Michele Del Campo \/ October <\/strong><\/p>\nAt the age of twenty, Michele Del Campo began a global artistic journey, resulting in his work being exhibited in numerous international galleries. His familiarity with different cultures has fostered a visual repertoire that is a fusion of different places; mixing elements that shifts focus to stories and moods. While his portraits are more than simple individuals; instead, capturing autobiographical moments and a broader humanity. His figurative works include large-scale oil paintings and intimate charcoal drawings.<\/p>\n
Alejandra Abad \/ November <\/strong><\/p>\nBorn in Caracas, Venezuela, Alejandra Abad is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator who explores belonging and mutual compassion as key parts of collective wellness. Through layering, abstraction, and light, she creates new landscapes that relate to place, family, and community. Her playful storytelling often features fragmentation, folklore, and mythology. Abad\u2019s installation work creates environments that include sculptural elements and video projection that relate the history of anticolonial movements to international surrealism and magical realism.<\/p>\n
Rene\u0301e Rey \/ December <\/strong><\/p>\nRene\u0301e Rey\u2019s art reflects a vision for an inclusive, just, and healthy world. In both large and\u00a0intimately scaled paintings, mixed media, and assemblage artwork, she creates other-worldly\u00a0ecospheres that celebrate connection and kinship among diverse people, cultures, nature, and\u00a0technologies. As she considers these concepts, Rey experiments with combining abstraction,\u00a0realism, and surrealism, and varied media including oil, acrylic, paper, sandpaper, pins, clay, and\u00a0wood branches.<\/p>\n
Walter O\u2019Neill \/ January<\/strong><\/p>\nWalter O’Neill had been a painter for over 30 years, exhibiting his oil and fresco paintings in group and solo exhibits in New York, Maine, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. In 2017, his artistic focus changed after taking a clay class and now ceramics is his primary art form. The Deerfield Beach resident has exhibited his work at ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale, Gallery 21 in Wilton Manors, Sugar Sand Community Park in Boca Raton, and in several venues as a member of the LGBTQ arts group ArtsUnitedFlorida.<\/p>\n
T.M. Pride \/ February<\/strong><\/p>\nTerrence \u201cT.M.\u201d Pride is a multifaceted artist, with an expansive career showcasing many roles including director, choreographer, dancer, costume designer and teacher. A graduate of Florida A&M, he has choreographed over sixty pieces of work, including musicals, and commissioned ballets. T.M. is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, with Off-Broadway credits including For Colored Boyz; Regional credits in American Black Princess and American Son; along with Film\/TV credits in: First Ladies, Lovecraft Country, and Underground Railroad. He currently serves as the producing artistic director for Br\u00e9vo Theatre and director of the dance program at Dillard High School for the Arts.<\/p>\n
Louiveste La Croix \/ May<\/strong><\/p>\nLouiveste La Croix is an artist born in Haiti and currently based in South Florida. His artwork is a unique combination of multimedia techniques, gestural figures, and abstract color schemes that captivate viewers. La Croix uses his art to convey messages of spiritual awareness, unity, and consciousness through natural elements while also paying tribute to historical roots to promote conscious evolution. He believes that true artistry comes from taking risks and doing something that has never been done before, as well as expressing oneself authentically.<\/p>\n
About the City of Pompano Beach Cultural Affairs Department:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nThe mission of the Cultural Affairs Department is to provide cultural programming that includes visual arts,\u202fdigital media, music, film, theater, dance and public art for the enjoyment and enrichment of residents and visitors to Pompano Beach, Broward County, and the greater South Florida area. The department programs and manages the City\u2019s premiere cultural arts venues, including the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, Ali Cultural Arts Center, Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, and the Blanche Ely House Museum. The department also oversees the City\u2019s Public Art Program and the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts\u2019 Our Town grant awarded to the Pompano Beach\u202fCrossroads\u202fplace-making arts initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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