Meet Our Team

Art Fort Lauderdale's team is comprised of individuals with a diversity of experience in the artworld and related disciplines, driven forward by the desire to bring shows of the highest caliber to audiences coming from around the world.

MANAGEMENT

ANDREW MARTINEAU / FOUNDER

Andrew Martineau is an award-winning creative that delivers progressive marketing, advertising strategies and executions that benefit the client by ways of notoriety, innovation and profit.

With a 20+ year career in advertising, marketing and design he has had the pleasure of working for a host of local and multi-national advertising agencies, established companies and start-ups in industries ranging from upscale real estate and resorts to the beauty industry and now most recently as shopping center marketing director and regional director.

He has a unique skill set that combines the experience of an award-winning creative director, designer, publicist, event planner and marketing director that intimately understands every aspect of the marketing mix and can create and execute effective marketing campaigns from concept through to completion.

After five years in the retail and shopping center industry he decided to pursue his entrepreneurial spirit and form his own creative consultancy, UniteUs Group - an entity developed under a new model that unites various creative entities under one umbrella to deliver progressive creative that benefits the client and various communities by ways of notoriety, innovation and profit.

He is a keen observer of life and the role the media plays in shaping the lives, minds and choices of everyday people. The opportunity to study a person or group and create a message that elicits a reaction is what gets him up in the morning and what keeps him up at night. He has been fortunate over his 20+ year career to be able to nurture relationships with a number of individuals in various creative communities including; film, art, music, technology and fashion and those relationships influence his thought process and aid in his problem solving skills.

EVAN SNOW / CO-FOUNDER

Evan Snow is a Native South Floridian hailing from Broward County whose thoroughly committed to making his community a better place to live. Coming from the Information Technology Industry Evan initially discovered a love for Conferences, Talks, and Events as he worked to help build the South Florida Tech community by participating in various events including eMerge Americas & IT Palooza. Being an avid fan of culture, Evan wanted to make the events and activities that he would attend in Miami & Palm Beach Counties more readily available locally here in Broward, which is one of the reasons why he started the #Choose954 movement to try and help revitalize Broward from a Cultural & Economic Perspective. Through this platform, Evan curates & creates local events amongst our shared passions of Food, Music, Technology, Talks, and The Arts. These passions for fostering a better sense of community & creating memorable experience lead to the birth of Art Fort Lauderdale ("The Art Fair On The Water") in an effort to help further the Arts & Culture locally in Downtown Fort Lauderdale where he resides.

A contributing member of Emerge Broward, the greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Six Pillars Emerging Leaders Council, and The Fort Lauderdale Bloggers Union, Evan believes in utilizing "Kind Collaboration", a staple of the Bloggers Union, as an effort to help unite his community that he's extremely passionate about. This passion can be witnessed and shared with the community once a month in the Fort Lauderdale & Palm Beach chapters of Creative Mornings, a monthly breakfast lecture series held in 160+ cities around the world, where Evan Co-Hosts and Organizes local chapters monthly talks for free. It was after attending his third CreativeMornings event that Evan was deeply inspired by a noteworthy speaker who shared her story of overcoming life's challenges, and preached to "Be Genuine, Be Authentic, and Pursue Your Passions". Evan hopes that throughout all of his efforts & pursuing his passions through the growth of Choose954 that we together can help make Fort Lauderdale not only a better place to vacation, but a better place to live in a culturally diverse community.

ADVISORY BOARD

Laurence Gartel, is known to the world as the “FATHER” of Digital Art for nearly 40-years. His career started working side by side with video guru Nam June Paik at Media Study/Buffalo in upstate New York. He taught Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga Computer in order to produce the album cover for Debbie Harry (Blondie). Growing up in New York City during the Punk Rock era he was friends with Stiv Bators, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone, Wendy O. Williams, and exhibited his work with Robert Mapplethorpe. Creating Digital Art before the birth of the personal computer his work has been exhibited with the Museum of Modern Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, Norton Museum of Art as well as included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History, Bibliothque Nationale Paris and Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, London.

Mona Tranter, is a gallerist, art consultant, advisor, and independent appraiser specializing in research, appraisal, and all business and market aspects of original artist works, artist manuscript materials, art-related documentation, and art reference books. She has been selling art since 2000 and has been consulting and appraising for artists, galleries, businesses, organizations and private collectors since 2009.

Mona aims to bring only the highest quality of artists and art to the art market, collector and ultimately the art world. Mona is thrilled to be working with Art Fort Lauderdale as there art advisor and proud member of an amazing art experience.