Artists-In-Action

Acclaimed Artists Chosen for 2012-2013 Artist-in-Action Program at the A&H Museums – Maitland

Art and History Museums – Maitland (A&H) offers an Artist-in-Action (AIA) program that reflects the spirit of founder André Smith’s Research Studio and the current mission of the institution. This program provides non-residential studio space to an established or emerging artist for the professional practice and research of fine art. This program is an exciting opportunity to interact with A&H’s community of artists and art enthusiasts while working in this uniquely rich and historic environment.

A fixture at the institution for many years, the A&H’s acclaimed Artist-in-Action program takes place at the A&H’s historic Maitland Art Center (originally André Smith’s Research Studio). In Smith’s day, famous artists were invited to live and work at the Research Studio in the winter months, including luminaries Milton Avery and Ralston Crawford. In the recent past, a number of very well-known artists occupied the studios in a non-resident capacity, including the late Anita Wooten, Barbara Tiffany, KYLE, and Ellie Diez-Massaro.

Call for Artists for the 2013-2014 Season!
Click for the 2013-2014 Artists-In-Action Call To Artists Form

Deadline to apply: June 15, 2013

Our Artist- in-Action 2012-2013 are:
Whitney Broadaway, Dawn Rosendahl, Trent Tomengo and Camilo Velásquez

Whitney Broadaway grew up in Sebring, Florida and received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with a focus in Printmaking from the University of Central Florida in 2010. During her degree, Broadaway studied printmaking, ceramics, and the book arts extensively. She has interned with the Museum of Florida Art and Culture as well as Flying Horse Press. Broadaway is currently the Book Conservator for the Special Collections & University Archives department of the UCF Libraries. There she is in charge of conserving and repairing material, as well as coordinating and judging the annual Book Arts Competition.

At a young age, Dawn Rosendahl began to draw in California where she was born and raised. She enrolled in private oil painting classes in middle school and throughout high school she attended a commercial arts high school. Dawn continued to study art in Chicago at the American Academy of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. After art school, she moved to Orlando where she became a Walt Disney World sculptor. In 1987, she opened a Scenic Design company with her life partner. For the last twelve years, Dawn has concentrated on her fine art full time. Dawn’s art is collected throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Trent Tomengo teaches humanities at Seminole State College. Tomengo’s intelligent, provocative, and finely crafted paintings are already well known in Central Florida, where he has been featured in selected solo and group exhibitions. His work is primarily concerned with exploring ways of conveying the universality of all human beings. Keenly aware of the divides human beings create among themselves, oftentimes with disastrous consequences, Tomengo uses his work to preach tolerance, acceptance, and mutual understanding.

Camilo Velásquez is an outstanding visual artist/educator, whose work combines imagery, text, and assemblage in a sophisticated network of juxtapositions. Both poetic and sublime, Velasquez’ art is a series of monologues and dialogues on life and death, love and loss.

For more information about each artist and their individual artist statements,
please click on their respective names.

Whitney Broadaway
Studio 8

Dawn Rosendahl
Studio 5

Trent Tomengo
Studio 1

Camilo Velasquez

Studio 8