2022 Members Showcase Online Gallery

by Grace Lucarelli | Jun 13, 2022 | Past Exhibitions

2022 Members Showcase Online Gallery

Juror of Awards: Debbie Wells, Artful Circle

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm-5pm through July 16, 2022 (closed July 2-3 for Holiday Weekend)

Click on image to view full sized. Use navigation arrows to scroll through the online gallery.

The Art Guild does not sell artwork but are happy to put you in touch with the artist if you are interested – contact us at info@theartguild.org

The Thinker

Linda Abrams
photography
16 x 24
$600

Lupines At Folsom Lake

Diane Bares
oil
18 x 15
$500

The Conversation

Douglas Barnaby
oil on board
14 x 11
$500

Little Yellow House

Mary Behling
oil on board
9 x 12
$60

Lust

Nahla_Beltran
charcoal
24 x 18
$250

Embracing Morning

Katrina_Benson
colored pencil
14 x 17
NFS

Cliff Walk, Newport, RI

George Billy
oil
9 x 11
NFS

Chasing Waterfalls I

Lauren Brady-Russell
watercolor
15 x 12
$350

Glaciers in the Sky

Stacy Carner
acrylic paint
20 x 16
$375

Angela Classi

Mary Reading
oil
14 x 11>br> $1000

We Stand Mute As They Are Felled

Jane Colgan
acrylic
26 x 22
$500

Boats at Rest

Susanne Corbelletta
oil on canvas
19.5 x 16.5
$800

Return of Spring

Caryn Coville
ink & watercolor
20 x 17
$750

Cherry-Apple-cherry

SECOND PLACE
Aleta Crawford
oil
18 x 18
$600

Continuance

Christine D’Addario
oil
24 x 30
NFS

Trish

Marcia D’Agostino
charcoal
10 x 8
$250

Reflections

Bari Fagin
mixed media
18 x 24
$500

Sewn Self Portrait 3

Safia Fatimi
digital ink jet print on canvas and embroidery thread
20 x 26
$500

Cambodian Water Buffalo

Linda Funk
pastel
23.5 x 29.5
$475

Sidewalk Shadows

Michele Garfield
oil on canvas
21.375 x 17.375
$600

Sunflowers forUkraine

Peggy Gooler
watercolor
22.5 x 18.5
NFS

Windblown

Amy Gottlieb
watercolor
13.75 x 17.75
$250

Without Vision_Auschwitz

Bill Grabowski
photography
20.5 x 25
$250

In These Boots?

Jan Guarino
watercolor
20 x 16
$350

Cherries in Colander

Grace Heske
watercolor
16 x 21
$350

Window Dressing

Jeff Holtzman
photography
11 x 11
$300

Spring Fever

Shelley Holtzman
watercolor
16 x 20
$900

This is Me

Sabine Jean-Bart
oil
16 x 19
$295

Golden Lady

Ellen Kanner
acrylic on canvas
20 x 16
$300

Reflections

Annette Kasle
photography
16 x 24
$400

Waiter

Dan Kasle
digital photography
19 x 25
$300

Jones Dune

Marceil Kazickas
oil
12.5 x 15
$400

Patty

Marilyn Kestin
pastel
16 x 12
$400

Whale-Emerging

Joan Klein
mixed media
13 x 13
$325

37th & 7th: Gridlock Boogie

Randy Kraft
watercolor
18 x 24
$900

Joanie on Parole

Joan Laufer
oil
18 x 24
NFS

My Bubbe

HONORABLE MENTION
Tracy Lefkowitz
photography
12 x 15
NFS

Conversation

Janice Lewis
collage
1 x 17
NFS

Eternal Spring

Linda Louis
oil and mettalic medai
19.25 x 25.5
$450

Hummingbird

Grace Lucarelli
watercolor
10 x 10
$75

Santorini

Virgina Maliangos
oil
26 x 22
$1200

Jones Beach

Rose Marino
oil
14 x 26
$300

Art Ardently Eclectic Festival

Meagan Meehan
mixed media
19 x 21 x 10
$450

A Path in the Woods

Charles Messite
acrylic
22 x 25
$1200

Oblique Rectangular Pyramids

HONORABLE MENTION
John Micheals
photo paper, foam core board
26 x 28
$300

Feeling the Sea Breeze

Corinne Michels
oil on canvas
20 x 20
$750

Paris, Chapelle Expiatoire Fence

Deborah Miller
oil
18 x 25
$200

Little One Named Ryan

FIRST PLACE
Susan Barse Miller
acrylic
21 x 17
NFS

Gestation II

Stephanie Navon Jacobson
Linoleum Relief Print
19 x 19
$600

Creation

Jacqueline Nussbaum
water mixable oil
19.5 x 23.5
$1000

Gust the 2 of Us

Ann Parry
photo pair on metal
12 x 26.5
NFS

We are One

Alicia Peterson

Dragon’s Blood

Rebecca Poarch
oil, acrylic, and graphite on canvas
20 x 16
$700

Spring Rain NYC

Denis Ponsot
watercolor
22 x 18
$850

Sitting Duck

Silvia Maria Rey
pastel on sanded paper
16 x 20
$750

Tribute

THIRD PLACE
Alice Riordan
hydrocal sculpture
12 x 9 x 9
$850

Children of Mexico City

James Riordan
photography
16 x 14
NFS

Honey

Wendy Ritholtz
graphite
13 x 21.5
NFS

Reflections

Randi Benum Roernes
acrylic
28.5 x 22.5
NFS

Untitled

Susan Rostan
oil
26 x 22
$3500

Summer in the City

Carol Salerno
mixed media: watercolor & collage
24 x 18
$400

Look-Up

Jamie Sandler
mono print acrylic paint collage
18 x 24
$350

L’Espoir (The Hope)

Irene Sankari
oil
17 x 15.5
NFS

Untitled

Jane Scal
Untitled
oil
26 x 24
$1000

Sunbursts and Shadow

Noel Shavzin
watercolor on canvas
19.5 x 27.75
NFS

Gray Mouse kerri shiekman

HONORABLE MENTION
Kerri Shiekman
watercolor
14 x 14
$450

Red Barn, Philmont

Anne Siefert
pastel on archival paper
18 x 24
$950

The Met

Steve Silberstein
archival digital photograph
24 x 30
$400

Porcelain and Silver

Ilene Silberstein
oil
20 x 24
$1200

Michael Williams

Barbara Silbert
pastel
18 x 14
$350

Priest On The Church Steps

Susan Kozodoy Silkowitz
digital photography, inkjetm archival print
20 x 16
$350

Sequel

Rob Silverman
oil
14 x 19
$450

Moon Barn

James Slezak
digital photo
17 x 23
$400

Red Beauty

Sherry St. Renz
oil
21 x 17
$650

Orange In Three Pieces

Lisa Stancati
digital photography
16 x 20
$375

Shave & a Haircut (Two Bits)

Joan Stevens,
oil
12 x 12
$500

Dreams of Knighthood

Bob Stuhmer
pen & ink
19 x 16
$750

Doing the Twist

Janet Susin
photography
18 x 24
$150

Squaw Cove

Pam Tarica
oil
18 x 24
$1200

Donna

Susan Tiffen
archival digital print
20 x 16
$200

Nebulae Fireworks

Elisa Triffleman
digital art
11 x 14
$380

Cedarmere

Leo Tujak
b&w photography
23 x 19
$350

Living Space

Marlena Urban
oil on canvas
28 x 22
$500

Slinky

Kay Vickers
oil
18 x 24
NFS

Forest Light

Margo Vignola
oil
26 x 30
$750

Unloading da kiln

Manuel Villalobos
acrylic on canvas board
18 x 24
$800

An Afternoon Nap

Joan Weiss
digital photography
24 x 18
$300

Yemin Moshe III

Helen Wolff
oil on canvas
24 x 18
$2500

Strolling in the Occulus

David Wollin
archival digital print
20 x 28
$400

Candied Apple

Theodora Zavala
oil
16 x 14
$300

Artwork Pickup:

Sunday, July 17 – 3 to 5pm
Monday, July 18 – 1 to 6pm

2023 Kazickas Family Foundation Art Scholarship

by Grace Lucarelli | Jun 12, 2022 | Scholarships for High School Students

Kazickas Family Foundation Art Scholarships

for High School Seniors in Nassau County

2023 Kazickas Family Foundation Scholarship Winners

The Art Guild is pleased to offer three Kazickas Family Foundation $1,000 Art Scholarships for graduating seniors who attend high school in Nassau County and will pursue the visual arts following their high school graduation. The scholarships were funded by a generous donation by Marceil and John Kazickas of The Kazickas Family Foundation. Applicants have demonstrated their commitment to any of the visual arts, including but is not limited to: drawing, painting, sculpture, fashion design, set design, photography and architecture.

2023 Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to the 2023 recipients. Our scholarship judge, Stephanie Navon-Jacobson, reviewed all the applications and artwork and selected the three recipients. Marceil Kazickas of the Kazickas Family Foundation presented the scholarships to:

Natalie Hayes – East Rockaway High School
Julie Nabet – Locust Valley High School
Georgia Na- Great Neck South High School

Great Neck South High School

Georgia Na

Overgrown

Georgia Na- Great Neck South High School Acrylic paint, oil paint, air dry clay, collage, wood on canvas 20 x 6

Figure Drawing

Georgia Na- Great Neck South High School marker on paper 18 x 24

Mind Space

Georgia Na- Great Neck South High School graphite on paper 18 x 24

Again and Again

Georgia Na- Great Neck South High School clay, glaze, mod podge 4 x 8.5

Soul(Seoul) Walker

Georgia Na- Great Neck South High School acrylic paint and pen on paper 5 x 5

Locust Valley High School

Julie Nabet

Croon & Cradle

Julie Nabet-Locust Valley High School Soft pastel, Watercolor, Colored pencil, Embroidery, Unstretched canvas, Ribbon 35 x 20

Disjointed

Julie Nabet-Locust Valley High School Colored pencil, Gouache, Dried flower, String 16 x 5

Dormant 2023-01-05 4.47.20 PM

Julie Nabet-Locust Valley High School Ceramic clay 6 x 7

Open Me Carelessly

Julie Nabet-Locust Valley High School Colored pencil, Watercolor, Unstretched canvas, Lace 12 x 7.5

The Husband Stitch

Julie Nabet-Locust Valley High School Muslin fabric, Air dry clay, Yarn, Soft pastels, Wire, Ribbon, Lace, Fabric 11 x 4

East Rockaway High School

Natalie Hayes

Hideout

Natalie Hayes- East Rockaway High School Mixed Media 15 x 20

I Just Need Sleep

Natalie Hayes- East Rockaway High School Mixed Media 17 x 12

No Way Out

Natalie Hayes- East Rockaway High School Painting 15 x 20

An Endless Chore

Natalie Hayes- East Rockaway High School Mixed Media 30 x 24

Take Me Way Back When._

Natalie Hayes- East Rockaway High School Mixed Media 12 x 20

2022 Recipients

Congratulations to the 2022 recipients. Our scholarship judge, Dawn Lee, reviewed all the applications and artwork and selected the three recipients. Dawn Lee and Marceil Kazickas were present to award the scholarships to:

Nahla Beltran – Bethpage High School
Anjali Gauld – Manhasset High School
Yiqi Tan – Great Neck South High School

Safia Fatimi

by Grace Lucarelli | May 17, 2022 | Board Member

Safia Fatimi

Board Member

After Safia Fatimi received a B.S. in Bio-medical Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1994, she worked as a commercial photographer in New York City photographing fashion, beauty, portraiture, and stock for various magazines, record companies, and advertising agencies.

In 2005, Safia received an M.A. in Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2015, she returned to Columbia University to research adolescent smartphone and digital camera photography and received her doctoral degree in 2021.

Safia has been included in various group and solo exhibitions throughout her career. Currently, she teaches photography, graphic design, filmmaking, and ceramics at Great Neck South High School. She resides with her family in Port Washington, NY.

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Exhibition; Westbury Arts, Westbury, NY 2022.
Into the Light; The Art Guild – Port Washington, NY 2022
Teachers College; Columbia University, New York, NY 2020 and 2005.
The Art Guild; Port Washington, NY 2019
Safia Fatimi: Moments in Two Parts: JCC, East Hills, NY 2013.
Safia Fatimi: Glimpses; Port Washington Public Library, NY 2010.
Fatal Love; Queens Museum of Art; Queens, NY 2005.
Shaken and Stirred; Bose Pacia Gallery; New York, NY 2001.

Honors

Myers Art Prize; Teacher College, Columbia University. 1/18, 1/19, 1/21.
Teaching Artist in Residence; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, 5/05-6/05.
Recipient, Photo District News/Nikon Pix Award: Website. 10/03.
Selected Photographer, Photo District News “Photography Annual: The Power of
Photography.” 8/02 and 8/03.
Recipient, Photo District News/Nikon Self Promotion Award: New Talent. 10/97.

Board of Directors

Diane Bares
Mary Behling
Jo-Anne Behal
Katrina Benson
Angela Classi
Bart Davis
Dina De Giorgio
Safia Fatimi
Francine Furtado
Shelley Holtzman
Annette Kasle
Marceil Kazickas
Michelle Lewis
Diane Luger
Nancy Lyon
Mark Mancher
Carol Schepp
Talia Senders
Ilene Silberstein
David Wollin

How Grows Your Garden Juried Competition & Exhibition

by Grace Lucarelli | May 16, 2022 | Past Exhibitions

How Grows Your Garden Juried Competition & Exhibition

Juror of Awards: Susan Peragallo

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm-5pm through June 4, 2022 (closed May 28-29 for Memorial Day Weekend)

Click on image to view full sized. Use navigation arrows to scroll through the online show.

The Art Guild does not sell artwork but are happy to put you in touch with the artist if you are interested – contact us at info@theartguild.org

Old Westbury Gardens

Mary Behling
oil on canvas
18 x 24
$900

Rose Beauty

Mary Behling
oil on board
12 x 16
$500

Springtime Beckons

Mary Benedetto
pastel
12 x 9
$300

Backyard Collection

Sheny Bobelian
oil
20 x 24
$150

Alma’s Hydrangea

Susanne Corbelletta
oil on linen
$700

Whispering Angel

Susanne Corbelletta
oil on canvas
21 x 25
$1100

Wind Dancers

Caryn Coville
colored pencil
15.75 x 8.25
$1700

Solo Performance

FIRST PLACE
Caryn Coville
colored pencil
22.5 x 18
$3900

Once & FutureGarden

Aleta Crawford
oil
20 x 16
$950

Witch Hazel

Aleta Crawford
oil
11 x 13
$225

Nature’s Portal

Bari Fagin
mixed media
20 x 16
$400

Floating Lilies

THIRD PLACE
Bari Fagin
mixed media
20 x 16
$400

My Peonies

LInda Funk
pastel
16.5 x 14.25
$1100

Hibiscus and Friend

Elizabeth Fusco
watercolor
16 x 20
$850

Tiger Lily

Elizabeth Fusco
watercolor
24 x 18
$1200

The Iris Fence

Jan Guarino
watercolor
16 x 20
$325

Yellow Spring

Jan Guarino
watercolor
16 x 20
$250

Balloonfish

Steve Hetzel
oil on stretched canvas
21 x 17
NFS

Garden Rose

Shelley Holtzman
watercolor
14 x 16.5
$650

Cann-a Lily Dream

Shelley Holtzman
watercolor
34 x 29
$1200

Rose’s WindowBox

HONORABLE MENTION
Marc Josloff
watercolor and ink
28 x 34
$1600

Magnolias in Chatou

Marc Josloff
watercolor
28 x 22
NFS

Caribbean Garden Dream

Randy Kraft
watercolor
12 x 9
$850

Flourescence

Suzanne Liff
acrylic paint
24 x 36
$999

How Green Is My Garden

John Micheals
pen and ink copy, computerized color
20 x 22
$250

Intimate Iris

Stephanie Navon-Jacobson
oil
20 x 10
$650

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Stephanie Navon-Jacobson
etching
12 x 9
$400

Cicadas And The Calla Lilies

HONORABLE MENTION
Denis Ponsot
watercolor
22 x 30
$1800

Orchids Abound

Denis Ponsot
watercolor
22 x 30
$2100

Dappled Garden

Howard Rose
oil on canvas
30 x 30
$1200

Basket of Gems

Carol Salerno
mixed media, acrylic paint, ink, photo images
20.5 x 26
$400

Irish Garden

Carol Salerno
mixed media, watercolor, image impressions, photo images
14.5 x 17.5
$300

Pink Rose

Irene Sankari
oil
19 x 16
$350

A Family from Lake Placid, A Bouquet of Mushrooms`

Noel Shavzin
watercolor on canvas
10 x 17
$750

Birthday Bouquet

Jana Sheinker
oil on canvas
36 x 24
$1800

Day Lillies

HONORABLE MENTION
Anne Siefert
oil on canvas
16 x 20
$750

Iris Springtime

Anne Siefert
oil on canvas
12 x 16
$650

Just Picked

SECOND PLACE
Ilene Silberstein
oil
18 x 22
$800

Eggplant/Pepper

Bob Stuhmer
marker & colored pencil
23 x 19
$750

Morning Calla Lilies

Steven Vando
watercolor
10 x 11
$350

Provence Garden

Margo Vignola
oil
15 x 18
$500

Teton Vista

Margo Vignola
oil
24 x 24
$750

Two Summer Flowers

Robert Weiss
beach clay & driftwood
9 x 26
$1200

My Foxglove

Theodora Zavala
oil
16.5 x 13.5
$600

ARTWORK PICK UP
Sun, June 5, 2022 – 3pm to 5pm
Mon, June 6, 2022 – 1pm to 6pm

Esther Marie Caponigro

by Grace Lucarelli | Apr 20, 2022 | Instructors

Esther Marie Caponigro

Abstract Watercolors Instructor

A native of Long Island, Esther Marie actively exhibits in many art-related gallery shows, auctions, and events both nationally and internationally. She works for clients in New York City and across the country. She has also shown her work globally, as far away as South Korea.

Esther Marie was awarded a fellowship and hand-selected for a renowned art residency at The Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, as well as a full scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. Esther Marie’s paintings are in several private as well as permanent collections. She mostly concentrates on Plein Aire and abstract painting and has shown at numerous galleries in the Northeast of the United States. Esther Marie was named “Best in Show” at the Northport Plein Aire event. In perhaps her best achievement yet, she was chosen to be in the exclusive Heckscher Museum of Art Long Island Biennial.

Aside from painting, Esther Marie enjoys teaching art, yoga, meditation, dancing, poetry, and chess. She lives and works as an art instructor and adjunct professor in Long Island, New York.

You can see more of her art at www.esthermarieart.com

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