Ilene Kutner Vultaggio   artist

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Ilene Vultaggio

Ilene Vultaggio has been a working artist for over 30 years. She is best known as the creator of the first eye-catching designs that would shape the AriZona Beverage Company brand. Twenty years ago, Vultaggio's husband Don, co-founder of the brand, asked her to draw a logo that would stand out from all the other beverages on the market.

Borrowing from the motif of their then south-western inspired home in Queens, Vultaggio created the drawing on which the graphic for the company logo was created. She also created the cherry blossoms on AriZona's Green Tea bottle. While these designs are globally recognizable, she exhibited her work for the first time in 2014. She had her first one person show at the Tria Gallery in the Chelsea section in New York City.

"My art has been my passion since I was a teenager, and I've taken an interesting journey to get to this moment'" says Vultaggio.