Pat Cummins 
Born in New York, Patricia Rottino Cummins completed her undergraduate studies at City University of New York. Upon graduation she relocated to Miami, Florida, and was intrigued by its’ color and light. Her graduate and post graduate studies continued at Florida International University. She has taught art for thirty-six years at Miami-Dade Public Schools, and was an adjunct professor for thirteen years at Barry University, Florida. Over the years she has been selected for painting residencies at fifteen United States National Park Artist-in-Residence programs. For over ten years, Pat has been invited to exhibit her work and present seminars at Walt Disney World’s International Festival of the Arts, and Epcot’s Flower and Garden Festival. She has studied and has painted “en plein air” in Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, China, Australia and Central America. Her art is in numerous collections throughout the United States. In 2015, her paintings of Big Cypress were exhibited at The American Embassy in Niger, Africa. Her botanical paintings were included in a National Park Centennial Exhibition, “Flora of the National Parks” at our nation’s capital. In 2015, Pat was awarded Florida’s Elementary Art Educator by the Florida Art Education Association and in that same year she chose to retire.