Featured Artists
JANUARY 2026
Donna Cole
Artist's Statement
Donna Lee Cole, originally from upstate NY and has lived in Cape Coral for 40 years. She retired from the Lee County School district in 2019. She was a special education teacher for 36 years.
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​The arts/crafts she enjoys are scrapbooking, card making, mixed media, counted cross stitch, photograpy, Zentagle® and quilting.
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​Donna took her first Zentagle® class in 2013 and fell in love with it and has been doing it ever since. She became a Certified Zentagle® Teacher (CZT) in 2021. Many have never heard of Zentagle®. It is an easy, relaxing drawing concept that anyone can enjoy one stroke at a time. It is a wonderful, meditative art form suitable for both beginners and experienced artists. Zentagle® will help increase focus and relax the mind. This art form can easily be incorporated in card making, journals, scrapbooking, mixed media, or most other art projects.
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​I hope you enjoy her eclectic displays here and will sometime give Zentagle® a try.
Jack Collins
Artist's Statement
Jack Collins graduated from Miami U, in Oxford, Ohio, in 1965 with a BFA. He taught in Newark, NJ Public Schools from 1965 to 1967 as an art teacher. After the riots, he moved into the art department of Prudential and then moved back to Ohio to be with family, where he spent most of the rest of his working life in Sales and Marketing for a number of companies, Xerox and Norton to name a few. Jack was successful there and helped buy a medical manufacturing plant, he retired from there in 2005.
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After coming to Ft. Myers to live, he resumed his artistic life and has been teaching drawing at two venues in Ft. Meyers and Cape Coral since 2009.
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Jack creates in Acrylic, pastel, charcoal and ink. Jack starts with pencil and teaches that as a basic medium to all students.
Phone # 330-618-3570 Email: mtvcollins1943@gmail.com