I am a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and was awarded a scholarship for further studies at the Art Students League. I love painting landscapes, portraits and still life. To view more of my artwork as well as a list of clients and galleries where my work can be viewed please visit my web site. Commissions are welcomed.

I have been a student at the Art Students League for over 8 years and continue as a student on my own. I work primarily in oil but adventure into all mediums. I have been mainly interested in landscape and the outdoors but lately portraits are predominating - the human face is captivating. Portrait anyone?

Betsy Ceva is the Artistic Director-Choreographer of the Moving Mantras Performance Group. Betsy has taught dance and movement since 1970 and owns Birchwood center for Yoga in Nyack where teachers Moving Mantras (TM) and yoga to all levels. As a professional modern dancer, Betsy performed with Mathews-Master Dance Company in NYC and in San Diego with the Lucas Hoving Performance Group, Gary Palmer Dance Company and various choreographers touring nationally and worldwide. The Moving Mantras Performance Group is a diverse company of Rockland, Westchester and Manhattan based dancers and yogis who perform a unique integration of yoga, meditation and dance.

Seeing Ella perform "A Tisket, A Tasket" in an old Abbot and Costello movie is what inspired vocalist Shirley Crabbe to want to sing jazz. "I was born with a passion for singing and when I heard Ella, I knew that jazz singing was 'it' for me." Placing 3rd in the American Traditions Competition (a part of the Savannah International Music Festival, Savannah, Georgia) has helped to make this an exciting year for Shirley. She has also performed at some of New York's finest Cabaret and Jazz Clubs, most recently appearing in two showcases at the world famous NYC jazz club "Birdland". In concert, she has opened for Abby Lincoln, performed with Marion Meadows, Bob Baldwin and has been honored to have the formidable Harold Mabern and Jamil Nasser be members of her back-up band. Performances at Madison Square Garden, the Paramount Theater and in various NYC area Jazz Series' also complement this singer's career. Other credits include the rold of Armelia/Charlain in "Ain't Misbehavin'" at the Elmwood Playhouse and featured soloist on the CD recording "Africa" by the Mystic Pilgrims.

My primary discipline is oil painting in the style of traditional realism. I enjoy painting local scenes in Rockland as well as place I've visited which inspire me in some way. I paint plein-air when possible and also work from my own photographs. In this way, each piece is completely original.

I am a photographer with many years of experience. I work in a series which encapsulates a body of work. For the last thirty years I have concentrated on the African Diaspora documenting Jamaica, Martinique, St. John, Trinidad, Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Toto and Benin, W. Africa. Documenting the Black Motorcycle Series has taken me to Rochester, Buffalo, Ohio, Michigan and South Carolina. Working with writer Adolph Dupree we produced a multimedia exhibition series on Black Motorcyclists in America. In 1999 I started photographing Wayne Bartow, an African American shipwright and his journey building the Freedom Schooner Amistad. The Amistad journey has taken me to Mystic Seaport and to cities along the east coast of America and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Photographing New Orleans (on a Soros Grant) for Kamoinge Inc., (an African photography collective), I documented the remnants of Hurricane Katrina. I exhibit my work and give PowerPoint presentations. Through my lens I have photographed the homeless, portraits, dance and musicians in a journalistic style and am condensing my lifetime of photography into a personal narrative.

I am a self-taught painter who started out working with oils. Watercolors have lured me with their spontaneity and vibrancy and I am now concentrating on working with them. I also started working with clay a few years ago and have found it very gratifying for expressing a mood, an idea or a quirky thought.

Bette Glenn enjoyed a 20 year professional career in show business working On and Off-Broadway, in national tours, regional theater, dinner theater, summer stock, commercials, cabaret (with her own nightclub act) and as a stand-up comic. She is a member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA. Bette holds a degree in music education. Her students have won scholarships from the Rockland County Music Teachers Guild, Morning Music Club, the Arts Council of Rockland, Helen Hayes Theater, and have been accepted to NYU Tisch CAP 21, All State and All Eastern choruses, appeared on Broadway and recorded on Atlantic records.

Playwright, educator and director. Artistic Director of the Haverstraw Youth Theater.

I received a BFA from Syracuse University and an MA in art education from the College of New Rochelle. I studied watercolor with Carolyn Pederson, NWS and have retired from teaching art after 32 years. My paintings are in many private collections and have been exhibited in juried shows in New York and New Jersey. Presently, I am a member of the Arts Council of Rockland, Salute to Women in the Arts and past president of the Community Arts Association. I am a signature member of Northeast Water Color Society and Audubon Artists. My goal as an artist is to capture the beauty and serenity of a landscape, of a flower, or a figure. I love the luminosity of color I can achieve with a watercolor wash.

Louis, a native New Yorker, received his formal art education at the Arts Students League and Pratt Institute. His work developed through the years from figure drawings, portraits and still life to greater imaginative work in abstracts and collages. His paintings are regularly accepted in national juried shows. Most recently, the work shown here, was selected by Pearson Education Publishing for their 2010 textbook covers.

I am a documentary filmmaker and the owner of Act One Video Productions, Ltd., as well as Chiaro Films, Inc., a not-for-profit film company. I am also an adjunct professor at Rockland Community College, State University of New York, where I teach Final Cut Pro video editing on Apple Computers. I have been certified by Apple in Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. In addition, I act as the Communication/Media Arts Department technical consultant and performer software and hardware installs and upgrades as well as preventative maintenance. I am employed by SUNY Rockland’s “Center for Personal and Professional Development” as a faculty technician in their telecommunications classrooms. My production credits include broadcast work (directly and indirectly) for NBC, ABC, CBS, UPN, HBO, and PBS. Corporate clients include Music Conservatory of Westchester, K.K.R. Financial, Daimler Chrysler, Steffi Nossen School of Dance, Visual Energy Entertainment, Hudson River Film and Video, Tappan Zee Records, Jawonio Inc., Bridgman/Packer Dance, Hi Tor Productions and SOUL Uganda.

Several years ago I switched from creating welded sculptures to working on the computer to create digital collages. I use my own photographs (analog as well as digital) and I manipulate some of them in Photoshop. I find this new medium of expression both exciting and challenging.

I work in wood - mostly commission pieces. I create totem poles, eagles, bears, owls, etc., with a preference for endangered animals. I also restore art and give talks on animals and the environment.

I have been a choreographer since the late 1970s and have focused primarily on dance for the camera since 2005.

As a photo-journalist, Piermont’s Sally Savage has covered hundreds of County events and changes since the late 1960s. She is also known in the tri-state area for her teaching and her widely exhibited art photography. In 2001, Sally was awarded the County Executive Arts Award: Visual Artist, and has had work selected twice by Rockland’s Art in Public Places program. Now free to concentrate on personal work, Sally still prefers darkroom printing for black and white, and has added Polaroid transfer work to her color art photography. Currently represented by the Tenafly Gallery, her own new web site is in production. Pictured: Contemplating Adolphe Wm. Bouguereau's "Satyr and Nymphs" at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, New York. (Copyright: S. Savage).

Paul Special is a veteran of over 40 years in the music business as a guitarist/arranger and entertainment lawyer. He has a B.A. in Fine and Performing Arts from William Patterson College and has worked and recorded with numerous artists including Angela Bacari, Redd Foxx, Allen & Rossi, Ronnie Spector, Cab Calloway, Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge, Frankie Avalon and Stella Marrs including 150 shows at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas and the Rainbow Room in Manhattan with Rodney Dangerfield. He is legal counsel and executive board member of Local 248 of the American Federation of Musicians and performs regularly as a solo artist with the String Jazz Society, Tony Gilio’s Dixieland All Stars, the Hungry Hollow Trio and the Classic Rock Band Poor.

Mitchell J. Visoky is a visual artist and art educator with over 30 years of experience. He works primarily in the process of monotypes (one-of-a-kind prints), collage, mixed media and painting. He seeks out unique qualities from nature and the environment for his inspiration in both his abstract and realistic works.

I am a professional performing artist with over 25 years experience. I am the Founder, Director and Choreographer for Bokandeye African-American Dance Theater, Inc. in Yonkers, NY. Through my affiliation with the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES Arts in Education program I have presented workshops and assembly programs to various school districts in Westchester County. I currently live in Rockland County and would love to share my talents with this community.