January Guest Artist Kathleen Mack

January Guest Artist Kathleen Mack

January Guest Artist Kathleen Mack Kathy Mack’s interest in ceramics began in her late twenties while on a camping vacation in West Virginia.  She met an elderly woman who sold her work at the park lodge. She used clay she dug from a creek near her home, earning...
Bev Yankwitt

Bev Yankwitt

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....
Bev Yankwitt

Bev Yankwitt

  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,...
Horse Rescue Charity Gift Basket Raffle

Horse Rescue Charity Gift Basket Raffle

Horse Rescue Charity Gift Basket Raffle Our designated charity for 2025/2026 is Southwest Florida Horse Rescue, Inc., an organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of abused and neglected horses.  We are raffling off a gift basket of artwork donated by our talented...
Barbara Albin

Barbara Albin

  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...
January Guest Artist Laura Pucci

January Guest Artist Laura Pucci

January Guest Artist Laura Pucci Laura Pucci is an award-winning artist and educator based in North Port, Florida. She has been teaching since 1991 and is currently the art teacher at Port Charlotte Middle School, where her students have earned numerous local, state,...
Donna Pape

Donna Pape

Donna Pape Sea Grape Gallery Artist Member since 2021Fine Art Medium:  Oil Painting Donna Pape first developed an interest in oil painting while in high school, and then went on to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago.  She has...