JJ Watts – Featured Artist
JJ Watts is an iconic, Tampa artist that I’m thrilled to have as part of The Art of Women: A Celebration of Diversity on Oct. 5th in Ybor City.
Check out her bio below and then watch the cool video produced by The Education Channel (Thank you Lucy Griggs, Laura Tierney and Art Keeble for this wonderful piece!!!) here:
JJ Watts’ Bio
JJ Watts is a Tampa-based, multi-dimensional sculptor and artist whose works challenge viewpoints, elicit emotion, stimulate laughter, inspire harmony and celebrate life. An award-winner in more than one medium, she has received national media attention for her art.
Watts’ original works are varied, and her public monuments, such as her memorial for the Tampa Police Department are known throughout the country. It is but one example of her belief that art ought to “Provoke thought and feeling…stand for something important.”
JJ Watts’ work can be found all over Florida and around the world – in Tampa, at the Tampa Museum of Art, in Curtis Hixon Park, on Davis Islands; in Sarasota at Siesta Key, Dolphin Cay, Sarasota Quay and the Ringling Museum of Art; in Lakeland and Miami and in France, Germany, England, Italy and Sweden.