"Relax, He's Married," award-winning photo by William Grabowski.
Member News
Fall 2011- Spring 2012
Aija Meisters received an award for a painting, “Lora” and a 2nd piece was accepted into the juried exhibit, Folk Art, at East End Arts Council in Riverhead this past summer, in addition her aquatint etching, “The Fly”, was accepted into the juried exhibition, The Print Show, at East End Arts Council and “Dreamscape”, was accepted into the juried exhibition, Imagination, at Smithtown Arts Council. In June Aija’s painting “Dream Flight” was part of the Leona Post exhibit at the Long Beach Art League and “Mamacita”, was shown at the Art Guild at Elderfields, Manhasset in August.
Nanette Fluhr’s painting of “Sophia aka Summer Wind” has been chosen as a finalist in this years ARC Salon. You may view this beautiful International Exhibit at www.artrenewal.org
Fotofoto gallery has moved to 14 West Carver St. Huntington, NY (across the street and around the corner from their New York Ave address)
Jeanette Martone received an Honorable Mention for her piece “Alone” by the Southampton Cultural Centre juried Art Exhibit in September. This exhibit will be on display through October 24, 2011.
Kevin McEvoy – received a third place ribbon at the “Washington Square Outdoor Arts Exhibit” this Labor Day weekend. When asked what the esteemed New Yorker art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, felt about Kevin McEvoy’s recent body of paintings, his response was “speechless”.
Northport Symphony Orchestra has elected a new executive board. Members include Leila Zogby (President), Stephanie Branta (Vice President), Barry Bergman (Treasurer), Edna Susman (Secretary) and Naomi Gage, Julia Binger and Alison Butcher (Members at Large). The Town of Huntington recently honored Lisa Leonardi, concertmaster of the Northport Symphony Orchestra and orchestra director at Huntington High School, for her artist contributions to the community. Town Councilwoman Susan Berland presented a proclamation to Leonardi at NSO’s annual garden party.
Richard Witkover won the Fabian (Larry) Adler Memorial Award this past June at the 31st Annual Juried Photography Show of the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.
Barbara White - “It Started in Afghanistan” is the title of an off-beat adventure travel book by Barbara White. For information call 757-0151 from 9am-5pm
Spring 2011 - Summer 2011
Richard Liebowitz will be performing a voice recital to raise funds for Splashes of Hope to paint murals at ACLD's Kramer Learning Center in Bay Shore. Click here for more details.
Winter 2010- Spring 2011
Holly Gordon's photography will be featured in an exhibition called "Monet & Me" from April 22 - May 29. The opening reception will be held on Saturdaym April 23 from 5-7 pm. Click here for more details.
Russ Sacco received the International Juried Art Award Inclusion in The 2011 Art Buzz Collection Publication.Congrats to Russ! Click on the following links to see some of his work: link 1, link 2, link 3.
Oscar Santiago will be featured in "Spring Exhibit" at The Village Artist in Huntington. This exhibit will run from March 23rd - May 2nd. The opening reception will be held on Friday, March 25th, 2011 from 7:00 - 9:30 pm. For more information please call (631) 271- 0715 or visit www.thevillageartist.com. The Village Artist is located at 425 New York Avenue, Huntington Village, NY 11743.
Irene Andreadis was recently featured by ABC.com and Newsday.com. On March 3rd from 7pm- 10 pm she will be opening a photographic art show known as "A Touch of Spring" at The Gourmet Whaler in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Her print "Cascade of Orchids" will be on display. This print has been featured in 6 Tiffany & Co stores around the world. Click here for more details.
Karen Anne O'Donnell began her showing at Ripe Gallery's Valentine Exhibition "Rose Colored Glasses" on 2/14/11. The event will run until 3/1/11. The reception is from 5 - 8pm. Free to the public. Call 631-239-1805 for details.
Mary J. Ruppert won third place in the Huntington Township's Tulip Festival two years in a row.
John Ellsworth took first place in photography at Montauk's 16th annual Fine Arts Show. He also placed second in photography at the Mary O. Fritche Fine Arts Show in West Hampton Beach.
Philip Fusco's work has been published in Astoria Federal Savings Bank's 2011 calendar. Philip's work appears in the month of March..
The Hofstra University Museum received $8,307 in funding from the New York State Council on the Arts in support of its "Great Arts Capers" program. The museum also received $10,000 in funding from the New York Community Bank Foundation in support of its exhibition, Soweto Art: From the Collection of Violet and Les Payne.
Laura Lynch has been appointed the Nassau County Museum of Art's Director of Education.
Michael Kornfeld was re-elected to a second term as vice president of the board of directors of the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance during its recent annual conference at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, New York.
Milton Avery's exhibition, Milton Avery and the End of Modernism, has opened at the Nassau County Museum of Art.
Pauline Gore Emmert was recently featured in the New York Times for her paintings she lent to the Cold Spring Harbor Library. She was featured in an exhibition known as "Out Upon The Waters"
Fall 2010
Laura Lynch was recently named Director of Education at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) Lynch will begin working with NCMA as of November 8th, 2010. With an undergraduate degree in Art Education and Painting from SUNY New Paltz to a graduate degree in Secondary Art Education from Queens College, she will oversee all public educational programming.
Karen Anne O'Donnell exhibited her photo "Coney Island Thrills" at Harborfield Library's local artist exhibit titled " Visions of Experience" during September 2010.
Summer 2010
Jane McGraw-Teubner received "Best in Show" at the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod "For Pastels Only" exhibit held in June in Yarmouth, MA. RIGHT: Jane with awards judge Richard McKinley in front of her painting "Into The Woods."
Peter Tilles, the president of Nassau County Museum of Art's (NCMA) Board of Trustees, announced that Karl E. Willers, Ph.D. has been appointed Director of the Museum. Dr. Willers brings with him a wealth of administrative and curatorial experience at both major urban and focused regional museums. A leader in the museum field, Dr. Willers has published extensively on a broad range of topics, ranging over American and European art from the late 18th century to the present. Constance Schwartz, NCMA's previous director, has been appointed Director Emeritus and will guide efforts to raise funds for the museum's capital campaign.
This past spring, Island Hills Chorus received an award for fourth place at their regional competition in Philadelphia, third place in their division, and an award for the "Most Improved Chorus."
Philip Fusco recently received an "Award of Merit" for his oil painting "Upstate New York" at the Rockville Centre Library.
Mr. Frank Doyle was one of the featured exemplary model teachers in a DVD entitled "NYSSMA Music Views: Standards-Based Teaching and Learning Across the State." The New York State School Music Association received a grant from the New York State Attorney General's Office to create the DVD. From Northport High School, one of the Huntington Arts Council "Journey" Program school districts, Mr. Doyle presented a composition lesson titled "Lennon, McCartney and You Guys" where students compose background harmonies for a Beatles hit.
This past winter, the Hofstra University Museum received a $19,745 gift from the New York State Council on the Arts in support of its exhibition Children's Pleasures: American Celebrations of Childhood. Some of the artists in the exhibit were Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, George Luks, William Sidney Mount, Norman Rockwell, and Philemona Williamson.
A watercolor by David Jaycox was accepted into the Salmagundi Annual Juried Painting & Sculpture Exhibition of New York for Non-Members. The Exhibition will be held in the Salmagundi Club's Main Gallery, 47 Fifth Ave., NY, from July 12 - July 23, 2010.
William Grabowski, curator of the Arts Council's Art-trium Gallery in Melville, was honored with third place in Newsday's annual "Explore Long Island" photography competition for his photo "Relax, He's Married." Newsday received more than 5,000 entries for this contest. You can see his photo at the Photography Exhibit at the Main Street Petite Gallery through June 21.
Chuck von Schmidt was in Athens, Georgia this past spring for the opening reception at the Athica Gallery of the Athica Art Center. His works are part of Deluge, a show about natural disasters, which included his entire solo show Antediluvian Memories. One of those pieces had previously been exhibited in both the Anchorage Museum of Art and at Marietta College in Ohio. Another piece, "Antediluvian Memories: Shinnecock," was shown in My Long Island at the Islip Museum of Art. Another piece, "Bamiyan Paper II," received an award at the Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD in April. His "Bamiyan" series was in a solo exhibit at Noho Gallery in NYC.
Circle of Dance has been the recipient of two New York State Council on the Arts grants for its arts education programs in the public schools. The 2009-10 dance residency program was conducted in 23 schools throughout Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties, bringing dance to over 15,000 students. The company recently announced that Patricia Kenny Reilly has become Artistic Director and will continue as choreographer, along with Carl Paris and Ja'hain Clark. The company will be premiering three new works in July at the Huntington Summer Arts Festival.
Richard Weiner has three paintings in an Asian Art Show at C.W. Post College opening on June 5 and running through June 18, 2010. He also has two paintings on exhibit at Ward-Nasse Gallery on Prince Street, New York.
Award-winning singer-songwriter Patricia Shih has just released a new CD for kids and families, "Your ImaginEngine!" The concept album has 12 songs and 11 spoken scenes. These include some new ones she has written just for the CD, along with favorite cover songs from other award-winning songwriter friends, Bill Harley, Gregg Karukas, Heather Forest, Toby Walker, Brady Rymer and Robbi K. Shih has also just published a book entitled Truly Rotten Gigs from Hell, containing 75 true, funny, sad and outrageous stories from 35 performers including Pete Seeger, The Smithereens and Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary.
Usdan Center For the Performing Arts announced that Maurice Brandon Curry, a director/choreographer/educator, and former Director of the Joffrey Ballet School, will become Chairperson of the Usdan Center Dance Department beginning in the summer of 2010. Maurice Brandon Curry has directed, choreographed and produced events around the world. His ballets are in active repertoires of numerous companies and his competition choreography has won awards at the Prix de Lausanne and the Varna International Ballet Competition. His students dance with American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and with dozens of other companies. Usdan has also announced that former American Ballet Theater/Joffrey Ballet star Dennis Nahat, who is Artistic and Executive Director of Ballet San Jose, CA, will be a Visiting Master Teacher this summer, directing selected classes at Usdan. As a choreographer, Nahat has more than a hundred choreographic credits in film, television, on Broadway and with major ballet companies of the world.
An Individual Artist S.O.S. grant was awarded to Tonito Valderrama for his community-based environmental project in Lloyd Harbor.
