2018 Spring Arts Festival Poster
Now marking its 49th year, the Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival is growing, evolving, and changing in 2018. This year marks the selection of Mike Segal, a Chiefland, FL resident as the featured poster artist.
Mike was born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1949, and started his art career as a professional photographer in Coconut Grove, Florida in the late 1960’s and went on to earn a degree in Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University, School of Design in Raleigh in 1976. As a design student, Mike created images for textile application working with students in the textile school at NCSU. It is from these flat designs that he developed a unique painting style which he continues to utilize today.
Mike will attend the festival to sell his work and to sign posters on Saturday and Sunday, April 7-8, 2018, on Northeast First Street in downtown Gainesville. Festival hours are 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on Saturday and noon-5 p.m. on Sunday.
Mike married Marvi Wynn, his girlfriend from the 5th grade in 1970 and his first job after graduating from NCSU was working as a Landscape Designer for the Florida Department of Natural Resources in Tallahassee, Florida where he designed numerous natural based local parks and assisted in the design of state parks, including the Devil’s Millhopper State Park in Gainesville, Florida.
Mike has taught in the Artist in the Schools program for 27 years and has written art curriculum and conducted workshops for the Alachua County Public Schools Extended Day Enrichment Program. He has exhibited his work in the North Carolina State Museum of Art, The Hickory Museum in North Carolina, the Tallahassee City Hall as well as hundreds of festivals throughout the nation winning numerous awards for his paintings. He lives today with his wife in rural Levy County Florida and continues to exhibit his work throughout the North Central Florida region.
