Mike Knapp

As a Florida native born in 1956 in Tampa, Michael studied advertising art at a vocational high school and began a career in the advertising field when he was 18 years old at a regional supermarket chain. His fine art study began at Hillsborough Community College and continued at the University of South Florida after some years of employment in the marketing art/sign painting fields.

He has recently retired after 24 years of employment at Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry, firstly as an exhibit designer and the last 7 years as their resident artist. He provided the guests at MOSI access to a working artist, sharing painting techniques and art history with the visitors while painting live on the museum’s exhibit path, becoming, for lack of a better term, an interactive art exhibit.

Michael has been squarely focused on furthering his fine art career by participating in various art shows throughout central and east coast Florida while balancing the enjoyment of his family and his other passions of golf and hi-end audio.

In retirement Michael keeps himself busy at the easel in his home studio continuing to create his work dealing with the concept of technology supplanting humans.