About Mollie McShane Allen

         Mollie Allen draws inspiration from color, animals, nature, music, and children. She studied art at Moore College of Art and  Cabrini College for a degree in elementary education.

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While raising her two daughters she played music in a family band, yet continued to pursue her love of painting and drawing while attending a variety of classes at Chester County Art Association, Wayne Art Center, Chester Springs Studio and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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For the past 35 years Mollie has worked with children of all ages in a variety of different settings. In the last 15 of those years she has shared her love of painting and ceramics with the youth at Open Connections, a home school education and resource center in Newtown Square, where “freedom to learn and create” and lifelong learning are guiding principles.