Alicen Harrad, December Artist of the Month Alicen Harrad grew up in New York loving art and music but found the highly competitive public schools stressful and dull. In her junior year of high school, she registered in the arts program thinking it was an easy way to get enough credits to graduate. This flippant…
Diana Horton-Smith Is the Fall 2025 Artist of the Season The PebbleCreek Art Club takes great pleasure in awarding Diana Horton-Smith our Fall Artist of the Season. Diana is an active member of the club, serving as VP, Membership for several years and, as a resident instructor, teaching a fun class called “Mindful Doodling,” which…
Buy Raffle Tickets for Art Show Baskets Online or In Person! Seven delightful baskets worth at least $500 each will be raffled during the 2025 PebbleCreek Fine Art Show, including this cake, adorned with $250 in cash and 18 mini original framed artworks by PebbleCreek artists. The Blossoms, Bucks, & Beautiful Artwork basket, worth $1,400,…
2024 PebbleCreek Artist of the Year, Carol Burford The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to honor Carol Burford with the Artist of the Year Award for 2024. This prestigious award is based on the following criteria: the artist’s body of artwork is considered and reviewed, the artist must exhibit creative growth and consistent development of…
Elizabeth McCarthy, Artist of the Winter Season Elizabeth McCarthy grew up in East Troy, Wis., a small town in the southeastern part of the Midwestern state. As a child, she loved drawing and painting, which led her on a circuitous artistic journey. While Elizabeth majored in art education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, she…
Viki Nickels, Featured Artist of the Month Viki Nickels I feel blessed that many gifts have come my way in my lifetime, but none more than an early instinct to create art. This natural impulse has inspired and guided me since I was a young girl growing up in the coastal city of San Diego.…
Roxana Caffaratto, November Featured Artist I learned to love and appreciate the art of painting from my parents, who met at an art studio when they were very young in Argentina. I grew up in Hernando, a small town in an agricultural area in Argentina, where we all knew each other. One of my fondest…
Do You Want to Be an Artist? Come to the October 19 Open House Emily Grotta When people move to PebbleCreek, the choice of activities can be overwhelming. Should they learn pickleball? Join PC Players? Play golf every day? For many, PebbleCreek offers the opportunity to return to hobbies that were dropped as life got…
Save the Date! Fine Art Show and Sale Is Nov. 16 Emily Grotta PebbleCreek’s talented artists have been working hard to finish the paintings and drawings they will exhibit at this year’s Art Show in the Tuscany Ballroom on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 2 to 6 p.m. The show, one of PebbleCreek’s most popular events,…
Art Club Features Pastel and Charcoal Artists Emily Grotta Each summer, the PebbleCreek Art Club features works in various mediums, thus displaying works by several artists for residents and visitors to enjoy. This year, both pastel and charcoal drawings and paintings will be displayed. Pastels are color pigments kept together with a binder. Manufactured since…