Board of Directors
Ken Stone, President
Ken Stone is a founding member of Wilton Art®. Ken brings a unique, diverse background in people development, creative vision, and strategic business management. Although not classically trained in art, Ken has always had a passion and love for art. Through self-exploration and numerous visits to museums and galleries, he developed a self-taught appreciation for the arts, artists, and viewers. He is thrilled to be working with a volunteer group supporting out-of-the-box thinking and bringing public art to the City of Wilton Manors.
Hunter Stephens, Vice President
After decades of living and working for the federal government in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Hunter Stephens retired to South Florida in 2019. His artistic passion is photography, in which he seeks to capture abstract compositions hiding in plain sight in our natural or built environments. He brings to Wilton Art® an array of practical experience in strategy and planning, project management, intergovernmental relations, and newly-honed skills as a Google-map cartographer. He has a passion for civic engagement and supporting his local community, and also serves on the Board of the Westside Association of Wilton Manors
Matthew Gill, Treasurer
Matt Gill has served as the Vice President since Wilton Art’®s inception in 2018. He holds a BS in Textiles from the University of Rhode Island. Recently retired, he is also a board member of the Wilton Manors Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and the Central Area Neighborhood Association (CANA).
Lori Pratico
Self-taught artist Lori Pratico began painting billboards in Philadelphia at the age of eighteen, and has remained a working artist for over twenty-five years. Highlights of her career have been YoYo Ma visiting her studio, painting live in Chicago, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Philadelphia, creating over 100 murals throughout the country, and her work being featured on a Hoffman’s chocolate bar wrapper.
Lori is the founder of the nonprofit Girl Noticed, Inc which partners with organizations across the country to create murals celebrating the girls and women of each community. She is a Program Assistant for Business for the Arts of Broward and serves on Fort Lauderdale’s Public Art and Design Committee.
Lori is a published author and speaker and has defied the odds by breaking the barriers that society placed in front of her as an LGBTQ+ female, and as an artist.
Past Board Members
Meghan Pearson
Meghan Pearson, a Florida native, graduated from the Ringling College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration. She went on to design greeting cards at both Hallmark and American Greetings. Meghan has a love of teaching art, having done so at the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale (NSU Art Museum). She now focuses mostly on Graphic Design through her company in Wilton Manors. She has also served on the Island City Art Advisory Committee and is a part of the Environmental & Sustainability Volunteer Group of Wilton Manors. Meghan served on the Board of Directors from 2018-2021.
Claudia Castillo
Claudia Castillo was born in Colombia and educated in the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota. She sought additional arts studies in the Finishing School, NY; Frank Monaco Gallery, the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, and the National University of Colombia. Claudia’s art is a process of transformation that starts with an inspired idea from the emotions evoked from nature, earth and water. She founded Claudia Castillo ART studio, a boutique art gallery in the heart of Wilton Manors providing a unique variety of quality original artwork, gifts and collectables for everyone. Claudia is passionate about helping her community and serves on the Wilton Drive Improvement District, Island City Art Advisory Committee and other non-profit organizations to expand culture and art diversity.
Roger Wilson
Roger Wilson is a retired optometrist who made Wilton Manors home in 2013. Roger has always been a collector. He recalls ‘collecting’ from his youth, starting with rocks from a creek near his upstate NY home, bugs, butterflies, stamps, and coins. He resumed collecting after his professional training was completed. He and his partner set up at antique shows, buying and selling glassware, ceramics and other antiques. Later, Roger assembled and sold collections of impressionist paintings, color woodblock prints, art pottery and modernist design jewelry. While he admits to not having any artistic talent, he does claim an “eye for art” and loves all forms of visual and performing arts. In Wilton Manors he has been an active resident in his neighborhood association, at commission meetings, and lending his time to the city’s public art efforts, notably as a volunteer and now board member of Wilton Art. Roger served on the Board of Directors in early 2021.
Tedd Davis
Philadelphia native Tedd Davis moved to Fort Lauderdale in 2013 after living in Washington D.C. for 30 years. He worked for Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts for 20 years as Director of Food and Beverage and Director of Special Events. In addition he is the principal of Tedd Davis Events, specializing in event production and fundraising for arts institutions and non profit organizations. Tedd is also an established/award winning artist known for his mixed media assemblage art. In addition to his art, Tedd operated Tedds ART Works, an Art Gallery in Wilton Manors Florida, where he has showcased over 200 established and emerging artists and has curated over 50 Art Exhibitions.
Tedd continuously promotes the importance of art and philanthropy in the local community, with his weekly “Off The Wall” Artist Spotlight and has presented several benefit events at his gallery supporting ArtsUnited Florida, Island City Stage, Pet Project for Pets, The PULSE Nightclub Painted Panel Project, Save a Sato, American Veterans for Equal Rights, Sunshine Cathedral, Our Fund, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and GFLGLCC-Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce.