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A panel of three Flagler Palm Coast High School graduates showed different routes that the arts can take you, but they agreed on one very important piece of advice: You have to do what you love.

Graduates Katy Garrison, Noah Marks and Danielle Zirkelbach were invited back to their old Bulldog stomping grounds to be inducted into the FPC Arts Hall of Fame, at the fourth-annual ArtWorks program, sponsored by the Flagler County Art League, with a grant from the city of Palm Coast.

The auditorium was filled with current FPC students the morning of Tuesday, March 26, as well as School Board members, teachers and FCAL members, as they all listened to the three honorees tell of the trials and triumphs they've experienced as artists in their own fields.

"Whatever you want to do, you really have to push yourself," said Zirkelbach, a professional international artist. After realizing art was her calling, she sold all of her belongings and moved to Hawaii in 2010. She waited...

Danielle Zirkelbach, a globally renowned, Professional Artist, Muralist, and Mother, is quickly becoming one of the most powerful females in her industry.
She is, 2019 Artworks Hall of Fame Inductee and is consistently producing award winning artwork.

Her work can be seen hung in spaces of the most luxurious homes, businesses, and meditation rooms around the world.
Danielle struggles with a serious case of dyslexia that was crippling to her as a child. College, being a professional athlete, or learning past her disability was explained by doctors as “an immense impossibility”. Danielle not only shattered impossibility, but silenced critics, indefinably, and is becoming a powerhouse of creativity and entrepreneurial success.
Danielle is proudly leading others into the future with the knowledge of mindset and possibility.

Her business, The Art of Danielle Zirk LLC., is proof of how her practices are proven. Especially as she built her business before and...