FEATURED ARTISTS
Each month the editors choose an outstanding artist to feature from the following categories:
fine art, music, dance/choreography, photography, film, poetry/books.
Click on the photo to view the artist's page.
fine art, music, dance/choreography, photography, film, poetry/books.
Click on the photo to view the artist's page.
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February 2019 FEATURED ARTIST: Carol Roullard is a Southern California artist who has been an avid photographer since high school. Using a high-powered microscope, she captures an extraordinary, intricate world of dazzling, tiny crystals. Since retiring from the corporate world in 2010, Carol has sold her unique art locally, nationally and internationally, and her work has received numerous awards, including a first place finish in Clemson University’s “HOOKEd on Microscopy” competition. Her images have been featured in video, print and online publications. Carol has released a clothing and accessory line called Crystal Art Outfitters which features her colorful work. She has co-authored nine camera-related books with her husband, Brian Matsumoto.
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Photo Credit: Carolyn Fong
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January 2019 FEATURED ARTIST: Molly Smith Metzler is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Molly’s plays include Cry it Out (2017 Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2018 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citation), Elemeno Pea (2011 Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville), The May Queen (Chautauqua Theatre Company), Carve (The Juilliard School), Close Up Space (Manhattan Theatre Club, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist) and Training Wisteria (Cherry Lane Mentor Project, winner of three KCACTF Awards from The Kennedy Center). In television, Molly’s credits include Casual (Hulu), Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), Codes of Conduct (HBO), and Shameless (Showtime), where she is currently a writer & producer. In film, she recently adapted Ali Benjamin’s novel The Thing About Jellyfish for Reese Witherspoon/MWM/Made Up Stories/Universal, and she is now at work on films for Disney and Fox 2000.
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Featured Artists: 2018
Photo Credit: William Clark
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November 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Jonatha Brooke is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been creating and performing richly constructed, melodic songs with complex harmonies and poetic lyrics for more than two decades. She began her solo career in 1994, and her 1997 CD 10 Cent Wings earned Jonatha a review in Billboard Magazine. In 2014, Jonatha opened in her one-woman play My Mother Has 4 Noses off-Broadway in New York City at the Duke Theater. The critically acclaimed project documents the poignant journey of caring for her mother, who was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's-induced dementia, during the last two years of her life. In February of this year, the show ran for three weeks at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis.
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October 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Amy Hempel is the author of four collections of stories: Reasons to Live (Knopf, 1985), At the Gates of The Animal Kingdom (Knopf, 1990), Tumble Home (Scribner, 1997) and The Dog of the Marriage (Scribner, 2005). These were assembled as The Collected Stories (Scribner, 2006) and won the Ambassador Award for Best Fiction of the Year. The volume was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and was named one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Harvard Review, The Southampton Review, GQ, The Quarterly, and many others.
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Photo Credit: Svelta Atanasova
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September 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Karen Bernard is a cross-discipline performance artist, choreographer & founder of New Dance Alliance, an arts service organization whose mission is to actively promote emerging forms of innovative dance, music, video and interdisciplinary performance. She has been invited to tour in Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, St. John’s, Montreal, Toronto, Ottowa and Quebec City. Karen received a BAX 10 award for her invaluable service to artists in the founding and development of the Performance Mix Festival. She is a co-founder of E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency at Earthdance.
Jennifer Dunning, a critic for the New York Times, has described Karen as a “spellbinding performer with unusual themes.” |
Photo Credit: Anne de Carbuccia
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July 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Anne de Carbuccia is a French-American environmental artist and founder of the Time Shrine Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raise awareness about vulnerable environments and cultures. Anne travels to remote places in the world, creating and photographing temporary installations (TimeShrines) that document and preserve the memory of endangered places, animals and cultures. Her project titled ONE: One Planet One Future uses artistic photographs taken by Anne on her expeditions to raise awareness on human-caused threats to the environment (war, pollution, toxic waste, trash, etc.) in order to encourage sustainable behaviors and lifestyles. Her images have been exhibited in museums and other public institutions in Europe and the U.S. and are part of several private collections. Anne's work is permanently exhibited at Westbeth Center for the Arts in New York City and in Milan, Italy.
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May 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Adison Evans is a saxophonist known for her work with Beyoncé, Jay Z and Demi Lovato. She draws on her influences, travels and life experience as well as those who have influenced her both musically and personally. Her music exudes a love for jazz, R&B and positive affirmation. Adison made her debut in the pop world playing in the 2013 Super Bowl with Beyoncé. After graduating from The Juilliard School, she toured with Beyoncé in the “Mrs. Carter Show World Tour” and, afterward, with Beyoncé and JayZ in the history-making “On the Run Tour.” In 2016, she released her debut album, Hero, a tribute to those who have shaped her into the young woman and artist she is today. Her new album, Meridian, will be released on July 6, 2018.
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April 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Tanya Fredman is an artist and community art educator who makes art as a celebration of life and people. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Tanya moved to Israel in 2011 and currently lives in Kibbutz Shluhot. Tanya received her studio art degree from Brandeis University and did postgraduate work at The HaMidrasha School of Art in Israel. She has exhibited in many locations in the U.S., including The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and The Jewish Education Project in New York, NY. Tanya works with people of all ages to create murals and public art installations that transform spaces and impact communities. She helped create the art program at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, painted murals with immigrant youth in Israel, and currently works in the education department at the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel.
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Photo Credit: Garth Woods
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March 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Najwa Parkins is a jazz vocalist, bandleader, songwriter, composer and educator from Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from Temple University with a B.M. in jazz studies and vocal performance. In 2011, she released her self-produced, debut album, Not the Next Someone Else. Najwa has performed as both a vocalist and trombonist throughout the U.S. and in Europe. She has shared the stage with a wide array of artists and has performed as both a featured vocalist and trombonist with Phil Woods and the Festival Orchestra. Najwa can be seen and heard on the Emmy Award-winning television show, Alex and the Kaleidoscope, which premiered in March 2014. In the winter of 2016, she toured nationally, portraying Rosa Parks in the Mad River Theater Works production of “Walk On: The Rosa Parks Story." Najwa currently leads her own trio and quartet and is an adjunct faculty member in the vocal jazz department at Temple University.
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February 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Linda Adelstein Watson was born and raised in New York and currently resides on Long Island. She attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. After raising a family and continuing to battle a rare bone disease, Linda turned to her art as a way to heal herself and to inspire others. Linda's work has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions. She created the cover artwork for the blues album, "Please Save Your Love For Me," released in 2015 by award-winning performer Ebony Jo-Ann. The following notables are proud owners of Linda’s portraits: Nick Ashford (gifted to Ms. Valerie Simpson), Marc Broussard, Taylor Dayne, James Jamerson Jr, Danny Kean, Gladys Knight, David Letterman, Jeffrey Osborne, Patrice Rushen, Paul Schaeffer, Ann & Nancy Wilson (Heart).
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Photo credit: Warren Cosgrove
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January 2018 FEATURED ARTIST: Elisa Pritzker is an American artist who was born in Argentina and has lived in Ulster County, NY for over twenty years. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions and renowned venues, such as MoMA, Queens Museum, Dorsky Museum, and the National Institute of Art in Taipei Taiwan, to name a few. She was selected the U.S. representative artist for “The Pyramids of Naxos,” Greece (international project for the 2004 Olympic Games). She has received numerous awards, including two U.S. Congressional Awards for achievements and service in the area of Community Arts and Culture and the Ulster County Executive Hispanic Heritage Award (NY). Her work has been highlighted in the Huffington Post, CNN (in Spanish), PBS Channel, and her "Eclectica Store" was showcased in The New York Times.
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Featured Artists: 2017
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November 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: Bette Ann Moskowitz is an award-winning author and teacher. Her memoir Do I Know You? A Family’s Journey through Aging and Alzheimer’s won a New York State Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship for Literary Non-fiction and The Room at the End of the Hall: An Ombudsman’s Notebook was a Finalist in NYFA’s literary non-fiction category. She has just finished the novel Three Legs in the Evening, a story about a middle-aged woman who reinvents herself, embraces a newfound sensuality and finds love again after a terrorist attack rocks her personal and external world. Bette has also been a dedicated teacher for decades and is a winner of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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October 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: Rosita Larsson is an award-winning artist from Stockholm, Sweden. She works mostly in acrylic, watercolor and ink, but she is also a photographer and mixed media artist. She combines elements of art deco, psychedelia, and surrealism in a unique manner. Rosita has been exhibiting her art for over 35 years in both solo and group exhibitions in her native Sweden and elsewhere, including the U.S., UK, Italy, Brazil, France and Bulgaria. She has won many awards for her artwork over the years, including several in 2012 for her botanical and floral photographs. Rosita uses her art to participate in and to aid charitable organizations.
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September 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: Heather Harrington is an award-winning dancer and choreographer. She has danced with several renowned companies, including the Doris Humphrey Repertory Company, the Martha Graham Ensemble, the Pearl Lang Dance Theater and Bella Lewitzky Dance Company. She ran her own modern dance company, Heather Harrington Dance Company, in New York City for nine years, performing nationally and internationally with a focus on site-specific dance. She has received numerous grants for her work. Heather is currently an adjunct professor of modern dance and theory at Kean University, and she also teaches at Seton Hall University.
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July 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: Claire Lambe is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator who was born in Ireland and is a resident of Woodstock, NY. Claire is a versatile artist who is best known for her stunning portraits. She has presented her work in many solo and group exhibitions. For the past year, she has been living and working in Berlin and is part of a two-person exhibition at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: (WIKO), Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study. She is an instructor for the historic Woodstock School of Art and writes for Roll Magazine.
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May 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: Hanne Lore Koehler was born in Aachen, Germany and grew up in Ontario, Canada where she resides today. She is a painter as well as an author and illustrator of children’s books. Hanne’s work has appeared on the covers of numerous magazines, including Discover Fort Collins, Holistic Health Networker, The Showcase, Pratiques des Art, and Country Woman. Her paintings have been sold to art enthusiasts in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Britain, Germany, Africa and Australia.
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April 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: For National Poetry Month we are featuring the following poets: Linda Crate: Linda is a poet from Pennsylvania. Her poetry and other works have been published in diverse magazines both online and in print. Betty Farber: Betty is a poet from New York City. Betty’s book of poems, My New York: City Poems was included in the 2016 Poets House Showcase in New York City. Linda Mason Hunter: Linda splits her time between her homes in Iowa and Vancouver. She is a former editor and has written and produced 17 books. Mary C. Leonard: Mary is a poet from New York. Her poems, essays, short fiction and mixed genre pieces have been published in numerous journals, and she is also the author of four chapbooks.
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March 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: Alison Jardine is an award-winning artist who works in a broad range of disciplines, including new media, sculpture and painting. Alison’s work has been exhibited across the U.S., including Dallas (Erin Cluley Gallery), New York, San Francisco, Connecticut and Georgia. She was commissioned to create work for a social media art project for the London Olympics in 2012, and her digital art has been featured in several art magazines and on television (CBS 11). Her forthcoming book, Make Great Art on the iPad, will be published this summer in both Europe and the U.S. (Octopus Press, Hachette, London).
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FEBRUARY 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: Sally West is an award-winning painter from Australia. She received a Bachelor of Visual Communications from KVB College of Visual Communications in North Sydney. Sally has had group exhibitions throughout Australia, France, London, Hong Kong and Germany as well as several solo exhibitions in Manhattan, Sydney and Melbourne. She has sold her paintings to private collectors around the globe. She has been the winner of numerous awards and is a regular finalist in many prestigious competitions. Most recently, she was selected as a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize (2017). Her work will be displayed at the iconic Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in Waverton, Australia.
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JANUARY 2017 FEATURED ARTIST: René Marie is a Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist, composer, arranger and theatrical performer who has entertained audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her latest release in her ever-expanding body of work is Sound of Red (Motéma, 2016) which recently garnered a second Grammy nomination for René. It’s her first music CD containing all-original material, which provides insightful glimpses into the many small but profound turning points that are part of an individual life. In addition to producing 11 music CDs, René’s created her one-woman stage show, Slut Energy Theory, a play about overcoming abuse and incest. In 2010, she launched a series of vocal therapy group sessions called SLAM!, which enables her to give back by sharing her vocal philosophy with others.
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