Francesca Castilho

Hey! I absolutely love teaching art! I’m a New York born, artist and graphic designer, working out of my studio in beautiful Florida. I’ve been an artist for as long as I can remember. Winning my first art contest at 8 years old, for a dental awareness poster design at my elementary school! My winning poster was of a smiling pink horse, brushing his big white teeth!

In middle school, I won 1st place for the 8th grade science fair in zoology. Now, I was, and still am terrible at science, but what won me that blue ribbon was my cool hand drawn picture of how ants breath in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide, creating air! See how art can make science look fun? In high school, I won 1st place for tessellation design at the 11th grade math fair, and I won best of show for the Arabian Nights equestrian art contest. In 12th grade, I was the winner of the high school flag design contest. And I was voted, “Most Artistic” of my senior class.