Makers Central
We are a community of makers businesses sharing space in the heart of Tarrytown, NY. We make custom handmade goods for home and hospitality.
84 Central Avenue, Tarrytown
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Jeff White
Jeff White’s first departure from the woodcut medium in many years is a series of large abstract drawings inspired by Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole, whose “Course of Empire” from 1834 expressed concern for the direction of our young country. 2 contour lines travel throughout his compositions to convey time, continuity, paradox and the both/and principal.
42 Hudson Street, Sleepy Hollow
Martin Munroe at the Donald Gallery
This well-travelled space inside South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry serves as a popular Rivertowns gallery representing local artists. The first exhibit was in 1982 and in the 40+ years since then artists in many media have shared their unique views of life, the world, and self.
The Donald Gallery (Inside South Presbyterian Church) 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry
Victoria Bugbee
Victoria Bugbee is an award winning filmmaker, playwright and visual artist. Her first feature “Out of State-A Gothic Romance” has been in 40+ international film festivals winning awards in every category. Bugbee is Writer, Director, Producer and staged it in her Victorian home in Hastings. Rivertowns residents Cherie Fortis Co-Produced and stars Caroline Winterson, A.Ryder Turner, Tess Warren, and Matthew Brueckner
Jazz Forum, 1 Dixon Lane – Film showing only on Saturday, November 2nd at 2pm
Monica Carrier
Monica Carrier (b. Philadelphia, PA) is an artist in New York who works primarily with ink on paper. Her drawings celebrate the absurd alongside the sincere. She works with topics of personal relationships, spaces between & pareidolia. Often with humor, she utilizes the spiritual, hand in hand with the irreverent.
92 Central Avenue, Tarrytown, NY
Ann Marie DeLuca
Ann Marie DeLuca, expressive artist and photographer, integrates Expressive Arts and yoga into her unique, multi sensory process. Inspired by nature and found objects, she transforms everyday items into meaningful art. Her work emphasizes the healing power of creativity, fostering well-being and authenticity through rich textures, colors, and forms. Ann Marie’s art is a testament to transformation and personal significance.
132 Main Street, Irvington, NY
Yona Gonen
Yona Gonen was born and raised abroad, receiving her initial art education there. Continuing her art enrichment by taking classes at the Art Student League in NYC as well as the Visual Art center and Ecole D’Art Art School, Canada. Her work spans from the gestural to the abstract in sculpture, drawing, painting and collage. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows.
The Quay, 273-C South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY
Tracy Jamar
The craft and history of items made by hand, especially textiles, has led Tracy Jamar to the restoration of antique quilts and hooked rugs for over 30 years. Inspired by the connection and importance of textiles in all aspects of life, she creates contemporary forms using traditional textile techniques and explores her creative voice in the legacy of hand-made fiber works.
409 Warburton Avenue, Apt. 25, Hastings
Stephen Stoller
Stoller worked and learned his art on the streets of New York and other cities around the world. His works were exhibited on Madison Avenue and other mainstream galleries in New York City.
In 1982, defined himself a street painter. Stephen renders the figurative in urban setting using the live model and architecture as a basis for his work.
579 Warburton Avenue, Unit #4, Hastings
Sharon Seidl
Sharon (Shroon) Seidl has never been afraid to take chances. She takes pleasure in the uncertainty of each piece as it reveals itself through color, composition and texture. Somewhere in the curious chaos lie familiar, beautiful, comforting forms. She has designed for well known musicians, album art, souvenir brochures, well-known magazines, fashion design features, mobile applications famous logos and much more.
Sleepy Coffee Too, 110 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Rea Silvia Feriozzi
Rea Silvia Feriozzi loves exploring new media and organic elements like clay, wool, wood, and paper, reflecting her passion for the planet. Whether traditional or digital, her art, from animation to pottery excites her creativity. She sees no divide between hands-on and digital work, only potential to express her love for form, motion, and nature’s cycle.
500 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY
Rana Amirtahmasebi
Rana Amirtahmasebi’s artistic practice, converges ceramics, printmaking, and cartography, creating works that not only captivate the visual senses but also embrace functionality. By seamlessly blending these mediums, she strives to convey narratives that celebrate the inherent connection between her Iranian background, visual sensibilities as an architect, and personal human experience. 145 Palisade Street, Studio 200, Dobbs […]
Peilin Kuo
When Peilin is not making movies, she’s either painting or drawing. 85 Warburton Avenue, Hastings, NY Instagram: @peilinkuony [email protected] (914) 496-8008 Pink Series #1, Acrylic, 4” x 4”, 2024
Peep Space
It is no surprise that these artists, who expertly work with concepts of connectivity in their craftsmanship, also facilitate human networks outside of their studios. The artists in this show have brought people together in cooperative ways such as curating, founding an artist-run-space, community fundraising and creating an interview based podcast, among other important initiatives around visual arts and society.
Website: peepspaceny.com
Kersten Harries
Kersten Harries, an architect by training, engages in creative placemaking and community building in her current home of Sleepy Hollow. She’s passionate about installation art, enjoying its temporal, transformative, and spatial qualities and utilizes photography to document pieces and process. Seeking to nurture her own daily art making habit, Kersten shares her latest creative works in progress.
18 Anderson Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Joseph Anastasio
Hidden beyond the warning signs and fences lays a world that is both strikingly beautiful yet often incredibly dangerous. Anastasio’s photographic works explore this realm, from the rooftop edges of high rises to the forbidden depths of underground tunnels. His work highlights the contrast between those looking down, and those left behind.
29 Shady Lane, Dobbs Ferry
John Manning
John Manning has been painting for many years. He spent over 20 years as a creative director in an ad agency. Now he gets to express himelf through painting. He leans towards abstract expressionism. Motherwell, Kline and Pollock are his influences.
21 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY
Jill Liflander
Jill Liflander sits down at her easel every morning to envision and create a peaceful, harmonious world though art. She draws little mice who are beacons of hope: they are kind, loving, generous and joyful, and they co-create that peaceful, beautiful world on paper. And then, when she is done painting, she can go out into the world and build peace.
Sleepy Coffee Too, 110 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Isabella Bannerman
Isabella Bannerman has been the Monday artist for the unique all women comic strip “Six Chix” since 2000. She has been a member of River Arts since 2013. Her work has been recognized by the National Cartoonists Society, the Newswomen’s Club of New York, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. She believes that humor can be healing.
James V. Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings
Claire Widman
Claire Widman is an illustrator based in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. The village influences much of the art that Claire has created over the last decade. Her drawings of local landmarks, monsters with big hearts, farm animals—and even the Headless Horseman himself—are inspired by the wonder that permeates the community where she lives. Claire works in a wide variety of mediums.
Sleepy Coffee Too, 110 Beekman Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, NY
Bill Abram
Turning wood bowls from reclaimed wood is an excellent way to combine Bill Abram’s passion for woodworking with environmental consciousness. Reclaimed wood not only adds character to his creations but also helps reduce waste and the demand for new resources. Each piece of reclaimed wood carries its own history and story, making the bowls even more unique and special.
25 Woodlands Avenue, White Plains, NY
Barbara Abram
Barbara Abram is a local artist in Westchester County NY. She works in her home-based studio, which is truly her happy place! Pastels are her medium of choice; she loves the color, the contrast, and mark-making. She enjoys painting portraits and has been including more figures in her landscapes and interiors.
25 Woodlands Avenue, White Plains, NY
Alison Bert
Alison Bert draws on her background in journalism and the performing arts to capture the spirit of her subjects using various photographic techniques. She has displayed her work since 2013, including juried exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club, the Upstream Gallery and the Garrison Art Center. She does her own printing using archival inks on exhibition fiber paper.
James V. Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings, NY
The Maker Hive
The Maker Hive is a community makerspace to explore arts and technology and everything in between.
416 Warburton Avenue, Hastings, NY
Website: www.makerhive.space
Instagram: @makerhivespace
Mary Fennell
As an artist, Mary always found herself torn between two mediums: Photography and Mixed Media. Her photography work represents her vision looking outward at the world. Her mixed media work represents her vision as looking inward, inspiring visual narratives that are both relics of personal memory and symbols of the universal human experience.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 415, Dobbs Ferry
Alison Marra
Alison Marra is an abstract painter and mixed media artist. By exploring natural shapes and instinctual mark-making, her work considers the themes of cultural femininity and our human relationship to the world. She previously designed and taught workshops to both children and adults on how to access one’s own personal creative voice. Alison lives with her family in Yonkers, NY.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 318F, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Anne-Marie McIntyre
The techniques found in Anne-Marie Mcintyre’s work have developed over years of studio practice. These include an extensive repertoire of hand mixed glazes and inks and combining 2D and 3D media in unconventional ways. Her ceramics are done in conjunction with her drawings and inform each other to help answer questions about the nature of consciousness and embodiment.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 339, Dobbs Ferry
Bonnie Levine
Bonnie Levine is a ceramic artist and studio art educator. Similar to her work in the classroom where material exploration is essential, Levine draws inspiration from the clay itself. She uses various techniques to create her forms. The plasticity of the material, the mood of the moment, the moisture in the air and other variables converge to produce one-of-a-kind pieces.
James Harmon Community Center, 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson
Vicente Saavedra
This year Vincente has been busy with with watercolor and ink sketches from Italy as well as figurative work and small oils.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 401, Dobbs Ferry
Neil Lavey
Neil Lavey was born in 1958, He graduated Cooper Union 1981. His Exhibitions include: The Leslie Lohman gallery, Rockland Center for the Arts , The Edward Hopper House in Nyack, The Blue Door Gallery & The River Front Gallery in Yonkers, the Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, and the The H Gallery in Peekskill.
60 Beechdale Road, Dobbs Ferry
Mitchell Goldberg
Exploring gay male sexuality through the lens of pop culture imagery, distorted memory and vicarious nostalgia, Goldberg’s work encompasses collage, mixed media, and printmaking. He is interested in male camaraderie, desire and relationships, as well as emotions related to body image.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 383A, Dobbs Ferry
Janette Rozene
Jan Rozene, a resident of Tarrytown, enjoys painting en plein air in the Hudson Valley and in New York City. She hopes the viewer will share the emotional high she feels observing the beauty of nature.
1 Central Avenue, Studio 302
Lindsay Mortimer
Hudson Ceramics is a local, female-owned collection of modern, handmade porcelain jewelry by Lindsay Mortimer. Each piece is a work of art, lovingly made in her Hastings-on-Hudson studio. She is inspired by the beauty of nature and draws on her BFA and 20 years experience in NYC fashion and textiles to create jewelry as unique as you are!
145 Palisade Street, Studio TBD, Dobbs Ferry
Alan Garry
Alan Garry is trying to capture the geometry & patterns in unselfconscious construction.
145 Palisade Street, Studio 307, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Christopher Williams
Christopher Williams creates a variety of mixed media works that include collage, drawings, paintings, graphic design pieces, puppets and masks. Williams embraces exploration, imagination and a dedication to the creative process. Williams’ personal artwork is inspired by his Catholic faith, but celebrates inclusive values, social justice, and activism. Williams teaches elementary Art and has a studio in Tarrytown.
1 Central Avenue, Suite 305, Tarrytown
Nathan Frey
N8plaster lighting design shines beyond traditional lighting fixtures, incorporating creativity, innovation and traditional materials into their design. The pieces serve as both a practical light source and an artistic focal point within interior spaces.
92 Central Avenue, Tarrytown
The Weaving Center
The Weaving Center is a non-profit community center, run by volunteers, established over 40 years ago to encourage the artistic use of fibers in general and weaving in particular.
32 Warren Avenue, Tarrytown
Peggie Blizard
Peggie Blizard is a realist painter, currently fascinated with painting flowers in water. She has spent the majority of her career representing objects as well and enjoys the trompe l’oeil challenge.
12 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry
Arriella Anzarut Toeman
Ariella Toeman is a classically trained Chef, turned potter. After many years in the kitchen and raising kids, she now focuses her time making pottery- bringing together her love of food, travel, and entertaining. Based in Irvington NY, Ariella creates one-of-a-kind tableware made of stoneware, thrown, altered and hand made, her pieces inspire home chefs and foodies.
You can find more of her work on Instagram (@ariella_ceramics) and on her website (www.ariellaceramics.com)
145 Palisade Street, Studio 215, Dobbs Ferry
Upstream Gallery
Upstream Gallery features strong, independent artists with a particular emphasis on quality, creativity, and community. We embrace artwork focused on contemporary life and social issues. Recent gallery shows have highlighted LGBTQ and Women’s issues in depth, with a diverse group of artists represented. All fine art styles, from carefully observed realism to bold abstraction, are presented with unique artistic voices.
22 Artists working in all styles
