WHEN: October 12 – October 28, 2018
WHERE: Westbeth venues

ABOUT

In 2017, The Present Theatre Company, Inc. (creators and producers of FringeNYC – The New York International Fringe Festival) announced a one-year hiatus from producing the event, in order to conduct The Blank Canvas Project – a year of re-imagining the festival and strategic planning for the future. In August, as a part of a twentieth anniversary celebration event presented by the FringeNYC Alumni Association, FringeNYC 20/20: A Vision for FringeNYC’s future was announced.

The NEW York International Fringe Festival returns in October of 2018 with both a FringeNYC and FringeBYOV segment, as well as other exciting programming and changes to be announced via this website.

FringeNYC has presented over 3000 performing groups representing every continent, prompting Switzerland’s national daily, The New Zurich Zeitung, to declare FringeNYC as “the premiere meeting ground for alternative artists.”
FringeNYC has also been the launching pad for numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway transfers, long-running downtown hits, and regional theater productions including Urinetown, Matt & Ben, Never Swim Alone, The Jammer, Debbie Does Dallas, Dog Sees God, Brandon Teena, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, 21 Dog Years, The Irish Curse, Jurassic Parq, The Fartiste, Silence! The Musical and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche; movies including WTC View and Armless; and even a TV show (‘da Kink in My Hair).
FringeNYC alumni include Bradley Cooper, Melissa Rauch (Big Bang Theory), Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, CNN’s Inside Man), Mindy Kaling, Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Pippin), Alex Timbers (Rocky), Leigh Silverman (Violet), W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story) and Chris Lowell (Enlisted), among countless other success stories.

FringeNYC is a production of The Present Theatre Company, Inc., under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy. Ms. Holy was selected as a “Person of the Decade” in nytheatre now’s Indie Theater Hall of Fame.
Contact Information

info@FringeNYC.org

Where: Westbeth
When:
Saturday, October 13, 2018
12:00PM to 5:00PM
loop Tours every 30 minutes
Sunday, October 14, 2018
12:00PM to 5:00PM
loopTours every 30 minutes

FREE

Westbeth is the largest artist community in the US, if not the world. It was conceived in the 1960s as a partial solution to the acute need to provide affordable housing and studios for artists and their families. In so doing, it became one of the first examples of adaptive reuse of industrial buildings for artistic and residential use in the United States. Located in New York City in Manhattan’s Far West Village, it is a complex of 13 buildings which were formerly the site of Bell Laboratories (1868-1966), one of the world’s most important research centers. It was here that the first talking movie, the condenser microphone, the first TV broadcast, and the first binary computer were demonstrated.

With innovative funding from the J. M. Kaplan Foundation, and Roger Stevens of the National Endowment for the Arts, Westbeth became an ambitious renovation project designed to create 384 live-work spaces for artists of all disciplines and their families under the direction of developer Dixon Bain. Westbeth opened in 1970. It was added to the National Registrar of Historic Places on Dec 8, 2009. Subsequently, the New York State Historic Preservation Board nominated it to be on the State Registrar of Historic Places. In 2011 the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously designated Westbeth Artists Housing a New York City landmark.
Tour Info

Led by Westbeth residents, the guided tours will include highlights of The Bell Lab era of the building, the conversion to artists housing, and information on the artists of Westbeth. Additionally, visitors can go on a self-guided tour of over 20 artists’ studios in the complex.

When: Saturday October 6 10AM – 4PM with 1 hour lunch break

Where: Westbeth Community Room

FREE
SENIORS ONLY

Bring scissors, magazines with photos

Experiment with the playful and spontaneous art form of collage and give shape to the images you discover in your fantasies.

In this fun, hands-on workshop you will learn how to express yourself creatively with step by step instruction.

JOAN HALL Biography
Native New Yorker Joan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine, and in The New York Times.
Hall’s collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was commissioned by the American Cultural Center to lecture, exhibit, and conduct workshops in France, India, and Brazil. Ms. Hall was awarded a US State Department Cultural Grant to go to Mexico and train teachers to teach recycling to children by creating art using found objects and scrap images from magazines.

Six artists whose take on the phrase “Conflict of Interest” ranges from political, sociological, ecological, metaphorical to surreal. 
Each artist using their particular discipline, whether painting, photography, combination of both or sculpture, digital manipulation or installation, provoke us to question what is going on in the world right now and what kind of world are we leaving to future generations.

Participating Artists

Illtyd Barrett
ILLTYD BARRETT / BORN WELSH / RAISED COASTAL / PERSONALITY DEFECT / JOY RIDER / LONDON / DRUG TAKER / PUNK ROCKER / DYFED COLLEGE OF ART / CHELSEA SCHOOL OF ART/ EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY / FATHER / DAUGHTER / SCULPTURE TUTOR / ASSISTANT TO HERMAN DE VRIES / ASSISTANT TO ANDY GOLDSWORTHY /  POST GRAD /  NEW YORK / DEPT. OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS / PUBLIC ART FUND / DEPORTED / ILLEGAL / LEGAL / IMMIGRANT DESIGN / COCAINE / ILL / TRAVELLER / STEVE AND SAM / FAMILY /  GRANDDAUGHTER / BACK TO ART / GRANDSON / SUNKEN HUNDRED / DREAM COMES TRUE / DOMINIC ROCKS /
 NEW YORK WELSH / LOCATION,LOCATION, LOCATION / HOME TRUTHS / DIAGNOSIS /
 CLOSURE / FAILURE / HERE I AM AGAIN.

Mozart Dedeaux
“Conservationist /naturalist, Moz studied painting and sculpture at Loyola University in New Orleans, then worked in the music industry in NYC where he was a session player and recording artist with Capital Records. Currently he shows his work in galleries and universities and is the owner of Design DeDeaux, Organic Audio Recording in Gulfport MS, and Head Creative for Butch Oustalet Media.”

Aidan Grant
Let’s skip the nonsense of trying to navigate a narration of my life.  Let’s skip the lame attempt to validate being an artist. Let’s skip the tale of a determined creative from the old Emerald Isle.
The reality is my photo journalistic, magazine, analogue background became a defunct medium.
I’d traveled and schooled intensely, gained a legitimate understanding of exposure and saturation, just to be uninspired.
I found myself brooding behind a bar, often drunk and certainly disillusioned, seriously giving new meaning to exposure and saturation.  After years of ignoring my artistic will, I cracked.Luckily the cracks opened me up, acted as an aperture, and let the light back in. I could no longer ignore the picturesque images around me.
It was New York, the diversity, the people, music, art, culture, and mind bending humanity, all pleading with me to snap a shot.  And so I did. This time I photographed with a living experience so luminous, so drenched in the unexpected, and so riddled with human nature, that I saw things I hadn’t seen before.

The road down environmental portraiture is a road I want to be on. It has truly inspired me these last few years.  Course It’s also yielded many a photo of everyday city folk picking at a wedgie, priceless stuff.
I hope to take pictures here in NYC indefinitely, and yes I still sling beer with a brooding sneer.

Stephen Hall
Stephen Hall, born in Scotland, is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Now living in New York, his work is indicative of a surging talent which has been refined over many years. Each of his paintings is a composition of numerous layers, executed without any modern trickery such as digital assistance or an airbrush and the resulting lush density of color and variation of light owns the viewer’s attention.
Through his work, Stephen explores the relationships we have with not just each other, but times, places and surroundings – couple this with a desire to portray the underlying order in our increasingly chaotic lives and you end up with vivid, yet somewhat intoxicating imagery, finished with a slick style and intense precision. Over the past several years has become more interested in the threat posed by man on our environment and the wildlife living in it.
Stephen has not only been exhibiting worldwide since the early 80’s, but his work also resides in corporate and private collections and has been featured in movies, music videos and magazines. On top of this he has also illustrated book covers for A.A. Milne, J.G. Ballard and Russell Greenan amongst others.

Steve Joester
Steve Joester a British born photographer, began in the rock and roll world. He worked between the UK and the US, finally settling in NYC.

As a leading Rock & Roll photographer in the 70’s and 80’s, Joester had his iconic images of the greatest rock performers appear on album sleeves, posters, exhibitions and magazines worldwide. He made his mark shooting icons such as Mick Jagger, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Sting, and also documented Andy Warhol on film with Rob Halford of Judas Priest backstage at the Palladium in April, 1979.

Joester traveled to Cuba multiple times in the mid ’90’s, turning his lens on the streets of Old Havana, capturing the strange world of ‘the special period.’ Russia had pulled out, along with their funding, plunging the island into a desperate state. 

“The people of ‘La Habana Vieja’, materially, had nothing! But, creative spirit and time was in abundance and it was consumed at a languid yet intense pace”  

Joester’s work is in collections internationally.

Robert Ross
Robert is a builder, writer, actor, film maker, bon vivant, raconteur and man about town. He is pleased to be exhibiting as a fine artist for the first time. Proving once again that he is a jackass of all trades and master of none.

Join GVSHP to unveil an historic plaque marking the Westbeth Artist’s Housing complex in Greenwich Village. This unique complex of buildings served as the home of Bell Telephone Labs, where many technological innovations were developed or advanced, including radar, television and video telephones. The complex re-opened in 1970 as Westbeth, an early example of large-scale adaptive re-use of an industrial building.

Featured Speakers include:
Andrew Berman Executive Director of GVSHP
Patricia Jones Interim Executive Director of Westbeth
Nancy Gabor VP of Westbeth Artists Residents Council
Joan Davidson President Emeritus of J M Kaplan Fund
Domhnaill Hernon – Nokia Bell Labs

A Reception follows in the Westbeth Lobby

A Free Event

More info and registration at Grteenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

You’re Never Too Old to Play:

‘Our last group is very excited
and longing to be back under your wings to learn under your excellent guidance, to excel, to soar high and fly high!’

Michael
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When: Tuesdays, Oct 16, 23, 30, 2018 at 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Where: Westbeth Community Room

TUNE UP YOUR VIBES!

• Tune into Your Inner Reserves of Life Energy for Harmony and Wellbeing!
• Restore and Revitalize Yourself Naturally —
• Open to a Truly Joyful Life with just a handful of easy-to-learn techniques that effectively work with the body’s own energy system. 

In this workshop you will learn how you can harness your own energy to serve you in a myriad of ways. Stop rowing upstream against your own energetic currents. Learn the easy rules and regs of energy and watch your life change!

Part 1: ENERGY BALANCING EXERCISES Many of us would love to have more energy and vitality in our daily lives, and energy balancing gives us easy-to-use tools for balancing the energy fields of the body to improve every aspect of our physical and emotional lives. You will learn: *ways to wake your energy up and get it moving in the right direction; *how other people’s energy can affect you; *how to boost resilience and vitality; *how to release stress, balance emotions and build new inner circuitry that powers a balanced version of yourself. These energy exercises combine movement, tapping, and self-massage to enhance overall health and well-being.

Part 2: SOUND BATH — A Sound Bath intentionally uses sound to invite restorative results. Participants relax on mats or sit in a chair and allow the waves of sound to wash over them. The experience is guided by therapeutic instruments. Emerge feeling balanced, energized, and deeply connected to your best self!

The energy balancing techniques and processes in this workshop are from Kinesiology, Touch for Health and Energy Medicine. They are not designed for treatment or diagnosis and do not replace competent professional healthcare. Should you have any contraindications please check with your doctor before attending.
Bring your own mat, water & if you chill easily bring a cover.
 Sponsored by WARC with a grant from NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson

WHAT IS SOUND HEALING?

Sound Healing is founded on the premise that all matter is vibrating at specific frequencies. Science has proven that sound, or vibration, has a strong impact upon substance. Sound healing is a gentle, effective, non-invasive way to ease pain, reduce stress and ultimately have more joy.

Clinical studies have shown that an integral approach to sound healing helps with 80% of health challenges.

Melissa Zollo is a graduate of the Sound Healing Academy in England and is a certified integral sound healer, vibrational sound practitioner, Touch for Health & Applied Kinesiology Energy Facilitator.

She is a certified restorative hypnotherapist with advanced certifications in hypnosis for cancer patients, imprint removal, weight loss, regression, painless childbirth and hoarding.

Ms. Zollo is the author of “Daily Appetizer’s to Make Life a Feast” and the audio programs: Discover the Power of Imagination & the Art of Intentional Creation, How to Release the Power Within and Attract Money and Secrets of the Law of Vibration.

For more information please visit www.melissazollo.com
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PETER REGINATO
DAY TO NIGHT
WESTBETH GALLERY
JUNE 7 – JULY 1, 2018
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 6pm

The show will be mostly paintings I’ve made in the last 8 months and large 70×96 inches .There’s 2 groups maybe 3 ,one group is what I call “paintings and pictures” and another group I call “cover up” and the odd group is just that ,one off ideas I have no idea where it’s going at this time .All the paintings have some relationship to the drawings I make everyday but I don’t use them directly for the paintings, as I work on the paintings it’s all about decisions , problem solving ,drawing and color. I have no themes or plans only to see if I can use the knowledge I’ve gained in the previous work to make a better painting .The work is intuitive.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Findlay Galleries Palm Beach FL Nov.-Dec. catalog NYC
2016 The Butler Institute of American Art. Howland Township Ohio TRUMBULL BRANCH “Seeing Things ” June 12 -August 20th
2015 Museum of Art Peter Reginato: “ECCENTRIC CONSTRUCTIONS” April 17th through July 5, 2015 Museum of Art – DeLand, FL
2013
Baker Sponder Gallery “REGINATO” Boca Raton FL Jan.10-Feb.13
2011
Heidi Cho Gallery Chelsea NYC “POLYCRHOME”
2009
Heidi Cho Gallery in association with Stephen and Victoria Montifiore/ Mountain Flower LLC Chelsea NY
“Steel Drawings”
2006
White8 Gallery, “Dancing on the Volcano”, Villach, Austria
Headbones Gallery, “Situation, Positioning, Location”, Toronto, Canada ( Drawings)
2005
Heidi Cho Gallery, “Color Coded”, Two-Man Show with Ronnie Landfield, Chelsea, NY
2003
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
“Eye Candy”
1997-98
New Jersey Center for the Arts, Summit, New Jersey
1994
Adelson Galleries and William Beadleston, Inc, 395 West Broadway,NY
1988
The Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Five Year Survey: Peter Reginato, Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa
1971
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY Jan.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
University of Kentucky “BOTTOMS UP ” A Sculpture Survey curator Janie Welker Sept.12 -Dec.18th
2013
Gagosian Gallery NYC “Works of the Jenny Archive” March 7-April 27 Madison Ave Gallery
2011
Navy Pier Walk ,July 1-Nov.6 Chicago Ill Picked by Dave Hickey Curator Joseph Tabet
2008
The University of Texas at Austin”LANDMARKS” long-term loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Adelson Galleries “Contemporary Summer Group”, June 16th through September 12th, New York City
Inaugural presentation,Sculpture Garden,Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions,McNay Art Museum San Antonio TX
1988
William’s College Museum, Little Big Sculpture, Williamstown, MA
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Photo of “Kingfish” on roof garden
1975
Hayward Gallery, The Condition of Sculpture, London

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Cohen ,David ARTCRITICAL PICK: Peter Reginato at Adelson Galleries NYC June 4th-Aug.21st 2015
Yau, John HYPERALLERGIC “Rowdy Celebrations” June 21st ,2015
Panero,James Supreme Fiction” This week: Peter Reginato” June 26th, 2015
Reep , Richard :PETER REGINATO: ECCENTRIC CONSTRUCTIONS through
Wilkin, Karen, The Hudson Review, Autumn 2007
Glueck, Grace, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, November 4, 2005
McCarthy, Gerard, “Peter Reginato at Adelson Gallery”, Art in America, January, 2002, p. 104
Kimmelman, Michael, “Art and Friendship: Selections from The Roland F. Pease Collection,” New York
Times, September 5, 1997
Pardee, Hearne, ARTnews, September 1994, p. 173
Koplos, Janet, Art in America, September 1994, p. 113
Ratcliff, Carter, “Reginato’s Improvisations,” Art in America, December 1989, pp.
Zimmer, William, “Crossover at the Gallery at Hastings on Hudson,” The New York Times, September 27,
1987
Firestone, Evan, “In Praise of Steel: Notes on Some Recent Direct Metal Sculpture,” Arts, April 1986, p. 44
Zimmer,William “Work That Fits the Settings” New York Times Feb.6 1983
Russell, John, The New York Times, July 17, 1981
Raynor, Vivian, The New York Times, July 19, 1980
Crossley, Mimi, Houston Post, January 30, 1980, p. 8AA
Carmean, Jr., E.A., Arts, June 1978, p.26
Kramer, Hilton, The New York Times, March 18, 1977
Cork, Richard, “Blackball at the Sculptors Club,” Evening Standard, May 6, 1975
Shirey, David, The New York Times, February 28, 1973
Pincus-Witten,Robert Artforum ,March 1971 v.9 page 62
Canaday, John, The New York Times, February 17, 1972
“The Young Life,” Vogue, January 1969
“Tortured Vision of Artist Shown at Open Theatre Gallery”
William C. Haigwood Jan. 1966 Berkeley Daily Gazette

Show Dates: May 5 – May 26, 2018
Opening Reception: May 5, 2018 Saturday 6pm – 8pm

Where: Westbeth Gallery 55 Bethune St New York NY
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm

Twelve printmakers using techniques that range from traditional to digital express the freedom of printmaking to cross boundaries both technically and conceptually.

Printmaking is found both in galleries and in the streets. In fine art and in revolution. Because of printmaking’s foundations in reproducibility, multiplicity and versatility, it negotiates the entire spectrum between the static and the temporal.

Each of the printmakers in the show uses printmaking to respond to profound aesthetic beliefs, to explore social and environmental issues as well as to investigate the implications of culture on the natural world.

The world has become pure image. This show examines the nature of seeing.

Participating Printmakers

Printmakers Bios

Christina Maile
is a printmaker, painter, and landscape architect. Formerly a playwright she –co-founded the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective, one of the first feminist theater groups in the USA, and later attended Dan Rice’s master classes in painting. Her landscape architectural work has appeared in Garden Design Magazine, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. In 2013 she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a Joan Mitchell Studio Grant for painting and printmaking. Her work has been featured in the International Print Center in New York City, has been included in the Feminist Artists Database at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, and is represented in many private collections. . www.christinamaile.com.

William Kennon
William Kennon is a printmaker, painter and draftsman. His work, though realistic and influenced by photography is organized around strongly formal designs and chiaroscuro lighting effects. He holds a B.A. in comparative literature/comparative arts from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. in art history from Columbia University. He studied drawing, painting, printmaking and anatomy at the Art Students League of New York and the New York Studio School. Mr. Kennon is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and his work has won awards from the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA), the Butler Institute of American Art, the National Arts Club, Allied Artists, Audubon Artists, the Salmagundi Club and the American Artists Professional League. He has been affiliated with Hirschl & Adler Galleries and the Westbeth Gallery in New York City and the Galerie Albert Benamou in Paris. His work is represented in numerous private collections.

Website: williamkennonartist.com
E-Mail: williamakennon@gmail.com

Charlene Tarbox
Charlene Tarbox grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and attended Connecticut College and the Philadelphia College of Art. With a background in painting, she now works as a printmaker at the Art Students League of New York.

When creating her prints, she employs experimental techniques, concentrating on color relationships and focusing on images that depict the natural world.

Her work has appeared in solo and group shows in New England, New York, and Virginia. Ms. Tarbox is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. Her prints are part of the permanent collections of the Hofstra University Museum, The Art Students League of New York, and the Syracuse University Art Galleries.

www.ctarbo4.wix.com/charlene-tarbox-art
cetarbox@gmail.com

Gerald Marcus
Gerald Marcus, painter and printmaker, lives and works in New York City. He studied at the Art Students League of New York with Jean Liberte, Julian Levy, Sol Wilson and Jacob Lawrence.

Marcus has shown his work in many exhibitions in New York City and internationally including, The National Academy of Design; The Hollar Society, Prague; The International Print Center New York; The Susan Teller Gallery, New Yorik; Smith College; Iowa State University; The Lancaster Museum; The City University of New York; the De Nazelle Gallery, Toulouse, and other museums and universities. His work is in many public and private collections. He is a former president of The Society of American Graphic Artists. His biography is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, and The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the United States.

Francia Tobacman Smith
Francia has been a practicing artist for over 30 years, along with being an arts activist. She has played a major role in the Women’s Caucus for Art and in that organization organized the Jewish Women Artists Network.
In recent years she has shifted more of her painting to printmaking, specifically Linoleum Reduction prints. This technique involves layering of colors and the design created with each cutting. The positive negative space is created with color and paper as a ground and how they work together. The cutting depends on the tools and the nuances of textures they create. Her prints focus on how lines can become shapes.
Earning her MA in printmaking from Lehnman College, Francia has been a teaching artist for Project Arts, Studio in a School, and for 10 years was co-director of a summer study abroad program for art and music in French-speaking Switzerland.
Selected museum exhibits include: Musee des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH, Indianopolis Museum, JB Speed Musuem, ERvansville Museum, National Jewish Museum, Mizel Museum, Hartwick College Museum, Owensboro Museum, Tyer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotecque Nationale, PR.
The artist has received grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Space, and National Endowment for the Arts.She has lectured at museums and galleries around the country.

As an artist resident of Westbeth, and a member of the Westbeth Graphics Studio, Francia’s newest work examines color, shape, line and how they interact with the concept of Freedom of the Press in the 21st century.

Claire Rosenfeld
Claire Rosenfeld is a New York City based visual artist who has shown her figurative expressionist paintings, drawings and prints in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. She has had solo shows at the Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico, and at the Painting Center, Prince Street Gallery, Westbeth Gallery,
Michael Ingbar Gallery and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York. She has
exhibited her work in group exhibitions at Galería Rae Miller and Generator Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and La Galería in Altos de Chavón, Dominican Republic.
New York group shows include Lori Bookstein Gallery, David McKee Gallery, Broome St. Gallery, A.I.R Gallery, the New York Studio School, Parsons School of Design, Grey Gallery, Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, amongst others, and the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, in
New Canaan, Connecticut.

Rosenfeld has been awarded residencies at Fundación Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain; Fundación Central Cultural, Altos de Chavón, Dominican Republic; Michael Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France; and at residencies in the United States, including the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ossabaw Island Project, Dorland Mountain Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts, Cummington Community of the Arts, Hambidge Center, and Byrdcliffe Arts Colony.

Rosenfeld received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and attended the New York Studio School. She has traveled widely in India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Morocco, Turkey, Mexico and throughout Europe, where the study of ancient cultures often provided inspiration for her work. Painting in New Mexico for extended periods initiated imagery influenced by the light and landscape there.

Ms. Rosenfeld has taught widely, and is currently on the faculty of New York University, where she teaches drawing, painting and printmaking.

www.clairerosenfeld.net

Mindy Belloff, INTIMA PRESS
Mindy Belloff produces fine letterpress printed book and broadside editions at her Union Square studio, under the imprint Intima Press. She has been creating art for over 30 years as a painter, photographer, mixed media installation and book artist. Her works are in numerous permanent collections including the Library of Congress, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Ms. Belloff has exhibited at multiple venues nationally and internationally, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Sculpture Center, and PS 122. Her mixed media artwork was favorably reviewed by Holland Cotter in The New York Times, her artist’s books have been included in publications such as 500 Handmade Books, and her edition titled W2LZX received an award for Excellence in Book Design. She holds a Master of Arts degree from New York University, is a Mac-Dowell Fellow, and recipient of an NEA Book Residency grant. Inspired by Stieglitz’s Intimate Gallery, Ms. Belloff opened Intima Gallery in upstate New York (2013-2014), which showcased fine prints on paper.

Ms. Belloff meticulously recreated the Unanimous Declaration of Independence printed by Mary Katha-rine Goddard in January 1777. Through her lectures and essays, she hopes to shed light on Goddard and write this Daughter of Liberty back into the historic record. Ms. Belloff is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant supporting “creative and innovative initiatives that advance progressive social change,” for her second, contemporary printing of the Declaration, proclaiming “all People are created equal.” Visit IntimaPress.com for more information.

Samantha Beste
Samantha Beste began her art studies at eleven, painting at the Art Students League of New
York, followed by two years of study in Florence, Italy.
Samantha attended the BFA program at Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, but moved to Canada, and received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Samantha then spent a decade in London, England, where she painted commissioned portraits and exhibited, culminating in
two successful solo shows of her urban landscapes. When she returned to New York and the Art Students League, she studied printmaking with William Behnken and Richard Pantell, and collage/mixed-media with Martha Bloom.
For the past seven years, Samantha’s painting studio has been based in Beacon, N.Y., and she enjoys experimenting with print media at Garrison Art Center while looking out at the river. Samantha still finds inspiration in the city as subject in her paintings and prints, but has recently been working in mixed-media on a theme of climate change.
www.besteart.com

Jackie Lipton
Jackie Lipton is an artist, painter, printmaker and educator. She equates creative process with survival and intends that her “art and painting as an idea is to touch you and shake you”. She equates the experience of painting to survival, where the work itself becomes alive.

She is currently showing work at (Art Market Provincetown) AMP Gallery in MA with a show of paintings and prints scheduled for September 2018.

Exhibitions include David Schweitzer Contemporary, Life on Mars Gallery, and Anthony Philip Gallery in Brooklyn; and in Chelsea, NYC, the Art Resources Transfer Gallery and Gale/Martin Gallery, others. Others include the ARC at the Whitney Museum, plus the Whitney Museum Gallery at the Art Resources Center, the Aldrich Museum, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, WARM Gallery, Gallery Boreas, Corinne Robbins Gallery, and Westbeth Gallery in NYC; the Schoolhouse Gallery and AMP Gallery in Provincetown, Mass.

Selected grants and awards include the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Whitney Museum Arts Resources Center (ARC), Bob Blackburn Print Studio, Feminist Art Institute (FAIA) Collaborative Arts project, MacDowell Colony for the Arts, repeat residencies at Cummington Community of the Arts (CCA) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation emergency grants and Gallery Boreas’ award of travel with a studio and apartment in Reykjavik, Iceland, and others.

Lipton works in her studio in Chelsea and lives in Westbeth Artist Housing with her life partner, J. Christopher Bolton and their two amazing cats.
www.jackielipton.com

Sheila Schwid
Artist’s Background: I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1932. I have been painting since I can remember. Growing up in Omaha, I studied with the local artists, Bill Hammon, Milton Wolsky, Frank Sapousek, John and Hettie-Marie Andrews. From these mentors I learned the basics of life drawing, landscape and still life. After completing my BA at Omaha U, I studied at the Art Center School in Los Angeles. Later I came to New York just in time to join in the excitement of the 10th Street Galleries where I showed in a few group shows. I also participated in the Happenings of Red Grooms, and was an angel in the movie by Robert Frank, “The Sins of Jesus,” by Babel.