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Amy Ahlert
Category: Music,
Amy Ahlert is a professional jazz singer/songwriter. She has performed on TV and live radio all over Westchester and Connecticut, has worked at jazz clubs, benefits and private functions with her trio and as a duo, and has had the good fortune to...
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Rashaun Allen
Category: Literary, Voice,
Rashaun J. Allen is the first Fulbright scholar in SUNY Stony Brook’s MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program history. A Vermont Studio Center and Arts, Letters, and Numbers residency recipient whose three independently published poetry...
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Suzanne Altman
Category: Visual,
I am a working artist with a studio in Ossining NY where I use oil paint to create mainly still lifes and portraits, with an emphasis on realism and exploration of light and color. I assemble objects in compositions with an idea of creating a...
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Rae Ballard
Category: Dance,
Rae Ballard is a choreographer. She trains modern dancers in her company while also teaching movement to children and adults throughout...
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Cindy Beer-Fouhy
Category: Literary,
Throughout my life, writing and teaching writing have been my passions and my talents. There is no other work I do that feels as natural and fulfilling to me than teaching writing to children, teens and senior adults. My goal is to help people...
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stephanie Berger
Category: Visual,
Stephanie Berger have been on the scene, photographing dance, music and live performance for over 30 years as the house photographer in New York City’s cultural homes such as The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, The Park...
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Flor Bromley
Category: Actor, Folk/Traditional, Music,
I believe there is no better environment in which to teach while entertaining than theater and music. It is what I have devoted my life to. I use my talents and craft as an artist (actress, musician, songwriter/singer, puppeteer, storyteller) to...
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Anita Brown
Category: Music,
Anita loves working with students of all levels in a wide array of settings.
As a result of her passions in music composition and music education, she created original curricula to bring young students through the process of music...
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Clayton Bryant
Category: Music, Voice,
I am a Grammy, ASCAP & MTV award winning singer-songwriter. To date, I have lent my 6-octave range to recordings for Grammy Winner Kanye West’s “The Life Of Pablo," Ashford & Simpson’s “The Real Thing,” Darlene Love’s...
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Cornell " LORD JUDAH "Carelock
Category: Film, Music, Music-Pop, Visual, Voice,
As a teaching artist, I always seek to create a lively exchange of ideas among many different communities. As an artist, I also embrace my role to introduce new modes of thinking and doing and serving creative people....
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Diane Cherr
Category: Visual,
My work is rich with color, design and narrative. My pieces are unique, whether painting in gouache, creating collages, mixed media, drawing or printmaking. I pay homage to women’s empowerment, Eastern philosophy, mythology, Jewish heritage...
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Barbara Clark
Category: Actor, Visual,
Barbara Clark began her career touring with her family’s Magical Lamp Puppet Theater, performing marionette and hand puppet shows. While studying, she worked at the American Place Theater. Clark co-founded Shelter West, an Equity Showcase...
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Jeffrey Cobelli
Category: Film, Visual,
Jeffrey Cobelli is a passionate film and video production professional whose knowledge includes producing, writing, directing, filming and editing projects both large and small. “It has been my understanding that no matter what you are trying...
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Addie Diaz
Category: Actor, Dance,
Teaching kids and adults Latin, Hip-Hop and Party dances has been an enjoyable and rewarding experience. Steps are broken down to provide good basic dance skills. I do like to emphasize the fun in dancing. While students are taught dance...
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Evelyn Eidelberg
Category: Visual,
Ever since I was young, I have been creating folk art and decorative items. I’m especially attracted to colorful African and Latin American styles. For many years I have worked with seniors and school groups to help them create simple, yet...
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Andrea Elam
Category: Ballet, Dance,
As an independent dancer/choreographer/teaching artist, I am deeply invested in making dance a part of the lives of our local residents, especially our underserved and at-risk . I believe that every person should have the opportunity to view,...
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Marcus Franklin
Category: Actor, Dance,
Furthering my career as a teaching artist is something every great teacher I’ve had has made me promise. It’s a part of the cyclical life of being an artist – once you reach a certain point, it is your obligation to not only push the...
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Jessica Fuentes Mead
Category: Visual,
Jessica Fuentes is a...
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Nina Gabriele-Cuva
Category: Actor, Literary,
The arts can change the life of any student! I love what I do and learn as much from students as I hope to teach them. I am a professional actor, director, published author, theater company founder and artistic director. Using theater and/or...
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Kate Gallagher
Category: Literary,
Kate Gallagher is the author of numerous publications including work done in The Westchester Review and The Sun. She has also contributed works of poetry in One Word/Many Voices: a Bilingual Poetry Anthology and...
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Kathleen E. Gallagher
Category: Visual,
I am a printmaker and watercolor artist born in New York City and residing in Pelham, NY. My work has been exhibited nationally and my prints are in museum and corporate collections. I am listed in "Who's Who in American Art" and I was given a...
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Rukhshan Haque
Category: Visual,
I am a mixed media artist specializing in textiles and fiber arts. My art practice is a form of self-exploration. It serves as a channel of meaningful growth, expansion, and connection. My art pieces are like maps of my memories. They are fragments...
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Susan Rowe Harrison
Category: Visual,
Susan Rowe Harrison makes drawings and site-specific installations for private, commercial, and alternative settings. She prefers to work in the...
Pamela Hart
Category: Literary,
Pamela Hart is writer-in-residence at the Katonah Museum of Art where she teaches and manages an arts-in-education program called Thinking Through the Arts. She was awarded a
Amalia Hoffman
Category: Literary, Visual,
As an artist and a writer, I am interested in interweaving visual images and words in creating a narrative experience. The viewer looks at my images, reads a “story” or anecdote but is also encouraged to make up his or her own tale. I...
Hillary Hostetler
Category: Visual,
I am a contemporary painter and teaching artist, specializing in teaching drawing, painting and mixed media art to seniors and adults. I have an MFA from CUNY Lehman...
Frank Ingrasciotta
Category: Actor, Literary,
As a produced playwright, published writer and award-winning performer, I create a container of sharing and trust to inspire community building and experiential learning. I also foster a creative atmosphere for my participants, encouraging freedom...
Erica Itzkowitz
Category: Actor, Dance,
Erica Itzkowitz is a dancer/actor/choreographer. She uses an organic developmental approach to teach creative movement, yoga, modern dance and Playback Theater techniques to children and adults. Her work allows students to explore their own...
Paul Jeffries
Category: Visual,
My philosophy of art and method of creation can be summed up in six words: hand-wrought, not under the influence. I hammer bronze and steel to form sculpture. The surface may be patinated or painted. Because the work is welded and not cast,...
Lance Johnson LJ Art
Category: Visual,
ART IS.....LIFE Art has the power to change the world. Art helps us express ourselves freely. Allows us to creatively share our perspectives. Has the power to build bridges culturally, racially and economically. I use my work...
Marion Jones Archer
Category: Actor, Dance,
Marion Jones Archer is an African dancer. She is the founder of the Revelators Dance Troupe and volunteers her time teaching various dance forms from other countries and cultures to students. She is currently working with Cecil Parker Elementary...
Dara Kane
Category: Visual,
I'm a Pre-K Head Teacher at Central Synagogue's May Family Nursery School in New York City. The preschool is play based and follows the educational philosophy of Reggio Emilia. In addition, I teach art to children in Southern Westchester....
Ann Ladd
Category: Visual,
Ann Ladd has been a professional muralist and surface painter for the past 20 years. She recently volunteered her art teaching skills to several hundred Thai orphans in Bang Sak, Thailand. She has painted murals at the Thayer Hotel at West...
David Licata
Category: Visual,
I am interested in connections and the human desire to form these bonds. For the past twelve years, I have focused on working with glass to create wearable, sculptural and installation-based projects. Using traditional metalsmithing...
Kristin Holmes Linder
Category: Visual,
After many years as a decorative artisan working with designers and architects creating murals and fine finishes in homes and hospitals, my work is now once again focused on exploring fine...
Kendra Mace Clark
Category: Dance, Dance-Jazz, Dance-Modern,
I feel most alive when in motion. When I move, I transcend to a deeply intuitive place. The act of dancing is physical research, a meditative state of letting go of assumptions of what is and isn’t possible. Rigorous improvisation allows me to...
nancy maloy
Category: Actor, Film, Literary,
Theater is an art form that speaks to multiple intelligences, making it a dynamic educational tool for all types of learners as well as being a wonderfully expressive medium. Theater/drama brings together an exploration of both inter- and...
Barry Mason
Category: Visual,
Barry Mason-- painter, sculptor, photographer and teacher-- once described himself as a visual composer. His artistic career spans several decades; he has exhibited his art throughout New York and beyond. Early in his career, he had a rare...
Mary McFerran
Category: Visual,
Mary McFerran is a multimedia artist with a current focus on textiles and stitching. McFerran has been an artist-teacher dating back to her experience with New York Foundation for the Arts in the 1990's, when she was working with video art....
Angela Messina
Category: Actor, Literary, Visual,
Angela Messina is an actor/producer with newscast, acting and commercial experience. Angela has worked on several television productions including Jimmy Breslin's People (ABC/PBS Emmy Award), Another World and Search for Tomorrow (NBC)....
Donna Mikkelsen
Category: Visual,
Donna Mikkelsen is an ambidextrous artist born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. From a very early age, she trained herself to be ambidextrous. Whether it was playing stoop ball, hand ball, writing or carrying groceries, she would always use both hands....
Ron Mineo
Category: Visual,
I was initially trained by my father, a Sicilian artist and Renaissance man who had me pouring bronze when I was fifteen. I spent many years working at the studio/school he founded in Manhattan. Having access to the world's finest museums and...
Donna Miskend
Category: Literary, Visual,
My work is nature and literary themed. I've added scientific and botanical illustration to my portfolio to deepen my understanding of individual species. And I integrate nature and the environment into my teaching programs wherever possible. My...
Richela Fabian Morgan
Category: Visual,
I am a mixed media artist and fine crafter specializing in tape, paper, and found objects. I love to create art with familiar, everyday materials.
I primarily create two types of art: mixed media birds and narrative book sculptures. My...
Taeesha Muhammad
Category: Visual,
Taeesha M is a collagist, abstract painter, and arts educator. Her works inspire a dialog about the power of language as it relates to the African in the Americas from all Diasporas. Her art has always explored the...
Suzi Myers Tipa
Category: Actor, Dance,
A native New Yorker, Suzi is passionate about sharing her love of dance with members of the community. Specializing in international dance styles, Suzi's programs can be tailored to any curriculum to satisfy arts integration requirements and...
Stuart Nager
Category: Actor, Literary,
What's lovely is that I get to live a creative life: I am a Professional Storyteller, Director, Improvisation Actor, and a Published Author. I have over fifteen years as a Teaching Artist leading programs in Creative Drama, Storytelling, and...
Ronnie Negro
Category: Music,
Ronnie Negro has been a performing drummer since 1988 and an educator since 1991. Seen primarily with his longtime band Powderfinger, Ronnie is also a first-call freelancer for live and studio performances. Broadway experience...
Kazi Oliver
Category: Dance, Music,
Drumming is a fun way to strengthen concentration, heighten clarity, and sharpen listening, memory and social skills. Drumming also relieves tension and builds stamina. Spiritually, African drumming is a catalyst for personal power and creative...
Wilmer Orellana
Category: Visual,
Wilmer Orellana is a visual artist. He uses painting, drawing and sculpture to promote appreciation of cultural diversity and encourage free expression of compositions that enhance social and educational...
PEDRO NEL OSPINA
Category: Visual,
As an artist, I attempt to dispel the myth that creation belongs solely to artists. My main objective is to get all people to explore their creativity and appreciate the varied talents that exist within each community. It is my belief that the...
Jill Parry
Category: Visual,
I am a visual artist working in mixed media, oils, acrylics and fiber. I work from my studio in Mamaroneck, NY. I teach portrait and figure painting classes, Fiber arts, artist critique groups and conduct artist residencies in schools and...
Matteo Pungello
Category: Film, Visual,
Matteo Pungello is a filmmaker/video artist. His patience and eagerness to teach have made him a favorable candidate for working with a variety of people, from troubled youths to adults with developmental disabilities and senior...
Belle Ritter
Category: Actor, Ballet, Dance, Music,
Dance education involves a myriad of interrelated factors within the wider scope of national standards and teaching individual students. Theoretical understanding of how dance education can contribute to artistic,...
John Rizzo
Category: Visual,
John Rizzo's photography has been featured numerous times on the cover of Newsweek, as well as on the covers of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazines. He has produced large projects for commercial clients such as The New...
Patricia Runcie
Category: Actor,
Patricia Runcie has been directing, acting and teaching theater since graduating cum laude from Boston College and moving to NYC in 2001. Recent directing credits include the thriller Cliffhanger and the heartwarming Steel Magnolias and...
Linda Russell
Category: Actor, Folk/Traditional, Music,
I bring history to life through music. Through the songs and stories of the past, I take my audiences on a journey through the joys and sorrows of our forefathers, so that we might better understand what it means to be an American. For 16 years,...
Julienne Ryan
Category: Actor, Folk/Traditional, Literary,
I am a Communication Catalyst who engages my audiences in creative ways that promote constructive interactions and conversations. Skilled in the art of using storytelling to engage my audiences in active...
Jeffrey Schrier
Category: Visual,
I am a visual artist producing assemblage, sculpture, painting and drawing for my studio, foundry and edition works. I want my art to trigger observers and participants to think about environmental, social, historical and aesthetic issues while...
Terry Kessler Schwarz
Category: Visual, Visual-Illustration,
I am constantly in awe of nature and its ever-changing scenery. Over the last few years, I have been inspired to photograph and paint the landscape elements of sky, water and land as observed during the various seasons and times of the day. The...
Ezra Silverman
Category: Visual,
Ezra Silverman is a visual artist with a focus on sculpture. He is trained in traditional sculpture, mold-making, welding, and has a foundation in portraiture. Ezra's roots stem from drawing and painting live models. Hair portraits is a...
Lin Snider
Category: Actor, Music,
LIN SNIDER is a professional singer/actress/director/musical director/teacher who has performed in cabaret, TV, film, and primarily on stage in regional theaters, Off-Broadway and in the National Tour of Anything Goes with Mitzi Gaynor. She has...
Tova Snyder
Category: Visual,
Tova graduated from Yale University and then received a Master's of Fine Arts from Temple University, Tyler School of Art. She did a year's study in Rome, Italy. Upon graduation, Tova taught art at the American International School in Israel and...
Christopher Spinozzi
Category: Visual,
My current body of work focuses on the encroachment of humankind on the natural environment. Through installation and individual objects, it is my intent to monumentalize and bring awareness to this phenomena. Along with traditional sculptural...
Joe Squillante
Category: Visual,
I am committed to the fine art of photography, practicing since 1973. I've been photographing the Hudson River for over 40 years and have exhibited widely from Manhattan to the Adirondacks. My mission is to raise awareness of the beauty of...
Karen Ann Sullivan
Category: Visual,
KAREN ANN SULLIVAN ~ WILDLIFE & NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER
~ TEACHING ARTIST
Karen Ann Sullivan is a Westchester-based Teaching Artist and Photographer specializing in wildlife and other natural...
David Surface
Category: Literary,
“When you write, you want what you write to be real. You want your readers to experience the things you’re writing about. You do this by paying attention to the world outside of yourself and the world inside of yourself,...
Rebeca Tomás
Category: Dance,
ARTIST STATEMENT: As a bi-cultural Flamenco artist, I strive to find a balance between tradition and innovation. My goal is to remain faithful to the essence of Flamenco while asserting my creative voice and incorporating...
Matt Turk
Category: Music,
Matt Turk is a seasoned recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, eternal idealist, and peace-loving realist. He is a veteran performer who has engaged audiences around the world, both as a hard-rocking bandleader and an acoustic folk troubadour....
Ann van Buren
Category: Literary,
Ann van Buren is a Hudson Valley based poet, writer and educator who integrates nature, science, and sensorial perception with language. Her poems have been published locally in The Westchester Review, "Let the Poets Speak" and by the Blue Door...
Debra Whitman Music
Category: Music,
Hi. I’m Debra Whitman, a professional musician, teacher and author. I have created an exciting music appreciation program that is currently being taught throughout Westchester County. Because of this unique music program, I have recently...
Kathleen Yacoe Skura
Category: Visual,
I am currently working on a series of paintings which interpret and abstract textures, colors and patterns found in nature. The inspiration for these works are photos taken while on hikes or traveling to various parts of the...
Deborah Yasinsky
Category: Visual, Visual-Illustration,
I began my career as a textile/surface designer. This training has informed my mind's eye. I see the world at times through the lens of pattern and extreme focus. My work focuses on textures, patterns and scenes found in the natural and human...
Vicky Youngman
Category: Visual,
I strive to create ceramic work that sings with delight because it is happy to be alive. Anthropomorphism aside, I am please when people comment that I make ‘happy pieces’ that have a ‘healing’ quality to them.
My artistic vision...
Lana Yu
Category: Literary, Visual,
"Art is a way to understand ourselves and the world we live in more deeply." Lana Yu is a mixed-media painter and multidisciplinary artist who draws on her emotions and the physics of paint and materials to explore her relationship with herself,...
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