Filtering by artists
![Photo of Lu Zhao by Sylvia Ching Man Wong for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8732/images/img_7581.jpg?itok=W6F8JVP5)
Lu Zhao
Calligrapher recounts his artistic journey from China's Guangdong Province to Brooklyn's Bensonhurst
![Alisa Minyukova. Photo by Isak Tiner. Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9139/images/img_2902_alissa_border_crop.jpg?itok=9A1iuh96&c=82b87e2ac3424324cb0e184f9c45d026)
Alisa Minyukova
Brooklyn artist who emigrated from Russia as a child is drawn to Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach
![Leonid Alaverdov at Kings Bay Library, 2020. Photo by Julia Kanin for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9040/images/img_20200215_150753.jpg?itok=glRzxMJN&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Leonid Alaverdov
Tapestry artist and Coney Island resident whose work is inspired by his native Baku and New York City
![Photo courtesy of Richard Glazer Danay](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8787/images/richard_glazer_danay_2.jpg?itok=rEEqjLcA&c=a27d57f7a2fb9e2e42b97fb51b21e0ff)
Richard Glazer-Danay
Artist who grew up in Coney Island and whose artwork celebrates his Mohawk iron worker ancestry
![Photo courtesy of Angbeen Saleem](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10855/images/angbeen_saleem.jpg?itok=4Ib1WMij&c=a355d835e679e64c9e235b5787cd8ac7)
Angbeen Saleem
A poet and roller coaster lover describes her weekly ritual of riding the Coney Island Cyclone
![Photo courtesy Tina Mednicoff Smokler](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10850/images/tina_mednicoff_smokler.jpg?itok=TDtoNWM-&c=84e5def7947865060b090b7137c03890)
Tina Mednicoff Smokler
Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School
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Jeffrey Berman
Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center
![Frederick Brosen with his 2008 watercolor of Grandma's Predictions. Photo: Coney Island History Project Collection](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8731/images/frederick_brosen.jpg?itok=-VzlVwPN&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Frederick Brosen
Artist whose watercolors of the Astroland Rocket and Wonder Wheel sign are emblematic of Coney Island
![Sheila with her sister Sally on the beach in Coney Island. The caption says: Two bathing beauties? Freckle puss and pickle puss. "She wrote the caption being 15 years older than I was then." Photo courtesy of Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8446/images/sheila_levrant_de_bretteville_6.jpg?itok=2jJ-spMA)
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Memories of growing up a block from the ocean and being head of Lincoln High School's Art Squad
![Song Xin in her studio with detail of Cutting Dreams depicting State of Liberty](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8061/images/song_xin.jpg?itok=q77TND1Y)
Xin Song
Artist who used traditional Chinese paper cutting to create public art in Bay Parkway subway station
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Yi Xin Tong (in English)
Living in Gravesend, artist from China's Mount Lu feels closest to home at Coney Island Creek
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Yi Xin Tong
Living in Gravesend, artist from China's Mount Lushan feels closest to home at Coney Island Creek