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Our Artist Directory highlights hundreds of local artists who are 18 years of age or older and reside in Tallahassee and/or the Big Bend Region (within a 100 mile radius of Tallahassee) working in visual arts, music, theatre, literature, filmmaking and more. Contact information is included so that visitors can not only see the wide variety of talent in our community, they can also purchase artwork or hire professional services from artists and performers of all disciplines. Check back often as listings are added regularly.

Laura E A Powers

Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Dance; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Performance Art

I have passion for creativity, language, learning, and health. I hope to find the intersection of these values within the field of social and adaptive circus. I am an interdisciplinary artist, with specialization in aerial circus arts and representational oil painting. Using dream imagery, attention to process, and personal narrative, I explore the relationships between fear and wonder, body and soul, and multiple disciplinary spheres. Operating from the assumption that beauty, truth, and meaning exist, I create from a posture of awe. My greatest influences have been Salvador Dalí, Julie Heffernan, JMW Turner, Ryan Heffington, Marina Abramovic, Trisha Brown, and Yoann Bourgeois. My work draws heavily from contemporary dance, literature, and poetic language. In addition to my personal work, I perform with the FSU Flying High Circus, and I coach with Gym Force Aerial. I completed my Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art (minor in Anthropology) this past spring, Cum Laude. I am certified by the American Council on Exercise as a personal trainer, pursuing specialization in fitness nutrition. I am now studying Special Education (MS), with a focus on severe disabilities. I am interested in education of the whole person, which includes traditional academics, inquiry and creativity, physical health, life skills, and social development. I am interested in how the arts, particularly circus, can provide an environment conducive to human growth in all facets. As more research emerges on this topic, circus arts appear more clearly to have substantial value for persons with disabilities. Circus arts can provide beneficial sensory input and function as a communicative outlet, similarly to visual art therapy. I intend to work with individuals with ASD, SPD, and other disabilities, utilizing this unique artform to promote their cognitive, emotional, and physical development, in conjunction with their traditional education and therapies.

AJ Abellera

Visual Arts: Photography

Ramona Abernathy-Paine

Visual Arts: Textiles

I am a handweaver, using harness looms to combine glorious colors, pushing the boundaries of traditional structures to create functional items, sculptural pieces and art to wear. Weaving draws together my love of textiles, my passion for color and my fasc

Mickey Adair

Visual Arts: Photography

Available for hire for over 30 years in Tallahassee. I shoot portraits, architecture, aerials, commercial, publicity, public relations…most subjects really. Law firms, associations, real estate, and other such firms have been my main subjects of late. T

Rex Adams

Visual Arts: Photography

The exploration of the visible range is my passion. Having grown up on the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska, where the wheat fields seem to stretch as far as the infinite sky, I often search the Florida coast for open spaces that will allow my vision to travel as far as my imagination. Now, it’s the coast of Florida where I access the memories that fuel my creativity. I hope you can experience my curiosity and quest for visual understanding as you look at my art.

Danny Aguiar

Visual Arts: Painting

Born in 1987, Danny Aguiar was told that he could have a great future in the art world. This encouragement motivated him as a student at School of Art Instructors in his native Cuba. Because his artwork expressed the reality of Cuban society and the diffi

Erin Albertson

Visual Arts: Photography

Beauty is in the eye of the viewfinder.

Michael Alfano Jr.

Visual Arts

Susan Allen

Visual Arts: Painting

Watercolors are mystical magic for me. I delight in the clarity of the individual colors and the transformation that happens when they meet each other on the paper or the palette. I do believe that the spirits of the universe often lend a hand and I’m jus

Sherry Allen

Visual Arts

Nina Allen Freeman

Visual Arts: Painting

Sephanie Ancetia Barber

Visual Arts: Painting

Stephanie Barber is a Master of Architecture graduate from Florida A&M University. She is employed as an Office Administrator and Engineering Assistant at a local structural engineering firm. Stephanie is also a small business owner of the ThreadShredder

Penny G. Anderson

Visual Arts: Painting

A lifelong resident of Florida (native of Tallahassee) and having spent most of my life in Tallahassee, I have been a serious water media artist since 2004 when I was residing in South Florida. I have served as Vice President and President of the Tallahas

Terri Anderson

Visual Arts: Textiles

Working in my home studio among the rolling hills and canopy roads of Tallahassee, Florida, I design and create unique baskets and artwork out of pine needles. Using southern long leaf pine needles gathered in the Florida panhandle and countless hours of

Ian Anderson

Visual Arts: Photography

Ian Anderson is a nature and wildlife photographer based in Tallahassee who specializes in photographing Florida’s birds, animals, and reptiles in their natural surroundings. He also captures the distinctive and captivating flowers, trees, and landscapes

Penny L. Anderson

Visual Arts: Painting

My watercolor paintings have been described as “loose” and “vibrant.” I enjoy plein air painting as well as combining it all – memories, imagination, things I see…I am painting in my mind everywhere I go.

Brittany Anderson

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration

visual artist.

Joshua Andrae

Visual Arts: Photography

Natalia Andreeva

Teaching Artist/Instructor: Multi-Day Artist Residency for Schools/Classrooms, Private Lessons for Adults, Private Lessons for Kids, Workshop Presenter for Schools/Classrooms; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Natalia Andreeva emerged as an artist from the rich and fertile artistic climate of Novosibirsk, in Siberia after graduating from it’s most prestigious art college. During her classical education in the canons of European art she was greatly influenced by eastern philosophy. Consequentially, Natalia’s work is a harmonious marriage between spontaneous expressions and classical realism. Among Natalia’s favorite themes are exquisite landscapes, depicting the subtlety of nature, still life, where vibrant shapes and internal dynamics are shown in contrast to the commonplace subjects, and finally, figures and portraits brimming with humanity, and giving testament to the beauty and harmony of the human condition.

Steve Andrews

Visual Arts: Painting

Mary Apple

Visual Arts: Painting

All over the place. Love to experiment with different mediums, supports and styles. Render faces in oils, inks, and pastels and most everything else in acrylics.

Beth Appleton

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper; Watercolor/Cut Paper Assemblages, Micrography, Digital Assemblages, Videos and Books

Artist Statement: Beth Appleton I was born in California but spent most of my childhood right in the middle of what my family calls “Old Florida”. My first appreciation for art was self taught, found in the rows of kitsch for sale at my aunt’s roadside fruit stand. Silver Springs was my playground; I practiced underwater ballet and dreamed one day I would become a Weekie Wachee mermaid. Today, while lost in art, I can still float. The work I create holds this history while it invents where to go next. Personal experience adds layers that can be seen. Early works celebrated Highwaymen sunsets while life in New Mexico saturated palettes. Years spent on a Quincy farm cultivated dragon’s blood red and travels to Belize brought the bright yellows. A life full of stories weaves through my work. For the past 26 years, I have worked from my studio home on the Gulf coast of Florida, a place of boundless inspiration. Here, I delight in tiny marine life and stand in awe of infinite sky. Art is intuitive and exhilarating; it is good for the soul. Artist Biography 1971: Graduated Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 1971 – 1976: Taught art to all ages in public schools and community centers while continuing fine art graduate course studies at FSU. 1979 – 1988: Employed as a layout and design artist; drawing and figure studies continued. Volunteered in Gadsden County Florida schools, developed community outreach art programs. 1989: Teamed with husband, David Harbaugh, founded “Art in Gadsden, A Regional Exhibition of Fine Art”, a precursor to the current Gadsden Arts Center and Museum, Quincy, Florida. The watercolor and cut paper works began. 1991 – present: Cut paper and mixed media works continue as digital assemblages emerge. Artworks collected internationally enable a lifelong commitment to community and education through the arts. Inspired by a drop of water and a microscope, portfolio expands to include photomicrographs, books and video productions. 2018: Art career continues supported by local and regional art communities as well as national art centers and museums. New works and exhibitions are ongoing, promoting environmental awareness through art and science collaborations at National Estuarine Research Reserves and other science related venues. Working with Apalachicola artist, Jenny Odom, a new gallery collaboration begins. Please visit online to view latest works and a list of public collections and selected exhibitions: bethappleton.net

Barbra Joan Araneo

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting

A watercolor artist living and painting in northern Florida. Also graphite pencil drawings.

Nathan Archer

Graphic Arts; Teaching Artist/Instructor: Guest Speaker for Schools/Classrooms, Workshop Presenter for Schools/Classrooms; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Visual Arts Instructor; Cartooning

Nathan Archer is a cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer living in Tallahassee, Florida. Since 2016, Nathan has produced editorial cartoons and video content for the Tallahassee Democrat. Before joining the Democrat, he published and contributed to Lydia Feeds The Pigeons, Tallahassee’s local comic anthology. Nathan received his BFA in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000 and his MA in arts administration from Florida State University in 2006. Nathan promotes his cartooning regularly each year at comic conventions around the country. Explore his work at www.nathanarcher.com. (Photo (cropped by COCA): Joe Rondone: Tallahassee Democrat)

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