FEATURED ARTISTS
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“To create one’s own world takes courage.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe |
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. |
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Featured Artists: 2025
Photo Courtesy: Nicola Kraus
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Nicola Kraus (November Featured Artist) is a New York City-based author and entrepreneur with 25 years’ experience in the publishing and entertainment industries and over six million copies of her books in print. She published her first novel, The Nanny Diaries, written with her then-creative partner, Emma McLaughlin, in 2002. In 2007, it was made into a movie with Scarlett Johansson, Paul Giamatti, and Laura Linney. In 2015, Nicola established The Finished Thought, a consultancy that helps to shepherd aspiring authors through the writing and publication process. Her most recent novel, The Best We Could Hope For was published in May 2025 and is excerpted in Sanctuary this month.
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Photo Courtesy: Ann Kittredge
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Ann Kittredge (September Featured Artist) is a lifelong performing artist. She has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at major venues across the country, working with top producers and directors throughout her career. In theater, she has been acclaimed for her leading roles in both musicals and dramas. In the cabaret world, Ann has displayed her versatility with a repertoire ranging from Great American Songbook standards to jazz, classic pop, and contemporary musical theater. She recently expanded her career into the recording industry. Her debut album, reIMAGINE, won the LaMott-Friedman Award. Her critically acclaimed second album, Romantic Notions, was chosen as one of the top 10 vocal albums of 2024 by The Broadway Radio Show. You Sleigh Me, her latest album, releases soon.
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Photo Courtesy: Heidi Hutner
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Heidi Hutner (July Featured Artist) is an award-winning director, writer, and producer who is also a professor of environmental humanities and gender studies at Stony Brook University. A scholar of nuclear and environmental history, literature, film and ecofeminism, she is the winner of Sierra Club Long Island's 2015 Environmentalist of the Year Award. Heidi publishes widely as a writer and journalist on nuclear, environmental, environmental justice, and gender issues. Her current book project, RADIOACTIVE: Women and Nuclear Disasters, forms the basis of the documentary project. RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island is Heidi’s first film. Released in 2022, the documentary has won numerous international awards. It’s available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and on DVD.
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Photo Courtesy: Joan Elizabeth Meyer
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Joan Elizabeth Meyer (May Featured Artist) is a New York City-born-and-based artist who has refined her style and skills for over 40 years. Her paintings are oil on canvas or oil on wood assemblages. They bring surreal images to life in unique colors where her love of nature shines through in depictions of animal and plant life. Joan has an approach that suggests a futuristic scenario which blends the subconscious imagination and dream-like imagery. Now retired from full-time teaching, Joan creates new works at her Chelsea art studio. Her work has been recognized in Art in America, Miami Herald, Interview Magazine, Art and Antiques Collector’s Sourcebook, and was most recently featured in Forbes magazine.
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Photo Credit: Emma-Lee Photography
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Jane Bunnett (March Featured Artist) is a five-time Juno Award winner who is known for her creative integrity, improvisational daring, and courageous artistry. Her exploration of Afro-Cuban melodies expresses the universality of music, and her ability to embrace and showcase the rhythms and culture of Cuba has been groundbreaking. She has toured the world bringing her own special sound to numerous jazz festivals, displaying her versatility as a band leader, saxophone player, flutist, composer and pianist. Jane was nominated for three Grammy Awards, and two documentaries have been made about her work: Spirits of Havana by the National Film Board and, more recently, Embracing Voices.
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