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Laura Mongiovi

Crafts: Ceramics; Crafts: Fiber Art; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Other; Visual Arts: Sculpture; Contemporary Fiber, Contemporary Textile, Installation, Drawing

Laura Mongiovi is an Associate Professor of Art and Design at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. She has an MFA from University of Colorado, Boulder and a BFA from Florida State University. Mongiovi's work is a response to cultural artifacts, rituals and beliefs. She investigates the processes, materials and concepts used to create objects, textiles and architecture. Within these diverse approaches to cultivating traditional practices exists a mutual human need to satisfy personal desire. Rare objects, garments laden with color and texture, palaces with lavish gardens and tantalizing sensations of the palate have influenced paradigms of commerce, culture and science. Historical details reveal the common need we have to please the senses. Mongiovi's work pays homage to origins while alluding to personal experience. Mongiovi exhibits her work nationally including solo exhibitions, juried and group shows. She teaches across the curriculum at Flagler College and presents her teaching pedagogy at national conferences. Mongiovi guest lectures about her work and leads workshops.

Stacey Page

Crafts: Fiber Art; Folk Art; Folk Art: Other; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration; Visual Arts: Other

Ruth VanAlstine

Crafts: Fiber Art; Crafts: Jewelry; Literature: Poetry; Visual Arts: Other; Visual Arts: Photography; Modern Art paintings; Acrylic Fluid Art Paintings

Ruth Van Alstine was born in Oneonta, New York. She was encouraged by one of her school teachers to write poetry, and she fell in love with the craft and has never laid down her pen. Fifty odd years later, she has been published around the world. A few of the publications include The Parnassus of World Poets Anthology, Bridge in Making out of India, Cadence, and (a) River Rising, Blooms 2020 and(a) River Rising, Roots and Branches 2021. She has hosted poetry open mics from Miami South Beach in the 90’s to Palo Alto, California and has always been active in the literary and poetry community. Active with the North Florida Poetry Hub she hosts regular on-line poetry workshops, open mics, and live poetry cultural events in the Northeast Florida area. She is editor and publisher for Rising Moon Press in Jacksonville, Florida. She is a member of the Ancient City Poets of St. Augustine, the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Membership Chair for the Florida State Poets Association and is President of North Florida Poetry Hub, a local Chapter of the Florida State Poets Association in Jacksonville, Florida. A creative artist of handcrafts, in 2020 she has developed a passion for acrylic multimedia art painting. In 2021 she discovered the method of fluid art, which has led to yet another outlet of creative expression and her work is shown at the St Augustine Beach Art Gallery and the 2022 “Oceans” Exhibit with Women Writing For (a) Change.

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