2024 Art & Soul Celebration
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Online Auction On View:
Tuesday, October 1 - Thursday, October 17, 2024
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Celebration: 
​Thursday, October 17, 2024
​5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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The Online Auction will launch Tuesday, October 1, and will be live through Thursday, October 17.
Purchase Tickets to Art & Soul

​Tickets to Art & Soul Celebration 2024 are no longer available online. A limited number of tickets will be available for sale at check in. 
Sponsor Art & Soul
Our sponsor recognition goes out to 3,500 email subscribers, 700 printed newsletters, and over 4,500 social media followers.

​In 1963 LeMoyne Arts was founded by 5 fervent supporters of the arts: Mary Metzke, Clifton Lewis, June Strauss, and Nanette Fisher along with the first President, Al Block. Thanks to the advocacy and dedication of our founders, and the commitment and support of our community, we are here today continuing to grow and encourage lifelong learning, appreciation, and participation in the arts for all ages. 
 
We will gather to celebrate that community at the Art & Soul Celebration: Something Florida on Thursday, October 17 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm in the LeMoyne gardens. Join us as we celebrate with live music, heavy hors d'oeuvres, and open bars featuring festive specialty cocktails. Of course, it would not be an Art & Soul Celebration without the highly anticipated live and online auctions, which will include unique experiences, fashionable jewelry, and beautiful artwork. This year we will also be celebrating the beautiful State we call home, with Florida themed gift baskets, food, specialty cocktails and décor. The dress code is Florida Inspired Cocktail Chic, dress to represent your Florida!
As part of the celebration of our impressive arts community, each year we award a distinguished arts leader with the Richard L. Puckett Leadership in Arts award. This year we are excited to present this award to Amanda Thompson, Founder and CEO of AKT Artful, for the outstanding work she has done in Tallahassee to support artists, advocate for arts and culture, and showing us all how what it means to ‘walk the walk’.
 
The Online Auction will be on view at LeMoyne Arts in tandem with Halcyon Days, from October 1 – October 17. LeMoyne Arts invite visitors to bid on this exciting auction, which provides vital funding for LeMoyne’s year-round programming and educational offerings.   
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​Richard L. Puckett Arts Leadership Award Winners

2008, Four Women of Vision, Mary Metzke, June Strauss, Nanette Fisher, Clifton Lewis, Founders of LeMoyne Art Foundation, Inc.
2009, Zoe Golloway, Founder of Gadsden Arts
2016, Segundo Fernandez
2017, Commissioner Gil Ziffer
2018, Beverly Frick
2019, Don and Dorothy Vodicka
2020, Kelly Simmons Dozier
2021, Dan Taylor
2022, Paula Fortunas
2023, Susan Baldino

​Thank you to our 2024 Art & Soul Celebration Sponsors!

PLATINUM:
Mad Dog Construction
Mary Jo and Alan Spector
Capital Eurocars

GOLD:
Park Adams
Laurie and Kelly Dozier
Paul Craft and Debra Corkhill
Don Bourassa, Paula Fortunas, and Mary Sterner Lawson
Stephanie Whitfield and Dan Taylor
​Lanigan & Associates, P.C.

SILVER:
Akerman LLP
Target Print & Mail
WestScott Construction
Periodontal Associates of North Florida
Oliver Sperry
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BRONZE:
Borntreger Law PA
Leslie and Tito Anderson
Native Nurseries
Prime Meridian Bank
​Local Pines : Sunshine State Blossom
Local Pines is a series inspired by local flora in Florida. Pine trees, overgrowth, and orange blossoms exist in the context of one another. Inspired by linen postcards from the 1940s, McCoy uses saturated colors to heighten the intensity of sunsets in her own backyard scenes.
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Sam McCoy was born and raised in Orlando, Florida in the 90s.  She is a contemporary painter who focuses on the boundaries between natural and hyperreal landscapes of Florida.  She pulls her inspiration from a place where spectacles and roadside attractions dominate America's tourism capital.  Between eco-tourism destinations and constructed gardens, McCoy explores the contradictions of her experiences in these places.  By pulling back the metaphorical curtain on a carefully crafted image of Florida, McCoy’s ideas of disenchantment and re-enchantment are enacted in each painting. The viewer can still find meaning in the shadier discordant corners of the State. 
McCoy received her BFA from the University of Central Florida and her MFA from Florida State University.  Currently she the Senior Artist Programs Manager and Featured Wildlife Artist at Thomasville Center for the Arts, and continues to work in her home studio in Tallahassee frequenting picturesque springs and roadside citrus stands.