Rebecca Skelton

Rebecca Skelton has exhibited her work since 1974 in juried shows such as Provincetown Art Association Works on Paper, All Florida Biennial at the Polk Museum of Fine Art, Brave Destiny at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, Transparency/ Project Creo in St. Petersburg, and the World Festival of Art on Paper in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has had solo shows and participated in group invitationals throughout Florida. Her most recent solo shows include “Rondo” at the Arts Center in St. Petersburg and “Transformative Marks” at the Don Vista Art Center In St. Pete Beach. Ms.Skelton is represented internationally in private collections and the permanent collection of Auburn University, The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the collection of the State of Florida in Tallahassee and the Chelsea Hotel.

Her work is included in A Body of Work; Tampa Bay Artists Interpret the Figure, published by The Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2002 and Florida Humanities published by Eckerd College in 2004. She received a Pinellas County Artist Resource Fund Grant for metal sculpture in 2000. Most recently, she has won Best in Show in Florida Artists Group’s exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Award of Excellence in the Arts Center members show in 2005.

Ms. Skelton holds a BFA and MFA from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama where she pursued the study of painting, drawing, and printmaking. She has continued her studies in various areas of art, including several jewelry classes in order to refine her sculpture techniques, and she has participated in The New York Studio School’s Drawing Marathon in 2000 and 2004.

She has been an adjunct professor of art for University of Tampa, St. Petersburg College, USF St. Petersburg, and Eckerd College where she taught many levels of painting, drawing, and design. She also teaches a diverse set of students such as developmentally disabled adults, children, teenagers, and senior citizens through her classes at The Arts Center, Creative Clay, Youth Arts Corps, and the Dali Museum. Ms. Skelton worked in the advertising industry from the time she left graduate school until 1999. She worked as an illustrator for the Cooperative Extension Service Publications Department in Auburn, Alabama. In Atlanta she was a designer for Body Forum Magazine, finished art supervisor for Cargill Wilson & Acree, and art director and production manager for Innova International.

In the Tampa Bay area she has been a freelance designer for Landers & Partners, Rutenberg Homes, Florida Trend Magazine and many individual clients. Ms. Skelton has directed or participated in many community projects and fund raisers. For St. Petersburg’s First Night, she ran sidewalk chalk projects and performed in the Birthday and Geographies projects. She has been a guest artist at the Museum of Fine Arts Garden Party series. She has made and painted hats/masks for the Salvador Dali Museum and cowboy hats for the WMNF South by Southwest musicians fund. She has donated art work for auctions benefiting the Humane Society (Cirque de Gato), American Stage (Much Ado About Art), Stageworks, Tampa Aids Network, Habitat for Humanity, CASA and Katrina/Rita hurricane relief.