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Color the City Summer Workshops!

The Color the City Art Camp Dates have been adjusted to meet the needs of our exciting new undertaking! We will be designing park towers and posts for the City of Ft. Lauderdale in this 1 week camp. Age groups have been merged to allow sufficient group collaboration to design & create together these beautiful artworks! Spaces limited. Apply below

2015 Art Camp
Application

city park posts

city park posts

2015 Courage Exhibit

I have the honor and privilege of being apart of an exhibit called “Courage”, a traveling art show with a purpose to showcase artists response to the question, “What does courage look like?” It is an exhibit based in Greensboro, NC and traveling to galleries, hospitals, and showrooms around NC and beyond 2015-2016. I am excited to see the impact of this series!
"Refraction"
“Refraction”
“The face of courage burns brightly with light and vision. It’s course is victory, and conquers discouragement with the light of its strength.”
Tiger Lilies
“Tiger Lilies”
“Lilies are a symbol of refined beauty and wealth. The tiger represents boldness, confidence, and regal beauty. We are all capable of royal, refined beauty as we move forward in our lives and blossom into our strongest self.”

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Sunday March 15th I created a street mural for Hollywood’s St. Patrick’s day event & parade. Here are some pics of the 3 hour chalk mural!
Emerald
St. Patty
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Pot of gold

Next weekend, March 29th I will be participating in Ft. Lauderdale’s “Quick Draw” along downtown Riverfront between 12-3pm! http://browardartguild.org/Quick-Draw.htm?utm_source=Quick+Draw+2015+-+2&utm_campaign=Quick+Draw&utm_medium=email

Hollywood

St. Patrick’s Fest March 15th Hollywood, FL

I will be chalking this Sunday, March 15th in Downtown Hollywood at the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade 12pm-6pm!
http://www.stpatricksparade.com

Come out for a fun family day with Irish entertainment, food, music, parades & street painting!

March 2015 Events

March has arrived & there is lots to do! March 1st was spent in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Museum of Art creating an 8×8 ft
Chalk mural with 10 other acclaimed artists.

Royal Tiger

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Saturday’s rain didn’t stop us from finishing our pieces for the 45th annual Gasparilla Festival of the arts. Such a beautiful city & perfect Tampa weather Sunday!
Day 2

Gasparilla Art  Fest 2015

Next Sunday, March 15th, I will be street painting for the city of Hollywood Florida at their annual St. Patricks’s Day parade & family event! Looking forward to releasing my inner Irish on the street between 2pm-6pm Downtown Hollywood.
http://www.stpatricksparade.com

Lake Worth 2015

Lake Worth Street Painting 2015

The 21st Lake Worth Street Painting Festival was a great success this year! Hundreds of artists created live chalk murals on the streets of Downtown Lake Worth, Florida Feb 21st-22nd sharing their passion & expression on the pavement. Here is my worked titled “Joy”, also featured in the Huffington Post article below:

Joy by Carrie Bennett

Lake Worth, Fl

Carrie Bennett

Joy

“Color the City” Bottle Cap Mural!

My young art students have been working hard creating a bottle cap mural collaboration for a special installation this spring! We have collected bins of recycled plastic caps and color coded them accordingly, working together to create our design plan. We are currently attaching our caps onto plywood sheets and plan to showcase our finished work at the local Pompano Beach Whole Foods Market for Earth Month this April! It will be very exciting to see our work in a public venue to show off our beautiful finished masterpiece. More pics to come!

Whole Foods Mural

Coral Springs Street Mural for Biz Art 2015

Saturday’s Biz Art event in Coral Springs was a great success! I met so many kind people and enthusiastic kids of all ages! I created a brightly colored mockingbird for the literary theme of “To Kill a Mockingbird” selected by the Coral Springs Museum of Art.

Biz Art
Mockingbird

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