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Deborah Bigeleisen Deborah Bigeleisen

After a 30 year career in New York City as a fabric designer and owner of a global design company, Deborah is now an internationally published contemporary realist artist, whose work is well represented in galleries throughout the United States. Her paintings have been exhibited in museums and have received numerous awards.  Deborah continues to astonish her audience with her wondrous vision, her emphatic use of color and her uncompromising composition. The vision is hers; the joy belongs to the viewer. 

   
Vera Kaminester Vera Kaminester

Vera has always been interested in the arts and public education.  After graduating from University of Pennsylvania College for Women with a BA in education and psychology, she taught elementary education until her two children made her a full time, at home mother.  After moving to Florida, she began her real estate career. International travel, attending auctions and museum visits and courses increased her interest and education in art and architecture.  She is currently active in many aspects of Florida real estate, most recently with her son Joel, a real estate broker.

   
Elizabeth Marshall Beasley

Elizabeth (Libby) Marshall-Beasley, MLA is a registered landscape architect practicing in West Palm Beach. Libby’s degree in Urban Policy and Planning from Princeton University led her career in the public sector as a Policy Analyst for the New Jersey Legislature, and the private sector as a Development Director for the Commercial Real Estate Divisions of the Rouse Company and Walt Disney World.  She gained “not for profit” experience as Director of Development Planning for the Norton Museum of Art’s facility expansions. Libby earned her Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from Florida International University.  Currently, she is a sole practitioner for private and commercial design commissions, a Distinguished Lecturer in Practice at FIU, a gubernatorial appointee to the Florida Board of Landscape Architecture, Vice President of Special Projects for Habitat for Humanity and member to the U.S. Veteran’s Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Design Task Force. 

   
  Aeyung Park de-Melo

Bio Coming Soon.

   
Shanon Materio Shanon Materio

Over 30 years ago, while still a student at Mary Mount Womens College, Shanon and her husband Phil, started the successful art glass studio, McMow Art Glass. McMow is the 25th largest art glass firm in the U. S. with a wide range of diverse and high profile clients. Shanon presides over the design and production department of 18 various talented designers that operate as a team. The team has completed several in and out of state AIPP projects and this experience has been valuable while serving on this volunteer board.
In addition to McMow Art Glass, Shanon is President of Creative Etchings of the Palm Beaches and Alhambra Art Glass (a manufacturing/importing company). Shanon Materio is active in local Community efforts to enhance neighborhoods through public art and changing the face of Dixie Highway by encouraging artist owned studios through public grants.

   
Jan Stein

Jan Stein is a cultural advocate, owner of DiDiT(R) Media, a fine art appreciator and collector, founder of the public charity “Creative Legacy Archives, Inc.”, and a novice photographer. A former fine art gallery owner, Jan was the first manager of Hillsborough County Government's Public Art Program, where she procured diverse works of public art for county-owned libraries, courthouses, recreation/park centers, and office buildings. Jan has produced and hosted community–based T.V. programs, and was a recipient of the Hillsborough County Good Government and the Employee of the Year Recognition Awards. In 2005, Media General awarded Stein the Brush Strokes Award for Excellence in the Arts for Activist of the Year.

 

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