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Amy Ahlert
Category: Music,
I've been on the Teaching Artist Roster of ArtsWestchester for 18 years, teaching music and playwriting to a range of age groups and ability levels, including adults living with mental illness. In addition, I work with the elderly in senior centers...
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Eric ZORK Alan
Category: Literary, Visual,
Zork is the author of two books in national distribution: "Stolen Snapshots: I am NOT a poet." Zork is probably best known for standing on chairs. It just so happens that when upon a chair he belches out PopTart, Pez, and Push...
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Aisha Nailah
Category: Visual,
My name is Aisha Nailah, born and raised in Bridgeport, Ct., currently a Reads Artspace member and resident. I hold a bachelor's in art therapy and I'm a certified special education teacher and teaching artist since 2010. I work in mixed media...
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Andy Algire
I am a percussionist, composer, and educator specializing in African and jazz music. I have been performing and teaching in the New York area for the last two decades. I feel deeply connected to many musical genres, which I have explored...
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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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Nicoletta Barolini
Category: Visual, Visual-Illustration,
I create science graphics and illustrations for research and medicine. Explore the intricacies of quantum mechanics, witness the celestial dance of galaxies, and journey through the human body at a cellular level – all through the...
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Deborah Beck
Category: Visual,
"My paintings and monotypes express my fascination with the mysteries, rhythms, and energies of the natural world around and within us" states Deborah Beck. "I seek to capture with immediacy particular moments and experiences." Gifted in her...
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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...
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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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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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Kaya Nicole
Category: Jazz, Music, Music-Pop, Voice,
Vocalist, activist and poet, Kaya Nicole, is a protest artist from Westchester County, New York. Influenced by her proximity to Latin Jazz and Hip Hop in the city that never sleeps, Kaya is a lover of a groove with a rhythmic vocal style and a...
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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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Erin Carney
Category: Visual,
Erin Carney has a passion for color and uses direct and indirect painting techniques to develop color-driven landscape and abstract paintings. Her work engages with states of being, interior landscapes, land use, and investigations of attention and...
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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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Miguel Cossio
Category: Visual,
Born in Mexico and based in New York, an avid traveler and lore researcher, Miguel Cossio is a visual artist and writer/director of performance pieces. His interest is the Latinx experience, ritual art forms from World cultures, and their ever...
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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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Karen D. Faulkner
Category: Dance, Visual,
In addition to earning my MWBE certification (Minority Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) becoming a Teaching Artist by far, has been one of my greatest achievements....
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Teresa Fellion
Category: Ballet, Dance, Dance-Jazz, Dance-Modern, Literary,
As an avid arts advocate and activist, Teresa Fellion creates work that integrates and empowers audiences with new perspectives and addresses human experiences. Many of these works are site-specific and involve...
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Jessica Fuentes Mead
Category: Visual,
Jessica Fuentes is 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,
The climate crisis is overwhelming; we struggle to understand its effects on everyone and everything everywhere. Through drawing and installation, I...
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...
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...
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...
Ronit Levin Delgado
Category: Visual,
Ronit Levin Delgado (born Tel Aviv, Israel), is a multidisciplinary visual artist and a Fulbright scholar, lives and works in NYC. Graduated from MSU, NJ, MFA Studio Art...
Jennifer Levine
Category: Visual,
My work with students, as well as my personal artwork is intuitive, spontaneous and free spirited. I create paintings, dolls, murals and objects with bright, bold color mixing images of human figures with shapes,...
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...
Yohanna M Roa
Category: Visual,
I am a visual artist, curator, and art historian, but I primarily define myself as an immigrant with a flexible culture to function in different contexts. I would describe my artistic practices through the concept of "yarn bombing," where the...
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...
Connie Manna
Category: Visual, Visual-Illustration,
A classically-trained painter, my latest series Growing up Bronx highlights places from childhood/young adulthood. A skewed, dreamlike vision, inspired by memory, emotion and the passage of time, this series was...
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...
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....
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...
Alice Mizrachi
Category: Visual,
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...
Joe Mullins
Category: Visual,
Currently, I live in the lower Hudson River Valley. My work includes portraits, cityscapes and landscapes. I work primarily in watercolor, oil pastels, and pen and ink. Most of my pastels are studio paintings; the watercolors, pen and inks are...
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,
I believe that there is no box to think outside of. Think, imagine, create. I utilize the Workshop Model (Doing instead of being talked at) to its fullest potential. No matter the age or subject matter, my pedagogical lens focuses on creation in...
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...
Sari Nordman
Category: Ballet, Dance, Dance-Modern,
Sari Nordman, born and raised in Finland, is an interdisciplinary artist who has created public art projects, video works and dance performances. Her process is rooted in her travels to isolated locations around the world to reflect on nature,...
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...
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...
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,...
Dene Ross
Category: Visual,
My interest in papermaking began in the mid-1970's, when I realized that books were printed on paper that would not last a century. As a photographer and printmaker, paper was the foundation for my work, and I sought a more permanent material....
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. 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 interplay of color,...
Roy Secord
Category: Visual,
I am a 21-Century modernist and public artist. My artist language draws from the universal and timeless vocabularies of line, shape, and geometry. Utilizing this as I do, I create an art context which all cultures and ages have an affinity to. I am...
Laurel Shute
Category: Visual,
My painting and printmaking, and earlier outdoor sculptures, and collaborative artworks all have an animated quality inspired by light and color in natural environments. Some of the symbolic titles of my works suggest moments of...
Peter Siegel
Category: Visual,
The Late Great Leon Golub was perhaps my most influential art instructor. It is because of his genius and humanity as well as excellence as a teacher that I was able to sustain to this day, my art journey which began in earnest as a 1st year...
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...
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 subjects....
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,...
MJ Territo
Category: Music,
Performance: MJ Territo is the founder of the Ladies Day Jazz Ensemble, a group of women musicians dedicated to discovering and performing the compositions of classic and contemporary jazz women. With...
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....
M.C.
Category: Literary, Music, Visual,
My paintings and drawings are a poetic evolution and constant exploration of the human experience. Involved in the act of creation, with creativity. I paint and draw each piece as if it were my last. Taking my time to show intricate detail...
Phylisha Villanueva
Category: Literary,
Writing poetry, epistle, and slamming poems is how I cope. The spoken word is how I riot, rejoice, and recharge.
The improvisation of my performance originates...
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 can...
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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