Melissa Koby captivates quite naturally. She hasn’t always called herself an artist, but has always been creative—and creating—on the sidelines of corporate jobs, through periods in school, and ever since she was a little girl, supported by her encouraging mother and inspired by her uncle’s life and portrait oil paintings, and the studio space he […]
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Tampa’s Melissa Koby, the first Black artist to do the official US Open artwork, stages debut solo show on Friday
Proceeds from the Juneteenth art show at Tampa Edition benefit the Black Art Gala Foundation.
