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Lora Vannoord

I am a Florida Artist originally from a small town in Michigan. My works are original oil paintings inspired by Mother Nature. I want to communicate my love of nature to help others see and appreciate the natural environment around them. My goal is to give others a calming and imaginative experience in their homes when they contemplate my paintings. I enjoy the creative composing of my landscapes using my store of images and my imagination. I combine my sketchbook images and photos to form my landscape. I then feel excited and fulfilled when my work goes well. Even as a child my happiest times were when I was creating art or attending art activities and museums. I like to introduce the local birds to my canvas. These lovely birds have personalities that are both surprising and endearing when observed. I feel I must give them a home in my paintings!! I am a member of the Tarpon Springs Art Association, the Palm Harbor Art Club, the Creative Artists Guild, the Grand Valley Artists and the “Artists of the Adirondacks”. I have been chosen to show my original oil paintings in many of their juried exhibits. I have had three solo exhibits, two Grand Rapids, Michigan and one in Dunedin FL. I have shown oil paintings in group exhibits in Clearwater FL, Crystal Beach FL, Tarpon Springs FL, Oldsmar FL, Dunedin FL, Sarasota FL, Safety Harbor FL, Grand Rapids MI, Jay NY, Chicago IL, the New York Art Expo of 2007 and the Artexpo Las Vegas in 2007.

Gail Vollrath

Visual Arts

Solo Exhibitions Relative, Plan B, Washington, DC 2010 My Horizon , J.A. Sharp, Lancaster, PA 2010 Gail Vollrath: Recent Paintings, Plan B, Washington, DC 2007 The Day: Paintings and Mixed Media, Gallery Five and 40, Winston-Salem, NC 2006 Gail Vollrath: Recent Works, District West, Leesburg, VA 2003 Masters Thesis Exhibition, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 2000 Past Presents, The Exchange, Greensboro, NC 1999 Inventing Bones, Slocumb Galleries, ETSU, Johnson City, TN 1997 Select Group Exhibitions These go to eleven, Artists & Makers, Washington, DC 2015 Carte Blanche, Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD 2015 New Directions, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2014 Cheap Thrills, Anacostia Art Center, Washington, DC 2014 is this what loving someone is like?, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN 2013 Art Madness: Invitational Distinguished Faculty and Alumni UNCG, Greenhill Arts Center, Greensboro, NC 2013 Untitled No. 3, Randall Scott Projects, Washington, DC 2012 WPA Works on Paper, (e)merge Art Fair, Washington, DC 2012 Contemporary Women Artists XVI – Longevity, Womens Caucus for the Arts, St. Louis, MO 2012 WPA Flatfile, (e)merge Art Fair, Washington, DC 2011 Unfamiliar Territories, Adam Lister Gallery, Fairfax, VA 2011 Banter: A Dialogue, L2, Washington, DC 2010 Reunion : Invitational Exhibition of 100 Alumni, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN 2010 Coming Home: ETSU Alumni Exhibition , Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN 2008 No Representation: Abstraction in the Capital, Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC 2007 Index, WPA/Corcoran, ArtDC 2007 Primed: Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran-Centerpiece, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2007 PASStense, PASS Gallery, Washington, DC 2006 The Unlikely Target, Redux Contemporary Arts Center, Charleston, SC 2006 Art for a Landmine Free World, PaceWildenstein – Chelsea, New York, NY 2004 Ahh! Color, Twist, Washington, DC 2003 Group Show 2002, PASS, Washington, DC 2002 Summer Group Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD 2002 Group Exhibition, Gallery 325, Washington, DC 2002 Georgetown Annual International, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC 2001 Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD 2000 National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY 2000 Through Women’s Eyes, By Women’s Hands, George Watts Hill Alumni Center, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 2000 Painting Problematics: Problems With Paint, McIver Gallery, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 1999 Art Hop: Big City Feel, Greensboro, NC 1999 Brush=Hand=Loom, Bristol Art Gallery, Bristol, VA 1998 Inventing Bones, Slocumb Galleries, ETSU, Johnson City, TN New Work, Washington College Academy, Limestone, TN 1997 First Tennessee Show, Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN 1997 Re-Fitted, A-1 Artspace, Knoxville, TN 1997 Pacified Cats with Figure, Signature Gallery, Johnson City, TN 1996 LAB Members Show, A-1 Artspace, Knoxville, TN 1996 Publications Cantwell, Jackie: “Unfamiliar Territories”, Pink Noise, Pink line Project, January 24, 2011 Art in Hand, The Washington Project, http://www.artinhandcards.com/washington-project.html 2011 Magner, Jim: “Artist Profile, Art and the City”, The Hill Rag, October 2010 Tierney, Robin: “Of Art and Abstraction”, The Examiner, Weekend, April 28 & 29, 2007 Magner, Jim: “Art and the City”, The Hill Rag, March 2007 Patterson, Tom: “Dear Diary, He’s Elegant”, Winston Salem Journal, July 16, 2006 Education MFA, University of North Carolina – Greensboro, Greensboro, NC BFA, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN Fellowships/Awards Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Residency Grant 2014 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC, Art Bank grant 2012 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Full Fellowship 2000 Copyright © 2007 Gail Vollrath

Kerry Vosler

Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: 2D

Kerry L. Vosler was born in Seattle, Washington in 1957. She received her formal art training the old fashioned way studying directly with master instructors. Her most influential instructors were, Daniel Greene, Robert Liberace, Lois Griffel and Judith Carducci. Kerry began studies in graphic design but soon realized she loved the portrait and figure. She became a plein air painter to expand her knowledge of color and to offer portrait commission clients more than just the typical indoor portrait. Today Kerry is a seasoned plein air painter, portrait and figurative artist. She is equally skilled in the mediums of oil, pastel, charcoal and conte. For the past five years Kerry has been collaborating with local Flamenco Dancers to create historic representational paintings depicting the art form of Classical Spanish Flamenco. Along with her regular commissions and teaching schedule she is beginning a Mural featuring Flamenco and expanding to other dance art forms. In 2010 Kerry founded the Vosler Young Artists’ Studio, A Classical Atelier for children under eighteen in Tampa, Florida. Kerry has been the Florida Ambassador for the Portrait Society of America since 2005. In 2012 she was appointed faculty to the Portrait Society of America Annual Portrait Academy, Miami, Florida. Kerry is also a board member of the Southern Atelier Classical Art School in Sarasota, Florida. Kerry has taught drawing, portrait, figure and plein air painting for many years. She teaches regular classes and workshops at the Kerry Vosler Studio Atelier in Tampa, Florida and nationally. The TECO Public Art Gallery hosted Kerry’s first SOLO show in Tampa, Florida, September 4 – October 31, 2012. Among Kerry’s most notable select commissions, is former Congressman Ike Skelton, D-MO. Her paintings hang in private collections in Australia, The United States and Europe. Kerry continues to be a driving force for the preservation of fine arts education. Kerry lives in Valrico, Florida, a suburb of Tampa, with her husband Jim. They have two grown children, James and Scott. Can also be contacted at: voslerportrait@gmail.com

Debra S. Walling

Writing

Debra Smelik Walling is an author, artist and observer of life. It is not so much her cell phone that is attached to her hip as it is her digital camera. While she likes to observe life she also likes to capture life. Debra believes having a photo, being able to go back to see what was captured at a precise moment in time, any time is truly a blessing especially when it helps one heal, renew hope or emit a long lost smile. A photo can actually be one’s saving grace. Debra lives in St. Petersburg, Florida continuing her dedication as a Hospice Patient Care Volunteer of 22 years, caregiver to her father and a business associate working with her husband in their decorative art business. Her volunteer service with various organizations began in 1992 and she continues with much enthusiasm. Not a member of any group, no educational degrees follow her name and no previous publications yet this does not take away from the quality of her work or commitment. Named Suncoast Hospice Volunteer of the Year, Debra received the Mariam “Bunny” Florsheim Award in 2010 and recognition from Tampa Bay Health Collaborative for outstanding volunteer service in the field of healthcare. Debra’s involvement with the dying and death enabled her to meet her mother’s death with grace and clarity producing an ongoing series of painted canvases. In 2011, Creative Care, an arts in healthcare program included a collection of those healing through art canvases in their RX Art Exhibit held in St. Petersburg. More recent, her book, Tending to My Wounds, Coping with Grief One Square at a Time is that grief expressed through art, one square at a time. Combining random entries from her grief journal with the art created gives a marvelous display how the great sadness of loss and the journey of grief can turn loss into learning and grief into growth. This colorful book captivates the reader’s attention and gives another outlet to explore when one grieves, mourns, and bereaves. Her canvases continue to reflect a mélange of varying subjects and colors all based on her state of mind, feeling or the goings on in her day. For individual or group support, Tending to My Wounds, Coping with Grief One Square at a Time is undoubtedly a great addition to the realm of grief support.

Stephen Warren

Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts; Writing

Stephen Warren creates iconic images of landscapes, seashores, wildlife and rural Americana. For the personal and commercial art markets, he produces his own giclee prints, gallery wraps and inspirational posters. His photo-artwork can be found in several stores or at fineartamerica.com and his website stephenwarrenphoto.com. Stephen is also an accomplished writer and is the author of two novels: VOYAGE OVER THE EDGE and WICKED GREED. He recently published his first non-fiction book, A LIFE OF PURPOSE, The Guide To Living Your Higher Self.

Marilynne Wasielewski

Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts

Marilynne Wasielewski is an award winning painter, working in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media. Her work ranges from large canvases to miniature fine art pieces. Her work is intuitive and expressionistic, inspired by the beauty of the natural world, focusing on color, light and texture. She is a member of Studio 1212, DFAC, MAC, FWS and serves on the Board of PAVA and MASF. She teaches workshops locally.

Cora Waterhouse

Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts; Visual Art:Portrait

I am visual artist and art instructor, Cora Waterhouse. I’ve been making and teaching art for over 35 years. I’ve written and presented After-school Art classes, Art Discovery Camps and Museum Outreach programs to children of all ages. My commission work always begins with collaboration. I’m addicted to matching skills and mediums with ideas. Choosing the right translation is the type of creative energy that drives my artistic expression. I deliver portraits and landscapes in charcoal, pastel, chalks, acrylics and oils. I like illustration work and have drawn a few books and freelance projects. My murals can be found in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Alabama. My portraits, paintings and drawings hang in homes in the US, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Dubai, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, and Scotland. I began writing my StART series of adult art classes 15 years ago. Teaching gives my practice of art making a purpose. While I share skills and hone my own. Each class includes written lesson plans, discussions and demonstrations. Teaching has also been a great way to truly connect with brilliant people from all over the world. When my husband and I moved to Southeast Asia 8 years ago, I taught my classes in Singapore for 3 years and Kuala Lumpur for 2 before moving back to the US in 2017. Tampa has been terrific! Tampa Regional Artists welcomed StART classes at the Old Hyde Park Art Center. I also practiced my passion for teaching children over the summers. For two years, I taught underserved kids at community centers in St Petersburg for The Dali Museum. I also wrote and taught an Art Expressions Camp for Hillsborough Community College’s Kids College. In early 2020, I joined the artist collective, Cypress and Rome and launched 4 more classes at Lulu Studio. In March, all 7 StART classes converted easily to Zoom. The virtual classroom has opened enrollment to folks anywhere. Current classes include folks in Canada, North Carolina and Orlando.

Dawn Waters

Visual Arts

Think Martha Stewart and Snoop hanging out, making unexpected things happen. Sugar coated bundles of detail and slight oddness combined to make work that is arresting and uncanny. I’m Dawn Kraditor Waters and I create paintings and wearable art with fiber. I was first exposed to felting on a trip to Amsterdam. A friend then taught me the basics and I created scarves and swanky wraps. I wondered if I could make a portrait. I had not seen one made of fiber, and I had not created one in any medium. My chihuahua, Chico, was my first subject. It worked. The next few…not so much. I kept at it until the likenesses were recognizable. I’m drawn to subjects who intrigue me or those to whom I have a sentimental attachment. I use fiber, usually wool, and a felting needle. The process is like tattooing, but with wool. Famed photographer Steve McCurry (iconic Afghan Girl National Geographic cover, 1985) has given me permission to recreate his photos. I’ve created two thus far. I’ve also been fascinated by traditional Slavic ceremonial floral headdresses made of paper and have interpreted them with fiber. I then began adding flowers to unexpected subjects. I came to this art relatively late in life after leaving a career in communications and advertising.

Chip Weiner

Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Photography

I am a freelance documentary photographer and photojournalist. I teach photography in Tampa and have been doing so for over 10 years. For more info see Tampa Photography Classes and Tampa Photography workshops tab at my web site. Don’t forget to check out the comments from past students. Let’s get clickin’!

Kenna Westerman

Visual Arts

Kenna Westerman got her first camera by saving sugar coupons at the age of eight years old. Inspired by watching her grandparents constantly taking photographs and movies, she began to freeze time with her camera at all family gatherings Her two children became new subjects to photograph. Raising her children and working didn’t stop the creativity flow. However, it would be twenty years before painting resurface. In the late eighties, she enrolled college at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She completed a bachelor of art degree in Psychology. After graduating, she enrolled in the master program of Social Work. Completing her master degree, she counseled with many people, using a variety of art techniques to help with their healing process. With the encouragement of her husband, Rusty, she started entering different art shows exhibiting her pastels and photography. Her photographs have won 3rd place at the 2004 Arkansas State Fair and 1st place at the Fort Smith Art Gallery Exhibit. In 2005, her photographs won special recognition at the Upstream People Gallery in Omaha and second place at the 2005 Magnolia Art Festival in Arkansas. Two photos were selected for the 2006 Small Works on Paper, 19th Annual Competitive Exhibition sponsored by the Arkansas Artists Registry. Her photograph, “Forgotten”, was purchased by the Arkansas Art Council. Her pastel works won 1st and 3rd place at the Arkansas State Fair. She is now learning to paint with watercolor.

Beth Wetherington

Visual Arts: 2D

Beth Wetherington is an graphic designer, with extensive experience with print media. In addition to winning numerous national PBS awards for her design work at WEDU-TV, she works as a fine artist in watercolor, colored pencil and graphite. She is a member of Tampa Regional Artists and is the editor of TRA’s newsletter.

Katie White

Visual Arts

My inspiration as an artist comes from the courage of my former elementary art students. I learned so much from their creativity when I would encourage them to “take a risk, don’t worry about the outcome” because “art is about the process, not the end product . . . it is the gateway to problem-solving.” I realized through teaching that I could apply those words to my own practice of creating art. My objective is to evoke emotion, perhaps spark a memory or bring tranquility to a space. Many of my pieces include a reflection or horizon line because I am drawn to the place where land and water meet the sky. It reminds me of how important it is to be grounded in the world we live in today.

Bonnie Whitehurst

Music; Teaching Artist/Instructor

Bonnie Whitehurst moved to Florida, from Michigan, in 1979. She worked for the Pinellas County Arts Council for 20 years in the Artist in the Schools program. Since 2001 she became a fulltime music teacher at Espiritu Santo Catholic School where she also plays the organ and cantors. Additionally, Bonnie is the music director for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tarpon Springs. Ms. Whitehurst also composes and records. She has nine professional CDs, three of all original music, and a DVD. Bonnie plays for weddings, community organizations, festivals and private parties. Please check out her YouTube Channel with over a dozen videos highlighting her original music at https://www.youtube.com/user/bonniewhitehurst.

Carla Wilkins

ACHC Artist Grant Award; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: 2D

Carla Wilkins grew up in Tampa, Florida and earned a Bachelor of Science in visual art at The Florida State University followed by a Masters in Art Education from The University of New Mexico. She has taught in elementary and secondary schools, and loves bringing out the creativity in all children and in every kind of medium. She claims teaching art was the best gift she found in life, and fervently believes that “art can save the world”! Carla’s drive to create has always been inherently therapeutic, which at one point led her to study art therapy under art therapist Maxine Hull in Atlanta as well as a year of graduate work at Florida State. Her greatest influences have come from relationships with people, outdoor adventures and a few curve balls that are inevitable in everyone’s life, good and bad. In other words, she paints her own experiences. In this regard, she finds Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits and the narrative paintings by Jacob Lawrence among the most inspiring art. Expressing her stories is a personal process in hopes of always moving forward, which can often take years of revisiting the same work adding new layers of oil paint, oil pastel, linocut prints, chalk pastels and hot glue. Another approach she uses to improve herself as a human being has been painting overlooked patterns in rocks, tree bark, waves and leaves, attempting to reflect the metaphors found between nature and the human psyche. Peaceful perspectives are the gifts in these studies. Carla’s passion for hiking, rock climbing, swimming and kayaking allowed for intimate discoveries in the beauty of earth’s elements, from beaches to boulders, from rivers to deserts. She appreciates the landscape wherever she lives which has been Kansas City, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Tallahassee and currently in Tampa, Florida. EXHIBITIONS 2018 Bamboozle Café, “A New Year of Art,” Tampa, FL 2018 Carrollwood Cultural Center, “Divine Collective,” Tampa, FL 2017 Art Fair, “Art Crawl,” Lakeland, FL 2017 Carrollwood Cultural Center, “Artists: The Soul of the Community,” Tampa, FL 2017 Bamboozle Café, “Downtown Arts Invasion,” Tampa, FL 2016 Stirling Gallery, “I Did it My Way,” Dunedin, FL 2016 Carrollwood Cultural Center, “Possibilities of Perception,” Tampa, FL 2016 Rare Hues Gallery, “Local Spring Art Show,” Tampa, FL 2016 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Emerging Artist Category, Tampa, FL 2015 Art Fair, “Winter in the Park,” Vero Beach, Florida 2015 Art Fair, “Art Crawl,” Lakeland, Florida 2015 William Johnson Gallery of FSU, Juried International Exhibit, “Social Selfies: Constructing Community,” Tallahassee, FL 2014 621 Gallery, “Ewha Cultural Exhibition,” Tallahassee, FL 2011 Arts Clayton Gallery, “Juried Art Competition,” Jonesboro, GA 2010 Art Institute of Atlanta, Juried Art Show “High School Art Educators of Georgia,” Atlanta, GA 2007 Sharptop Arts Center, “Water,” Jasper, Georgia 2006 Harris Arts Center, “Juried Annual Art Show” Calhoun, Georgia 2006 Sharptop Arts Center, “Fiber Arts Show,”Jasper, Georgia HONORS/AWARDS 2018 Professional Development for Artists Grant, funded by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners and the Arts Council of Hillsborough County 2016 Honorable Mention for “Ruptured Adolescence,” Stirling Gallery, Dunedin, FL 2016 Emerging Artist Recipient of Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Tampa, FL 2010 Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Achievement for Art Teachers, Clayton County Board of Education, GA 2004 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2004 Graduated with Honors and “Distinction” on Competency exam, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Education 2004 Master of Arts in Art Education, University of New Mexico 1999 Bachelor of Science in Visual Art, Florida State University

Mark Williams

Visual Arts: 2D

My art is about celebrating color, life, joy and journey. I work primarily in acrylics because it allows me to express my creativity quickly with many layers and techniques within short periods of time. I also like to create digital art using Photoshop, Painter and Procreate. Some of my paintings even provide the basis for many of my digital art pieces – and some digital pieces become the foundation for my acrylic works. Some pieces are born without planning but are created from the blank canvas – a journey to simply create based on mood and music. There are times when I am inspired by life events or subjects that merit a series as well. In the process of creating most of my work, I strive to create an excitement with the space and color – that the viewer will take part in a whimsical and colorful engagement.

Wayne S. Williams

Visual Arts; Writing

I work in communications and marketing…, to pay bills. My two artistic passions are – first and foremost – poetry which I address in some way every day – and photography… have been at both since the mid-70s. I’m an ambient music fanatic (Eno!) – listen to the internet radio of SomaFM every day… with Drone Zone as my channel. Through the decades I’ve always been drawn to music on the edge (most I continue to enjoy, even though they’re been made mainstream over time) – Beatles when they where the edge, the Doors (still a fanatic), King Crimson, Sex Pistols, Clash, experimental… enjoy the St. Pete “underground” noise movement going on now. But yeah, poetry is my thing.

David Williams

David Henry Williams is a professional photographer who has integrated over 30 of professional experience as a corporate, editorial, fashion, fine arts and portrait photographer to produce images that capture the people, the events and the places that personal move him. His subjects range from blues singers to corporate executives, preschoolers to high school seniors, fashion models to blushing brides. His photographic achievements include being published in the Best of Photography Annual, American PHOTO, French PHOTO, Family Circle Magazine, and Florida Trend. His work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions include the Tampa Museum of the Arts Tampa Triennial, Palm Beach Photographic Museum’s INFOCUS, the Delta Blues Museum, and the Highway 61 Blues Museum to name a few. He was also a finalist for the Professional Photographer’s of America AN NE Award, and won Honorable Mention in the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts’ Members Show, as well as Best of Photography at the Morean Arts Center Member Show. I integrate over 30 years professional experience as a corporate, editorial, fashion and fine arts photographer to produce images that capture the events, the people, and the places that I have had the privilege to photograph. My subjects range from blues singers to corporate executives and from fashion models to blushing brides. When I pick up my camera, I am always pushing myself to produce images that are creative, unique and emotional.

Theresa Willingham

Writing

A professional writer and photographer, I’m the author of two books on health, and numerous articles across a range of topics from health to education, religion and philosophy. I’m currently working on a book about makerspaces in public libraries. My work is focused on helping empower individuals to live and learn in meaningful, personally fulfilling and socially productive ways. Learn more at EurekaFactory.net. You can see my photo gallery at http://theresa-willingham.artistwebsites.com

Cass Womack

Visual Arts

Interactive Media Production, Game Dev, Digital Illustration, Chalk + Mural Artist Cass has devoted her life to education and the arts. After teaching programming and animation for 4 years and working another 10 as a production artist in the video game industry, Cass decided to take up street painting as a way to get out of the office and reconnect with the community. What started as a hobby in 2011, blossomed into a lifestyle. Cass now travels all over the US (and Canada!) sharing her unique, colorful style, her vast knowledge and love of public art. She loves to experiment with new techniques, surfaces and mediums. When not at events you can find her painting and teaching on her livestream channel. Tampa artist working within Hillsborough, Polk, Pinellas, Manatee and Pasco counties. Strong supporter of improving our communities through public art.

Rick Yearick

Visual Arts

Rick moved to the Tampa Bay area to work as a full-time artist in 1994 and has been a prolific painter since, having shown his work in several shows, galleries, and studios since then. Working primarily in acrylic, his colorful paintings have met with broad appeal among all types of art aficionados everywhere. “I find the Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg art scene very conducive to my creative process,” says Rick. “The region has become a wonderful place to showcase my work.” A graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design, Rick’s career has taken him to Chicago, Kansas City, Houston, Philadelphia, and St. Pete where he served in executive creative positions with such companies as 3M, Helene Curtis, Hallmark Cards, Crayola, and Art Makers International. Throughout his career, Rick never put his brush down and has produced countless paintings that have found homes throughout Florida and the United States as well as across the globe. Drawing inspiration from travels both near and far, Rick’s work is bursting with vibrant interpretations of picturesque scenes, interesting things, and the many captivating beings he meets along the way. Owners of his art take pleasure in the joy that both he and his paintings exude.

Dee Youmans

Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts

My art explores the relationship between man and his environment. Taking what has been discarded and reusing it to create a multilayered work of art focusing on the beauty of nature. Inspired by the intricate markings of insects, plants, and animals, I add each detail of their colors and textures. Through vibrant hues, I showcase the meticulous ways in which the earth relies on each flower, butterfly, shell to keep it in balance each with its own remarkable beauty. The background of the artworks is inspired by the tradition of my great grandmother down to my mother making quilts, patching pieces of life together. Discarded elements of printed material are changed into natural images showcasing the beauty of the world. Small elements of circles, stitches of lines, and washes tie each section together. This idea of reusing pushes forward the idea that we must cherish our world and take care of it.

Evie Zimmer

Visual Arts: 2D

Evie Zimmer is an American artist creating and teaching in Tampa, Florida. Her early work consists mainly of traditional portrait paintings, although she had always been drawn to the intricate design and energetic beauty of op-art. Eventually, Evie began to explore her op-art fascination and her work blossomed into her current mesmerizing style. Evie’s work has been described as a “strange loop” of process and product. Her oil paintings radiate an inherent energy field not unlike traditional mandalas with acidic colors transforming into soothing pastels, and geometric patterns melting into exotically organic shapes. Recently, Evie’s paintings have become more floral and symmetric yet still maintain her unique and recognizable abstract style. Evie is quite active in the arts community both locally and nationally. Her work has been shown, sold, and published across the country including New York City, Art Basel Miami, Palm Springs, Ca., various publications and online shows, and digital billboard displays in Baltimore and on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. Evie is constantly creating new work from her studio in Tampa where she welcomes visitors and students.

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