Sunil Garg calls himself an experimental 3-dimensional light artist. He creates dramatic indoor and outdoor installations, some of which are interactive, and sometimes involve sound as well as light. He is the 2025 NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship winner for sculpture.

Ali Motamedi is a writer, teacher and photographer. He is also a storyteller, and uses his photos to tell stories about subjects such as immigrants and New York City during the pandemic. Many of his most interesting photos utilize AI. He also advises people on how to make their creative ideas come to life.

Anne Bascove, who uses Bascove as her professional name, is a master printmaker, illustrator, painter and collagist. She is best-known for her woodcuts and series of drawings and paintings of New York City bridges.

Dr. Mihaela Leonida is a professor of Chemistry at Fairleigh Dickinson University, with a specialty in applying science to detect art forgeries. She will present a lecture that will explain how forgers “age” their materials, what constitutes a forgery, and how attitudes towards forgeries have changed. She will also describe some of history’s most famous forgeries.

Nikki McClure makes elaborate, detailed paper cuts from a single sheet of black paper, using an X-acto knife. She is the author and illustrator of a number of children’s books and produces an annual animal-themed calendar.

Tom Deininger makes all of his works from trash, often of plastic toys and electronic waste. From a distance or a certain angle, they look incredibly realistic. Closer inspection or a change of perspective completely alters the image for the viewer. It is truly like a magic trick.

Estaban Cabeza de Baca works in acrylic, sculpture and collaborations. A frequent focus of his work is migrant and human rights themes, based on the activism of his parents.

Jaynie Gillman Crimmins makes exquisite constructs from paper that has been shredded, rolled, folded and sewn onto armatures. She works with junk mail, which is difficult to recycle because their inks have high concentrations of heavy metals. Once you see what Ms. Crimmins creates with it, you may have an altered opinion about junk mail.

Luis Perez’s wonderful work has appeared in The Best of Watercolor and Artist magazines. His large-scale still lifes and landscapes are painted in transparent watercolor. He says they are not meant to be seen as hyper-realistic; rather a conglomeration of thousands of minute abstract paintings created with vibrant hues, movement, and ambiguous forms.