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Our hard work is paying off! Thanks to you, we have been voted:
Best Art Gallery by Sarasota Magazine Reader’s Choice 2022
Best Arts Organization by 2022 Best of SRQ Local
Best Local Gallery by 2022 Best of SRQ Local
We’ve been nominated as Best Art Gallery by Bradenton’s Best People’s Choice awards – Winners to be announced in July 2022
Thanks to all who voted for us!
Addie Rose started teaching at ArtCenter Manatee in the fall of 2022. Prior to that she worked as a potter and pottery instructor at Arts Ablaze in Lakewood Ranch.
Pottery has been a lifelong passion of Addie’s. She started working on the wheel in middle school. Addie graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Ceramics & Studio Art in 2003 and studied under Paul Donhauser and Randy Johnston. During her military career, she always sought out a kiln and a wheel to keep her artistic passions alive. Her inspiration explores the dynamic between various energies, forces and influences. Typically she explores this through combining wheel thrown and handbuilding techniques and various glazing methods. She welcomes beginner through advanced students in all her classes and offers Beginner Wheel throwing (Mondays 1-4pm), Monday evening wheel throwing (5:30-8:30pm) and Combination Wheel and Handbuilding (Wednesdays 5:30-8:30pm).
Her motto is Pets, Pottery & Yoga. Do more yoga, be more YOU! When she’s not practicing or teaching yoga, Addie enjoys SCUBA diving, traveling, and volunteering with The Haven and the Florida Aquarium. Addie is also an avid animal lover, she started pet sitting in 2022.
Melissa Miller Nece, CPSA, CPX, MAA is regarded as one of the foremost colored pencil artists in the country. Her enthusiasm and humor have made her a favorite speaker for arts groups, and she has inspired many others to try colored pencils through her classes and workshops. She has taught colored pencil, drawing, and oil and acrylic painting at the Dunedin Fine Art Center since 1990, and many workshops in Florida and as far away as South Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
Melissa is president, a ten year merit signature member and a CPX signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America. Prior to that, Melissa was CPSA’s ways and means director for eight years and she served two terms as president of CPSA District Chapter 113. She is also a signature member and board member of the Miniature Artists of America, a member of the Florida Artist Group, board member of the Professional Association of Visual Artist and a member and past board member of the Miniature Art Society of Florida.
Melissa developed a mixed media technique featured in a step-by-step article she wrote for the October 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine. Other publications featuring her artwork include CPSA Signature Showcase, Modern Masters of Miniature Art in America, Creative Colored Pencil Portraits, American Artist and Drawing Highlights magazines, The Best of Colored Pencil, volumes 2, 3, and 5, and other books. She has worked with several manufacturers of art products who have used her work in advertising, packaging and promotional materials. Her drawings and paintings are in many private and corporate collections, including the St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport, the city of Clearwater, and the Pencil Museum in Keswick, England.
My life careers were in teaching and industrial management. In 1996, wanting to satisfy my creative juices, I decided to try my hand working as a full-time artist. Art & art-related projects have always been a big part of my everyday existence for as long as I can remember. Encouraged by a mentor and friend, I have never looked back.
I love those happy accidents that I see every day in pursuing my passion. I look to the whimsical, contemporary & abstract for inspiration and then just let my thoughts guide my hands. God has truly blessed me.
“I loved the free flow style of watercolor, but needed more precision” said Peterson. “I then discovered that using a variety of different mediums gave me the ability to be unrestrained yet detailed.”
Her work can be found in private European and US collections and galleries.
Sawyer Ramsey has been working with the KidsArt program at the Center for many years. For Sawyer, her job has never been about creating little artists. It has been about teaching her young students to think, problem solve, and develop a passion for creating and learning. Sawyer recently retired from her full time position as an art instructor in the Manatee County Schools and now works with them as a substitute teacher in the arts.
MFS 9-5, TWTh 9-6. Closed Sunday
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