Brenda Molloy – Brooklyn, NY Honors

Michelle Marcotte is the co-author and illustrator of a bilingual (English and French) reversible book about vegetables published this month by Archway Publishing.

Paula Sćiuk is working with the Burchfield Penney on a four part series: Reworking Sense to premier in April.

Marc Duquette elected artist member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC and will exhibit there March 21- April 8.

Beth Pedersen, winner of this year’s Spark Award for Unsung Hero, has practiced art for decades. Beth’s work explores nature and pertinent environmental issues through a variety of materials and mediums, from oil painting to print-making, which she expresses through both abstraction and representation. She has exhibited extensively regionally, nationally, and internationally. Once a realist painter, New York City’s art world and the ripple effect at SUNY New Paltz College had a powerful influence on her work. She studied with Ilya Bolotowsky and George Wardlaw and quickly turned “ab-ex.” During the 1970s, when Beth was raising a family, she focused on watercolor, pastel, and pencil drawings. She spent those years examining the present landscape with memories of the Hudson River Valley and the farmlands in…

Killelea’s ‘ Near and Far’ opens at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens March 23.

Phyllis I. Thompson’s solo exhibition, Making Memories: Telling Visual Stories, opens on September 27, 2019 Buffalo Arts Studio, Suite 500, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214Opening Reception: M&T Fourth Friday, September 27 2019, 5:00-8:00 pm Exhibition runs through November 2, 2019