Local Digital Artist Marcile Powers Showcased at Macworld 2011

BRADENTON – Local artist Marcile Powers' Circle the Helix will be showcased at the Mecca of her medium later this month, when her digital art is featured as part of the Virtual Digital Art Gallery at Macworld 2011, January 27-29th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Powers graduated from the esteemed VPA program at Booker High School before going on to earn a BFA in Film Directing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Circle Helix by Marcile Powers

In addition to her digital art, Marcile's poetry has been published in The Awakening Anthology where she was later named to the Best Poets and Poems of 2005. She is currently working on a feature length documentary on "love as an abstract concept."

Her interest is in using a variety of mediums of art to reach people openly and positively about political differences, cultural barriers, and other prospectively perverse subject matters. She is also employed full-time as the Special Projects Coordinator for Manatee County Rural Health Services, which she says fits well with her passion for helping others.

”When my professors would ask me my ideal work, I would say I want to make things that could help others. I would always get blank stares at the generalization–working at Rural Health has allowed me to accomplish these goals.“

This past Saturday, Powers' work was featured at the opening of a new exhibition presented by Seed, Orlando's Art Alliance and which will be showing at the Downtown Orlando Central Library through the end of February. Macworld Conference & Expo is an art exposition and trade show with art selections and conference tracks dedicated to the Apple Macintosh platform.

Produced by Boston-based IDG World Expo, Macworld (the most widely read Macintosh magazine in North America) has showcased such mediums in this event since 1985.