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Debra Tornaben is an award-winning development professional, television producer, and advocate for both the arts and humanitarian causes. For over 35 years, she has raised millions of dollars for nonprofits supporting the arts, the elderly, children in foster care, and those affected by trafficking, with a lasting impact on the…
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Cary Stamp Cary Stamp, CFP®, CAP® Cary Stamp is a Certified Financial Planner® and the founder of Cary Stamp & Co., a wealth advisory firm serving families around the world. He developed the Principled Wealth Process™ to help clients use their assets to create lasting impact across generations. His firm…
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Laura Martinez-Bianco lives in New York’s Hudson Valley where she has grown to appreciate the importance of preserving our lands through conservation and the arts. Each of her pastel paintings is a record of the landscape at a particular moment in time. When not painting close to home Laura travels…
MoreA native Venezuelan, Porras has dedicated over twenty years to portraying the peoples of Amazonia, splitting his time between his studios in Paris and the United States and his work in the field among different tribes of Venezuela, Brazil, and Colombia. Painting with oil on canvases that average six to…
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Ace Tilton Ratcliff is a genderqueer, disabled metalsmith, multidisciplinary artist, photographer and writer who also moonlights as a narrative and deathcare consultant. The Little Book of Dog Care with Simon Element was their first book. Their metalsmith work was part of SNAG’s 2024 In Focus exhibition, in collaboration with Queer…
MoreStacy recently moved to Florida and is thrilled to be teaching at Lighthouse Art Center. Prior to her move (and retirement), Stacy owned, and taught at, an arts studio that concentrated in Ceramics, Fused Glass and Textile & Fiber Arts. In total, she has taught art and fine crafts to…
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Chelsea Rousso, originally from Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, and now based in Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida, blends her passion for fashion design and fused glass art into unique wearable pieces like corsets and “glasskinis.” A graduate of Pratt Institute and Goddard College, she has showcased her work at notable venues…
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Barbara has drawn and worked in oil paint for as long as she can remember. She focuses on still life and floral painting, but also loves plein air and portrait painting. Her BA undergraduate degree was a concentration in painting and she received an MA in studio ceramics. The art…
MoreNew York artist Tyler K. Smith draws upon a storied career spanning art, illustration, theatre, television, and film to create a world of fantastical creatures and futuristic machines. Combining traditional formalist concerns with the visual language of comic books and science fiction, Smith draws, paints, and constructs armies of lifeforms…
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Lynn Yuhr is a self-taught artist creating contemporary art jewelry using primarily polymer clay. She has a Masters degree in geology and spent 30 years observing and interpreting nature and the impacts from man-made structures. The intersection of these observations (natural and man-made) is what has stuck with her and…
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