MEMBER DIRECTORY

Lawre Stone makes paintings, works on paper and textile works that combine natural imagery and the language of abstraction in otherworldly landscapes. Her intricately layered works explore environmental issues and relationships between interior worlds and outer experience. Stone holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Bard College. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA; Furnace Art On Paper, Falls Village, CT; LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Russell Janis Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY; and White Columns, NY, NY. In 2025, she was Resident Artist at Two Coats of Paint, Long Island City, NY. Stone is the recipient of a 2024 NYSCA Statewide Community Regrant and a 2026 grant from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She lives and works in Ghent, NY.

Linda Stillman is a Hudson Valley artist who works in various media, investigating concepts of time, memory and nature.

She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the NYFA Mark program, the Wave Hill Winter Workspace and The Studios at Mass MoCA.

She has had solo and 2-person exhibits at the Arsenal Gallery in NYC, the Hammond Museum in North Salem, NY, the IceHouse Project space in Sharon, CT, the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, R&F Paints in Kingston, NY among other venues.

Her work has been featured in many group exhibitions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Dorsky Museum, Hunter College Art Galleries, the Arts Club of Chicago, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum.

Stillman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), the School of Visual Arts and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA).

Lizbette Martinez is a self taught, abstract artist. She was born and raised in NYC, currently living in Catskill, NY. She worked for 25 years in the medical field and started making art when she moved here 12 years ago. She’s painted on canvas, fabric and tiles, and carved on soft linoleum using Xacto and gauges. She also draws and makes Tangle Art using paint, micron and brush pens. Her work has been shown in several Hudson Valley galleries. Her art hangs in many homes. Her influences are artists whose art is vibrantly detailed like Vincent Van Gogh, Gustave Klimt, Hilma af Klint, and Georgia O’Keefe.

Lois Walsh is a painter working in Gallatin, NY. Her work is based on specific 17th- and 18th-century French paintings, and her process-oriented approach is influenced by Impressionism and 20th-century expressionism. With a BA in Fine Art from Rutgers University (Douglass College) and an MFA in painting from SUNY New Paltz, she has taught art history at Marist University and Dutchess Community College, while actively pursuing a studio practice.
Walsh exhibits her work regularly and has recently been in solo and group shows in Poughkeepsie, Catskill, Acra, Hudson, Pawling, Kinderhook, Carmel, and
Woodstock.

Maggie Tobin was born in Omaha Nebraska. She recently moved to Chatham, NY after 30 years of teaching painting and being a community organizer in New York City. She has exhibited her work throughout the U.S.

Martha Hill is an abstract artist residing in Kingston, NY, who is inspired by color, mood, and the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley. After earning a BFA, she worked for a decade in non-profit organizations. Martha earned her master’s in teaching in 2001 and was a special education teacher until 2022. During this time, she worked with pastels and charcoal, and beginning in 2011, studied at the Woodstock School of Art. After discovering the joy of working with oil paints, she developed a body of work combining mark-making with palette knife painting. She also creates monotypes and collages. Martha’s work has been shown in various Hudson Valley locations including Arbor Gallery, Art Society of Kingston, Create Council on the Arts, Emerge Gallery, Gallery 40, The Sketchbook Gallery, Spencertown Academy, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, and the Woodstock School of Art.

Matthew Hogan is a multi-disciplinary artisan based in Germantown, NY. He has spent the last fifteen years focussed on creating custom furniture and producing fabrication projects through his company, Reliquary Studio, while maintaining a private practice of photography, drawing, and painting. Born and raised in Indiana, Hogan received his BFA in Visual Communications from Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. His art has been shown primarily in group exhibitions in Indiana and New York City, and his fabrication projects have been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Vogue, and Remodelista.

I am a retired children’s book illustrator. I am also a Signature Member of the American Academy of Equine art. These days I enjoy painting Landscapes, horses, pets and my new interest, still life painting.

Mountain Top Arboretum is a public garden in the Catskill Mountains dedicated to displaying and managing native plant communities of the northeastern US, in addition to curating its collection of cold-hardy native and exotic trees. Its mountain top elevation of 2,400 feet at the top of the New York City Watershed creates a unique environment for education, research and pure enjoyment of the spectacular and historic Catskills landscape. The Arboretum trails and boardwalks connect 200 acres of plant collections, meadows, wetlands, forest and Devonian bedrock—a natural sanctuary for visitors interested in horticulture, birding, geology, local craftsmanship, hiking and snowshoeing!

Playful and serious, making art has sustained and inspired Natalie Boburka to share what she wonders about and immerses herself in. She jumps from topic to topic, socially, environmentally, and personally. She constantly changes mediums to express multi sensory experiences with color, movement, and texture. Living in various places in NYS Boburka happily settled at the base of the Catskills where she continues to explore the woods, streams, and waterfalls she grew up camping in. 38+ years of teaching and a major in Art Education and a minor in Art Therapy from Buffalo State College along with a Masters of Liberal Studies at SUNY Empire taught her to explore. She continues to do so!

Pam Poquette is an artist, educator, and arts administrator based in the Hudson Valley, NY, whose work explores themes of glimmers by evoking nostalgia through color and pattern. Pam’s work has been supported by numerous grants, including NYSCA’s Statewide Community Regrant Program for her project, Little Comforts. Pam has attended several residencies, including Vermont Studio Center, Walkaway House, Collar Works, and ChaNorth. She received her MFA from the University at Albany and her BFA from The College of Saint Rose. Her work has been exhibited at Tanja Grunert Gallery (Hudson, NY), Joyce Goldstein Gallery (Chatham, NY), The Green Lodge (Chatham, NY), Collar Works (Troy, NY), University Art Museum (Albany, NY), Onondaga Community College (Syracuse, NY), and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Rebecca Bray’s work often incorporates installation and performance, is usually in collaboration with others artists, scientists, designers, technologists. She loves involving the audience as participants in interactions with questions about perception, technology, science and the natural world. She has co-created projects like WindowFarms, a crowdsourced ecodesign system and Botanicalls, which allows plants to talk. She co-produced The Meatrix which reached 20 million people online. She co-founded Submersible Design and was artist-in-residence at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center. Her work has been in the Ars Electronica, Conflux and Megopolis Festivals, and featured at BBC, NPR, New York Times, ArtNews, and Wired. She has a masters from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, was the Chief of Experience Design at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Artistic Activism, working on social and environmental justice.

Rebecca Conroy is drawn to vintage clothes and cameras, and to locations with curious, whimsical, and imaginative architecture. She enjoys poking fun at what some would consider reality with her photography. Her most recent project (for the past five years) has been of documenting girls in the Hudson Valley.

I began writing poetry eight years ago upon retirement. I am primarily self-taught, although I have attended several workshops. I primarily write in free verse. I am interested in meeting other poets who would be interested in establishing a generative writing group.

Russ Marshalek is a DJ, producer, sound artist and writer living in Athens, New York.

I work in both acrylics and watercolor, that latter of which I frequently combine with humorous verse to tell the story behind the piece. With acrylics, I paint animals and landscapes. With the watercolors, I tend toward illustrations that will eventually be incorporated into several children’s books.

A Signature – Master Pastelist member of the Pastel Society of America, Story
serves on the Board of Governors and has International Association of Pastel
Societies Master Circle status. She is a juried member of the historic Salmagundi
Club, as well as many national and international art organizations.

Story’s artistic achievements include: features in the prominent publications:
Pratique des Arts magazine; the Pastel Journal magazine and their 2019 book Pure Pastel: Contemporary Works by Today’s Top Artists by Anne Hevener.

Her recent honors include: New York State Regrant Artis commission Award; First Place from CPS, Grand Prize, Horace Champagne from the PSEC; Art Spirit Foundation Gold Medal, 138th Salmagundi Club’s Members Exhibit; PSC’s President’s Award at the PSA Annual; the IAPS Award for Excellence MC Exhibit and several top awards over the years at the Pastel Society of America. Several pieces of her work have been purchased for Apple TV productions.

Sylvia Mueller studied photography at the School of Visual Arts before earning a BA in English from Rutgers University. She worked in publication print production in New York City for several years before moving to the Hudson Valley.
A self-taught collage artist, Sylvia explores the convergence of incongruous imagery, examining how seemingly unrelated elements can coexist within a shared visual space. Her work has been exhibited at Pictorial Foundation (Newburgh), Wallkill River Center for the Arts (Montgomery), Lace Mill (Kingston), Sketchbook (Saugerties), CREATE Council on the Arts (Catskill), Limner (Hudson), Upstream Gallery (Hastings-on-Hudson), WAAM Woodstock, and SUNY Ulster (Stone Ridge). Her work was also featured in the most recent two issues of Cut Me Up magazine.
In 2023, Sylvia became a founding member of CIRCLE24collective and currently serves on the board of WAAM.

My painted assemblages distill the chaos of life into a visual poetry of balance and beauty. It is the relationship of surfaces and objects to each other, to time and to aging that informs their inclusion into these pieces; the marks and patinas of age are indistinguishable from painting itself, some of which is purposefully deceptive in the tradition of trompe l’oeil. A non-hierarchical approach enables a broken scrap of plastic to complete an oil painting reclaimed from storage.

My work is less about what is being depicted and more about how these surfaces and objects act as mirrors for the instability of time and perception. Mine is an ongoing exploration of the world experienced through its discarded remnants—imperfect, incomplete, incredible, and constantly shifting.

I am an artist, printmaker, writer, and maker of artist’s books living in Columbia County, New York. I work with ancient themes, telling the stories of my ancestors and the wild around me as a way to be in this life. My past work embodies my sentiments and process – Authentic Dream Movement I-IV: The Half Circle of Well Being, 2005 – 2010; Escape Across the Hudson: Buffalo Monoprints, 2015 – 2020; and now, The Lost Ones: Finding My Ancestors, a multi-volume work. Volume I will be presented Fall 2026. For this artist’s book, I have sourced inspiration of the imaginal realm, and various other materials to add meaning and complexity, such as abaca paper and kozo fiber, images derived from graphic drawings, photographic and solar plate prints, and the written word to tell a story of intergenerational ancestral trauma, spirit reclamation, and family restoration.

Vanessa Irena (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and writer originally from New Orleans, LA. After many years in New York City, she moved upstate in 2021 and began teaching herself to make jewelry using the ancient method of lost wax casting in 2024. Her work is inspired by ancient charms and amulets, and the talismanic practices of the Medieval and Renaissance, including pieces made to precise astrological timing. Each piece begins as a hand-sculpted wax model crafted in her home studio in Athens, NY before being cast into solid sterling silver and bronze.