Shesus
Teresa Castaneda is an established multidisciplinary Denver artist. Her artistic talent has garnered recognition and acclaim from both local and national institutions. Her professional career spans from photography to certified trade jeweler. Her drawings, invented style in abstract painting, inventions in printmaking processes, photography, and sculpture have been invited to participate in hundreds of exhibitions, commissions, and publications.
Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts is Teresa’s positive impact on the community through ReArranging Denver, a zero-waste project through creative reuse workshops fostering sustainable practices producing art sold in over 20 Denver and Boulder retailers and museums, such as the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Museo, and the Denver Art Museum.
I am a multidisciplinary artist, participating in national shows in drawing, painting, printmaking, jewelry/lapidary, photography, assemblage art, and sculpture. I have worked as a professional photographer and certified trade jeweler for thirty years. My work received two National Endowment for the Arts recognitions. Once for my invention in printmaking and again for my positive impact on my community with an organization I founded called ReArranging Denver; a zero-waste project that bridges communities to their local businesses with creative reuse workshops. Art from the project has been sold by 20 Denver and Boulder retailers, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Denver Art Museum
“Shesus” (She’s us) is a twist on the icon I grew up looking at as well as a statement of modern-day worship of what we are taught to idolize. I created Shesus in the likeness of the divine feminine we carry and pass to our daughters. Shesus represents the power of a woman’s body and the intuitive wisdom we all seek in her loving open arms.
Shh…I’m Talking…
Christine Douglass accidentally became an artist late in life. After her husband of 35 years passed away in 2004, she found herself in deep despair.
A year passed, and she gave herself the assignment to find joy. She had no idea HOW she would do that. Since she had done a lot of drawing and some painting when she was young, and had a career as a decorator consultant, Christine realized she was very fulfilled when seeking a creative endeavor. With that thought, in late 2006, she enrolled in oil painting courses. She thought at best it would be a distraction, but it became so much more. She discovered she had talent.
After a few years, she started to submit her artwork to juried art exhibits. Christine has exhibited her oil paintings in many art shows and galleries throughout Southern California and has won some awards. One painting even won FIRST PLACE in the 2017 City of Los Angeles Senior Art Exhibit! (And she is happy to report, she did find joy!).
Retired, reflective, introspective: It is being fully present that I revel at the discovery that most everything is ‘good enough’. With that thought, my oil paintings are inspired by a celebration of the human spirit and an appreciation for whimsy and beauty.
After my husband passed away in 2004, I found myself in deep despair. A year later, I gave myself the assignment to find joy. I had no idea HOW I would do that. Since I had done a lot of drawing & some painting when I was young, & had a career as a decorator, I realized I am very fulfilled when doing something creative. With that thought, in late 2006, I enrolled in oil painting courses. I thought at best it would be a distraction, but it became so much more. I discovered I had talent. After a few years, I started to submit my artwork to juried art exhibits. I have shown my paintings in many art shows & galleries throughout Southern California & have won some awards. One painting even won FIRST PLACE in the 2017 City of Los Angeles Senior Art Exhibit!
Shoppers
Peter Tilgner has been creating photographic images for more than thirty years.
During this time his work has been shown at the New Jersey Arts Annual ”New Media, New Forms”, Montclair, NJ Art Museum, New York Center For Photography, NYC, Monmouth Museum, Monmouth, NJ, Mpls Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN, Aljira, and City Without Walls Galleries, Newark, NJ, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA,, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY., Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ., George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ, Jadite Gallery NewYork, NY, Praxis Gallery, St Paul, MN., Atlanta Photo Group, Atlanta, GA., Pennsylvania Center For Photography, New Hope, PA., Indiana University Art Gallery, Kokomo, IN, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, SouthEast Center For Photography, Greenville, SC, and the Museum Of Chianciano Terme, Italy among other places.
Peter has curated exhibitions for the City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ., and the “Cuba Today, Through The Eyes Of Eleven Photographers” exhibition for the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ., and the LCJ Gallery, Rutgers Center for Law & Justice, Newark, NJ.
A photograph reveals as much about the photographer as it does the photographed. Creating new and unexpected pictures is what my work is about. I see the world around me as picture possibilities. Subject matter, light, and composition are constantly being played out in my mind. From Buenos Aires to Amsterdam, Havana, Auckland, and New York, these pictures tell a story of the people I’ve encountered along the way.
For me, the image of a woman makes the best starting point for storytelling. By merging the female image with surroundings different from where the original image was recorded, I intended to engage the viewer in a setting consisting of information at once familiar and out of context in the world from which it was drawn, thus giving it an aha moment with a surrealistic accent.
Shut Up!
For sixty-five years, Malcolm Glass has exhibited his art and photography in exhibitions across the country. His work has won dozens of awards, from honorable mention to Best of Show.
Glass’s work has been chosen for exhibitions at many galleries, including Kansas City Stockyards Gallery, Art Fluent, Red Bluff Gallery, Black Box Gallery, Northwind Art, the Hilliard Gallery, Photo Place Gallery, the O’Hanlon Art Center, and the HMVC Gallery in New York.
Quickly, the current mood changes, but not so in visual art. The current mood in a painting, photograph, or sculpture is held forever, to be remembered, to be savored, or shunned. So through the held and captured mood in a piece of art, we are free to revisit that current mood as many times as we like.
Signs Of Spring
Stephanie Navon Jacobson has exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and internationally, including the National Arts Club (NYC), Heckscher Museum (Huntington, NY), the Shenzhen Art Institute (China), the Islip Museum, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT). Her work is in the permanent collections of Queensborough Community College, the New York University School of Law, the American Paralysis Association, and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Norway, and Israel. Stephanie has been a juror for the Suburban Art League, the National Art League, Tri-County Artists, the Long Beach Art Association, and the Port Washington Art Guild. Stephanie has been an assistant to master printmakers Ruth Leaf, Dan Welden, and Susan Rostow. She is currently on the faculty of St John’s University, the Art League of Long Island, the Art Guild of Port Washington, and Great Neck Community Education, where she teaches printmaking, as well as other art disciplines.
As an artist, I am always observing the world around me. Whether floral, landscape, animal, or figure, abstract or realistic, my images are rooted in nature. I am a printmaker who paints, rather than a painter who prints. I often combine different processes by layering an etching over a silkscreen or a woodcut, etc. There is an element of surprise each time I pull a print.
Teaching is another passion of mine. After working as a graphic designer in NYC, I decided to go back to graduate school for my master’s. This happened 20 years after my Bachelor’s degree. I received my Master’s degree in May 2002, and in September, I joined the faculty at St John’s University. I also teach adult classes at the Art League of Long Island, the Art Guild of Port Washington, and Great Neck Community Education. It is very satisfying to work with people who are new to printmaking and watch their enthusiasm. Printmaking is extremely versatile. It can stand alone or be incorporated with other mediums, such as oil, watercolor, drawing, or collage. There are myriad ways to approach printmaking. I encourage my students to add printmaking to their artistic arsenal and incorporate it with their other artistic pursuits. Personally, while my passion is printmaking, I feel it enhances my painting.
Signs Of The Time
Keith Rossein is an award-winning photographer who is making his images available to others. He received FIRST PLACE for “Leaf Lines” as Best in the juried exhibit “Happy Little Trees” sponsored by The Long Island Photo Gallery. He also won SECOND PLACE for “Up” in the Portals exhibition for the Long Island Photo Gallery at the Huntington Art Center, where two additional works, “Time Travel” and “Passage” were also accepted. The Hewlett/Woodmere Public Library presented his SOLO VIRTUAL SHOW “Urban Landscape.” His photo “Paris Skyline 1990” took THIRD PLACE in the Digital Category at the BACCA Art Exhibition, Babylon.
The Lakeview Library presented his FIRST SOLO EXHIBIT, “Images from Peru” in recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month in October 2024.
He will have a solo “Fine Art Photography Exhibition” at the Bellmore Public Library from May 5 – June 29, 2025 with Four Themes – Americana, Animals, Architecture, and Peru.
Since I was a teenager, I have participated in human and civil rights protests. I was at Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I have a Dream Speech” in Washington DC (1963), and was arrested in Washington DC during an anti-Vietnam March (1970). I put in my dues. But in 2017, I supported my wife and another woman by joining NYC’s Women’s March and then the high School-led, anti-gun rally “March for Our Lives” (2018). In 2022, my daughter and I participated in the NYC “Ban Off Our Bodies” protest after the Supreme Court Dobb’s Decision, and my wife and I attended the rally and march of the Women’s Wave protest in Washington DC.
Silent Radiance
In 2026, Cassandra exhibited many of her acrylic paintings in the KMB Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC; HMVC Gallery, NY; Art123 Gallery, Gallup, NM; and the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial juried art show, Gallup, NM. In 2025, her participation in exhibits included: 2025:
1. Laguna Beach, CA, The Hummingbird & Dragonfly Art Gallery – Online Artistic Animals Exhibition – sketch (February)
2. Abstraction (Forms, Lines, Colors) Exhibition and Publication-Online painting as a group exhibition (April to June)
3. Washington, DC, Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art- Online Untitled Exhibition – painting (June)
4. Gallup, NM, Inter-Tribal Ceremonial juried art show – paintings and photography (August)
5. Albuquerque, NM – New Mexico State Fair Native Arts juried art show – paintings and photography (September)
6. Taos, NM, Stables Gallery – Taos Abstract Artist Collective exhibition – painting (November)
7. Laguna Beach, CA, The Hummingbird & Dragonfly Art Gallery – Online Tranquil and Thankful 2025-photograph (November)
8. New York, NY, HMVC Gallery-Online Group show – painting (December)
9. Laguna Beach, CA, The Hummingbird & Dragonfly Art Gallery – Online Art Gallery Year End Art Extravaganza-photograph (December)
Cassandra has been involved in juried art shows since 1995, and continues to create artwork in watercolor, acrylics, sketching, and graphic art designs using her approach in creative interpretation. A successful line of greeting cards has kept her in touch with those who enjoy her creative imagination that has expanded into acrylic art under glass for jewelry pieces that have received compliments. Photography continues to bring caught moments in time for the outdoors wherever travel allows.
Cassandra has learned many techniques of art from a variety of chance meetings with many talented artists who continue to inspire her positive outlook for bringing enjoyment for the many visions of art expression, and she will continue entering as many exhibits as she can in the future.
8. Gallup, NM, Art123 Gallery
“Cassandra is self-taught after one art class in high school, whereby she began to develop her artwork in watercolor, acrylics, drawing, and graphic art. In 1995, she began entering juried art shows for painting, drawing, and photography. In 2016, the San Francisco-based company VIDA used many of her artwork concepts to create clothing and accessories. She creates custom jewelry and greeting cards as well as writing poems, short stories, and one published book, with another being developed. Traveling in many parts of the United States, Canada, and the South Pacific allowed her to do photography and provided many idea concepts for her art. Juried art shows were in New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, California, Washington DC, and New York.
Cassandra is a Navajo woman with German ancestry who grew up in Window Rock, Arizona, and throughout her many years in environmental work, including the coal mining industry, she began art in many juried art shows. As a resident of New Mexico, she enjoys the opportunity to venture with her art. She can be glimpsed in the book, Yellow Dirt by Judy Pasternak, and is a cancer survivor. Her enjoyment in providing art for others in juried art shows, including art demonstrations, is her welcome into the art world.”
Silent Scream
Emily Daw is the premiere two-dimensional and three-dimensional pop surreal artist of west Texas. Her specialties are ceramics and acrylic painting. Emily’s passions include painting the “feelings of the in-between.” This array of lesser-recognized emotions gives her pieces a dreamlike quality.
When Emily sat down to consider this show she weighed out the thoughts and feelings of her compeers and critics in the area. The somewhat divided opinions of audiences over all three pieces that she chose allow for a certain level of disagreement, camaraderie, and overall stimulating discussion over the heart and mind of Emily and the meaning of her works.
Silent Tenderness
Born in 1978 in Bulgaria.
MA in Fine Arts, Sculpture.
Participation in solo and group exhibitions.
My journey as an artist began under the guidance of my father, a talented artist, who introduced me to the world of art from a young age and whose work deeply influenced me. Growing up surrounded by his paintings and immersed in the creative process, I was captivated by the way he transformed colors, textures, and stories into powerful visual expressions. Those early experiences, shaped by the environment of his studio, have become the foundation of my own artistic voice, infusing each piece I create with a profound sense of personal history and emotional depth.
Through my use of layered acrylics, I create textured artwork that invites you to not just look but to feel, to connect with the art on a deeper level, and to immerse yourself in the layers of meaning that lie beneath the surface.
My art is not just about what is visible but about what is felt – the raw emotions and hidden stories that we all carry within us. By manipulating texture and color, I aim to evoke emotions that resonate with your own inner world.
Art is in the eye of the beholder. Both art and human nature seem to be too complicated to be fully explained. My idea is to let art be open to various interpretations and allow the viewer to find their own meaning, value, and self in the artwork.