{"id":69,"date":"2016-11-24T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2021-02-06T02:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:50:32","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>GERRY FLORIDA <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>CV \/ BIO \/ ARTIST STATEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>SELECT EXHIBITIONS \u00a02007-2020<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* The New Collective\u00a0 \u201cWHAT HAVE WE DONE\u201d \/ Pittsburgh 2019 \/ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*&#8221;As the World Falls Down\u201d Exhibtion \/Panza Gallery \/ Pittsburgh 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Common Threads\/ Carnegie Library \/ Crossing Limits, Pittsburgh, PA 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>*<\/strong>Pittsburgh Society of Artists\/ Artist&#8217;s Choice \/ Brew House Gallery \/Pittsburgh, PA 2018<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/local-pittsburgh.com\/arts\/mother-moth%C2%B7er-m%C9%99t%CD%9Fh%C9%99r-at-percolate-gallery-opening-saturday-march-24th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mother<\/a>&#8221; \/ Percolate Gallery \/ Pittsburgh, PA \/ 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Artist Choice 2017\/ Panza Gallery \/ Pittsburgh Society of Artists \/ Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*The New Collective 2016, Pittsburgh Craftsmen\u2019s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Fifty First Annual 2016, Harlan Gallery, Seten Hill Gallery, Pittsburgh Society of\u00a0 Artists,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Greensburg, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*PSA Annuals, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Artists Choice 2016, Panza Gallery, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*PSA Small Works, Framehouse Gallery, Pittsburgh PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Metropolis Collective Gallery, Mechanicsburg, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*New Collective, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Illusions, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Enough Violence: Artists Speak Out, Society for Contemporary Craft,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/ae\/art-architecture\/2014\/02\/19\/Exhibit-at-Society-for-Contemporary-Craft-draws-support-from-victims-and-advocates\/stories\/201402190033\">Pittsburgh Post Gazette<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/crafthaus.ning.com\/profiles\/blogs\/shuman-detention-center-and-the-scc\">Craft Haus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/contemporarycraft.tumblr.com\/post\/57519120684\/artists-kids-dauvit-alexander-and-gerry-florida\">Society for Contemporary Craft<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.questia.com\/newspaper\/1P2-36679349\/voices-against-violence-exhibit-at-society-for-contemporary\">Voices Against Violence<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Hot Tea, Delmano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Carnegie Trees, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Bra Day, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Sanctuary, Panza Gallery, Millvale, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*PSA Annual, Fein Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Teapots! 5th Invitational, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Deck the Walls, 707 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Art Day, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Presidents Choice 100 for 100, 907 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Lost and Found, Art Loft, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Interplay, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*New Members Exhibit, Borelli Edwards Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Holiday Mart, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Holiday Artist Fair, Westmoreland Museum, Greensburg, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Collaborative Community Glass Project, Pittsburgh Glass Center,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Exchange, 937 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Urban Dreams, Fein Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*World of Green on KDKA, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>SELECT GALLERY, FAIRS AND BOUTIQUES AFFILIATES\u00a02007-2016 <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Percolate Purple Room, Pittsburgh, PA 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*A Fair in the Park, Pittsburgh, PA 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><u><\/u>*A Fair in the Park, Pittsburgh, PA 2010- 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*3 Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Mount Lebanon Plein Air 2014, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*International Images, Sewickley, Pa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Bella Arte, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Bella Arte, Midlothian,Virginia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Dakota East, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Gallerie Chiz, {Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*3g Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Sky Blue Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*I Made It Market, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Craft Collective, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pasqaulies Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Patricia Boutique, Fox Chapel, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Victoria, Fox Chapel, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>SELECT FASHION EVENTS 2007-2016 <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2017 Style Week \u00a0\/ I&#8217;m Style &#8220;Fashion Meets Innovation &#8221; Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2016 Re New Festival Fashion Extravaganza, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Junky Kimono Fashion Show, Geek Art\/Green Innovators (GA\/GI) Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Fashion FUZEion Fashion Show, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Out of the Heels of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Women Work, Pittsburgh Fashion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Week, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Spring Hat Luncheon, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Caesars Designs,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*The 12th Annual Ladies Luncheon and Fashion Show, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Symphony Fashion Show, Churchill Valley Country Club<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Skyblue 7 Fashion Event, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Anti-Valentine\u2019s Day Benefit Fashion Show at Zen, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Anti-Valentine\u2019s Day Benefit Fashion Show at Altar, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Knit and Crochet Fashion Show, Patricia Boutique, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Gallerie Chiz Trunk Fashion Show, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Ecolutions Earthday, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Local Motions Designer Fashion Show 2008, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>AWARDS AND RECOGNITION <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>2007-2018<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2020 JCJC Awards Program \/Juvenile Court Judges Commission \/\u00a0Meritorious Service Award Nomination<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Juvenile Justice Week Award \/\u00a0 October 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>*\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;5th\u00a0 Annual Woman of Valor 2018&#8221; \/ Cornerstone Network<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*City of Pittsburgh Proclamation\u00a0 \/ The Women of Achievement 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*13th Annual Women of Achievement Award \/ Cribs for Kids\u00a0 \/ 2018<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2017 &#8220;Unsung Heroes&#8221; Recognition \/ Shuman Juvenile Detention Center<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soupnat.wordpress.com\/2017\/06\/27\/soup-nat-summer-edition-winner-gerry-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soup N&#8217;At &#8221; Why Art &#8221; 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2016 Jurors Award\/ The New Collective \/ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,Pittsburgh PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2016\u00a0 Community Citation of Recognition\u00a0 \/ Allegheny County Office of the<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">County Executive<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2016 Juvenile Detention and Alternative Programs Best Practices Award \/\u00a0Nomination, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2015 Shuman Juvenile Detention Staff Recognition \/ Arts Programming<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2015 County Commissioner of PA Best Practices State Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cJuvenile and Detention Alternative Programs\u201d, State College, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2013 Sanctuary, Jurors Award, Panza Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2013 &#8220;Women Champions&#8221; Recognition, Champion Enterprises and\u00a05 Star Enterprises, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*2012 Nomination &#8220;Emerging Artist of the Year&#8221; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts \/\u00a0Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Aaronel deRoy Gruber Memorial Award, &#8220;101 Annual&#8221; \/\u00a0 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*CBS Pittsburgh Featured Artist &#8220;Hot Local Eco Artist&#8221; 2011, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*KDKA \u201cBest of Pittsburgh\u201d 2010, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Finalist \/ Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council &#8220;Work of Arts Award, &#8220;Individual<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Working Artist\u201d, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Honorable Mention Award, Federal Executive Board, Native American Heritage<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Committee Annual Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2007-2018<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Society for Contemporary Craft\/ Adult Workshops 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Shuman Juvenile Detention Center Summer School 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Shuman Juvenile Detention Center \/ Studio Blue \/ Facilitating Managing Artist 2016-present<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Furniture Exchange and Revamp Project \/ Shuman Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*\u201cWhy Art\u201d Billboard Project \/ Shuman Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Society for Contemporary Craft \/ Summer Camp Program 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Carnegie Mellon OSHER Program 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*International Jewelry Gem Show \/ Pittsburgh, PA \/ Columbus, Ohio 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*American Association of Woodturners \/ International Symposium Workshop 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Act 48 Teacher Certification Instructor \/ Continuing Education Professional<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Development \/ Society for Contemporary Craft<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, Title 1, Allegheny County \/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Award Winning Jewelry Arts Program<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, Allegheny County, Special Programs:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Juvenile Detention Association of PA Annual Conference<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*National Partnership on Juvenile Services Annual Conference<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*National Partnership on Juvenile Services 21st Symposium \/ Adult Talisman Workshop<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Talisman Project\u00a0 \/ Enough Violence Shuman Juvenile Detention Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Talisman Project \/ Society for Contemporary Craft<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Talisman Project \/ Pittsburgh Public Schools<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Talisman Project \/ Duquesne University Social Justice Department<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Talisman Project, The National Partnership on Juvenile Services 21st Symposium<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Society for Contemporary Craft \/ Youth and Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Museum School Partnership \/ Society for Contemporary Craft \/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Public Schools \/ Residency\/ South Brook Middle School<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Public School Residency\/ Woodland Hills Jr. High School<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Public School Residency\/ Woodland Hills Academy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Center for the Arts \/ Youth and Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Carnegie Mellon University \/ Osher Programs \/ Senior Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Community College of Allegheny County \/ Youth and Adult Classes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*International Wood Turners Annual Conference \/ Lazer Arts Workshops \/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*American Wood-Turners\u00a0Association Annual Conference<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Federal Office of Training and Development, National Webinar: &#8220;The Benefits of<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Arts Programming in Detention&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*International Jewelry Gem National Show \/ Adult Workshops \/ Pittsburgh, PA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*International Jewelry Gem National Show \/ Adult Workshops \/ Columbus, Ohio<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Intergalactic National Trade Gem Show \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Bead Mercantile National Trade Show \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Crystal Bead Bazaar \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Society of Artists &#8220;PSA Caf\u00e9 \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Irma Freeman Center \/ Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Propel Charter Schools \/ Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Home Schoolers of PA \/ Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Spectrum Charter School \/ Special Needs Youth: Autistic \/ Private Instruction<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Spectrum Charter School \u00a0\/ 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Center for Creative Reuse \/ Adult-Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Citizen Care \/ Pennsylvania of Family Caregivers \/ Special Needs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Family Resources of Western PA \/ Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Rankin Christian Center \/ Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Discovery Youth Programs \/ Youth Workshops \/ Murrysville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Knit One \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Turtle Creek Senior Center \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Wilkens School Community Center \/ Youth and Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Mulberry Senior Center \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Rankin Christian Center \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Braddock Hills Senior Center \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Forest Hills Municipality \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Murrysville After School Programs \/ Youth Programs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Murrysville Community Center \/ Adult and Youth Programs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Penn Hills Municipality \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Forest Hills Community Center \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Monroeville Municipality \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Bethel Park Municipality \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Bethel Park Municipality Community Center \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Mount Lebanon Municipality \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*South Arts\u00a0 \/ Adult and Youth Classes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Jewish Community Center \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*South Hills Area Home Schoolers \/ Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Glass Classics Studios of Pittsburgh \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Marcel Glass \/ Adult Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Paramount Glass Studios \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Michaels Stores \/ \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Bead Design Academy \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Joanne Fabric Stores \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pat Catan Stores \/ Adult and Youth Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Society of Artist Workshops<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Society for Contemporary Craft<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Public Educational Speaker \/ Arts Advocate for At-Risk Populations \/*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pitt School of Nursing \/ Workshop<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Private Instruction \/ Adult, Youth and Special Needs Classes<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><u>ARTIST TALKS AND ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* The 2020 National Conference on Juvenile Justice\u00a0 \/\u00a0National Council on Juvenile and Family Court Judges<\/span> \/\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Virtual Presentation\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* I Too am Pittsburgh 2019 \/Speaker Opening Reception <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Juvenile Justice Week Awards\u00a0 2019 \/ Guest Speaker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Osher \u00a0\/\u00a0Lecture Series \/\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/osher\/publications\/weekly-essentials\/lecture-transcending-tradition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transcending Tradition<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\/ Carnegie Mellon University 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* The New Collective\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWHAT HAVE WE DONE\u201d \/ Pittsburgh 2019 \/ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Osher \u00a0\/\u00a0Lecture Series \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/osher\/publications\/weekly-essentials\/lecture-transcending-tradition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transcending Tradition<\/a> \u00a0\/ Carnegie Mellon University 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*KQV \/ Elaine Effort \/<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/kqv.com\/audioarchives\/Pgh%20Profiles%20040617.mp3\">KQV \/ Award Winning Arts Program<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Grant Recipient \/ Craftsmen&#8217;s Guild 0f Pittsburgh \/ 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Artist Talk \/ Craftsmen&#8217;s Guild of Pittsburgh \/ 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Artist Talk\u00a0\/ New Collective \/ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Society for Contemporary Craft Heart of Craft Video<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/125156354?app_id=122963\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"CONTEMPORARY CRAFT- &amp;quot;Heart of Craft&amp;quot;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Artist Talk \/ New Collective \/ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Artist Talk \/ Enough Violence \/ Society for Contemporary Craft<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Out of Hand \/ Annual Fundraising Event \/ Society for Contemporary Craft<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Heart of Craft Fundraising Luncheon \/ Society for Contemporary Craft<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*National Webinar: The Importance of Arts Programming In Juvenile Detention<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Webinar is hosted by the National Center for Youth in Custody (NCYC), the National Training and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC), created by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Prevention (OJJDP), and coordinated by the National Partnership for Juvenile Services (<\/span>NPJS).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In Partnership with the National Partnership for Juvenile Services<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>SOCIAL MEDIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PSA.Guild\/posts\/964697096894788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Society of Artists Gerry Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/osher\/publications\/weekly-essentials\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OSHER\/ CMU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/osher\/publications\/weekly-essentials\/shuman-juvenile-detention-center-billboard-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OSHER Lecture Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlleghenyCounty\/videos\/1973333042681403\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allegheny County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PSA.Guild\/posts\/964697096894788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Society of Artist Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE &amp; RELATED POSITIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*South Arts, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*South Arts, Education Director \/ Creative Program Development<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Shuman Juvenile Detention Center\/ Resident Artist \/ Facilitating Artist\/ Managing Artist \/ Special<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Community Programs \/ Title I Instructor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*United Way of Southwestern PA, Corporate Training and Development<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*United Way of Southwestern PA, Corporate Division Director \/ National\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Corporate Leadership<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* United Way of Southwestern PA, Public Speaker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Paramount Glass Studio, Head Designer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Marcel Glass Studio, Head Designer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Glass Classics Studios, Head Designer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ebb5b5;\"><span style=\"color: #f7ebeb;\">* ASCAP, American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>VOLUNTEER MISSIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Board of Directors \/ Pittsburgh Craftsmen&#8217;s Guild<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Spectrum Charter School<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Carnegie Mellon \/ Osher Programs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Shuman Juvenile Detention Center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Vista \/ Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>BENEFIT EVENTS \/ CONTRIBUTIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Steel City Rollers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Haute Pittsburgh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Pittsburgh Conservancy Hat Luncheon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Pittsburgh Symphony East<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Craftsmen Guild of Pittsburgh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Mt Lebanon Plein Aire Market<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Cribs for Kids<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>AFFILIATED GUILDS<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Associated Artists of Pittsburgh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Pittsburgh Craftsmen\u2019s Guild<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Pittsburgh Society of Artists<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>STUDENTS: PRESS, AWARDS &amp; EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*\u201cMeet the Kids Who Defied the Odds\u201d Pittsburgh Parent Magazine \/ January 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*Pittsburgh Parent Magazine Steam Award 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Whirl Magazine 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Jeffrey Smith Studios \/ Jewelry \/ Whirl Magazine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Carnegie Library Labsy Awards \/ Student Recognition \/ Lindsey G<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Senator Doyle Statewide Student Art Exhibition Recognition \/Xaire M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">* Shuman Juvenile Detention Center Student Exhibitions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Enough Violence\u00a0 \/ Society for Contemporary Craft \/ Pittsburgh, PA \u00a0\/2013<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Allegheny County City County Building\u00a0 \/ Pittsburgh, PA \u00a0\/ 2014<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Metropolis Gallery\u00a0 \/ Mechanicsburg, PA \/ 2014<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">JDCAP State Annual Conference\u00a0 \/ Pittsburgh, PA \u00a0\/012, 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Women In Corrections Conference\u00a0 \/ Pittsburgh, PA \u00a0\/ 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">National Partnership on Juvenile Services 21st Symposium\u00a0 \/ Pittsburgh, PA \u00a0\/ 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Shuman Center In house Exhibition \/\u00a0Pittsburgh, PA \u00a0\/<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>ABOUT THE ARTIST \/ BIO<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I call myself a recycle artist reclaiming the \u201cunsalvageable\u201d to create what I describe as \u201cpaintings with beads.\u201d As the former owner of Florida\u2019s Estate &amp; Jewelry Gallery, I satisfied my jewelry passion by collecting extraordinary estate pieces, many of which influence my designs. In my role as head designer of Paramount Glass Studios, Marcel Glass and Glass Classics Studios of Pittsburgh, I nurtured my fascination for glass and light. Apprenticing under some of the areas top glass designers, I witnessed the rebirth of the glass art as it transitioned into a contemporary purpose to include commercial, residential as well as religious design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In 1998 a life altering environmental accident disabled me from working in the glass media I most loved. My challenge became finding a meaningful vocation that could combine my need to effect change in environmental awareness while incorporating my personal mission into my work. Realizing the importance of environmental factors on health, I converted to advocate for green living; practicing environmental awareness in my life and art.\u00a0 As a former National Corporate Division Director of United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, I was already on board with many missions. This along with my creative ability fueled my passion to reinvent or \u201crecycle myself\u201d to develop a home-based jewelry design business with a conscience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Always in the process of recreating my art identity, I combined my passion for jewelry, art, glass and antiques to develop an eclectic mixed media style using vintage and contemporary beads and findings as well as salvaged objects to create inspiring one of a kind eco-friendly jewelry pieces. I recognize that I am a chronic \u201djunk junky\u201d scouting for antiques, collectibles and interesting new and used components to use in my recycling art. Surrounded by a vast and continually growing inventory, I search for \u201canything on the planet\u201d conducive to stringing or wiring to create my pieces\u2026 employing a collection of contemporary, new with used materials in an eclectic fusion of mixed media wearable art I fondly distinguish as \u201cFunkified Junk\u201d. I unify color, mass and life experience while infusing new life and dimension into each salvaged ingredient, developing a line of jewelry that preserves the integrity of once abandoned objects. Each jewelry piece is uniquely designed and meticulously handcrafted using no toxic materials with no parts wasted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My ongoing life-long recovery offers insight into the many challenges confronted by those met with trauma, tragedy and disability. I want to share my philosophy with all populations particularly those who are forced to face what seem insurmountable hardship. My hope is that my experience and insight will spark passion in their own lives and enable them to integrate rather than deny negative experiences to develop a worthy, seasoned and viable identity. I have learned from my own experience and art that I am a\u00a0 \u201cMaster of Imperfection\u201d, creating beauty from the \u201cunnoticeable\u201d \u2026. which parallels my life philosophy that our true beauty lies in the imperfections in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My personal beliefs keep much of my teaching community accessible, teaching through community based profit and non-profit organizations with particular interest in working with seniors, children, disabled and at-risk juvenile populations. My work with at-risk youth populations has enriched the lives of my students as well as my own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I derive my greatest inspiration from my ultimate creation, my daughter Sasha, my business partner and an artist in her own right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>&#8211; Gerry Florida<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">BIO<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Gerry Florida is an award-winning assemblage artist and social justice advocate\u00a0who\u00a0refers to herself as a &#8220;Master of Imperfection\u201d. Her creations deliver underlying messages of rebirth, recovery and reclamation through an array of salvaged, recycled and contemporary materials that she employs in work.\u00a0Her intrigue with the \u201cbeauty of imperfection\u201d has led her to work on behalf of at-risk populations locally, statewide and nationally fostering the belief that integrating failures, accepting limitations and embracing differences is the means to\u00a0living in in harmony with the real world and the one we can imagine\u00a0and create.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>ARTIST STATEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Gerry Florida\u2018s intrigue with the \u201cbeauty of imperfection\u201d has led her to work on behalf of at risk populations locally and nationally to include seniors, disabled and delinquent youth.\u00a0 Her work exemplifies her philosophy employing salvaged, imperfect as well as vintage and contemporary materials in a blend that trademarks her style and design. Gerry \u2018s philosophy transcends her teaching style inspiring at risk populations who struggle with recreating resilient identities that embrace both the successes and failures of life to reclaim their right to succeed despite the failed histories that once defined them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>ARTIST STATEMENT \/ 101 ANNUAL- ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Aaronel DeRoy Gruber Memorial Award Winner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #800000;\">It was July 1958 and blinking Christmas tree lights spread their luminosity throughout the Pee-Wee Herman like room in time with 12 cuckoo clocks simultaneously striking the hour - barely dominating the sound of the Russian gypsy music amplified in the background. Each room of the house was generously peppered with animated oddities; like the musical toilet seat who\u2019s masterfully nail-polish painted face winked a sultry \"good day!\" with her one opened blue eye. My eccentric Holocaust survivor Russian-French-Jewish mother salvaged sanity by creating a multi- sensory world saturated in fantasy, sound, and colorfully displayed whimsical objects that softened reality and drowned out the demons of experience. And me, well I am the product of this intriguing upbringing; resurrecting beauty by rescuing abandoned objects weathered by life\u2019s encounters- to create color filled fanciful wired objects\/oddities that incite curiosity and tease the imagination.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>&#8211; Gerry Florida<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>TWITTER<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;m a jewelry artist &amp; a professional imperfectionist living in harmony with the deficiency surrounding us. My work is the alteration of expectation &amp; purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>\u00a0Gerry Florida<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GERRY FLORIDA CV \/ BIO \/ ARTIST STATEMENT \u00a0 SELECT EXHIBITIONS \u00a02007-2020 * The New Collective\u00a0 \u201cWHAT HAVE WE DONE\u201d \/ Pittsburgh 2019 \/ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts *&#8221;As the World Falls Down\u201d Exhibtion \/Panza Gallery \/ Pittsburgh 2019 *Common Threads\/ Carnegie Library \/ Crossing Limits, Pittsburgh, PA 2018 *Pittsburgh Society of Artists\/ Artist&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/floridarecycled.com\/\/oldWebsiteCopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}