Pamela Miles
Since graduating from USF with an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts and a Masters in Art Education, Pamela Miles has been involved in a wide range of career experiences in the arts. She has managed Pyramid Arts Ltd., a fine arts publishing company; worked as Assistant Director of USF Contemporary Art Museum; did a myriad of workshops and art after school classes. Pamela lives in Indian Rocks Beach and is currently Artist-in-Residence at Woodlawn Elementary, Paul B. Stephens, Ponce de Leon Elementary and Sexton Elementary through the Morean Arts Center Art Education Outreach Program and at Northshore Elementary through the Mahaffey Theatre Arts Education Arm.  Pamela has been teaching art at DePaul School for Dyslexia for 22 years and at Morning Star School for 15. Over the years, Pamela has worked with every possible media including quilt making, ceramics, mosaics, clothing design, silk-screening, batik, book art, photography, jewelry making, sculpture, and mixed media painting. One of her large, vibrant abstracts is on display for the Art in Public Places Permanent Collection.

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.




R. Lynn Whitelaw avid Shankweiler is founding Director and Chief Curator of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art at St. Petersburg College. Mr. Whitelaw is a graduate of Florida State University with both bachelor and master degrees in the History and Criticism of Art.  His collegiate experiences include six months undergraduate study of Renaissance art in Florence, Italy and an additional six months graduate assistantship in Italy studying 19^th century American expatriates.

Prior to developing the Museum, Mr. Whitelaw was Curator of Education at the Tampa Museum of Art from 1990 to 1998.  In 1996 he received the Innovator of the Year award by the Florida Association of Museums for his work in developing a seventh grade partnership program with Hillsborough County Public Schools.  In addition, Mr. Whitelaw participated in several national programs including as a presenter for the Smithsonian Institute and as an organizer of programs for a Lila Wallace / Reader’s Digest Foundation sponsored exhibition 

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