A Lifetime of Creation Realized

Shoosty® Bugs a division of Shooster Publishing, the holding company for all the art, licenses, and copyrights. Shoosty® is a design focused company applying the art of Stephen Shooster to various products ranging from paintings to luxury goods and kids.

Shoosty (Stephen Shooster, BFA, University of Florida, 1989) luxury designer, fine artist and author, retired from a family-owned mid-cap call center headquartered in South Florida where he was Co-CEO. In charge of technology for 43 years, he enabled his company to scale and serve many of the finest brands: Toyota; Lane Bryant; Zara; Hermes; Wolford; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; MoMA; and The Chicago Art Institute. The family company grew from 10 employees to 3,000 before his exit in 2019 before the pandemic. Nominated for the Florida Culture Artists Alliance, Shoosty brings a unique perspective that embraces technology and the arts. To balance his intense focus on technology, Shoosty is a prolific artist. Part scientist, part artist, he identified early on a desire to shepherd his collection with documentation. In time, this became a remarkable catalogue raisonné comprising 17 volumes featuring over 2,000 original pieces in various media. Shoosty has recently completed a multi-city tour displaying his scope of scale and themes taking over the entire Mills gallery in Orlando for his whimsical collection of Shoosty® Bugs, the entire building of the Hillsboro Historical Society for his Shoosty® Landscapes, and he joined the Orlando City Center group show for The Art of Music. These shows all ran concurrently. Stephen Shooster is also a writer. His work as an author includes The Horse Adjutant a book about the survival of Leon Schagrin, a victim of the Nazi Holocaust. Shoosty and Schagrin speak on the subject of bullying, hate, and antisemitism. He also wrote The Biography of Herman Shooster, his father. Shooster intends to use these materials as sources using artificial intelligence. He wants to talk with his sources in their voices. His technical skills are still sharply intact. He studies as he paints while listening to audiobooks and podcasts.

Shoosty® History

 Born Stephen Shooster, 1958, Chester, Pennsylvania

Education

Cherry Hill East High School 1973-1974
 Hollywood Hills High School 1975-1976
 University of Florida 1976-1982
 BFA, Fine Art with a Minor in Architecture

 Advanced Studies

 Adobe Photoshop; Adobe InDesign; Adobe Acrobat; Ruby on Rails; Relational Databases; Maya: Animation and 3D modeling; Photoshop Digital Painting; Affinity Designer for Ipad

 Career

 Ding-a-Ling Answering Service, 1976-1985
Communications Service Center, 1985-1993
Software Patent: Web call center/PSTN to TCPIP internet network US# 6188762, 1997
Global Response - Call Center, 1993-2019 
Global Response 3PL - Shipping and Fulfillment, 1985-2020
777 Properties, 2004-Current
Shooster Publishing 2004-Current

  Art Shows and Events

 The Old School House, Solo Show, Deerfield, 2004
The Boca Museum, Plein Air Society of Palm Beach, Group Show, 2018
Shoosty® 50 Year Retrospective, Solo Show, The Weisman Center 2019
Shoosty® Bugs, Solo Show, Mills Gallery, 2022
Shoosty® Bugs, Podcast Interview, The Ted Show 2022
Shoosty® Landscapes, Solo Show, Deerfield Bch Historical Society, 2023
Shoosty® The Art of Music, Orlando City Arts Center, Orlando, 2023 
Speech with Leon Schgrin (96), The Horse Adjutant, Nazi Holocaust Survivor, Deerfield Historical Center, Jan. 23rd, 2023, Auschwitz Liberation Day

Podcast Interviews

The Ted Show - With Leon Schagrin 2023
The Nicole Sandler Show - With Leon Schgrin 2023

Public Art 

 Shark Valley, University of Florida, Reitz Union
UF Art College, The University of Florida, College of Art
Judaica Painted Scarf, University of Florida, Judaica Library
Hello Friends, University of North Florida Admissions Building, Jacksonville, Florida

 Books

 The Horse Adjutant - The Story of Leon Schagrin, Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust
Dorothy - A Life in Stories
Herman Shooster - The Son of a Tailor who was the Son of a Shoemaker
Shoosty Catalog Raisonne
1958-2023, 12 volumes The Complete Collection of the Art of Shoosty®
Shoosty® Catalog of Paintings
Shoosty® Exhibition Catalog 2019
Why Graduate? - Ode to the Graduation of Carly Shooster
Shoosty® Bugs Volume 1 - The book that launched a movement
Shoosty® The Art of Music - Live Drawing from Concerts and Bars and Jazz Clubs
Shoosty® Landscapes - The Advent of Vector Painting
Shoosty® Bugs Coloring Book -It’s Your Turn to Post to #ShoostyBugs