Don Bradford
Professional Potter
Artist-in-residence in New Jersey schools
with “Project Impact.” Exhibitions: NJ State Museum, Morris
Museum and others; BA in Art Education from Montclair State University. MA in Visual Arts from William Paterson College.
Jennifer Cherpock
Professional Potter
She studied under widely recognized potters Susan Beecher and Sara Peterson. She is a current artist member of the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY and a former children’s outreach program educator. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the M.T. Burton Gallery, the Bruce Museum, the Montclair Art Museum and numerous other fine art exhibitions throughout the Northeast.
John Creagh
Graphic Artist and Instructor
Awarded the Sullivan Award as a graduate student by Lehman College and the Allied Artist Award by the National Club. Currently, he is the adjunct instructor of Graphic Arts at Westchester Community College.
Sally Lipton Derringer
Sally Lipton Derringer was a manuscript finalist for the Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University, a manuscript finalist for the New Issues Press Poetry Book Series, a finalist for the Glimmer Train Poetry Open, an honorable mention in the Pablo Neruda Prize, an honorable mention in the poetry competition of the National Writers Union, a runner-up for the Grolier Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Paumanok Poetry Award. Her publications include the St. Martin’s Press anthology A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories About the Modern Wedding; The Quarterly; The New York Quarterly; Nimrod; The Denver Quarterly; and Passages North. She has an MA in creative writing from Antioch University, and has taught English at Rockland Community College.
Dan Dugan
A former assistant to Professor Roger Hendricks at SUNY Purchase, he has been widely exhibited in the NY/NJ area and taught in Montreal, Canada, Cairns, Australia and Eastchester, New York.
Daly Flanagan
Daly Flanagan is currently the School
Director at the Rockland Center for the Arts. She has over 15 years experience in art education and administration including positions as Director of the Craft Studies League/YWCA and Coordinator of School and Family Programs at the American Craft Museum. She has a Masters of Science in Education and Administration with a visual arts focus from Bank Street College of Education and Parsons School of Design and a B. F.A in painting and printmaking from San Diego State University.
Martha Gradisher
doodled her way out of the small town in Ohio where she was born and went to New York. She became a comic illustrator for Gannett Publications and in addition had a Sunday Editorial cartoon. She went on to illustrate seven children’s books and to author and illustrate a feature for Parade Publications. In 1994 she entered the digital world and became in quick succession a game developer and Creative Director. In 2004 after the internet bust she came back to her original love, the gag cartoon.
Jane Herold
Full-time Potter
Produces wood fired functional stoneware at her Palisades studio. Apprenticed in England with Michael Cardew. Her work is in numerous collections and thousands of homes. Her ceramics have been featured in the New Yorker, Ceramics Monthly, Studio Potter, and Ceramics, Art and Perception. BA, Sarah Lawrence College.
Lauren Doner Hirn
Has a degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been a member of the scenic artists union for over twenty years. Her career includes painting for the Metropolitan Opera House, many Broadway productions, and television and feature film work. Some recent projects include Across the Universe, Spiderman, Sex and the City, I am Legend, Sherlock Holmes, S A L T , Arthur, and Men in Black 3.
Brooke Johnson
is a certified art educator (K-12) whose teaching experience includes substitute teaching art in the Rockland County Public Schools and the Art Association of Oswego, NY. She has a Masters in Art Education and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the State University College at Oswego, NY.
Brenda Kilgore
has studied and practiced extensively in many fields in her art career including, teaching, mural painting and decorative finishes, and portrait commissions. Brenda has studied with many of the most well- known contemporary figurative painters of our time and graduated with her MFA from New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2000. She studied with Burton Silverman, Nelson Shanks, and Ted Seth Jacobs, to name a few. She taught at Armory Art Center, in West Palm Beach, FL as well as at her own school, Palm Beach Academy of the Decorative Arts. She continues to do mural work here locally in the tri-state area as well as portraits on commission in her Nyack studio.
Alison Lee
is an art director turned jeweler. Continually exploring new ways to express her creativity, she studied the art of ancient goldsmithing and lamp worked bead making in both New York City and Umbria, Italy. Now Lee has created a new jewelry collection focusing on color in glass and the energy it can add to our lives. Her education includes Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA; Kulicke-Stark Academy, NYC, NY; and Cecilia Bauer, NYC, NY. Her glass training includes UrbanGlass Brooklyn, NY and Glass Orchids, Frankfort, ME. She has appeared on HGTV’s “Crafters Coast to Coast” demonstrating fused glass and jewelry making techniques. She currently teaches glass fusing and silver fusing at Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY and Alison Lee Studio, NYC, NY. Her work can be seen at: www.craftcast.com
Nancy Lenore
is a commercial photographer and owner of Photo Synthesis Photography. With over 25 years in the photography industry, she has shot everything from food, products, and fashion to architecture and industrial plants for both local and international clients. She has a B.S in Photojournalism from the university of Maryland and a B.A in Professional Commercial Photography from Brooks Institute.
Paula Madawick
CSPA Artist
Apprentice to Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, studied at the School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and SUNY where she received her BA. She has exhibited her colored pencil drawings at Castelli Gallery, Matthew Marks, The National Arts Club, Silvermine, Blue Hill Corp., and the Hopper House; is in the collection at Chase Manhattan Bank, NA, Rutgers University and the Bergen Museum. Madawick had received
numerous awards at the Color Pencil Society of America’s 1999 National
Convention. She was former Executive Director of Center Gallery, Demerest, NJ.
Stephanie Maddalena
Professional Jewelry Designer
Uses lampworking techniques to make glass beads and jewelry that she exhibits in galleries and craft shows in the NY, NJ and CT areas, including the Park Avenue Armory show. She has won a bead award at the Embellishments Conference in Texas.
Eleanor Miller
Painter
She received the Best in Show Award from the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA. and the Anna Hyatt Huntington Bronze Medal from the National Arts Club in New York City. She has had numerous exhibits ranging from the Broome Street Gallery to the Fells Point Gallery in MD. She is currently represented by M. Studio Gallery in Cold Springs and the Renaissance Gallery in Blauvelt. She also teaches at the Pelham Art Center.
Patti Mollica
has been a professional illustrator and fine artist since 1980. Her artwork is licensed and sold as posters and prints in retail stores nationally, such as AC Moore, Pearl Paint, The Hobby Lobby, and many more. It is also featured on book and magazine covers, annual reports, wine labels, calendars, greeting cards etc. Many pieces are held in private corporate collections such as Mellon Bank USA, Societe Generale, Sheraton Hotels, RCA Records and others. Galleries include The Chasen Gallery in Richmond VA, Ruggerio Gallery in Stamford, CT, Elizabeth Kerr Gallery in Sussex, NJ and 21st Century Gallery in Nyack, NY. She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions throughout the tri-state area. Patti’s style of painting is noted for its uninhibited use of color and bold brushwork.
Maria Pia Minichiello
Ceramist and Fashion Designer
She studied at from Parsons School of Design in 1992 and has 25 years experience in the fashion design industry, ten years designing and developing 4-6 major clothing lines each year and launched fashion shows in NYC, London and Japan. Her teaching experience includes Greenwich House Pottery and the NYC School District.
Eileen Brady Nelson
is a fine art photographer, specializing in alternative processes. After
years of teaching adults her focus has shifted to children and teens.
She is a recent recipient of a NYS Community Arts Grant and will be working this spring with children from Rockland Country on a Visual Spanish Alphabet. She is represented by the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City.
Mari Ogihara
is a ceramic sculptor based out of Port Chester, NY. After receiving her MFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in 2006, she was awarded a year long residency at the Clay Art Center in New York. Currently, Ogihara is a ceramic instructor at Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT and at the Clay Art Center. Her work can be viewed in regional and national exhibitions, and she continues to develop a body of work inspired by female ornamentation and rituals.
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Barbara Pollitt
Designer
Has won a Drama Desk nomination for her design of Caucasian Chalk Circle and an Obie Award for her performance in Epidog. Her masks have been seen on Broadway in The Tempest and Jelly’s Last Jam. She recently exhibited her masks at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, CT. Her work was exhibited at Lincoln Center as well as other venues in New York City. She was an artist-in-residence for the past two years at Nyack High School and has also taught at Manhattanville
College.
Elizabeth Sayles
is an award-winning illustrator of over 25 books for children including the bestselling “I Already Know I Love You” written by Billy Crystal. She is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at SUNY/Rockland. Her work also appears on book jackets, in various publications as well as in projects for various clients including Disney, Delta Airlines, and Mattel. Ms. Sayles’ artwork has been on display at many venues including the Society20of Illustrators in NYC, The New York Public Library, and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. See her work at www.elizabethsayles.com
Jill Santiago
is an artist with a passion for teaching art to children of all ages. She works in a variety of media including ceramics, watercolor, and acrylic. She has been teaching art in Rockland for over seven years. She attained a BS in Art Education from SUNY New Paltz and is currently studying graphic design. She has taught in East Ramapo Schools, Deerkill Day Camp and currently teaches at The Arts Alliance of Haverstraw.
Toni Sowa
owner of the Colored Window, a specialty glass store in Nanuet, where she also teaches. She has been involved with stained glass design since 1968. She has executed many private and commercial commissions throughout the tri-state area. Besides local exhibits, she
has also exhibited in Florida, California and Boston. She is currently teaching stained glass for the Continuing Education Department in Nanuet.
Jim Shaughnessey
is a potter who has made ceramic vessels and sculpture for more than a decade. He has studied with local as well as nationally known clay artists. His work can be found in a number of galleries in the surrounding area. In 1999 and 2001, his work was selected to serve as the Rockland County Executive Awards given to artists and supporters of the arts. In 2002, one of his pieces was used as an award given to Nobel Laureate author Toni Morrison. In 2003, his work was featured in silent auctions to benefit the American Cancer Society and the Nuyoricans Poets Caf?. In 2004, the Human Rights Commission selected to use one of Jim’s sculptures in the annual fundraiser event held at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. Also in 2004, Jim’s work was selected to serve as awards for Rockland County Congresswoman Sue Kelly and Anita Lowey, as well as New York State Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Glynis Sweeny
is an illustrator and caricaturist, who is known for lampooning political and business figures in weekly news magazines. She graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her clients include Time, Business Week, Golf, The Village Voice, The New York Times, TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe among others. She has appeared in the Society of Illustrators, RSVP, American Illustration, and Communication Arts annuals, and won illustration awards from the Society of Illustrators, the Society of Newspaper Design and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Pamela Wood
Ceramist
Received an MFA from CUNY and BFA University of Denver. She has exhibited her work at Jarice, America House, Incorporated, the Streichler Gallery and Greenwich House Pottery. Her teaching credits
include Hot Pots in Colorado, Greenwich House Pottery and Earthworks in NYC and the Pottery Studio in New Jersey.
RoCA Gratefully acknowledges support from the Arts Fund for Rockland, a Project of the Arts Council of Rockland.
RoCa's programs and exhibitions are also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.