Join us First Friday, November 1st 5:30-8:30 PM for an Evening at the Gallery with the solo exhibition “Face Value” featuring the fiber portraits of our resident artist Dawn Waters.
Proceeds from opening night of this solo exhibition will go to hurricane relief efforts, specifically Red Cross.
This uplifting community event will also feature live music with Jim Gilmour and special guest Rebecca Zapen!
This event is free and open to the public.
ABOUT DAWN WATERS:
Dawn came to create art relatively late in life, after an advertising career and working as communications director at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. She is self taught, spent most of her life in Virginia, and now resides in Gulfport, Florida.
Since she began making fiber paintings in 2017, Dawn has been honored to receive the first place award in Florida CraftArt’s 2021 Members’ Show and in Fearless Fiber at Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa FL, as well as four awards of distinction. She served as juror for Felt: Fiber Transformed 2020, Fiber Art Network, and has had her work featured in Outsider Art Magazine and on the Summer 2019 cover of Fiber Art Now.
Dawn’s felted creations have been shown in Red Truck Gallery, New Orleans; MIZE Gallery St. Petersburg, FL; Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ; Brenda McMahon Gallery and DRV Gallery, Gulfport, FL; Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg, FL; Art Center Sarasota and juried fine art shows including the American Craft Council show in Atlanta.
ABOUT REBECCA ZAPEN:
Rebecca Zapen is the third generation in her musical family tree, carrying on a tradition that has covered the spectrum from professional symphony musicians to performers of jazz and pop. She studied violin from the age of 3, is a Phi Beta Kappa alumna of Florida State University where she graduated magma cum laude with music and biology degrees, and has released four albums of original folk and jazz music.
While valuing her classical foundation, she has also played in diverse genres for the past 20 years. She served as a per service violinist in the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Illinois Symphony Orchestra, in chamber ensembles, and with groups of various genres from jazz to pop/rock to klezmer. She is frequently called upon for recording sessions and has appeared on dozens of albums.