Talent Within: The Dalí Staff Art Show celebrates the creative work of The Dalí Museum staff.
In the spirit of inclusion at The Dalí, this online exhibition provides a space for staff to share their creative endeavors with each other, the community and beyond—an opportunity to showcase multiple artistic expressions and perspectives.
Like many of those who live and work in our community, The Dalí staff are inspired by the Museum’s world-class collection. Many of our staff are practicing, talented artists reflecting a diversity of approaches, techniques and mediums, including drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, pottery, printmaking, crocheting, sculpture and more.
Previously featured in The Dalí Museum’s Raymond James Community Room from Aug 26-Sep 4, 2023, this online exhibit is for all to enjoy.
Talent Within: The Dalí Staff Art Show was created and organized by Betsy Rosado, with assistance by Museum Staff, and was the first Dalí Museum staff exhibition.
(alphabetical by artist first name)
Jodhpur Scene
Allison McCarthy
Watercolor
Assistant Curator + Executive Assistant
Curatorial + Administration Departments
My mother visited India and took a photograph of this scene. I loved the composition and colors, so I created a watercolor version as a gift for her.
Caught Up In Nature (2021)
Alyssa Rhodes
Photograph
Sales Associate + Key Holder + Photography Assistant
Sales Department
The photo was taken during a #SunshineStateCreateCollective photography meet up in St. Petersburg’s Historic Old Northeast. The model, Alex Kimbrell (@kitty_Kimm on Instagram), is an artist herself and made the necklace she is wearing.
More photographs by the photographer can be found at @youbet727 on Instagram
03052023 (Words Left Unspoken)
Amari Shirley
Digital collage
Visitor Experience Floor Supervisor
Visitor Experience Department
Partially titled after the song “Words Left Unspoken” on Jasmine Myra’s debut album “Horizons,” this piece was created in Photoshop marking my first day of isolation after testing positive for Covid.
Resting Place
Ania Blosser
Acrylic on canvas
Sales Associate + Curatorial Assistant
Sales Department
The Mighty Nein
Ant Vieira
Illustration
Shipping Operations Manager
Sales Department
Black and white illustration of an adventuring party winding down from their travels at the tavern. Inspired by the podcast Critical Role and based on the storytelling and characters from the wonderful actors who portray them.
A Checkered Story –
Part 2
Beth Harrison
Mixed media
Digital Experiences Director
Administration + Curatorial Departments
The Elf’s Gaze
Betsy Rosado
Digital painting
Museum Store Manager + Staff Exhibit Organizer
Sales Department
Inspired by all that is ancient, mysterious, alluring, and elusive in an elven world.
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.” — Bram Stoker
Still Life #3
Billy Swire
Oil on board
Maintenance Tech 1
Facilities Department
Closed for Renovations
Chuck Bandel
Photograph
Chef
Café Gala
A very sad Irish man playing to a crowd of none.
Still Point No.1
Cyndi Vickers
Photograph
Sales Associate
Sales Department
Still Point No. 1 explores that sacred place we seek where form and energy reveal a higher place of being. Moving yet still. Interconnected yet separate. Tension and release.
Point of No Return
Daniela Bravo
Oil on canvas
Volunteer + Visitor Experience Specialist
Visitor Experience Department
The critical point the earth has reached.
Intra Uterine Paradise Lost
Deb Larsen
Mixed media
Visual Display Coordinator + Docent
Sales Department
Inspired by the book Secret Life of Salvador Dalí and movie A Soft Self-Portrait.
Drea’
Ellen Williams
Assemblage
Sales Associate + Key Holder + Curatorial Assistant
Sales Department
Bringer of prophetic dreams and revealing nightmares, her purpose is to unite the dreamer with the collective unconscious, helping them connect with the primordial origins of humanity, as well as one another. In the realm of dreams, anything is possible, even uniting those at odds with one another and those at odds with themselves.
Ascension
Hank Hine
Oil on canvas
Executive Director
Administration Department
Ascension is a visual tracking of, or maybe only a yearning for, a spirit of optimism that every effort rooted in goodwill finds a path to ascend and be realized.
Lace Bowl
Jodi Grewe
Ceramic
Sales Associate
Sales Department
Junglefowl
Jon Fisher
Oil on canvas
AV/Operations + Multimedia Producer
Marketing Department
Fate Watches the Wild Hearts
Joseph Delgado
Illustration
Sales Associate + Curatorial Assistant
Sales Department
Fate Watches the Wild Hearts tells the story of two lovers, The Sun and The Moon, who refuse to continue a legacy that was dealt to them. Through the cracks of reality, Fate Himself watches a silent witness to the ones who finally defied Him.
A Study of Nkyinkyim
Joy Garrett-Douglas
Acrylic on canvas
Education and Community Programming Associate
Education Department
Honey, I’m Pregnant
Julia Howard
Graphic design, greeting card
Art Director
Marketing Department
The symbols and portraits of Jan Van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait documenting a marriage have been altered to a lighthearted message celebrating pregnancy.
Fill in the Blank.
Karli Davis
Print
Sales Associate
Sales Department
A space for your thoughts.
Acid Reflections
Katie Simmons
Acrylic on canvas
Accounting & HR Coordinator
Finance Department
This painting was created after a long dark period in my life and is symbolic of the color and vibrancy being renewed within myself. The coloring is blended and scattered to represent the messiness in life. I was inspired by Monet’s brush strokes, creating a fluid piece with vague lines. This piece represents a metamorphosis in my soul.
Splaying Mantic
Leann St. Clair (aka Marcus Brothersby)
Mixed media collage
Group Experience Coordinator
Visitor Experience Department
Within the chasm between your past and future selves, the pneumatic channel of pulp and gleam, splaying mantic, is perpetually enkindled and mercilessly divine.
Tá Brón Orm
Megan Moyer
Mixed media
Membership Manager
Marketing Department
Part of a larger series, each piece is meant to evoke an emotion in a dream-like state through a monochromatic lens utilizing watercolor and colored pencil.
Nicktonyous Legacy
Nicholas Causer
Mixed media
Security Officer
Security Department
Years of the art of online entertainment, glimpsed only through the captivating windows of attention-grabbing thumbnails.
Miss Bee Haven
Premarti Wood
Mixed media sculpture, paper mâché
Sales Associate
Sales Department
A honey face dropped from a beehive hairdo with honey dripping all over paper mâché bees in a surreal bamboo frame.
Arcadianarium
Sharon Emery
Mixed media sculpture
Sales Associate + Mentor
Sales Department
Arcadianarium is an imaginative representation of Florida’s coast and woodland during a more innocent time, long ago, when inhabitants and incomers learned to live in peace with each other, in harmony with the world around them. Outside Arcadianarium, a little girl discovers her dream is real.
Leopold the Giant Snail
Shelby Schultz
Fiber arts, crochet
Visitor Experience Manager
Visitor Experience Department
A giant snail reimagined as a soft, cuddly plush, created using yarn and the needlework technique called crochet.
Real Eyes
Teagan Payne
Pencil drawing
Visitor Experience Specialist
Visitor Experience Department
This piece invokes a moment of prodigious pause, accompanied by existential wonder.
Untitled
Ty Butler
Oil on gesso board
Museum Store Manager
Sales Department
False Idol
Zeyna Hadidi
Mixed media sculpture
Inventory Control Coordinator
Sales Department
Can you not recall the terror you felt when the one you trusted transformed before your eyes? To have put your faith into something you thought was sacred, and safe. Then the façade cracks and crumbles away leaving you to wonder how you didn’t spot the signs before, for the saint you knew had always been a demon you were unable to see through the lens of your trust. Forsake them and move forward…with suspicion in your heart.