Cynthia McCusker leads Fluid Live Action Art!

Cynthia McCusker, Art Director and educator, assembles top artists to paint live during the modern jazz concert. Cynthia is joined by Joe Pimentel, Rick Price, and Nestor Madalengoitia.

Cynthia McCusker is a professional artist and an art educator. She exhibits her work throughout the Hudson Valley as well as in Chelsea, NYC. Ms. McCusker is frequently involved in large scale community projects and teaches at her art studio in Beacon. Some of the community projects Cynthia has been involved in includes the creation and artistic direction for emblems and flags for the Walkway Over the Hudson opening celebration, mosaic murals in the village of Wappingers Falls, and sculptures for Windows on Main in Beacon.

Joe Pimentel was born in White Plains, NY and raised in Newburgh, NY. He received his BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design 2005 in NYC. He has been involved in exhibitions throughout the Hudson Valley. His work pushes past the confines of strictly representational painting, into a detailed world of transformed abstractions in an attempt to tap into a visionary art that explores themes such as evolution, higher consciousness, spirituality, and expansion.

Californian, Rick Price painted murals for various high profile projects in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Tokyo, and among many other locales. Since 2000 Rick has directed the painting studio at Buck's Rock Camp in New Milford, Ct., one of the premier visual and performing art camps in the nation, and he currently maintains his freelance career in Beacon, NY where one can view his compelling mural, "River Beacons", commissioned by the Beacon Sloop Club.

 Nestor Madalengoitia is an established portrait artist and a socially active mural artist with numerous international art commissions. He studied art at the Catholic University of Lima in Peru and at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he received a bachelor of fine arts degree. Much of Madalengoitia's work is inspired by the work of ancient pre-Columbian Paracas tapestries from the Andean villages of Peru. He uses a contemporary vocabulary of visual surface effects merged with social context to build his art. Madalengoitia’s paintings have been exhibited widely, and are in numerous private art collections from New York City to Lima, Peru. His large scale public mural commissions are on permanent display in Washington, DC; Sussex, Canada; the Florida Keys; Poughkeepsie, New York; and in the cities Lima and Cajabamba Peru.