Susan Rollins Gehring is a native Florida printmaker and painter. She was born in Tampa in 1948 and grew up in Clearwater Florida. She earned her bachelor of Fine Art Degree in 1971 at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia and has also studied at the University of South Florida, Santa Fe Junior College, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (part of the University of Tennessee), Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Dunedin Fine Art Center and in specialized printmaking seminars. The focus of her painting and printmaking has been landscapes and waterscapes of Florida.

Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, Amanda Cooper received a BA with Highest Honors in Art History from the University of Florida. Since 1999, she has worked as Curator of Exhibitions at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg. Ms. Cooper has organized over 250 exhibitions, organized rotating art exhibitions for the Mahaffey Theater Lobby, and served as co-team leader of the Art Mobile project for Pinellas County Cultural Affairs. Amanda has served as juror for Dunedin’s Art Harvest and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards exhibit for Pinellas County schools. She has served on many grant and public art panels, including the Individual Artist fellowship panel for the State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs.







David Shankweiler spent nineteen years at the Dunedin Fine Art Center in a variety of roles, including exhibition curator. He served as the Executive Director of the Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC, and currently is the Executive Director for the Beach Art Center in Indian Rocks Beach, FL. He freelanced as a professional photographer (black and white film) and his work included assembling many photography exhibitions for artists including Clyde Butcher, Aaron Siskind, Rodger Kingston, J. Tomas Lopez and others.

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