2024 Featured Artist Updates
As part of our December issue each year,
we post updates from each of our Featured Artists who continue to do amazing work in their fields.
Let's see what they've been up to!
Click their photos to see the original feature.
we post updates from each of our Featured Artists who continue to do amazing work in their fields.
Let's see what they've been up to!
Click their photos to see the original feature.
Photo Credit: Daryon Haylock
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Camille has been busy performing her music.
Upcoming dates: December 17, 2024
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture Bronx County, NY December 20, 2024 Universal Temple of the Arts Staten Island JAZZ Festival 36 Staten Island, NY January 8, 2025 JEN Conference Atlanta, GA New Release: October 2024
Confluence is a collection of songs recorded during her Fall 2023 tour of Spain. 
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Photo Courtesy: Lisa Rivers
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Lisa is in her studio creating new, abstract paintings, and she continues to exhibit her work.
Lisa participated in the Historical Bench Project for Beaufort, South Carolina. She created a seascape painting on a bench made by Habitat for Humanity. The Historical Bench Project in Beaufort, South Carolina is a community art project that features benches painted by local artists to commemorate the city's history, culture, and arts. The benches are placed throughout the city, especially in historic downtown neighborhoods. 
Photo Credit: South Carolina Low Country and Resort Islands
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Photo Courtesy: Sally Beth Edelstein
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Sally is honored to be part of The Heckscher Museum of Art’s “The Body Politic” exploring the intersection of art and political/social issues.
Her collage “Ambassador of Peace - We are Friends” invites the viewer to understand the historical context of U.S. foreign policy and to asks questions about today's policies. September 14, 2024- January 19, 2025 Heckscher Museum of Art 2 Prime Avenue Huntington, New York 
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Photo Credit: Paul Filipkowski
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Current Exhibitions:
September 14 to February 2, 2025 Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School Addison Gallery of American Art Andover, MA Landscape paintings by Kay in conversation with highlights from New-York Historical Society’s collection of 19th-century Hudson River School paintings. Kay WalkingStick Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY Kay's work on view in Gallery 915. "Experience America" Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. Ongoing group exhibition. Many of the paintings in this exhibition were created in 1934 for a pilot program designed to put artists to work; others were produced under the auspices of the WPA (Works Progress Administration). This display is drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. |
Photo Courtesy: Astrid Lempriere
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Astrid will be running workshops in February '25 in Geelong. She is also pursuing mural work - something new for her.
Astrid is proud to announce that she received a commendation from Geelong Art Society for her piece "The Poet" (Lino Print). 
"The Poet"
© Astrid Lempriere Current Exhibition Announcement:
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Photo Courtesy: Carole Richard Kaufmann
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Carole has been super busy since Sandra Bertrand interviewed her for our May issue. She has moved her studio and moved into a different apartment as well. It has been a year of change for her.
Carole recently had a successful "Open Studio" event in November, and she has been busy creating new works. Carole writes haiku poetry on occasion, and the below work was created in November as the leaves turned in Central Park, a post-election expression with haiku poem. 
"The leaves turn. They fall. They die. We rise."
Oil on Canvas ~ 30 x 30 inches © Carole Richard Kaufmann |
Photo Courtesy: Jan Ugah
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Jane recently received a Certificate of National Service.
She continues creating art that shows her love of the environment and hope for peace in her local and regional communities. 
Facebook Photo
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Photo Credit: Richard Termine
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Diana continues as director of the award-winning LIFT program and as the founder and director of New York Theatre Ballet School. She is advisor to The Clive Barnes Foundation and director of Education for the Dance Notation Bureau. She will resign as Director of NYTB School in June.
During this new chapter of her life, she will continue to teach, lecture, curate and stage dance works throughout the country. In November, Diana gave a talk on her career and aging in the dance field at The Yale Club for the Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital. UPCOMING in 2025: February 8th & 9th Diana will curate a program with The Little Orchestra Society. April 12th & 13th Diana will curate a program at the Stissing Arts Center in Pine Plains, New York. May 3rd New York Theatre Ballet School will celebrate Diana's 45 years as founder and director of the school with a gala event at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn, New York. |
Photo Courtesy: Harriet Livathinos
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We just recently met Harriet who continues doing what she loves — art.
She also continues to "age gracefully" and looks forward to all that life has to offer. Find out more: |
JUNE 2024: CELEBRATING THE MEN IN OUR LIVES
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KENNY GARRETT
Grammy-Winning Saxophonist & Composer 
Photo Credit: Evelyn Freja
Since his interview in Sanctuary, Kenny won Alto Saxophonist of the Year at the 89th Annual DownBeat Magazine Reader's Poll. Kenny was a headliner at the Montclaire Jazz Festival and the Chicago Jazz Festival. He continues to perform at notable venues throughout the U.S. and abroad.
FIND SCHEDULE
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MARK STEPHEN KORNBLUTH
Fine Art Photographer 
Photo Courtesy: Mark Stephen Kornbluth
Since we last learned about Mark's incredible series examining New York City's Broadway District during the COVID pandemic, titled "Dark," he has continued to exhibit his work. He was included in an exhibition at Spanierman Modern Gallery in New York City this past summer and at Cavalier Galleries, Chelsea Fall Group Show in October, an exhibition of new and recent works by gallery painters, photographers and sculptors.
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BJORN OKHOLM SKAARUP
Sculptor 
Photo Credit: Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Bjørn's work was celebrated in USA Art News for International Artist Day in October. The day was created to honor artists from all walks of life — visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and performers. It serves to acknowledge the vital role artists play in shaping culture and society, and it encourages communities to engage with and support the arts.
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