John Michael Thomas Seizter will be the January “Artist of the Month” at the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library. His exhibit will be on display Jan. 2-30.

Seizter is an award winning artist and educator. He continually stretches his artistic “vocabulary” with skillfully rendered paintings in an eclectic range of styles from realism to post-impressionism to abstraction. His work often reflects his love for nature and the play of light.

Seitzer holds a double art major, a bachelor’s degree in fine arts panting and ceramics, and a bachelor’s degree in art education from Minnesota State University at Mankato. As an educator, he has taught elementary through university level students, presented several art residencies and lectured in England.

His work has received local, state and regional awards and has recently been exhibited in the Art in The Embassies of Georgetown, Guyana and Bamako, Mali.

Seitzer has shown in galleries across the United States, and is included in many corporate and private collections around the world. Together with his wife Lynne, also an artist, they paint and teach at home in Boothbay Harbor.

To contact Seitzer, stop by Joy to the Wind Gallery at 34 Atlantic Avenue, Boothbay Harbor or visit www.joytothewind.com.

The Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library is located at 4 Oak Street in Boothbay Harbor. Call 207-633-3112 for more information or visit www.bhmpl.com.