Bio

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Bran Palmer is a member of SixStar Art Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida. She 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. In the spring of 2025, she participated in her first solo show at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, "Fly, Amanita & Other Toxic Beauties." Locally, Bran developed an art workshop for other-abled and neurodiverse adults in a memory care facility, worked with the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance on their Murals in Mind project to link the arts with mental wellness in the community, and co-directed six months of arts programming for the Gulfport Art Center.

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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”,  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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