Debbie Auer-Breihaupt
Debbie Auer-Breithaupt is a 2nd career artist. She spent 20 years in the medical field as a 1st responder in both NY and FL. After a career of listening to people’s stories and bearing witness to loss and birth she wanted to try something new. During the pandemic, her husband bought her a paint set and she started painting illustrations of Goddesses, Myths, Legends and even Story songs.

Her true passion is painting animal characters and humans interacting. She credits her husband and that 1st paint set as her jumping off point for the 40+ group shows and solo shows she has done since October 2021.

She is currently in her 2nd year at SUNY Ulster for the Veterinary Technology program with plans to work with large animals when she is done. You will probably find her on some farm, in the future, taking care of animals and on her off days setting up her easel in a field to paint!

Angela Basile
Angela Basile is a painter and sculptor. She is co-founder of 5′ 7 Studios––a collaborative creative space and gallery housed in the Chocolate Factory in Red Hook, NY. The artist holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Parsons at The New School. She lives in Rhinebeck with her partner and their two young boys.

Lauren Bergman
As a figurative narrative artist Lauren Bergman creates stories in paint that reside at the juncture of myth and social realism. Through her personal language of symbols, the paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape.

Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz Magazine. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York. Other solo exhibitions include the Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York.

Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League. After thirty years in New York City, Bergman now lives and paints in a barn in Saugerties, NY.

Elaine Chao
Elaine B. Chao is a New York based artist concentrating in digital print making. After earning a B.A. in Video Art from Rutgers University she discovered painting. Her unique process draws on visual, cultural and stylistic elements from artists like Paul Klee and Gerhard Richter, as well as Classical Chinese art.

Chao’s printmaking process involves painting on canvas with acrylic and oil to produce a base image that she then edits digitally. Her manipulations include layering multiple paintings and adding digitally drawn elements in Procreate. Chao also creates video work with original audio, the most recent being Guai (2023), which she presented in Miami during Miami Art Week as
part of the Flower Shop Collective. Chao is a member of Solas Studio, where she had her first solo exhibition, “Kinfolk,” in August, 2023. She also exhibits at Pictor Gallery NYC, and has been a part of group exhibitions across the United States, Singapore, the UK, and Italy. She currently lives in Queens, NY with her partner and their cat.

Emily Clark
I was born in Manhattan in 1955. Both my parents were in theater and the arts professionally. I attended public schools until high school where I attended the High School of Music and Art as an art Major. I went on to major in fine arts at the City College of New York .

Over the years I worked in the restaurant business as a waitress and later as a chef. I co-owned an Italian Restaurant in Manhattan, Santerellos, and had two sons.

I re-located to Tivoli New York where I worked as a chef and attended Nursing School at CGCC in Hudson N.Y.. I currently live in Germantown, NY.

After Graduating I worked as a nurse in two local hospitals until I retired from nursing and jumped back into restaurant ownership with Jaeger Haus Restaurant and beer garden, which is where I am today.

Throughout my various careers I have worked steadily as a painter, although my time was limited during my children’s early years.

During the time that I was a member of the artists Co-op in Rhinebeck N.Y. I began to sell a good number of paintings including commissioned portraits. However I found the time required for a co-op situation to be more than I could handle and am at present putting all of my time into painting and Jaeger Haus.

Collin Douma
Like most people, Collin Douma started drawing as soon as he could lift a crayon—but he never stopped. By 18, he was a nationally recognized Canadian animator, winning two national film festivals and earning a place in the National Gallery of Canada’s permanent collection. After graduating from Algonquin College with a degree in traditional animation, Collin illustrated children’s storybooks and animated digital content. He later transitioned into the digital advertising world, working as an Art Director and eventually as a Group Creative Director at McCann in Toronto.

Throughout his career, Collin continued creating and exhibiting his work. In 2010, he moved to New York, where he stopped selling his creativity to the ad world. He put it into an evolving practice, more conceptual work, larger ongoing projects, and art community development. Collin’s work examines social issues, cosmic metaphors, and the tension of juxtaposition. He seeks to uncover moments of clarity and connection in a fragmented world. Through his art, he invites viewers to feel connected to something larger—to see meaning where chaos often reigns.

Debra Friedkin
Debra Friedkin worked as a Registered Nurse at Montefiore Medical Center for several decades. She pursued her artistic talents on the side, exploring various mediums. She gave up her nursing career to pursue studies at the Art Students League NYC. She mentored privately with Lester Zakarin, an illustrator for Stan Lee Marvel Comics, and T. J. Donleavy, a noted modernist painter and sculptor.

Debra is a juried member of the Salmagundi Art Club in NYC, National Association of Women Artists, Audubon Artists, and Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. An award-winning artist, Debra has widely exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States.

Angela Gaffney-Smith
Angela Gaffney-Smith is an artist of the Catskills. She was born in England in 1957 and became a U.S. citizen in 1972. Angela received a B.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from SUNY New Paltz. Gaffney-Smith uses two distinct mediums to convey her connection to the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River.

“With over thirty years of water media experience, I use transparent watercolor to capture the light of forest, streams, rocks & storms in the Hudson Valley Region. Watercolor has been a constant medium in my life.

Inspired by my Irish heritage and the Native American stone piles in the Catskills, I began constructing bluestone cairns over 12 years ago ranging from 2 inches to 7 feet tall using stone from our own quarry rubble. These cairns are vessels for thoughts and images and often contain meaningful relics of people and places. They begin with an infinite circle at the base and wind upward to a point of air and light. The Path, was part of the juried Miniature Monumental Exhibition at the Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. February 2023. A Thousand Reasons Why was one of 81 out of 561 submissions chosen for the Made in NY Exhibition at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY March 2023.

My bluestone, watercolors and collage are in private collections in the U.S. and Ireland. The five foot tall bluestone sculpture, Ringneck, 2020, marks the entrance to the nature trail at the Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY.”

Maureen Gates
Maureen Gates has been a working commercial and fine art photographer creating
photographic art for her clients in the Hudson Valley area and beyond since 1984. With an eye for detail, light, and shadow, she creates fine art images for personal and business use. She is best known for her contemporary approach, blending classical and modern lighting styles to create natural and emotional images. Maureen enjoys alternative processing techniques and is known for working with Cyanotype, Van Dyke, and Infra-Red.

Maureen has had a solo show at Montgomery Row Art Space in Rhinebeck. She was an active participant in Art Studio Views in the Rhinebeck area for several years. Her work has been accepted into a juried show in 2024 at the The Sketchbook Gallery. Two of her black&white Infra-Red art images were selected to hang in a show in September 2024 at The Palmer Gallery at Vassar College. An infra-red image art image has been selected to hang in a show at Betsy Jacaruso Gallery in October 2024.

Maureen Gates is a member of the Professional Photographers of America. She has received awards for her Black & White Infrared imagery including a few years of Print of the Year. Maureen was awarded the Fuji Masterpiece Award for her black-and-white photography. She is a member of the Rhinebeck Fine Art Artists and Professional Photographers of America (PPA).

Maureen resides in the Rhinebeck area where she enjoys publishing “Living Rhinebeck” magazine, photo sessions, creating fine art images and spending time in her garden and in nature capturing beauty everyday through her lens.

Calvin Grimm
Throughout his youth, Calvin took inspiration from noted Woodstock artists, from these mountains and streams and from the tidal zones of the East Coast. Immersion in, and protection of these environments are at his core. These, and the vast wilderness regions of Alaska, Wyoming and the Yucatan are but a few of the pristine worlds that inform and authenticate his art.

Calvin’s work is in private, corporate and institutional collections throughout the US and in nine other countries.

Awards include a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant; the Phoebe and Belmont Towkin Award (WAA); the Ann Cox Chambers Award, Bard College (Lacoste, France). He has both produced and been a subject in films regarding his art, the home he built himself, Woodstock history, and environmental issues, as well as numerous publications, a number of which he has written. He has lectured and curated exhibitions. His work is in the Permanent Collection of the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum.

More specific information is available at: www.calvingrimm.com.
By clicking “Earthworks in Water” one can view a six-minute video discussing the relationship between his paintings and his environmental installations.

He can be found on the trail, building at his home or painting in his studio.

Kathy Halper
Kathy Halper (1958, Chicago, IL) combines her interest in narrative art, hi-lo materials and humor to create paintings, mixed media bas reliefs, sculptures and textile work documenting her life. While raising teenagers at the onset of the social media revolution, she became fascinated by found online photos of teens at play and began a series exploring privacy and parenting in the age of public posting. This led to a series of embroidered drawings and portraits on this generational conflict that garnered Halper international attention. More recent works explore life post motherhood, reflecting on both the comfort and anxiety that exists in its monotony.

Halper has been a full-time self-taught artist for 30 years. Her work has been shown at George Billis LA, Muriel Guepin Gallery in New York, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, and Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago, among others. She was selected by Lucy Lippard for “From the Center: Now!” and Kendall College of Art & Design as part of ArtPrize and has participated in Terrain Biennial. She has been shown at Context/Miami Art Week, SOFA Chicago and has been featured in HuffPost, Art Voices and Surface Design Journal. The artist lives and works in Evanston, IL.

Fiona Jacobson-Yang
Fiona Jacobson-Yang is an interdisciplinary artist from Queens, New York with a focus on video, installation, and the book arts. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2024, and has shown work nationally and internationally in Boston, London, and New York. A selection of these exhibitions includes 2024 group show at Bromfield Gallery, What We Make for Ourselves and Lie in, the Boston Art Book Fair 2022 and 2023, and Carousel, a group show at the Bermondsey Project Space, London in 2023. She has received a 2023 Summer Scholars research award issued by Tufts University for her short film, SUGARCUBES!, a 2022 Media Arts Annual Award for her stop-motion animated film, Food! Food! Food!, and a 2021 Provost Leadership Fellow Award for her art and ecology-based research during the Visiting and Early Research Scholars Experience (VERSE) Program.

Chong Kang
Art shapes forms and colors, creating a narrative that resonates with everyone’s personal experience.

Chong received her BFA in painting from MICA in Baltimore, MD, and has been a muralist since the late 80s and received painting commissions from private clients throughout the United States, Great Britain, and France. She has participated in group shows from NC to NYC and solo shows in commercial spaces.

There is a relationship between the classical periods and modernity that is constantly being explored in her paintings. Chong utilizes urban and natural environments as symbolic subjects. Her exaggerated tones and neon colors document contemporary times.

Moshe Katvan
Moshe Katvan graduated with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and has been working as a commercial photographer for over 35 years. He specializes in Still Life and People photography, working with numerous ad agencies and commercial clients. Moshe splits his time between his studio in New York City and his home in the Catskill Mountains. When COVID-19 pandemic began, he started experimenting with fine art drawing and painting. Since then, this new form of artistic expression has become part of his daily routine. Alongside this, Moshe continues to create fine art photography and collaborates on various projects with his wife Rivka, who is a renowned photographer in her own right.

Rivka Katvan
Rivka S. Katvan, graduated with honors and earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1979. For my thesis, I photographed life backstage on Broadway—a project that extended long after graduation and continued for nearly 40 years.

I quickly became captivated by the world I observed both backstage and on stage, especially in the vibrant sphere of off-and on-Broadway productions. The theater offered me a rare opportunity to witness actors undergoing profound transformations—not only through costumes and makeup, but through an emotional journey that is almost impossible to
articulate.

Though my passion for photographing backstage moments was undeniable, I was also drawn to street photography and travel photography. I never allowed my theater work to define me as an artist. I carry my camera everywhere, capturing vignettes and moments that resonate with me. My NYC Reflections series, for instance, features moody, surreal images of store mannequins reflected in the windows they inhabit. In Coney Island, I followed two men dressed in vintage clothes as they wandered among contemporary visitors, creating a lyrical sense of
unreality.

Many of these projects can be explored on my website, www.rivkakatvan.com. I am also currently collaborating with my husband, Moshe Katvan—a professional photographer and artist—on a project titled Artist Portraits.

I’ve always believed that my heart and eyes are interchangeable. I refuse to be confined to one subject matter when I am surrounded by such a vast array of sights, ideas, and stories. I must respond to what speaks to me in the moment, wherever my journey takes me.

Jennifer Keltos
Jennifer Keltos (b.1989) is an artist based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She studied classical drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, developing a foundation in traditional techniques that inform her contemporary practice. Her work explores fleeting cultural memory, farcical performances of femininity and the latent strangeness of the everyday. Rooted in a searching, restless observation, she grasps at something evanescent, tender, and absurd.

Jennifer’s work is showcased widely in collections throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She has been awarded the Alpine Fellowship and the Hudson River Fellowship. In addition to her studio practice, she works in art conservation, specializing in the restoration of sculpture and Tibetan Thangka paintings.

David Klein
For 45 years David G Klein has worked for leading Newspapers, Magazines, and book publishers. Clients include NYT and the Wall Street Journal. Books he’s illustrated include the Scarlet Letter, Frankenstein, the Short Stories of Mark Twain, and Sword of Shannara. David Is the co-author of the Paper Shtetl: A cutout and assemble model of an eastern European Jewish town. David worked in comics for Marvel and DC with characters like Spiderman and Batman.

He is the author of his own graphic novel The Golem’s Voice.

He is a co-founder of Point Made Animation, creating animated explainer videos for marketing, professional development, and education.

Three Strikes Press published Brooklyn Rescued Bestiary, a fine art book, hand printed and bound with David’s hand-engraved illustrations, celebrating Sean Casey Animal Rescue.

David is one of the founding members of INX Newspaper Editorial Illustration Syndicate and their publishing arm, NOW WHAT MEDIA. His work was prominent in their 20 year retrospective FEVER LINES in 2001. http://www.inxart.com/inx/inxsju.html. The FEVER LINES exhibit traveled throughout the U.S. Canada and Europe.

David Klein’s book The Golem’s Voice was a part of the SERIATIM exhibit presented by the Department of Fine Arts, St John’s University 2007.

He was one of six artists featured in VISIONS: The Personal Images of Contemporary Illustrators. at Grace Institute 2011
Also: Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition #21-1979,
Society of Newspaper Designers Gold Award of Illustration 1980
Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition #42 – 2000

dgkleinart@gmail.com
http://www.illoz.com/kleinart/
the GOLEM’S VOICE

Sophi Kravitz
Sophi Kravitz is a multimedia artist and electrical engineer whose work merges technology with traditional sculpture. Originally drawn to art through animatronics, she creates interactive installations that blend a creepy cute aesthetic with a sci-fi narrative set in the future. Her work explores the intersection of mythology, machines, and science, often using electronics to reveal hidden forces.

Her first public artwork, a giant birthday cake for a Gay Men’s Health Crisis event, was installed by helicopter. She created life-sized unicorns shown at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum for ArtPrize (2017) and collaborated on Occhiolino, reflections during COVID (2022). She recently completed an art incubator at Gray Area Org and has received support from NY League of Arts, Burning Man, San Diego Arts Cap, Guerilla Science, and the Frey Foundation. Her current project, Messages from Space, features cosmic eggs that transform cosmic rays into sound, inviting audiences into a meditative, otherworldly experience. She lives and works in Kingston, NY.

Dakota Lane
Dakota Lane is a transmedia artist, using word and image to explore themes of nature, identity and transcendence. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and Interview Magazine and she has received three ALA awards for her four illustrated books. She is a fan of the cute and dark.

Anne Leith
Born in the Philadelphia area, Leith has been consistent in working on her goal to be an excellent painter. Throughout high school, making art (and music) has been her primary joy.

Education
Mills College, Oakland, CA. – BA with a major in Fine Arts; awarded by the Mills Faculty the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of the Arts, London, England.

Smith College, Northampton, Mass. – Junior Year Abroad in Paris with studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Sorbonne.

U. of PA, Philadelphia, PA. – MFA in Painting
U. of Manchester/Sotheby’s Institute, London, England – MA in Art History: Post-War and Contemporary Art; includes a 3-month scholarship to intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.

Art World Jobs (selection)
Guggenheim Museum, NY – Manager of Planning and Operations for International Projects

NextMonet.com – NY and European Sales Manager for one of the first on-line art retail websites. Included art fairs and other promotional events, as well as outreach.

AllartStudio – Owner/Principle, Video documentaries, primarily for the non-profit art sector

Interim Director of the Patricia N. Nugent Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, Adjunct Professor

Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy
Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy (b. 1970) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines conceptual and material approaches, using painting, sculpted paper, photography, and video. Her work has been featured in recent group exhibitions, including Paper at Site:Brooklyn Gallery (online), $acred Motherhood in Chicago, IL, and Roots/Wings presented by Art + Everywhere at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. Previous exhibition venues include Womenswork.Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY), Hudson Valley MOCA (Peekskill, NY), Gallery RAG (Gloucester, MA), The CaMus Museo Camuno (Breno, Italy), Jane Street Art Center (Saugerties, NY), MAPSpace (Port Chester, NY), Collar Works (Troy, NY), The Olive Free Library (West Shokan, NY), and Super Secret Projects (Beacon, NY). She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley University College of Art + Design. She is an artist member of Super Secret Projects in Beacon, NY, and currently lives and works in Beacon.

Meredith Morabito
Meredith Morabito is a figure sculptor and wild chipmunk photographer living in Saugerties, NY.

She has produced outdoor art shows, was the Residency Director of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Artist Colony and Residency Coordinator at the Woodstock School of Art. She has had several solo shows and co-curated exhibitions. Her work is shown locally in galleries and her photography has been featured in several publications.

Meredith’s studio is located at her home and farm, Mostly Magic Farm, which is home to many rescue animals.

Want to connect or explore my art? Feel free to visit my website or follow my artistic journey on Instagram:
www.meredithmorabito.com
@mostlymagicmer

Grey Ivor Morris
Grey Ivor Morris is a multi-disciplinary fine artist: Mixed-media, encaustic, mosaic, wood and steel sculpture, colored pencil, alcohol inks and photography. The subject often determines the medium. He draws inspiration from the fascinating variety of modern human experience as well as the beauty and terror of the natural world.

Grey has been active as an artist (and curator) in the New York and Hudson Valley art scene for the past few decades, showing at venues in Soho, Saugerties, Woodstock, Kingston and Catskill. His street art has been featured for several summers in the village of Saugerties.

While he has always pursued fine art, he embraced digital commercial design early in his career, acquiring the necessary skills at Pratt Institute. As an Art Director, illustrator and photo retoucher, his clients have included: American Express, Chase, ClearChannel Entertainment, Gerber, Fortune, People Magazine, CBS, Disney, Lowes, DKNY, as well as local organizations Ulster Publishing, Aaron Rezny Photography, Catskill Interpretive Center, Business Alliance of Kingston, and The Solar Energy Consortium.

Grey is the subject of a short film by Stephen Blauweiss that was shown on the local PBS station
WMHT and can be viewed at: http://video.wmht.org/video/3000995887/
His Website — www.greyivor.com — contains his most recent commercial and fine art work as well as links to his Instagram and Facebook pages.

CONTACT INFO:
Grey Ivor Morris
437 John Joy Road, Woodstock, NY
(917) 573-0868 www.greyivor.com

Deneane Niebergall
Artist Deneane Niebergall, a longtime San Francisco resident, currently resides and works in Kingston’s Rondout district. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is abstract and process based; media has ranged from oil and beeswax on canvas, to poured acrylic on panel and ink on paper currently. She has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows at venues nationwide including: SFMOMA, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Wired, ArtPort, New Gallery Hudson and Pinkwater. Honors include: an affiliate artist residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, as well as a SECA award nomination. Her work has been featured in publications such as: Artweek, New American Paintings, Studio Visit, Hudson Valley Magazine and Upstate House. Collectors include Neiman Marcus, Microsoft, Stanford University and Wired Magazine. Commissions include a video installation for Neiman Marcus’ Los Angeles and a line of handmade Tibetan rugs for LIMN Collection.

Will Nixon
Will Nixon is a poet, publisher, photographer, painter, and restless spirit. His most recent book is If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties, a town portrait in poems. He may be best known for The Pocket Guide to Woodstock and Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town co-authored with Michael Perkins. Bushwhack Books, his small press created to publish these earlier titles, has now grown to release Crossing Divides: My Journey to Standing Rock by Vernon Benjamin and Swami Salami: The Best of the Beloved Woodstock Times Cartoons by Michael Esposito. He now spends his mornings working on short stories and novels.

Will Nixon became a photographer when he bought his first iPhone. He soon learned he loved taking selfies in a crow mask, then other masks. Then he met a small scarecrow doll displayed in Party City for the Thanksgiving season, and he couldn’t resist. For him, photography is a way to create fanciful stories much like he does in his poetry and fiction. Pip is a happy companion who never complains.

More can be found at his website willnixon.com

Kaitlyn Niznik
Kaitlyn Niznik holds her MFA degree from Lesley University and her BFA from SUNY New Paltz. She is currently a Crohn’s and Colitis Young Adults Network (CCYAN) 2025 Fellow and a middle and high school art teacher. Kaitlyn suffers from a chronic illness and uses her art to spread
awareness for lesser-known diseases and build her own anatomical knowledge. Her artwork has been featured in The Pathologist magazine and In Vivo, Harvard University’s Medical Humanities magazine. Her work was most recently accepted into Restoring Your Core, a show dedicated to IBD patients, at dnj Gallery in Santa Monica.

Jacqueline Oster
Jacqueline Oster was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens. A graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology she worked in the city for various advertising agencies as a Graphic Designer and Art Director. Eventually relocating to upstate New York, she raised a family and continued to work as a Freelance Graphic Designer. Over the years, from her home-based studio, she has continued to satisfy the advertising needs of many diversified tri-state area clients.

During COVID she revisited her love of watercolor illustration. Her watercolors are mostly of ordinary common objects but also cover other categories bringing animals, nature and people to life on paper. Her sculpture is a magical fantasy journey of the mind as creatures and elf-like children happily co-exist.

Jacqueline is an Active Member of Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Create Council on the Arts, a member of AMH and a part of CIRCLE24collective.. Her work has been exhibited at local businesses, libraries and galleries including WAAM Gallery, ASK Gallery, Emerge Gallery, Jane Street Art Center, Olive Free Gallery, AMH Gallery, Create Gallery and Cornell Creative Arts Center of Kingston.

Suzanne Parker
Suzanne Parker but only began to show her work when she moved to Woodstock, NY full time in 2017. Her professional experience includes Textile Stylist, Arts Management (Queens Council on the Arts), Food writer and restaurant critic, and author of “Eating Like Queens: A Guide to Ethnic Dining in America’s Melting Pot, Queens, NY.” She also gives cooking lessons in her home under the name Cookskills.

Education:
Syracuse University, School of Art; Majored in Sculpture
Fashion Institute of Technology, Textile Design

Some of the shows and venues where her work has been featured:
“Playing With Wire”, Solo Show at the Wired Gallery, High Falls, 2023
WAAM Featured Active Artists Solo Wall 2023
National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association 2023, Merit Award
Merged III, & Vivid D’Arte Center, Norfolk Virginia 2023
“Parallel Lives”, Two person show, Spotlight gallery, Art Society of Kingston, 2022
Euphoria: Painted Sculpture 2018, Lobby Gallery @ 1251 Avenue of the Americas, four person show.
Solo Show at Mid-Hudson Federal Credit Union October, 2017
Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump, Online show and publication, 2018

Participated in numerous group shows at the following galleries:
Unison Arts
Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW)
Notebook Gallery
Garrison Art Center
Wallkill River Center for the Arts
WAAM
Kleinert
Emerge, Saugerties
Art Society of Kingston (ASK)
Art Juxtapose, Rosendale
Art Bar, Kingston

Tracy Phillips
Tracy Phillips moved her studio to the Catskills in 2015. Prior she spent almost 40 years in Brooklyn where she developed her painting practice. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally. She studied Fine Art at Parsons School of Design, graduating in 1983.

Betsey Regan
Betsey Regan has been showing extensively throughout New Jersey and New York for more than 45 years. She has exhibited at the Morris, Monmouth, Noyes, and New Jersey State Museums, and in 1998 had a ten-year retrospective at Monmouth University, her undergraduate alma mater. Last year she exhibited in Chautauqua in a show juried by Jerry Saltz. She received her masters from Temple University in 1989. Regan has won numerous awards including four Best of Shows at the City Without Walls, and Best of Show at the Art Alliance and the American Artists Professional League. She has won eleven other major awards. She also won a full fellowship from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, a fellowship from New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and completed a series of prints at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper. She has also been awarded grants from the Joan Mitchell and Gottlieb Foundations. She is included in scores of private and corporate collections.

Regan lost her Jersey Shore house and studio during Hurricane Sandy. She became a resident at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony as a refugee, and in 2017, moved to Woodstock permanently. She continues to exhibit and receive awards in Woodstock.

Tad Richards
I was born in 1940, and in 1944 my mother, divorced from her first husband, married the sculptor and Opus 40 creator Harvey Fite, so I grew up with Opus 40 being created in my back yard, which has given me a tremendous respect for the creative process – an awareness that art comes from the making, not the conceiving.

I grew up largely in Woodstock, where my most significant mentors and role models, beyond my stepfather, were the artist Anton Refregier and the writers Howard Koch and Heywood Hale Broun.

I attended Bard College from 1957-59, where I met the poet Donald Finkel, probably my most significant mentor. I dropped out of Bard, but my friendship with Finkel, and my looking to him as a mentor, continued for the rest of his life.

In 1960, I found myself at the University of Iowa in the Iowa Writers Workshop, where I studied with Donald Justice and Philip Roth, and studied painting with Woodstock artist Eugene Ludins. I found myself as a writer in Iowa. It took me a lot longer to find myself as a graphic artist, and in that field I was mostly self-taught – by carrying a sketchbook with me everywhere.

In 1962 I had my first publication (in Poetry magazine), and in 1963 I began writing for the cutting edge satire magazine, The Realist. In 1969 I sold my first novel, and I have stayed in that line of work ever since. My body count to date is something like three dozen books – fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

After my stepfather died in 1977, I worked with my mother to set up the nonprofit organization which runs Opus 40, and after my mother died in 1986, my wife and I became stewards of Opus 40 for the next 30 years;

I have always taken the practice of making art seriously – pen and ink mostly, until I started digital painting about three decades ago, and fiber art within the last five years – but I have not diligently pursued a career in the art biz. My work has been shown in various galleries, including Emerge Gallery in Saugerties and ASK in Kingston, and it has illustrated a few books, including the cover of my recent Jazz With a Beat (SUNY Press), and the cover of a recent issue of Caribbean Compass magazine.

Victoria Schuster-Henshaw
Victoria Schuster-Henshaw is a miniaturist who began creating miniature scapes in 2020 as a method of coping with the monotony of the pandemic lockdown. Her work initially began with making tiny objects out of polymer clay, but has since progressed to using mostly found items, especially focusing on transforming items that would have otherwise been thrown away, including styrofoam, one-use plastics, scrap metal and discarded wood pieces. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her ever-supporting and encouraging husband and their two cats, who are equally supportive and encouraging.

John Scribner
Born in New York City, John Scribner has over 40 years of experience as an artist participating in group and solo shows. His collage, sculpture, and mixed-media have been exhibited in New York City, Woodstock, Saugerties, and Olive, New York, in the UK, and on Dodomu, an online gallery based in Brooklyn, New York. Other online galleries include Emerge Gallery, HMVC Gallery, and Conversations With Artists. He is an Exhibiting Artist Member at The National Arts Club and has been a regular contributor to their Annual Roundtable and Exhibiting Artist Members Exhibitions. John also exhibits his work at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM), where he is an Active Member.

John received a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University, where he also studied Applied Art. Additional studies include The Arts Students League – where he was mentored by Ted Jacobs and Richard Poussette-Dart, The School of Visual Arts, and the Film/Video Arts School. John’s CV and work can be seen on the web: www.johnscribner-artist.com and on Instagram: @jscribner_art.

The Paint Splatterer
My name is The Paint Splatterer and I have been an artist and curator for over 28 years in New York City. Not well known in professional art circles but I have achieved an almost underground status in what I curated in the strange and artistic. Born and bred in East London with no
Family in the direct arts but the daughter of a professional boxer and junk man which I think are extremely artistic. Being the first formal artist of my family and attending Camberwell School of Arts and furthering on to London St Martins then transferring to Cardiff Institute of arts for a
Specific time-based media degree, an experimental degree at the time early in its stages under Anthony Howell (performance artist and founder of the performance company The Theatre of Mistakes from 1970-1980) To combine my interests and all my all disciplines into one thing one
Painting as I call them. Always the work of performance within installations.

Moving to New York and finally settling in 1998 in Brooklyn Greenpoint-Williamsburg. I did attend The Students Art League and soon opened my first alternative gallery space Dollhaus in the year 2001 right after 9/11 where I literally thought art was the only thing worth moving on with. A difficult time to open an art gallery. I have been curating unusual art shows and installations since 1998 in various alternative spaces across New York City. I have always had an interest in outsider art and the weird and wonderful with a controversial flair. I chose environments that are not just the traditional conventional gallery spaces from boats to abandoned buildings to clubs and yes even the old Peep shows in Times Square and creating art installations in professional dungeons. One night installations in the once artistic creative meatpacking district in adult play spaces, strip clubs and the old beloved Show World. Most of my curations have either been 2 to 100 artists. And my earlier curations were of installations with performance within them and the artworks. I have always enjoyed action and wherever I have curated a space it becomes a journey and something interactive to enter. Drawing people into an environment and encouraging a certain way of behaving. I have worked on some films and always been the set designer and artistic director. I curate removing the element of just looking at art at a distance but becoming part of the experience. I do not have a traditional bio as I am not a standard artist or curator. I have consistently curated and created in Dollhaus I in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 2002-2007 and the last 5 years in Dollhaus II an outsider gallery in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Steven Strauss
Steven Strauss is a multi-medium artist. He began his studies at Pratt Institute focusing on film and video. Steven spent several years in the film production world before moving on to producing his own award winning films. For the past 20 years Steven has also been a hairstylist, which led him to found Spring Atelier in Peekskill, NY in 2019. Spring is a creative space for Hudson Valley hairstylists to share their knowledge and collaborate on creative projects, as well as explore other facets of the professional hair world beyond formal in-salon work. The most constant art practice throughout the years has always been painting. In Steven’s words, “It is a grounding space I know I can always return to, a solo practice to escape the often chaotic world. Over the years my subjects have morphed from the ballet to portraits to Hondas to Canadian geese, and now to the entire avian species.”

Ken Tannenbaum
Ken Tannenbaum has been taking pictures for a very long time. He served the advertising industry for decades, solving varied problems for a diverse set of clients and was known to not shy away from a challenge. He accomplished an unusual success in a cross section of complex image-making genres over the years. He was on the Board of The Advertising Photographers of America and along the way had notably grand studies, the last being a 4000 sq ft studio in Tribeca. However, his interests took a hard turn on 9/11 when his son was attending grade school a few blocks from the WTC. During this period the family bought a 19th Century farmhouse in Catskill, NY. Tannenbaum claims “the turn of events has been satisfying beyond measure”…but the change was not necessarily easy; the transition from being a well-paid problem solver to becoming re-energized photographer creating images close to the heart took time. That continues after nearly two decades of living in Catskill, NY.

Enne Tesse
Enne Tesse works in a variety of two- and three-dimensional art media blending installation, sculpture, written word, and social commentary. She studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC earning her Master of Fine Arts degree. Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US and Japan. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Commission Grant, and the Arts Mid Hudson Under-Recognized Artist Award. Exhibitions include Enne Tesse Animal Kingdom, Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY; Unusual Threads, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT; Time Travelers, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz; Go Figure; Off the Charts: Medical Art & The Internal Body, Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY. She lives in Beacon, NY.

Elisa Tucci
Elisa Tucci is a painter and mixed-media artist based in New York. She holds a Master of Science in Visual Arts from the College of Saint Rose and a B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase. Withover 30 years of experience designing, teaching, and directing art programs for all age groups, Tucci has dedicated her career to both art education and personal artistic exploration.

Her work is deeply rooted in memory and nostalgia, often drawing inspiration from old photographs and landscapes. In her portrait paintings, she explores the tension between anonymity and personal connection, painting from found photographs of unknown people and questioning the nature of remembrance and identity. Her landscapes, in contrast, evoke a sense of place and history, reflecting on the passage of time and the emotional weight of the spaces we inhabit.

Originally trained as a printmaker, Tucci has expanded her practice to include painting, gelli monoprinting, and mixed media. She has exhibited at WAAM Woodstock, the College of Saint Rose, and SUNY Purchase. Now retired from teaching, she continues to explore new artistic techniques while engaging with the local arts community through curatorial projects, community workshops, and set design for high school theater productions.

Tucci is a member of the New York State Art Teachers Association (NYSATA) and remains committed to fostering creativity both in her own work and in the broader artistic community.