Featured Artist Desiree D’Alessandro Desiree D’Alessandro’s Bio Desiree D’Alessandro is an international artist whose work spans a variety of media involving site-specific, installation, digital, and performative modes of production. Her works emphasize the integration of art and life with topics surrounding personal narrative, identity, memory and transformation. D’Alessandro’s explorations of process and understanding aim to explore […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Mary Geraci
Featured Artist Mary Geraci Mary Geraci’s Bio Mary Geraci grew up around photography and the darkroom her entire life. Mary’s father was an amateur photographer who handed her a camera at the age of 12. After joining the photography club in junior high school, she never looked back. Mary was enthralled with the magic of the […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Michele Gould
Featured Artist Michele Gould Michele Gould’s Bio Michele Gould a.k.a. Nova – Nova, a burst of bright light and energy in the Universe. It epitomizes my creative state of mind. That’s me. Mixed-media is my muse. I get to do it my way, via the soft whispers in my ear and the flashes of pictures in […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Victoria Michael
Featured Artist Victoria Michael Victoria Michael’s Bio Victoria Michael was born in South Africa. She is an artist, author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. In 2010, Michael discovered the profound healing value in self-expression through creativity while recovering from her own trauma and depression. This revelation fed a fire that is now Eunoia Collective; a global movement with […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Kayla Moon
Featured Artist Kayla Moon Kayla Moon’s Bio Kayla Moon is a 27-year-old emerging Tampa Bay artist who has had her art displayed in The Tampa Bay Area (Old Hyde Park Gallery, Carrollwood Cultural Center, Inkwood Books, Five Labs, Vahalla) The St. Pete area (The Iberian) and Orlando (The Henao Contemporary Center). Believing that colors invoke emotions, Moon loves […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist April Newcity
Featured Artist April Newcity April Newcity’s Bio April Newcity earned her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology at the University of South Florida in 2017 with a focus in Cultural, Linguistic, and Visual Anthropology. During her schooling, she conducted research involving movement analysis and notation cross-culturally, as well as the African American Diaspora in modern day literature. She […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Brandy Stark
Featured Artist Brandy Stark Brandy Stark’s Bio Brandy Stark moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1992. As an undergraduate, she took a course in sculpture at the University of Tampa where she discovered her wire wrapping abilities. Utilizing welding rods, she made three wrapped wire figures: a triton, a dragon, and a centaur. These constituted the […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Gabriela Valencia
Featured Artist Gabriela Valencia Gabriela Valencia’s Bio Gabriela Valencia is an artist, educator and violinist from Ecuador, and the owner of Gabriela Valencia Studio and Gallery at St. Pete Beach Florida. She has lived in the Tampa Bay area for almost a decade, and has been involved in spectrum of artistic and educational projects like volunteer […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Aubrey Vollrath
Featured Artist Aubrey Vollrath Aubrey Vollrath’s Bio Aubrey Vollrath earned her Visual Arts degree with a minor in Theater from Fordham University at Lincoln Center. A Tampa native, she has spent the last 10 years in New York City. Previously represented in the Ildiko Butler Gallery, she received the Butler Grant for Outstanding Photography in […]
The Art of Women: A Heart and Soul Celebration – Featured Artist Alexis Williams
Featured Artist Alexis Williams Alexis Williams’ Bio Alexis Williams gave birth to her two masterpieces in early 2018 during “identity project,” a visual exploration of multiple cultures as a process to create art with deep meanings. She did this by expressing herself as a grown-up woman, jumping outside of her comfort zone of making fan […]