ARMIDA NAGY STICKNEY, Transpersonal Visual Artist
Emphasizing simple and colorful subjects in her paintings, Armida Nagy Stickney specializes in acrylics and watercolors but with an occasional foray into other media. She has chosen to focus her energies and talents on transpersonal art, a field limitless in its scope and yet wholly personal in its expression and insight. Her challenge is to portray the mystical vision in art that causes others to participate in the sacred sense in relative reality. In the words of Avatar Adi Da, “The necessary essence of art is love. Art depends on the ability of the viewer to feel love in relation to the process or object that is presented to him or her. If the work of art does not in some way or other generate this feeling—even if it is something as simple as a finely made pot—then it is not really art. It must evoke this participatory feeling.” Armida recognizes that, as heart beings, we want to celebrate each moment by developing forms that express that understanding from the heart. Thus, her art evokes the solitary moment and her journey.
For Armida, art touches on subtle experiences rooted in various cultural and spiritual traditions. “All art invites us to experience something. As you may realize, transpersonal art arises with one’s thoughts and is experienced by the beholder. Through direct or conceptual experiences
of mind in spiritual development, my art seeks expression.”
A newcomer to the art scene after a 30-year career as a program and management analyst, Armida had an early love for art. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Art History and studied studio art and photography at the Corcoran and Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C., where she spent most of her years working for the Federal Government. She was a founding resident artist at ArtSouth Artist’s Community at Homestead, Florida, in 2001, and also a founding member of the Loose Feathers Poetry Club of Homestead.
Armida has supported art communities and groups not only in Homestead but also in Land O’ Lakes, Florida, where she co-founded the South Pasco Art Works and joined the North Tampa Art League of Tampa, Florida. She has presented her work at the following venues: “Face to Face,” and “Landscape Revisited,” both at ArtSouth, Homestead, Florida; Serious Studios, Miami, Florida; One-Ear Society, Coconut Grove, Florida; Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, Florida; Wilderness Preserve Center, Land O’Lakes, Florida; Viva La Frida Café y Galeria, Tampa, Florida; and Beck Gallery and Alexandria Art Gallery, Land O’Lakes, Florida; and Lyssa Morgan Gallery of South Tampa. With her web site, www.ArmidaArt.com, she has gone international, and with works displayed in London.
Born in Panama City, Republic of Panama, in 1945, she was raised in Balboa, Canal Zone, where her art teacher sent an admissions letter, recommending her to the School of Art
at Columbia University in New York. Although she was accepted, other life events intervened, and only recently has she had the time to concentrate on her love for the visual arts. In fact, only in the last five years has the melding of art and spirituality become the driving motivation behind most of her artistic endeavors.
She has been also a student of modern ballet, oriental dance, and yoga. Since moving to Land O’Lakes, she has been a Hospice volunteer at the Hernando-Pasco Hospice and has provided illustrations for two book concepts. She is presently developing an instructional workshop in meditation through the art experience which she hopes to lead interactively with enrollees.
Telephone: (813) 996-7766 ~ e-Mail: Armida@armidaart.com ~ Web site: www.ArmidaArt.com
Biography written by Dr. T. V. Armentano with Armida
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