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Owyn Porter was raised on Amelia Island, Florida. Her work as a graphic artist influences her photography, art, and designs through her love of the ocean. She currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida pursuing her degree in Studio Art. She started a product line in Spring 2015 called The Happy Sea where she is passionately pursuing that venture.

Her work can be viewed on www.thehappysea.com

Nicole Tjen-a-looi enjoys creating worlds she can escape into. Her artistic style is seen as whimsical, innocent and touches on some personal aspects of her childhood and adolescent years, where she used her interest in drawing creatures and developing stories both by herself and with friends, to cope with the negativity around her.
It wasn’t until she received her associates degree at Broward College in 2009 that she became more passionate about drawing, ultimately deciding to attend Florida Atlantic University to hone her skills in various art styles and techniques, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in studio art.

She passes the days at home continuously working on finding her own personal style of character design and various creatures concepts for the worlds she creates.

Contact Nicole at [email protected]

Victoria Portela is a 21 year old photographer with an interest in exploring light, texture, and movement in her photos. While she attempts to explore many styles of photography her ultimate focus is on an editorial style. Her photography often is focused on portraiture of women in various costumes, settings, and moods. Victoria draws inspiration from everything around her from the reflection of light on a windowpane to the immense amounts of advertising and media we consume every day. Every encounter is a source of inspiration for creativity for Victoria. Her works can be described as detail oriented, vividly colored, and heavy in portraiture.

Check out more of her work at Kafeiphoto.tumblr.com

Maria Hatch (1975, Quito, Ecuador) is an artist that creates mixed media sculptures and ceramics. Crediting her upbringing and early childhood experiences for her inquisitive attributes and artistic discovery. Mrs. Hatch builds sculptures by choosing mainly formal solutions and every day items she collects while walking, to stumbling upon them. Her functional works is more concentrated in how to merge form and function, while still pushing boundaries. Early on in her artistic career, she referenced her South American roots which allowed to discover more about her origins and also play homage to her culture. Now, mostly of her work exudes a subtle minimalistic approach while still building an intense personal connection to her pieces. Maria uses formal techniques and applies er struct rules, but nerve allows the work to take on a very serious note, more like play is a serious matter to her.

In 2000 Maria moved to the United States and proceeded to earn an Associate Art Degree from Palm Beach State College in 2002. During this time is where she discover that she wanted to be an artist and pursue a creative career and decided to pursue the Visual Arts. While working on a small gallery project, Maria got a job working for Sotheby’s Auctions house, is there where she learn all the insides or the art world, the market and was introduced to Contemporary Art. She began attending, while still working, Florida Atlantic University and studied Contemporary and Modern Art classes. Mrs. Hatch got married in 2005 and in 2009 took some time off to raise her eight year old twins.

She dedicated most of this time to her family, volunteered at school and found a artistic outlet exploring and creating floral designs, which is until today one of her passions. She found joy in spending time with children again and decided to seek a Studio Art Degree, Mrs. Hatch is set to graduate Fall of 2017.

Outside of school, Mrs. Hatch loves to work with ceramics, build sculptures, design floral arrangements, discover new recipes and flavors in cooking, exercise while biking and dancing and spend time with her family.

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