At the turn of the twentieth century Sheepshead Bay was a popular tourist destination. Historic sites and views from its past are portrayed in “Postcards from Sheepshead Bay.” The large mural outdoors is an oversized replica of a vintage postcard that nostalgically shows a couple fishing, a jockey on horseback, and a summer home - as well as a sheepshead, the fish for which the village was named. DeBorah Goletz fancifully cut out the couples' faces, allowing people to "stick their heads through for souvenir photos, just like the old boardwalk props," she says. Inside, another mural of turn-of-the-century people, and two smaller ones, capture quiet moments on the bay. Goletz created intricately patterned tiles with color gradations from green to blue and back to green. The results are rhythmic patterns that make one "feel" the water itself.

Deborah Goletz has been a potter, tile maker and educator for over 30 years. She trained with exceptional artists in the U.S. and Japan and shares her passion for clay by teaching at three universities, an art school and her studio, For Love Of Mud Pottery. The Sheepshead Bay station project was her first big public art commission and garnered her the NYC Arts Commission Award for Design Excellence in 1997. Since then, she has completed murals for several railroad stations, a public library, corporate and private settings. She authored the book “Ceramic Art Tile for the Home.”  When not involved with a project, she returns to making pottery, specializing in fanciful teapots and functional ware from her wood kiln. The potter's wheel centers her spirit and she is endlessly fascinated with the possibilities of the clay.