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Marilyn Givens

BFA degree from the University of New Mexico. BA and MAT degrees from Rockford College in Illinois.  She developed art curriculum and taught art in high school in Illinois.  She also taught art in high school and at Northern Virginia Community College in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.  Since moving to Florida she has taught at…

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Vivian Spencer

Vivian Spencer is a photo artist with a M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was a Graduate Fellow.  A native of Pensacola, Spencer has exhibited her photographs in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Japan.  A retrospective of Spencer’s work was shown at the Florida Museum of Women…

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John Olson

John Olsen received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Kansas City Art Institute with a major in Sculpture and minors in Industrial Design and Painting. He was awarded a tuition waiver and a student assistantship at Tulane University of Louisiana where he received his Master of Fine Art degree with a major in…

decorative image of holly_vaughn , Holly Vaughn 2013-10-14 15:22:43

Holly Vaughn

Holly Brennan Vaughn received a B.A. in Graphic Design/Visual Communications at Lynchburg College in Virginia, and both a B.A. in Elementary Education and a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology/Design from the University of West Florida. Her research interests include the history of visual communications and the design of online educational environments. As a jewelry artist she…

Summer Fun

This summer Kristen Regan took a group of 23 students to New Orleans on 9/19 to go to the Contemporary Art Center, The Ogden Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art. The group of Visual Arts photography and graphic design students were able to experience work by up and coming artists that included installation…

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Bill Clover

After a miserable first semester as a business major, I began taking art classes.  Never looking back, art degrees followed earning an AA from Santa Monica College in 1962, a BA from California State University, Long Beach in 1964, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1966. My teaching…