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.
Jeanne Carreau
Professional Potter
She has been working with clay for more than 40 years. She was
trained as an apprentice in Japan and received her MA from UC Berkeley in
East Asian Studies. Her MA thesis compared the ceramics traditions of Bizen
and Hagi. She has published both translations and original articles on Japanese
ceramics. She has taught children and adults in California, Hong Kong, and New
York, including those with special learning needs, and has shown her work in
Tokyo, Hong Kong, and New York. She currently teaches at the Clay Art Center
in Port Chester as well as the Pelham Art Center. Her own work is primarily
wheel thrown. She enjoys making simple large forms that are both graceful and
powerful, glazed to accentuate the movement and serendipity inherent in the
firing process.
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.
Alexis Darro
She currently teaches Fine Art to Pomona Middle School of the East
Ramapo Central School District. She received a BFA in Sculpture in 1997 from
the Rhode Island School of Design and an MSED in Special Education from St.
Thomas Aquinas College in 2006. In addition, she interned at Hasbro Toy Group
in 1996 as a toy prototype sculptor. Alexis has also been awarded 4 grants
during her teaching career through Target Field Trip Grants in both 2007 and
2009, the Innovator Grant from Southern Westchester BOCES in 2004, and the
East Ramapo Cultural Competence Grant in 2005. As well as, she has been a
member of The National Art Education Association, Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney
Museum of art for the past 15 years.
Sally Lipton Derringer
Sally Lipton Derringer was a manuscript finalist for Fordham University’s Poets Out Loud Prize and the New Issues Poetry Prize. She received honorable mention in Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize, was a runner-up for the Grolier Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Glimmer Train Poetry Open, an honorable mention in the poetry competition of the National Writers Union, a finalist for the Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry, and a semifinalist for the Paumanok Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, The Los Angeles Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Prose-Poem Project, Memoir (and), SLAB, The Quarterly, The New York Quarterly, Tampa Review, andother journals and anthologies. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University and has taught in the English Department at SUNY Rockland.
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.
Karen Edelmann
Painter
She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, her Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, and today is Emerita Professor of Art at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Karen is a landscape artist who brings over two decades of college level art teaching to ROCA, plus insight gained from teaching and planning painting and drawing programs in the US, France and Italy with Artists Abroad and Afield, Inc. Students have regularly named her to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Her work is in corporate and private collections in the US and Europe, and is shown in galleries from New York to the Gulf Coast. She is a member of New York Plein Air Painters, the National Arts Club and other art organizations in the Hudson River Valley. You can see Karen’s work at KWEdelmann.com/gallery.
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.
Shari Fischberg
She is an assistant professor of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute. With over 15 years of experience in the field, she has held many positions in teaching and art administration including The Studio in a School Association and The New York City Department of Education. She has a BFA in sculpture from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, a BA from Tufts University in Art Education, and an MFA from Queens College. She is currently serving on the committee for Rockland County Art in Public Places.
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.
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.c
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.
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.