Exhibit News

Multicolor Gill Polyspore on Yellow Birch
(Lenzites betulina on Betula alleghaniensis) ©DonnaMiskend2018

I'm fascinated by mushrooms! This piece is on view at the Trail Conference Headquarters from August 29 - October 27, 2018

VENUE: New York New Jersey Trail Conference Headquarters:
 600 Ramapo Valley Rd
Mahwah, NJ 07430-1199
  Open M - F from 9AM to 5PM  Saturdays April-November 9AM to 5PM
(201) 512-9348 
https://www.nynjtc.org/content/darlington-schoolhouse
Learn about all the trails available in NY and NJ website

"WALK WITH US" - Participating artists from TRI-STATE BOTANICAL ARTISTS:
Mary Christiansen, Gaye Grossman, Donna Miskend, Elizabeth White-Putz, Tammy McEntee, Louise Cecio, Sarah Wry, Jeanne Reiner, Rose Marie James, Jean Galle, Amy Silberkleit, Nicola Johnson, Anastasia Traina, Katy Lyness, Susan Sapanara, Dick Rauh,  Monica Ray, Monika DeVries Gohlke, Dixon Rohr, Kathie Miranda

Rose Elementals (Detaail)
(Rosa sp.) ©DonnaMiskend2016

  EYE ON NATURE, artists explore the world of plants and animals, on view September 1 - October 27, 2018

VENUE: Poe Park Visitor Center, 2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10458.   https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/poe-park-visitor-center
Tues - Fri 9-5, Sat 8-4  

Opening reception Saturday, Sept 8 at 12:45 with an artist panel discussion and guest speaker, Stephen P. DeVillo author of The Bronx River in History & Folklore

Common Fig, Calmyra
(Ficus Carica) ©DonnaMiskend2018

 National Heirloom Expo, Santa Rosa, CA
Art of the Heirloom

On view September 11, 12, 13

And finally, Strindberg Repertory Theatre's production of Creditors, as part of the Dream Up Festival.
August 27, 28, 29 September 1, 4
Theater For The New City
155 First Avenue, NYC
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Gustav (Robert Homeyer), professor of antiquities and ex-husband of writer Tekla (Natalie Menna), pours poison in the ear of her current husband, the painter Adolph (David Kubicka*). 
Tekla returns from a book tour and flaunts her polyamorous ways to Adolph with fatal results - but fatal to whom? - in Creditors, August  Strindberg's scandalous successor to Miss Julie !
Read my 2014 interview with the Artistic Director, Robert Greer 

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EYE ON NATURE

On view September 1 - October 27, 2018 

Julia Ruth, Jennifer Deutscher, Maria Giuliani, Donna Miskend

I've curated a new exhibit, EYE ON NATURE, ARTISTS EXPLORE THE WORLD OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. Along with my own work, on display will be illustrations by Jennifer Deutscher, Maria Giuliani and Julia Ruth. 

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8th at 12:45pm, an artist panel discussion followed by a talk about flora and fauna of the Bronx River by Stephen Paul DeVillo, author of The Bronx River in History and Folklore who also conducts ramblings throughout the year along it's banks. (Read our interview ) 

And read my interview with one of the artists in the exhibit Jenn along with other botanical art students that appeared in the Botanical Artist Journal in 2016 (click here to read). For the latest about her work, hop over to my Conversations blog for a short Q & A update. 

I'll be including new print etchings, along with graphite and watercolors.

venue: Poe Park Visitor Center, 2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
hours: Tues. - Fri. 9 - 5   Sat. 8 - 4     tel: 718.365.5516
accessible by subway: D and 4 to Kingsbridge station or Metro North Fordham station