Artist Recognition

  Our 3D Artist of the Month for January is Metalsmith Karyn Warner Hammock. Karyn has been a metalsmith for over 30 years and uses a mix of metals to fabricate jewelry and clocks. She hand textures the metals and applies different patinas to add contrast and color. She employs many different traditional jewelry techniques such as roller printing, corrugating, stamping, fold forming, enameling and hydraulic press forming to create further interest. You can see her jeweler's influence through the embellishments such as gem stones, pearls and shell on both mediums. Karyn is inspired by nature and pattern and works to bring both texture and balance to her pieces while respecting the boundaries of the materials chosen and the demands of making her jewelry wearable and her clocks functional. She strives to evoke the patterns, textures and shapes from nature that are as simple as they are beautiful. Click here to see the artist's work.

Cheryl McClure's photo of a Zebra longwing butterfly has been juried into the 2026 calendar of the Coastal & Heartland National Estuary Partnership.

Bev Yankwitt won First Place in the Visual Arts Center's "Melody of Art" show, September, 2025, with her painting, "What the Color Sang."

Bev Yankwitt's painting, "The Encounter," won the Society's Award at the Florida Watercolor Society's annual exhibition, September, 2025.  The painting will be on exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art until January, 2026.

Congratulations to Bev Yankwitt whose acrylic and collage abstract piece "Buried Treasure" won the Judges' Award in the Visual Arts Center's Members' Showcase. Summer, 2025.

Congratulations to Barbara Albin, who received Third Place  for her watercolor collage "'The  Pier," in the Visual Art Center's June, 2025 Reimagine Show. Judge's comment: "This is my favorite true abstract.  What a beautiful balance of shape, color, and value.  I absolutely love the feeling."

Congratulations to Barbara Albin, who received a Merit Award for "Subtropical Terrain," in the Visual Art Center's May, 2025 Walk in Nature Show.