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We are a diverse group of professionals working together to achieve great results.
Known professionally as the Serenading Songbird, Alaia Luna is a Florida-based musician, therapeutic artist, educator, and community creative whose work blends music, movement, storytelling, and connection. Through Songbird Studios and the growing vision of the Songbird Collective, she creates welcoming spaces where people can gather, express themselves, heal, and celebrate through creativity and community.
Rooted in the coastal rhythm of New Smyrna Beach, Alaia’s work spans intimate weddings and shoreline serenades, live performances, open mics, workshops, and collaborative arts programming. She serves as Music Chair and studio artist at The Hub on Canal, where she helps foster vibrant creative experiences for the local community.
With studies at Berklee College of Music and Naropa University, Alaia combines musical training with mindfulness-based and contemplative practices. She teaches voice, piano, and ukulele while designing experiences that emphasize emotional presence, creativity, and authentic expression over perfection.
As founder and host of community-centered events like Roots & Rhythm and Songs in the Shallows, Alaia is passionate about cultivating inclusive spaces for artists and audiences alike, using music as a way to deepen connection, self-expression, and belonging.
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Amy Hutchinson is an oil painter whose work blends precision, intensity, and vivid visual storytelling through a style rooted in Pop Realism. Her paintings are grounded in realism while amplified by bold, saturated color and meticulous detail, creating images that feel heightened, immersive, and emotionally charged.
Over the past seven years of dedicated practice, Hutchinson has developed a technique that balances discipline with instinct. Her subjects — ranging from glossy confections to stylized portraits — draw viewers in through familiarity while revealing deeper themes of desire, identity, and perception. Influenced by retro Americana, pop culture, and the visual language of advertising, she transforms everyday imagery into something iconic and electric.
Color plays a central role in her work, pushing light, texture, and surface beyond naturalism to create paintings that feel “more real than real.” Rather than simply replicating her subjects, Hutchinson elevates them, encouraging viewers to pause, look closer, and consider the emotional and cultural power embedded within visual imagery.
Through her commitment to oil painting, Hutchinson continues to refine a bold and unmistakable artistic voice that celebrates both visual pleasure and deeper reflection.
Anne is a native of Alabama, and she earned both undergraduate and masters degrees from Auburn University. Her father instilled in her an appreciation of art history; and after formal education, she began painting in oils and studied under artists in Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, and New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She received blue ribbons from the Artist Workshop of New Smyrna Beach and sold her paintings through a local gallery.
She later changed to bright colored acrylics. Her paintings are inspired by her love of the carefree life of the tropics.
Her cheerful colors represent sunny beaches and beautiful fruits and flowers. She hopes her paintings bring happy thoughts of warm tropical breezes and sparkling aqua seas.
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Growing up in the coastal surf town of New Smyrna Beach, Becki Shiles has always been deeply inspired by the beauty and energy of the ocean. Surrounded by tropical landscapes, shifting tides, and endless skies, her work reflects a lifelong connection to the natural world and the calming yet powerful spirit of the sea.
Her artistic journey has explored many creative forms over the years. Early in her career, she developed a passion for decorative glass etching, creating custom designs for front doors, shower enclosures and other areas that brought artistry into everyday spaces. She also spent many years painting heartfelt watercolor portraits of children and beloved pets, capturing personality, emotion, and cherished memories through soft layers of color and detail.
Today, her work continues to evolve through resin art, mixed media, and ceramic creations inspired by coastal textures, botanical forms, and the fluid movement of water. Influenced by the vibrant colors and organic beauty of her tropical surroundings, she creates pieces that blend movement, texture, and emotion into a distinctly coastal aesthetic.
Whether through luminous resin paintings, expressive ceramics, or earlier portrait and etched-glass work, Becki invites viewers to experience the serenity, warmth, and natural beauty that have shaped her artistic vision throughout her life.
I have ADD. In the course of a minute, 100 thoughts will compete for my attention. Art allows me to connect seemingly disjointed thoughts into a cohesive representation. It allows me to hyperfocus.
My art adventure began when Aunt Alice gave me old ribbon and wrapping paper to play with. I’ve been playing ever since. My grandmother’s love of gardening serves as an inspiration for my floral renderings.
I am self-taught with much encouragement from family and friends.
I sign my work BAWG to acknowledge my birth mother, my adopted parents and my husband, Lee.
I grew up in New Jersey, close to NYC and Upstate NY. My husband and I moved to New Smyrna Beach via Lebanon Ohio where we had raised our two children, Sara and Walker.
Studied Special Education
Assistant director for residential services for adults with developmental disabilities and severe mental health issues
Art teacher in elementary school
Art teacher to high school students with severe behavioral issues
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