Shul president Judith K. Weiner is one of 20 artists named in an international competition sponsored by Long Island’s Heckscher Museum of Art for its innovative Instagram Takeover Series. Each artist selected is invited to take over the museum’s Instagram account for an entire day, raising the artist’s visibility, sharing her work with thousands of the museum’s followers, and generating traffic to the artist’s Instagram account and website, @judithkaufmanweiner/. A selection of the artist’s current paintings and prior work will be visible on Instagram @heckschermuseum on Wednesday, August 24.

Coinciding with the Heckscher Museum invitation, Judith Weiner is showing several paintings in a group show, “Summer Abstractions,” at the Ilon Art Gallery in Harlem, where one of her paintings will be offered also as an NFT (nonfungible token). An NFT is a digital collectible listed on the blockchain, which provides authentication and provenance to each purchaser, while protecting the artist.

Ilon Art Gallery, located in an historic brownstone in Harlem, specializes in painting, sculpture, photography and street art. The gallery’s new NFT Shop promotes and sells NFT’s online.