MEMBER DIRECTORY

Professionally, I did hair and makeup, primarily for publicity. Sort of retiring now. Picking up my oil paints, charcoal, drawing pads, knitting, spinning wheel and musical interests again. A passionate tyro through and through.

Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry, and My Dim Aviary, winner of the 2015 Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press. Her most recent chapbook is The Shy Yellow (Dharma Pine Editions, 2023), a letterpress edition of twenty copies. Her poems have appeared in The Cimarron Review, The Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and in other journals. She lives in Catskill, New York, where she is editing her first novel and trying her best to draw botanical still lifes.

The old master portraits as well as self-portraits inspire me in context and form.
I like playing with the lines that separate gender, sexuality; the sort of roles that we play without knowing it.
Each model brings their personal interpretation of their identity to a portrait session; I like peeling away at those layers, showing what I see, and hopefully sharing it with everyone else.
The key to my work is capturing movement through long exposures, using only available light, composing through the lens and respecting the final image by not manipulating it.

Grace Lang is a mixed media artist and educator based in upstate New York, where she creates both two and three dimensional work that invites playful interpretation of personal myths. She is particularly interested in tactile processes informed by her work with children, seeking to channel her own inner child through openness and material experimentation. These days, she is engaged in a new form of world-building, exploring an imagined language of creatures and icons, many of which are taken from her own childhood drawings. This body of work is a joyful window into her past, but as it has emerged during her first years of motherhood, it’s become a peephole into possible futures. In addition to her personal art practice, Grace runs Super-Stories, an art education non-profit and Makers Space with her partner.

Established in 2012, Emily Johnson started Hartland Cards (formerly Hartland Brooklyn) while working as a designer in NYC. What started as a way to be creative, soon turned into a full time job when the line was picked up by a big box store.  Since then we’ve worked with all kinds of shops in the US and around the world.  We hold true to our commitment to making quality products, being eco-friendly, sending joy, and giving back.  We will never use AI and encourage you to embrace your imperfection!

Our greeting cards are printed on a 100% carbon neutral offset printing press here in New York.

We print with eco-friendly vegetable based inks and neon pigments, on the highest quality felted FSC certified paper. Our paper is 100% recycled.

Envelopes are made from post-consumer paper bags. We use bio sleeves made from plant-based PLA. We strive to use sustainable, and recycled materials whenever possible, and always print in the USA.

Hartland studio and shop is a women-owned and family run business.

Heatherlyn Heath Martin is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, musician and writer whose work explores the interplay of symbolism and story. Working across visual art, poetry, music, and writing, she creates layered narratives that invite viewers to discover meaning through metaphor, imagination, and careful observation. Her practice moves fluidly between disciplines, reflecting a belief that image, object, word, and sound are interconnected ways of telling stories and fostering human connection.
Martin has exhibited in galleries, juried exhibitions, public art projects, and museums throughout the northeastern United States, including the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A recipient of multiple grants, including a 2023 Decentralization Grant, she continues to develop an interdisciplinary body of work that celebrates curiosity, wonder, and the enduring power of storytelling.

Statement:
I am a material driven, eclectic artist. I explore the relationship between people, their things, emotions and the environment by using various materials, techniques, and processes in my artmaking. As we express ourselves differently to convey a variety of emotions and beliefs, I use different materials and processes to convey emotions, moods or statements. Art that I create from my life that expresses emotion, or that is inspired by natural surroundings, or may embrace a light vs. dark dichotomy in mood and in visual contrast dictates the material and/or process that aligns with my intent.
Biography
I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS degree in art education and a MAAS degree (printmaking) from SUNY New Paltz. My artwork is part of the permanent printmaking collection at SUNY New Paltz. Prior to being an art educator, I was a graphic designer and subsequently an art director in public relations.

Jeffrey Lependorf, a composer, musician, and visual artist, also serves as Executive Director of the John Cage Trust and directs the Art Omi: Music International Musicians Residency. He received a doctorate and masters in music composition from Columbia University and his undergraduate degree from Oberlin Conservatory. A certified master of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute, he received the venerable honorific name “Koku” (“empty nothingness”) from Kinko shakuhachi master Yoshinobu Taniguchi. He has performed, and his music has been performed, around the globe—literally, in fact: a recording of his Night Pond for solo shakuhachi was launched into space when the shuttle Atlantis took off on May 15, 1997 and remained for a year aboard the Russian space station Mir. He has received numerous awards and honors. His “Masterpieces of Western Music” audio-course is available through Barnes & Noble’s “Portable Professor” series as well as for download through Audible.com.

Jim relocated to Catskill in 2022 from Brooklyn. He paints mainly landscape and architectural subjects in oil and watercolor. He has artwork in several museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Portland Museum of Art.

B.A., M.A. NYU. Owner of J.Dammiani Gallery in Hudson NY 2004-2023, owner of J.Damiani gallery and studio in Hillsdale NY

Since my move to the Hudson River Valley full time my two dimensional and sculptural assemblage work has continued to be about the images that surround me both real and imagined. Both the beauty of the woods and the unseen destructive forces of man and natures creatures . These combinations manifest themselves into windows into an invisible chaotic world. The result at times appears as a surrealistic landscapes and others are glimpses of a bigger invisible picture as if under water or underground.

A few years back I read a book by Alan Weisman titled “The World without Us”. This book is a scientific discussion about our earth today if humans simply vanished. How would our structures slowly disappear.? How would nature reclaim thew earth? That book has stuck with me conceptually. Our foot print will be here for many years to come, even without us!

Joanne Brockley

Joyce Polance is a painter based in Catskill, New York. Working in oil with her fingers, she builds and disrupts images through layering, pressing, and removal. Her paintings examine the tension between close observation and the limits of what looking can know.
Polance has had solo museum exhibitions at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin and the Dubuque Museum of Art in Iowa. In fall 2026, the James W. Palmer III Gallery at Vassar College presents The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist, a solo exhibition bringing together a three-year body of work.
Her awards include a George Sugarman Foundation Grant, six City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program grants, two Judith Dawn Memorial Fund grants, and a fellowship from the Spertus Institute. Polance attended Wesleyan University and earned her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

Kate Rivers was born in Youngstown, Ohio and spent her early years on a farm in New Castle Pennsylvania. She earned her BFA degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design, MFA in painting and printmaking from The University of South Carolina, and an MA in feminist critical theory from Arizona State University. Rivers taught at the University level, retiring early from a tenured position to work as a full-time artist in Santa Fe New Mexico. Her studio is in Hudson NY.A major influence for Kate Rives was Louis Nevelson whom she met at the age of 19. Nevelson requested to meet Rivers after seeing her work at the Columbus Museum of Art, constructed from welded rebar wrapped in canvas with roofing tar. Kate is represented by Kay Contemporary, Santa Fe, Blue Print Gallery, Dallas, Arbor 3arts, Michigan and Blue Raven Gallery in Maine, Stern Contemporary, Hudson NY.

Kathy Catlin is a mixed-media collage artist based in Schoharie, New York. Her work is deeply inspired by the natural world around her. Kathy creates layered, abstract compositions using vintage papers, handmade collage papers, textured papers, acrylic and watercolor paints, graphite, and other mixed-media materials. Her collages invite viewers to find their own connections and meanings, and she is always happy to share the inspiration behind each piece.

BIO

Katy Flammia is an artist working in encaustic, cold wax and acrylic painting, ceramics, & assemblage. Her work explores themes of regeneration, decay, time and transmutation.
She has degrees in architecture from Pennsylvania State University, Boston Architectural College and a Master’s degree in architecture history and theory from McGill University in Montreal. She has studied painting and ceramics in Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, Mexico, Denmark and Sweden.
Katy’s interests include biophilic design, perception and space, sustainable building, land art, poetry, regenerative land management and all things Swedish.
She was born in South Korea, raised in Pennsylvania and lives and works in Claverack, NY.

I am a sculptor of stone. Objects created in stone can last hundreds if not thousands of years outdoors with no maintenance. Perhaps outlasting our species if we continue down the road we are on. Thus, I would ask you to view my work as those in the future will-sans reference material. One can view some examples of my work at www.kevinvanh.com. One can also view images from our little class the Hunter Stone Carving Seminar at www.freehscs.com. Thank You!

KIRBY CRONE, born 1989 Houston TX, lives and works in Hudson, NY. She received her BA from Southwestern University; and her MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Cloud gazing, long walks, meandering drives, people watching, and travel are all integral parts of the practice. These moments and observations make their way into abstracted landscapes. Kirby has shown widely in the region including a mural in Sharon,CT, being a part of The Hudson Eye, Basilica’s Back Gallery,The Fireplace Project in Hudson, CREATE Catskill and Gallery 495. She is assisted by her greatly adored felines, Egon & Toulouse, in their home studio.

Kristen DeFontes is a visual artist based in Schoharie County working in a variety of disciplines including sculpture, printmaking and collage. Each method she inhabits reflects a different aspect of her creative temperament. Her abstract sculptural compositions explore materials and themes of fear and curiosity from a personal perspective.
In 2021 she was awarded the NYSCA Schoharie County CREATE Individual Artist Grant. Her work is part of the permanent collection at George Landis Arboretum. Recent solo exhibitions, 287 Main Gallery – SEEC with support from Schoharie County Arts (2025), CREATE Catskill Gallery (2020) and The Grosvenor Gallery, SUNY Cobleskill (2019). Her work has also been part of several group exhibitions at spaces including, The Re Institute (2020), The Katonah Museum of Art, Mark Borghi Fine Art (2018), Saratoga Arts (2024) and Albany Center Gallery (2024).
Kristen earned her BFA from Purchase College and MA from Brooklyn College.

Ksenia Winnicki is a writer, photographer, and publishing professional with 20+ years experience in production editorial, trade marketing, digital marketing, and publicity. Born in Poland, and raised in New York City, she attended college at Boston’s Northeastern University where she earned a BA in English in 2006. Later on, she earned her MA in English at Brooklyn College in 2014.

In 2015, she presented her thesis, Declassifying and Reclassifying Medieval Werewolves, at the Company of Wolves conference at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK.

As a digital and film photographer, she enjoys landscape, wildlife, and street photography. She is also interested in photographing abandoned buildings and locations. Her photos have been a part of several juried shows, including in NYC, the Hudson Valley, Oregon, Arizona, Minnesota, and more.

One half of the duo Celliano (piano and cello) performing light classics and contemporary songs.