https://bhamnow.com/index.php/2017/04/30/magic-city-art-connection-meet-artists/ Birmingham hosted the 34th annual Magic City Art Connection in Linn Park on April 28th-30th. The event included 200 artists from Alabama and across the country. We caught up with a few Magic City Art Connection artists to find out about their MCAC experience and work. Celeste Amparo Pfau, MCAC’s 2017 Emerging artist – My process is called botanical monoprinting. I gather natural materials from

http://www.al.com/bhammag/index.ssf/2017/04/artist_celebrates_diversity_an.html When talking to Celeste Amparo Pfau, it's immediately obvious she is an artist at heart. Wearing a scarf featuring a print of her artwork and a hairclip that she fashioned from pine needles, Celeste's eyes sparkle as she shows me around her studio. Located in the back of her mom's gymnastics gym in East Lake, the studio, flooded with natural light, features larger-than-life-sized artwork covering

http://www.magiccityart.com/2017-emerging-artist-celeste-amparo-pfau/ After watching her develop as an artist and individual, I can honestly say that Celeste Pfau is one of the best students I have ever had the pleasure of teaching. In retrospect, I see that she single-handedly changed (in a very positive way) my approach to teaching. She embodied every characteristic you would want in a visual arts student; from having developed a very strong technical proficiency to her ex