About Us
Steve Strenk
Department Head
A Ringling College of Art and Design graduate, earned his MFA in painting from the University of South Florida. Steve has taught the award winning Booker VPA Art program for over 26 years.
A professional artist and Ringling college professor, Steve has been department head for Booker VPA Art program for 14 years. He is a member of the SARTQ Artists Group, participated in the Select Art Fair, displayed at Art Basel and was selected for the prestigious Sarasota Keys (an interactive art and music experience for the city of Sarasota.)
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Bill Ferrell
A Ringling College of Art and Design graduate, earned his MFA in Illustration from the University of Hartford. Bill has taught at award winning art programs for over 22 years.
A professional illustrator, graphic designer and Ringling college professor, Ferrell has won 2 Brighthouse Cable national teaching awards and led teams of design students competing against 1,500 other high schools to five TSA National Championships, and six state championships.In addition, Ferrell was the recipient of the Art Educator of the Year award in 2023 for Manatee County Schools. Ferrell began his career as a Knight-Ridder political cartoonist, and has freelanced as a designer and illustrator for almost 30 years.
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Jordyn Berger
Though Jordyn considers herself a multidisciplinary artist, Oil paint is the medium in which she feels is most able to capture the feeling of the various textures of a vehicle - painted steel, rubber, glass, and plastic.
Her current body of work has combined hyper-carbon-emitting vehicles with conversations around the environment. Where do vehicles belong and where do they not? How do they exist as both a means of escape from environmental disaster and a cause for climate change?
She held her first solo exhibition “The Garage” through the month of September 2023 in the Pinkard Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to this, Jordyn has also exhibited her work in a large variety of group exhibitions such as “PREVIEW 15 (2024),” "BREAKOUT G2G AGAIN (2024), and “CHROMA (2024).”
