- The Cinco Banderas Collection was founded in 1988
- Special annual art exhibit featured at The Artel Gallery in Pensacola, FL
- Celebrating 34 years of supporting individual artists
The Cinco Banderas Collection, founded in 1988 is the generous visionof the Kobacker Foundation.
The purpose through collaborative endowments is to support outstanding individual artists in Northwest Florida via a special annual exhibit at The Artel Gallery, Pensacola, FL.
The selected winner’s work is included into their permanent collection. Background: The origins of the name “Cinco Banderas,“ is derived from Pensacola’s nickname, “City of Five Flags”
Celebrating the 34th year, now in progress, and curated by Joseph Smith who reviewed the 160 artist work submissions, distilled those applicants into the “Best of the Best” to 80 artists and now on view through November 18th.
A talented artist named Helene Pappas was invited to participate with a multi-media collage: Five Golden Nettle Jellyfish.
This work is a unique creation of handmade papers, manipulated and gold foil marble papers on watercolor paper.
Helene has exhibited works in Los Angeles and the Florida Panhandle, she is known for my unique artistic paper and mixed media collages.
Each work is “one-of-a-kind,” exhibiting distinctive expressions of color, dimensionality, and texture, while conveying movement, as Helen honors these distinctive exotic ancient sea creatures who reside in a dark locale.
