Alice Jean Gibbs has been practicing and teaching pastel for over 20 years and oil painting for the past 7.  She was trained at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art with further studies under Suzanne Diltley in Miami, Florida.

Alice's work has been presented at the Coconut Grove Art Show, the Metropolitan Gallery in Miami, the Professional Artist League in Miami, the Visual Arts Center in Panama City and on a regular basis at the Alice Jean Gallery in Apalachicola.