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S.C. artist on display at village library in Port Washington, for 25 years. When she wasn’t working with art students, she was busy raisThe latest art on display at the ing two children, Jackson, 18, Sea Cliff Village Library fea- and Maya, 16, and creating her tures calming own body of work. local scenes of Her artistic nature. The artist, process, Best said, Miranda Best, typically involves used various recreating photomediums, includgraphs, bringing ing acrylic paint them to life and and chalk pastels, focusing on creatto capture the viling pieces that l a g e ’s d ive r s e capture the expeexperiences and rience of being in vistas. a certain place, or “The images the memory of included in this that place. “All of exhibition, all the images begin made within the with an experilast few years, repence in a particuresent a shift in lar place — watchmy work away i n g f i r e w o rk s from naturalism explode, walking to a more expresthrough Sea Cliff, sive approach,” visiting the PlantBest said. “I’ve ing Fields Arboreb e c o m e m o r e MIRANDA BEST tum — recorded interested in the Sea Cliff artist through photograpower of markp hy, ” s h e e x making while plained. “Back in working with acrylic paint and my studio, the photos transform chalk pastel.” into drawings and paintings that Best, a Virginia native, has are pulsating with energy and lived in Sea Cliff for more than life force. While the photo 20 years, and has taught art at Paul D. Schreiber High School, CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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Full STEAM ahead Glen Head Elementary School teacher Ryan Bridgwood taught first- and second-graders about becoming scientists, engineers and computer programmers during their first STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) session of the year. They learned about a rare glowing snail, without removing it from its habitat. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Glen Head artisan captures local beauty through her craft BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
From her home workshop, a local artisan is creating unique and specialized decor inspired by the nature in her community. Carolyn DeCastri is a designer and craftswoman from Glen Head, specializing in interior design and redesign, who is currently creating decoupage shells decorated with flowers, geometric patterns and gold edges. DeCastri, 71, intricately cuts
out each piece of paper to make the designs that adorn her shells, each different from the last. She said her inspiration for the shells comes from her “deep appreciation for all creation, especially the vast diversity of flowers.” Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements. DeCastri collag-
es patterns directly onto oyster and scallop shells bought online, and then seals the edges with gold gilding paint. “I’ve been making decoupage shells that have very intricate patterns that take quite a long time,” she said. “There’s a lot of different decoupage shells available right now that people are creating, but I haven’t seen any that are anything like mine; they typically just put the paper on CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
ll of the images begin with an experience in a particular place — watching fireworks explode, walking through Sea Cliff, visiting the Planting Fields Arboretum — recorded through photography.