The Cultural Arts Alliance supports the arts through leadership, advocacy, funding, programs and education. Tour of Homes Underwater Museum of Art Santa Rosa Beach Creative Campus Tour of Homes 1/5 WE FOSTER CREATIVITY Celebrating 32-years of championing the arts in Walton County. The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) is a Local Arts Agency that supports the arts through leadership, advocacy, funding, programs and education. At the CAA we envision a thriving Walton County where everyone experiences the power of the Arts. Our mission is to foster creativity in Walton County through the inclusive and collaborative advancement of the Arts. Help us bridge the gap between today and tomorrow! Become a member or make a one-time donation. Your contribution will be a building block for the future of the arts and culture in Walton County. A variety of membership options exist and begin as low as $100/year (only $8.33 /month!). We thank you for becoming part of the solution only the Arts have the power to provide. JOIN OR RENEW DONATE NOW The Cultural Arts Alliance envisions, develops, and promotes a range of cultural and art events and initiatives in Walton County each year. Click on an initiative to learn more. SUPPORTING OUR FRIENDS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County makes an ongoing effort to ensure all its programs are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Through the efforts of our Accessibility Committee using ADA self-evaluation, checklists, and guidelines, the CAA is focused on making its programs open and accessible to anyone who would like to participate. CAA SIGNATURE PROGRAMS ONLINE LEARNING View More EVENTS & CLASSES View More ARTIST RESOURCES View More #ARTMATTERS Latest News and Announcements Foster Gallery Spring Rotation Artists Announced Original work by 12 regional artists will be featured in the Spring Rotation at the Coastal Branch Library through April 30, 2025. Experience Inspiration at the CAA's Valentine Tour of Homes Get your tickets today for the highly anticipated Valentine Tour of Homes event set for Feb. 8 & 9. New Clay For A Cause Event To Benefit Caring & Sharing And CAA Pottery Studio Bowls of Love, a brand new visual arts education and fundraising event is scheduled for March 6 from 4 - 7 p.m. at the Bayou Arts Center.

VALENTINE TOUR OF HOMES Valentine’s weekend typically means romantic dinners and flowers for most, but for Walton County residents and visitors alike, it also signals the highly anticipated annual Tour of Homes. The event is known for showcasing stunning interiors, architecturally acclaimed homes and picturesque settings bringing inspiration to tour goers’ winter weekend at the beach. Fall in love with some of Walton County’s most interesting homes while raising funds for the CAA’s Art For All program. The 2025 event is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 9 from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. and features an extraordinary collection of homes located in Santa Rosa Beach, Alys Beach, Rosemary Beach, as well as residences in the New Urbanist town of SEASIDE®. Parking details will be shared closer to the event dates. Tickets are on sale now online ! Sponsorships are available, contact Gabby Callaway for details. Valentine Tour of Homes Sat urday, Feb. 8 | 10 a. m. - 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb 9 | 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. T he 2025 Tour of Homes weekend is scheduled for Saturday, February 8, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Sunday, February 9, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. with self-guided tours of featured Walton County places and spaces. Tour goers will bring their printed or digital ticket receipt (from your phone) to any of the homes. The ticket receipt will be scanned and redeemed for an official Tour ticket with the addresses listed for each home. Tour tickets allow you one-time access into all of the homes throughout the weekend. If you do not have your ticket, don't worry; we will be able to search your name. *Please note that as these homes are privates residencies, they cannot be guaranteed as ADA compliant. Contact the CAA office in advance for questions regarding access. Video Credit to Spring Run Media 2025 TOUR TICKETS ON SALE NOW 2025 TOUR HOMES CLICK IMAGES FOR INFORMATION Hilltop Haven Latitude Adjustment Knotty By Nature Exquisite Alys Beach Abode Rosemary Beach Retreat 2025 EVENT PARTNERS Visit South Walton Presenting Sponsor Emerald Coast Magazine Event Partner Seaside Institute 400 x 200 Visit South Walton Presenting Sponsor 1/8

Spawned in 2010, Herring Design Co. was initially started for the creation of small print pieces, like invitations and stationery. Knowing she wanted to have a creative career, Rachel Herring took the leap of faith in 2012, leaving an office job to pursue Herring Design Co. full time.   Rachel has been designing and creating for as long as she can remember. When she was little, she was never without a crayon or marker in her hand. Continuing through school, Rachel took all the art classes she could and created t-shirts and set designs for dances in high school. Knowing she wanted to major in a design field, Rachel graduated with a degree in Interior Design and another in Business Administration from Auburn University. While in school, she learned how to use Adobe Creative Suite, and it ignited a desire to do graphic design.

 Rachel moved to Birmingham for an internship and remained there after graduation. Still having a major interest in graphic design, she started Herring Design Co. to design custom invitations for people. The business grew by word of mouth, and so did the products she offered. 

Rachel has always loved working with her hands, so after a kitchen renovation, she had leftover wood that she knew couldn't go to waste. Her first string art creations were made from these pieces. Shortly after, she grew her tool collection, and set her mind to having a career as an artist. Business grew quickly after sharing these pieces, and in addition to art shows, she got her artwork into stores in the area. 

 After seven years in Birmingham, AL, Rachel moved to Santa Rosa Beach, FL. The surroundings at the beach have influenced the subject matter of her artwork from the beautiful blues and greens from the Emerald Coast waters to the spectacular sunsets.  Rachel Herring Spawned in 2010, Herring Design Co. was initially started for the creation of small print pieces, like invitations and stationery. Knowing she wanted to have a creative career, Rachel Herring took the leap of faith in 2012, leaving an office job to pursue Herring Design Co. full time. Rachel has been designing and creating for as long as she can remember. When she was little, she was never without a crayon or marker in her hand. Continuing through school, Rachel took all the art classes she could and created t-shirts and set designs for dances in high school. Knowing she wanted to major in a design field, Rachel graduated with a degree in Interior Design and another in Business Administration from Auburn University. While in school, she learned how to use Adobe Creative Suite, and it ignited a desire to do graphic design.

 Rachel moved to Birmingham for an internship and remained there after graduation. Still having a major interest in graphic design, she started Herring Design Co. to design custom invitations for people. The business grew by word of mouth, and so did the products she offered. 

Rachel has always loved working with her hands, so after a kitchen renovation, she had leftover wood that she knew couldn't go to waste. Her first string art creations were made from these pieces. Shortly after, she grew her tool collection, and set her mind to having a career as an artist. Business grew quickly after sharing these pieces, and in addition to art shows, she got her artwork into stores in the area. 

 After seven years in Birmingham, AL, Rachel moved to Santa Rosa Beach, FL. The surroundings at the beach have influenced the subject matter of her artwork from the beautiful blues and greens from the Emerald Coast waters to the spectacular sunsets. https://www.herringdesignco.com/

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VIEW GALLERY ART Susan Lucas A full-time resident of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida since 1999, Susan is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and a graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis. She has lived and traveled in many places in this country and internationally, which enriched her art through different teachers, traditions, and experiences. She studied art at Virginia Intermont College, East Tennessee State University, and with inspiring workshop Instructors. She continues to attend a Master Class in California annually. Susan is a professional artist, known for paintings with a contemporary edge and sophisticated color. Her work is in the tradition of the post-impressionists, with their interest in color and a semi-abstract landscape. Each work is inspired by experience or memory and seeks to condense and give visual form to the experience of place. Acrylic paints on canvas are her primary medium. The paint is applied in many layers to create rich color and a surface enriched with subtle changes of textures, lines, and values. Details emerge and are submerged. Each work is a dance between abstraction and representation, complexity and simplicity, the two-dimensional surface and the three-dimensional subject. Susan’s paintings are in galleries, homes, corporate, and university collections nationwide. She has exhibited and won awards in numerous regional and national shows. She is recognized as a significant regional artist, nationally as “one to watch,” and was the Beaches of South Walton Artist of the Year (2004). Her work has recently been featured in the books, Studio Visit (Volume 41, 2018) and The Best of Acrylic Painting (Acrylic Works 2019); in Southwest Art Magazine (Jurors Choice, January 2018 and February 2020). In addition to creating art, Susan serves as an art coach, acts as an arts advocate in the community, and juries art shows. Her work is represented by Leigh Truett Consulting, St. Simons Island GA; 1514 Home/In Design Interiors, Pensacola; Pinckney Simons Gallery. Beaufort, SC; Anne Hunter Galleries, Seaside FL and SoHo NYC; and at her studio/gallery (by appointment). https://susanlucasart.com

VIEW GALLERY ART Megan Patterson Megan Patterson is a functional ceramicist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2018 she received her BFA in Ceramics from Oklahoma State University. She has adamantly pursued a career in the arts since relocating to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida in 2019. Patterson currently serves as the Studio Director and Ceramics Instructor for J.Leon Gallery and Studio. Her first body of work, Gather, a ceramic and wood installation representing an intimate dining scene, continues to inspire her current work as she strives to use functional ceramics to promote sustainability. https://www.meganpattersonceramics.com/

VIEW GALLERY ART Gayle Campbell Florida native Gayle Campbell was initially drawn to bead weaving and bead embroidery by the intricacy and beauty of the completed jewelry. Her original designs have won multiple awards and she was featured in Emerald Coast Magazine as one of “7 Emerald Coast Artists You Need to Know”. These one-of-a-kind creations, where each individual bead is picked up by a super fine needle and woven into a tapestry of dimension and color, are often mistaken for cloth. The tiny glass beads require the use of magnification to accomplish the weaving process. An individual statement piece can encompass hundreds of painstaking hours. When asked, “Did you make the beads?” you may hear her respond, “My beads are my paint and my needles, my brushes. Do you ask a painter if they made their paint?” You are encouraged to handle her works and try them on. It isn’t often you have the opportunity to “Wear Art”. https://gaylesoriginals.com/

VIEW GALLERY ART Staci Dabson Staci brings the clarity and insight of a licensed clinical therapist into rich juxtaposition with a torrential amalgam of geek subculture, the vibrance of those 80’s-90’s punk-rock years, and a fresh alternative look to explore in strokes what the heart could never explicate in translated words of the mind. Staci’s art, though resistant to classification, mingles pop-art and surrealism with the function of nature in allegory. As a licensed therapist previously entrenched in crisis work, Staci has delved into the profoundest depravities our passions can at times engender. Having broken free from the field of therapy after 12 years, Staci discovered her art connects with people in a positive way that influences lasting change on a scale about which therapists only dream. https://sndabsonart.com/

As a painter, Robyn Martins prefers to use oil and cold wax, which allows for a certain playfulness with texture and form. Her subjects are almost accidental, and she finishes each piece by creating a space she'd like to stand in, an abstract figure representing a strong woman she admires, or an object she finds beautiful. She also incorporates the work of favorite poets in many of her paintings, adding lines from Whitman, Hopkins, and Dickinson to the composition. Working from her home studio, Robyn is a recent transplant to Santa Rosa Beach, having moved here from Ohio where she exhibited in several shows.  Robyn Martins As a painter, Robyn Martins prefers to use oil and cold wax, which allows for a certain playfulness with texture and form. Her subjects are almost accidental, and she finishes each piece by creating a space she'd like to stand in, an abstract figure representing a strong woman she admires, or an object she finds beautiful. She also incorporates the work of favorite poets in many of her paintings, adding lines from Whitman, Hopkins, and Dickinson to the composition. Working from her home studio, Robyn is a recent transplant to Santa Rosa Beach, having moved here from Ohio where she exhibited in several shows. https://www.robynmartinsart.com/

I've always been an artist to the core. In my life, though I've had many careers and hobbies, I kept coming back to ART! It has been my joy and this is where I find my "happy place". Every day I evolve and discover more techniques and use of color. When people ask me how long it took me to create a painting, I answer all my life! All my life experiences and education have brought me to the place I am in my art! It's years of experience that have brought me to where I am. I love painting in oil, acrylic, and watercolor mediums. I can't get enough of creating something with bright, vibrant, joyful colors! Layering color is one of my favorite techniques that bring about a rich, complex painting that upon close inspection, the beauty underneath shines through. Art is like wine. It's very subjective. I like many styles of painting but have been influenced by Monet's impressionist style and the Old Masters' like Johannes Vermeer and Thomas Baker's use of luminosity in their paintings. Ginger Laughlin I've always been an artist to the core. In my life, though I've had many careers and hobbies, I kept coming back to ART! It has been my joy and this is where I find my "happy place". Every day I evolve and discover more techniques and use of color. When people ask me how long it took me to create a painting, I answer all my life! All my life experiences and education have brought me to the place I am in my art! It's years of experience that have brought me to where I am. I love painting in oil, acrylic, and watercolor mediums. I can't get enough of creating something with bright, vibrant, joyful colors! Layering color is one of my favorite techniques that bring about a rich, complex painting that upon close inspection, the beauty underneath shines through. Art is like wine. It's very subjective. I like many styles of painting but have been influenced by Monet's impressionist style and the Old Masters' like Johannes Vermeer and Thomas Baker's use of luminosity in their paintings. https://gingerlaughlin.art/