Sleepy Hollow Cultural Festival’s- “Celebration of Gratitude” includes the creative work of community members and local artists responding to a call for pieces that embody, reflect, or answer: What are you grateful for? Selected works collectively share and celebrate the moments, experiences, people, and things that enrich our lives in a positive way; to provide inspiration and fuel hope.
Sleepy Hollow Senior Center, 55 Elm Street, Sleepy Hollow
Current artist members work in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, collage/assemblage, print-making and photography. Styles range from the representational to the abstract. Members have shown in a wide variety of venues throughout the United States and Europe
8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Through layers of paint and pastel I consider color, structure, and texture to create contemplative moments observing the delicate relationship between humankind and the natural world. My subjects are engaged in their surroundings through acts such as swimming, climbing, studying, and walking. They may appear obscured, framed, or dwarfed by the elements, reinforcing how they are part of their environment
25 Marble Terrace, Hastings-on-Hudson
Alison Marra is an abstract painter and mixed media artist whose work investigates themes of cultural femininity, human instinct, and the natural environment
Liuba Lineros Trenard, was born in 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela. she grew up surrounded by art and rich cultures because of her parents, both mathematicians. They had an art gallery the city, her passion and drive to get to know the world of visual arts, being her mother the one who immerses, supports her in the magical world of art
Studio TBD
My artwork is my refuge and passion. I spent 18 years in the fashion industry and focused on color, pattern and garment design. During the lockdown, my oldest son, who happens to have Autism started painting. Working with him helped me find my art again
114 N. Washington Street, Tarrytown
Iris Jaffe is a contemporary artist living and working in Westchester, NY. She holds a BA with honors from Brown University and has worked for the contemporary artist Tom Sachs and the gallery Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Her artistic practice currently consists of painting and digital prints.
19 Windle Park B, Tarrytown
Visitors cannot park in the Whisper Hill parking lot. They will be towed.
I have been creating art professionally for 25 years, Known for my whimsical style, I paint joyful images of stylish people enjoying life. I combine my background in fashion, passion for NY, style, color and interest in people, in my paintings. My work has sold in Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, and others. My collectors are both local and international
Hudson Views, 1 South Astor Street #202, Irvington
My world is of Earth and Spirit. Nature is at once a deep source of inspiration and a comforting healer. The light which radiates from and about the subject is what I am moved to capture. I try to express the essence – the spirit of a place, a person, a moment in time.
1 North Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Drawing, painting and collage on paper is my language. Humor, gesture, color, design and line form my content. I love what I do and I do what I love. Come by and see!
145 Palisade Street, Studio 334C, Hudson River Landing, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
The source of inspiration is landscape. Immersion in landscape is essential to journey towards moments of peace. Including works inspired by many walks through near and far places, EB reflects on sights that surround us. Days are crowded with freedoms and limitations. Where do we go to find peace? Landscape of mind isn’t tangible but we can walk there too
I paint daily. I often paint this landscape and each time it is a celebration. Studying the massive rocks and mighty water anchors me. I am energized by their strength and loveliness. The beauty of place has provided constant inspiration since childhood are are increasingly more important. I wish my paintings to share its sense of strength, calm, and optimism.
Michael Barnett Lewis is an architect and painter who emerged in the 80’s East Village with solo exhibitions at the M-13 and Howard Scott Galleries, and numerous group exhibitions. His work is in corporate and private collections, as well as the Connecticut Museum of Contemporary Art.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 307, Hudson River Landing, Dobbs Ferry
I was born and raised in Wales and much of my work is influenced by my childhood. I use old family photographs as inspiration along with anything that evokes a sense of nostalgia: antiques, historical buildings or settings, vintage ephemera. I work with watercolor and acrylic and also create paintings digitally.
Artist and art teacher at the Art Academy of Westchester (Dobbs Ferry). I prefer oils but I often explore with other mediums such as charcoal, graphite, pastels, acrylics and ink. I also like to experiment on genre. My studio is a laboratory!
Madge Scott is an award winning self taught artist who has sold her work worldwide. She’s had solo exhibitions, exhibited in many institutions, galleries, including the Jamaican and Congolese Embassies. Her work is in documentaries, theater and more. She’s a member of the Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson
145 Palisade Street, Studio 334F, Hudson River Landing, Dobbs Ferry
My work in all mediums is shaped by love of natural forms, surfaces with history, creating windows of remembered experience, weather, and light. I earned a BFA Rhode Island School of Design, worked Fresco Decorative Painting in NYC. Currently I balance nurturing my family and growing my studio art practice here in Westchester.
My artist statement is simple. I paint what I love, what I find beautiful, what intrigues me and what makes me laugh. And then I hope for the best.
PO Box 60 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
(914) 412-5120 | info@riverarts.org
RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by support from The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. RiverArts’ programs are made possible, in part, by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government.
