Bio

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Bran Palmer earned her M.F.A. in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design and is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. She is a member of SixStar Art Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the spring of 2026, Bran showed work at the Gallery MC in NYC.

 

Locally, Bran showed at the Creative Pinellas Arts Annual 8 exhibition in Largo, Florida, and presented her first solo show in 2025 in the Main Gallery at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

 

Locally, Bran is an artist teacher at Creative Clay, has taught an art workshop for neurodivergent adults at a memory care home, worked with the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance on their Murals in Mind project to link the arts with mental wellness education in the community, and co-directed six months of arts programming for the Gulfport Art Center. Bran has participated in national juried competitions and was selected for an art exchange with St. Petersburg, Russia, while still a student at Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Education

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PhD Student, Cohort 2025

Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts

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MFA, Painting, 2025 

Savannah College of Art & Design

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MA, Arts Administration, 2012 

Savannah College of Art & Design

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MA, Journalism, 2005

University of South Florida

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BA, Visual Arts,1996

Eckerd College

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Grants & Awards 

1990 - Art Exchange with St. Petersburg, Russia

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Exhibitions 

Solo

2025 - “Fly, Amanita and Other Toxic Beauties”, Main Gallery, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida

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Group

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2026 -  IDSVA Alumni Show, MC Gallery, New York, NY

2025 -  Creative Pinellas, Largo, FL

2021 - “Sweet Sensations”,  Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, Florida

2021 - The Gallery at Studio Grand Central, The Off-Central Players, St. Petersburg, Florida

2014 - “New Work”, City of Imagination, Gulfport, Florida

2014 - “Building Myths: Desecrating Histories”, City of Imagination, Gulfport, Florida

2011 - “Monotype/Monoprint Invitational Exhibition”, Elliott Gallery, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg,

Florida

2010 - “Works on Paper, The Juried Art Show", Studio@620, St. Petersburg, Florida

2009 - “ArtPool Foundation Show”,  ArtPool, St. Petersburg, Florida

2008 - “Eckerd College Major Alumni Exhibition”, Elliott Gallery, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL

2008 - “Members Exhibition at the Morean Art Center”, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, Florida

2008 - “The Print Show”, Studio@620, St. Petersburg, Florida

2007 - “Ringling School of Art & Design Alumni Show”, Sarasota, Florida

2004 - “Eckerd College Alumni Show”, Elliott Gallery, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida

1995 - “Seventh Annual All Florida Spring Juried Exhibition”, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida

1995 - “Selections at Gallery at 145”,  Gallery at 145, St. Petersburg, Florida

1995 - “ArtBanc Presents”, Tampa Bay, Florida, Locations

1994 - “National Juried Show: All Beliefs Accepted, Visual Representations of the Spiritual”, Artists

Unlimited, Tampa, Florida

1994 - “National Juried Show: Black, White, Yellow, Red: Colors of a Nation”,  Artists Unlimited, Tampa, Florida

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