PAINT THE GREAT SOUTH BAY 2025
The Patchogue Arts Council (PAC) is pleased to announce Paint the Great South Bay 2025 Plein Air Event, Exhibit, and Wet Paint Sale. The Patchogue Arts Council invites artists to paint en plein air along the Great South Bay, ranging from Smith Point Beach to The Fire Island Lighthouse.
Proceeds from this event help the Patchogue Arts Council continue to create events and programming that encourage, promote, and support the Arts on Long Island.
PROCEDURE: To certify work is created during PGSB artist must complete the following;
During the PGSB Painting time frame (June 27 – July 7, 2025) artists must:
• Email two photographs of themselves in front of the work at the painting location at the start of the piece and one image with the finished piece.
• Each photograph should also include the official PGSB 2025 date card filled out with the day’s date. (These cards will be included with registration packets)
• Email these images before drop off to [email protected].
**Submissions will not be accepted without them
Important Event Dates:
• June 27 – July 7, 2025
Artists at work and Painting the GSB – RAIN OR SHINE
June 26 – Packet pick up from 2:00 – 7:00 PM
July 7 from 3:00 – 6:00 PM – Registered artists are invited to bring their framed and ready to hang work to the Patchogue Arts Gallery located at 20 Terry Street, Suite 116. You may drop off each other’s works too!
Ready to hang means works MUST BE WIRED. Staff will not wire work.
July 10 – July 20, 2025: Exhibition, Reception and Wet Paint Sale to celebrate the end of the PGSB plein air event.
July 20 from 3:00 – 5:00 PM: PGSB Artists Reception
July 20 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM: Paintings picked up from Patchogue Arts Gallery. PAC will not be responsible for work not picked up by Sunday, July 20, 2025 by 7 PM
ABOUT OUR GUEST JUROR
Maria Macedonio (also known as Maria Ritter)
Artist Maria Macedonio has a particular interest in the development of abstract painting techniques created during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Over the past several decades, her studio practice has focused on the analysis of pictorial spacing on a two-dimensional picture plane. She employs several approaches to create both representational and abstract paintings.
After earning a master’s degree from Stony Brook University, she continued her studies at the School of Visual Arts and The Art Students League of New York.
From 1998 to 2015, Maria owned and operated The Center for Visual Arts, located in Blue Point, New York. Since 2004, she has taught art in the Connetquot Central School District. Maria has also served as an adjunct professor at Dowling College and has guest lectured at the Islip Art Museum, The Heckscher Museum of Art, and the East End Arts Council. She resides in Blue Point, New York.