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Andrea Hellman, Ed.D., is an associate professor of English at Missouri State University. She studied studio art at the School of the Worcester Art Museum with masters of painting and printmaking like Tom Lewis, Sally Bishop, and Ella Delyanis. She holds a doctorate in Language, Literacy, and Cultural Studies from Boston University. She is best known for her publications in TESOL and directs a National Professional Development grant project called Show Me Multiliteracy (multiliteracy.net).
Andrea is a prolific fine artist, who maintains an online gallery of her works. Her preferred medium is digital painting although she has worked in oil painting, watercolor, etching, collage, mixed media, and photography. Accolades for Andrea’s art in 2023 include two Gold Awards and a Bronze Award from the J. Mane Gallery, a Second Place Award and an Honorable Mention from the Ten Moir Gallery, three Bronze Awards from the Camelback Gallery, an Artistic Excellence Award and two Honorable Mentions from Fusion Art, a Special Merit Award and a Special Recognition artist from the Light Space Time Gallery, an Honorable Mention from the Art Show International Gallery and the Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery. Andrea was a featured artist in Hayden Ferry’s Review Issue 72, Spring/Summer, 2023.
Andrea’s current art projects are about play and exploration. She experiments with color schemes, curious shapes, light patterns, dynamic compositions, and her collections of textures. Andrea lives in a vibrant arts community; her works reflect the relationship of art forms, theater, poetry, dance, and music. She occupies herself with “what if” questions to generate creative imagery: What if this shape was made of silk? What if I choreographed a ballet dancer? What if this line of poetry was a painting? She visualizes her musings and sensations in the present.
My current art projects are about play and exploration. I experiment with color schemes, curious shapes, light patterns, varied lines, dynamic compositions, my collection of digital materials, and texture brushes. My brushwork expresses feelings of warmth and connectedness. I occupy myself with “what if” questions to generate creative imagery: What if I could capture a 360-degree view of these woods? What if a dragonfly’s wing was a stained-glass window? What if these blooms crystallized or melted? What if birds were dancers and dancers were birds? What if I layered and merged a set of images into one? I visualize my musings and sensations in the present. I live in the picturesque Ozarks region in a thriving arts community, surrounded by beauty in all directions. Artists, actors, poets, writers, musicians, and dancers are everywhere, set against a stunning backdrop of scenic parks, hills, woodlands, and lakes. I also travel widely within the US and abroad scanning the world for images and synthesizing them with my experiences. I am a collector of fleeting moments of pure pleasure.
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Originally from Wooster, Ohio, and moved to Rochester, NY at 16 years old as an emancipated minor. At a young age, writing, painting, photography, music, fashion design, etc., were just a part of who I am. Being a creative person just allowed me so much freedom to participate in the arts at all levels while expressing myself through various mediums. My education was really important to me, and I fought for it. I didn’t want to be a product of my environment, but rather strive to achieve all I can do in this life. I earned my High School Equivalency Diploma, an associate degree in Business Management/Information Technology, an associate degree in Humanities & Social Science Liberal Arts, a Bachelor of Science degree in English Literature/Pre-Law, and studied for two academic years for my Master of Science degree in International Business. I am a single parent of three adult children with two grandsons. Spending many years in tax accounting, I began to work professionally in the arts in 2023, becoming a full-time creative. I grew close to my walk with Jesus after losing my sister to cancer, a near-fatal car accident, menopause, empty nester, COVID-19, and huge, brutal betrayal from family and exes. I had three deeply painful years, 2019-2021, definitely not the worst pain in my life, but it led me to my authentic self. I can only say, “God saved me again and again”. I look so forward to the future with hope and joy, now. I became an entrepreneur in 2023, and I currently multitask in-between projects. I have been an activist for two decades and will continue to appeal to people’s humanity in my products and art. I do not know what will happen tomorrow…but God knows.
My preference is to use non-oil paints; I choose acrylics and watercolors. My mediums are photography, painting, writing, and fashion design as artistic expression. I am not trained in a specific technique, but I choose all of them. Nature and the world around me are a unique observational perspective that reflects in lighting, color, shape, and images that transfer an idea or story to the audience. When I sit down at an easel to paint, the end painting is not what I originally planned, but somehow the vision is clear. I might do contemporary today and abstract or fine art tomorrow. Expanding and growing in the arts brings so much inspiration to me to keep moving and sharing. The art world has a way of uniting people, and so much humanity is needed back into this world right now.
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Babler’s work has been juried into: The Boston Printmakers 2026 North American Print Biennial”; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 115th Juried National Exhibition; 91st National Exhibition, Cooperstown NY, “Spatial” MFA juried exhibition; GALEX 59 National Exhibition 2026; 38th September Competition Juried Exhibit at Alexandria Museum of Art; “After Dark 2025” and “Reflecting 2025”– Maryland Federation of Art; 38th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition; “In the City” exhibit juror Christina Gomez (Art Institute Chicago); North American Print Biennial juror Elizabeth M. Rudy (Associate Curator of Prints Harvard Art Museums, Boston); Dubuque Museum of Art Biennial juror Pamela Hugdahl (Rochester Art Center); Rockford Art Museum Biennial Juried Exhibit of Contemporary Artists; Amanda C. Burdan (Associate Curator – Brandywine River Museum of Art); Christiane Paul (Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art); Felice Frankel (Science photographer/research scientist); Malcolm Daniel (Curator of Photographs – Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC); Kenneth Baker (Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle); William Lieberman, Director of Zolla/Lieberman Gallery – Chicago; Annette Carlozzi (Sr. Curator Blanton Museum of Art); Dr. Jefferson Harrison (Chief Curator Chrysler Museum of Art); Charlotta Kotik (Curator of Contemporary Art Brooklyn Museum of Art); David Houston (Chief Curator –Ogden Museum of Southern Art); Dr. Russell Panczenko (Museum of Art, Madison Wisconsin); Siri Engberg (Walker Art Center); Stephen Phillips (Phillips Collection – Washington DC); Sam Gilliam; and Ed Paschke.
A Ragdale Residency Fellow and a juried member of the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts-In-Education Roster, she has exhibited at Northwestern University, Concordia University, Rockford Art Museum, and the Alexandria Museum of Art. She was a fine art consultant for Grumbacher/Prismacolor, along with developing a program for Blick Art. Her artwork is in corporate, university, and private art collections.
All creatures near and in the sea display the incredible diversity of nature. Through color and movement, one cannot help but be in awe. From the gentle winds lifting a lone seagull searching for dinner and landing, to the colorful sea creature stretching its legs for a dance at the bottom of the sea, to a fish gliding through the water displaying all the colors of the rainbow – diversity is all around. My submissions highlight the kaleidoscope of all of nature’s beauty.
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Born in Newark, New Jersey, Bob Moskowitz moved with his family to the Bronx where he lived through kindergarten until they moved to Philadelphia, where he lived for 22 years. He earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Westchester University and later a four-year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he won a Franklin Watkins Grant and a Scheidt European Scholarship. In 1977 he moved to St.
Louis, Missouri to attend graduate school at Washington University where he met his wife, artist Margie Moskowitz. He earned an M.F.A. in Painting in 1979 and taught in St. Louis and Illinois until moving to California to teach at Ventura College where he is the art department chair. He currently maintains his studio in Southern California.
Bob has exhibited nationally and has done over 200 commissioned portraits. His work has always been figurative and has changed stylistically over the years.
If there is power in the mundane, I attempt to record moments of human significance in the commonplace. The work suggests aspects of the human condition in context with the subject’s culture which can be revealed through observation and a peeling back of the layers. Although the subjects mask their emotions and feelings, close observation begins to reveal the specifics of content and meaning. The viewer is a participant in the unmasking of the innermost and universal motivations of people who would otherwise be unobserved and ignored.
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After her education at the Academy of Arts Tilburg ( NL). She worked as a teacher in arts and art history. To improve her qualities as a painter she took lessons in 16e and 17e centuries oil painting techniques. The artist works with open acrylics in a layering technique. She often integrates textile fabrics and other materials from her personal history. Her work has to be realistic because she creates multifaceted and engaging paintings, that tell visual stories about her experiences and ideas. The stories cover gender equality, social issues, art history, and personal issues. She does explore the Zeitgeist from a female view.
She is a member of the artists societies NABK and BOK. Waddinxveense KunstKring , Krimpener Kunstwaard all in the Netherlands, Manhattans art International on line Gallery. U.S.A., Kun:st International Stuttgart Germany
She received awards in France, Swiss, Germany, England, the U.S.A., and the Netherlands.
“My work is a personal reaction to social issues.”
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Recent exhibitions:
Bruegel Invades van Eyck. Humor as a way of being serious, juried exhibit (It’s OK to Laugh, OHanlon Center for the Arts, 2022, post-pandemic exhibition) ohanloncenter.org/2022/04/ok-to-laugh/
Cosmic Dance. Red, juried exhibit (OHanlon Center for the Arts, 2022) ohanloncenter.org/2022/07/red-2022/
Six Guys on an Angry Corner. We’re Doing it all Wrong, juried exhibit (Edward A Dixon Gallery, 2022)
Vivid Dancers. Human Form and Figure, juried exhibit at SFVAAC/SCORE, 2022.
I aim to paint things that make one slow down and look more closely. Life is fast. Too fast. We miss you so much. All artist proceeds to charity.
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Sylvia Bandyke, Royal Oak, MI, USA, is largely a self-taught photographer, having taken studio and art history classes in college. She began her art career by displaying photo collages in ArtPrize, an independent international art competition in Grand Rapids, MI, from 2014 to 2018. Subsequently, she has been juried into more than 100 group exhibitions in 24 states and accepted into numerous online international exhibitions. An award-winning artist, she keeps an eye open for interesting views of a subject while looking for hidden beauty every day. Most recently, she was a caregiver to her elderly mother and was able to create some memorable, unique art as a result of this experience.
I prefer using the collage format to integrate associated images into a cohesive unit that is even more compelling because of the embedded story. Having been a playwright and technical writer, I am accustomed to delivering content with a message. So now, as a visual communicator, I continue to provide meaning via the structure of the collage format, wherein the four photos confirm, augment, or even contradict each other if warranted. I enjoy offering the richness that the multiplicity of images provides, along with the impact gained through their thoughtful positioning. Ultimately, I intend to have my work act as a doorway to the viewer’s own mental and emotional framework regarding the collection of images, perhaps finding their own very personal meaning in them.
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In 2020 at 65 it had been decades since I made a body of art. Since then, I’ve been honored with 4 first-place awards in photography. The University of Delaware gave me a one-woman show. My work has been seen from coast to coast including several times through the HMVC Gallery in NY and Las LaGuna Gallery in CA. Pictorem based out of Montreal, Canada, has me as a featured artist. Two books had a write-up about me with a few of my photographs; Pen Women’s, Nobis II, and Emerald Coast Review.
The photographs I create are abstractions in fluidity, rich in joy, color, pattern, curiosity, and concern. I’ve been printing on aluminum.
I grew up in the Mid-Atlantic and later spent much of my young adult life in New England. For the past 28 years, the Deep South has been home. I have a Master’s in Social Work and worked as a social worker and a realtor. In the South, I married and raised a daughter. I also helped plant the seed that grew into the Mississippi Children’s Museum and worked at 2 art museums as a docent for 17 years.
Lisa Joy Newcomb creates photos as peaceful, playful, healing stimuli by drawing upon different objects and melding them into a unified whole. Part of her process is setting up compositions and visually weaving together beautiful glass, flowing fabric, and sometimes surprise elements with vibrant colors and patterns into integrated fluid formations seeking to reshape light, pattern, and color into a visual oasis. Lisa then tightly crops and photographs. Her intent is to transcend and transform objects into images that visually excite while calming the soul and at times encourage reflection and introspection.
A lifelong passion for art and artists influenced Lisa’s work. She nods to Miriam Schapiro, a leader in the Pattern and Decoration Movement. Having lived much of her life by the shore, Lisa has always loved the play of light in watery reflections. She is drawn to artists who capture light; Stephen Rolfe Powell’s glass delights her. Mark Rothko believed in the visceral effect of color. He wanted people to have an experience with his pictures. Lisa too seeks to have her work viscerally affect the viewer.
Images can be ordered in small jewel-like prints or large dynamic pieces.
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Subodh Maheshwari was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, North India, where she learned folk art and classical music. She passionately believes: “At the threshold of my life, my present is the window to the past and a key to the future”. She acquired her degrees and studied art at Agra University, California State University, Fullerton, and the University of California, Irvine. Subodh has won numerous awards, including the regional Fellowship Award at UCI in 1986, the Bharat Gaurav Award in India in 2015, and the 60 Masters Award in 2017, 2018, and 2019. She is also registered in Marquis “Who’s Who in America”, the standard in biographical information. Her paintings have also won awards in a variety of categories, including landscape, open, all women, nature, elements, seasons, and abstract.
Subodh is a diversified artist who enjoys telling stories through her artwork, whether it is through landscape, flowers, or abstract art. Her art is a fusion of Eastern symbolism and Western composition, influenced by 16th- and 17th-century Rajasthani and Mughal art, and accented by poetry, passages, and phrases in Hindi, Sanskrit, and English. She admires Georgia O’Keeffe for her floral influence and Frida Kahlo for her courage. Whether it is the serene beauty of nature, her spirituality, or the current political climate, she finds inspiration. Having a life shared between India and America, she sees the beautiful similarities, like love, which transcends all borders. Highly individual in her style, her works are described as emotional, mysterious, personal, spiritual, and humorous.
This mysterious and atmospheric painting reveals a forest scene that blurs the line between nature and spirit. Subtle human faces, some smiling and others solemn, are delicately embedded in the vertical forms of tree trunks, suggesting a quiet fusion of humanity with the natural world. Muted tones of green, grey, and soft blush flow like mist through the layered textures, giving the impression of a forest alive with memory and unseen watchers. The figures seem to emerge and vanish at once, evoking themes of presence, ancestry, and the silent sentience of nature.