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Local artists' works to be featured in hotel lobby

Quick ReadHoliday Inn Express in Stony Brook will feature paintings by Long Island artists.

Lenore Paprocky, left, sales manager at the Holiday

Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | Lenore Paprocky, left, sales manager at the Holiday Inn Express in Stony Brook, is shown with some of the local artwork displayed in the hotel's lobby. (Sept. 13, 2010)

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What do you usually see on the walls of hotel lobbies? Maybe a reproduction of the local scenery. At the Holiday Inn Express in Stony Brook, you will see the work of two Long Island artists, Barbara Bilotta and James Jahrsdoerfer, in a new program to promote the paintings of Island artists and the hotel's business.

"We turned our lobby into an art gallery," said Lenore Paprocky, the hotel's...

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