Art and photography in the community garden

Local artists joined the Baldwin Civic Association to display and sell their artwork at the Baldwin Community Garden last week.

The Baldwin Civic Association held the first? Art in the Garden event where Long Island artists of all ages were welcomed to set up vendor booths and displayed their work in the Baldwin Community Garden located on 1980 Grand Ave. on sunny but windy afternoon on November 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Elissa Kirchner, the Baldwin Civic Association’s Beautification Chairwoman, helped organize the event and shared her photography. She had her own booth covered in her photographs as well as several framed photos hanging from a tree on the perimeter of the park.

Among the all of the artists in the garden, the youngest Madelyn Buske, a twelve-year-old seventh grader from Baldwin, tried her hand as an art vendor fir the first time. She set up her own booth of acrylic painting and said she was excited to try selling her paintings at the market.

Next to Burke, Christopher Fahey, a New York based teacher, musician, artist and co-owner of Crucial Designs, and graphic designer, set up an array of prints, stickers, and paintings. 

Angela Lucas, the founder and chief executive officer of Hangout One Happy Place, and children from the organization also joined the art market to sell their member’s paintings and the organization’s shirts. Lucas said the children made paintings on canvas using dots of paint and a squeegee to make colorful humans on canvas.