The Winter, 2021 issue of The Silurian News, a publication for veteran New York-based writers, editors, and producers printed a feature on how I found the immigrants to interview and paint. It also mentioned the scheduled April 2021 show at the OSilas Gallery at Concordia College in Bronxville, NY.
Greenline, the North Brooklyn newspaper, did a full page feature story in February 2020, to preview the opening of the exhibition in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
The Tablet, a publication of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, ran a double-page spread on the exhibition the week before the show opened in the Green Door Gallery, which is run by the Divine Mercy Parish in Williamsburg. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, who has done years of work to help welcome and settle immigrants and refugees, invited me to exhibit in the Green Door Gallery.
Brooklyn’s Catholic media station, NETNY-TV, ran a two-minute story on the exhibition the week before it opened in February, 2020, interviewing not only me, but also two of the immigrants I painted.
FineArtConnoisseur.com ran a story about the exhibit in June, 2019, which was written by Editor-in-Chief Peter Trippi. You can read the story by clicking on the logo to the left. The exhibit was also featured in the magazine’s May-June, 2018 issue.
Reuters News Agency ran a story about the exhibit on March 23, 2019. Writer Peter Szekely came to the show when it was in Midtown Manhattan and sent a photographer to the show when it opened in The Riverside Church of New York.
Writer Karen Feld wrote a lovely profile of me and the exhibition that’s on the NYCitywoman.com website.
My fellow WCBS-TV alum Tony Guida invited me to be on his CUNY-TV show to talk about my portraits and stories of immigrants. The show first aired on March 6, 2019, the day the exhibition opened uptown in The Riverside Church, and was repeated multiple times. Runs 26 minutes.
Jim Bohannon, one of the top radio talk show hosts in the country, interviewed me about the exhibition. The segment aired on March 6, 2019, the day the show opened at The Riverside Church.
Larry Matthews, host of the Impact Radio USA program “Matthews and Friends” interviewed me for his program that aired March 4, 2019.
Immigration Attorney Brad Bernstein, host of the web-based program “Brad Show Live,” came to the exhibition at Saint Thomas Church and had me give him the “grand tour” of the portraits and stories. Of course, Brad came with a producer and camerawoman, who caught the whole thing on video for their audience. It ran for more than 15 minutes on February 20, 2019, for their tens of thousands of viewers from all over the world.
On January 25, 2019, the week the exhibition opened to the public, I talked about “Portraits of Immigrants” with Carrie Sheffield and Jon Levine on BOLD TV.
Click on the logo to view the six-minute segment that WNET’s “MetroFocus” produced on “Portraits of Immigrants.” It aired multiple times, January 31, and February 1, 2019, on WNET/Thirteen in New York City, WLIW in Long Island, and NJTV, in New Jersey.
Writer Pamela Lewis came to my studio early in 2018 to cover the project for Episcopal Journal and later also for Episcopal New Yorker. This was just prior to the May 2018, preview exhibition in Long Island City.
Jessily Crispyn, a student at my alma mater, American University in Washington, D.C., came to my studio in the summer of 2018 to see the work in progress and interview me about the project.