SUPPORT VISUAL ART WITH GFAA
The Exquisite Corpse Art-a-thon is back! Over 72 hours, participating artists will work in shifts in the gallery, with each artist getting just 24 hours to create one section of a collaborative artwork.
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative art-making game developed by Surrealist artists in the 1920s. For each piece, artists create their section without seeing the previous work - with only a small portion of the previous section visible as a guide. The artwork is passed from one person to the next, creating unexpected juxtapositions and dreamlike compositions.
Watch the artists at work:
October 26, 27, 28 | 11 am–4 pm
GFAA Gallery
The Big Reveal:
October 30 | 7:30 pm
during Artwalk Gainesville
And you can be part of it! Sponsor your favorite participating artist through their fundraising page. All the artists and their personal links are below. 30% of the funds they raise goes directly to the artist, while 70% supports GFAA’s exhibitions, programs, and resources for artists in our community.
Follow along as the works take shape, and join us for the reveal to see what happens when all the sections finally come together!
How to help:
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DONATE: Every dollar counts.
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Share: Spread the word.
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BID on the work! The link will be here starting October 30. The auction ends November 21 at midnight. You might get to take one home!
Thank you for powering our mission—your support makes all the difference!
SPONSOR your favorite artists:
Work #1
1. Peter Else
Website: https://www.peterelse.com
Most of my childhood was spent in Kenya and that experience remains a strong influence. I worked for many years in graphic design before transitioning to painting. I find inspiration in the patterns and forms of nature, and in human faces and figures. I paint everything from portraits to landscapes to abstractions. I am focused on line, shape and color and the way those elements influence and inform each other to create a sense of connection and oneness.
1. Jennifer Bennett
Website: ursarose.com
Instagram: @thepkyblueprint
Jennifer Bennett is an educator, artist, and graphic designer with more than 20 years of experience teaching art, design, and entrepreneurship. She teaches at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, where she leads the Design & Entrepreneurship pathway and The BluePrint, a student-run design and print shop. Her teaching centers on creativity, authentic learning, and giving students opportunities to use their skills in meaningful, real-world ways. As an artist and designer, Jennifer brings making, experimentation, and visual communication into her classroom and believes students learn best when they are creating, collaborating, and finding their own voice.
1. Stephanie Perez
Website: https://stephanieperez2018.wixsite.com/perez-artistry
Instagram: @Perez_Artistry
Stephanie Perez is a visual artist based in Gainesville, Florida, and a proud Florida native. She holds a BFA with a concentration in Painting and a minor in Sustainability Studies from the University of Florida. Her practice examines the broader implications of the Anthropocene, particularly how climate change shapes daily life, individual experience, and the human condition. Through narrative portraiture, Perez explores the interconnectedness of all living things and the ways we continually influence one another. Her work captures landscapes, marine life, and everyday moments, reflecting on her lived experiences as a Floridian.
Work #2
2. Caitlin Goss
I'm a self taught, multimedia artist, and hairstylist by trade. Florida native, raised in Cedar Key. I've always had an impulse to create. I love exploring and mixing mediums. I began fiber painting in 2025 and it immediately became my favorite medium. Building worlds with wool is an exhilarating, tactile experience that provides endless possibilities. Somewhere between painting and sculpture, felting feels like a culmination of all the mediums I've enjoyed most (including hair!). My work is informed by nature, dreams, and existentialism.
2. Karrie A. Lyons-Munkittrick
Website: www.WeeDotArt.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeeDotArt
instagram: @wee_dot_art
Karrie A. Lyons-Munkittrick is a Gainesville, FL fine artist, graphic designer, and filmmaker whose creative journey began in Dunedin, Florida. While studying art and commercial design at Largo High School, she developed her distinctive artistic style, WeeDot, in 1991—a visual language that continues to shape her work today. Inspired by a lifelong commitment to creativity, Karrie produces vibrant, personal works that reflect her unique perspective and artistic voice. Her work celebrates originality, imagination, and authentic self-expression, inviting viewers to connect with art that is both deeply personal and universally engaging.
2. Ashley Leong
Ashley Leong is an intuitive artist trained at Santa Fe College. She is also a hospice nurse, immigrant, Black woman, daughter, wife and dog mom. Her artwork reminds us to treasure all the fleeting moments of life.
Work #3
3. Linda McVay
Instagram: @linda_mcvay
Linda McVay is a contemporary painter living in Gainesville, Florida. Her work reflects the changes over time from traditional flower paintings to biomorphic imagery inspired by an earlier career as a medical illustrator.
3. Christine A Brundige
Facebook: @brundige.christine
My love is to paint watercolor closeups from nature, from incredible Florida plant life and food, to amazing insects. I've also recently begun painting pet portraits, especially cats. I also love to incorporate the bright colors of Mexico, Florida, and the West in my work.
3. Jenna Horner
Website: https://www.jennahorner.com
Instagram: @j.hornerart
I am a muralist and collage artist based in Gainesville, Florida. My work explores the beauty and complexity of the natural world while celebrating our shared humanity. I see public art as an opportunity to bring optimism into shared spaces, foster connection, and deepen our relationship with the environments around us. As a collage artist, I build richly textured surfaces using inventive and repurposed materials, giving forgotten objects and spaces new life. Whether on a public wall or in a home, each piece invites curiosity, connection, and a different story. Creating is central to how I understand and express myself.
Work #4
4. Frank Barone
Website: https://www.frankbarone.net/
Facebook: @frank.barone.37
Instagram: @frank.barone.37
I am a landscape painter and figure painter. I like to paint from observation; but, I also like to paint or draw things out of my head. I am often sketching when I am out and about. ;-)
4. Michelle Nagri
Website: mnagriphoto.com
Facebook: @michellenagriphoto
Instagram: @mnagriphoto
Michelle is a Florida based artist working in paint and photography. She earned a B.S in Psychology at the University of Florida in 2010, but always felt pulled towards the arts. After graduating she began exploring different creative outlets while working to find her purpose in life. Oil paints captured her interest at first, but photography led her down a path of taking her art practice seriously.
Michelle communicates through mixed media using paint, photography and collage. Her art is about expressing feelings, telling stories and sharing beauty. Words and feelings are her wellsprings of inspiration. Through color, symbolism, and texture she weaves stories together in order to find unity within herself and the work.
4. Karen Chadwick
Facebook: @karen-chadwick-art
Florida native Karen Chadwick spent much of her childhood exploring the woods and waterways around her home and her grandmother’s neighborhood in Sarasota, Florida. After deciding to pursue the arts, she earned a BFA in sculpture and painting from the Ringling School of Art and Design in 1988. Her sculptures, drawings, and paintings have been exhibited throughout the state, including in Jacksonville, Tampa, Ft. Myers, Sarasota, Gainesville, and Ocala.
Over the years, Karen has collaborated with environmental education centers to create interpretive exhibits focused on paleontology, archaeology, geology, hydrology, and the relationships of local flora and fauna.
Karen’s studio is located in the north-central region of Florida.
Work #5
5. Frank Curtis
Website: https://www.artwalkgainesville.com/
I am a Gainesville-based artist working in various styles, and I currently serve as the Director of Artwalk Gainesville. My passion lies in celebrating the local art and music scenes, as well as the wonderful community of creators who bring these vibrant experiences to life in our area.
5. Amy Lindroth
Instagram: @sunshineblossoms
Amy is a local artist that combines her love of nature and love of comedy to create funny portraits of nature's most majestic birds.
5. Jasmine Laska
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/jasminelaska/home?pli=1&authuser=0
Jasmine Laska is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work navigates the ambivalent mindscape, where perception, memory, and identity dissolve and reform. Her practice draws from surrealist traditions and performance art, creating experiences that invite participants into dialogue with their internal worlds. Influenced by Internal Family Systems and somatic psychology, Jasmine’s art seeks to surface the hidden, the exiled, and the fragmented in order to provoke self-awareness and integration.
Work #6
6. Jessyca Premo
Instagram: @mere.bagatelle
A little heathen short and stout with a penchant for whimsy and things iron wrought- it's Jess! She's been in Florida for six, seven years and still expects to one day catch sight of dinosaurs in the hammocks. When she's not 8 to 5-ing, she's either embroidering finger puppets, painting, watching her sock puppet of a dog, Freyja, or bounce around with her partner, Pedro.
6. Avery OQuinn
Website: https://ko-fi.com/avesartcave/commissions
Avery is an independent freelance artist specializing in creatures, monsters, and fantasy characters.
6. Ryen St. Peter
Instagram: @lunaartandsoul
Ryen St. Peter, is a mixed-media artist and art educator based in Gainesville, Florida. Ryen graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A. in Studio Art in 2022. Ryen’s work reflects on how memory, emotions, and environments intertwine to influence personal and cultural narratives. Ryen’s practice includes developing intuitive collages by using the process SoulCollage® to explore internal family systems as a therapy and self-development method. Once the collage is created and processed using guiding questions they create an abstract creature combining symbolism in the collage such as animals, colors, textures, and more.
Work #7
7. Elsie Buchanan-Wollaston
Instagram: @artsie_lc
Elsie Buchanan-Wollaston is a mixed media artist originally from Maryland who creates colorful, layered illustrative realism portraits. Her main mediums are acrylic and watercolor paints, markers, pens, and colored pencils. She is inspired by line, color, texture, and the natural world that surrounds us.
7. Andrew Hix
Instagram: @hixpix6
Andrew Hix is a multi- and-mixed- media artist who loves to play and experiment, especially in collaboration. Andrew gravitates to the surreal and expressive, making meaning and finding patterns from whatever emerges through improvisation, but he also tries to paint birds that look like real birds. He has been a fan of surrealist games like exquisite corpse since high school, and he's thrilled to be returning to the EXQUISITE CORPSE ART-A-THON this year.
7. Sarit Sela
Facebook: @sarit.sela
Sarit Sela is a Gainesville-based mixed-media artist, architect, urban planner, and movement practitioner whose creative practice is rooted in curiosity, observation, movement, and connection. Her background in architecture and urban design informs her sensitivity to line, composition, space, and form, while her longtime movement practice brings fluidity, rhythm, and embodied expression to her work. Through painting and movement, Sarit is interested in capturing moments of intimacy, emotion, and connection, balancing structure with spontaneity and observation with personal interpretation.
Work #8
8. Alma Elaine Shoaf
Website: almaelaineshoaf.com
Instagram: @aeshoaf
Alma Elaine Shoaf is a painter, illustrator, arts educator, and book artist based in Gainesville, Florida. She graduated from The Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in illustration, and has created illustrations for Radix Media, the Florida Trail Association, Hachette Books, Before the Door Pictures, Keepers of the Springs, Swamp Witch Pedals, Zest eDiscovery, and the Tampa Bay Brewing Company, and UF Performing Arts. Her second solo show, Ghost Lines, premiered at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, FL in 2017, and her drawings and paintings have been exhibited across the country. She teaches elementary art at Brentwood School as well as designing props for the Hippodrome State Theater.
8. Pam Valcante
Website: https://www.pamvalcante.com/
Facebook: @pamvalcante
Instagram: @pamvalcante
My artistic journey began at age four, happily painting alongside my mother. This early joy
till shapes the peaceful satisfaction I find in the creative process. While I enjoy various media like pen and ink, pencil, and mixed media, I always return to my first love: painting. Now that I have retired as a public school art educator, you can often find me out and about While I enjoy various media like pen and ink, pencil, and mixed media, I always return to my first love - painting. Now that I have retired as a public school art educator, you can often find me out and about.
8. Brian Moody
Brian Moody is a local artist and Assistant Professor at PK Yonge DRS at the University of Florida. His favorite medium is Sumi ink. He works with themes of identity, community, abstract landscapes, and healing.
Work #9
9. Elli Rhodes
Website: https://ellirhodes.com/
Instagram: @s0ftpillow
Elli Rhodes is a multimedia artist whose work is inspired by beautiful North Florida nature, fantasy worlds, and comics.
9. Jordan Borstelmann
Website: crookedpathforge.org
Instagram: @crookedpathforge
Jordan is a full time blacksmith and bladesmith living in Alachua County. He enjoys making tools that are both beautiful and useful, as wells as forging historic swords and axes. At his shop, Crooked Path Forge, he also teaches this challenging class to folks interested in learning the Craft.
9. Daniel Horák
Instagram: @dhorak2
Originally from Czech Republic, I moved to the USA in my teens. I have always done art and music. I prefer colored pencils, and lately to my surprise- pen. I like Creepypasta and Surrealism. For the Exquisite Corpse I will use acrylic paint and pastels. The image I will use came to me in a dream, right after I listened to Lighthouse Horror…
Work #10
10. Peter. Senesac
Facebook: @psenesac
Instagram: @artforpetesake
I look for the poetry of a scene. Painting for me is meditation.
I’m responding and expressing the feeling of the time and location and translating that into paint. my process and the paint influence the outcome. The result is a record of that process and, hopefully, a pleasing picture of what I did at that time with that composition and those materials. Location, light, shadows, and atmosphere in paint.
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10. Lisa Klug
Website: https://www.lkgraphics.org/
I've lived all over the country, but spent the majority of my life in Gainesville. I went to GHS, then the Ringling School of Art many years ago. I'm currently working on illustrating a second coloring book and working on various other art projects. Right now I live with my wonderful husband and some pretty chill pets on the east side of Newnans Lake.
Work #11
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11. Katy Lemle
Katy Lemle, a multifaceted figure in the arts community, serves as the Executive Director, Gallery Director, and Curator at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA). With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting & Drawing from the Ohio State University, Katy has over 14 years of experience in managing gallery spaces, along with a diverse background encompassing graphic design, teaching, and nonprofit administration within the arts sector. Katy has a passion for supporting visual artists and fostering vibrant community art spaces.
11. Kristen Marshall
Instagram: @kmarsh8213
I am a self-taught Gainesville based artist that specializes in acrylic paintings, custom artwork, and handmade creations.
11. Anthony Castronovo
Website: https://acastronovo.com/
Facebook: @anthony.castronovo.14
Instagram: @ajcastronovo
Anthony Castronovo is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work takes the form of solar powered robotic sculptures, public art, and educational collaborations. Over the past twenty years he has developed a unique body of works that explore nature and technology while blurring the lines between sculpture, ecology, engineering, and robotics. Born in Gainesville, FL, he received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Florida in 2003, and his M.F.A. in Art and Technology from The Ohio State University in 2006. Anthony currently teaches high school art at Oak Hall School.
Work #12
12. K. Kinsley Momberger
Website: https://kinsleymomberger.squarespace.com
Instagram: @kinsleymomberger
I am a mixed-media artist, living in Gainesville, Florida. Recently, I retired from the University of Florida where I was the art director for Explore, UF’s research magazine. My digital design work also includes illustration and large public installations.
I believe that art and a creative practice are good medicine. I am curious about all things ancient and how we connect to myth, our ancestors and the unseen world of spirit and imagination. I find story in the natural world. No matter the subject, or composition, my artwork speaks to me as landscape.
12. Clea Lauriault
Website: https://www.352murals.com/
Instagram: @cleas_art
I am a printmaker by training but a painter by passion. You can find my murals around Gainesville.
12. Kiki Kilgore
Instagram: @kiki_is_ok
I like whimsy and magic. I used to only work in color but as I’ve gotten older I find myself mostly working in black and white. I feel like it makes me focus on layout more. I went to school for graphic design but that was not my passion. So now I’m a mailman that does art and sometimes sells it.
Work #13
13. Kat Gentry
Website: https://petportraits.me/
Instagram: @katgentrypetportraits
Hi there! My name is Kat and I was born and raised in Gainesville, Fl. I went to SCAD in 2010 and received my BFA in Illustration. Currently I manage Painting with a Twist, run my own small business, am a market vendor and paint custom pet portraits!
13. Skip Snow
Instagram: @walkingcamefirst
Skip Snow worked for the National Park Service for 38 years, the last 25 at Everglades National Park. There, he has among other things, evaluated the effects of water management on park wildlife, worked to reintroduce native pineland birds, and spent considerable time trying to figure out what might be done about invasive non-native animals, especially, the Burmese python. Since retiring in 2013, Skip has been pursuing a keen interest in the intersection of art and science. Skip has served as a science advisor to AIRIE, the Artist in Residence in Everglades program. His art work is varied including assemblage, painting, sculpture, digital, and land art. He is an avid walker and a pretty good ukulele player.
13. Conor Fields
Website: https://conorfields.com/
Conor Fields is a lifelong maker and problem-solver. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in 2008 and his Masters of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from the California Institute of the Arts in 2013. His artwork has been exhibited in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, and Rome. Conor has helped establish and run several artist-run groups and venues.