Featured Artist – In Memory of Marcia Wilson – September 2018 A remembrance by Dan Pacek When I contacted Marcia and asked her to participate in the Leonia Arts Featured Artist project, she quickly and cheerfully accepted.  I explained that our photographer for the project, Matt Dine, would schedule a time to photograph her.  Matt’s assignment […]

Featured Artist interview with musician and visual artist Marsha Heller – August 2018 How have you been able to balance your career as a professional musician with being a visual artist? I’ve balanced the two by doing not much else besides playing, including practicing (which I do first thing in the morning), rehearsing and concerts, and […]

Featured Artist interview with musician Cynthia Phelps – July 2018 How did you get started in music?  Did you always know you were going to be a violist? I am the fourth of five girls, and we all showed an aptitude for music at a very young age. Oddly, we were all born with perfect pitch! […]

The Leonia School of Illustration, c. 1915 From the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, the small town of Leonia, New Jersey was a noted art colony – home to more than 90 professional artists including Lynd Ward, Grant Reynard, Harvey Dunn, Charles Chapman, Howard McCormick, Clara Elsene Peck, Rutherford and Harriet Boyd, Harry Eaton, and […]