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Angela Lubinecky February’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: My family is from Germany and Spain. When I was 6 years old my adventurous parents moved our family to East Africa. I was raised in a multicultural expatriate community in Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya. After graduating from the German school in Nairobi, I first moved to France,…

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Emily Berger November’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Emily Berger is a multi-discipline artist focusing on printmaking and small sculptures using wood and ceramic.  Her work, often inspired by the natural world and the animal kingdom, combines mediums to create interesting texture and layers. Her love for old-school techniques and detail is reiterated in her printmaking process.…

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Holly Spruck October’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Holly Spruck’s paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the United States and abroad, including the Merrill Jennings Gallery, ArtWorks On Main, Dialect Design, and the Green Rice Gallery in North Carolina, and the Blue Moon Café in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Her solo…

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Diane Aka-Bashorun August 2024’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Diane Aka-Bashorun is a self taught artist from the San Francisco Bay Area.  Art has become a way to live life more fully and embrace her curiosity beyond her career in the corporate world.  Diane creates art as a way to move through life.  It is simply…

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Liz Haywood August 2024’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: I’ve been drawing and painting ever since I could hold a crayon. After attaining the position as head of graphic design for the popular shoe brand Dolce Vita, I focused on establishing myself as an independent artist. Returning to the South, I developed a steady demand for…

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Johnny Rocket Ibanez July 2024’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Johnny Rocket Ibanez is a contemporary artist who currently focuses on abstract figurative painting with a thematic focus on the intersection of poetry and painting. Other hats that have been worn and are occasionally put back on for short periods of time include commercial graphic designer,…

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Anand Wakankar June 2024’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Anand Wakankar was born in India, where he  completed his degree in Engineering and began his career in the IT industry. He and his family moved to New Jersey in the early 90’s and later moved to Charlotte.  He has been drawn to art, since his early school…

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Donna Heil May 2024’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Donna Heil’s art takes inspiration from her journey to her current residence in Charlotte, NC. She collected images and recreated memories from past adventures, painting scenes of the beautiful landscapes she witnessed. Her art reflects a life of travel,  life lessons learned, and a continuing journey ahead.…

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Emilie White April 2024’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Emilie White received her BFA at Samford University which included a major in Interior Architecture and a minor in art. She is a creative in many forms, but has loved practicing art as a creative outlet for the majority of her life. She has exhibited her work…

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Tina Ruark-Baker March 2024’s Featured Artist Artist Bio:  Tina Ruark-Baker, affectionately known as “T,” is a self-taught abstract artist based in North Carolina.  Having recently relocated with her beloved husband from Long Island, NY, Tina has wholeheartedly embraced the vibrant artistic scene that Charlotte has to offer. Over the span of numerous years, Tina has…

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