Artist BIO

Ted Matz calls Lake Worth, Florida his home and currently teaches in-person workshop series, online classes and private mentoring sessions in watercolor, oil and acrylic, realism and abstract painting, plein air painting through his company, Ted Matz Fine Art, Inc. He currently teaches in-studio classes at Easel Art Supply in Lake Park, FL. Ted was the co-founder and past President of The New School of the Visual Arts in Jupiter, Florida.

He was formerly the Chair of Painting and Drawing at the Lighthouse Art Center Museum and School of Art in Tequesta, Florida. Ted has also taught at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida and the Boca Museum School of Art in Boca Raton, Florida. He has conducted classes and workshops in Michigan and Vermont, and has conducted domestic and international workshops in Massachusetts, Maine, Italy and France and Cuba.

Ted majored in Watercolor at the Eastern Michigan University and is a graduate of Kendall College of Art and Design. He has worked in design related positions with Jacobson’s Store, Inc, Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor. Ted founded and chaired the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Annual Lighthouse ArtCenter’s Plein Air Festival for 2014-2016 in Tequesta/Jupiter Florida and acted as a consultant to the. 2017 Annual Festival. His work has been included in featured articles in 2021Plein Air Magazine, August/September and December/January.