Artist: Lorna Ritz

1994. Oil Crayon. 17 x 24 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Lorna Ritz is an abstract expressionist painter and professor who lives and works in Amherst, Massachusetts. She previously completed a community residency abutting the vast ocean in Provincetown's dune shacks. Ritz received a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, and Vermont Studio Center.

Artist: Milisa Valliere

2025. Oil. 12 x 18 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Milisa Valliere is a self-taught artist whose abstract paintings are inspired by music, translating sound and emotion into vibrant color, texture, and movement. Raised by artist parents and influenced by a lifetime of travel and creative exploration, she creates intuitive works that celebrate spontaneity and emotional expression. Valliere has exhibited nationally and is represented by Hammond Harkins Galleries in Ohio. Through her multimedia exhibition Inspired By Music, she shares her unique creative process and passion for connecting art and music.

Artist: Ben Berke

2025. Photograph. 20 x 28 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Ben Berke worked as a reporter and photojournalist in New Bedford from 2021 to 2025, documenting a period of significant change. His first gallery show, "Dead Whale City," collected 18 pictures that present harsher conditions than the nostalgic imagery that defines many New England seaports. Still, his pictures express a continuity with the old New Bedford that Herman Melville wrote about, where cannibals walked the streets and opulent homes were dragged up from the bottom of the sea. New Bedford today retains that remarkable diversity and frontier energy, and the textures of its built environment have only grown more complex over the centuries.

Artist: Richard C. Bartlett

1993. Watercolor. 23 x 19 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Richard C. Bartlett (1924-2016) graduated from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and later taught there, as well as at Simmons College. He worked as a designer and art director for publishers D.C. Heath and Beacon Press, and served as Director of Publications at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. A founder and first president of The Boston Printmakers, Bartlett was active in lithography and serigraphy before turning to drawing and painting, with his work now held in major collections including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Artist: Richard C. Bartlett

1996. Watercolor. 22 x 18 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Richard C. Bartlett (1924-2016) graduated from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and later taught there, as well as at Simmons College. He worked as a designer and art director for publishers D.C. Heath and Beacon Press, and served as Director of Publications at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. A founder and first president of The Boston Printmakers, Bartlett was active in lithography and serigraphy before turning to drawing and painting, with his work now held in major collections including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Artist: Joan Zagrobelny

2024. Ceramic. 21 x 18 x 5 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Joan Zagrobelny creates coil-built vessels and sculptures using white and paper clay, forming abstract, organic shapes that emphasize balance and structure. After beginning her work in California, she developed techniques that highlight layered surfaces through multiple low-fire processes. Her pieces feature richly textured finishes, with visible marks and intricate color layers created through glazing, scraping, and repeated firings.

This Artist has generously donated 100% of the proceeds to the Cahoon Museum of American Art.

Artist: Joan Zagrobelny

2025. Ceramic. 24.5 x 11 x 5 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Joan Zagrobelny creates coil-built vessels and sculptures using white and paper clay, forming abstract, organic shapes that emphasize balance and structure. After beginning her work in California, she developed techniques that highlight layered surfaces through multiple low-fire processes. Her pieces feature richly textured finishes, with visible marks and intricate color layers created through glazing, scraping, and repeated firings.

This Artist has generously donated 100% of the proceeds to the Cahoon Museum of American Art.

Artist: Susan Simon

2025. Photograph. 16 x 20 (size in inches; allow for slight variance due to rounding).

Photographer Susan Simon experiments with the use of light in her images. She works to capture Cape Cod's variable light, the reflections of sky in water, and the curves of marsh and dune. In addition to seascapes and landscapes, her special focus for the past few years has been on flowers and the shapes and surprises found with a macro lens, including the wonder and uniqueness of every wave, and the osprey who nest near her favorite beach.