Archives: Artists

Larry Gagner

Larry Gagner

My dormant artistic passions gradually surfaced while at the U of F, but becoming an All-American Gator guard and a 2nd round Steeler starter for four straight years still dominated my person until my later retirement. My paintings are representational, stressing moment and movement through the manipulation of distorted perspective, fragmentation, and off-registration. I’ve exhibited […]

Qinghong Wei, PhD

Hello! My name is Qinghong Wei, and it means “the artist who celebrates water” in Chinese. As an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. I practice and teach the Art of Flow: daily artistic practices for grounding in Truth, Beauty, and Love. These practices include watercolor painting, oriental dance, and storytelling. This work is grounded in […]

Silvana Gabriela

Silvana Gabriela

Ms. Gabriela Valencia was born in Guayaquil Ecuador and started drawing and painting at age 5.  She quickly realized she had a passion for expressing the world around her on paper and canvas.  At age 12 she attended summer art camps to continue her education and learn about art.  At age 14 she started Juan […]

Roxane Gabriel

Roxane Gabriel

I have always had a love for art and nature and have been in the habit of sketching since I was a child. As I grew older, I would sketch out dreams and visions along with ideas that caught my fancy but never doing more with them. As I became an adult, somehow everything disappeared […]

Mark Fulco

Mark Fulco

Independent Artist concentrating on functional Ceramics and Pottery. Art Instruction position that develops, designs, or creates applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, which include Fine Arts, Photography, or Computer Graphic and Publication areas. Initiative-taking and technically proficient Art Instructor. Experience in teaching secondary public school and college art programs which include the fines arts, photography, […]

Papos Frassica

Papos Frassica

Papos’ distinctive and considerable musical talent has garnered him an appreciative and growing following both among fellow musicians and listening audiences of traditional Irish songs that he loves, or his own story-songs, delivered with a fluid guitar style and an engaging voice that draws listeners in with its honesty and strength. Papos again picked up […]

Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr

Elizabeth Fontaine-Barr

Elizabeth is considered a modern, expressionistic landscape artist. Her paintings are unified by her rich color palette. Her landscapes are real but not quite recognizable as a particular place and sometimes edge on the surreal or fantasy. Working mostly in acrylic and occasionally pastel, she is inspired by the nature around her in her Florida […]

Jon Fisher

Jon Fisher

Jon Fisher is a multi-faceted creative professional involved in the World of Fine Arts, Design, and Creative Media Production. He lives in sunny Saint Petersburg, FL. Jon, relocated from the mid-west to the Tampa Bay area to pursue an education in Computer Animation at the International Academy of Design and Technology. There he earned a […]

Pat Fenda

Pat Fenda

Lizi Franzini, Mimi the Mime and Roan Jivers (Pat Fenda) received her B.S. Ed. from Ohio University and an M.A. in dance from Florida State University, where she began her study of mime. Pat toured the southeast with the Mad Mountain Mime troupe in 1974-75. In 1976-77, Pat taught and performed for the Magic Mountain […]