Adventures in Toy Town
Family Workshop Coordinators
Alixandra Martin – Flying High Being Helpful Expressing Yourself
A professional artist for many years, Alix has traveled throughout the US and Europe studying and creating art. As an adult she studied art education and taught painting at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL as place where she was inspired as a chilld to become an artist. Her murals can be found in San Francisco, CA; Olonzac, Frnace; and the Florida Keys. She currently has her work on display in Toronto at the HAG Atelier Gallery and at redfish Art Studios & Gallery in East Aurora, NY, the gallery and studio she founded.
Jennifer Seth-Cimini – Flying High Going Green Expressing Yourself
Artist represented by redfish Art Studios & Gallery and Fisher-Price employee. “As an artist, I am training myself to see people, objects, and their surroundings more purely each day, and I find that I have a truly distinct way of seeing and perceiving a subject. I am an expressive artist – my use of bold colors and uninhabited line reveals that. I want to work to evoke a feeling and sense of ‘being there’ with me even if you do ‘see’ it differently.
Heather Harris – Going Green Being Helpful
Artist and co-founder of redfish Art Studios & Gallery in East Aurora, NY. Local college instructor and former Fisher-Price employee. “I love to create art that is sincere and simple and that captures a sense of wonder. I want to connect to people and their emotions through my art – to take them to a place that is safe and warm, where there is hope, and they are free from the cares of the world.
Tess Lojacono – Toy Town Toddler Arts
Received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. There she exhibited her paintings and sculptures at various galleries including the Carson Street Gallery, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Studio Z Gallery and at the Three Rivers Art Festival. In Buffalo Tess has shown her work at Art Dialogue and with the YWCA of WNY, in an all women’s show, which she helped to organize. Her work has also been featured as part of an educational slide show for the Breast & Cervical Health Partnership. Tess has given art lessons for children through Big Brothers and Sisters of Pittsburgh, as well as designing and teaching art workshops for the residents of Wilkins House, a personal care home. Under the auspices of her company “Fine Art Miracles”, she continues her work with children, teaching art workshops and after school programs in her East Aurora studio and at the Herman Badillo Bilingual Academy; and with the elderly, taking fine art classes to nursing homes and assisted living facilities throughout Western New York.
The Toy Town Museum's "Adventures in Toy Town" Family Workshops have been made possible through support from 