Our Time to Shine - Manlius Pebble Hill School

Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, and Washington & Jefferson College
and has participated in dozens of group shows throughout the United States.
His work is included in private and public collections internationally, including
those of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Clear Channel
Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cellular One, House and Garden,
LTD., Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Binghamton University, Everson Museum
of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art, the State University of New
York system, Roberson Museum and Science Center and Washington Jefferson
College.
JEANNE HOLSTEIN has been the Middle School art teacher at Manlius
Pebble Hill for 19 years and art department chair for the past four years. She
studied painting in Siena, Italy and received her B.A. in Fine Arts from The
University of Buffalo. She has a M.S. in art education from Syracuse University
and is an elected member of The New York State Academy for Teaching and
Learning. Jeanne is primarily a watercolor artist, but also enjoys using
handmade paper in her paintings. Her inspiration comes from frequent trips to
the island of St. John. She is currently working with fused glass to illustrate the
beautiful colors of the Caribbean. Jeanne has contributed many paintings to
charity auctions throughout Upstate New York and is very pleased to be part of
the MPH Artists’ Invitational this year.
MARGIE HUGHTO, beginning with her early studies at Cranbrook Academy
of Art, has examined ceramics in a non-traditional format, finding her métier in
the slab or wall-mural format. Former Everson curator Peter Doroshenko called
Margie “a unique and paradoxical artist.” Her work is characterized by shifts in
color, shape, and style. It includes references to landscape and to painterly and
natural abstraction. Her works are alternatively monumental and intimate in
scale, mute and garish in color, objectively descriptive and purely abstract in
subject matter; her glaze application can be flat and smooth or thickly built up.
Having received an undergraduate degree in art education from SUNY Buffalo
and an M.F.A. in ceramics from Cranbrook in 1971, she joined the faculty of
Syracuse University, where she continues to teach ceramics. In recent years,
Hughto has undertaken a number of public-space commissions, including largescale
ceramic installations for the New York City and Buffalo subway systems.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is counted in the collections of
major American corporations and museums. She also was a 2001 recipient of a
Tiffany Grant. In 2012, Margie completed 12 murals at the Ground Zero site in
New York City and had an assortment of work on display as part of the new
Syracuse Central Transfer Hub.