Board of Directors
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Sara Furlong, President
An award winning watercolor artist who started studies under Sr. Anne Dillon, osu at The Ursuline School in New Rochelle. Graduated from the College of New Rochelle with BFA in drawing, painting and sculpture and spent her junior year at the Universita Internationale del’Arte in Florence, Italy. She continued studying Chinese brush painting at the Pelham Art Center.
She received her MSed In Recreation and Parks Administration from CUNY/Lehman and recently retired from the City of New Rochelle Department of Parks & Recreation.
She has been a member of the New Rochelle Art Association for more than 20 years serving as Board Member, Vice President and currently President.
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Fred Spinowitz, Vice President
Born and raised in NYC, he is a graduate of Pratt Institute and reflects his yeshiva education and the times in which he lives. He has been influenced by the abstract expressionists, but continues to add the overlay of his Hebraic studies. The constant reminder that the calligraphy of his early education provides a counterpoint to the wild mass of color and vivid imagination.
Spinowitz graduated Pratt Institute with a BFA and MA in 1967. He began teaching art privately and under a federal grant program to NYC public schools. All the while he continued to work at his paintings and ketubot, which are in private collections throughout the United States. He has been included in group shows at the YU museum and had a one man show when the gallery museum opened at West Point. Beginning in 1980’s, Spinowitz began designing Judaica in silver, brass and porcelain. His work has been presented to heads of state.
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Theresa Beyer, Board Member
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Patricia Dilorio, Board Member
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Rick Freeman, Secretary