Don Bradford
Professional Potter
Artist-in-residence in New Jersey schools
with "Project Impact." Exhibitions: NJ State Museum, Morris
Museum and others; BA in Art Education from Montclair State University.
MA in Visual Arts from William Paterson College.
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Mary Bulger
is an independent
tabletop designer and owner of Marusya Incorporated. Marusya designs and
develops ergonomic "universal" tableware for all ages and abilities.
She received her MFA from Wolfhampton University in England and with an
emphasis in tableware design. She previously trained in Sweden, Alfred
University School of Ceramics and apprenticed with several industry designers.
She sells her work nationally and has been featured in the Smithsonian
Museum, CNBC; Interior Design and House Beautiful magazines. She has also
designed a tableware line for Lenox China.
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Beverley Bozarth Colgan
Painter
Nominated for the 1998 County Executive
Arts Award. She participated in the group show "Interpreting the
River," at the Blue Hill Plaza in Pearl River. Recently, she has
done illustrations and architectural renderings for Marist College, the
New York State Thruway and the Culinary Institute of America, and she
is currently illustrating a book for Sunset Books/Round Table Press on
curtains and shades. She has various published watercolor illustrations,
solo exhibits and commissions.
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John Creagh
Graphic Artist and Instructor
Awarded the Sullivan Award as a graduate
student by Lehman College and the Allied Artist Award by the National
Club. Currently, he is the adjunct instructor of Graphic Arts at Westchester
Community College.
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Kerry Davis
is a social worker with the Deaf by profession,
although beads and jewelry-making have long been a passion. She has been
teaching for many years, both to adults and children, and has skills for
silverwork, Precious Metal Clay, beading and a variety of other jewelry
making mediums. She also worked in the bead department at Liberty Crafts
in Nyack assisting customers in learning beading skills and creating their
own jewelry masterpieces.
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Sally Lipton Derringer
Sally
Lipton Derringer was a manuscript finalist for the Poets Out Loud Prize
from Fordham University, a manuscript finalist for the New Issues Press
Poetry Book Series, a finalist for the Glimmer Train Poetry Open, an honorable
mention in the Pablo Neruda Prize, an honorable mention in the poetry
competition of the National Writers Union, a runner-up for the Grolier
Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Paumanok Poetry Award. Her publications
include the St. Martin's Press anthology A More Perfect Union: Poems and
Stories About the Modern Wedding; The Quarterly; The New York Quarterly;
Nimrod; The Denver Quarterly; and Passages North. She has an MA in creative
writing from Antioch University, and has taught English at Rockland Community
College.
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Daly
Flanagan
Daly Flanagan is currently the School
Director at the Rockland Center for the Arts. She has over 15 years experience
in art education and administration including positions as Director of
the Craft Studies League/YWCA and Coordinator of School and Family Programs
at the American Craft Museum. She has a Masters of Science in Education
and Administration with a visual arts focus from Bank Street College of
Education and Parsons School of Design and a B. F.A in painting and printmaking
from San Diego State University.
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Kathy
Ford
Mask and Costume Designer
Credits include Boston Lyric Opera, Yale
Repertory and the American Ballet among others. She was an Artist-in-Residence
at the Mead School, and she assisted Anti Lavish with costumes, wigs and
make-up at Playwrights Horizons, the John Houseman Theater and LA Shakespeare.
She has taught at Rockland Community College and schools throughout the
northeast. She studied costume design at the Yale School of Drama.
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Harley Goode
Illustrator, Designer and Art Teacher
Received an honorary plaque from the New
York Times for his Alvin Ailey supplement, a CEBA Award for a New York
Times Magazine insert, an Effie Award for print design, a St. Gordon's
Medal for draftsmanship and a New York Magazine Cover Award. His work
has been exhibited at New York City Technical College, where he also taught.
He currently teaches at Pratt Institute, William Paterson University and
Bergen Community College.
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Jane Herold
Full-time Potter
Produces wood fired functional stoneware
at her Palisades studio. Apprenticed in England with Michael Cardew. Her
work is in numerous collections and thousands of homes. Her ceramics have
been featured in the New Yorker, Ceramics Monthly, Studio Potter, and
Ceramics, Art and Perception. BA, Sarah Lawrence College.
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Alison Lee
is an art director turned jeweler. Continually exploring new ways to express her creativity, she studied the art of ancient goldsmithing and lamp worked bead making in both New York City and Umbria, Italy. Now Lee has created a new jewelry collection focusing on color in glass and the energy it can add to our lives. Her education includes Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA; Kulicke-Stark Academy, NYC, NY; and Cecilia Bauer, NYC, NY. Her glass training includes UrbanGlass Brooklyn, NY and Glass Orchids, Frankfort, ME. She has appeared on HGTV's "Crafters Coast to Coast" demonstrating fused glass and jewelry making techniques. She currently teaches glass fusing and silver fusing at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY and Alison Lee Studio, NYC, NY. Her work can be seen at: www.craftcast.com
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Jeffrey Lou
is a Chinese brush painter who studied at The China National Academy of Fine Arts. He was the director of the Fine Arts Center in Nanjing and Beijing, China and also had a Chinese art gallery in Reno, Nevada.
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Paula Madawick
CSPA Artist
Apprentice to Jasper Johns and Robert
Rauschenberg, studied at the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and SUNY
where she received her BA. She has exhibited her colored pencil drawings
at Castelli Gallery, Matthew Marks, The National Arts Club, Silvermine,
Blue Hill Corp., and the Hopper House; is in the collection at Chase Manhattan
Bank, NA, Rutgers University and the Bergen Museum. Madawick had received
numerous awards at the Color Pencil Society of America's 1999 National
Convention. She was former Executive Director of Center Gallery, Demerest,
NJ.
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Stephanie Maddalena
Professional Jewelry Designer
Uses lampworking techniques to make glass
beads and jewelry that she exhibits in galleries and craft shows in the
NY, NJ and CT areas, including the Park Avenue Armory show. She has won
a bead award at the Embellishments Conference in Texas.
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Larry Marino
has been a specialist in sound, video, and computers and their applications in the arts. He has worked extensively in theatrical production as a sound designer, director, producer, and videographer, as well as training performing troupes for private and corporate markets.
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Sherry Masters
is an artist who creates body ornaments from dreams of heart and spirit. "I enjoy spending too much time in the studio using various hand crafting skills to fabricate one-of-a-kind designs for my ever-expanding jewelry business." She is a full time studio artist and jeweler, working of over 25 years in many different mediums with additional experience as a silversmith, bead worker, cosmetologist, and opera singer. Her expertise also includes teaching and workshop experience with adults and teens; from beginner to advanced and special volunteer programs with charities. She is certified to teach Precious Metal Clay (PMC). Her continued education includes OCCC and Brookfield. She has studied with Irene Plunkty Goodecke, Elise Winters and Chris Darway, as well as countless other professionals. Her work has been exhibited in regional and international shows, private collections and has shown at OCCC and GAGA. She also mounted a one person show at the New City Library. She maintains a studio in Nyack and specializes in PMC.
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Eleanor Miller
Painter
She received the Best in Show Award from
the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA. and the Anna Hyatt Huntington
Bronze Medal from the National Arts Club in New York City. She has had
numerous exhibits ranging from the Broome Street Gallery to the Fells
Point Gallery in MD. She is currently represented by M. Studio Gallery
in Cold Springs and the Renaissance Gallery in Blauvelt. She also teaches
at the Pelham Art Center.
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Maria Pia Minichiello
Ceramist and Fashion Designer
She studied at from Parsons School of
Design in 1992 and has 25 years experience in the fashion design industry,
ten years designing and developing 4-6 major clothing lines each year
and launched fashion shows in NYC, London and Japan. Her teaching experience
includes Greenwich House Pottery and the NYC School District.
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Eileen Brady Nelson
is
a fine art photographer, specializing in alternative processes. After
years of teaching adults her focus has shifted to children and teens.
She is a recent recipient of a NYS Community Arts Grant and will be working
this spring with children from Rockland Country on a Visual Spanish Alphabet.
She is represented by the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City.
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Mari Ogihara
is a ceramic sculptor based out of Port Chester, NY. After receiving her MFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in 2006, she was awarded a year long residency at the Clay Art Center in New York. Currently, Ogihara is a ceramic instructor at Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT and at the Clay Art Center. Her work can be viewed in regional and national exhibitions, and she continues to develop a body of work inspired by female ornamentation and rituals.
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Barbara Pollitt
Designer
Has won a Drama Desk nomination for her
design of Caucasian Chalk Circle and an Obie Award for her performance
in Epidog. Her masks have been seen on Broadway in The Tempest and Jelly's
Last Jam. She recently exhibited her masks at the Charter Oak Cultural
Center in Hartford, CT. Her work was exhibited at Lincoln Center as well
as other venues in New York City. She was an artist-in-residence for the
past two years at Nyack High School and has also taught at Manhattanville
College.
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Chris Randolph
is
a painter and art therapist. She currently teaches art in a therapeutic
setting at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Adolescent Treatment Program and
Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, NY. Her education includes a BA from Sarah
Lawrence College, and a MPS in Creative Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute.
She is also a founding partner and assistant art director of MetaForm
Studio in Garnerville, NY as well as a current member of RoCA's Exhibition
Committee.
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Elizabeth
Sayles
Illustrator
Has illustrated over 16 books for children
including Five Little Kittens (a New York Public Library 100 Books for
reading and Sharing Selection and Not in the House New ton! (Parent's
Magazine Best Book). In reviews, her work has been described as "deeply
textured pastelswith a hint of other worldliness". Ms. Sayles artwork
has been on display at the Society of Illustrators in NYC, the New York
Public Library , and the Hopper House in Nyack. Her work appears on bookjackets,
as well as other projects. Some of her most recent clients include Land's
End, Delta Airlines, Lord and Taylor, CTW, and Henry Holt. In addition
to her illustration career, she is an adjunct professor at the School
for Visual Arts in NYC.
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Jim Shaughnessey
is a potter who has made ceramic vessels
and sculpture for more than a decade. He has studied with local as well
as nationally known clay artists. His work can be found in a number of
galleries in the surrounding area. In 1999 and 2001, his work was selected
to serve as the Rockland County Executive Awards given to artists and
supporters of the arts. In 2002, one of his pieces was used as an award
given to Nobel Laureate author Toni Morrison. In 2003, his work was featured
in silent auctions to benefit the American Cancer Society and the Nuyoricans
Poets Caf?. In 2004, the Human Rights Commission selected to use one of
Jim's sculptures in the annual fundraiser event held at the Waldorf Astoria
in NYC. Also in 2004, Jim's work was selected to serve as awards for Rockland
County Congresswoman Sue Kelly and Anita Lowey, as well as New York State
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Ruth Waldman
is an artist who has worked a variety of media. Since 2004, her work has been included in many exhibitions and collections around the country and internationally. These include: Headbones Gallery in Toronto, Canada, Annina Nosei in Chelsea, NYC, and the Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art in Ridgefield, CT. Her recent drawings on paper have garnered the attention of critics as well as curators. Ken Johnson of the New York Times called her work "delicately drawn" and Benjamin Genocchio of the Times referred to her as an "interesting new name." Ms. Waldman has experience working with both adults and children through Gallery 37 and The Latin School in Chicago, The Professional Children's School in NYC, and SUNY Suffolk on Long Island. She holds a BA in Art History from Oberlin College and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work and can be viewed at: www.ruthwaldman.net
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Laura
Vogel
Illustrator and Instructor
She is a freelance natural science illustrator
and artist specializing in botanicals. She has done illustrations for
magazines, products, books and scientific publications, including the
Illustrated Companion of Gleason and Cronquist's Manual for the New York
Botanical Garden, which was awarded top bio/science book of 1998 by the
Association of American Publishers. She is a member of the Guild of Natural
Artists. She has exhibited at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn
Botanical Garden, the New York State Museum at Albany, Northwest Botanical
Illustration Exhibit and the American Society of Botanical Artists.
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Pamela Wood
Ceramist
Received an MFA from CUNY and BFA University
of Denver. She has exhibited her work at Jarice, America House, Incorporated,
the Streichler Gallery and Greenwich House Pottery. Her teaching credits
include Hot Pots in Colorado, Greenwich House Pottery and Earthworks in
NYC and the Pottery Studio in New Jersey.
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