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ARCHIVES: FEATURED ARTISTS 2020
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November 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Amy Bright Unfried is a Wyoming-based sculptor who has exhibited nationwide in galleries and art centers from New England to Wyoming and Colorado. Her work has been selected for inclusion in many prestigious and selective juried art shows, including those of the American Artists Professional League, Allied Artists of America, the National Sculpture Society, the National Arts Club, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the Salmagundi Club, The Pen and Brush Club, the Hudson Valley Art Association, and others. She has won dozens of awards, including the American Artists Professional League's Gold Medal, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's Horse's Head Award, and the Wyoming Capitol Art Exhibit's Purchase Award.  Her work is part of many public and private collections.
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October 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Despina Symeou ​is a London-based painter and printmaker. After studying fine art, printmaking and photography, Despina specialized in jewelry design and received her B.A. (Hons) from Middlesex University in North West London. Despina began showing her figurative work in 2010 with her solo show “Skin Shapes.” Since then, she has exhibited her work in and around London with the Printmakers Council, biannually with The Affordable Art Fair UK, and as a member of ArtCan, a nonprofit focused on artist collaboration, which enables her work to reach a wider audience. In 2018, Despina was shortlisted for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Many of her paintings and prints are in private collections worldwide, and her etchings are held in the Victoria & Albert Collection Fund and the Scarborough Museum Trust. 

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September 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Merrill French is an award-winning oil painter who started drawing and painting at an early age and never stopped, even though her formal education was in the sciences. Her work has been widely exhibited in New York and Connecticut as well as Massachusetts. Merrill has received numerous awards, including the New Britain Museum of American Art’s People’s Choice Award (2019, 2020), several awards from the National Association of Women Artists, a Grumbacher Gold Medal (Kent Art Association), and the Salmagundi Club Award for Excellence. Her work is also included in the following permanent collections: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (NJ), Adams & Company Real Estate in New York, NY (a 20 painting commission) and the Belfast Public Library in Maine.
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July 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: JACELYN is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter, actress and former host of CTV. She has played on the same bills as Keith Urban, Blue Rodeo, Johnny Reid, Megan Patrick and Colin James, to name a few. JACELYN has toured in Europe, Asia, Central and South America, the U.S. and the Caribbean. Awards include “Emerging Vocalist of the Year” (MARTY Awards), “Artist of the Year, Adult Contemporary” (Niagara Music Awards), and “Single of the Year, ‘Growin’ Up’” (Niagara Music Awards). Internationally recognized composer/arranger/pianist, Amina Figarova, partnered with JACELYN to arrange and produce her upcoming debut album, Dovetailing, which will be released in the fall. Her latest single release “Kaleidoscope,” a song that addresses mental health issues, is a collaborative effort with Figarova, and ASHA, an American rapper. 

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May 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Valerie Patterson is an award-winning watercolorist based in New York. She recently retired from a 34-year career teaching art. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States in both group and solo exhibitions, including exhibitions at The Bond St. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), The Visual Arts Center At Clarington (Ontario, Canada), The Dayton International Peace Museum (Dayton, OH), Monkdogz Urban Art (Manhattan), and many others. Her awards and recognitions are numerous, including Juror’s Award Of Excellence for the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center National Juried Exhibition “Ebb & Flow: The Power Of Water” and  several Awards Of Excellence and a Featured Artist Award from Manhattan Arts International. 
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April 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Belinda Greb is an Oregon-based, landscape and wildlife photographer. After the September 11 terrorist attacks occurred, she decided to focus her life on what she truly loved; so she began to pursue a neglected passion for photographing the beauty of the natural world and animals. Her photographs are a representation of her passionate belief that we can only live as our authentic selves if we reverently acknowledge our essential relationship to the world that we inhabit and share with all living beings. Her work has been exhibited at New Zone Gallery in Eugene, Oregon and has sold internationally. Belinda’s work has also been featured in numerous online publications. One of her photographs, “Cougar Reservoir on a Snowy Day,” was published in the UK Sunday Times for a featured interview with the environmental writer, Barry Lopez. 

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March 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Pennie Brantley is a New York-based acclaimed artist. She has had an active career for forty years, exhibiting in museums, art centers and galleries. Among these are the prestigious Hyde Collection Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, National Arts Club in NYC, Paul Robeson Cultural Center at Penn State University, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Her work has been selected for important exhibitions by distinguished curators, including Director of the Guggenheim, Richard Armstrong, and others. Elected to the National Association of Women Artists based in NYC, Pennie has received many honors for her paintings, including the Leibowitz Award, NYC, and was awarded a grant from the NY Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). She has also worked tirelessly to improve conditions and opportunities for other artists.
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February 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell is a Washington, D.C.-based fine artist and mixed media designer, originally from Denver, CO. 
Her work is largely composed of messages regarding the experience of the Black woman in America with themes of motherhood and culture. 
Her pieces contain patterns, textures and textiles definitive of the new tribe of Black and American. Her aim is to create pieces that are definitive around the culture of Black America as a tribe of new American African people whose existence began during the transatlantic slave trade. Zsudayka’s work has been included in exhibitions and gallery spaces throughout the U.S, and she is the recipient of several grants. She and her husband, James Terrell (who is also an artist), own Terrell Arts DC and work closely with nonprofits to develop youth art programming in their community.

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January 2020 FEATURED ARTIST: Monica Pasqual is best known for her work with the Bay Area "super-group" Blame Sally, of whom rock critic Joel Selvin wrote: “…one of the most powerful word-of-mouth success stories I’ve heard in recent years." However, Monica has managed to maintain an impressive solo career both before and during the Blame Sally years. Already the winner of six Independent Music Awards (IMAs) and six Emmy Awards, she took home three more IMAs with songs from her new album release and sixth solo effort, "You Can't Kill Light." In 2017, the new album’s title song and video, “You Can’t Kill Light,” garnered her radio play and views across the U.S. and was performed live by Pasqual at both the 2018 and the 2019 Bay Area Women's Marches as well as throughout Germany, where she toured in the spring of 2017 with cellist Joshua McClain. Her songs have been used on numerous network television shows, and she has composed soundtracks for PBS, The History Channel and National Geographic TV. 

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