Smithtown Township Arts Council is pleased to announce A Sense of Place fine art exhibition featuring 62 works by 54 artists from 35 communities across Long Island. The exhibit runs July 15 through August 11 at Mills Pond Gallery in St. James. Regular Gallery hours are Wed. – Fri., 10 am – 4pm; Sat. and Sun., 12 – 4 pm. The gallery is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Visit millspondgallery.org or call 631-862-6575 for directions or information. Admission to the gallery is always free. Please use our rear parking lot off Mills Pond Road, directly across from the two white stone pillars at Flowerfield Celebrations, 199 Mills Pond Rd. The public is invitedl to an opening reception on Saturday, July 15 1 pm – 4 pm to meet the artists and enjoy the wonderful art!
We asked artists to creatively capture what they experience, appreciate, or connect to in their Long Island homeland. We hope the exhibited artwork will inspire visitors to explore L. I. places that might be unfamiliar to them and be encouraged to appreciate the importance of protecting and preserving them. Artists created work in Acrylic, Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Oil, Pastel, Photography, Torn Paper Collage, Collage Quilt, and Etching.
Exhibiting Artists: Marsha Abrams (Stony Brook), Bonnie Bennett Barbera (Ronkonkoma), Shain Bard (Huntington Sta.), Ron Becker (Deer Park), Kyle Blumenthal (Stony Brook), Sheila Breck (Port Jefferson), Joyce Bressler (Commack), Carlo Buscemi (East Northport), Lou Charnon-Deutsch (Stony Brook), Rocco Citeno (Sayville), Lisa Claisse (Mastic Beach), Kirsten DiGiovanni (Smithtown), Julie Doczi (Port Jefferson Sta.), Karin Dutra (Port Jefferson), Paul Edelson (Poquott), Ellen Ferrigno (Port Jefferson), Dorothy Fortuna (Smithtown), Stacey Gail Schuman (Nesconset), Vivian Gattuso (Ronkonkoma), Kathleen Gerlach (Greenlawn), Maureen Ginipro (Smithtown), Jan Guarino (East Northport), Susan Guihan Guasp (Ridge), John Hunt (St. James), George Junker (Brentwood), Julianna Kirk (Brookhaven), Myungja Anna Koh (Stony Brook), Mark Levine (Coram), Christine MacDonagh (Blue Point), Kathleen McArdle (Sound Beach), Kerri McKay (Floral Park), Paul Mele (Island Park), Patricia Morrison (Coram), Annette Napolitano (Rocky Point), Gail Neuman (Islip Terrace), Sean Pollock (Stony Brook), Robert Roehrig (East Setauket), Oscar Santiago (Selden), Kathee Shaff Kelson (Stony Brook), Stephen Shannon (Northport), Gisela Skoglund (Kings Park), Lynn Staiano (Smithtown), Mike Stanko (Valley Stream), Madeline Stare (Smithtown), Judy Stone (Coram), Angela Stratton (Selden), Tracy Tekverk (Kings Park), Dominique Treboux (Port Jefferson), Nicholas Valentino (North Babylon), Steve Walker (East Northport), Robert Wallkam (Port Jefferson), Patty Yantz (Setauket), Theodora Zavala (East Meadow), Tianzhou Zhao (Patchogue)
Smithtown Township Arts Council Inc. is a recognized 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit Organization, classified as a public charity under the Internal Revenue Code. Funding provided by Town of Smithtown and Private Donations
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