#1

“RIP VAN TWINKLE”
ELLEN DE LUCIA

Ms. De Lucia, currently a Senior Vice President, Facilities Construction and Maintenance with The Bank of Greene County, always expected her career to take a direction into art.  She has a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History and has taken graduate studies in Design.  For many years she utilized her silversmithing skills and, as the founder of the Bunker Hill Crafters, she designed and created costume jewelry.

#2

“CAT NEWS”
CAROL ESSEX

Carol Essex has studied art at Dupage College, Chicago Art Institute and Naperville Art League.  Carol was a Board member for the Naperville Art League for ten years and Fine Art Director there.  As Fine Art Director she conducted a variety of programs and classes. 

Ms. Essex works primarily in acrylics, oils, watercolors, charcoals and inks.  In 2006 her prize winning work was on exhibit at the Mountain Top Gallery in Windham, New York.  The Coxsackie Bank at Cairo displayed her work during the month of October and her works were shown in Hudson’s juried show, the Pocketbook Factory Art Walk.
 
#3

“FOR ANDREW”
JENNIFER SUSAN JONES

Jennifer Susan Jones has been a student at the Carriage House Art Center which conducts art classes for persons with disabilities for eight years.  In her time at the Carriage House, she has built cat sculptures and cat shrines.  She paints and draws cats.  Her work has sold at numerous Carriage House group shows.
Jenny is a very active advocate for health and care of cats.  She works with whiskers to find homes for cats

#4

“GLITZ & GLAMURR”
SUSAN C. HEATH

Susan Heath is a lifelong Greene County resident, born in Catskill and, after spending many years living in Coxsackie, resides here once more.  She is retired from a career of thirty-seven years in public service for the State of New York.  Her hobbies include spending time with family and friends, attending plays, musicals, movies, and Art Festivals, and gardening and bird watching.  Ms. Heath has a cat named Marvin, who is very spoiled.

#5

“STANDING TALL”
CAROL ESSEX

Carol Essex has studied art at Dupage College, Chicago Art Institute and Naperville Art League.  Carol was a Board member for the Naperville Art League for ten years and Fine Art Director there.  As Fine Art Director she conducted a variety of programs and classes. 

Ms. Essex works primarily in acrylics, oils, watercolors, charcoals and inks.  In 2006 her prize winning work was on exhibit at the Mountain Top Gallery in Windham, New York.  The Coxsackie Bank at Cairo displayed her work during the month of October and her works were shown in Hudson’s juried show, the Pocketbook Factory Art Walk.

#6

“FOUR TOWNS AND A TAIL”
HEATHER L. MARTIN

Heather L. Martin is the proprietor of Martin Design, a graphic design and advertising agency.  She has illustrated covers for books, compact disks and videos.  She recently exhibited her artwork in the Greene County Council on the Arts’ show Flora and Fauna at the Mountain Top Gallery in Windham, NY.  Her work can be  found on signs, billboards, posters, brochures and tee shirts throughout the Twin Counties.  She also makes custom jewelry sold in area boutiques.

Ms. Martin has an AA Degree in Fine Arts and a Certificate in Graphic Design from Columbia Greene Community College where her work has been displayed.

#7

“FELINE GROOVY”
TINA GAGLIARDY

#8

“CROSSROADS CAT”
SARAH BARKER

Sarah Barker has exhibited her work at numerous galleries in Brooklyn, New York, New York, New York, Annapolis, Maryland, and London, England.  She has had several solo exhibitions and in 2006, she was one of the featured artists at the “Cowgirls of the Hudson River Valley” exhibit at the BRIK Gallery in Catskill.

Ms. Barker has a B.A. in  Fine Arts from California State University and an M.F.A from Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, California.

#9

“CATILLAC”
ANGELA DePALMA

Angela shares her busy schedule between family and teaching.  She is a member of the Craft Hobby Association and has taught and attended art and craft classes throughout the United States.  Her passion is educating up and coming artists, and believes that each and everyone is an individual whose possibilities are endless.

#10

“RIP CLAW WINKLE”
HEATHER L. MARTIN

Heather L. Martin is the proprietor of Martin Design, a graphic design and advertising agency.  She has illustrated covers for books, compact disks and videos.  She recently exhibited her artwork in the Greene County Council on the Arts’ show Flora and Fauna at the Mountain Top Gallery in Windham, NY.  Her work can be found on signs, billboards, posters, brochures and tee shirts throughout the Twin Counties.  She also makes custom jewelry sold in area boutiques.
Ms. Martin has an AA Degree in Fine Arts and a Certificate in Graphic Design from Columbia Greene Community College where her work has been displayed.

#11

“RIP=S STOMPING GROUND”
PAMELA L. QUICK

Pamela L. Quick is a lifelong resident of upstate New York.  Her artwork has received national recognition.  She says she will paint anything that sits still including furniture and glass.  She is especially known for her mural work and custom wall treatments around the area for both residential and commercial clients.

Ms. Quick is the owner of Faux Dimensions Design Studio and is also a neonatal ICU nurse in the Albany area.

#12

“CHESHIRE CAT”
CYNTHIA MULVANEY

Cynthia Mulvaney is the artist and owner of Suburban Art Design, producing fine art, murals and faux finishes for homes and businesses.  She is also involved as a performing artist at fairs, parties and more, creating live Space Paintings of constellations, planets, and galaxies “before your very eyes” with common, everyday paint.

#13

“PICATSO”
SABINE BAECKMANN-ELGE

The German-born artist, Sabine Baeckmann-Elge retired from the New York-New Jersey medical/pharmaceutical advertising field after nearly twenty-five years and moved to Colorado in early 2002 with her family.  Her work is internationally published, and has been shown in galleries in New York and California.  Sabine has recently been chosen as an artist for the 2006 Denver Cow Parade and the 2005 SJMA Pumas on Parade Project.

Ms. Baeckmann-Elge teaches art privately and in the classroom.  She also is illustrating a book of poetry by A. John Graves, and paints animal portraits in her home studio by commission.

#14

“DaVINCI CAT”
MARY SZMIDT
POETRY BY JOHN GOLICK

Mary Szmidt is a painter whose works can be found in both private and corporate collections.  Among them are Nabisco International, New York, NY, and Time Warner Incorporated, New York, NY.  Combining papier collés and paint from a predominantly monochromatic palette, she transforms images from the past, symbols and hieroglyphics to create visual poems.

Ms. Szmidt has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of New Rochelle.

John Golick (also known as Cleveland) has performed his writings and compositions throughout the United States and Europe in both spoken work and musical format.

#15

“POPPY CAT”
ARTIST: BEVERLY PREST

Beverly Prest has always been interested in art.  She has taken courses in Watercolor, Chinese Brush, One Stroke, Decorative Painting, and Calligraphy  in many classes at Columbia-Greene Community College.  Some of the artist she has studied with are Bill Isley, Margaret Cary, Karen McDonald, Regine Petrosky and Bill Carbone. 

A graduate of Catskill High School, Ms. Prest has written verses for Buzza-Cardoza cards.  In 1989 she retired from the New York Telephone Company.

#16

“PURR - FECTION”
JILLIAN CAREY


#17

“TYGER TYGER BURNING BRIGHT”
PATRICIA FEINMAN

Patricia Feinman began her career as a marble sculptor and completed eleven pieces over the course of thirteen years.  In order to create larger-than-life works, and to more quickly express her vision, she made a change to plaster and taught herself how to cast in concrete.

Patricia’s first show was at the Sutton Gallery on West 57th St. in Manhattan in 1988.  Since then numerous known people have added her works to their collections.  These include Paul Anka and George Mavety.  Yulia Lipschitz was an early supporter of her work.

Ms. Feinman founded Functional Sculpture, an award-winning handmade tile line, which she owns with her husband, Art Klein.  She is also the designer of an evolving line of silver jewelry shown at Beginner’s Mind Gallery on Main Street, Catskill.

#18

“JUNGLE CAT”
SYLVIE KANTOROVITZ

Sylvie Kantorovitz is an art teacher and the author of children=s books under the name Sylvie Wickstrom.  She studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.  She has exhibited in Chantilly, France; Gouvieux, France.  In 2005 and 2006, her works were shown at  group shows at the Firiefanz Gallery, Albany, NY; Pocketbook Factory, Hudson, NY; and at the Beekman Street Gallery in Saratoga.  Also in 2006, she had a solo show at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts.

#19

“TOM CAT COLE”
MARGARET CRENSON

About the Artist: Margaret Crenson studied at Cooper Union and Art Students League.  In 1980 she moved to the Hudson Valley where much of her work has been inspired by the scenery and towns of this area.

She has had several shows at regional galleries, such as Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Poughkeepsie, Donskoj & Co. in Kingston, Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie and others.  She exhibits at these and other well known galleries in the area and in New England.  She is recognized by her pallette knife technique in oil, mainly small townscapes, landscapes and still life, but she has also done mural work and various crafts.

#20

“COMMUNITY CAT-ALYSTS”
JANET RICCOBONO

Janet Riccobono has lived in Catskill since childhood, attending Grandview Elementary and Catskill High School.  The artist, with Rob Shannon, owns a growing photography business in Catskill where they work with several non-profit organizations in Greene and Columbia Counties, as well as families to create traditional portraiture.  The Community Cat-alyst is named to represent both now and the future of our ever improving community.

#21

“INCOGNICAT”
ANONYMOUS MAIN STREETERS

#22

“TEMPUSS THE TIME CAT”
LEX GREY

Lex Grey is an artist, designer, photographer, and recording artist currently living in Catskill. In 2006 her postcards were featured in a group show entitled “Hudson Valley Cowgirls” at the BRIK gallery.  Between 1990 and 2001, her photography, mixed media and postcards were featured in solo and group shows in various venues in New York City.  Between 1999 and 2001, Lex was on tour with the European revival of the Broadway musical “HAIR”.  Since that time her professional career has blossomed to include song writing, recording, and performing in clubs, both locally and across the country with her band, Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers.  She received an ASCAP song writing award in 2005.

Ms. Grey holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

#23

“HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL REFLECTIONS”
ELIZABETH GIORDANO-SULLIVAN

Elizabeth Giordano has exhibited her work in New York, NY; Brooklyn, NY; Memphis, TN; Chicago, IL; Buffalo, NY; and Budapest, Hungary.  She has received the following grants and residencies: MacDowell Foundation in Peterborough, NH (1995). The Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL (1986), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweetbriar, VA (1984), The Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY (1983), and The Ellen B. Stoekel Fellowship at Yale University in Norfolk, CN (1981).

Ms. Giordano has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from The Cooper Union, New York, NY.

#24

“SPRING TIME”
Kseniya Bikhler

Painting is a way for the artist to communicate her true feelings to the world.  Painting provides her with the possibility of creating something new, maybe a new style or the chance to be an individual.

#25

“HAMSA”
YAEL McMORROW


#26

“TWILIGHTER CATSKILL”
ANN GIBBONS MARKOU

Ann Gibbons Markou has presented her works in one-person exhibitions and invitationals at Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, the Greenville Public Library, Arts Council of Franklin County, Underground Gallery, Lenox. MA, Ariel Gallery, Soho in New York City, Pasko Gallery in Williamstown, MA, and many other venues.  In 2006, she participated in the Abstract Show, Small Works Show, and Red Show conducted by the Tivoli Arts Cooperative shows in Tivoli, NY.  She has also exhibited in international juried shows in Brazil, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

Ms. Markou attended the University of Hartford Art School, and has studied with many artists including William Bottomly, Hester Stinnet, Nancy Campbell, and Cheryl Dudek, printer for Robert Blackburn Studios, New York City.

#27

“CATATONIC”
K. VELIS TURAN

Ms. Turan likes to create works that use humor to explore the human condition and the state of the world as she sees it.  Her grandmother taught her to sew and at the age of six, she decided she would be the next “Edith Head” (the famous Paramount Studio costume designer.)  When that didn’t work out, she learned graphic design in the publications industry.  She next began making her own clothing and painting.  After moving to Greene County she began to quilt and after completing a couple of bed quilts, her work took off in a completely different direction.  In her work she employs drawing, photography, paint, dyes, print, silk-screen, embroidery and beads, in a word, “mixed media” with a fiber bent.

#28

“THE HUNTRESS”
MAJ G. KALFUS

A great deal of Maj Kalfus’ work has been influenced by her extensive career in the fashion industry, which included projects for industry leaders such as Ralph Lauren, Gloria Vanderbilt, Tommy Hilfiger, Liz Claiborne, and JC Penney.  She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. 

Re-entering the world of fine art, she joined the Studio Arts Program and SUNY Empire State College in Chelsea.

Ms. Kalfus’ paintings and drawings have been exhibited by the Columbia Council of the Arts, the Greene County Council on the Arts and the Hudson Arts Walk.  She often employs elements of Japanese brush painting in her drawings.  Another of her artistic interests is a very personal style of family portraiture, wherein she recounts a poignant moment in a person’s family history.  Paintings and drawings in this genre are privately commissioned.

#29

“GARDEN ECATSTACY”
SABINE BAECKMANN-ELGE

The German-born artist, Sabine Baeckmann-Elge retired from the New York-New Jersey medical/pharmaceutical advertising field after nearly twenty-five years and moved to Colorado in early 2002 with her family.  Her work is internationally published, and has been shown in galleries in New York and California.  Sabine has recently been chosen as an artist for the 2006 Denver Cow Parade and the 2005 SJMA Pumas on Parade Project.

Ms. Baeckmann-Elge teaches art privately and in the classroom.  She also is illustrating a book of poetry by A. John Graves, and paints animal portraits in her home studio by commission.

#30

“SNO-CAT”
DAVID SLUTZKY


#31

“CATSKILL DIVA”
KATE CHODER

Kate Chador is a water-media artist specializing in abstract expressionist paintings.  Her works have been exhibited in solo shows in New York City and Hawthorne, New York.  She has participated in many invitational and juried exhibitions.  In 2004 she won the award for Best in Show at Water Works 2004: the Best of Watermedia in Westchester.  She has received media acknowledgments in newspapers in Westchester County.

During the late 1990s, Ms. Chador ran a handmade greeting card company and she now licenses her work for reproduction, with handmade work limited to a private client base.

She looks forward to working with shards to create a type of mosaic which she finds especially interesting.

#32

“TOPO TABBY”
MARY THERESA JULIEN

Mary Theresa Julien enjoys interior decorating, mosaics and painting.  She creates maps as a Geographical Information Systems Professional, and lives in Schodack Landing, NY.

#33

“CLAWED MEOWNET”
JUSTINE CRISWELL

Justine Criswell is an art educator who has taught all grade levels K-12 in four states for seventeen years.  She currently teaches at the Cairo-Durham Middle School in Cairo, NY.  She has created public and private murals by commission and pro bono in restaurants, private homes, and public spaces.  Her inspirations and subjects ranged from children=s book illustrations, personal motifs, and a love of the outdoors.  Over the years, Ms. Criswell has been professionally active in local, district, county and state arts advocacy.  She has written county and district art curricula, served on two state art association boards, and has received multiple grants for collaboration with colleagues.  At present, her interest in computer graphics has led her to assist family and friends with their graphic design needs.

#34

“KAATERSKILL KATY”
ELLEN DE LUCIA

Ms. De Lucia, currently a Senior Vice President, Facilities Construction and Maintenance with The Bank of Greene County, always expected her career to take a direction into art.  She has a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History and has taken graduate studies in Design.  For many years she utilized her silversmithing skills and, as the founder of the Bunker Hill Crafters, she designed and created costume jewelry. 

#35

“FRONT PAGE CAT”
DICK CRENSON

Dick Crenson is a photographer, video person and sculptor.  He is mainly self-taught.  His work has been shown at Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Poughkeepsie (wire sculpture), Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson (photography), Donskoj Gallery in Kingston (wire sculpture, photography and video), and Art Society of Kingston (photography and video.)

#36

“MRS. CATSKILL”, KITTY
PATTI  FERRARA

Patti grew up in the Catskill Mountains and has always been inspired by the natural beauty of her surroundings.  She is a multi-media artist whose versatility includes landscapes, monotypes, house portraits, murals, calligraphy, caricatures and decorative painting.  She has received numerous awards and has exhibited in local galleries including Woodstock Artist Association, Columbia-Greene Community College, and Twilight Park’s Annual Invitational Art Show.  She illustrated the 2003 calendar, “Art of the Hudson Valley”, published by Hudson Park Press, and the book The Handel Lamps Book.

Ms. Ferrara is a docent at Olana State Historic Site, home of the artist Frederick Church, in Hudson, NY, and at Cedar Grove, home of the artist Thomas Cole, in Catskill.

#37

“MR. CATSKILL”, THOM
PATTI  FERRARA

Patti grew up in the Catskill Mountains and has always been inspired by the natural beauty of her surroundings.  She is a multi-media artist whose versatility includes landscapes, monotypes, house portraits, murals, calligraphy, caricatures and decorative painting.  She has received numerous awards and has exhibited in local galleries including Woodstock Artist Association, Columbia-Greene Community College, and Twilight Park’s Annual Invitational Art Show.  She illustrated the 2003 calendar, “Art of the Hudson Valley”, published by Hudson Park Press, and the book The Handel Lamps Book.

Ms. Ferrara is a docent at Olana State Historic Site, home of the artist Frederick Church, in Hudson, NY, and at Cedar Grove, home of the artist Thomas Cole, in Catskill.

#38

“Old Kaatskillian”
Jim Cramer

James Cramer works en plein-air in the tradition of the Impressionists both American and European.  “My chosen subject matter is my local environs, here in the mid-Hudson River Valley of Greene Co. – the place where the Hudson River School began over 100 years ago.”
His paintings can be seen throughout the Hudson River Valley in exhibits and public and private collections.

#39

“HISTORIC HOUSE CAT”
ASHLEY HOPKINS

Ashley Hopkins has exhibited photographs, jewelry, and prints in galleries and shows in Potsdam, Malone and, Haines Falls, NY.  She worked seasonally for six years at Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, NY, and has also been employed at Chesterwood National Trust Historic Site in Stockbridge, MA, and The Livingston History Barn, Livingston, NY.  Ms. Hopkins is currently the Slide Assistant at the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Cooperstown, NY.

#40

“WANDA”, THE WANDERING CAT
Kiko Govantes


#41

“CATSKILL CAT”
MARY SZMIDT
POETRY OF JOHN GOLICK

Mary Szmidt is a painter whose works can be found in both private and corporate collections.  Among them are Nabisco International, New York, NY, and Time Warner Incorporated, New York, NY.  Combining papier collés and paint from a predominantly monochromatic palette, she transforms images from the past, symbols and hieroglyphics to create visual poems.

Ms. Szmidt has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of New Rochelle.

John Golick (also known as Cleveland) has performed his writings and compositions throughout the United States and Europe in both spoken work and musical format.

#42
  
“SOPHISTICAT”
KARL T. ANIS


#43

“CATSKILL MOUNTAIN GOLD”
DENISE MINK

Denise Mink has been a lifelong resident of the Hudson Valley, earning a B.S. in Early Childhood Education and Russian Studies (1977) and a M.A.A.S. in Painting from SUNY New Paltz.
She has taught privately for 30 years and at St. Patrick’s Academy for 8 years.  Denise has also taught in Russia and works freelance, painting portraits and landscaped, designing logos and making signs.
“I stand in awe of God’s Creation, whether by our own hands or natures, and I am grateful for the ability to facilitate this awareness in others.”

#44

“SYNCHIROPUS SPLENDIDUS”
KARL T. ANIs


#45

“MEOW”TAIN MUSIC
LINDA NICHOLLS and JODY NICHOLLS MURPHY

Linda Nicholls is a landscape artist who has been painting regional scenes of the Hudson Valley in oils, watercolors and pastels for over thirty years.  She has received numerous awards and has exhibited her work at Greene County Council on the Arts Gallery in Catskill and its Mountaintop Gallery in Windham, NY, as well as at Sotheby’s Fundraiser at Olana in Hudson, NY and Twilight Park Invitational Show.  She is also the founder of the Greene Room Players Theater Company in Hunter, NY.

Jody Nicholls Murphy is a middle-school science teacher who loves to journey into the world of art and creativity at any chance.  In addition to enjoying arts, writing, crafts, and photography, Jody is an active member of the Greene Room Players, and performs regularly in their musical productions.

She resides in Hunter, NY, with her husband John and daughter Eden, and is surrounded by the artistic influences of her talented family.

#46

“CAT’N THROUGH HISTORY”
VALERIE WHITE/MOUNTAIN CAT STUDIO

Valerie White is an artist specializing in landscapes and paintings of animals.  She also does still lifes, florals, house portraits, and interiors and murals.  She has exhibited at Columbia-Greene Community College, GCCA’s Mountaintop Gallery, Athens Cultural Center, Tivoli Artists Co-op, and Hudson Arts Walk.  She is currently represented at the Flying Pig Gallery in Sussex, New Jersey.  Mountain Cat Studio will soon be on the Internet at www.mountaincatart.com .

#47

“BACKPACK CAT”
IDA PAGANO

Ida Pagano has a long list of venues where her work has been exhibited, including the Guilderland Pigtacular where sponsors selected two of her designs.  Showings also at Arts Walk Hudson, RCCA Fence Show in Rensselaer, Colonie Art League Show, and Troy Riverfront Art Show. 

Ms. Pagano has taught Sketching Nature to adults at Olana State Historic Site, Egg Tempura and Leaf Printing at Thatcher’s Park, and other arts and crafts to adults and children.  She attended Geneseo SUNY where she earned a BS in Fine Arts.

#48

“KAATERSKILL KITTY”
JANE BLOODGOOD-ABRAMS

Jane Bloodgood-Abrams has shown her works in solo exhibitions in galleries too numerous to mention.  In 2006, she exhibited in the DGN Gallery, New York City, Mendenhall-Sobieski Gallery, Los Angeles, and Carrie-Haddad in Hudson.  She also participated in juried and invitational group exhibitions last year in the Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY, and the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, NY.

Ms. Bloodgood-Abrams has been the recipient of several grants, awards, and fellowships including a Graduate Fellowship from the State University of New York at New Paltz.

#49

“Mia Feral”
Peg Greason

I grew up surrounded by artists.
Probably the most important concept this amazing group of people instilled in me is that “art” should come from, be created for, one’s own spirit.
A line on a page, a splash of color on a canvas, a sculpture, a poem are expressions of what lives within all individuals.
The imagination is the vehicle that gives it form.
Creativity makes it tangible.
We start imposing limitations on the process when we focus on our definition of “talent”

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
    Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

#50

“I heard it through the grapevine"”


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