https://gracelandtattoo.com/adam-lauricella/

Adam Lauricella is a tattooer and proprietor of Graceland Tattoo here in the Village of Wappingers. He is also a current member of the Board of Trustees. Often times Adam's work recreates powerful archetypes that have permeated American culture, carefully juxtaposing unlikely imagery. The goal is to communicate to those who are receptive. Signs and symbols are everywhere. Adam and his wife, fellow designer/ artist Keely Sheehan are raising their two daughters in this wild world we live in. He is so happy to see this community art project finally come to fruition, and is grateful to have been included.

@adamlauricella

https://www.alexgrey.com

The art of Alex Grey represents realms of visionary consciousness, interweaving the anatomy of body and soul. In Grey’s paintings, the light of spirit illuminates the core of each being, depicting psychedelic mystical experiences with artwork that has touched and inspired millions. Alex has authored five books, including three monographs, had countless exhibitions and extensive reproductions and articles about his artwork. His speaking appearances, including a popular TED talk and his work with the rock band TOOL on three albums, including stage sets, animations, and Grammy award winning album art has made Alex Grey a renowned figure in contemporary art. Alex Grey & Allyson Grey co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a spiritual creative retreat center in Wappinger, NY.

@alexgreycosm

https://www.instagram.com/alexaspaddy/

Alexa Spaddy is a sun-loving enthusiast of expression whose artwork produces unique flavors of high-chroma psychedelia.

@alexaspaddy

@allisonfrostart

Allison is a body piercer at Graceland Tattoo. On the side, she is an actor and musician. Drawing is one of her favorite hobbies.

@alli_lahikainen

https://www.allysongrey.com

Allyson Grey is a painter and social sculptor. Allyson’s paintings address an essentialized world view, the artist’s interpretation of the realms of Chaos, Order and Secret Writing. Chaos symbolizes the material world, a field of colored light made of particles and waves, cells and systems. Order represents the interconnected realm of pure spirit, a mandala of energy and light. Secret Writing scribes the untranslatable realm of creative expression. Educated at Tufts University (MFA), Allyson has long been an art educator, editor, art events creator, muse to artists, and the creative and life partner of artist, Alex Grey since meeting in art school (1975). Allyson Grey and Alex Grey co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a spiritual creative retreat center in Wappinger, NY.

@allysongreycosm

https://www.atfollansbee.com/

Alyssa Todd Follansbee is a multimedia artist based in Beacon, New York. Her work explores the internal struggle of balancing our outward and inward lives.

Alyssa grew up as the youngest of three daughters in Mystic, Connecticut. She studied figurative oil painting and sculpture at Indiana University- Bloomington, Intaglio Printmaking at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, and Graphic Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She graduated with a B.A. in Studio Art and a minor in Art History from Indiana University in 2009, and went on to earn her Masters in Art Education from Brooklyn College in 2014. Her thesis researched how personal meaning based artwork affected students creativity and engagement in the art classroom. After working for years as a pre k- 8th grade New York City public school art teacher, she now devotes her time to creating art, running her arcade bar, and raising her family in Beacon, New York.

@atfollansbeeart

www.annawest.net

An oil painter since 1999. Moved to Beacon in 2004. Solo show in Garrison Art Center, February 18, 2023

@annawest.painter

www.bradleyparsons.com

Brad Parsons (B. 1984 Boston, MA) is a multidisciplinary artist and craftsperson living in New York. His personal work, which is currently focused on fantastical found paper media collage, explores nostalgia, the natural world, and recycling. Brad has shown at Westobou, Cindy Rucker Gallery, Thomas Hunter Project Space, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Surface Library, and the Schafler Gallery at Pratt Institute.

@bradleybumblebee

www.psycountry.com

Brian Zickafoose is an award-winning commercial artist, whose work explores vibrant, illuminated realms and the divine nature of the animal kingdom and the human spirit. Although he has a penchant for debating the possibility of parallel dimensions, intergalactic adventure, and time travel, Brian is the proud father of two beautiful daughters and currently resides in upstate New York near the Hudson River.

@zickafunk

Chris Morris (C-MOR) is a lifelong resident of the Village of Wappingers Falls. He has been painting images of the Village and surrounding areas for the last three decades.

@madlove_frontporchartgallery

CeriseKacensky.bigcartel.com

Cerise Kacensky is an artist based out of New York, from the Mid-Hudson Valley region. Her work is greatly influenced by the mountains and waterways that provide an impressive landscape of limitless possibilities. Although this geography is where Kacensky finds her spirit for adventure, these places now serve as inspiration for adventures to idyllic places.

@kacenskycollections

www.chrisamsart.com

Chris Ams is an illustrator and fine artist, based in Beacon, NY.

The awe of the natural world and the celebration of the creative spirit are the embers that ignite and inspire him the most. He loves to cross boundaries and genres through the use of both traditional and digital techniques.

Regardless of the medium used, he always feels the most at home when exploring, making things, and breathing life into ideas in ways that excite and inspire.

@chrisamsart

Christina was born and raised in Beacon and has lived in Wappinger Falls for 42 years. She studied Fashion Illustration and owned and operated a nursery school/daycare for 30 years before retiring. Since retiring she has been honing in on her artistic skills.

@pastelsbychristinak

www.cynla.com

Cindy LaColla is an illustrator and designer for her greeting card line Cynla, living in the inspiring, gorgeous Hudson Valley. She incorporates a lot of the nature and world around her into her work. Her art celebrates the best moments in life.

@cindylacolla

Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Corrinne moved to the Hudson Valley in the early 2000s, immediately falling in love with it. After earning a BFA in Fine Art, from the School of Visual Arts, she began her career apprenticing for several NYC artists and jewelers, eventually working for a HV based designer for many years. Her personal work has always involved bold color, patterns, and details, particularly inspired by nature. Her most recent pieces, including The Hog logo, focus on animal portraits. While watercolor is her favorite medium, she prefers to use unconventional techniques in order to capture intricate details. You can always find Corrinne’s work hanging on the walls of The Hog, and in a few happy homes.

@by_rins_hand

Destiny Arianna is an Afro-Indigenous, multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur in New York. With a background in oil painting, collage, and photography, her work explores themes of identity, heritage, and beauty. As a proud member of the Chappaquiddick Wampanoag tribe, Destiny's Indigenous heritage plays a significant role in her art. Her paintings are typically self-portraits or portraits of loved ones. Destiny's passion for art was ignited by her undergraduate experiences in the lack of representation of Black figures in the teaching of studio art. This led her to self-teach with a focus on the Black and Indigenous figure.

@destinyariannastudio

www.elizabethcastagna.com

I currently live in Beacon. My paintings are a direct expression of my relationship to my body and the stories it carries. Physicality, movement, time and water are the base elements for this process. My body moves as my mind moves and it’s this unity that creates the gestures that flow through my work.When I look back on a series of paintings I’ve come to see that there is a place inside me more prepared for where I am in life than I know. As personal as my paintings are for me, once they leave my studio they take on a life of their own — open for connecting with others, and to the stories their body carries.

@elizabeth_movement.art.life

www.ericahauser.com

Erica Hauser is an artist based in Newburgh whose work includes painting, collage and sculpture. She grew up in Brewster, NY, and has a BFA from School of Visual Arts in NYC.

In 2011 she received a NYFA grant, and has attended artist residencies in New Mexico, Vermont, and NY. She participated in The Other Art Fair editions in Brooklyn (US) and Bristol (UK). From 2013-2020 she owned and ran Catalyst Gallery in Beacon and worked with artists to install exhibitions and host events. Her work has been featured on Saatchi Art, West Elm, and Chronogram. Recent shows include Robin Rice Gallery in NYC & Shelter Island; Artport Kingston; and Cite in Soho. In 2022 she received an Awesome Newburgh grant to develop a local public art project, and a NYSCA Statewide Community Regrant to create new work.

@erica_hauser

www.GerardoCastroArt.com

Gerardo Castro was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised in New York. In 1997, he received his MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. As a contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican artist, his work illustrates the multiplicity of the Afro-Caribbean experience and he uses the body, consciously or not, to draw attention to Art and the artifice of Identity construction via the use of oil paint and mixed media techniques. His work and life are steeped in magic and the spiritual - reflecting his cultural, social, and political reality. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Budapest, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and major US Cities. Castro has his studio in Newburgh, New York where he currently lives.

@gcastroart

www.hilaryastrid.com

Hilary Astrid is a fine artist inspired by the beauty of the natural world. Drawing inspiration from all the facets of life, her art reminds the viewer of the beauty, ecstasy and mystery of living as a conscious being.

During and since her graduation from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration Studies, she has had exhibitions and painted murals in New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Rome, Italy. She has taught art at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and continues to explore and expand her artistic studies through her work at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappingers, NY.

@hilary.astrid

www.janewuart.com

Jane is a Creative Director, Designer, Animator, Gamer, Shiba Inu & Pitbull Mix Dog Mom, Food Enthusiast & Native New Yorker. Jane has worked in the animation industry for over 13 years for commercial, broadcast, documentary films, TV shows and has won awards for her animated short film, “Book Girl & Cabinet Girl.”

@janewuart

https://jessnashart.com/my-work/

Jessica Nash is a K-12 Art teacher as well as a practicing artist, her preferred mediums are oil and acrylic paint, but often are created in combination with watercolor, pastel, collage paper, and other mixed media. Her works are introspective, a way to meditate on the human experience in nature. The layered sections of landscapes and biological forms examine the parallels that exist between macro and micro existence in nature. She aims to reflect growth, through root like forms, such as bodies “planted” in a composition, or an abstracted landscape with light translating the atmosphere or feel of the space.

@jessnashart

www.johnbreiner.com

I’m an artist living and working in the Hudson Valley, I like to work with ink on found materials like old paper and books in my studio and as a muralist on the walls in public. I also curate a local art gallery called Clinton Street Studios as well as an independent book publishing company.

@johnbreiner1

www.keelysheehandesign.com

Keely has been making art and designing interiors for many moons. She is grateful to be living a creative, happy life with her two daughters and rad husband. When she isn’t working, you can find her cranking tunes with the windows down. Go Bills!

@keelysheehandesign

brandnewdei.co

Based in the Hudson Valley, Kim is a lover of nature, a hands-on maker, and is energized by learning and trying new things. She's a multidisciplinary designer and creative director who loves collaborating with brands and individuals making a positive impact and doing fun things. She loves working on a local level and growing community through art and design.

@brandnewdei.co

www.instagram.com/the_edge_project

Lala Montoya was born and raised in Medellín Colombia, a land of strong mountains, ancient lakes and peasant farmers.

It is this abundance of nature, and the abundant nature within each of us - the way nature is expressed in the body, in the work of Life - that inspires Montoya’s powerful earthen art (ceramics, wood carving, painting, printing blocks). It is through these mediums that Montoya seeks to illuminate the beauty of time, of age - to make transparent the small details often missed in the rush of progress and perfection.

Montoya is a recent recipient of the Creatives Build NY grant, a grateful and inspired mother, farmer and language justice activist. She is currently rooted at the foot of the Hudson Valley in Poughkeepsie, NY.

@the_edge_project

www.lauragolben.com

Laura is an artist living in New York’s Catskill mountains with her partner and two children. She has a background as a graphic designer, illustrator, and Creative Director, but her most creative endeavor is being a parent. She loves the Hudson Valley and finds most of her inspiration and well-being by hiking and exploring outdoors.

@lauradraws_flora

http://lhmcstudio.com

Laura Holmes McCarthy is a ceramist from Richmond, Virginia who currently lives and works in the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY. Her work consists of both handmade and wheel thrown functional ceramic art, and has been sold and exhibited throughout the New York region. Her practice is the product of her personal history–a long career in digital media, a familial tradition of craft, and recovery from the experience of complicated grief in early adulthood–all of which inform her desire to create physical multi-generational pathways in a material culture increasingly defined by digital artifacts. In addition to her work in ceramics, she is an award-winning Creative Director, and holds a Masters from Virginia Commonwealth University.

@lhmcstudio

www.lindsayloforte.com

Using textures and patterns found in nature to create portraits ranging from photo-realism to abstract-conceptualism. Far beyond looks, Loforte pushes the boundaries of just how much a portrait can record of the soul.

@floraluna_designs

@margotkingon

https://www.mariekencochius.com

Marieken Cochius is a Dutch-born artist whose work is meditative and intuitive and often explores growth forms, movement of light and wind, root systems, and animal architecture. She is drawn to remote places where she studies nature and makes art inspired by it. Her work encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture. In 2021 Cochius received an NYSCA Decentralization Grant for an Individual Artist Commission. She is a 2020 recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund grant. In 2017 Cochius completed a public sculpture commission for the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY made possible by a grant from the Hudson River Foundation.

She has participated in residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Cochius' work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, 6th International Drawing Triennial in Tallinn, Estonia, Ely Center, New Haven, CT; Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY and more. Her work has been featured in Elle Decor, Columbia Journal, the New York Times, and in over 40 Art/Literary/Poetry/University publications in the USA and abroad.

@mariekencochius

Born and raised in Wappingers Falls, my work reflects my love for the world, both the real and imagined. Wildlife is a constant focus of mine, and I enjoy painting animals, birds and sea life in particular.

@mark_ad_artist

Nicole Morris is a School of Visual Arts BFA graduate with a focus in painting. She lives in the Village of Wappingers with her loving family.

@madlove_frontporchgallery

Nigel is an illustrator and designer who combines photographs with hand-drawn elements and coded messages

@nigelclair

Pamela is a self-taught artist. Over the past 15 years she has worked on building her skills and techniques in the art of pastels.

She used many of her photographs for inspiration. She enjoys painting landscapes along with exploring abstract and whimsy.

Pamela and her husband have resided in the Town of Wappinger for 45 years. She is a member of the Town of Wappinger Senior Group. Her art work has been displayed at Grinnell Library, Wappingers Town Hall, and Hyde Park Collective.

paolabari.com

Paola Bari learned to love ceramics as a young girl in Italy and traveled all over the world to learn different techniques. She worked for IBM in Milano until 1996, when she was invited to cross the Atlantic. After ending her career at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY, Paola devoted herself full time to porcelain painting. Her porcelain works have appeared in exhibitions at prestigious galleries, including the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, Byrdcliffe Barn Pottery, and James Cox Gallery, all in New York.

She is a member and a certified artist with the International Porcelain Artists and Teachers. She is also active in conservation. Paola is currently a trustee of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, located in Namibia, Africa, in which her focus has been mainly focusing on education and fundraising.

@pbaristudio

paulcaicedo.com

Paul Caicedo is an artist and graphic designer living in the lovely town of wappingers falls. He enjoys working with local businesses and has designed logos and branding for popular spots such as café con leche, Casa Ortega, Queen city barbell club and others. He is passionate about food community and the great outdoors. He is thrilled about taking part of a creative community and collaborating with others.

@by.paulcaicedo

www.sarahdavida.com

Sarah Davida is a freelance illustrator, watercolor artist and graphic designer living in the Hudson Valley with her rescue pup, Cash.

She was born and raised in the area and earned her BFA from Syracuse University studying Surface Pattern Design with a concentration in Jewelry & Metalsmithing.

Her professional background has traveled through a variety of fields : jewelry manufacturing, the music / concert industry, marketing, graphic design and co-owning a local DIY business and blog in Beacon, NY.

She built the website you are currently reading and she’s so happy you’re here :)

@sarahdavida

seanmccarthyart.com

Sean McCarthy (B. 1976, San Antonio, TX) is a painter whose subjects are comic-grotesque animal hybrids. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Marlborough, Fredericks & Freiser, and Essex Flowers (NYC), Cubitt Gallery (London) and Volta (Basel). He received a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Lehman College of the City University of New York and lives and works in the Village of Wappingers Falls.

Bullpup, 2021. Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 14 x 11 inches.

@seanmccarthyart

I’ve been interested in the visual arts for majority of my life. I’ve always enjoyed drawing the slightly unusual and dark, while still being able to convey a deeper message, however every once and awhile, you just have to make

something to let your brain have fun. I’ve won a few awards for my artwork through the scholastic arts and writing program, as well as design tattoos for a multitude of people. On top of this, much of my art can be seen on the Bové Theater Stage at Roy C. Ketcham as I also am student head of there props crew program. I continue to push myself artistically and plan to minor in the fine arts.

@nighttopsketches