
Amber Aguirre
Amber Aguirre is a ceramic sculptor living and working on the Big Island of Hawaii. Her work explores strong emotions by blending humor, sarcasm, and pain in an edgy and confrontational way. More |

Grace-Anne Alfiero
Grace-Anne Alfiero, the Executive Director and Founder of Creative Clay, Inc., Cultural Arts Center has been an advocate for persons with disabilities for over 20 years. She is also a professional interdisciplinary artist working with photography, painting, digital imaging and drawing. More |

Judith Alstadter
Dr. Judith Alstadter is a concert pianist, music educator, lecturer, and recording artist. She has achieved recognition and praise for the beauty and virtuosity of her interpretations, as well as for the originality of her programs. More |

Amy Blake
Amy Blake, along with her husband Bob Barancik, is a co-creator of CreativeLedge Studios. Amy has over 25 years of experience as a communicator: an illustrator, designer, writer, and creative professional. More |

Stacie Blake
Stacie Blake is the Executive Director of Community Tampa Bay. She works to fulfill the agency’s mission of promoting dialogue and respect among all cultures, religions and races and envisioning a community free from discrimination. More |

Erin Blankenship
Erin Blankenship is the Curator of Exhibitions & Collections at the Florida Holocaust Museum located in St. Petersburg. More |

Eugenie Bondurant
Eugenie Bondurant is the founder of Spoken-True, an on-camera training program that enables actors, business professionals, and singers to convey their messages in a believable, clear and succinct way. More |
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Debra Campbell
Debra Campbell is a serial entrepreneur, an economic development professional and an educator. She has over 20 years experience in economic development. More |
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Ted Chan
Ted Chan is a social entrepreneur who provides business and technical advice to CreativeLedge and ArtNotHate. Ted Chan is a co-founder of Upward Mobility, an education company that develops content for wireless platforms. More |

Phyllis Chapell
Phyllis Chapell performs a unique mix of originals, folk, jazz and international music, including songs in up to 12 languages from the U.S., Brazil, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. She has a specialized Jewish program (which includes songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian and Ladino). More |

Suzzanne Connolly
Suzzanne Connolly is the owner of Picturia Press, a graphic design house specializing in book design and layout. As a graphic and web designer, book designing was another avenue and outlet for her creative process. More |

Rebecca Davis
Entrepreneur and choreographer, Rebecca Davis has constantly sought opportunities to deepen her academic knowledge to broaden the artistic scope of her organization, The Rebecca Davis Dance Company, located in Philadelphia. More
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Bradley Erickson
Bradley sits as a Director for both the Downtown Arts Association in St. Petersburg and the St. Pete Beach Civic Association. He and his wife Eloyne are the owner/operators of Grand Central Stained Glass & Graphics, the largest and most complete decorative glass studio in South Pinellas. More
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Sarah Gerard
Sarah Gerard is the Project Blogger and Project Coordinator for Art Not Hate as well as a freelance writer with published works in Creative Loafing, Examiner.com, the Tampa Bay Times (tbt*), St. Petersburg Times, Beach Scene and Beatlick News. More |

Aleshea Harris
Aleshea Harris is an actress, poet and singer-songwriter. She earned a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Southern Mississippi and has performed on various stages in various capacities in the Tampa Bay and beyond. More |

Nancy 3. Hoffman
Nancy 3. Hoffman is a singer, accordionist, pianist, and musical director. In addition, she is the instigator, director, and curator of the World’s Only Umbrella Cover Museum. More |

Bryan Hunt
Bryan Hunt is a Principal and Vice President of ASD, Inc., a nationally recognized architecture, interior design and graphic design firm. His work goes beyond simply housing employees but seeks to conceive and create innovative, employee-focused workplaces that improve morale, productivity and efficiency. More |

Stan Hunter
Stan Hunter is a world class pianist, organist and composer. He has performed with many of the greatest jazz artists of all time including John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Stitt, and Dexter Gordon. More |

Leslie Joy Ickowitz
Leslie Joy Ickowitz is Publisher, Editor in Chief and Creative Director of VERTICAL, Tampa Bay’s virtual magazine celebrating fashion, flavor, travel, culture and beauty (inside & out). With a strong philanthropic focus, it is designed to uplift the Tampa Bay area and highlight its treasures. More |

Laura Johnson
Laura was with the Florida Holocaust Museum for over five years and had the opportunity to work with renowned historians, curators and dignitaries from all over the world. During her tenure at the Museum, she worked on her thesis Museums and Their Educational Responsibility: Creating Reliable Web Sites That Teach. More |

Dan Kleiman
(Born December 3, 1954 / Died February 22, 2010)
Dan’s 30-year career includes performances with Grammy-award winning jazz artists Ernie Watts, Mike Stern, Benny Golson, Charles Fambrough, Boyz II Men, The Fifth Dimension, Charles Fambrough, Gerald Veasley, Howard Levy (Bela Fleck), Ralph Bowen, John Swana, Allan Harris, Clint Holmes and James Brown drummer, Clyde Stubblefield and served as the musical director for the Philadelphia 76ers House Band. More |

Michael Massaro
Michael Massaro is an award-winning Tampa Bay artist whose work in sculpture, painting, and printmaking is well-regarded throughout the region. More |

Craig Miller
Craig Miller, owner of Full Throttle Intermedia, (FTI), is a true artist in the digital realm. Communicating for clients from Department of Defense, construction, finance and healthcare, he has the unique talent of making the vision of each client a reality. More |

Dee Youmans Miller
Dee Youmans-Miller lives a life surrounded by art. In a unique way, Dee brings an intimate view of her subjects, giving the paintings a life of their own. More |

Scott Mullenberg
Scott is the owner of Mullenberg Designs and Portfolio Design Studio, a professional hand bookbindery specializing in custom fabrications for artists, designers and photographers. More |

Greg Pellone
Greg has created art throughout his life, working in various media including oils, pastels, woodcut, etching, sculpture and puppetry. The ideas for his art spring from my life and nature, and are done primarily for his own personal pleasure. More |

Dave Puls
Dave Puls has been the Creative Director at Animatus Studio since 1992. He is also a songwriter, musician and mixed media collagist. He has collaborated with Bob Barancik and many associates of CreativeLedge on multiple award-winning video productions. More |

Daniel Reardon
Daniel is the former CEO of Bass Shoes (a $400 million division of the Phillip Van Heusen corporation) and is currently a senior business consultant to L.L. Bean. He also developed and managed the retail operation of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for three years. More |

Ken Rollins
Ken Rollins has been Executive Director of four art museums in Florida over a career of thirty years: The Deland Museum of Art, Deland, FL; the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL; and finally Interim Executive Director of the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. Each museum achieved significant success under Ken’s leadership. More |

Noah Rollins
Noah A. Rollins is a Tampa Bay-based architect with more than a decade of experience in his field, and a LEED Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building Council. More |

Peter Simpkins
Peter Simpkins is a pianist, composer, teacher and music therapist. For the past twenty-five years he has maintained a vibrant studio in Philadelphia, PA, where he teaches classical and jazz piano, as well as improvisation. More |

Herb Snitzer
Herb Snitzer's career covers over fifty years of image-making. He worked for Life, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, Time and other national magazines as well as for the New York Times and Herald Tribune. His photographic, social and political interests cover a wide spectrum of issues, which find their way into his visual work. More |

Paul Wilborn
Paul Wilborn is Executive Director and artistic director of the Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College. The Palladium presents the best in opera, chamber music, jazz, blues, cabaret, musical theater, and much more. He is also a popular cabaret entertainer and band leader. More |

Kevin Wilder
In nearly three decades as a professional musician, keyboardist Kevin Wilder has shown that music is truly a universal language. In Wilder’s unique musical world, jazz, pop, soul and funk combine in unexpected and refreshing ways. More |