Artists 2025

An interdisciplinary artist who creates public art and fiber installations that respond to climate change and environmental justice. Their work has been shown at places like Jamaica Flux and South Street Seaport, and they’ve received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and NYSCA. They also speak on environmental art panels, including NYC Climate Week and COAL+ICE at the Kennedy Center. One of their major projects, The Anxiety Project, uses recycled plastic film to make large, colorful tapestries inspired by Finnish ryas. It includes workshops, portraits, and public participation. They’ve also been a teaching artist in NYC schools for nearly 20 years.

A Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary dance artist whose work blends movement, sound, and installation to explore climate catastrophe, extinction, and interconnection—often inspired by mycorrhizal networks in nature. A 2023 Bessie nominee for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer, her work has been presented at Danspace Project, Roulette, Gibney, and more. She has performed with artists like Joanna Kotze and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and has taught at NYU Tisch, Sarah Lawrence, and beyond. marion also teaches Pilates, practices Craniosacral Therapy, and is completing her MFA at NYU.

Conor Dowdle is an artist and educator based in New York City. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2023. His artwork has recently been shown in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Dowdle was featured in New American Paintings (2019) and has work in the permanent collections of the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from Columbia University, Midway Contemporary Art, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. He has been an artist in residence at Catwalk Institute in New York, and the Burren College of Art in Ireland. Previously, he was the director of Yeah Maybe Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Tamar Sagiv is a New York–based cellist known for her deep, expressive sound. She’s received several honors, including a certificate from Zubin Mehta, and created the #backinthepark project. She has performed at major venues like Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall, and was featured on Israeli National Radio. Originally from northern Israel, she began playing cello at age 8 and trained at leading programs including the Jerusalem Music Center and the Buchmann Mehta School of Music. She has studied with renowned teachers, performed internationally, and currently plays with the International Contemporary Ensemble while completing her master’s at the Mannes School of Music with Matt Haimovitz.

Jean Zimmerman’s books have explored the history and culture of the Hudson Valley. Her acclaimed The Women of the House: How a Colonial She Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty (2006, Harcourt) is the primary source about the Philipse family, who settled in Yonkers in the 1600s and went on to found a 57,000-acre estate encompassing present day Westchester County. Her duel biography Love, Fiercely, A Gilded Age Love Story profiles a pair of well-to-do philanthropists, one of whom grew up at lavish “Locust Wood” the estate of billionaire 19th-century merchant Robert Bowne Minturn in Hastings-on-Hudson, Zimmerman’s home town.

Mia de Bethune is an artist, art therapy educator, and Ph.D. candidate at Lesley University, specializing in the integration of somatic methods and art therapy. A longtime practitioner in foster care, residential treatment, and hospice care, she now maintains a private practice in Westchester County, NY. Certified in Somatic Experiencing, Integral Somatic Psychology, and trained in Inner Relationship Focusing, Mia also brings over twenty years of Reiki practice to her work. She frequently exhibits her woven and collaged paintings at Upstream Gallery in Hastings-on-Hudson and divides her time between New York and Rhode Island, where she and her husband tend an old farmhouse and garden.