Barbara Leoff Burge (1933) is an American book artist. In 1974 she co-founded the Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) in Rosendale, New York along with fellow artists Ann Kalmbach, Tatana Kellner, and Anita Wetzel. [1] Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2] and the MassArt Library. [3]
Leoff Burge is a co-founder of Women's Studio Workshop. [4]
Her works are in the collections of Yale, Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. [5] [6]
In 2013 Leoff Burge was honored at the Women's Studio Workshop annual Gala Dinner. [7] In 2018 she was included in the exhibit The Golden Age of New Paltz which exhibited New Paltz artists of the 1960s. [8] In 2023 the town of New Paltz honored her 90th birthday with a parade and community festivities. [5]
Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is associated with the art nouveau and aesthetic art movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels, and metalwork. He was the first design director at his family company, Tiffany & Co., founded by his father Charles Lewis Tiffany.
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.
Carl Andre was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks, to large interior works exhibited on the floor, to small intimate works.
The State University of New York at New Paltz is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an academy in 1833.
Robert William Ebendorf is an American metalsmith and jeweler, known for craft, art and studio jewelry, often using found objects. In 2003–2004, the Smithsonian American Art Museum organized an exhibition of 95 pieces, titled The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years.
Liliana Porter is an Argentine contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art.
Pat Oleszko is an American visual and performing artist. Oleszko has performed at major New York institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA P.S. 1, and P.S. 122. In 1990, the artist was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
Women's Studio Workshop (WSW) is a nonprofit visual arts studio and private press offering residencies and educational workshops, located in Rosendale, New York.
Adriana Farmiga is an American visual artist, curator, and professor based in New York City. She serves as a programming advisor for the non-profit La Mama Gallery in the East Village, and is the current Associate Dean at Cooper Union School of Art. In June of 2024 Farmiga was promoted Dean at Cooper Union.
Louise Odes Neaderland was an American photographer, printmaker, book artist and founder of the International Society of Copier Artists (I.S.C.A.) and the I.S.C.A. Quarterly, a collaborative mail, book art, and copy art publication. She was the organizer of ISCAGRAPHICS, a traveling exhibition of xerographic art.
Lola Brooks is an artist, metalsmith, and educator who specializes in jewelry. Brooks' works have been shown at places such as the National Ornamental Metal Museum, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and was included in the Talente exhibition in 1996. She has created works that are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, Yale Art Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jamie Bennett is an American artist and educator known for his enamel jewelry. Over his forty-year career, Bennett has experimented with the centuries-old process of enameling, discovered new techniques of setting, and created new colors of enamel and a matte surfaces. This has led him to be referred to as “one of the most innovative and accomplished enamellers of our time” by Ursula Ilse-Neuman, historian and former curator at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. Bennett is closely associated with the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he studied himself as a student, and taught in the Metal department for many years. Bennett retired from teaching in 2014, after thirty years at SUNY New Paltz.
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray is an American metalsmith, artist, critic, and educator living and working in Stone Ridge, New York. Mimlitsch-Gray's work has been shown nationally at such venues as the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Museum of the City of New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Museum of Arts and Design. Her work has shown internationally at such venues as the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Stadtisches Museum Gottingen, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and is held in public and private collections in the U.S, Europe, and Asia.
Tatana "Tana" Kellner is an American artist known for her artist's book works and as a founder of Women's Studio Workshop.
Susie M. Barstow was an American painter associated with the Hudson River School who was known for her luminous landscapes.
Andrew Lyght is a contemporary artist living in Kingston, New York. Lyght is a mixed media artist, often combining drawings, painterly elements, industrial objects, and sculptural wooden assemblages.
The Elverhoj Art Colony, originally known as the Elverhoj Colony of Artists and Craftsmen, was founded in 1912 in Milton-on-Hudson, New York, by Danish-American artists A. H. Andersen and Johannes Morton. The name is an Anglization of the Danish word Elverhøj, which is the title of a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen and of the first Danish national play, commissioned by King Frederick VI in 1828.
Ann Kalmbach is an American artist and co-founder of the Women's Studio Workshop.
Anita Lynn Wetzel was an American artist and co-founder of the Women's Studio Workshop.
Lula Mae Blocton is an American abstract artist and painter and emeritus professor of East Connecticut State University. A University of Michigan alumna, she is the second Black graduate to receive a fine arts degree from the university. Her work is exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.