Emma Witmer

2 months ago | gulfshorelife.com | Emma Witmer

Sequined hemlines and pocket squares lift and flutter as throngs of well-heeled guests gather around the promenade at Gulfshore Playhouse’s new Baker Theatre & Education Center. The windows are darkened, and the doors of the sleek, bowing construction, which evokes a lapping tide or the flow of a musical score, are cordoned off by a cobalt ribbon tied in a bow. It’s a cool, windy October evening, the year’s first true fall day, and the crowd is buzzing with excitement.

2 months ago | gulfshorelife.com | Emma Witmer

A silk scarf is perhaps the most adaptable canvas in fashion—at once sophisticated and playful, equally at home wrapped at the neck or waist or displayed in a frame. For Naples-based Pelerine’s founder, Allison Pezzuti, Italian silk serves as the ideal medium for translating global artistic inspirations—Mexican art, centuries-old embroidery patterns, bold color studies—into everyday elegance. The brand emerged in 2021 as a quest for sophisticated versatility.

Jan 17, 2025 | naplespress.com | Harriet Howard Heithaus |Emma Witmer

Cover Story By Harriet Howard Heithaus and Emma Witmer Residential Subscriptions One copy mailed weekly Commercial Subscriptions Multiple copies mailed weekly to the same address CITY COUNCIL Seventy-four years after it began the practice, the city of Naples will stop fluoridating public wat... THEATER ARTS Once is not a traditional love story Under duress, Ms. Wrong can be Ms. Right. But perhaps she should have been Ms. Right all along? It’s... 2024 was a year of change, good and bad 2024...

Dec 16, 2024 | gulfshorelife.com | Emma Witmer

From the exterior, Carol Coates’ home studio appears little different from its neighbors, with its Spanish-tiled roof, stucco walls and palm-laden yard. Inside, though, canvases burst with color at every turn, wood and bovine bone sculptures from her Markmaking series fill the corners of her living room, and plaster monkeys dangle from walls, clinging to Edison bulbs. The small-framed, soft-spoken artist greets me with fresh cookies and peach-pear iced tea.

Dec 13, 2024 | emeraldcoastmagazine.com | Emma Witmer

Victorian homes with gingerbread trim stretch gracefully along the surface of Lake DeFuniak, illuminated by the warm glow of more than 10 million hand-strung lights. A horse-drawn carriage trots around the historic district’s Circle Drive past garland, wreaths, and festive sculptures of iron and wood. This idyllic scene is quite familiar to the residents of DeFuniak Springs.