Featuring Paintings and Tales of Many of the World’s Storied Lights
About The Artists:
Barbara J. Kraemer
Barbara is an award-winning artist, with her work held in private and corporate collections and appearing in several publications. She is a member of Pine Shores Art Association, The New Jersey Watercolor Society, The Brevard Watercolor Society, and The Florida Watercolor Society, but she is not limited to watercolor. She works in every two-dimensional medium and enjoys the challenge of all subjects, from seascapes and landscapes to portraits. She believes every view can be a compelling painting.
In addition to creating her own artwork, she teaches art in New Jersey and Florida, and in Spring 2024, she was asked to demonstrate painting techniques at Brevard County Florida’s major annual SPLASH Watercolor Art Show. She makes time to also continue her own art studies under the direction of renowned painters. Her work is regularly seen in coastal exhibitions.
Barbara holds a BA in Mass Communications and Public Relations. Her 40+ year career included working for several major New York advertising agencies. She also served as owner and president of A Current Affair, which served the tristate area, providing a full range of special event planning and publicity.
Suzi Hoffman
Suzi is a professional artist working primarily in watercolor/mixed media and acrylics. Her artwork is in corporate and private collections across the nation and regularly seen in coastal art shows. In 2023, she was accepted into the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Annual show and invited to be part of the Heart of South Jersey Arts & Cultural Connections exhibit. In 2021, she was awarded 2nd place in the LBI Foundation’s “Plein Air Plus” national juried competition. She is past president of the Paducah Art Guild and Gallery in Kentucky, and she has been on the board of directors of Pine Shores Art Association in New Jersey for several years, currently serving as Director of their two galleries. She’s also co-curator of the Beach Haven Borough Hall Gallery, and she authored “Guide to the Jersey Shore”, a 2021 publication illustrated by Pine Shores Art Association.
Majoring in art at Endicott College in New England, she continued art studies at the Corcoran Gallery of Art School in Washington, DC and Paducah School for Art and Design in Kentucky.
As a free-lance writer and graphic artist, her client list included theatres, performing arts centers, charitable organizations, advertising agencies, and major newspapers. Before opening her studio, she was marketing manager at Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park in Washington, DC.
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