Filtering by artists
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Stephen Gaffney
Artist and educator who restored the old signs and painted new ones for Paul's Daughter
![Daze in his studio. Photo © Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6393/images/2017-08-28_005.jpg?itok=zo2I2TpF&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Chris "Daze" Ellis
Artist whose Coney Island-themed work includes solo and community murals at Coney Art Walls
![Lola the Illustrator with her new mural "Coney Wonders."](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6177/images/2017-08-11015a.jpg?itok=9In96TFE&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Lola Glass (Lola the Illustrator)
A nine-year-old artist whose favorite place is Coney Island paints a mural at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park
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Ronald Wimberly
Storyteller, cartoonist and designer whose graphic novel Prince of Cats is partly set in 1980's Coney Island
![Johanna Gargiulo Sherman with fortunetelling Grandma's Predictions and Zoltar in Deno's Wonder Wheel Park](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4957/images/johanna_1.jpg?itok=nJIvxukF&c=d8de49823834857840e71e62f867a99c)
Johanna Gargiulo Sherman
Artist and Coney Island resident recalls growing up on Mermaid Avenue above Carolina Restaurant
![Historian and author Eric K. Washington](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4224/images/eric_k_washington.jpg?itok=bqMqug3u)
Eric K. Washington
Historian delves into the life of E.J. Perry, African-American silhouette artist at Luna Park
![Sarah Beetson at the Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4123/images/sarah_beetson_1.jpg?itok=mziMMh9s&c=d3a9160c30088513fef28f9bd27c5dbf)
Sarah Beetson
UK illustrator based in Australia who created her own summer-long artist residency in Coney Island
![Slava Polishchuk in studio. Photo © Asya Dodina](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3122/images/slava_polishchuk_in_studio_2.jpg?itok=D7vW8Qb-&c=b1b5c56ca2466c459b7a0f7521db1b69)
Slava Polishchuk
Russian-born artist preserves the past as book and paper conservator at Brooklyn College Library
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Hector George Wallace
An immigrant sign painter recounts his journey from Jamaica and the UK to Coney Island.