Vanessa Montenegro is a Florida based visual artist. She studied fine arts at Miami Dade Community College, The New World School of the Arts and Florida International University, specializing in energetic, colorful drawings, the figure form, and realistic paintings. Vanessa moved to Tampa more than a decade ago, and since then she has been involved in the Tampa Bay Area art community. Currently, Vanessa works as a full-time artist, creating her artwork, working on art commissions, portraits and teaching art classes and work at her art studio.