Alex Alampi, Jr. features “Working Portraits” of our South Jersey region. His paintings are a wide variety of subjects from the Delaware Bay area and the rural countryside where he grew up. Inspirations come from those who still make a living from the land or water in the traditional manner of their forefathers. As a Salem County artist, Alampi believes in preserving “Our Rural Heritage”, stating that he often feels a spiritual connection to the subjects he paints.
    His artwork is in private and corporate collections throughout United States, Canada and abroad. He is a Signature Artist of the Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ. In 2005, Alex and the members of his watercolor class founded the Salem County Art League where he served as the league’s first president.  

   Portrait artist, Mary Wolfe, is driven by the desire to show the human spirit and the life and energy of the people she paits. Color and brush strokes give a sense of aliveness to her oil paintings. The vast, open spaces of South Jersey marshes and farmland also figure prominently in Wolfe's choice of subjects.

   Joe Mattson is a resident glass artist at WheatonArts in Millville, NJ. He uses glass blowing techniques practiced in South Jersey 100 years or more ago and likes to experiment with different styles of work including sculpture in glass. The shapes, forms and patterns he crafts in glass are reminiscent of the nouveau glass from the early 1900s with a modern touch. Mattson’s glass is primarily one-of-a-kind pieces he calls contemporary traditional glass.

   Mattson has exhibited with the Delaware Museum of Art, Delaware; the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; Smithsonian, Washington D.C.; Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey; and the Museum of American Glass at WheatonArts, Millville, NJ.