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Art in the Hall Exhibit Promotes Local Artists, Student Works

The Art in the Hall exhibit is taking place from April 10 to May 31, with a reception being held on Friday, May 1, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.  

Islip Town invites residents to join the Islip arts community on the one-year anniversary of IAC’s arts initiative, Art in the Hall.

Art in the Hall is an ongoing art project that will provide both local artists and art students from local high schools with an extraordinary opportunity to bring their work directly to the community.
The art is exhibited in the second floor rotunda and hallway of the Islip Town Hall, and may be seen Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is free to the public.  

We are pleased to announce that this bimonthly exhibit features Ned Butterfield and Miranda Gatewood.  

Ned Butterfield
is a graduate of the Pratt Institute Fine Arts Program and has completed a long career as a freelance illustrator supplying art work for the New York City advertising and editorial markets.

From his home in Islip, Butterfield now creates richly detailed award winning watercolors of Long Island land and seascapes featuring beaches, lighthouses, canals and shipyards.His work is available both as originals and as Limited Edition Giclee prints matted for framing.  

Photographer Miranda Gatewood is exhibiting a collection of color waterscapes, landscapes and rustic images of coastal Long Island, the Hudson Valley region of  NY and the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine. The East End resident received an M.F.A. in fine art photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1981.

Gatewood’s photographs have been collected by the Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA. Her works are part of the Houston Museum of Fine Art slide lecture on Contemporary Photography. A member of four arts councils, her work has won awards and has been selected for juried exhibitions including the Southampton Cultural Center, Friends of the Riverhead Library, the Long Island Museum, Islip Arts Council and solo shows at the Westhampton Beach and Riverhead libraries. She is a 2011 recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend. Gatewood is editor of Networking® magazine, a Long Island women’s business magazine.  


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