Happy New Year!
We are please to start the New Year by sharing with you the 10 honored artists chosen by our People’s Choice voting activity during our Fall/Winter 25 Exhibition in Lambertville NJ. It was wonderful to watch visitors to the gallery engage with the artworks and spend the time to fill out ballots expressing their choices for the 10 works they noted as their favorites!
In no particular order, here are the 10 works that caught the fancy of the participating People’s Choice voters:
Andie Olson
Perpetual Spectrum
“Through my lens I find magical moments in natural vignettes that often go unnoticed. ”
Erik Pyontek
The Twelve Aequo Postern
“My ink drawings reference a fascination I’ve always had with manuscript drawings connected to the Baroque era.”
Maryellen Finan
The View of Lambertville Station
“ Inspiration often arrives in surprising ways. Observing the world around me and connecting deeply with my environment is where the magic begins.”
David Cloud
Rory Table
“ Many years of design and build of custom furnishings in multiple materials.”
Bill Donelly
Late Afternoon, Early December
“ By focusing on a relatively small area of interest, Bill creates an abstracted view of his subject, inviting the viewer to form their own interpretation of the image. ”
Casey Poehlein
Go Away Green
“ Casey Poehlein is a dynamic and accomplished artist whose talent is found through both her sculptural and two dimensional works. ”
Sumita Chatterjee
Night Gazer
“ I’m drawn to details: the ripple of a pond, the dance of sunlight, the patterns on a leaf. These moments fuel my creativity and shape my art, and life.”
Christine Seo
Race in the Mud in Kentucky
“ My paintings reflect horses experiencing the world of human emotions and the landscape of life. My own emotions and thoughts are poured into each painting.”
Aurelle Sprout
To Know the Dark
“ Simply being in nature, I find inspiration and energy while working abstractly or representationally. Along with the natural world, the magic of creativity is my guide. ”
Justin Leal
Daybreak
“ My paintings center on abstract interpretations of horizons, focusing on depth, contrast, and texture within a minimalist framework. ”
A warm thank you to those who dropped by to see the wide variety of over 90 wonderful works of art and design, presented by 50 regional artists, designers and artisans.
If you didn’t have the opportunity for a gallery visit, or you might have missed the Exhibition, here is an overview of the events and activities we presented during the Fall and Winter Exhibition.
Poets Night at Makers Alley
For our first time, we presented the works by poets from the New Hope Poets Society and the Delaware Valley US Poets organizations. Over 14 fantastic poets read from the individual poems they authored. We challenged our literary friends to choose poetry from their individual cannon of work that were based on poetic reflections on any kind of artistic works of art – music, film, theatre, photography, fine art or literature! The result was a rich, varied, always fascinating evening of literary readings.
We’ll keep you posted when we organize the next poetry offering…
Makers Alley Screening Room
We set up a video screening room in the gallery where visitors could take a break from the Exhibition to view a series of artists, designers and gallerist profiled in our video version of our “Makers Talk” Series.
These highly crafted portraits have been produced by video makers Bill Ivie and Peter Rosenthal as part of our ongoing ever-growing Makers Talk Series comprised of live event discussions in addition to these pre-produced digital profiles.
If you are a Videographer/editor or digital designer with 3-4 solid years of experience, have a client ready sample reel of your work and would like to be a part of our creative production team that is putting these exciting digital media program together send us your cv/resume/artist profile to info@makersalley.org.
Makers Alley Holiday Emporium
Also, for the first time, and in the spirit of trying out new and exciting programs and activities, we offered an artist presentation to shop for holiday gifts
Get Involved!
With all the excellent events, exhibitions and meaningful opportunities on the horizon, any artist or designer or anyone with theater, or event production experience, writers, journalists, digital design artists or persons who have administration experience, curatorial backgrounds in the creative industries who would like to get involved, please contact us at info@makersalley.org.