STAR: State Teacher/Artist Residency
a cooperative program of the Florida Alliance for Arts Education and
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
Brooke Adkins
Spruce Creek High School
Volusia County
Dance
Charles Eady
Belleview High School
Marion County
Visual Art
Jessie Leasure
D. S. Parrott Middle School
Hernando County
Visual Art
Jennifer Rodriguez
J.M. Tate Senior High School
Escambia County
Visual Art
Zoe Stayman
LaVilla School of the Arts
Duval County
Music
Meagan Boehm
Kissimmee Middle School
Osceola County
Visual Art
Kimberley Mullins
Gainesville High School
Alachua County
Writing
Jennifer Rodriguez
J.M. Tate Senior High School
Escambia County
Visual Art
Eric Troop
Bellalago Academy
Osceola County
Composition
Laura Wiswell
Port Salerno Elementary
Martin County
Visual Art
Daniela Drazan
Horizon Academy at Marion Oaks
Marion County
Glaucia Mir
Liberty High School
Osceola County
Lucia Morales
Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy
Miami-Dade County
Tara Salovitz
Port Charlotte High School
Charlotte County
Joy Williams
North Fort Myers High Center for the Arts
Lee County
Robert Constable
Crestwood Elementary School
Hillsborough County
Music Composition
David Martin
Bonita Springs Elementary
Lee County
Visual Art
Cheryl Meehan
Freedom Elementary
Bradenton
Visual Art
Julie Orsini Shakher
Dr. Michael Krop Senior High
Dade County
Visual Art
Mirena Suarez
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Miami-Dade
Visual Art
Travis Damato
Muller Magnet Elementary School for the Arts
Tampa
Music Composition
MarisaFlint
Edgewood Jr/Sr High School
Cocoa
Visual Art
Cheryl Meehan
Freedom Elementary
Bradenton
Visual Art
Rosemary Shaw
U.B. Kinsey Elementary School of the Arts
Jupiter
Visual Art
Laura Tan
Southside Elementary Museum Magnet School
Miami
Visual Art
Brian Capley
Osceola County School for the Arts
Osceola County
Creative Writing
Kathleen Holt
Seminole High School
Seminole County
Visual Art
Jennifer Love Gironda
Lake Worth High School
Palm Beach County
Visual Art
2017 STAR Reflection, by Jennifer Love Gironda
Gerald Obregon
Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts
Miami-Dade County
Visual Art
Sandra Stiles
Louise R. Johnson Middle School
Manatee County
Creative Writing
Erin Bess
Turner/Bartels K-8 School
Hillsborough County
Visual Art
Jeff Byers
Taylor County High School
Taylor County
Visual Art
Joy Hawkins
Buffalo Creek Middle School
Manatee County
Reading/Language Arts
Elizabeth Vitale
Nova High School
Broward County
Visual Art
Adalberto Yanes
Doral Academy Preparatory Charter
Miami-Dade County
Music
Teryle Traver
Hillsborough County
Playwright
Freddie Rosa
Miami Dade County
Visual Artist
Pamela Janecki
Hillsborough County
Writer
Donna Hayes
Broward County
Visual Artist
Reid Conrad
Volusia County
Playwright
Tim Ostrow
L.A. Ainger Middle School
Charlotte County
Musician
Melissa Pranke
Winter Park High School
Orange County
Visual Artist/Writer
Patricia Cummins
Palmetto Elementary School
Miami-Dade County
Visual Artist
Andrea Huffman
McArthur High School
Broward County
Visual Artist
Alan Sincic
Osceola County School for the Arts
Osceola County.
Writer