Arts Entrepreneurs Coffee Talk

Join COCA every month for an informal get together for Art Entrepreneurs!

We want to offer a supportive space for the arts entrepreneur community to come together to share their goals, challenges, and achievements. Everyone could use a little support in their lives and we are happy to help contribute. This month’s event will be held on June 15, 2018 from 10:00am-12:00pm at COCA.

This month’s guest speakers are arts entrepreneurs, Debby and Randy Brienen. Together they will discuss their entrepreneurial journey and what it is like to balance all of the aspects of being a working creative.

Debra was born in central Illinois and has lived in Tallahassee, Fl. for more than 30 years. She is married to Randy (also an artist) and has raised three children. She is a self-taught artist working in acrylic and oil. She has drawn and painted all her life either inspirationally or by commission. Her most recent venture, Painted Memories, offers paintings developed from her client’s travel photos or home landscape photos intended to preserve places or events on canvas to grace the walls of home or office.

Her work typically expresses the joy and happiness she finds in living. Her work favors idyllic moments, real or remembered, home landscape portraits such as your personal residence, childhood home, or beach house, historical renditions, nature landscapes, and cottage florals.

Debra has been selected to exhibit annually, (2007 thru 2016) at Lemoyne “Chain of Parks” art festival. She has exhibited in many juried shows, and received the “People’s Choice“ award for the Lemoyne 2008 Pillars Project and was chosen to be the featured artist for Lemoyne’s 2008 Chain of Parks art festival in Tallahassee. She has served on LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts board of directors. She exhibited with her husband Randy at Tallahassee City Hall and LeMoyne in the 2010 and 2016 season. She exhibited at the Gadsden Art Center in May 2012. She won best of show for the 2013 Creative Tallahassee exhibit. Locally her art can be seen at Weezie's, Strauss Gallery, Canopy Rd. Café, Paisley Café, and Amore by the Sea in Seaside Fl.

 Randy was born in central Illinois and has lived in Tallahassee, FL for more than 30 years. He is married to Debby and has raised three children. He is a mainly self-taught artist working in acrylic. He has drawn and painted on and off most of his life. In 2007 Randy started painting seriously and immediately found collector interest in his impressionistic and abstract styles. His use of vibrant colors and bold textures are a creative interpretation of his subject and surroundings.

Randy has been selected to exhibit annually, (2008 through 2017) at LeMoyne “Chain of Parks” art festival. He has current exhibits at Weezie’s, Strauss Gallery, Canopy Rd Cafe, Paisley Cafe and Homeowner’s Collection Gallery in Seaside, FL. He served 2010 – 2012 on LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts board of directors. He is a past vice president of the Tallahassee Area Watercolor Society. He exhibited with his wife Debby at Tallahassee City Hall and LeMoyne in 2010 and 2016. He and his wife have a permanent ‘Side by Side’ exhibit at the TMH Cancer Center. He has exhibited at the Gadsden Arts Center by jury on several occasions.

Randy’s work expresses a variety of styles and techniques appealing to clients interested in contemporary and traditional art. He paints inspirationally and by commission.

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For more details please contact COCA at info@tallahasseearts.org or call 850-224-2500.