STAR: State Teacher/Artist Residency

a cooperative program of the Florida Alliance for Arts Education and
Hermitage Artist Retreat

The State of Florida is filled with talented, dedicated artists who are also talented and dedicated, certified full time public school teachers.  The lives of these particular people are spent trying to balance the challenge of expressing their artistic selves while pursuing their profession as a public school educator.

The STAR program is designed to honor and nourish the artist in the educator by providing five public school educators from Florida with the opportunity to pursue their artistic work in the inspiring environment of the prestigious Hermitage Artist Retreat in a two-week residency.

A Hermitage residency is a gift of time and space for artists to attend to their work.  There is no requirement to produce.  It is intensely personal time for concentration AND a community of artists from different disciplines with which to share and learn.  Artists invited seize the opportunity and find themselves more productive than at any other time in their creative lives.

See STAR Artists

Jeffrey Brown
Orange County
Music

James Finch
Brevard County
Painting

Omar Otero
Seminole County
Photography and Painting

Rachael Pongetti
Escambia County
Visual Art

Katherine Gebhart
Palm Beach County
Writing and Illustration