As founder and head of the art program at the Kent Campus of Florida State College at Jacksonville, Anne Banas helped thousands of students find their artistic heart and learn to express it.

Her paintings and other pieces of art are displayed in galleries, corporate and government facilities from California to New York, but her most publically-recognizable pieces have always been her large public murals. She completed several in Jacksonville Florida since moving to the city in 1989, including the city's most-loved local landmark of all, "Cat House Jacksonville."

Perhaps Anne's most internationally-recognized piece of public art was also America's largest hand-painted mural: the landmark "First Team". This huge mural rose more than 150 feet over downtown Jacksonville (a feat in itself for Anne, who had to overcome her fear of heights to climb the 14 levels of scaffolding each day!). It depicted five of the original Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team, along with the team's original coach. The mural was a natural city landmark, shot from the Goodyear Blimp and nationally-televised during every home game from its completion in the summer of 1998 until it was painted over in September 2006. A very limited number of signed & numbered collector's prints of this mural are still available.