ARCHIVES: FEATURED ARTISTS 2016
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OCTOBER 2016 FEATURED ARTIST: Amina Figarova is an internationally-known jazz pianist and composer who was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. For decades, she has played with musicians from across Europe and the U.S. The Amina Figarova Sextet (which includes flutist, Bart Platteau, Amina’s partner and husband of 25 years) has triumphed at the main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival. The sextet has been invited repeatedly to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and has won critical and popular acclaim in Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Amsterdam and New York. Thomas Conrad of Jazz Times says, “Figarova is among the most important composers to come into jazz in the new millennium.”
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SEPTEMBER 2016 FEATURED ARTIST: Kendall Kessler is an award-winning painter and former assistant professor of art at Radford University in VA. Her paintings have been exhibited in shows on Broadway and throughout the U.S. She has won local, national and international awards in both oil and pastel, including awards from Dorothy Gillespie, May Stevens, Frank Webb and Daniel Greene. Her artwork is included in private collections in 24 states as well as Washington D.C., Canada, Germany, Russia and Australia. Her piece Reaching Out appeared on The Mindy Project (FOX) in 2012
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AUGUST 2016 FEATURED ARTIST: Lynne Friedman, Ed.D., is a New York native. She received an Ed.D. in art education from Columbia University. Lynne's work has been shown in exhibitions in Georgia, New York, Massachusetts and Costa Rica. Her work was selected in 2013 by the U.S. Department of State (Art in Embassies Program) for the U.S. Embassy in Djibouti, E. Africa and Colombo, Sri Lanka. Friedman’s work is part of many corporate and private collections and she is listed in Who’s Who in American Art.
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JULY 2016 FEATURED ARTIST: Madeleine Segall-Marx has received more than 40 awards for sculpture, including ten Medals of Honor, as well as the 2006 Dutchess County Executive's Art Award to an Individual Artist. She served as president of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) from 1999 to 2002. Her current exhibition: The Singing Bowl: voices of the enemy took ten years to create. She wanted to make visual artwork that has a message, rather than work that is simply the product of play between the artist and her material.
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JUNE 2016 FEATURED ARTIST: Tatiana Rhinevault was born in Moscow. Her work has been exhibited and sold throughout Europe, including Hungary, Yugoslavia, Spain, Holland, France, Italy and Greece. Tatiana’s paintings were also exhibited at the acclaimed Gallery Revel in the SoHo area of Manhattan as well as several regional and local sites throughout lower New York. Her drawings appear in Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley (The History Press), Hidden History of the Lower Hudson Valley (The History Press) and several children’s books.
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MAY 2016 FEATURED ARTIST: Kimberlee C. Maselli is an internationally recognized award-winning painter based in North Carolina. Kim’s paintings have been juried into national and international competitions, and she has received numerous awards for her work. She is the author of the award-winning book Painting North Carolina; Impressions en Plein Air (Carolina Academic Press). Her book DOGS that Capture Our Hearts is a collection of tales and beautiful dog portratis. Profits from sales of the book are donated to rescue and shelter groups that provide food, shelter and medication for homeless animals.
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