Hershell George

Born and raised in rural Mississippi with a love for gardening and plants, Mr. George came to New York in 1970 on a graduate fellowship to study printmaking at Pratt Institute. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and galleries in Manhattan, and is included in a number of private collections in the United States and Canada. He is currently a principal of h george design, Inc., a New York-based graphic design firm.

Stephen Hawkey

Stephen Hawkey has been creating art in many forms his entire life. Stephen studied at Miami University, receiving a BFA degree with concentrations in ceramics, graphic design, and film. There he was introduced to the work of Robert Arneson, Phillip Guston and Stan Brakhage.

In 1996, Stephen took a job as an art director at a boutique ad agency, shooting ad campaigns for Coca-Cola, GMC, and Marriott Hotels, to name a few.

Burnt out of advertising and always interested in architecture, Stephen enrolled at Pratt Institute, earning a Masters of Science. During school, he interned at SOM and worked on many projects including the Freedom Tower. After graduation, he was hired at Michael Graves a s an Interior Architect.

It was there where Stephen began to admire Michael’s paintings and came to terms with his own desire to create art.

Stephen is currently a full time artist working in mixed media out of his Port Chester, NY studio. He resides in Bronxville, NY with his wife and 3 children.

Rachael Jones

Rachael Jones is an oil painter with a lifelong foundation in the arts. Her background includes training in life drawing at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, along with studies in design at Parsons School of Design. Her practice has been shaped through years of independent, self-directed study.

Drawing inspiration from dreams and the subconscious, her work blends elements of surrealism, realism, and impressionism. Her subjects include animals, companion portraits, human figures, and landscapes, alongside more surreal, symbolic imagery—fragmented forms and unexpected, dreamlike juxtapositions that blur the line between the familiar and the surreal.

Angelo Merluccio

Angelo double majored in Studio Art and Computer Science during his college years. Throughout his time, he gradually shifted his focus from traditional photography to using a smartphone as his medium. This change allowed him to concentrate on the subject rather than the technical aspects of photography. He no longer sought the perfect shot; instead, he embraced the opportunity to capture moments as they happened.

Olivia O’Keefe

Olivia graduated from Bronxville High School in 2021 with honors as well as innovation awards, the Spencer Memorial Art Award, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and a 4.11 GPA. She graduated in Spring 2025 from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), earning a BFA in Sequential Art with Minors in Storyboarding and Drawing. Over time she has discovered that her life’s passion is storytelling, reading, writing and drawing. She looks forward to the opportunity to work in a creative position helping bring stories to life.

Emily Tull Pollakowski

Emily is a lifestyle photographer focused on capturing authentic, heartfelt moments and bringing out the “art of the everyday.” Her current work is primarily centered on family photography. She has a passion for documenting the fleeting beauty of childhood—from the quiet, wrinkly calm of a sleepy newborn to the boundless, curious energy of a toddler. 

When she’s not focused on families, Emily loves to capture other small moments of beauty. Birds, dogs, beach rocks, autumn leaves, peeling paintings, old trees—finding the beauty that surrounds us every day calms and centers her in her art.

Jessica Potenza

Canadian artist Jessica Potenza paints and sculpts the horse as muse and metaphor, exploring the spaces where intuition meet emotion – while her ceramics reflect the same quiet attention to form and feeling.

After a lifelong career in the equine industry, Jessica went on to build a second career as a painter, with her work collected internationally across Asia, the UK, Europe, and North America.

In 2023, she founded Sprouts–Gather’s youth enrichment program–what began as a small nurturing initiative quickly grew into the larger vision that is now Gather. 

Rooted in a desire to uplift local makers and bring people together, her work is centered–pun intended–on creating an inspiring and grounding third space for the community, one that fosters connection, creativity, and a shared love of literature.

Lyndal Vermette

Originally from Brisbane, Australia, artist Lyndal Vermette lives in Westchester County, New York. Vermette grew up in an artistic family where creativity was encouraged. She trained in the studio of her mother’s art gallery. The focus of her work explores technique and the effect that various methods of media manipulation create. Working with alcohol ink, resin and acrylic, she produces rich and vibrant pops of color.