Archives: Artists

Rick Yearick

Rick Yearick

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 […]

Cass Womack

Cass Womack

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 […]

Theresa Willingham

Theresa Willingham

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 maker spaces in public libraries. My work is focused on helping empower individuals to live and learn in meaningful, personally […]

David Williams

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 personally move him.  His subjects range from blues singers to corporate executives, preschoolers to high school seniors, […]

Wayne S. Williams

Wayne S. Williams

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 […]

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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 […]

Carla Wilkins

Carla Wilkins

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 […]

Bonnie Whitehurst

Bonnie Whitehurst

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 full-time music teacher at Espiritu Santo Catholic School where she also plays the organ and cantors. Additionally, Bonnie is the music director for […]

Katie White

Katie White

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.”  […]

Beth Wetherington

Beth Wetherington

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.