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Officers and Board of Directors of Choose Cohoes for Art Inc.

Fred

Fred Neudoerffer Vice Ppresident
Chair for the Cohoes Artist Showcase. He is the owner of NeuStudios, LLC, which showcases products, services and great ideas through photography and related creative services. Fred is also the volunteer director of The JRM Artists’ Space @ The National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa.
As an artist, Fred has been creating art through photography for many years. His art is primarily project based and some projects can carry on for many years, in search of images, specific to a project. He has shown his work in many galleries in the North East.
His commercial and art images can be seen at www.neustudios.com and www.neuarts.net

Dave

Dave Koschnick President
He is a mostly self-trained photographer. He has been influenced by many varied photographers - ranging from American photographic giants Edward Weston and Ansel Adams; to Adirondack greats Seneca Ray Stoddard, Nathan Farb, and Carl Heilman; and the offbeat Duane Michals.

Dave has been experimenting in the medium for over 40 years. Many of Dave's landscape and wildlife photographs form a personal journal of his extensive hiking and canoeing trips through the Adirondack Mountains.

Dave and Anne Marie are partners in Junkyard Watchdog Arts and you can find more samples of their work at their web site - WWW.JunkyardWatchdogArts.com

Michael

Michael Lattanzio
A native of Albany, N.Y., began his artistic  career  forty years ago.  He changed careers, left the automotive  repair world and got involved in the graphic arts and textile  imprinting industries.
Over that  span Michael has owned and operated his own screen printing and bag manufacturing company. He also managed other large scale printing operations garnering first and second  place awards in national competitions held  within  the industry.        Michael has participated in shows ranging from open studio shows in Baltimore, Maryland, the Boulder Creek Arts Festival in Colorado and the Oasis Gift Shows in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2010  
Michael participated in a members open exhibition and a piece from Restored Treasures ~ Forgotten Relics received a First Place “ People’s Choice Award” at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona.      More recently, since June of 2016, Michael has participated in  numerous  shows in and around the Albany, N.Y. area and was awarded Third Place in the  Pencil Art Society international juried members exhibit.
Interests and mediums include colored pencil,  air brush, photography, welding/metal sculpture, serigraphy,  jewelry design and graphic design.
Michael Lattanzio is a current member of the Albany Center
Gallery in  Albany, N.Y., the Pencil Art Society based in Quebec, Canada and is associated with the Choose Cohoes for Art organization in Cohoes, N.Y.  He is a past member of the International Printing House Craftsmen.
Michaels’ current work allows him to combine a love of two worlds—Art and Machinery. 
Michael now lives and creates in the Albany area of  upstate New York. He is self employed in the home repair and remodeling business.

 

Ed Tremblay

Ed Tremblay
Retired executive director of Cohoes Local Development
Corporation, a 501 c3 non-profit whose mission is to bolster economic
development in Cohoes.  Choose Cohoes for Arts is the vehicle designed to
encourage arts in this small city.  Ed is an amateur photographer who
appreciates fine art and has donated time in several non-profit groups that
promote art.  Ed was a charter member of the Cohoes Performing Arts Booster
Club.  This was a non-profit designed to promote the Arts in the Cohoes
School District.  Ed is also the former Vice President and Board member of
Youth Ballet Company and Dance Eclectic, Inc of Clifton Park.  Ed spent over
25 years in the banking industry and worked for the City of Cohoes for
thirteen years.  He is currently the President of the Cohoes Senior Center
and the Rotary Club of Cohoes.

Pauline

Pauline Daigneault
A Cohoes native and Air Force Vet, Pauline has spent her life giving back to her city.  Demonstrating her love of the arts, she has been involved with the Cohoes Senior Center’s singing group, the Silvertops as well as the VA’s Vets Choir and Arts for the Vets groups. Her community involvement has included volunteering at the Cohoes Community Center, being an elder at the United Church of Cohoes and serving on the Sonshine Patch Preschool Board for over 35 years.  She is always up for new adventures, as her love of traveling has shown, and looks for ways that she can make a difference in her community.

Kathy

Kathy Klompas
Kathryn Klompas is the owner of Ragged Edge Printmaking Studio on Remsen Street in the heart of Cohoes, a fully equipped art studio with complete facilities for green printmaking.
 
Her art explores the expressive use of color, mark-making and surface design on paper and textiles, employing printmaking on paper and fabric, stitching and mixed media collage.  Observing patterns, textures and structures through the lens of a camera often influences and informs her art.

Kathy finds sharing her studio space with other artists is inspiring and energizing.   She regularly invites other artists to come together, offering supportive space for diverse creative work across the Cohoes regional art community.

http://RaggEdge.com

http://Kathy.Klompas.com
Shirley

Shirley J. Clarke
Shirley is passionate in “painting life’s visions,” Shirley specializes in the visual arts, focusing on portraits, still-life’s and landscapes.  Involved with art since a child, she has experimented with various mediums and won art awards during her teen years.  She has enhanced her art education at schools such as Newark School of Fine Arts, Pel’s School of Art, Old Dominion University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Art Institute of Charleston, Trident Technical College and the College of Charleston.  Many individuals have been captured in her commissioned portraits and, if you are ever in Norfolk, Va., check out the mural over a Baptismal pool to see one of her beautiful murals at the Calvary Baptist Church. Her art has been featured in a personal exhibit at Saul’s Gallery at the Charleston Public Library and, in honor of Black History Month, at Trident Technical College. Shirley added to her opus by illustrating Richie Lucas’ The March of the Glory Fox and Trudy Harris’ Talks With My Father. Not only an artist, in her little spare time, Shirley is a crafter who especially loves crocheting.

Sarah Sarah C. Stevens Treasurer
Sarah's love of textiles began when she was a child learning to embroider, knit, crochet, and sew from her mother and grandmother. After college, her work in the costume shops of various theaters led Sarah to the field of textile conservation. Sarah has over 15 years' experience, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, as the textile conservator for the New York State Battle Flag Preservation Project, and now in her private practice, Zephyr Preservation Studio. She enjoys treating all types of textiles and helping others care for their collections, both small and large.
Sue Baird

Sue Baird - Secretary
Sue Baird was born and raised in Cohoes, growing up in a home that overlooked Cohoes Falls. She graduated from Keveny Memorial Academy, UAlbany and Russell Sage College. Sue dedicated her career to developing programs for older citizens in Saratoga and Rensselaer Counties, and then for the State of New York. She also traveled all over the country helping other areas establish similar programs. For this effort, she was listed in the 1987 edition of Who's Who of American Women.

After retirement, Sue began painting and writing books. She focuses on places and stories known to her. One of her first paintings was of the Cohoes Falls and another of the Family's home in Cohoes. Her first book was titled "Our House by the Falls." She also wrote a book about her transgender cousin, a pioneer in the local LGTBQ movement. She has written four books and has a small catalogue of paintings.

Sue travels whenever she can and spends time in New York City, San Francisco, and Cape Cod. She is the Secretary of the Board of Choose Cohoes for the Arts and is President of the Saturday Club of Cohoes. This is the oldest women's club in the State New York. She can be reached through Cohoes for the Arts.

Karen Woodin Karen Woodin
Karen Woodin from Waterford, NY began her fine art studies at Russell Sage College. She then earned two Masters Degrees in Education - one at the University of Albany and the second at the College of Saint Rose. After 20 years of teaching, she began freelancing, establishing herself as an oil landscape artist. This shift from teaching to developing her artistic talent brought about her mastery in painting oil landscapes.
Today, Karen Woodin regularly teaches professional oil painting workshops for HVCC, the New York Department of Parks and Recreation, Living Room Gallery, and Blooming Artist Gallery. She is often a guest demonstrator for art associations/societies. Her landscape paintings have been spotlighted in Saratoga Life publication, Russell Sage College, and in the local Schenectady Gazette. Karen has previously shown as a featured artist at the Cohoes Music Hall and Living Room Gallery. Currently, her work is available at the Blooming Artist Gallery in Clifton Park, NY. Her work and available workshops can be viewed on her website: www.timelessartist.com.