Paola Bari
Paola Bari learned to love ceramics as a young girl in Italy and traveled all over the world to learn different techniques. She worked for IBM in Milano until 1996, when she was invited to cross the Atlantic. After ending her career at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, Paola devoted herself full time to porcelain painting. Her porcelain works have appeared in exhibitions at prestigious galleries, including the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, Byrdcliffe Barn Pottery, and James Cox Gallery, all in New York. Paola is a member and a certified artist with the International Porcelain Artists and Teachers organization. She is also active in conservation. Paola is currently a trustee of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, located in Namibia, Africa. Her contribution has been mainly on education and fundraising.
Kevin Clifford
Dad, husband, graffiti writer, general contractor
KP Devlin
Born in Atlanta, GA in 1971, KP Devlin relocated to New York City in 1989, where he spent 32 years, writing, painting, and performing his music until moving to New York’s Hudson Valley in 2021. He has had a successful dual career as both a singer/songwriter and performing musician, as well as a fine art painter. His music has received airplay on FM, satellite, and internet radio, has been used in TV shows, ads, promos, and video games, and he has toured the globe, performing across the US and as far away as Sydney, Australia. His artwork has been shown in galleries from his home in New York City across the state of NY and as far west as Portland, OR, and his paintings are in dozens of private collections across the country.
Mary Ann Glass
My work has been described as spiritual and sensual, serious and elegant. I shoot exclusively with my iPhone and use the powerful phone apps to add depth, emotion and a sense of time to my images. I am a graduate of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s summer intensive program. I was one of the founding owners of RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon which featured Hudson Valley artists for 17 years. I’m currently the co-curator of Gallery 40 in Poughkeepsie, and I also manage a group of 20 Hudson Valley artists on social media and organize several IRL popups a year. In addition, I’ve taught photography workshops in Australia and Italy as well as attended international residencies in Poland and in Beacon. My images have been exhibited in galleries throughout the tri-state area.
Janice A Hyde
Being a self taught artists I have been exhibiting and selling pieces starting in my teens. Having participated in both group and solo shows mostly in New York. At times I have come away with prizes in various shows in the mixed media category.
I have also been commissioned several times leading my work to land in places such as London, Italy and Puerto Rico.
Mari Keeler Cornwell
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Mari Keeler Cornwell is a classically trained artist whose work is shaped by vibrant color, cultural memory, and the strength of the women who raised her. She learned to paint under her aunt, Venezuelan artist Maria Cristina Romero, and was deeply influenced by her grandmother Mary Calcaño— Venezuela’s first female pilot. After moving to Princeton, NJ in 1989, Mari earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the Laguna College of Art and Design and built a career as an advertising creative while exhibiting her work in NYC. Now an ENL educator, mother of two, and professional artist, Mari creates narrative portraiture exploring identity, resilience, and the emotional language of womanhood.
Rob Lundberg
Robert Lundberg is a photographer, artist and thinker. Passionate about merging scientific and artistic methodologies. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, to Brooklyn, he now finds himself exploring upstate, New York. His photographic works have been featured in publications such as The Huffington Post, Paste Magazine, Brokelyn, Vents Magazine, Do NYC, No Depression, The Patch and countless others including podcasts. In June 2018 he debuted his solo show “Uncontaminated Sound” at the Bowery Electric. 2019 saw Lundberg showcasing “Uncontaminated Sound II” at Arlene’s Grocery and beyond. Since 2020, Lundberg has grown a self-produced raw artist to artist conversation series entitled "Uncontaminated Sound: the Interviews" to nearly over 700,000 views. Currently in collaboration with wavefarm.org ( an international transmission arts organization and WGXC (Catskill, NY) on a FM broadcast series. In 2023 he executed a 75 image mid career retrospective of his cumulative cultural works at the Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY.
Noah McGrath
Noah McGrath, a mostly self taught artist, has been experimenting in abstract art since 2005. Working in acrylic paint, watercolors, pastels, and now mainly oil paint /mixed media.
In 2022 Noah began studying abstract art at the Woodstock School of Art under Melanie Delgado. Recently showing some of his work in the student showcase. He also has a background in photography. Studying fine art black and white photography at Kingston highschool in 2000, and at Ulster County Community College in 2002. In 2020 Noah began using his photos to create linocut prints, printing on both paper, and many different kinds of fabrics selling some merchandise at local shops Stuff in Uptown Kingston New York, and Makersville Consignment in Catskill New York. Most recently he has shown works at Emerge Gallery in Saugerties Ny, Waam in Woodstock Ny, The Olive Free Library in Olive NY, Maidenlane Gallery in Kingston NY.
Sylvia Mueller
Sylvia Mueller studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and worked for several years in magazine production. It wasn't until her move to the Hudson Valley that she found the time and space to work creatively again. This time, she enlisted magazines quite differently to create analog collages. The choice to change mediums was the desire to have a more textural, hands-on art practice. Her love of nature is reflected in the cuts in her collages, capturing the patterns and repetition found in the natural world. She has exhibited in juried shows in Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in Woodstock, Muroff Kotler Gallery SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge.
Terry Pasquale
Terry Pasquale began her art education at the Hudson River Museum and
continued it at Pace University, the American University of Rome, and the
Westchester Art Workshop. She discovered paint pouring during the
pandemic and embraced the freedom it brought. Most of Terry’s current work is acrylic abstract with some element of accidental art. Terry has displayed her paintings with the Land Gallery, Gallery 25, Arts Westchester and other places in NY & CT. She is a proud member of Sherman Artists Association and splits her time between Yonkers, NY and New Fairfield, CT.
Tatyana Polyak
2022 - current Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Communications Director 2019 - 2022 Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Gallery Director
2017 - 2019 ARTS-NY.com, Executive Director
2000 - 2017 Marketing manager at various companies
Recent Exhibitions:
2025:
The Art of Food, YonkersArts, 216 Lake Ave, Yonkers, NY
2025 Small Works Open Juried Art Show, MAG Gallery, 1987 Palmer Ave, Larchmont, NY Places & Spaces, Online Juried Show, Conversationswithartists.com
Flight of Fancy, art auction, Rockefeller Art Gallery, 125 Phelps Way, Pleasantville, NY The Color of Passion, InsideSmall.com
2024:
Pelham Arts Center, 155 Fifth Ave #1503, Pelham, NY, 10803
Vanda Art Gallery, 379 Huguenot St, New Rochelle, NY, 10801
KinoSaito Arts Center, 115 7th St, Verplanck, NY, 10596
Bronxville Library, 201 Pondfield Rd, Bronxville, NY, 10708
SUNY/WCC Peekskill Art Gallery, 27 North Division St, Peekskill, NY, 10566
2023:
Small Works, MAG Gallery, 1987 Palmer Ave, Larchmont, NY, 10538
Field Library, 4 Nelson Ave, Peekskill, NY,10566
Laura Schmidt
I am an artist who lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. I studied painting ant Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and in Rome, Italy. After a long stretch of parenting, I have come back to the studio to work.
Heidi Stein
Heidi Stein is a local artist who has exhibited with the Putnam Arts Council and the Mahopac Public Library Gallery. She teaches classes in gel plate printing, card-making and mixed media art. Heidi has a solo show coming up at the Field Gallery in Peekskill for the month of June. It’s entitled “Untold Stories” and captures moments in time through ephemera like handwritten letters and gel-printed papers collaged on acrylic paintings. Daily activities, like writing, cooking and reading, are forgotten with the passage of time, but art transposes the ordinary into something extraordinary.
Joann Zwolski
I received my BFA from Pratt Institute, and my MA from the College of New Rochelle. I have exhibited my artwork in several solo and group shows throughout the tri-state area and the state of Delaware. I have taught art for over thirty-five years to students from kindergarten to high school and have been teaching adults drawing for many years in a variety of places. I was a trustee, including the chairman, with Putnam Arts Council and I am currently a trustee with the Peekskill Arts Alliance Board.
Naomi Berkery
Naomi is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator whose work bridges the realms of fine art, graffiti, and emotionally charged portraiture. A graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, she holds an MFA in Art and Design Education with a concentration in Art Therapy.
Since 2003, Naomi has taught visual art to students with special needs in NYC, grades 4th-12th, diagnosed with a wide range of learning differences. As a certified art therapist and department head, she approaches education and her own expression as intertwined tools for healing, identity formation, and empowerment. Naomi works from her studio in Newburgh NY. Her work is shown in local galleries and businesses throughout the Hudson Valley and NYC.
Rob Decina
Rob Decina is a NY based, creative professional working in the television industry for close to thirty years. He has a background in the theatre, having received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a published Author and speaks to many colleges and conservatories around the country. Although he enjoys still life paintings, his work is dominated by abstract art. He paints with acrylics and collage paper/mixed media. At his core he is a storyteller and looks to tell a unique story in every painting. A story that is of course up for interpretation for the viewer. His work was recently part of the Luminous Group show at the Arbor Gallery in Carmel, NY. He is a member of the Ridgefield Guild of Artists and the Putnam Arts Center where his work has been shown in group shows.
Therese Fokine
(Terry) I have been painting and creating for about 30 years. I primarily work in oils on canvas but also work with pastels, charcoal and acrylics and watercolors. I have painted on multiple surfaces from walls to rocks, including shells and furniture. I usually is attracted to painting landscapes and people, plein air and still life that are
colorful. My emotions toward creating are “If you like looking at something you can take a photo of it and enjoy that. When you paint it, or draw it, you become part of it. You feel and see where the folds are or the feel the texture of the fabric, or the emotion the people in your work are feeling.” “When someone trust you enough to create from their photo or person, you get to know that person, Or their vision. This is the ultimate compliment.”
Katie Goldberg
Katie Goldberg is a classically trained fine artist residing in Westchester County, NY. Her diverse artistic styles range from watercolor to acrylic painting to collage, and combinations of these mediums. Her artistic career spans decades, having worked as a medical illustrator, advertising art director, graphic designer, fine artist, and art instructor.
Rose James
Rose received a Bachelor and Master's from State University College at Buffalo. Rose has been honored with many awards and recognitions. Her work is held in both private and public collections, and she belongs to several artist societies. She has exhibited with the Buffalo Society of Artists, the Albright Knox Western New York Show and Chautauqua Institute’s International Art Exhibition. She exhibits her oil paintings with the Mamaroneck Artist’s Guild.
Aurora Kilai
Over 40 years ago, I trained in Reiki and felt the depth of the vibrations of light for healing and illumination. From there I explored the vibrations of consciousness in the body, training in different healing modalities. I continued my exploration of the healing frequencies of consciousness in flower essences, in sound, in water, in rocks and minerals and in nature. A few years ago, I began to explore the vibrations of color with different media. I felt guided to play with color in abstract creations. More recently, I have discovered that fluid acrylics allows me to relax into the flow of colors' vibrations as I let my heart's wisdom co-create with them on the canvas.
Jennifer Maher
I’m Jenn Maher—a Soulful Prosperity Coach, and now visual artist. After overcoming addiction, trauma, and the complete loss of my business, savings and income at 51, I rebuilt my life with nothing but grit, vision, and faith. Today, I coach leaders and creatives to build aligned lives and businesses rooted in clarity, power, and purpose. I live a minimalist, digital nomad lifestyle and capture moments that reflect the beauty and resilience I’ve fought for. My photography, like my coaching, is about real life—raw, honest, and full of meaning. I don’t create to impress. I create to remind people who they are and what’s possible when they choose to rise.
Victor Messick
Victor Messick is an educator of 30+ years, who, through his camera lens tries to see with the eye of a plein air painter and looks for both the abstract and conventional in the natural world.
He believes the natural world is the original artist and sculptor and, through his photographs or other mediums, is merely a conduit for communicating and reenforcing nature’s artistry for others to enjoy, consider, and experience.
Sharon Nakazato
Years of living in Japan and years of intensive training with a master in Asian Brush Calligraphy infuse the very varied works of bicultural artist-writer-teacher Sharon Nakazato, evident in her quality of line, spatial choices, and inherent spirituality. BA and MA from U of Michigan with strong minors in art history plus graduate work in Japan (Tokyo & Sophia Universities). Co-founder and for 10 years Director of Yasuragi Japan Arts Center. Former head of arts program at Longview School. Member of Art East and Peekskill Arts Alliance. Heads up FroGS Plein Air events and the Annual FroGS Juried Art Competition.
Ana Pedro
Born in Leiria, Portugal, Ana studied at Faculty of Fine Arts, in Lisbon, from 2012 to 2015. Since 2022, the artist has lived and worked in New York. Pedro had her debut exhibition at Arbor Gallery in New York in 2024. The artist participated in several exhibitions and art fairs the same year in the Hudson Valley area, New York and Ridgefield, Connecticut. Ranging from human and pet portrayals to botanical observations, Ana’s works are usually created utilizing dry mediums as pastels and colored pencils. Pedro’s artworks have been acquired by local and international collectors.
Danielle Rogers
Danielle Rogers' inspirations originate from emotions evoked by the world around her. Since she is by nature a quite and reserved person she expresses her feelings through her paintings and poems.
Danielle's paintings are directed by color. She prefers not to explain her work to the viewers because it is important to connect to the work on their own.
" Paint is my vocabulary and the canvas my story"
Cecilia Soprano
Cecilia is Largely self-taught. She Her cover art has been featured on Inner Realm Magazine . Her poetry has been published in various journals including: UCSB. Her images and writings are featured in the New Croton Arts Review among others.
She self-published 3 books, and has illustrated books for private authors. She is the t-shirt designer for Muscoot Farm and Ward Pound Ridge Reservation.
One-woman shows:
~Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY,
~Ward Pound Ridge WPA Gallery, Briarcliff Club Fit, and Nathaniel Witherell Center in Greenwich, CT
Group shows include
~Flinn and Bendheim Galleries in Greenwich, CT and the ~Katonah Museum of Art.
Galleries: Oak and Oil Gallery, Awakenings, and “10536” in Katonah, former LaBriola Gallery in Stamford, CT “Art is an attempt to capture life. To crystallize and make permanent that which is forever fleeting and changing. (Eyvind Earl)
Her web site is being updated: CeciliaSoprano.com Ph: 203-554-1520
Cindy Sumerano
Cindy Sumerano is a painter, metalsmith and educator based in Hurley, NY. Holding two degrees from SUNY New Paltz, she continued her studies in printmaking, painting and metal smithing in studios locally, across the United States and in Italy. Currently working primarily in acrylic painting, Cindy’s work, whatever the medium, is representational and expresses her interest in light, structure, and visual story telling.
Donna Castelluccio
Donna Castelluccio is a mixed media artist with fiber art being her latest love. She likes to use vintage materials in her books, vignettes, wall hangings and upcycled clothing. I love texture so I love going through my bins of fabrics, laces and trims, it’s both visually and tactilely exciting. I like the design process and looking though my stash. I find fabrics I like together or vintage pieces of clothing that suggest what they want to become. Its possibilities. I like that my work is different & unique. I have taken many classes over the years. I also teach classes. I am a member of ArtEast , Arts MidHudson, Sherman Artsists and Putnam Arts Council My work has been in:
Live 4 Art Gallery, Pawling, NY
Putnam Arts Council, Carmel, NY
Tivoli Artists gallery, Wallkill River Arts
Patterson, Adriance, Beekman Libraries, Pawling, NY
Donna has led a creative life.
Judith deToth
Judith deToth lives in Carmel, NY. After teaching elementary school for 40 years in NYC and Westchester County, she decided to follow her passion for art. About fifteen years ago, an artist friend in Maine encouraged her to resume art lessons again. She signed up with Jeanne DeMotses from the Putnam Arts Council in Mahopac, and credits her with learning the fundamentals of art and design. After a few years, she transferred to Arts on the Lake to study with the renowned artist, Alexander Shundi. He encouraged her to rely on her imagination, in lieu of photographs, to draw and to paint. He also believes she should experiment with abstract designs. Judith has explored several media: oil, acrylics, and alcohol inks. Today, she paints with friends who help each other explore different avenues.
Harriet Forman Barrett
Multidisciplinary Artist – Oil Painting, Sculpture, Jewelry Design
Education
• High School of Music and Art, NYC — Graduated 1965
o Received Oil Painting Award
• Pratt Institute — Bachelor of Fine Arts
Professional Experience
• Professional Jewelry Artist – 1969 to Present (56+ years)
• Practicing Oil Painter and Sculptor – Ongoing
Selected Exhibitions
• Young Americans ’69, Museum of Contemporary Crafts – Nationwide Tour, 1969 • World Silver Show, Mexico City – 1973
• Monmouth Museum – 1977
• Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art – 2020
• Hammond Museum – December 2020 to June 2021
• American Artists Professional League, 93rd Grand National Exhibition – 2021
• Cunneen-Hackett Art Center, One Woman Show – 2022
• Arts in the Loft – 2022 & 2024
• Lace Mill Gallery – 2024 & 2025
• Wired Gallery, One Woman Show – 2024
• The Bank Art Gallery
Georgine Honohan
I am a watercolorist and I am a daily sketcher. Watercolor is a medium that enables me to capture what I discover around me. It is portable, meditative, and full of controlled surprises. The transparency of this medium can capture depth with layers. The flow of
the watercolor shows off the fluidity of nature The light of the paper showing through lends a freshness to my paintings. Watercolor is a constant challenge that absorbs me on a daily basis.
Drawing/sketching is an important part of my daily art. It allows seeing deeply the edgesand shadows and shapes that help me see form. Handmade sketch books travel with me constantly.
Composition is ultimately the force that holds it all together. Line, color, and value are at the forefront of my mind when I begin a watercolor painting. It is through daily sketching and watercolor painting that I am engaged with the world around me.
Constance Kane
Constance Kane’s artistic journey is rooted in a childhood filled with creativity and family inspiration in New Rochelle, New York. Encouraged early on, she developed a passion for painting, design, and mural work. After earning degrees in education and political science and working as a special education teacher, Kane returned to art during retirement, creating hand-painted ornaments and murals. She values emotion and memory, striving to capture fleeting, intimate moments through her work. Influenced by artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Grandma Moses, and Peter Max, her paintings celebrate light, joy, and the everyday. A self-taught artist with a rich family creative heritage, Kane combines technical skill with warmth and optimism. She is an active member of the Putnam Arts Council and Katonah Art Museum. Her goal remains to create art that invites viewers to slow down, feel deeply, and appreciate the beauty in life’s small miracles.
Amanda Lynne
Amanda Lynne is an award-winning New York painter and mixed media artist. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, and an MFA from The College of New Rochelle. She has studied internationally in Rome, Italy. In 2023 Amanda was artist-in-residence at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico, Tarrytown, NY. In 2022 and 2023, Amanda created a series of 19 mixed media pieces entitled Wildlife, depicting endangered wild animals. She pledged to donate 25% of sales to wildlife conservation. To date, she has contributed $1000 to protect endangered species from the sales of ten of these works. Amanda shows extensively in both solo and group exhibitions in New York and Connecticut. Her work can be found in private collections throughout the United States. Amanda’s public art experience includes an outdoor mural at the Kent Art Association, Kent, CT, and the Rye’s Above Butterfly project for two consecutive years.
Steven Markus
Much of my artwork has been inspired by my lifelong love of the outdoors and my travels in the west, particularly to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National parks. My travels west began in 1998 with my first wildlife and landscape painting workshop sponsored by the Daniel Smith company. I enjoyed my first trip so much I returned there for additional workshops in 1999 and 2000. Working in oils, I enjoy the challenge of plein air painting as well as studio work and I’m an active member in the Ridgefield Guild of Artists.
Jerry Michalak
Jerry Michalak is a Hudson Valley painter whose practice bridges observation and abstraction, exploring the quiet transformation of landscape through time. Michalak has developed a distinct series of abstract winter landscapes, particularly wooded scenes rendered in restrained palettes. These works echo composer John Cage’s idea that “There’s not enough nothing in it,” inviting viewers into a contemplative space where visibility dissolves and form gives way to atmosphere. For this exhibit he has chosen a theme of "The Vanishing Wilderness", which explores environmental fragility through a softened palette and weathered textures. Across these bodies of work, Michalak captures not just the changing landscape, but the fleeting emotional and sensory impressions it leaves behind.
Kitty OCallaghan
My visual language is one of collective memory. Using light, color, and scale, I explore familiar spaces, everyday objects, and landscapes that communicate a strong narrative sense and atmosphere. I work in oils and acrylics, oil pastels, encaustic, and fiber. Whatever the medium, I believe that art acts as the intercessor, transmitting a reality beyond what I can depict.
Vanessa Pineda Fox
Vanessa Pineda Fox grew up on Long Island and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. After graduating with a BFA in graphic design, she enjoyed working in new media in various roles as a graphic designer. Working with acrylics and mixed media, Vanessa enjoys exploring handwriting as texture and seeing how the light play is affected using metallics, mattes, and resin. Her inspiration is fed by her emotions, her surroundings, and the unpredictable direction of her brush strokes.
Margaret Ryan
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James Sparks
I have been an art educator and painter for almost fifty years teaching studio art, photography and art history at the university level.
Currently, I am retired as an Adjunct Professor of Art at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York (since 2002). My teaching approach has always been to emphasize the multi- disciplinary nature of the creative process to cognitive philosophy, psychology and, really, to all the humanities. Put more simply, stressing cognitive science as a portal into the origins of artistic creativity from an evolutionary perspective. My personal imagery has always been to explore the fluid boundaries between representational and abstraction in Nature, discovering a new awareness and appreciation of beauty and what is worth looking at.
Yung-wu
b. 1992, Bronx, NY
Yung-wu (she/her) is a self-taught abstract artist based in the Hudson Valley. Heavily influenced by her upbringing in New York City and South Korean heritage, her work centers around the exploration of identity and fluidity of memory. Every work is created intuitively with a variety of unconventional tools, such as cardboard, battery packaging, and other found objects. Yung-wu’s process is a balance of spontaneity and intentionality, taking in the moment and translating that onto canvas.
Her pseudonym, Yung-wu, combines parts of her paternal grandmother’s ( , Bak Young) and maternal
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grandfather’s ( , Lee Woo Yul) names—a tribute that reflects her hope to carry forward fragments of the past 열우이
to create something new.
Yung-wu’s work continues to gain recognition at solo and group exhibitions across New York and Connecticut and is currently represented by Eleventh Hour Art Gallery in Brooklyn.
