recent press release.

Light refreshments will be served at the reception, which is free and open to the public. Guests will have a chance to speak with the artists about their inspirations and techniques. They will give an artist’s talk at 3 p.m., the release said.

Margaret “Maggie” Kemmerer began drawing and painting at the age of 5 in her Grandmother Wright’s art studio. She includes a “W” in her signature in her grandmother’s memory.

Kemmerer drew horses incessantly until the age of 9, when she was given her first horse. That led to a 30-year break from art as she pursued a career of horse training, competing and teaching. One of her students made it to the finals as the youngest rider in the Atlanta Olympics, according to the press release.

When Kemmerer returned to the United States from Japan in her 40s, she took up art again.

“She is mostly self-taught with the occasional workshop and the astute guidance of her life-long friend, Elsa Sibley, who is a generous teacher and a superb artist,” the press release said. “Margaret paints in several mediums, including oil, watercolor/cold wax, cold wax on slate, and haiku in pen/ink with watercolor images.”

“It has been a fun ride,” Kemmerer said in the press release.

Another of Kemmerer’s friends, Catheal Weiser, is joining her in this exhibit and her works provide the glass, the press release said.

Weiser’s first career was in commercial interior design (Fashion Institute of Technology). She received a bachelor’s in art education from Mansfield University and a master’s from Wilkes University. She taught art in the Montoursville School District until 2011.

She currently lives in Loyalsock Township with her husband.

Weiser’s pieces in stained glass and copper celebrate the beauty of the natural world.

Kathleen Schnell is mainly self-taught. She has created stained glass for 20 years and, in transitioning to fused glass, she took classes at Cape Coral Art Studio in Florida.

She now has 40-plus years of working with glass and handmakes many of the elements that she uses in her pieces at her home studio, according to the press release. Schnell creates art and offers classes in a rustic cottage just outside Wellsboro that she calls “Cottage Glassworks.”

Schnell is known for 2- and 3-dimensional pieces that often incorporate vitrigraph in the fused glass. Forms and colors in nature are her inspiration, the release said. Her works range from abstract to realistic.

The Gmeiner is open from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays and admission to the gallery is free.