Meredith Hartsfield, Glass Bead Making
Meredith has a 10 year graphic design/commerical arts backgroundýas well as an extensive background in education. A glass beadmaker since 1995, Meredith has taught classes at the Belmont for four years and is Belmont's resident glass bead maker. She has participated in nationally recognized juried art shows such as the Greater Gulf Coast Arts Festival - (4 years), Fairhope Arts Show (2 years) and many other local shows and venues. Meredith is married withýthree teenage children and has been a resident of Gulf Breeze, Florida since relocating from Denver, Colorado in 1999.
 

Chris Johnson, Pottery
The Belmont Arts and Cultural Center is pleased to welcome our newest artist in residence, Chris Johnson, who will be further developing and expanding our pottery program.

Chris Johnson has been an artist and teacher for many years.  He has taught art in South Alabama and in the Florida Panhandle for the last 10 years.  He received his art and art history education at the University of West Florida and has a Master’s in Art Education from Auburn University.

He is a dedicated visual artist was well as a singer/songwriter and actually began his college career with a music scholarship.  He then fell in love with ceramics and became skilled in many popular techniques incorporating wheel throwing and hand building into ceramic sculpture.  He is trained in stoneware, earthenware, raku and painted porcelain techniques.  He work can be found in many private collections in France, Italy and the Southern United States as well as in art galleries.  He work is in the Harper Lee Memorial Museum in Monroeville, Alabama and George Takei’s Japanese-American Museum in Los Angeles, California.

Chris is a dedicated artist and teacher who is excited about working in beautiful Pensacola, Florida.