Richard is internationally known for his portraits and landscapes.  Town and Country named him one of the top dozen portrait painters in America, and Fine Art Connoisseur called him "one of the giants" of figurative painting in the United States.  He has won over 50 regional and national awards as well as three grants from the Greenshields' Foundation of Montreal.  His paintings hang in over 800 public and private collections in the US and abroad; they include the Anchorage Museum of Art and History, the Anderson House Museum, the Newark Museum, the Pentagon, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford Universities, and the Catholic University of Portugal.  Memberships have included Society of Illustrators, National Arts Club, Allied Artists of America, American Artists Professional League, American Society of Classical Realism, Guild of Boston Artists, and Copley Society. He serves as board member of Art Renewal Center and is Chairman Emeritus of American Society of Portrait Artists Foundation. Richard's paintings have been on national cable television and the subject of numerous newspaper/magazine articles. He was cover-artist for April, 1982 of American Artist and featured again in April, 2002.  He is author of Painting the Visual Impression and co-author of the book Realism in Revolution: The Art of the Boston School and published letters of his master, R. H. Ives Gammell in Advice to a Young Artist.  His paintings have been reproduced in Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting.  To celebrate a half-century of painting, Richard recently organized a retrospective exhibition of 275 paintings and the stories behind them in The Art of Richard Whitney. Richard has painted in Europe, Japan, Alaska and the Caribbean, and lectured and conducted workshops throughout America.  He is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in the 21^st Century.

Well known for portrait busts and statues of great achievers, sculptures of athletes and dancers and his "Circle of Life" series, Marc's commissions include former President George Bush, Pope John Paul II, President Lee Teng-Hui of Taiwan, Winston Churchill, Kate Smith, award-winning actress Patricia Neal and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel. He has created dance figures honoring Agnes DeMille and Cynthia Gregory, and his sports bronzes have honored such luminaries as Michael Jordan, Chris Evert, Joe Namath, Mickey Mantle and Arthur Ashe; he also has created sports trophies for the NBA, ABC and CBS. Prestigious awards include those from The National Sculpture Society, Allied Artists of America, The National Arts Club, The Hudson Valley Art Association and the Salmagundi Club. In addition, he was recently honored with the Brooklyn College Alumni Association's Distinguished Achievement Award in the Arts. Marc also serves in leadership positions of The Artists' Fellowship, Inc., the Portrait Society of America and The National Museum of American Illustration.

An artist all his life and a graduate of the Pennsylvania of the Fine Arts, Mike Keropian has devoted decades strengthening his technical skills and knowledge in all forms of sculpture. Early on in his career, he established Keropian Sculpture LLC and began providing sculptural services and instruction to a variety of clientele. His experience and expertise in monumental sculpture led him to a commission for creating the largest tiger sculptures in the western hemisphere for Comerica Park Stadium, home of the Detroit Tiger Baseball Team. Since the turn of this century, he has focused on creating fountain and landscape compositions as well as creating historical tributes that include: RIT President Albert Simone and Mayor John Cesar; musicians: the Beatles, Louis Armstong, Edgard Varese, Frank Zappa, and Jimi Hendrix; businessman Kay Kobata; educator Wendell Scherer; Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett; Civil War Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher; Olympic runner Joe McCluskey; Master's Sun Lutang, Chang Tung Sheng, and Bruce Lee; racecar driver John Cooper Fitch; radio personality Bob Steele; sculptors Luigi Del Bianco, Walker Hancock and Karl Bitter; educator Elisabeth Bennet; actors Vic Morrow, Michael Dunn; and American Revolutionary Sachem Daniel Nimham. Mike is a Fellow and serves on the Boards of the National Sculpture Society and Hudson Valley Art Association. He teaches privately and currently at the Katonah Art Center and Silvermine Art Center and has won numerous awards and gold medals throughout the years. A current project is writing a book about " The Techniques of Creating Monumental Sculpture."

Roger is an extensively published independent scholar of both music and philosophy and a lifelong professional musician (trombonist and vocalist) and composer. He holds an M.A. in music performance and literature (University of Iowa, 1971), a B.S. in music theory and composition (Iowa State University, 1970), and has authored major essays including Up from Oppression: Triumph and Tragedy in the Great American Songbook and his upcoming book The Care and Feeding of Chops: Helpful Hints for Brass Musicians (and Others). His musical arrangements have been performed at Disneyland and on the Tonight Show, and he composed the music for National Geographic Society's album "Westward Ho!"

Walter's passion for poetry began in high school, where he won a Worcester Art Museum poetry prize awarded by Archibald MacLeish. At Brown University, he studied poetry with the renowned Blake scholar, S. Foster Damon. The greatest influence on his lifelong reading and writing of poetry in what he calls "the Great Tradition" was Antioch College professor, poet, and long-time Writer's Digest columnist, Judson Jerome. He has contributed to poetry anthologies, co-hosted a Long Island public TV show on poetry, and published three books of his poetry. In 2021, he published his Collected Poems with an introduction that makes the case that the defining characteristic of poetry is meter and that as T.S. Eliot wrote: "verse libre does not exist..."

Director/Choreographer whose work has been performed on Broadway in major productions such as "Mame" with Angela Lansbury. Diana also has choreographed originally created dance in concert and regional and international venues, including the Kansas City Opera, The Connecticut State Opera, The Providence Opera Company, The Habima National Theatre of Israel, and theaters in Budapest and Buenos Aries. On TV, she has choreographed for The Tonight Show and the Tony Awards. A member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, she also was Director of Dance and Board Chairperson at the Roosevelt Island Cultural Center in New York City.

As a major voice the art world, Joe was Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Brookgreen Gardens of American Sculpture Museum, Director Emeritus of The Museum of the City of New York, former Vice Director of Administration for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and former President of the American Museum Association. Throughout his long and productive career he also produced films, wrote extensively, and lectured the world over.

Was one of America's most highly esteemed sculptors, best known for his "Three Servicemen" Vietnam Memorial and the entire West Facade of The National Cathedral, both in Washington, D.C. "Rick" also held the patent for developing the method to cast figurative acrylic sculpture, and his output in that medium was not only innovative but also massive in numbers. An outspoken advocate of "art for life's sake," he was responsible for conceiving ART's Silver Rose as the foundation's symbol for beauty. His other advisory positions included The President's Commission of Fine Arts and Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Museum. He was the recipient of the Henry Award (National Sculpture Society) and the quadrennial Presidential Design Excellence award. He was an honored member of The Cosmos Club, which elects only the most outstanding inventors and contributors to the field of science and other related disciplines. His life ended at the early age of 54, and the loss of his talent to the American art world and to the culture as a whole can only be imagined and lamented.

An extraordinary woman of many talents and strong values, "Betty" was a major supporter and patron of ART from its earliest days. She also served as Honorary Trustee of the Telfair Museum of Savannah Georgia, a Board Member of The Foundation for the Preservation of Traditional Values in the Fine Arts in New York City and a long-time active supporter of The Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester, Vermont. Shortly before her death, she donated the funds to build the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum at the art center, where SVAC displays rotating exhibitions of visual art. Mrs. Wilson also was instigator and an early founder of The Allen Stevenson School Orchestra in New York City. She was married to the well-known New York City painter Orland Campbell.

One of America's most significant twentieth-century sculptors, "Angelo's" best known works are his national monuments, The Signer (Independence Hall, Philadelphia), and The Minuteman (National Guard Building, Washington D.C. and Arlington, VA - this image is also the official logo for the U.S. National Guard).  His exquisite over-life-size female nude (see Gallery section of this site) Reaching is situated in Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Museum, a commission secured by ART's president Alexandra York and funded by ART Board of Director's member, Pierre Rioux. Other major pieces are in the Philadelphia Zoo and Civic Center, and his stunning Icarus and Daedalas fountain is in Little Rock, Arkansas. A renowned sculpture Mentor, he owned and operated an atelier in Philadelphia for many years and is responsible for teaching many of the finest sculptors in America, who are now well established themselves. Mr. Frudakis's portrait sculptures are too many to list, but they include John F. Kennedy. His numerous awards include the prestigious Prix de Rome and the Herbert Adam's Award (National Sculpture Society). Affiliations included: National Academician, Fellow; American Academy in Rome, Fellow; and National Sculpture Society. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World

Founder of Lyme Academy of Fine Arts (Old Lyme, Connecticut), where she also chaired the Sculpture Department, Elisabeth's work is displayed in major museums, universities and corporations, as well as the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. She designed and executed medals for the United States Capitol Historic Society and the Society of Medalists. Her works have been featured in multi-dozens of notable exhibits, plus she received awards too numerous to list. Throughout her long life, she remained a major influence in the art world with indefatigable energy, a huge production of her own art, and an unending zeal in teaching others the demanding skills of superb sculpture.  She is listed in Who's Who is America and Who's Who in the World.

Was former Chairman of the Board of G. Schirmer, Inc., the largest music publisher in the United States. Rudolph's poetry appeared in the Yale Literary Magazine, Chronicles, The World and I, and ARTIdeas. His poem Stanzas in the Valley of the Fallen, presented officially to the Spanish Government, was emplaced on a bronze plaque in the office of the Patrimonio Nacional at the Royal Palace in Madrid. His many published musical compositions have been performed both in America and abroad.

Owner of Roslyn Targ Literary Agency, Inc. in New York City, "Roz" spent her entire life in the agency business. When she graduated from college she went to work for an agent and then became owner of that very agency. Her reputation is still word-wide.  Among many other notable authors, she handled domestic and foreign rights for Henry Roth, Jean Houston, Kathleen Winsor, Chester Humes, Joan Peyser, Clark Howard and Pamela Jekel. For all foreign rights, she represented John Dos Passos, R. J. Singer, Harold Robbins, and she garnered foreign rights for J. D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pearl Buck, James Hilton and Edna Ferber. She also handled all Simon & Shuster rights for Spain and Portugal. She was married to the late Bill Targ, Editor in Chief at Putnams and a major world-respected figure in the world of book publishing, especially for his ability to nourish authors and bring to fruition such novels as "The Godfather."  [Roz also represented ART's president Alexandra York and secured both domestic and foreign book contacts for her.]