Artist Recognition

​Our featured Artist for the month of August is colored pencil artist Anne Tuttle.  Anne has always loved drawing and prefers to work in dry mediums including graphite, silverpoint, and pastel, but mostly colored pencil, which she loves for its versatility and precision.  Her award-winning paintings include portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and seascapes. Click here to see the artist's work.

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.

Congratulations to Beth Williams, whose pine needle sculpture, "Yellow Crown Heron," won First Place at the Englewood Art Center's Community Threads: Fiber Art show, March, 2025.

Congratulations to Bev Yankwitt,  who won First Place in the January, 2025 "Black & White" exhibit at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda with her abstract painting, "Where the Light Fades."

Congratulations to Barbara Albin whose abstract painting, "Moving Back," won Second Place in the Visual Arts Center's "Color" show, January, 2025.