Plunge into the Arts with Susan, Melanie, Kevin & Simone!

Please join us for our Plunge Into The Arts Artist Open House Featuring the work of Susan Casbarro, Melanie Margolies, Kevin Killough & Simone Santamaria!! Friday, December 19th at 6:30pm at Plunge Beach Resort.

Complimentary registration and bar available with happy hour pricing! Parking $5 per vehicle.

Walk-ins are welcome!

About Susan Casbarro: Susan Nanna Casbarro is an award-winning mixed media mosaicist. She was raised in a setting where everyone valued and participated in the visual and performing arts, including sculpture, painting, music, dance, jewelry making, script and song writing, Japanese brush work and puppetry, among other areas. From the age of 5 she was performing in marionette shows with her family in malls and at charity events.

Susan was born and raised in New York and currently resides in Florida. She is a teacher by heart and occupation (middle school Math). Upon retirement she poured all of her passion into her artwork and set up the Glistening Glass Studio where she creates her own pieces and shares the art of mosaics with her students. She began exhibiting in 2018 in local and national galleries. Susan is a member of the Broward Art Guild, National League of American PEN women, SAMA-Society of American Mosaic Artists and is the Treasurer of the Weston Art Guild

About Melanie Margolies: Melanie Margolies grew up in South Florida. She enjoys being creative, using her imagination, experimenting, and working with her hands. She specializes in stained glass art pieces including lamps, window panels, kaleidoscopes, and customized gifts. Once an art piece is completed and displayed in the sunlight, the wide ranges of vibrant colors explode. The beautiful arrangements of colors and light can easily brighten the day, alter your mood, and lift you up. She creates using stained glass, epoxy resin, acrylic paints, mica powders, and alcohol inks. Melanie participates in local art events and art exhibitions including the Glass Gallery in Pembroke Pines, Coral Springs Museum, Sunrise Civic Center, Weston Hills Country Club, the Sailboat Bend Gallery, Broward Mall Art Wall, Ft. Lauderdale Home Show, Plunge Resort, Deerfield Beach Historical Society Museum Cultural Center, and the Drastix Restaurant in Hollywood. Melanie is also on the Weston Art Guild Board of Directors and has won national and local awards in the Stained Glass News Magazine, Miami Herald, Weston Lifestyle Magazine, along with artwork published in The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today. You can reach Melanie @ (954) 648-8256 or mel5324@bellsouth.net

About Kevin Killough: Creativity has always been the driving force in my life. After earning my BFA in Photography, I followed a multidisciplinary path—beginning in commercial photography and moving into graphic design, with a focus on retail packaging. That work opened doors to product development and furniture design, where I spent over two decades creating collections for the U.S. retail market and collaborating with major retailers.

Now semi-retired, I’ve returned to my first love: fine art and photography. Drawing on the visual instincts and design sensibilities honed over a decades long career, I explore a bold fusion of color, light, and digital manipulation to reinterpret the world around me.

My work, which I call “Painting with Pixels,” is a form of contemporary digital impressionism—where technology becomes a brush, and creativity guides the hand. Rooted in Pop Art and touched by surrealism, my images are big, bright, and painterly. I often let “happy accidents” shape the process, believing that each image reveals what it wants to become, much like Michelangelo described uncovering a sculpture hidden within the marble.

This new chapter is about discovery—pushing the limits of imagery, experimenting with texture and materials, and exploring how far I can go in blending art and technology. I invite you to join me on this journey as I continue painting with pixels and finding new ways to see the world anew.

About Simone Santamaria: My name is Simone Santamaria, a Brazilian artist living in Orlando, Florida. Since childhood, my love for colors, drawings, and paintings has always been a constant in my life, leading me to attend one of Brazil's top art schools in my hometown. I later acquired skills in the digital field, where I worked for major companies, always with a focus on the artistic vision, whether in design or paper art.Professionally, art has been a constant source of inspiration and innovation, expanding my creativity and encouraging out-of-the-box thinking. Emotionally, art is a form of self-discovery and therapy, allowing me to express deep feelings and find inner balance. Moreover, art enriches my personal life, filling it with beauty, meaning, and connections with fellow art enthusiasts. As a multifunctional artist, using various materials and techniques, I navigate through drawing, painting, digital layout, and most intensely with paper sculpture and quilling.

In this context, my collection, "A Splash of Unwinding," reflects my quest to transform everyday items into art, such as this collection of the world's finest cocktails in paper sculpture and quilling. They all embody the freshness, dynamism of a splash, and their vibrant colors.

Simone Santamaria ( 786-734-9192 )