Art & Artists

“From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.” includes 65 works by American artists.

With palette and brushes at her fingertips, Krupp lets her imagination soar as various shapes, squiggly lines and vibrant reds, blues and yellows literally dance across her canvases, telling tales she has dreamed about and wants to share.

“I started coming up to Vero Beach to help a longtime friend who was renovating a property he inherited from his parents, and I remember thinking this is a really nice place. There was a wonderful museum, theater and not a lot of traffic. It was charming.”

Jon Foote, an established architect, didn’t set out to be a beach artist. It just happened.

Meet ageless artist Barbara (“Everybody calls me Bobby”) Holleman, who has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember.

The history of the cherished baskets, including how they got their name, is as fascinating as it is integral to the life of the residents of the former whaling community.

As VBMA’s director, Brady Roberts, notes, it is a collection that features “a broad range and so many different media — with so many iconic works.”

The sold-out event, which benefitted educational programs and attracted new members, was such a success that a second “Fashion Meets Art” is scheduled to take place Feb. 27, with well-known American potter, designer and author Jonathan Adler taking center stage.

Barbara Kaytes, a highly respected and talented floral designer from the New York metropolitan area, moved to Windsor in 2016

Created in the 19th century as souvenirs for lovelorn sailors to take home to their sweethearts, Sailors’ Valentines were fashioned from octagonal shadow boxes of mahogany and Spanish cedar inlaid with an intricate pattern of shells.

Mellott, a storyteller at heart, captures the essence of her chosen subject, whether it be people, animals or flowers.

Schwarze, who moved to Vero Beach this summer, spent 10 years on the tiny island of Culebra in the Caribbean, painting the beauty that surrounded him.

Mary Louise O’Sullivan, a recognized Florida marine and wildlife artist, has a background steeped in art.

Photography exhibit at Vero Beach Museum of Art invites people to experience the sense of mystery and awe of astronomy.

Textile Artist Maggy Rozycki Hiltner uses materials with a past to weave new stories.

Deborah Gooch straddles abstraction and realism with ease and often uses both styles in one painting.

After living and working in cities here and abroad, artist Enrique Maza has found the setting and inspiration he has been looking for in a house in Palm Bay that he bought the first day a “for sale” sign was posted. Even though that was six months ago, many of his personal belongings remain packed in boxes since painting in his sun-splashed studio is Maza’s top priority.

The Museum Art School at the Vero Beach Museum of Art is one of the largest, museum-based, continuing education programs in the state. Serving some 1,800 students each year, the program invites a growing number of residents to discover the depth and breadth of its curriculum and have fun doing it.

Greg Hills, Australian-born photographer and now a resident of our area, visited the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea this past winter – something he’s wanted to do for years.

When you enter the galleries of the Vero Beach Museum of Art, you are just as likely to encounter a youngster sitting on a beanbag chair making art on an iPad as to see an equally absorbed adult studying a priceless painting. And you are just as likely to see a docent leading a tour of young mothers with tots in strollers as you are to see that docent conducting a tour for residents of a retirement community. While the docent may talk to the latter group about the exhibition in one way, she will engage the mothers in another way, emphasizing to them how to talk to their children about art.