Artists are encouraged to come in to our studio by appointment and use all the digital imagery equipment to create high technology art. Our staff is made up of artists who approach digital imagery as a new tool to create works of art. Working with our digital artists, or on your own, you can complete the imagery your minds eye sees. The Thunderbird staff can instruct you in using high tech art production tools and assist you in printmaking on unusual fine art substrates.

By using our six workstations filled with RAM, Sinar 4x5 format digital camera, Optronics Turbo drum scanner, Linotype-Hell Saphir flatbed scanner one can do and create virtually anything. Maybe reinventing an already mastered technique is the creative outlet your looking for.

It doesn't end there. You can create an image using, photos, slides, transparencies, objects, and partially completed paintings then print it out of the Epson printer on canvas then go back and rework the print with another medium. This final reworked piece can then be photographed and printed.

Anna Tomczak has been in the Thunderbird Editions studio using the 4x5 Sinar view camera with Dicomed digital scanning back connected to a Macintosh workstation to create these images in which she explores a rich visual playground of found objects, associative images, and botanicals, all woven in an intricate web of visual metaphor. Anna, who earned a M.F.A. in Fine Arts Photography from the University of Florida, has her work represented in numerous collections, including the Brooklyn, Orlando, Polk, and Tampa museums, as well as corporate collections such as Sony, Sunback, R.J. Renolds, the Mayo Clinic, and IBM. She has had solo exhibits since 1986, as well as been a part of numerous group shows.

Everybody's Tabernacle - is an artist collaboration intended to bring attention to the Clearwater Homeless Intervention Project. More information on Everybody's Tabernacle. Digital artists Bonny Lhotka, Dorothy Simpson Krause, and Steve Carlisle shared creative inspiration, materials, and the latest in modern technology to produce more than 50 prints - in a week - using IRIS printers and custom substrates. All three artists shared photographs taken by Steve Carlisle of homeless people in Clearwater, Florida.

Jack Breit, an accomplished artist, received a grant from The Florida Gulf Coast Art Center to create 18 works of art to be shown in Gallery At 145 in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. Jack has brought in partially completed paintings and assorted objects to be arranged in ways to intrigue the mind. After photographing the compositions with the digital camera, Jack sat down behind the computer and started composing. These are a couple of the images Jack created in this manner.

Steve Carlisle, Research Fellow at Graphicstudio, and Lesley Dill collaborate on printmaking projects. See more on Steve's work and printmaking projects with Graphicstudio.