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Addie Diaz
Category: Dance, Theater, Hip Hop, Latin, Stage
Teaching Salsa has been and always will be a learning experience for me; which has helped me to be a better instructor and dancer. Its important for me to help people acquire their fundamentals properly, without a good base you simply will have no solid technique. I like to observe my students ...
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Amy Ahlert
Category: Music
Amy Ahlert is a professional jazz singer/songwriter who has performed on TV and radio live all over Westchester county. Ahlert studied musical theater and drama at the American Academy of Drama. She instructs every age group and developmental level in schools and privately.
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Andrea Kantrowitz
Category: Visual, Photography
Andrea Kantrowitz is an accomplished artist with a contemporary edge. Her illustrations have appeared in numerous children’s books, and her paintings have been exhibited from coast to coast. Her work, in oil on canvas, includes landscapes, still lifes and portraits. Her current specialty is family portraiture. She does not just paint a pose but instead ...
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Angela Messina
Category: Theater
Angela Messina is an actor/producer with a BA in Communications and an MS in Education. Messina combines performing with curriculum through a variety of activities including Story Theater, improvisation, acting and scriptwriting. She has worked in all grade levels in Westchester and NYC schools, including college level and ESL Adult Learning Programs.
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Ann Ladd
Category: Visual, Painting, Murals
Ann Ladd Ferencz has been a professional muralist and surface painter for the past 20 years. She recently volunteered her art teaching skills to several hundred Thai orphans in Bang Sak, Thailand. She has painted murals at the Thayer Hotel at West Point, the JCC in Scarsdale, the Restaurant Nicole Paone in Manhattan, and has received a ...
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Barbara Clark
Category: Visual
Barbara has created theatre and puppetry programs in school and community settings throughtout New York City and Westchester for over twenty years. Her programs have been presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Museum, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and Central Park in New York City. She has created workshops and performances for Sunnyside-Historic Hudosn ...
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Barry Mason
Category: Visual, Painting
Barry Mason; a painter, sculptor, photographer, and teacher. Mason once described himself as a visual composer. His artistic career spanning several decades exhibiting his art throughout New York and beyond. Early in his career getting a rare chance to exhibit his art in the White House in Washington DC. Barry known for his large ...
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Charisse Brown
Category: Literary, Theater, Video and Film, Stage, Puppetry, Comedy, Musicals, Screenwriter, Slam Poet, Playwright
“Through the dramatic roles and worlds that are available vicariously in theatre and directly in process drama, we can learn both who we are and what we may be. It is this that makes the essential nature of both theatre and process drama profoundly educational” – Cecily O’Neill (one of my favorite quotes! ...
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Cheryl Jelonek
Category: Visual, Photography
Cheryl Jelonek received a MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology, with a major in painting and minor in photography. She also received a BS in Art Education from SUNY Buffalo. She has taught in the Rochester City Schools and various schools and programs in Westchester County. She has exhibited at: Katonah Museum of ...
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Christopher Reising
Category: Music, Jazz
Christopher has been indoctrinated to the Artist Roster with ArtsWestchester, for his Music and Movement programs. He created a Self-Esteem building Musical What About Me? A Dual Language Program in English and Spanish for Pre-K to G3 kids, and presently is working on a program for 2nd and 3rd graders with Herman & CVille ...
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Cornell " LORD JUDAH "Carelock
Category: Music, Video, Mixed Media, Drawing, Sound, Illustration, Animation, Voice, World Music, Hip Hop
Cornell C Carelock A.K.A LORD JUDAH has been in love with music since he was 13 years old . On a summer day in 1992 he purchased his very own sampler, it was not a top of the line piece but it began the journey and the mission of one young man who would learn ...
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Damon Jackson
Category: Music, Jazz, Classical, Latin, Rock, Instrumental, Alternative, Drumming, World Music, Pop, Funk, Blues, Hip Hop
Damon A. Jackson is a Remo HealthRHYTHMS trained facilitator, and a member of the Drum Circle Facilitators Guild. He introduces new musical experiences through rhythm based events at youth summer camps, school-based programs, and to senior populations with his company A.L.I.R.A.M. (A Lesson In Rhythm And Melody) www.aliram.net. An alumnus of the Hudson Valley ...
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Dara Kane
Category: Visual, Collage
I am a Bronxville Artist, who has been collaging for over 20 years. Presently, I am a full-time Preschool Teacher at Hoff-Barthelson Preschool in Scarsdale, NY. In addition, I teach art classes in the Westchester area to children. I have taught art classes at The Bronxville After School Club, Bronxville Public Library, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, ...
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david licata
Category: Visual, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Jewelry, Ceramics
I am interested in how fragile our lives are. I make art about the little moments, the contradictions, the connections and separations we all face. I create installations, sculptures, jewelry, glass, salt, ceramic, watercolor, photography and mixed media. I am a practicing artist from White Plains NY, I teach art and ...
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David Surface
Category: Literary
David Surface is a published fiction writer, essayist and journalist. His stories have been published in a wide variety of print and online journals including North American Review, DoubleTake, Crazyhorse, Fiction, Marlboro Review, Cortland Review, Artful Dodge, Willow Springs, Supernatural Tales, Shadows and Tall Trees, and The Six Fingered Hand. His articles on the craft ...
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Deborah Beck
Category: Visual, Printmaking
“My paintings and monotypes express my fascination with the mysteries, rhythms, and energies of the natural world around and within us” states Deborah Beck. “I seek to capture with immediacy particular moments and experiences.” Gifted in her ability to express a wide range of poetic images and feelings, she works in oil, gouache ...
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Dene Ross
Category: Visual, Printmaking
My interest in papermaking began in the mid-1970\\\’s, when I realized that books were printed on paper that would not last a century. As a photographer and printmaker, paper was the foundation for my work, and I sought a more permanent material. From this research, I gained a fascination for the process of ...
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Diane Cherr
Category: Visual, Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Collage, Drawing, Printmaking, Jewelry, Fiber Arts, Murals, Illustration, Graphic Design, Ceramics
Diane’s work is rich with color, design, detail and narrative. She predominantly paints in gouache, using handmade paper to add texture and dimension, sometimes adding collage elements. She creates dialogues in her work by paying homage to women’s empowerment, eastern philosophy, mythology and her personal heritage/traditions. As Diane researches concepts and ideas, she ...
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Donna A. Faranda
Category: Visual, Painting, Collage
I have a very unique approach to making art. I use a traditional pointillist technique, in a computer paint program, which allows me to create a visually textured environment in which compositions are reduced to their essence. Primarily concerned with the application of color, I attempt to depict the unseen – the inner tension of ...
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Donna Miskend
Category: Visual, Literary, Painting, Illustration, Graphic Design
I am a multi-disciplined artist based in New York. I primarily work in watercolor and gouache, but I also enjoy woodblock printing, pastel, oil, collage and photography, including hand painting on photographs. My favorite places to be are in nature, surrounded by animals or in a museum. These are the biggest influences on my work. ...
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Elizabeth Breslin
Category: Theater, Stage
Elizabeth Breslin has been conducting classes and workshops in theater arts for over 25 years. She has a BS in Therapeutic Recreation from Kent State University and successfully completed a one year course of study at the Dell’Arte School of mime and Comedy in Blue Lake California. Elizabeth joyfully instructs and invites all populations, children ...
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Elyse Knobloch
Category: Music
Flutist: Free-lance, soloist, chamber musician, orchestra and band Teaching: Private Flute Instructor, Teaching Artist affiliated with the Bronx Arts Ensemble, NYS Certified Music Teacher Instrument Specialty: c flute, alto flute, piccolo Instrument Secondary: soprano and treble recorder I am fascinated with sound, its properties, and how the arrangement of sound seems limitless. Creating colors and shapes in music ...
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Eric ZORK Alan
Category: Literary, Poet
Zork is the author of two books in national distribution: “Stolen Snapshots: I am NOT a poet” and “Things to do with beer bottles.” Zork is probably best known for standing on chairs. It just so happens that when upon a chair he belches out PopTart, Pez, and Push Up poems. He ...
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Erica Itzkowitz
Category: Dance, Theater
Erica Itzkowitz is a dancer/actor/choreographer. She uses an organic developmental approach to teach creative movement, yoga, modern dance and Playback Theater techniques to children and adults. Her work allows students to explore their own creativity and imagination using time, space, body parts, rhythm, improvisation, and dynamics of movement.
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Evelyn Eidelberg
Category: Visual
Evelyn Eidelberg began her career as an NYC Home and Careers Sewing Shop teacher. She then worked as a designer in Manhattan’s Garment Industry and has taught in schools, senior centers, museums and art camps. Her specialty is doll making. Her recent work includes working with seniors to produce hats, purses and dolls. She has ...
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Ezra Silverman
Category: Visual, Video and Film, Painting, Sculpture, Video, Installation, Mixed Media, Collage, Drawing, Printmaking, Fiber Arts, Folk/Traditional Arts, Murals, Ceramics
Ezra Silverman is a visual artist with a focus on sculpture. He is trained in traditional sculpture, mold-making, welding, and has foundation in portraiture. Ezra’s roots stem from drawing and painting live models. “Hair portraits” is a series of works using the nontraditional medium of hair. In this series he uses a persons hair to create ...
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Frank Ingrasciotta
Category: Theater, Stage
Frank is the writer/performer of the critically-acclaimed production of his one-man show “Blood Type: RAGU” where he portrays over 20 characters recounting his experiene growing up first-generation Italian-American. The show recently enjoyed an Off-Broadway run at the historic Actors Playhouse. As a teenager, he served as stage manager for the original Off-Broadway production ...
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Haifa Bint-Kadi
Category: Visual, Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Collage, Folk/Traditional Arts, Murals, Ceramics
I am a nationally exhibited Arab-American mosaic artist with long term experience in teaching and lecturing. My M.F.A. was obtained from Instituto d\’Arte per il Mosaico di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy in 1993. I hold a B.A. in Film Studies from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. I am a roster artist at the Westchester Arts Council. Most ...
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Helen Graham Gurny
Category: Visual, Sculpture
Art is my voice- what I see, feel and experience permeates through my work. Because there is so much violence and sadness in the world, I try to use my work as a means to uplift people’s spirits and make them smile, even if is only for a second. Much of my inspirations ...
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Hillary Sweeney
Category: Visual, Performance
Hillary Sweeney is a performer/circus artist. She utilizes the circus as a novel, challenging, and creative platform from which the student can discover a positive sense of self. Her classes are uniquely accessible to both athletic and non-athletic students of all ages. With in depth instruction and strict safety practices, students are introduced to basic aerial technique, and other ...
