Long Island Center Mentor in Community and Human Services Toni Raiten-D'Antonio will have two pieces of her artwork, rendered in pen and watercolor, "Bob, We Need To Talk...", (left), and "Moody and Succulent", featured in a gallery show at the Mills Pond House in Smithtown, March 2-21.

The exhibit, "Driven to Create," will showcase the work of self-taught artists.

"These creative voices have little or no professional training in technique or historical art traditions. Expressing their unique personal visions unaffected by any prescribed standard of what art should be and how it must look, they are grounded simply in a passion to create."--stacarts.org website