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Dan Askew

Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Sculpture

With a love for pure function and the patina that comes from prolonged use, Dan's works hint at vague mythologies surrounding the vast plethora of apocalyptic scenarios, both imagined and “legitimately” prophesied. Black humor, along with a chaotic mash-up of media process becomes the lens through which to view a confused reality. The range of influences is evidence of a pre-adolescent skeptic with more questions than answers. Insect morphology, ancient and tribal art, hydrodynamic and aerodynamic forms, mechanical engineering, the history of space exploration, fractal geometry, robotics, SETI, comic books, popular science fiction, and toys, create a catalog of images to anxiously explore a potential future past. Dan Askew has a BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi, and an MFA from the University of North Texas. Since 2011, he has been a professor of studio art at the Florida School of the Arts in Palatka.

Bruce Kevin Bates

Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration; Visual Arts: Other; Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Photography; Visual Arts: Printmaking; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Bruce Kevin Bates grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida, and currently resides in St. Augustine, Florida. Since early childhood Bruce has had a passion for drawing and painting, and has always enjoyed sketching and painting the people and places around him. While his artwork usually depicts realistic images, he often uses heightened colors, textures, and swirling brush strokes in his works to communicate his thoughts and feelings about the universal energy he feels surrounds us, and connects us all together. His favorite medium is oil, but he continues to experiment with new materials and techniques. He often employs “Old Master” techniques in his works, combined with new methods that he has developed over the years through experimentation. Bruce holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Honors from Pratt Institute in New York, and has exhibited his work throughout the state of Florida.

Sarah Carrigan

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Sarah graduated from Eckerd College in 1984 with a Bachelors Degree in Art and studied marine mammalogy focusing on integrating cetacean life into her artwork. She tended intracoastal toll bridges for the Florida Department of Transportation in Saint Petersburg, Florida while studying in school. Following graduation from Eckerd College in 1984, Sarah worked in the neckwear industry in the MidAtlantic area and moved to Chicago after meeting her husband, John. While in Chicago, Sarah designed jewelry, worked as a millinery designer, and was employed as the Volunteer Coordinator at the Cradle, an adoption agency. In 2003, she began taking classes at the Rotblatt-Amrany Fine Art Studio. Soon thereafter, she assisted the owners, Omri and Julie, with large scale projects including a bronze sculpture of Magic Johnson for the LA Staples Center and Michigan State University. She assisted Julie with the George Halas Memorial for the Soldier Field in Chicago. Sarah was subcontracted by the studio for private commissions in bronze relief including Jim Cantalupo and Charlie Bell for Mc Donalds. She was selected to create one of the steelworkers for Omri Amrany’s sculpture titled, the Fusion, for the city of Gary, Indiana. In 2004, Sarah was commissioned by Amy Parsky to design a bronze memorial for her late son, Matthew Parsky. It resides at the Community Center in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 2007, Sarah moved back to the Florida coast. She was sponsored by Arlington Toyota Dealership to paint a five foot loggerhead turtle sculpture named Terra, for the Child Guidance Center of Jacksonville. It was sold and is now in a private collection. One of her bronze whale sculptures, titled Aphrodite and Eros, was included in the beautification of the NOAA Southeast Regional Office in St. Petersburg in 2011.She is a member of the St Augustine Art Association. Sarah specializes in bronze relief portraits, memorials, and commissioned work. She is an avid golfer and nature enthusiast. She currently sculpts out of her home in St Augustine, Florida.

RoAnn Elias

Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Sculpture

RoAnn Elias is an award winning Florida contemporary painter of acrylic and mixed media pieces. RoAnn studied art and design at Santa Monica College, Georgia State University with many nationally known figurative sculptors and painters. She is a highly respected teacher of acrylic painting and sculpture. Currently, RoAnn is represented by the Art Box www.artbox137.com, Ocean Art Gallery https://www.oagart.com and The Beach Art Studio www.beachartstudio.org. RoAnn is a member the Florida Women’s Art Association, the Garguilo Art Foundation and St. Augustine Art Association. You can follow her at www.RoAnnart.com, Facebook: RoAnn Elias Contemporary Artist and on Instagram.

John Karamon

Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Photography; Visual Arts: Sculpture; Mobiles (Metal and Photographic)

John Karamon is a local photographer specializing in many styles. He began his career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He also served in the U.S. Army for more than three years. During this time, he was trained as a cinematographer . While stationed in SHAPE headquarters he had the unique opportunities to photograph President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, Charles DeGaul and many other prominent figures. His experience ranges from audio visual production and photography for corporate public relations, promotion and advertising. John's work has been published in the New York Times, Popular Photography, Camera 35, Sound & Communications and Sound & Video Contractor magazines. John is currently developing projects that engender other locals to contribute to his artistic vision. During the 450th Anniversary of St. Augustine, he created a commemorative scroll with watercolor art with greetings to the city plus images of wildlife, the lighthouse and other flora and fauna. It has been put in the city archives not to be opened for 50 years.

Jenny Keyser

Crafts: Jewelry; Literature: Children's; Literature: Poetry; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Photography; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Jenny Keyser is an independent, multi-disciplinary artist, and educator. Keyser has presented her work and research at both the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference and the Art in Society Conference at UCLA. Her art has been shown internationally in galleries and museums. Recent shows include Works on Paper at the Philadelphia Sketch Club in Philadelphia; Loss, Redemption and Grace at EBD4 in Atlanta; and Lon Art’s Sheroes Revoluciones online London exhibition. Additionally, Keyser’s poetry and photography book has been acquired by the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in the Alchemy residency in Canada and the Art and Soul International residency in New Mexico. Keyser’s work in accessories and wearable art was sold nationally at Barney’s New York and has been included in publications like Lark Books’ 1,000 Beads, InStyle Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. She is the Founder of the Mother Art: Revisited collective which has had recent shows in both London and Scotland. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keyser created a platform to provide live, online art instruction. She currently is teaching children through adults across the United States. Keyser has a B.S. in Biology from Vanderbilt University, a certificate in Museum Studies from Northwestern University, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Please email me for a free intro course!

Marianne Lerbs

Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration; Visual Arts: Other; Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Photography; Visual Arts: Printmaking; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Marianne Lerbs, Fine artist: Sculptor, Painter, Graphic Designer, Digital Arts. Musician, singer, guitar, ukulele, cuatro, violin. Living in St. Augustine since 1992. Co-founder of the St. Augustine Sculpture Garden with artist Thomas Glover W. Currently working on art and music projects. (904) 294-1416 - www.lerbs.com , www.majagitana.com, www.mariannelerbs.com.

Mare Martelli

Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Other; Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Mare Martelli is a painter of modern acrylic/mixed media and watercolor as well as a creator of mosaic art and clay sculpture. She has an affinity for working in texture and layers to bring pieces to life - no matter the subject. She loves to explore, experiment, and have her pieces speak to her along the journey of their creation. Mare studied art and design at UArts & The Art Institute in Philadelphia. While spending most of her career in the advertising, marketing, and publishing arena, she’s kept her toe in the arts – designing logos, branding and media for musicals, playbills, album covers, and the like for fellow artisans. She has also taught Elementary School Art in Cherry Hill, NJ, as well as mosaics and clay sculpture in private studios. Originally from the New Jersey/Philadelphia area, she fell in love with St. Augustine on her first visit in 2007 and finally made it her full time home in 2018. When not painting, she is a marketing and web consultant, lover of animals, good vegetarian food, and exploring all of the history and nature the St. Augustine area has to offer.

Weston McBride

Crafts: Glass; Crafts: Jewelry; Visual Arts: Printmaking; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Nature-bound. Born in land-locked Pennsylvania but drawn to the coast. Initially having moved to St. Augustine, Florida to attend Flagler College in 2007; after graduating my enthusiasm for the local environment and inspiration drawn from it, has only grown. I began in the print industry directly after college, as the demand for philosophers during a recession is quite often lower than one would expect (a little humor). While learning the economics & technical skills of producing in the print industry; I had the opportunity of attending First Coast Technical College on full scholarship and graduated top 3 in my class in Aerospace Fabrication. Since graduation, I've been selling commission-based glass sculptures and delegate my print-career to problem solving specialty substrates while working hand-in-hand with local & passionate business owners. If you need a solutions architect that enjoys actively engaging in a learning environment in hopes of achieving the best final result, chances are that we may work well together. Feel free to browse my online Portfolio at www.weston-mcbride.com {Best experience when viewed via desktop} Specialties in Glass: Sculptural Borosilicate torch|bench-working, kiln-work: Fusing, Slumping, Casting, Etc (COE 96), Coldworking: Sandblasting, Glass etching & engraving. Specialties in Print: CMYK Screenprinting, Spot Color printing, Block printing, Acid-etch Lithography, Vectorizing|Scalable Graphics for cross-medium use, and some vitreography.

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.

Stephanie Ribeiro

Crafts; Crafts: Ceramics; Literature: Children's; Media: Video; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Illustration; Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Photography; Visual Arts: Printmaking; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Brazilian-American. B.F.A. in Art Education. M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts. LANGUAGES Portuguese & English

Joe Segal

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Joe's work examines man’s relationship with nature. Where typically raw materials are processed to eliminate their variations into a useable state, this manipulation for the sake of utility reflects an insensitivity to the natural world. Joe honors the essence of the materials which is not only visible but central to the final appearance of his work. His sculptures are also observations of time passing. Time is linear and cyclical. The past is somewhere behind us while the future is farther ahead. And the sun rises and sets every day. The seasons change every year. These ideas are illustrated within organic sculptures that are divided by rectilinear elements. Joe Segal creates meditative compositions to contemplate our connection to nature and the most perplexing of human concerns: the passage of time.

Jo Sinclair

Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Other; Visual Arts: Painting; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Professional Visual Artist, Art Instructor, Creative Consultant "Passion for studio exploration, experimentation, and creativity & sharing through artworks, collaboration and teaching." Exhibiting studio artist works in mixed-media encaustic painting, mixed-media acrylic painting, mixed-media sculpture. Teaches children through adult. Designs and teaches creativity, art, and artist workshops. Also the Creative Consultant for Bees Beyond Borders. Currently represented by Arts On Douglas Fine Art Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL

Herrick Smith

Crafts; Crafts: Ceramics; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Photography; Visual Arts: Sculpture; Potter

Biography Standing on a foundation of pot sherds left by the Timucua potters of centuries past, Herrick Smith was born and raised in Saint Augustine, Florida, and from a young age has appreciated the beauty found in nature. As a boy, he would often go adventuring in the coastal woods and subsequently developed a deep love for the natural processes found there. It is fitting that his first introduction to clay was the making of his boy-hood pinch pots from the same clay beds used by the Timucua so long ago. In high school and through the end of college he worked as a blacksmith at the Colonial Quarter, a museum about colonial Spanish Florida and earned his BA in Economics from the University of North Florida in 2013 with a minor in Environmental Science. While at college, searching for a creative outlet he took his first ceramics elective and continued to take elective courses and conduct independent research in ceramics during his time there. Several months after graduation he moved to Gardner Kansas and spent 8 months as an apprentice at Spinning Earth Pottery with Danny Meisinger. During this apprenticeship Smith rapidly gained skill at the potter’s wheel with respect to functional pottery as well as the use of the wheel as a tool to create larger scale works of art. Nearing the end of his apprenticeship Smith was accepted to Graduate School and in the fall of 2014 he began graduate school at Fort Hays State University (FHSU). Seeking to establish a personal style, Smith began developing a thrown and altered cup form which opens itself to a variety of atmospheric effects. With a series of three of these at the 2015 NCECA Conference he won the Skutt Student Throwing Competition judged by Steven Hill and received the grand prize of the Steven Hill edition Skutt Potter’s Wheel. Smith exhibits nationally and internationally and is currently working with wheel thrown elements and sculptural forms in pursuit of an MFA in Ceramics at (FHSU) with the goal of becoming a professor of ceramics while remaining active in the gallery circuit. Artist Statement The natural beauty of the estuarine and hammock environment of the North East Florida coast deeply impacts my forms and the patterns and textures applied to them. Especially beautiful are the delicate processes involved in the lives of small plants, mosses, and fungi and the many shapes allowing for the flourishing of these hardy little flora. The gentle and earthy color palette of the swamp merging with the forest floor is at once rich and full of life as well as calming and peaceful. Capturing the intrinsic beauty of color and form found in the sandy hammock environments just upland of the salty estuaries, the ceramic forms are organic and allow for a diversity of surface treatments. Utilizing a variety of glazes including some with natural ash components the work synthesizes highly technical firing methods and the aesthetics of atmospheric firing resulting in surfaces that bless the piece with anonymity of process and eternal variation. Recognizing the ever-present hardships in life the work allows the viewer to experience the embrace of nature and find refuge from the constant bombardment so often present in our contemporary culture. As creators of culture we as artists are called to create a good culture. I do this through the creation of objects that lack the facade of constructed meaning and exist to bring beauty, lacking pretention, into the lives of others. Training as a blacksmith also impacts the work through the methods involved and the rhythms of the fire as well as attention to detail and finishing processes. The beauty and power of time in concert with nature, displayed in subtle details translates nature into culture and affords the viewer a glimpse of the rare beauty seen by a walker on the paths lacing my native coast.

Enzo Torcoletti

Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Sculpture

Enzo Torcoletti was born in Italy and attended art school there before he moved to Canada where he received a B.A. in English Literature in 1968 and a B.F.A. in Sculpture and Printmaking in 1969 from the University of Windsor. In 1971 he completed his M.F.A. in Sculpture at Florida State University then moved to St. Augustine Florida where he still resides. Currently, he is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Flagler College where he has taught Sculpture, Drawing, and Art History since 1971. Deeply involved with sculpture production, exhibits, and commissions, his work has been shown extensively and is included in numerous private and public collections here and abroad. His sculpture has been featured in several publications including The Sculpture Reference Book and two other textbooks on Sculpture by Arthur Williams. Enzo’s personal work and commissions are carried out in a variety of media. His latest large projects were a 15 ft. bronze and marble commission for the Baptist Medical Center Lobby in Jacksonville and a 10 ft. marble sculpture for the I.R.S. Customer Service Center in Chamblee, Georgia, which was commissioned by the General Services Administration. Earlier commissions include a forty-foot, fifty-ton granite sculpture for The Koger Center in Jacksonville Florida and a similar one for Kings Hill in Kent, England. Torcoletti’s sculptures are also included in the collections of The Mint Museum; The Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art; The Cummer Museum of Art; The Philips Lighting Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; The Florida National Guard; Bell South; Bank of America; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Denison University; Urbino Resort, Italy, and numerous other private collections. During the last several years, Enzo has directed his energies primarily to stone carving which has taken him to Portugal, England, and Italy where he maintains a sculpture studio.

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