Lois Bender
Lois Bender is a New York artist who interprets various nature, garden and climate change themes, creating a fresh mix of painting, printmaking and mixed media. She was born into her aesthetic garden sensibility as the daughter of Flora Bloom & granddaughter of Hortense Bloom, really! Her design brand GardenSpiritsNY stemmed from her time as a retail product designer for the New York Botanical Garden and her art direction retail experience for Godiva Chocolates. Her present series of paintings of botanical and naturescape imagery uses stencils, the French technique of Pochoir, and direct painting.
With a B.A. (Hunter College, NY) and an MFA (Boston University) in Painting, she has been teaching art workshops in the Hamptons & NY for 20 years in locations as varied as a four year residency at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton, Wolffer Estate Vineyards, Southampton Arts Center, Watchcase Factory, Sag Harbor Florist, Baker House 1650, Womens Art Center of the Hamptons, etc. She shows her work at Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor; Ashawagh Hall, the Springs; and at various other Hamptons and NY venues. She has participated in recent group at EcoArtSpace and Yale Universitys Sacred Music Art Gallery. She has been a College Adjunct Art Professor at Essex County College, Newark, NJ and served as Director of the New York Artists Circles Curatorial Program from 2020 – 2023.
Kirsten Benfield
Originally from New Zealand, Kirsten Benfield has lived, worked and shown in East Hampton since the 1990s. Her practice in watercolor was inspired in childhood, after seeing a family members watercolor sketches in their travel journal. Plein air is a large part of her practice, going between the ocean and the bays, recording the seasons and sunsets, by hand. She explains: “Painting has been my soul food, largely self-taught, its my nature to really dive in and study the techniques and lives of past masters in the medium, Cezanne, Turner and Homer. From there I apply what I have learned, and push the medium further.”
Kirsten is the “in house painter” for the Honest Man Restaurant Group, which includes Nick & Tonis, where she works as a dining room manager. She is also a founding member of the water+color+works group who paint and show together. Her teaching experience includes workshops at The Springs School with Project Most and the Visiting Artist Program, and at Golden Eagle Art Store. Her work is included in collections around the US, Europe and New Zealand.
Jim Bergesen
Jim Bergesen is a photographer and painter who embraces the possibilities rendered by digital technologies to create an area of synthesis between mediums, in which the representational is abstracted and abstraction made to represent. By re-focusing and re-framing images – and utilizing color in both pixelated and solid forms, Bergesen filters the static of the everyday to reveal the unseen nature and spirit of these images. Life Member of the Art Students League of New York, with a MFA in Studio Art and a MA in Contemporary Art History and Criticism from SUNY, Purchase College, Jim was raised in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland and loves to share his passion for the history and uses of art materials in his role as an Educational Advisor for artist color company, Winsor & Newton, and consults with the international Artist Outreach Program of Liquitex. His works have been acquired for several corporate and private collections and latest works may be viewed at he Pierogi Galleries flat files in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Darlene Blaurock
Darlene is a Mixed Media Artist/Visual Artist and Art Educator living in Wantagh, New York. She has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and an MFA from LIU CW Post. She has shown her artwork both locally and nationally. She won an AWARD of MERIT for 3 of her paintings that were in the LI Biennial at The Heckscher Museum of Long Island in 2023. Darlene was also selected to be a resident artist at The Art League of Long Island for 2024. Darlenes Mixed Media Paintings are a combination of the real and the imagined. The artist is also known as @artalatte on Instagram and her website www.artalatte.com
Rosalind Brenner
Rosalind Brenner is a glass artist, painter, and poet. From a young age, she loved art and making art, which led her to dedicate many years to working as a professional in the glass world, as well as in painting and writing. Her stained glass is in many private collections in homes, churches, synagogues, and offices throughout the tri-state area and beyond, and she continues to produce commissions and restorations. Her new poetry book was published by Los Angeles Press in June 2023. She received her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught stained glass extensively throughout New York City, Great Neck, Great Barrington, and at The Art Barge.
Creating in various mediums is for Rosalind Brenner an artistic-spiritual betrothal - just as it is for all people who want to give meaning to life, who love the challenge of working creatively or intimately with heart, hands, and head. Handling materials, learning, exploring, beauty, and mastery, be it pilot and plane, the athlete and her body, the mathematicians problem, dancer, and form. Making art transcends the everyday and is transport into an inexplicable realm. It is that realm that she expresses in her work. Rosalind is grateful for her wonderful mentors and supportive family and friends, and for her beautiful home in her favorite part of the world, Clearwater Beach, East Hampton.
Perry Burns
Perry Burns received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and Masters degree from Columbia University in 1994. He has lived and worked on the east end of Long Island for the past 30 years working as a professional painter, photographer and teacher for both children and adults.
Inspired by travels to many different countries around the world, Burns paintings are influenced by Middle Eastern, Far Eastern and Indian sensibilities of color and pattern. He brings this sensibility to both abstract and representational painting often alluding to aspects of the east end landscape and seascape.
Burns has had more than thirty solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including fellowships and residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work is held in many private and public collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Knight Foundation, and the Brant Foundation, among others. He has exhibited locally for many years at the Sara Nightingale Gallery as well as the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Museum, The Islip Art Museum and the Heckscher Museum.
Maryann Calendrille
For 25 years, Maryann Calendrille has been co-owner of Canios Books, an independent literary bookshop in Sag Harbor. She is an educator, writer and editor and has offered community workshops at local libraries, Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island, Ashawagh Hall in Amagansett, and at Southampton College.
She is editor of Sag Harbor Is: A Literary Celebration an anthology of prose fiction and non-fiction, and poetry about the village. For a dozen years she wrote the Spyglass community column for the Southampton Press, and has published articles and poems in various journals. She earned an MFA in Poetry at Vermont College where she studied with Mark Doty and David Wojahn among others. She grew up in the Long Island suburbs and has been an East Ender for decades, daily inspired by the ever changing seas and skies.
Linda Capello
Linda Capello is a master of figure drawing. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she worked in the NYC fashion industry for over 20 years. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, and received the Miriam Russo Enders Award: For Works on Paper, from the National Association of Woman Artists (May 2009), for her red conte drawing, So Inclined.
She explains: "All I have ever wanted to do was draw, and all I have ever wanted to draw were people. I am a classically trained anatomist, but instead of the rigid, mechanical representation of muscle, bone and flesh, I look for the subtlety of the line; the strength and sensuality of the thick, thin and lost line. The curve of the neck and arch of the spine speak volumes."
She teaches extensively on the East End at Guild Hall, the Veterans Hall in Southampton, The Art Barge, the Southampton Cultural Center and is a member of Southampton Artists and the Artists Alliance of East Hampton. – Text from the Local Art Rag.
Jennifer Cross
Jennifer Cross is an artist who lives full time in Springs. She earned her BFA degree from the University of Minnesota and later received her MFA degree in Painting from Pratt Institute. She is the recipient of a number of awards including a Ford Foundation Grant, a Jerome Foundation Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting.
From 1985-1990, she was the Director of the non-profit East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art where she curated over 30 exhibitions. Her teaching career includes positions at the University of Minnesota, Suffolk Community College, and Long Island University, and the Ross School where she served as Dean of Visual Art from 1996-2021.
Jennifer began exhibiting her work in Soho and the East Village in the 1980s before relocating to East Hampton. Over the years, she has shown her work in numerous galleries and museums in New York and on the East End, including in group exhibitions at Tripoli Gallery, Ille Arts, and the Southampton Art Center, and in recent solo shows at MM Fine Arts in Southampton and Duck Creek Arts in East Hampton.
Caro Dranow
Caro Dranow (b. 1998) is an emerging artist based in Bridgehampton, NY. While her creative practice spans diverse media, including painting, collage, printmaking, and sculpture, her work is primarily grounded in a rigorous love of oil painting that explores the relationship between nature and culture. Simultaneously colorful and cinematic, Caro employs classical oil painting techniques, layered along with expressive oil stick drawings to create her dreamscapes and figures. Speaking to a softness and resilience that she observes in nature and women, Caro challenges the historically male conventions of representation with a distinctly urgent and feminist perspective. At 26, she has been featured in premier galleries such as the Ethan Cohen Gallery and NewApostle Gallery in New York, and was included in the 2022 Every Womans London Biennial at the Copeland Gallery in London.
Sue Ferguson Gussow
Sue Gussow is a figurative painter working in a wide range of drawing and painting media. She is Professor Emerita of The Cooper Union School of Architecture where she continues to conduct the Advanced Drawing Seminar. She has taught, lectured or served as visiting critic at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Bennington, Maryland Art Institute, Pratt Institute, RISD, Parsons School of Design, Tulane University, New York University, Alfred University, the Frick Collection, the Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Aarhus School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark and the EPFL. Ecole DArchitecture in Lausanne, Switzerland.
John Haubrich
John Haubrich is an abstract artist exploring the intersection of abstraction and realism. Having discovered a process of image transfer over 40 years ago, Haubrich has continued to use this process to create his work. Through image transfer and oil paint, Haubrich creates multi-layered paintings that express three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional surface. Haubrich has shown both locally, nationally, and internationally. Including Stricoff Fine Art, NYC, Ille Arts, Sara Nightingale Gallery, and LACDA Gallery in Los Angeles. He has worked for such artists as Jeff Koons and Mary Heilmann. Haubrich is completing his BFA degree at Fordham University, and recently opened his own art space called HaubrichArt. A gallery space that offers abstract and realistic work featuring artists identified with the East End.
Eva Iacono
Eva Iacono was born and raised on Long Island and has been living on the South Fork for the last 22 years. She has an advanced degree in Education in TESOL and is certified in New York State as an ESL and Spanish instructor. She was an English language teacher for almost three decades, six years of which she taught English in Barcelona, Spain. Most recently, she taught English as a Second Language and Spanish Language Arts in the East Hampton School District. Apart from teaching languages, making art has been essential and constant for her throughout her life. Most of her pieces delve into portrait and landscape photography as well as portrait drawing using oil pastels and mixed media. She has participated in many juried, open and invitational group shows throughout the East End and New York State and she had a one woman show at the Ammerman Library of Suffolk County Community College. She has been a studio assistant, administrative assistant, grant writer, artist, and most recently an instructor at the VDIA for over six years.
David Joel
Shortly after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1986 with a BFA, David began a 16-year affiliation with artist, Larry Rivers. Since Rivers passing in 2002 David has served as chief archivist for the Rivers Estate and was instrumental in organizing the efforts of the Larry Rivers Foundation. In August of 2006 David was elected to serve as Executive Director for the Larry Rivers Foundation and has been working in that capacity to the present day. While working with Rivers, David continued to produce his own art, exhibiting works in SoHo at Gallery 13 and at Fischbach Gallery on 57th street. In 1993 he painted the popular mural for the Grange Hall restaurant in Manhattan and has since completed numerous additional murals. While David dedicates the bulk of his time to serving the interests of the Larry Rivers Foundation, he continues to pursue his own art and writing.
Alia Knowlan
Alia Knowlan is a Montauk, New York-based artist, educator, and designer exploring the interconnections found within our living world. Her work weaves together art, ecology, and research into earth-based practices spanning natural color-making, collage, printmaking, land art, painting, regenerative planting, and multispecies community-building. In her research on natural color, Alia ethically forages and cultivates plants and earth pigments to create an array of colors and artistic tools through low-waste, non-chemical, and regenerative processes.
Her work has been shown across the United States and Europe in spaces such as The Arnolfini Museum, The Paris Collage Collective, and The Centre for Print Research. She has designed for a wide range of organizations such as Brightside Health and Frog Design and has facilitated art and ecology gatherings globally. She has a B.F.A. in Graphic Design, a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking, and is a lifelong student of the earth and her stewards.
Teresa Lawler
Teresa Lawler writes in her artist statement: “As an artist and an educator, Ive worked vigorously to gain knowledge of expertise in all mediums to develop and appreciate all modalities of art. Ive also created watercolor paintings that appreciate nature and the aesthetic beauty that exists in our surroundings. In my current glass fusing artwork, my goal is a complete piece of art that begins with the sketch, watercolor painting, photograph or research, then continues with color, design and innovations of glass painting and fusing glass within a frame that captures and reflects an image. As a self-defined “craftsman of color and glass,” Ive explored that realm where desire meets imagination, and therefore discover those special moments when reality intermingles with fantasy. Painting with glass creates misty-toned color, grain, amorphous shapes, and transparency of medium, with continuous variations of light and texture.
Serina Mayer
Serina Mayer is a self-taught artist from New York. After a career in the entertainment industry, Mayer discovered her love of clay during a class at The Art Barge in 2017. Her hands have been in clay ever since. Mayers current series “Assembly Theory” is influenced by the idea that life forms from the layered remnants and experiences which previously existed. She lives in East Hampton.
Veronica Mezzina
Born in New York, Veronica relocated to the East End in 2008. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Regis College and her Master of Arts from Long Island University, and studied art at The New School, Parsons, Cooper Union and The Center for Book Arts.
Classes at the Center inspired her to begin exploring book structures, creating small works of art that combined various papers, text and images. The final pieces are both functional and. She finds the slow and deliberate process of folding and assembling paper meditative, syncing well with her practice of yoga and mindfulness.
She has taught workshops to children and adults both in NYC and, more locally, at Amagansett Applied Arts, Golden Eagle Art Supply, January Girls (NPCowgirls), camps and private clients. As both an educator and a working artist, Veronica encourages students to trust their creative instincts, to include a sense of curiosity and play into their art and to embrace the process. Her work has shown at Oscar Molina Gallery, Ashawagh Hall, Guild Hall, Romany Kramoris Gallery, Springs Library, Gallery Merz and Crazy Monkey Gallery.
Bill Nagle
Bill Nagle was born on February 21,1948 in Mineola, New York. He Attended Hobart College from1966-1970 Received a BA in Sociology with minor in Studio Art. In 1970 Attended New York University where he received his Masters in Art Education with focus on studio painting. He became the Head of art department at Hampton Day School in Bridgehampton, New York from 1971-1973 and 1986-2001. There, Nagle designed and implemented art curriculum and taught classes from pre-K through 12th. Nagle has been an Instructor at The Art Barge since 2003. He teaches adult classes in studio painting, collage and sculpture.
Kimberly Newman Norris
Kimberly Newman Norris is a passionate fine arts educator and accomplished pastel artist based on Long Island. With a degree in art and art history and two master's degrees, she brings a deep understanding of artistic techniques and historical context to her teaching. Specializing in pastel painting, she captures the beauty of the East End's landscapes and seascapes with a keen eye for light, atmosphere and emotion. Through both instruction and personal practice, Kimberly inspires others to appreciate and explore the expressive potential of fine art. She has enjoyed working at The Barge since 2003.
Nicole Parcher
Nicole Parcher is an abstract artist who creates large scale mixed media installations, works on paper, and abstract oil paintings on canvas. Her compositions are playful and often have a great deal of movement. The colors, lines, shapes, and materials push against one another trying to create a balance between the elements of chaos and order, fragility and endurance. Nicole has a love of materials and often creates work from everyday household items and materials from 99 cent stores. Nicole has been a Teaching Artist and educator for over 30 years, working with youth in New York City. She has a B.A. from Skidmore College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited her work in New York City and in Eastern Long Island. Nicole was encouraged by her mother, a long-time artist at the Art Barge, to create, explore, and to become an artist.
Victoria Pinderhughes
Victoria Pinderhughes is the owner and designer for Jewelz By Victoria, which creates one-of-a-kind hand-crafted jewelry that is wearable art. Each piece of jewelry is carefully thought out, organically made with a variety of metals, beads, or polymer clay, as well as many hand-crafted findings. Her designs appeal to those who like jewelry that recalls memories of place or time, gravitate toward the unusual, or view jewelry as an essential element of dressing for the days activities.
Victoria has studied metalsmithing and polymer clay at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT); 92nd Street Y Jewelry Program; Riverside Church Jewelry Program; Studio Jewelers, Ltd. - jewelry trade school; and David Benlolo. She has attended polymer clay retreats including Clayathon, Keystone Polymer Claycation, as well as Polymer Art Summit (PAS). Victoria has also completed classes with well-known Polymer Artists: Jana Roberts Benzon, Bonnie Bishoff, Dan Cormier, Valerie Hall, Loretta Lam and Lynn Yuhr. In addition, Victoria is a member of New York Polymer Clay Guild (NYPCG) and International Polymer Clay Association (IPCA). Victoria had a rewarding professional career as a licensed clinical Psychologist and continues to work with young children on a seasonal basis.
Bonnie Rychlak
Bonnie Rychlak is an artist and a curator. As a practicing artist, she has presented work in several solos and numerous group exhibitions in museums and private collections in the United States and Japan during the last four decades. Rychlak graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1976. She has also received numerous grants and residencies, including Surnadal Billag A/S, Artist Residency in Norway; the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy; the American Academy in Rome; The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency; and the National Endowment for the Arts in Sculpture.
In 2021 Rychlak and the sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne exhibited Down and Dirty at the University of Georgia, Athens, and at Duck Creek in East Hampton, New York. Rychlak currently lives and works in East Hampton, New York, and SoHo, in New York City.
Sally Richardson
Sally Richardson grew up in a small coastal village in East Anglia, England where the sea shaped the rhythm of daily life. The maritime folklore of the region, the landscape of the mysterious marshes and mud flats where mythical creatures roam captured Sallys imagination and shaped her strong connection to the sea and its traditions.
Sally has been carving wood and stone sculptures for 35 years. In her sculpture practice she explores her deep-rooted connection to the natural world and maritime environments. Using only hand tools - mallets, chisels, and rasps - she carves wood and stone into human and plant-like forms, approaching each piece of wood and block of stone respectful of its character and uniqueness, and during the subtractive carving process she imagines an inner life emerging from within. In the early 90s Sally began visiting Montauk and has lived and worked fulltime there for 20 years where she continues to be inspired by the landscape and a familiar coastal history. Her work has been exhibited at Guild Hall, Ashawagh Hall, DAmico Studio and Archive, a solo show at Duck Creek Arts Center. In 2022 and in 2023 she was the recipient of the Huntingdon Arts Council/NYSCA grant for a community based solo exhibition. Her Sculptures are in many private collections in the US, Europe and New Zealand.
Lee Rywkin
Lee Rywkin is a South African contemporary fashion designer. She has a deep love of textiles and a desire to create beautiful objects that began in childhood with an emphasis in fiber art, weaving, textiles, embroidery, crochet, fabric dying, printing & construction using found and natural materials, reworking and creating fabrics, and sustainable art.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts (With Honors) in Fashion Design at the renowned Central Saint Martins, College of Art & Design in London, she later worked as a Design Director in the New York City fashion industry for 28 years. Her extensive industry related travel to textile mills in Europe, India, Africa, and Asia has been an inspiration in her work and she is passionate about artisanal, handmade materials.She is currently developing her own locally crafted luxury South African lifestyle shoe brand Pantoffel, and consciously designed artisanal products. She is based in Sag Harbor.
Isabel Santos
Isabel Santos is an animation artist, director and educator from Queens, New York. Through character based, hand-drawn animation, Isabel translates her experience of her own embodiment and self-perception into unusual and dramatic bodily movements whose tension affects the surrounding environment, bringing objects to life. Her films focus on the perspective of an individual in relationships with others, experiencing a surreal internal life seeping into their mundane reality. Isabels films have screened in festivals internationally, including New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, BITBANG and San Diego Underground Film Festival. She holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute for the Arts and a BFA in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Linda Sirow
Linda Sirow has demonstrated a life-long commitment to art education and the importance of creativity in all people. After earning a dual degree in sculpture from Tufts University and the Museum School in Boston, Linda completed graduate work in art therapy and creativity development. Her teaching career has focused on using the concepts of art therapy in her teaching with children and adults. For the past thirty years, Linda has taught in an academic setting, focusing on middle school art at The Dalton School in New York. She is an adjunct professor of graduate art education at The Hunter School. Linda has nurtured hundreds of individuals, helping each student find her unique voice through visual expression. Linda has developed a following as an abstract painter in oil and encaustic wax. Her work can be seen in various galleries and venues, primarily in New York City and Eastern Long Island. Linda's expressive paintings explore the relationships of color, shapes, and imagery. She forms intriguing, mysterious, and enchanting visual worlds by applying rich surfaces and colors in veiled, translucent layers of wax and oil. Linda's signature square format images give structure and form to these otherwise atmospheric and ethereal spaces. Linda's career might be seen as a creative engine, constantly refueling itself as her roles as both artist and teacher continually overlap, influencing and driving each other.
Laura Lyn Stern
Laura Lyn Stern is an artist and art educator who resides and maintains a studio in Philadelphia, Pa. She received a BFA in Textile Design from Moore College of Art, an MA in Ceramics from Purdue University and an MFA in Ceramic Sculpture from Louisiana State University. Ongoing intensive studies in kiln formed glass at Bullseye Resource Center, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Urban Glass, in addition to her natural curiosity, fuels a vibrant studio practice. Sterns mixed media mosaic artwork takes several forms including commissioned residential and commercial installations, freeform panels and sculptures. Always searching for new ways to express timeless concepts, experimentation with new and unusual materials and processes are her passion and ongoing artistic journey.
Laura Lyn holds several Artist in Residence/Teaching Artist positions on an ongoing basis in schools and art centers creating site specific, permanent, large scale mosaic murals. She has led adult workshops focusing on mosaic tile making and sculptural practices at Fleisher Art Memorial, Center on the Hill, Peters Valley and Touchstone Center for the Arts.
Kathryn Szoka
Kathryn is a photographer of communities in transition. Her photographic essays include The VANISHING LANDSCAPES © series documenting East End farmlands; Life Along the Turnpike documenting the African-American community for the Bridgehampton Museum, and Crooked Knee documenting the last year of her Father’s life. The photo essay WITNESS used wrapped trees to symbolize both the loss of our agrarian heritage, our increasing social isolation, and the growing disparity of wealth in our community. Blue Views is her recent imagistic photographic essay printed on canvas. Szoka is represented by the Robin Rice Gallery in New York. She teaches photography at many institutions and is co-owner of Canio's Books in Sag Harbor.
Aurelio Torres
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to a family of artists, Aurelio Torres was raised in New York City. His father, Horacio Torres, was an accomplished classically trained artist who died when Aurelio was a young teen in New York. His artistic training was in Barcelona, Spain, where he studied for several years with his uncle, Augusto Torres, another classically trained painter in the family and his fathers eldest brother. Aurelios grandfather, was the acclaimed Modernist, Joaquin Torres-Garcia.
Aurelios work infuses the aesthetic principles of classicism within contemporary settings. His painting typically depicts scenes from nature or portraits, and his sculptures most often interpret the simple, clean lines of wooden ships.
From a young age, Aurelio has travelled extensively around the world. This has inspired his determination to create much of his work in natural, outdoor settings. His aesthetic sensibility, as evidenced in his work, is one of essential simplicity and natural, uncontrived beauty.
He currently works and resides in East Hampton, New York.
Burt Van Deusen
Burt Van Deusen is a full-time painter and printmaker who grew up in Miami, Florida and attended college at the University of Miami. He also attended the Philadelphia College of Art (BFA). He has worked in television (Jackie Gleason Show, Gentle Ben, Flipper) and movies as a scenic artist. He worked as a gallery director of the Gross-McCleaf Gallery in Pennsylvania, and for twenty-five years operated, maintained, and tended bar at his family- owned restaurant, the 1770 House, in East Hampton, New York. Burt has had three shows of his work in the Blue Mountain Gallery in NYC and has been included in many group shows and invitationals. He is also a "boat wright" and for the past twelve years has led a team of volunteers in building featured fund-raising boats for the East End Classic Boat Society in Amagansett, New York.
Daniel Hughes Vernola
Daniel Hughes Vernola is a painter from New York City where he is a member of the Art Students League and maintains a studio in East Hampton, Long Island.
A state and city certified arts educator, Mr. Vernola has taught '3 and Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade (regular, special needs, and E.S.L. learners) for 25 years in East Harlem and the South Bronx.
Margaret Zubarriain
Margaret Zubarriain is a New York-based artist and educator, having earned her BFA in Illustration and Animation from Parsons the New School for Design in 2008. She has worked as an intern prop builder for The Jim Henson Company and a set painter for Women's Expressive Theater, while also creating large-scale murals across New York City and Long Island, including a commissioned piece at Gurneys Resort in Montauk. In recognition of her talent, she won first place in the inaugural live mural and graffiti competition at The Clubhouse in East Hampton. In addition to her mural work, she is navigating the balance of being a mother and artist while exploring ceramics alongside her primary medium, pen and ink.
Holding an MFA in Art Education from City College of New York, Zubarriain teaches drawing, painting, and sculpture at the high school level in East Hampton, where she encourages students to explore thematic depth and personal expression in their work. Teaching choice and artistic behaviors directs much of the incredible work being produced by our next generation of creatives. On the topics of community building, social justice, and Youth Participatory Action projects, she has shared her expertise as a presenter at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) conferences in Chicago, New Orleans, and San Diego. Passionate about fostering creativity in the community, she remains actively involved in public art projects and student-led murals.