Artist Ilene Richard

Artist Ilene Richard has been excelling in the Fine Art world with her acrylic paintings. She is currently involved in a show that is hanging in Neimann Marcus on Newberry Street in Boston. She has presented 8 paintings for the Woman and Self Esteem show that will be on display until November 30th, 2011. Go and check out Ilene's wonderful, provocative and colorful ladies.

Artist Wes Thomas

Artist Wes Thomas has completed 4 Cloverleaf Books for Lerner Publishing/ Millbroook on protecting our environment. The books are titled: "Choose to Reuse", "Power Up to Fight Pollution", "Rally for Recycling", and "Go Easy on Energy". All titles were written by Lisa Bullard. We know that Wes's enjoyable collage style artwork and great whimsy will make these books fun for children to read and be educational in teaching them how to keep our world clean and safe.

Wes was invited by Lerner to share how he creates his fun collage artwork on their Lerner blog. We invite you to click on this link to check it out:

http://lernerbooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/q-with-illustrator-wes-thomas.html

Steven James Petruccio

Artist Steven James Petruccio has been selected as a recipient of the 2012 Rip Van Winkle Award which recognizes a Hudson Valley author/illustrator for their body of work. Our hearty congratulations to Steven for this impressive accomplishment!