Patrick became Crealdé’s Senior Gallery Curator in the fall of 2022. Born in Haiti in 1962 in the province of Jeremie—“the city of poets”—and formally educated in New York, Patrick was first introduced to art by his father Robert Noze and grandfather Andre Dimanche, making Patrick Noze a third generation sculptor and painter. At age 5, he sold his first painting, depicting the celebration of Passover within the Haitian culture, for $50 to a tourist.

He studied at the renowned Pratt Institute School of Visual Arts and graduated in 1990 with a Fine Arts degree with a minor in education. He is a prolific painter, sculptor, curator, illustrator, restorer and creative painter of vintage cars. He creates art work mostly for private commissions in New York and his home in Florida.

His painting style eventually transitioned from a European aesthetic – gained through his academic education – to an Artist of the Americas with African roots. In 2013 he painted an entire school bus in seven days at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center for the Crealdé exhibition “Keeping Haiti in our Hearts”. A custom painted 1997 Jaguar, reflecting his Haitian heritage, sold at the international Mecum Classic Car Auction in Kissimmee – the world’s largest – in January of 2022.

EDUCATION

U.S Navy, Photographers School, 1969
Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Associate of Arts – Photography and Graphic Design, 1978
Owned and operated his own Photography and Graphic Design business, 1979-2010

EXHIBITIONS

2008, Solo exhibit, Fleming & Associates Architects, Memphis, TN
2009, Two-Artist exhibit, Linda Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
2010, Solo exhibit, Hannah Davis Gallery, Memphis, TN
2012, Group Exhibit, Brownfield Antiquarian, Scottsdale, AZ
2012, Solo exhibit, Chrome Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2013, Group Exhibit, Camelback Consign Design, Phoenix, AZ

PUBLICATION

Corporate Interiors #8, pages 97-104, 2007 Photography
Knoll Studio Collection, pages 6-9, 2009 Photography

A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the arts, Eric has been teaching film and television production ever since he was an intern with his local cable company where he worked on countless television shows and taught production workshops. Since that time, he’s worked on commercials, documentaries, independent feature films and is currently writing and directing several video series that teach environmental stewardship. A part-time instructor at Valencia College, he loves helping students of all ages discover their artistic talents and find their voices

Missy Kimsey-Hickman studied art at Seminole Community College under Grady Kimsey and received her B.A. from Colorado State University. From her Uncle Grady, she learned about primitive clays and pit firing at a young age. She has a focus on primitive clay techniques not only as a potter but as a professional archaeologist. She learned to love working in high fire clays from the instruction of the late Crealdé potter Susan Vey. Susy taught with meticulous detail how to hand build and throw. Those core techniques are used in all of her clay pieces. Missy eventually expanded the medium to sculpting under the instruction of David Cumbie. Kimsey-Hickman works the clay with imagination to create new and unusual figures. She also works in multimedia with old and new items using epoxy clay for added features. Her personal belief is that you should always be yourself as an artist and enjoy the process. Her sculpting is anthropomorphic and whimsical.  

A native of Winter Park, Charles Hodges earned his M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus on Printmaking.  He embarked on a commercial photography career extending 30 years.  Upon returning to Florida, Hodges opened a studio that produced work for Orlando Magazine, the Shakespeare Theater and textbooks for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.  In 2019, in collaboration with The American Red Cross, Charles produced a series of Black and White Portraits honoring the volunteers and their personal life stores, exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Science in Daytona Beach.  In January 2022, Hodges was selected as one of 30 local artists to display his work on a billboard as part of the I-4 Corridor Show.  He believes in “paying it forward” and is an active member of Karios Prison Ministry and also serves on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity,

American-born Jeff Rogers has traveled extensively in pursuit of excellence in ceramic arts, exploration of humanitarian concerns and community empowerment. He is currently probing the intersection of classically beautiful forms as a metaphor for his de-facto inclusion into a privileged group and the responsibility privilege requires with its centuries-long narrative that includes various iterations of violence, genocide, and conquest. Finely crafted clay often skirts the edge of the disturbing—well curated forms torn by surfaces referencing the bias and violence that are still, sometimes insidiously, present in the fabric of our structures, institutions and interactions.

Jeff is a highly trained production potter, and multiple galleries across the US have represented his earlier work. He established studios in Flintstone, Georgia; Windsor, Vermont; Key Largo, Florida; Pandiassou and Jacmel, Haiti; and Arles, France. His exhibitions include Hidden Voices at Men Nou Gallery, Pettionville, Haiti 2014, A Quatre Mains with Cecile Cayrol, Hotel Nord Pinus, Arles, France 2015. From 2014 to 2018, Jeff was commissioned to design and create dinnerware for some of the finest restaurants in Miami and Southern France where it has been used to serve President Macron. From 2018-2022, prior to Jeff’s current role as an instructor and Ceramics Program & Studio Manager at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida, he worked in the prestigious studios of Simon Pearce and Stephen Proctor, both in Central Vermont, honing precision production and design skills and developing techniques for the production of large scale pieces.

Jeff’s training has mainly been through traditional rather than academic venues.  He began as an apprentice to Charles Counts at Rising Fawn Pottery, Rising Fawn, Georgia, in 1984. From 1986 through 1988, he apprenticed at Atelier La Chouette with Michele Bailly, Nimes, France, and at Potterie du Don with Suzy Atkins in Montsalvy, France. He has taught in a variety of institutions, including Chattanooga State Technical and Community College, Baylor School, and Lee University in Tennessee; Covenant College in Georgia; Ceramic League of Miami in Florida; and Popular University of Pandiassou in Haiti, in addition to numerous workshops in the US and abroad.

He has organized and curated numerous exhibitions, including Masters and Students and Pottery from Nicaragua and Peru in 1999, funded through Georgia Council for the Arts and Hope from Haiti: An Exhibition of Haitian Craft at Konbit for Haiti Center, Miami, Florida, in 2013.  At that time, Jeff also founded and directed Epple Seed Arts as a nonprofit arm of Beyond Borders to celebrate and support their efforts towards sustainable livelihoods for Haitians. Jeff’s ceramic practice has always been tied to his heart and work toward justice, equity and inclusion.

Mike Goodge studied art and film at the University of Central Florida, received a B.A. degree in 1996.
He has taught art classes and workshops at various schools and community centers for the City of Orlando, Toronto and Clermont, Florida for more than twenty years.
Mike’s paintings have been exhibited in the Orlando Museum of Art and several galleries in Florida and Toronto.
His art is influenced by animation, Warhol, Picasso, life experiences and film.
http://www.mikegoodge.com