MEET THE WAW ARTISTS
Autumn Kioti
Autumn Kioti's work explores connections between people, land, water, and the unseen forces that shape our lives. Rooted in storytelling and reclamation, she recovers lost narratives and memories embedded in place. Working across disciplines with found and ephemeral materials, her practice is guided by curiosity and responsiveness. Each piece is an offering—inviting viewers to see differently and reflect on our shared world.
Katherine Hofmann
Hofmann was born in Miami, Florida, and lives and works in West Palm Beach, where she is a teaching artist at the Norton Museum of Art. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 and works across mixed-media watercolor, kiln-cast glass, and ceramics, exploring the movement of water and the flora and fauna of South Florida. Her first solo exhibition, Seams Between Land and Sky, will open in March 2026 at the Palm Beach Cultural Council; her work has been exhibited widely and is held in private collections.
Amaya Estrada
Amaya Estrada is a Museum Educator and Teaching Artist at the Norton Museum of Art, where she leads family programs and arts outreach across Palm Beach County. A multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper, she explores themes of cultural identity, duality, and displacement. She founded the Norton Artist Collective and is a fellow through the Cultural Council's Arts Administrators of Color initiative. She lives and works in South Florida.
Rose Gong Monier
Rose Gong Monier is a professional designer with over 20 years in the home furnishings industry. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design and began her career at Ralph Lauren Home, where she helped launch their tabletop division and earned two U.S. design patents. Her work spans top brands, including Henredon, Waterford/Wedgwood, Reed & Barton, and Karastan, and she designed the Polo Sport men’s fragrance bottle and packaging. In addition to her professional work, Rose teaches and mentors young artists, guiding them successfully through college portfolio preparation.
Landis Carey
Landis Carey is a ceramic artist who experiences synesthesia, feeling color as rich, undulating swaths of light. Following a pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2018, her practice shifted from functional ware to experimental installations inspired by color visions during meditation. She handbuilds with mid-range stoneware and intricately layers glazes to recreate her visions, letting light interact with the surfaces. With a library of over 400 glaze tests, Landis continues to explore new ceramic forms and presentations.
Jess Kirby
Jess Kirby is a multidisciplinary artist creating immersive, surreal worlds through painting, digital design, and animation. A Florida State University graduate and lead designer for Etam US, she pushes the boundaries of traditional gallery experiences. Her work engages multiple senses, inviting viewers into interactive journeys. Kirby also fosters community and platforms for unconventional artists outside traditional spaces.
Elizabeth Palace
Elizabeth is an emerging photographer with a knack for storytelling and a passion for people. Her origin story began in rural North Carolina, steeped in family histories, and eventually brought her to South Florida through full mini-lives lived in London, New York, and Los Angeles. A queen of adaptation and a champion for strength in vulnerability, Elizabeth has an uncanny ability to immerse herself in varying environments with ease to form deeply personal collaborations with her subjects.
Emily Blaylock
Emily Blaylock is a songwriter based in her living room in Lake Worth Beach, composing and recording soundscaped journal entries. She finds joy in collaborating with local artists and creating femme-forward music spaces. Beyond music, she advocates for survivors of violence and abuse with Palm Beach County Victim Services.
Hayley Sheldon
Hayley is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on tactility and color. She is native to West Palm Beach, where she currently lives with her husband and three children, drawing inspiration from the natural world around her. Her work is rooted in the act of noticing, of transforming familiar landscapes into vivid visual representations that evoke memory and metaphor. Her current body of work utilizes a catalog of shapes made by sewing directly into wood frames, using the fibers to create a translucent color field effect.
Kelsey Snyder
When I was a kid I never wore shoes. I liked the crunch of leaves under my feet and loved the soft sand massaging my toes. I was aware of the birds chirping and crickets singing, a branch breaking in the distance would set my curiosity on fire. Now that I’m older and more seasoned, I realize that was me completely surrendering and connecting with nature. We lose that sometimes through life’s trials. My goal with my art is to bring that curiosity and connectedness back to us all. I find my best inspiration is from the natural world around us and it's reflected in my early body of work as well as my latest. The mediums I use may have shifted but my message remains consistent. Nature is a part of us and there’s a lot we can learn from it as long as we are open to receiving.
Lindsey Mills
Lindsey Mills is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter who began self-releasing original music in 2007 and joined the indie rock band Surfer Blood on bass in 2015. Fiercely DIY, she writes, records & releases her own music, also adding visual projections, music videos, curated events & most recently, digital collectibles to her body of work.
Lani Goodrich
Lani Goodrich. Born and raised in West Palm Beach- she is one bad ass bitch who makes pottery. Avenue Pottery that is.
Lisa LaFrance
I am the conceptual creator of LAFRANCE PROJECT, based in WPB, focusing on local philanthropy. My passion is matching funders with nonprofits, brainstorming capacity-building strategies, and fostering trust across community stakeholders. As a former Investment Manager and past President of Impact the Palm Beaches, I challenge outdated practices in the nonprofit sector, advocating for transparency, and authenticity, and creating deeper donor engagement. “I want to inspire and encourage everyone to find true happiness, not through the pursuit of limitless material wealth, but through the purpose and passion that comes from helping others. Mostly, I want to get people to give more to the charities that deserve it most.
Valerie Noell
Valerie Noell is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in creative direction, photography, and abstract expressionist painting. Deeply influenced by nature, her work reflects a decade spent exploring parklands and foreign cities as a commercial wilderness and lifestyle photographer.
She is the founder of Terracotta House, an art-driven lifestyle studio and gallery in Boca Raton, FL, offering fine art, curated artisanal goods, and a creative space for intentional gatherings.
Verona Rose
Verona Rose is an internationally touring musician, songwriter, and producer based in Florida. With a deep passion for the unity music brings, she crafts her music with sonic & lyrical intention that creates safe spaces for everyone. Her energy brings charisma and warmth to collaborations both inside and outside musical spaces.
Luann Parmelee
Luann Parmelee is a native of North Carolina and a 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated in a Bachelor of fine arts degree in studio art. She trained in the classical use of oil paint while experiencing all aspects of the fine arts. Such as sculpting, lithography and drawing. Her work has evolved over the years. She now uses multi media such as acrylic paint, oil pastel, watercolor, paper, ceramics and repurposed objects. Her art is a reflection of her personal journey. She reflects her humor or spirituality in her work. Often times adding words and textures to her art pieces.
Andrea Pertnoy
Andrea’s work centers on making everyday life beautiful and intentional. After over a decade teaching yoga, her practice evolved into ceramics, crafting functional pottery that blends earth and quiet luxury.
Inspired by daily rituals with her husband and two sons, she now co-runs found. with her sister—a conscious retail space curating sustainable, soulful objects from around the world.
Bonnie Sorsby
Bonnie Sorsby is a Florida-based multidisciplinary artist whose expressive work blends intuition, joyful color, and lively brushstrokes. Painting primarily in acrylic, she embraces free-spirited yet intentional creation, reflecting her deep trust in the artistic process. Inspired by the beautiful flora, fauna, and people of South Florida, Bonnie explores painting, photography, and design while balancing life as a wife, homeschooling mom, and entrepreneur.
Cailin Bryn
I’ve always loved capturing memories, and with photography, it's been a beautiful thing to capture those moments for others as well. There’s nothing more that I love than capturing someone in a moment in their life, especially one that truly captures them. There’s something about the authenticity of that moment that you can feel and get to experience forever.
Camilla Webster
Camilla Webster is a celebrated Palm Beach artist known for her bold, colorful paintings that capture the elegance of island life, Americana, and ocean-inspired beauty. Honored as a Trailblazer by Discover the Palm Beaches, her work is in the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum's permanent collection and has been exhibited at The Breakers, The Boca Raton, The Sagamore, and Art Basel Miami Beach. Her Love From Palm Beach brand, embodying the town's historic charm with a modern flair, has sold thousands of prints and products worldwide, making her synonymous with the palm tree. Her recent Warhol flag series in collaboration with Karen Bystedt highlights her connection to Andy Warhol, and has gained national acclaim. Visit camillawebster.com for more.
Gaby Viteri
Gaby Viteri is a South Florida–based curator and multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on community-driven storytelling and participatory exchange. Through autobiographical frameworks of memory and healing, her practice decentralizes pain, inviting humor and irreverence alongside more difficult truths. Her work extends beyond object-making into the cultivation of cultural spaces that foster reflection and community connection.
Melissa DelPrete
Melissa DelPrete (b. New York, 1987) is an artist whose work blends abstraction, craft, and expressionism through intuitive mark-making and layered color. Inspired by wild landscapes and archetypal patterns in nature, her practice explores material, gesture, and intuition as pathways to identity and connection. She is based in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, and is the founder of mtn space.
Maxine Spector
Maxine Spector is a self-taught multi-media artist. Her practice, which spans from painting to ceramic clay, is entirely intuitive. In 2013, she painted a series of 101 portraits and, in 2019, she decided to take the theme to a three-dimensional medium. This led to her ambitious 1,001 Heads series. In addition to her ceramic practice, Spector works in oil on paper, canvas, and board to create backdrops and narratives for her heads. She is currently based in Lake Worth Beach, FL.
Heather Couch
Heather Couch is an Associate Professor of Art at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Her work in sculptural ceramics and mixed media installation has received attention nationally and internationally. She has shown in New York, Miami, Rome, Seoul, and across the US, including over 12 solo exhibitions. Heather has been a resident artist at the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet Hungary, CRETA in Rome Italy, and the Mesa Arts Center in Arizona. Her work can be found in private and public collection including Florida Gulf Coast University, Union University, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ann Tenenbaum, Robert and Debbie Burger, and the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum (MCA).