“The arts are essential. They teach students innumerable lessons—practice makes perfect, small differences can have large effects, collaboration leads to creativity. The arts also teach children that there a several paths to take when approaching problems and that all problems can have more than one solution.” - Americans for The Arts

Teaching Artist Residency.

Artists, writers, film makers, dancers and photographers are invited to participate in our residency program, for 2-6 weeks. Room and studio space (when applicable) will be provided to the artist; in exchange they commit to teaching a class in their discipline at no charge for 6 hours per week.

Priority will be given to students with a diagnosis of, or IEP for, ADHD and dyslexia, or a diagnosis.

Fee based adult classes offered.

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Pablo Santibáñez Servat

Artist in Residence
November 5 -19, 2024

Born in Santiago, Chile and currently living and working in Madrid, Spain, Santibáñez Servat earned a degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1996.

The artist has five solo exhibitions to his credit including two solo museum exhibitions, the Treccanni Museum (Milan, Italy) in 2004, and the Diego Rivera Museum (Guanajuato, Mexico) 2013, as well as in Plus One Gallery (London, England) 2003, the Drexel Gallery in (Monterrey,Mexico) 2015 and Benjamin Eck Gallery (Munchen Germany).

His work has been sold in New York in at least 8 Latin American art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Santibáñez Servat has received multiple awards both in his home country and abroad, chief among them his prize at the Palais De Glace of the Biennial of Sacred Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The artist ranked in the final selection, three times, of the MEAM contest of the Museum of Figurative Arts in Barcelona, Spain where he has a work in permanent collection. In 1998 he won the Fondart Award from the Government of Chile.

In 2002 he earned a postgraduate scholarship at the Arauco Academy taking classes with the Chilean master Guillermo Muñoz-Vera and later became a professor at the art school. In 2003 he obtained a scholarship from the Complutense University of Madrid as a student of Antonio López , "Painting and Drawing Lessons" (El Escorial-Madrid).

Santibáñez Servat has also participated in multiple international art fairs such as Dallas Art Fair, Houston Art Fair, LA Art Fair, Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Monaco Fair, Bologna Fair, as well as in numerous collective shows.

Pablo’s residency is made possible in part by a grant from Mississippi Arts Commission. Enjoy images of the exhibition opening and portrait painting workshop with Pablo below.

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Gerry Stecca

Artist in Residence
May 3 – 17, 2022

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Gerry Stecca attended San Diego Mesa College, seeking a degree in Biology. He later earned a BA in Visual Arts with a minor in Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1987. In 2015 he earned a Master in Fine Arts in painting from the Savannah College of Art & Design.

Throughout his career, he has collaborated with architects and designers in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada and Spain. Some of these projects include a mural for Starbucks (Savannah, GA) and two murals in the Bahamas commissioned by Holland America/Carnival Cruise Line.

Stecca has exhibited with Jacob Karpio and Silvana Facchini Gallery, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Hollywood Art Center, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and The Frost Museum of Art among others. Stecca’s work has been shown at Art Basel (Switzerland), Miami International Art Fair, Arts for a Better World and Overture Art Fairs.

His work can be found in private, corporate and public permanent collections such as the Courtauld East Wing (London, UK), University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor (MA), Fort Smith Museum of Art (AR), Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (WA), Everett Community College (WA), Savannah College of Art and Design (GA), The Ballast Hotel (NC), The James Royal Hotel (Miami Beach) and Related Group (Trump Tower III in Sunny Isles, FL), etc.

Stecca resides and works in Savannah, GA and Miami (FL). He is a full time Foundations Professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design.