Fran Buie believes that art is a universal language and expression that can bring people from different backgrounds and life experiences together into a common community.  Fran has degrees in Commercial Art, Music Performance, pre-med science and a Masters in Administration (MBA). 

Shortly after moving to Tallahassee in 1970, she worked as an instructor in an art studio where she also set up and ran a variety of art shows on behalf of the art studio.  She also worked for the State of Florida as an administrator and project manager for 33 years before retiring. After retiring, Fran returned to the art studio and has displayed her art at Tallahassee’s Downtown Marketplace, Gadsden Arts Gallery, Jefferson Arts Gallery, and Sea Oats Art Gallery.

For the last twelve years, she has also served as the Art Coordinator at the North Florida Fair. Fran is an art instructor at Jefferson Arts Gallery and also teaches oil painting through the Senior Center in Tallahassee, Florida. Fran is currently on the Board of the Wiregrass Art Gallery in Thomasville and has her work on display in the Gallery.  She has shown in many juried shows and has received several awards for her artwork. 

Fran loves painting a variety of subjects and that diversity is seen in exhibits she has mounted over the years. She strives to have the audience be able to relate to the subject or be able to tease out the viewer’s pleasant memories of times gone by. 

Fran invites you to visit Jefferson Arts Gallery and see the work of her students or come by the Wiregrass Art Gallery to check not only her artwork but the work of an up and coming community of artists in South Georgia and North Florida.