Arts Annual 2024 Artists

By Creative Pinellas

I am a retired biology professor living on half an acre of native jungle in S Petersburg. My time is split between maintaining the garden and weaving. I started weaving… Read More

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Ree Shapiro has published the short story, “Changing Directions.” and the poem “Hear Me” in the magazine “The Scribe.” She has a master’s in writing from Tiffin University and teaches… Read More

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Rachel Shapiro is a freelance writer and editor. She has a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Her short stories have appeared in Story Shack, Hickory… Read More

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I’m an author of three books, photographer, lover of nature, avid book reader, psychic, tarot card reader, and excited to be in this show as I continue to find many… Read More

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Tracy Kennard is an emerging photographer using only an iPhone. She doesn’t purposely seek out any particular compositions. Her process is to observe the environment around her typically while walking,… Read More

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Susan is a self-taught artist and has been teaching watercolors and developing art programs to a variety of audiences for over thirty years. She is a signature member of the… Read More

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Considered a “creative colorist” Susan Hess’ work reveals immediately her passion for color. A resident of Madeira Beach, Florida she creates interpretive impressions of people, places, and nature in encaustic… Read More

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Steph Blondet is a Puerto Rican visual artist based in Tampa Bay, FL, known for her vibrant wall ice cream sculptures and sculptural paintings. Blondet creates art as a form… Read More

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Rhys Meatyard is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer living and working from their home studio in Historic Roser Park in St. Petersburg, Florida. While committed to creating and showing… Read More

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Brigitte Coovert has lived in Florida most of her life and currently resides in Pinellas county. When not in her studio space, she can be wandering around local museums, spending… Read More

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My artistic practice is rooted in an intuitive and spiritual process. Working exclusively with oil paints, I layer each piece spontaneously, forgoing preliminary sketches. This approach allows each mark to… Read More

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Arts Impact Fund – Visual: To create a weatherproof Miniature Art Gallery to safely host a rotating collection of miniature artworks… Read More

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Bachelors of Design in Architecture, University of Florida NYC/Florida-based painter and illustrator Matthew Boyle calls upon his background in architecture and computer science to create emotional geometric dreamscapes. Working primarily… Read More

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Marilynne was a creative child who grew up on the New Jersey Shore, where natural elements played a huge part in her development. She relocated to Tampa Bay, Florida, after… Read More

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Arts Ignite Fund used to cover studio fees and clay supplies to allow the Artist to continue their work…. Read More

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Arts Impact Fund – Visual: To complete a 20-portrait series inspired by personal memory, collected stories, and a DNA test, all to better discover the self through the body of work… Read More

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Kyle J. Brown is a mixed media artist whose work explores the intricate relationship between expression of thought and the African American experience. Influenced by Jean-Michel Basquiat, graffiti, street art,… Read More

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Kleon, born on December 27, 1990, showed an early passion for art, participating in drawing and sculpture workshops in Havana, Cuba. After completing high school, he decided to pursue a… Read More

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Jodi Fuchs is an award winning contemporary abstract painter who relocated to St. Petersburg FL in 2022. She is a self taught artist who began as a scenic painter for… Read More

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Emmett Freeman is from Concord, New Hampshire. They completed their BFA in ceramics at the Maine College of Art in 2017. Their work includes topics in the mundane experience, figurative… Read More

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Ethan Harmon is a metal sculptor based out of Palm Harbor, Florida, who creates works that emphasize the visual aesthetics of the material and carry conceptual weight. He earned his… Read More

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As an artist I naturally gravitate towards the utilization of found materials to express the wonderments of nature. I hope that my work invites the viewer to enter this rich,… Read More

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Bonnie J Hacker is an emerging artist who lives in Dunedin, Florida. She has dabbled in creative explorations since childhood. After a lengthy career as a Pediatric Occupational Therapist, and… Read More

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Amanda Westenberg is a ceramic artist based in St. Petersburg, Florida, specializing in hand-built vessels. She holds a BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design, where she developed… Read More

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Mike Toth is a New Jersey native who shook the snow from his sneakers and moved to St. Pete more than ten years ago. By day he is an in-house… Read More

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Florida native Clancy Riehm graduated from Ringling College in 2020 with a BFA in Illustration and Associates in Graphic Design. From a young age, she began drawing traditionally and digitally… Read More

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Born in Havana, Cuba in 1967, Edel Alvarez Galban, aka AGalban, has always had a fascination with everything artistic. From his infancy he painted everything around him, becoming a threat… Read More

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Polita Cohen Glynn is a filmmaker and director of Merfolk Media Alliance. As a writer/producer, she creates films and stories which explore ideas about social justice and equity with a… Read More

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

Poet, photographer, and bandleader Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room and Skin, Inc,: Identity Repair Poems, He co-founded The Dark Room Collective and The Dark Room… Read More

By Antonia Lewandowski

A New York City native, Antonia Lewandowski moved to Florida in 1989. She is a poet and essayist. Her most recent project, featured at Creative Pinellas, was the spoken word… Read More

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Greg Byrd is the winner of the 2018 Robert Phillips Chapbook prize from the Texas Review Press for The Name of the God Who Speaks. His fiction has appeared in… Read More

By Luci Westphal

Luci Westphal is a St. Petersburg photographer, filmmaker, writer, and mixed-media artist with a focus on social and biophilic art projects. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, she has lived and created… Read More

By Kimberly Engel

Kimberly Engel is a contemporary abstract painter who lives and works in Clearwater, Florida. Her distinct gestural style combines a love for color interaction with spontaneous mark making. Engel’s paintings… Read More

By Kate Cummins

“I cant remember a time when I wasn’t drawing, painting or fabricating something out of something else” says artist Kate Cummins of her work. “I come from a creative household… Read More

By Agueda Zabisky

Brazil is my native country, and I studied and graduated in graphic design in 1990. Artistic experimentation and a need to work hands-on led me to engage with clay. Since… Read More

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Arts Impact Fund – Visual: To create and present “VISIBLE: Seen AND Heard,” an exhibition of Artists Beth Belaschky, Katie Pavone, Lori Vinesett and Wendy Bruce, at Gallery 5663, that encourages viewers to know it’s never too late to make art… Read More

By Lenore Myka

Lenore Myka is the author of King of the Gypsies: Stories, winner of the 2014 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Chautauqua Book Prize…. Read More

By Harriet Monzon-Aguirre

Harriet Monzon-Aguirre is an oil painter creating out of Bahia Studios in Safety Harbor. ​​She spent her early childhood and formative years on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Harriet earned… Read More

By Lisa Rowan

Lisa Rowan is a writer based in St. Petersburg. Her work explores ideas of home and the American identity, and has ranged from traditional journalism reporting to nonfiction essays and… Read More

By Courtney Elvira

Courtney Elvira is a Mexican-American, mezzo-soprano with her hometown roots in Pinellas County, FL. Courtney began her  career as an opera singer, singing for Dayton Opera; Brava! Opera Theater; Opera… Read More

By Ashley Rivers

Arts Impact Fund – Visual: To create and display a 3D public art sculpture of a Bird of Paradise flower to increase viewer happiness and vibrancy… Read More

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Ever since I first picked up a paint brush I have been fascinated with realism. It does not seem possible that acrylic paint can create the illusion of space, light,… Read More

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Cora Marshall, born in Washington, DC, is an artist and educator. She earned her BFA. from Howard University, her MSEd from Bank Street College of Education with Parsons School of… Read More

By Kenny Jensen

I am a multidisciplinary professional artist focused on growing an oil painting practice to sustain my goal to live and create artwork in the wilderness of Gulf Hammock, FL. My… Read More

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Zoe Papas lives in Clearwater, Florida, and has her BFA in drawing and illustration from the University of Central Florida. She is currently attending the Florence Academy of Art’s inaugural… Read More

By Christina Bertsos

Fluidity converges with emotion and sensuality in the stone sculptures of Chicago born sculptor, Christina Bertsos. Creating surfaces honed by hand to coax the stone’s luminous quality, she highlights its… Read More

By Elizabeth Barenis

She believes that what the viewer finds in the art is one of the most important things about it. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally…. Read More

By Gianna Pergamo

Gianna Pergamo is an artist from Brooklyn, New York who now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. She received her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in… Read More

By Angela Warren

Angela Warren lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 2018 she received a Pollock and Krasner Fellowship to attend Vermont Studio Center artist in residence program.Angela spent 2017 and 2018 teaching art post hurricane Irma in St. John, US Virgin Islands where she helped people heal through art…. Read More

By Javier Dones

Javier’s current work springs from a lifelong passion and fascination for the elements of nature, her power, arrangements, and structures. The medium is metals and chemistry. Copper is the main working material…. Read More

By NeverneCovington

Neverne Covington’s drawings, prints, paintings and sculpture explore childhood, language, landscape, memory, and the American south where she grew up. Her work has been exhibited at the Florida Museum for… Read More

By Amy Collins

Amy Collins, Oboist was this past year’s International Double Reed Society Conference Host at the University of South Florida.  Presently she is a member of the artistic faculty at The… Read More

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Joseph Weinzettle lives and works in St Petersburg. He has drawn and painted plein-air across the state of Florida, in West Africa and the Caribbean. His medium is oils on… Read More

By PatriciaKluweDerderian

Arts Coast Galleries Artist Patricia Kluwe Derderian has always loved to draw, even the smell of her uncle’s colored pencils inspired her to major in architecture – since art was not an option in the little city where she was raised in Brazil. She has used her art to express her projects and ideas…. Read More

By John Gascot

Queer artist John Gascot, hailing from the Caribbean, traces his childhood roots to Puerto Rico, an origin that fuels his passion for vibrant hues. While he delves into diverse artistic… Read More

By Sheila Cowley

Sheila Cowley is a playwright and audio producer based in St. Petersburg FL. She leads the Sparks Collaborative Ensemble, a working group of artists diverse in age, gender identity, ethnicity,… Read More

By Takeya Trayer

I do not fit into a neat little box of societal standards. I’m an artist, parent and teacher. I see myself not just as an artist but as a problem… Read More

By David Manson

David Manson is a composer, trombonist, arts presenter, educator and producer. His degrees include a doctorate from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. As director of the nonprofit EMIT, David has… Read More