Stephanie & Cosimo Scianna

Meet Stephanie Scianna Pitts and Cosimo Scianna, father-daughter team and owners of artNEST™ Studios, with locations in Boca Raton and Delray Beach. Together they are igniting the creative souls of children in the community in a nurturing, non-competitive, non-judgmental environment.

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Art and music were an everyday part of Stephanie’s life growing up. She graduated college with a degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis on painting and photography. Soon after, she acquired her teaching certification and taught Art Education at a Miami, FL Elementary School. Education became her passion. After 6 years, she moved back to NYC to work for The Princeton Review, overseeing multiple afterschool programs.

Stephanie then moved on to School of Rock where she was able to couple her experience and love of education with her passion for the Arts. As Director of Franchise Operations, Stephanie assisted franchisees with successful business practices, implementation of curriculum and had a hand in ensuring that over 20,000 kids around the world learned “how to rock on stage and in life”.

Now owning artNEST™ Studios, she brings together her passion for all art forms and inspires the artist in others.

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Prior to opening artNEST™ Studios, Cosimo enjoyed a long and successful career as designer, illustrator, conceptual photographer, commercial director/cameraman, and artist/photographer.

A graduate of the New York City High School of Art and Design, Cosimo has won nearly every major advertising award for excellence His debut book is entitled, Times Square: Celebrating the New Millennium (Watson-Guptill).

He has lectured throughout the world and has been published widely. He is a long-standing member of the Directors Guild of America, IATSE, AICP, Getty Images, ASMP and the Society of Illustrators.

He has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts, was involved for many years in the internship program of New York City mentoring many of today’s successful photographers and filmmakers. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries throughout the United States.

Cosimo presently sits on the Board of the Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park in Boca Raton and looks forward to continuing to nurture young artists.