'Nature Rules' in ArtWork by
Patricia Rottino Cummins

AWARDS

• CCIRC Art in Public Places /Images of Indian River
First Place- July 2005

• Miami-Dade Public Schools Innovative Teacher Grant 12-02

• Achievement Award, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
Trust, 1999, Master-Peace Mural Project

• Dade County Mainstream Teacher of the Year 1985

• Associate Master Teacher, 1984-87

• Crayola Dream Makers Student Exhibition 1990

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
• ArtSouth, Studio 4, Homestead, Fl. 2003-2005
• Miami-Dade Public Schools Innovative Teacher Grant 2002
• Acadia National Park Artist in Residence Alternate, Fall 2005
• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Artist in Residence
Alternate /Summer 2005
• University of Miami Teacher Institute Scholarship/2002

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
• Florida Capitol Complex Exhibition Program
Cabinet Meeting Room
Tallahassee, Fl. May 2005 -July 2005

• Biscayne National Park Gallery
Homestead, Fl.”Biscayne Botanicals”
July 2004 through November 2004

•Art South ArtSpace Gallery
Homestead, Fl

• From Florida to France”
February 2005

• “Land and Sea”,
ArtSouth Sanctuary Exhibition
Homestead, Florida

• Art in Public Places
Hollywood City Hall, Fl. 2004

• MSD Biscayne Nature Center
” Bodacious Bromeliads”
Key Biscayne, Fl. November 2003 through January 2004

CURRENT GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
• Rive Gauche Gallery, Coconut Grove, Fl.
• Regal Fine Arts, Hollywood , Fl
• R+S Galleries, Homestead, Fl.
• Paradise Tree, Homestead, Fl.
• Immiges Gallery, Tallahassee, Fl
• ArtSpace @ArtSouth, Homestead, Fl.
• Von Liebig Members Gallery, Naples, Fl.

PUBLIC/PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
• Florida Department of State/Tallahassee, Florida
• Miami Dade College/Homestead, Florida
• Landstar Development Inc.
• Law Offices of Cummins and Wanshel/Miami, Fl.
• Palmetto Elementary School Media Center/Pinecrest, Fl
• St. Vincents’s Hospital/Cronin Wing, New York City
• Miami-Dade Pubic Library/ South Dade Regional Library
• ArtSouth, Homestead, Florida

COMMISSIONS
Dr. Edward Suarez, Miami , Florida
ArtSouth, Homestead , Florida

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• Museum of Contemporary Art, FAEA Exhibition October 2005
• Southeastern Pastel Society, Mableton Art Center, Georgia September 2005
• Cultural Council of Indian River County, Images of Vero, Fl. July 2005
• Maitland Art Center, Fl. July 2005
• Boca Raton Museum of Art, Fl. June 2005 + June 2004
• Pastel Society of N. Florida, Fort Walton Beach June 2005
• Dade Art Educators Spring Exhibit, June 2005
• Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Fl. 2005
• Disney/SBA National Entrepreneur Center Rotating Art Program, Orlando, Fl. June 2005
• Alla Prima Fine Art, St. Petersburg , Fl. February 2005
• Mystery Master’s Art Show, Ritz Carlton, Miami. Dec. 2004
• Orlando Museum of Art, Seasonal Allegory September 2004
• An Evening Among the Artists, Fundraiser for OperationSmile
Fairchild Tropical Garden, Fl. September 2004
•Centre pour l’Art et la Culture, Aix, France July 2003+2004
•Union Planters Bank, Coral Gables, Fl. March 2004
•Rive Gauche Gallery, Coconut Grove, Fl. 2004-2005
•14th Annual Faces of Women, Las Vegas Arts Council
New Mexico, March 2004
• Artescape Naples, Gallery Victoria, Fl. March 2004
• Miami Dade College, Homestead Campus, Fl. 2005,2004,2003
• Backus Museum and Gallery, Plein Air Painting Exhibition 2004, Fort Pierce, Fl., March 2004
• Pastel Society of North Florida 8th Annual Biennial National Exhibition
Ft. Walton Beach, Fl., March 2004
• Coastal Carolina Arts Center, Greer Gallery, National Juried Exhibition S.C.
May 2004
• Aventura, Fl., Art in Public Buildings, 2004
• Marathon Gov’t . Center, Fl. Art in Public Buildings, 2004
• Historic Gato Building, Key West, Fl, 2004
• Boca Raton City Hall , Fl., December 2003
• Upstairs at ArtSouth Gallery. Homestead, Fl. 11-03
• Annual DAE Invitational Exhibition, Bakehouse Complex, Miami, FL.
November 2003
• Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, Fl. F.I.U. Mia., Fl.,Summer Institute, November 2004,2003,2001, 1999
• One Ear Society, Coconut Grove, Fl. 2003-2004
• Lowe Museum, U of M Summer Institute Exhibition, Coral Gables, Fl. June2002
• Annual DAE Exhibition, Fl,.November 2002
• D’Avilia Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, February 2000
• Florida Art Education Association Exhibition, 2000
• Dade Art Educators Association Annual Exhibition, 2001

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