Peggy Jones I started painting many years ago. I began in oils then moved to watercolor and now do acrylics as well. I’m eager to present the way I see everyday life here on our coast. My love for the sky, the sand, the water and oysters, keep me yearning for new ways to translate that feeling to you on a canvas. Keep your eyes open. http://coopsinteriors.com/artwork.html BACK TO EXHIBIT Button Button Button Button

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VIEW GALLERY ART Katherine Duda Seeing Red | Acrylic | 12 x 12 $350.00 Under the Trees | Acrylic | 12 x 12 $375.00 Western Lake | Acrylic | 12 x 12 $400.00

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PLEIN AIR: A SPECIAL EXHIBITION This CAA Member Artist special exhibit can be viewed online as well as in-person at the CAA's Foster Gallery in Grand Boulevard Town Center May 16th - July 10th. All works are available for purchase.

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The Underwater Museum of Art The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) in partnership with the South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) and support from the National Endowment for the Arts , the Alys Foundation , and Visit Florida joined two of South Walton, Florida’s most beloved attractions – the arts and the Gulf of Mexico – with the introduction of The Underwater Museum of Art (UMA) , North America’s first underwater permanent sculpture exhibit. Recently recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the top 100 “World’s Greatest Places “, The UMA is the first presentation of the CAA’s Art In Public Spaces Program and augments SWARA’s mission of creating marine habitat and expanding fishery populations while providing enhanced creative, cultural, economic and educational opportunities for the benefit, education and enjoyment of residents, students and visitors in South Walton. Currently, Gulf coastal waters off Walton County are 95% barren sand flats. Deployment of sculpture as artificial reefs will provide a source of biological replenishment and protective marine habitat where none exists. The UMA is deployed with SWARA’s existing USACOA and FDEP permitted artificial reef project that includes nine nearshore reefs located within one nautical mile of the shore in 60-feet of water. A one-acre permit patch of seabed off Grayton Beach State Park has been dedicated to the CAA for the purpose of a permanent underwater sculpture exhibit. The CAA and SWARA proudly revealed the seven sculpture designs selected by jury for permanent exhibition in the first installation of the UMA in December 2017. Those sculptures were deployed into the Gulf the following June, thus opening the first underwater sculpture park in the U.S. In August 2024, seven new designs joined the 40 previously deployed pieces in the sixth installation. Video credit: Spring Run Media VISIT THE UNDERWATER MUSEUM OF ART WEBSITE

VIEW GALLERY ART Melody Bogle As a resident of South Walton Melody D. Bogle finds inspiration for her work from the beautiful area in which she lives...the Emerald Coast. Working in both oils and pastels she tries to capture the area’s beauty, paying attention to the light and it’s movement across the form, whether the dunes or a still life or the figure. The play of light creates beautiful abstract designs across these forms. A passion for painting ‘en plein air’ evolved out of her love of the outdoors merging with her love of art and painting. Her paintings come alive through painting on location and observing color and light. Melody is a member of the Emerald Coast Plein Air Painters, Women Painters of the Southeast, Oil Painters of America, The American Impressionist Society, Portrait Society of America, and member and past President of the Pastel Society of North Florida. She has studied with many contemporary greats such as Scott Christensen, David Leffel, Quang Ho, CW Mundy, Carolyn Anderson, Richard McKinley, Maggie Price, Albert Handel, and many others. Learning never stops for Melody and she tries to take workshops yearly with artists whose work she loves. Melody was the 2016 South Walton Artist of the Year. She has been an artist in ArtsQuest Fine Arts Festival since 2002 winning many awards for her work. In 2013 she was honored with the Best in Show at this venue, an award for her body of work that competed against all mediums at ArtsQuest. Other awards have been in shows with the Pastel Society of North Florida, Best in Show at Beauz Art, Best in Show in 2012 at the Coastal Destinations Show at the Hidden Lantern, and runner-up in the 2013 show there. A one-person show of her work was held from December through April, 2014 at the Hidden Lantern Gallery in Rosemary Beach. In 2015 she was honored by being selected as South Walton’s 2015 Oil Painter of the Year by Visit South Walton. In November of 2014, Melody was one of 60 artists selected to participate in Ft Myers Beach ‘Paint The Beach’ Plein Air event. She won one of 12 awards given out of the 120 paintings submitted. In the Spring of 2015, Melody was awarded Best in Show for the local A+ Art’s Top of the Class show. With this award came a private show of h http://melodybogle.com/

VIEW GALLERY ART Mary McCollum Blue Barn | Acrylic | 13.5" x 13.5" $400.00 Circles and Lines | Acrylic | 24" x 24" $450.00 Circles Squared | Acrylic | 24" x 24" $450.00 Jumbled Shapes | Acrylic | 30" x 42" $2,500.00