Staci Miron
Endless inspiration
Story by Alice Crann Good / Photos by Kate Treick Photography
Walking into award-winning artist Staci Miron’s studio, you are hit with a strong sense of fascination and quickly realize the artist is enabling you to see her personal workspace, her creative approach and results.
This is rare. It’s commonly understood in the art world that artists’ studios are unseen, for the most part.
The mélange of details displayed in Miron’s studio helps paint a picture of her. Numerous easels and canvases, paints of every color, brushes of every size, stacks of past and just-started pieces of art leaning against walls, in corners, and on furniture and the floor come together, introducing you to the complexity of Miron — regaled in Northwest Florida and beyond as an “experimental artist.”
Miron has been a professional artist sine 1989, reaping many awards and doing one-person shows and countless commissions. Her artist creed is “Faces, Spaces, Places.” And her trademark is “helical” piano keys.
She paints in oil, acrylic, watercolor, tempera, mixed medium and collage, and she’s a sculptor. As soon as you think you’ve defined her work and mediums, she’s off doing something she has never tried, so the above list is not all-inclusive.
“I get ideas while I am trying to sleep, so I have paper and pen by the bed,” said Miron, who is currently working on two watercolors, three oils and a 2D sculpture with oils — and a lamp made with a Remo drum.
“I can’t explain it. Inspiration just comes.”
This has been her way for a long time. For instance, the inspiration for two paintings of towns, created years ago and displayed on an easel, came from a calendar given to her by her late grandfather, Giuseppe Pullicino, who immigrated from Malta.
The idea for her hollow bunny sculpture that holds a votive candle on a dresser came from a piece she owns — “Blue Bunny” by Pensacola artist Morris Lee Eaddy, who describes his art as “abstract, realistic, whimsical, and color rich.”
“I can switch in intermedia art at the drop of a hat,” explained Miron, whose work is featured in the 2025 Pensacola Museum of Art’s Members Show and who recently sold a piece to the Saenger Theatre. “I can be at the wheel one minute throwing clay on the same day I am finishing an oil painting.”
Colorful and successful palettes don’t fall far from the tree. Her daughter, Giovanna “Gigi” Miron, 23, is an artist and senior in the art of department at Florida State University. She, too, has art in PMA’s Members Show.
“Giovanna is a well-rounded wood worker, sculptor and accomplished painter who not only puts her mother’s skill to shame but wishes to become an interior designer,” Miron said.
Miron’s other daughter, Giova Miron, 25, is “enjoying” a fellowship at the University of South Alabama in math and computer science. Her thesis is focused on how differential equations and AI work together to develop programming.
“That’s what we want for our kids, for them to be a better, stronger model of ourselves,” said Miron, who has been a single mother for many years.
Prismatic diversity colors Miron’s life.
As a child growing up in West Bloomfield, Michigan, she was a ballerina, age four to eight. Then when she was six years old, she started drawing and copying Charles Schulz Peanuts characters.
“At 8 years old, my dream was to go live with the Schulz family to be his understudy and help him crank out his syndication,” Miron shared, laughing. “My parents vetoed that idea and put me on the ice instead, where I quickly excelled watching others, listening to coaches and enveloping everything in the sport — from proper equipment, nutrition, discipline, determination and cross training.”
Miron spent about five years as a figure skater training at the Olympic training facility, the Detroit Skating Club, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She said it was there that she gained the discipline and confidence to succeed in her art career, thanks to mentor Chey Cook, a figure skating instructor and artist.
Cook’s love of teaching and mentoring also rubbed off onto to her student.
Today, Miron is an active art teacher who enjoys instructing the elderly. She teaches classes at several assisted-living/senior-living/retirement communities including The Blake of Pensacola, Homestead Village Pensacola, Arcadia Health and Rehabilitation Center in Pensacola, and Grandview Retirement Center. She also offers free instruction for several nonprofits and ministries and provides classes presented by area businesses.
And she offers private one-on-one and group art classes for all ages.
“I teach to impart the love of art, technique, color theory, composition, texture, etc.,” Miron said. “I enjoy watching, waiting and helping to develop each painting with individuals as they gain a sense of emotional release, accomplishment and sometimes even pride as they make several decisions within the class.”
If classes aren’t your thing, you can purchase Miron’s art by contacting her via Facebook and Instagram or from various Pensacola businesses including Just Judy’s Flowers, Local Art & Gifts, Sweet T’s Designer Consignment Closet and Antique Boutique, and Alla Prima Coffee Roaster.
In addition to her many art endeavors, amazingly, Miron found yet another way to keep juggling all of the balls in her life.
To buttress her finances and assist others, she started a business in 2009, SonShine Companion Care, LLC. The business offers a broad range of services for the elderly including conversation and companionship, rides to doctor appointments, outings, cleaning and household chores, delivery and more. You can learn more at sonshinecompanioncare.com.
She also turned her home into an Airbnb.
“The ultimate goal is to showcase how each facet of my life adds value to people in front of me,” Miron said. “My goals this year are to paint Pensacola, Pensacola Beach and montage collages of people’s lives, memories, families and trips. And to assist the elderly.”
And Miron said she will always maintain her memberships with Olive Baptist Church and the National League of American Pen Women.
She realizes it’s a long list of things she’s got going on.
“When people ask me, ‘What don’t you do?’” she explained, “I reply, ‘I don’t eat cauliflower.’”
