Tom Clavin: Tom Clavin is the author/co-author of nine books, the two most recent being “Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue,” published in January 2007 by the Atlantic Monthly Press and a New York Times best-seller, and “Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican,” published by McGraw-Hill. “The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat” will be published in December by Atlantic Monthly Press, and in progress is the biography of Yankees legend Roger Maris for Simon and Schuster. Articles that he has written have appeared in regional and national magazines, among them Cosmopolitan, Distinction, Family Circle, Golf, Golf Journal, Men’s Journal, Parade, and Reader’s Digest. He was a contributing reporter for The New York Times for 15 years and his op-ed column “Farther East” appears every week in The Southampton and East Hampton Press, which also publishes his profiles and other features in the Arts section. His “Links Life” golf column appears every two weeks on Hamptons.com, as do weekly film features. He is the associate editor of The Medical Herald and The Spiritual Herald, two national monthlies.
Cory Barber: BFA, Concentration in Graphic Design from Purchase College’s School of Art and Design (Dean’s List). Cory taught art to children ages 3-14 at the Tennis Plus Summer Camp (1996 to present). He has also designed and silkscreened t-shirts for the Culture Shock 2005 Music Festival as well as designing and co-editing Thrash Compactor Skateboard Multi-Zine. Cory is well-versed in a number of different printmaking techniques, including photo emulsion, woodcut, monoprints and lithography.
Jessica Benjamin: Biography coming soon.
Jennifer Brown: Completed MFA Program May 2005 from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. Studied under Graham Nickson, Stanley Lewis, Charles Cajori, Ophra Shemesh, Karen Wilkin, and Rosemary Beck. BA (1988) from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. Extended research and drawing-making sessions in Austria, Czech Republic, England, France and Italy. Ms. Brown has been a private tutor for drawing & painting and a teaching assistant at the New York Studio School. Notable awards include New York Studio School Painting Prize and Allied Artist’s Award. Brown is an instructor at The Ross School and has been a private painting tutor as well as a teaching assistant at The New York Studio School.
Andrea Cote: MFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase in the Spring of 2003. She has presented solo and collaborative installations and performances in Seattle, Miami, Philadelphia, and New York. Venues include The Rotunda Gallery, Henry Street Abrons Arts Center, Jack the Pelican Presents, and CAVE Gallery(New York), Art Center South Florida, The Dorsch Gallery, and -scopeMiami (Miami), The Moore Gallery and The Print Center (Philadelphia), and 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle). Her performances have been presented at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Neuberger Museum, Chashama, -scope Art Fairs, , and The DUMBO Arts Festival. Andrea received a video residency in multimedia through the BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery program in 2005 and is currently a Fellow of the Career Development Program at the Center For Emerging Artists. http://www.andreaspace.net/
Deena Feinberg: BA Cum Laude, Psychology and Photography, Southampton College, New York, 2006. Feinberg started her career as Director of Special Projects at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY. She has remained an active part of the photography community changing roles from Photo Editor of Spin Magazine, Exhibition Co-Curator at Mode: Models and Masterminds of Mode fashion photography exhibitions (Japan), as well as being a Photographers Agent at Michele Filomeno and a fashion and advertising Producer at 646 Productions. Currently, Deena is a Freelance Photographer focusing on child portraiture, an educator and avid equestrian.
Eric Glandbard: A filmmaker and teacher for over 20 years, Eric has helped hundreds of students learn the crafts and arts of film and video production. He is an enthusiastic proponent of the new digital technologies, which have made powerful editing and compositing tools much more accessible, providing independent filmmakers with exciting new opportunities for creative expression.
Jenny Gorman: Jenny Gorman received her MFA from Tulane University in 1993. She has been teaching digital and traditional photography at Applied Arts since it first opened in 2003. Gorman has just published "Branded -The Making of a Wyoming Cowgirl" with journalist Deirdre Stoelzle-Graves. You can view her work at www.brandedthebook.com & www.jennygorman.com.
Peter John (Andy) Hoogenboom: Trained at London’s Hornsey College of Art, he taught sculpture and drawing in British art schools and universities from 1963 until 1996 when he moved to New York City and took up printmaking. A musician (he played bass with The Famous Blues Incorporated). He is well known for his images of musicians at work from the Rolling Stones , B.B. King to itinerant gypsy guitarists in Spain. Intrigued by snow leopards, his 2007 project is to create images of this animal in The Bronx Zoo through a variety of different media.
Margia Kramer: Kramer is a painter and documentary artist whose multi-media installations have been awarded one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of Art. Her works, which have been shown throughout the U.S. and abroad, have received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Public Art Fund. They have been included in exhibitions at P.S. 1 and the Dia Art Foundation, and are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and numerous private collections. Recently, she moved from New York City to Sag Harbor where she is working on a new group of paintings. Kramer’s education includes undergraduate studies with Ad Reinhardt, Burgoyne Diller, and Jimmy Ernst. As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts (N.Y.U.) she received the M.A. degree. She has been Assistant Professor of Art at Duke University, the University of Illinois (Chicago) and the University of Hartford/Hartford Art School, and Adjunct Professor at Hunter College and The Pratt Institute.
Kathleen Lee: BA, Smith College. BFA, Parsons School of Design, London City and Guilds: Certificate with Honors in Advanced Portraiture; workshops with Mary Ellen Mark, Keith Carter, Andrea Modica, Charles Harbutt, Teresa Engel, others. After working as a painter and printmaker, Lee became interested in making portraits in various media, including photography. For many years, she was an advertising Art Director in New York before making the decision to step to the other side of the camera. Although private commissions for individual and family portraits comprise the major part of her work, she has exhibited recently at Sylvester and Co., as part of the Amagansett Applied Arts all media Juried Group Show, at A Room of My Own, New York and at the London City and Guilds. You can view her website at : www.kathleenlee.com
Rudolph Serra: M.F.A. University of California, Berkeley, M.A. University of California, Berkeley, B.A. San Francisco State University. Serra has received Three National Endowment for the Arts Grants for Sculpture and a research grant from The University Of Connecticut. Serra has also recieved a Pollock Kranser Foundation Grant He has been a visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, East Stroudsburg University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College. Solo exhibitions include The University of Houston, Baruch College , Haenah Kent Gallery, John Davis Gallery, Kenmare Square, Outdoor Sculpture, Nassau Museum. He has collections with Brenda Richardson, former Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art, and Muhlenberg College. Group exhibitions include, Youngblood Gallery, Rutgers University, and The University of Massachusetts. Currently he has exhibited work at the Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York.
Sally Stryker: Biography coming soon.
Kathryn Szoka: Kathryn Szoka has lived in Sag Harbor since 1988. She is best known for her Vanishing Landscapes © series which documents the East End of Long Island’s fading farmland. Other documentary subjects include organic community farming - Quail Hill in Amagansett, NY and caring for elderly parents – documenting her Father’s last year. She is co-owner of Canio’s Books. She exhibits her work widely, and her photographs are available at Canio’s Books and Robin Rice Gallery in New York City. For more information on Kathryn Szoka and her One Eye Open photographic studios, The Vanishing Landscapes (c) series visit: http://robinricegallery.com/pastexhibitions/kathryn_szoka/index.html.
Daniel Waldron: BFA Cum Laude, Visual Arts, Purchase College (SUNY), 2002. Daniel has been involved in fine art printing since 2001. He has run editions in silkscreen, mono-print, and dry-point etching for artists such as Cassandra Hooper and Chuck Close. Mixed media works have been exhibited in the Puffin Room and the Artist's Space in SoHo. Daniel also returns to Brooklyn occasionally to pursue his other passion: music.
