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Lisa Alembik is an artist, curator, and associate professor of art at Georgia State University's Perimeter College. For over a decade, she was the gallery director at Agnes Scott College. She is currently a PhD student in Art at the University of Georgia. Her work centers on how cultural and political ideas of home and nature often rest heavy on the female body. She is interested in how the minor, intentional gesture can address imbalances of power. In her most recent body of work, "From Ruin," through the process of painting her grandmother's vase in considerable iterations, along with meaningful props, Alembik reflects on diaspora, community, and the repercussions of war.

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Layla Ali Amar (b. 1998) is a Palestinian folk artist and journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. They create multi-layered pieces using mediums such as ink, fiber, pastel, and paint. Their work uses abstract mark-making alongside Indigenous art practices to archive the essential history of their homeland. Their practice investigates the intersection between inherited trauma, archival history, and their Palestinian ancestry. Amar's work has most recently been exhibited at the Auburn Avenue Research Library (Atl, GA), South River Arts Studios (Atl, GA), The Dalton Gallery (Atl, GA), Rusha & Co. (LA, CA) Firehouse Arts Center (Bham, AL), and Atmosphere 251 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). They have attended residencies at Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, Jentel Residency, Volatile House, and Elf School of the Arts. Amar is a recipient of the Fulton County Arts and Culture Distinguished Fellowship.

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Currently living and working in Atlanta, GA.
I grew up in the next small town in central Georgia to get busted up by Sherman after he captured Milledgeville. If you know where he left any of his legendary neckties, please let me know.
Gramps helped build the interstates after fighting in the Pacific theater in World War 2. Papa Ray was a farmer and introduced integration in our home county, fielding anonymous death threats from locals and phone calls of assistance from Gov. Maddox. Dad worked for DFACS and Mom worked for the Technical University system.

I've been a radio DJ, an RA, a Middle/High school art teacher, a sailor on a gambling boat, a sign maker, an antique restorer, a bellhop (hated it), a parking officer, a picture framer, a pizza man, and a pop slinger. All the while I have made art; Dad always says "Support your art until it can support you!"

I grew up on Warner Brothers cartoons, early Nintendo, Liquid Television, and anime. Then I grew up to love Brian Eno, Moebius, James Burke, and Modernist painting. There are others. I was forced into freelancing by the COVID 19 pandemic. It was an unanticipated benefit of the times, but here I am!

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Jamaal Barber is a creative, imaginative soul born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking, making it his primary focus. His woodcuts and mixed-media prints illustrate the new Folio Society special edition of The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead. Jamaal recently participated in the MTV/Smithsonian Channel art competition show The Exhibit. He has also worked for Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America, and Emory University.

In 2004, Jamaal moved to Atlanta, GA, with his wife and two children.

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Bio Katy Beltran is a Latinx artist from Bogota, Colombia, based in Atlanta, GA since 2016. Her work is part of the City of Atlanta's permanent art collection and has been exhibited internationally across the United States, South America, and Europe. This year, she is one of the participating artists in the Every Woman Biennial 2026 in New York City. Beltran earned an MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta) and is a certified XR designer through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2015, she founded Museo Nueva Memoria (The New Memory Museum) in Colombia, a nonprofit using art and photography to honor the life narratives of at-risk communities. As a creative director, she has collaborated with organizations including Emory University, Black Voters Matter, and SisterLove, Inc., supporting initiatives that challenge systemic discrimination, advance gender justice, and address the impacts of the HIV epidemic. Her artistic language is grounded in women's rights, bodily autonomy, and collective memory, exploring intimate human dramas with a focused lens on the feminine body and the soul.

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William Buchanan attended Jackson State University in Jackson MS. and LeMoyne College in Memphis, TN. He also studied painting, drawing and design at The Peninsula School of Art In Door County, WI (University of WI. Ext. School at Green Bay).

William's work has been shown in selected group exhibitions throughout the nation, including Atlanta Life Insurance Co., Atlanta, GA, Homecoming: 20th Century African American Masters, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, National Black Fine Art Show, New York, N.Y., M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, University of Texas at Tyler, TX,The Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, Moorehead-Graham Fine Art Gallery, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, AR, 36th and 37th East Pilsen Artist Open House, Chicago, IL, The Hammonds House Museum and Resource Center, Atlanta,GA,14th Annual African American Art Exhibition, Louisville, KY, Depth of Meaning, A juried International Exhibition, Caladan Gallery, Boston, MA. and The Hambidge Center Exhibitions and Auctions, Atlanta, GA.

William's nature-inspired work has earned him multiple awards including a Hambidge Center
Fellowship and first prize painting in the 10th Annual National African American Exhibition,
Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, GA.
William currently teaches private painting and drawing classes to young students, and reviews
art portfolios of art students seeking acceptance into the Governor's Honors Program at Georgia
Southern University.

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Kevin Byrd (b. 1976, Charleston, SC) is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. He studied architecture at Kennesaw State University where an early focus on structure and spatial systems continues to inform his work across sculpture, textile, and graphic form. Byrd's work has been exhibited at the Goat Farm, High Museum of Art, and MOCAGA, and is part of the Dolby Laboratories collection. He has participated in residencies including Hambidge and and the Cochran Collection residency in LaGrange GA. His projects have also been realized at architectural scale, most notably through the development of the art strategy for Dolby Laboratories' headquarters in San Francisco, where he founded the Dolby Artist Program to support artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Working across industrial materials, geometry, and systems-based composition, Byrd explores the porous boundaries between design, sculpture, and the built environment. His work reflects a sustained engagement with the visual languages of modernism and the cultural impact of technological production. Byrd lives and works in San Francisco.

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It is enervating to exist as a multi-racial man in America's South. In 1978, Antonio Darden's Indo-Trinidadian mother entered the United States by way of New York. With this action she exchanged her Caribbean/East Indian heritage for a less conspicuous pseudonym. Darden's mother met his African-American father at a funeral, fell in love and relocated to North Carolina. His mother bumped her ends, assumed a drawl, and traded curry for soul food. In 1990 she persuaded her family to migrate farther south to a suburb outside of Atlanta.

Spawn was a socially aware interdisciplinary artist that was raised by a concoction of Sloppy Joe and Memphis rap. Darden's work spans disciplines and ideologies, embodying popular culture, belief systems, and unmistakably, grief. Satire is his digestive and his research is in the response. As a lapidarist specializing in the onyx that is black family, Darden mines his own memories. He reconciles realities by redefining narratives and the splicing together of fragmented truths. He uses constructed objects, video, sound and performance to create experiential installations. Left is a diorama of Darden's mind and thought processes. He has been known to be the most vulnerable person in the room.

Darden earned his BFA in Sculpture from Georgia State University and his MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies at Bard College. His work has been exhibited in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Mexico.

In the summer of 2022 he was named the Southern Prize State Fellow for Georgia by South Arts. He thereafter was named as finalist for the Forward Arts Foundations Edge award for 2024. His work has been collected by the City of Atlanta - Office of Cultural Affairs, the Atlanta University Center, and several other private collections. Darden's work has been reviewed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ArtsAtl.com, Burnaway.org, and The New York Times. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Storytelling has always had a role in art, from the earliest cave paintings to contemporary realism. As long as there has been an identifiable image the potential for creating a narrative is present no matter the subject of the work.

Kandinsky was the first to recognize the potential of abstraction as a way to connect people to their feelings. He aligned his painting practice with the equally abstract role of music suggesting that color, shape, line and texture could generate similar emotional responses. Many of his early compositions were titled as musical works.

In 2009 while I was trying to solve a large-scale painting on canvas that was covered in competing color and marks, I discovered the narrative potential of abstraction. By scaling down the work I found myself imagining the interaction of marks, color and texture in the smaller works as a conversational process. I saw a parallel to the relational aspects of living life in general and how small narratives could be created with abstract elements.

My painting practice focuses on the narrative potential of abstraction. The compositions are constructed to imply relationships across the surface and through an ambiguous and fluctuating space. Exchanges between and among elements take place in a lively relational debate. Tension between the small vignettes and the overall painting confounds a rational reading of the work.

Lush vibrant color operates against a ground that fluctuates irrationally. Unexpected spatial shifts challenge readabilty and serve to open the mind to other possibilities.

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Ren Dillard is a multidisciplinary creative who uses curation, oil paint, precious metal, spoken word, and collage to convey rich, often complex philosophical ideas through his work. An affirmed contemporary black artisan, Dillard critically examines the western canon, the works of old masters, the traditional notions of authorship and mastery.

Represented by Mason Fine Art

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Amandine Drouet was born and raised in France. She grew up in La Borne, a small village in the Loire Vallee celebrated for its ceramic. Early on she learned to appreciate art and nature. After moving to the United States to be an au pair to perfect her English, Amandine settled down in Atlanta to further her studies at Georgia State University. There she obtained a BA in Psychology and an MFA in Drawing and Painting. Amandine's artwork has been shown in public places and private galleries for over twenty years in the United States and in France. In 2015 she received the Emerging Artist Award from the Forward Arts Foundation. Amandine has also been part of several collaboratives and cofounded Embodied Energy Studio, a group of artists working with marine scientists to educate the general public about plastic pollution and sustainability. The three artists created a 35 feet tall public art sculpture made from reclaimed plastic that traveled to several major city (Atlanta, GA, Grand Rapid, MC and St Petersburg, FL). Most recently Amandine acquired an old store in her French hometown that she is converting into an exhibit space "Espace Petit" opening to the public later this year. Chance and randomness guide her work where she chooses to recycle discarded materials to give them a second life. Amandine has always been inspired by the juxtaposition between beauty and decay, death and life, and the idea of rebirth. Sustainability and awareness have always been at the center of her art practice and way of life. Each project takes on a form of its own such as installation, photography, painting, drawing, sculpting, fusing or sewing plastic, or at times all at once. Amandine intends to leave her pieces open-ended and ambiguous to allow the viewer to bring his or her own experiences and personal narratives to the artwork.

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Ms. Dunphy received an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in the contemporary arts. She has had exhibits in major venues such as the Atlanta Contemporary, COCA, St. Louis, Telfair Museum in Savannah, the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art in Florida, the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and more. Several features have been written about Ms. Dunphy including Southern Living, Athens Magazine, Craft, CMYK, as well as art and exhibition reviews in the LA Times, SF Chronicle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, burnaway.org and ArtsATL, and others.
Ms. Dunphy is a former Visiting Scholar and Professor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA. Ms. Dunphy works in the curatorial field previously as the guest curator for five years at the Albany Museum of Art. She is the curator for the Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia series with the Georgia Museum of Art. And recently, the Director of the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens GA for ten years.
Ms. Dunphy received the Georgia Governors Award for Arts & Humanities 2022, the Louis Griffith Hospitality Leadership Award, Athens, in 2017. She is a Hambidge Fellow.
Ms. Dunphy is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta.

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Julie Fordham is a mixed media painter living and working in Tucker, Ga. With the birth of her child, she began to explore embroidery and adding it into her already established painting practice. She instantly fell in love with the repetitive, deliberate way of leaving color and texture on her paintings. The work she creates is autobiographical with a strong focus on relationships and mental health. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and has shown around the city of Atlanta, Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance and the Book as Art show hosted by the Decatur Arts Alliance.

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Coulter Fussell was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia, an old textile town. She is the youngest family quilter, hailing from multi-generations of seamstresses and quilters. She produces quilt-works using discarded and donated textiles as her sole materials.
Coulter has exhibited works across the country including The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami and R & Company Gallery in New York City. Her textiles works are in the permanent collections of the Columbus Museum of Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art.
Coulter is a 2024 Barbara Deming Award Recipient, Award of Merit recipient from The Mississippi Historical Society, a 2023 Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship recipient, the 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Inductee, a 2021 Museum of Arts and Design Burke Prize Finalist, the Jane Crater Hiatt Fellow and winner the the 2021 Mississippi Museum of Art Biennial, a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Craft, the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Inductee, and the Finalist for the 2017 SouthArts Southern Prize.
Coulter lives in rural north Mississippi with her family.

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Matt Haffner is a mixed-media artist whose gritty and aesthetically graphic artworks range from documentary style photography, to large-scale installations to diminutive works on paper. His urban and mythological themed works are made from combinations of humble materials including; wheat-pasted paper, cardboard, newsprint, salvaged street signs, rusted metal, and spray paint that pay homage to his roots as a street artist and to his interest in the city's periphery. He often combines his drawings with video projections and photographs that explore ideas about multilayered vision and investigate the dynamic between the static and moving image.

Matt's works are in a variety of public and private regional, national, and international collections. He has won countless awards and grants in support of his work, including a National Endowment for the Arts Project Award, MOCA Georgia's prestigious Working Artist Award, and a Forward Arts Foundation Award. His works additionally, have been published in a variety of books, magazines, web pages, and periodicals. His work is represented primarily by White Space Gallery in Atlanta.

Mr. Haffner is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is an Associate Professor of Photography and Video at Kennesaw State University. He has his BFA in photography from the University of Akron and his MFA from the Tyler School at Temple University.

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Sage Hall is a Black, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent teaching artist and writer who creates trauma-informed, community-centered arts programming. They specialize in using art as a tool for personal and collective healing, with a deep commitment to disability justice, financial empowerment, and transformative social change. Through their work, Hall fosters inclusive, accessible spaces where creativity intersects with activism, and where individuals and communities are empowered to express their stories and reclaim their narratives.

In addition to their community work, Hall offers consulting services specifically designed to support BIPOC artists in advocating for themselves and their creative practices. With a focus on disability advocacy, financial empowerment, and fostering authentic self-expression, they help artists navigate systemic barriers, address financial exploitation, and create sustainable art practices rooted in their lived experiences. Through workshops, coaching, and collaborative projects, Hall empowers artists to use their work to communicate deeper truths, challenge societal norms, and foster both personal and cultural transformation.

Grounded in Black feminist theory, embodied activism, and social justice, Hall is committed to supporting artists and communities alike in building more equitable, healing-centered futures. Sage is a graduate of the Bartol Foundation's training in Trauma-Informed Practice for Teaching Artists and the Trauma of Money Method. They live in the occupied land of Mvskoke, also known as Atlanta. When they are not creating, you can find them in the most spacious corner of your neighborhood bookstore, library, or park.

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Donte K. Hayes is a research-based artist residing and working in Cliffwood, New Jersey. He graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University in Georgia with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an Art History minor. Donte received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. Donte has been awarded residencies at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences ,MacDowell, Bemis Center and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Newark Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Gibbes Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum and the Des Moines Art Center among others. In 2022 he was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant Award. He is also a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow. Donte K. Hayes is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida.

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Born in Greensboro, NC, Vandorn Hinnant received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Design from N C A & T State University in Greensboro NC in 1981, and briefly studied sculpture at UNC-Greensboro. He is a recipient of a 1993-1994 NC Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award, and has participated in artist residencies at The Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Project Row Houses (Round 10), Penland School of Crafts, Center for Design Innovation (Winston-Salem, NC), the National Arts Education Association, and the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia PA. The artist has a long history of public exhibitions and a number of public art commissions to his credit. His works are in numerous private and public collections across America, and some works are in Africa and Europe. He has several books published. One, titled "LOVE... Opera House of The SOUL" is a compilation of poems accompanied by images of his art. He sees his purpose as a creative to serve as an inspiration to others wishing to live fully engaged with 'the creative response'.

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Anna Jensen's paintings are a synthesis of classical and abstract figuration. Her body of work is inspired by both trauma and exaltation. They are the fruit of years of rigorous research conducted in her home of the American South. With immense drive and rare sensitivity, Anna demonstrates the power of an individual to prevail through challenges via creative transfiguration. She is mostly self taught, yet has exhibited internationally to great acclaim over the past twenty years. "My paintings are psychological landscapes and emotionally complex narratives. I combine references to art history, pop culture, natural science and personal chronicles to represent the conflicts of life. The titles are important elements. Like me the stories are at once funny and sad." Anna has an extensive exhibition April 10th - May 23rd at Sun ATL (vinsonart.com/the-sun-atl) with paintings celebrating her husband Kevn Kinney's lifetime of songwriting, both as a solo artist and frontman/lyricist of legendary Atlanta band, Drivin n Cryin.

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Originally from rural Louisiana, Marcus Kenney has lived in Savannah Georgia for the last 15 years. He earned a MFA from the Savannah College Of Art and Design in 1998.

Kenney works in many mediums including collage, sculpture, paint, photography and installation.

His work has been exhibited in New York, London, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Hong Kong, Paris, New Orleans and St Louis. He has been included in numerous group shows, art fairs, and solo exhibitions including a major ten year survey featuring nearly 50 works. His work rests in many private and public collections throughout the world.

Kenney has been featured in numerous publications including Art in America, Artpapers, NY Times, South Magazine, Oxford American, New American Painter, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal Constitution and New York Arts Magazine. A collection of his work has been published by SCAD titled "Marcus Kenney" and distributed by D.A.P. and is available for purchase

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George Long is a Georgia based artist that has shown in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. He received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995 and continued to be an active part of the Atlanta art community . George's work is broad in approach, material , content . This ceramic work is from his most recent show with Marcia Wood Gallery " Square One "

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I've been weaving for over fifty years. My early work was shown at the American Craft Museum, the Renwick Gallery and the Mint Museum. In 1982, I established a custom rug weaving business. It thrived for over thirty years. In 2015, my son took over the business. It continues as a second generation family business, Montagne Handwoven. Stepping back from this has given me the time to go back to my artwork. My recent work is based on the reflections with interior and exterior landscapes merging. These tapestries are woven with linen using traditional techniques combined with dyeing and over dyeing. They have been shown in MOCA GA, Kai Lin and Sulfur Studios. I recently completed a large commission for Lenbrook in Atlanta.

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In my improvisational quilts, I use found, reclaimed, and hand dyed textiles as well as odd found objects from my collections. The quilts are often not big enough, soft enough, or practical enough to keep anyone warm but they do make my brain light up. I like the way I can use the tools and practices of traditional quilt making to break the limiting boundaries of long-established art and craft categories.

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Madison Nunes is an artist, independent curator, and arts administrator working in the so-called United States South. Nunes's practice focuses on the intimacies of alternative family structures and expands on stories of queerness and neurodivergence where retellings of history are at risk for erasure. They hold a BFA from The School of Visual Arts and are an MFA candidate at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Madison has exhibited their work in spaces such as Green Point Gallery, Midwest Nice Art, The Bakery Atlanta, Echo Contemporary, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta Photography Group, and Goat Farm. Their honors include the MINT Leap Year Artist Residency (2024-2025), the Idea Capital Award (2025), the South Arts Independent Artist Career Opportunity Grant (2025), the Winnie Chandler Scholarship in Art and Design (2025), the Ernest G. Welch Scholarship in Photography (2026), and being an exhibiting artist at SITE (2025). They were awarded Atlanta's OCA Emerging Artist Award in 2026.

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Mary O'Malley is a ceramic artist based in Macon, Georgia. She holds an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art in London and a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. O'Malley first gained national attention with her Bottom Feeder series (2011-2013), exhibited with the American Craft Council, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, a solo exhibition at The Clay Studio, and more. One of her earliest career achievements was an Award of Excellence from the American Craft Council which included a residency at the Hambidge Center in 2013. She has since returned twice to Hambidge and is proud to be part of its fellowship network.
Her work has since shown internationally at institutions including the British Ceramics Biennial, Saatchi Gallery, Christie's, Chun Art Museum (Shanghai), and Parcours Caramique Carougeois (Geneva). She co-founded Collective Matter, a London-based artist collective that held a six-month Tate Exchange residency at the Tate Modern. Her work is represented by Taste Contemporary (Geneva, Switzerland) and held in public and private collections worldwide, including the, TaoXiChuan Art Center, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and 21C Museum Hotel. O'Malley has participated in residencies in China, Italy, India, Ireland, the UK, and the United States, with a forthcoming solo exhibition at Artlink at Fort Dunree in Donegal, Ireland (Summer 2026). The work donated to the silent auction is an early iteration of an installation in development for this show. Themes include: bricks as metaphor for colonization, degredation of empire, and the power of nature to overshadow human-centered conflict. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Mercer University.

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Jessica Smith was a Hambidge Resident Artist in 2025. Smith has taught at the University of West Alabama since 2005 and currently serves as a Professor of Art. Jessica's artwork has been exhibited nearby (in New Orleans, LA and Mississippi) and a little further away (in the countries of Slovenia and Nepal). Jessica grew up in Chicago, earned a BFA degree at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and completed her MFA degree at Tulane University in New Orleans. Chances are good you can find Jessica either baking in her kitchen or back-bending on her yoga mat when she is not the studio.

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Matriculated from Parsons School of Design in 1980, with a Master of Fine Arts, in the first MFA program Parsons offered, after graduating from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Exhibiting continuously for the past 40 years in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Fe I've had 24 solo, over 75 group exhibitions and been included in 8 museum exhibitions. With two hardcover exhibition catalogs, I've also been featured in over 55 lifestyles and industry magazines. My artwork can be found in public and private collections across the US, in Canada, China, France, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey, and the Caribbean. Created with a range of traditional materials, recombined in methods and ways that looks to American color field painting from the 70's, the Romantic aesthetic of the Sublime, 19th C Japanese screens, current Pattern and Design, my studio practice represents the continuation of bringing the natural world to the forefront of the cultural dialog about who we are, who we want to be; it promotes ideas of beauty and idealism, encouraging the consideration of ways to contribute to a more Balanced world.

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Lydia C. Thompson is a mixed-media artist known for her ceramic sculptures. She earned her BFA from The Ohio State University and her MFA from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Her honors include a 2025 South Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays grant for research on traditional architecture in Nigeria, a Windgate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft, an Artist Support Grant from the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Mecklenburg, and a Lighton International Artists Exchange Program award for research in Ghana.

She has participated in residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, Medalta Ceramic Center in Canada, and Starworks in North Carolina.

Her work has been exhibited nationally at museums, craft centers, and galleries, including the Mint Museum and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. In addition to her studio practice in Charlotte, NC, she is a Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at UNC Charlotte and has led workshops and served as a juror and curator for regional and national exhibitions.

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Adana Tillman born in Akron, Ohio now working out of Atlanta, Georgia as a fiber/textile artist, with a concentration on figurative depictions. She first began her exploration into the art of quilting by the instruction of her mother, who herself began sewing at an early age. Receiving formal training in the visual arts from elementary through college and supplementing her education with classes and self-direction outside of traditional schooling. Her work primarily focuses on the exploration of identity and self-expression of her subjects. With the use of various fabrics, she creates intricate quilted textile portraiture works. Each piece incorporates found textiles acquired through the artist's travels. Her mother has developed an extensive library of fabrics over the years and sometimes sources those materials. The artists' hand dyeing of textiles has become a large part of the practice incorporated with hand beading and embroidery, adding another tactile dimension to the work. Most recently the artist completed residencies in Germany, and participated in the ECC-Italy art exhibit in Venice in partnership with Knowhere Art Gallery.

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Harrison Wayne (b. 1997) is an artist born and raised in Georgia. Harrison draws on his background as an industrial chemist and his lifelong passion for poetry to inform an approach that enmeshes analytical forms and iterative experimentation with an obsessive focus on the private inner workings of the heart. Across durational chemical sculptures, collaborative ventures, and obtuse personal performances, Harrison works within self-imposed, open-ended systems of rules and private rituals. Harping over time on selected materials and gestures for their elemental power as poetic analogues, disparate visual forms are treated as branches of an expansive, mercurial writing practice. Harrison Wayne is an artist born and raised in Georgia. After receiving his Bachelor's in chemistry from Georgia State University, Harrison continued his work as an industrial research chemist at a local manufacturing plant. Harrison's work has been exhibited both locally and nationally within institutional bodies, while concurrently his practice has often manifested itself in alternative contexts outside of traditional exhibition frameworks. Harrison has been the recipient of residencies at Stove Works (Chattanooga, TN) and the Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, GA). Harrison was selected as a 2025 Atlanta Artadia Awardee, and in the same year he was the recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, NY). As a writer, Harrison has published several books of poetry and has written for Burnaway, Institute 193, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Born in Atlanta, art has played a central role in her life since early childhood. Ife Williams began her formal training in sculpture at Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture/ Metalsmithing from the University of Michigan, pursued a Master's degree in Museum Studies at Syracuse University, and received a certificate of nonprofit organizational management from the Georgia Center for Nonprofits. Over the last three decades Ife has worked actively as a maker in stone and ceramics while also serving in several administrative roles. She currently holds the position of Deputy Director at The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia

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House of TAU Studio produces small batch, handbuilt ceramics for food, plants, and ritual. ("Handbuilt" means that artworks are custom made without a wheel, the old fashioned way. ) Pieces are hand-painted and glazed with one-of-a-kind designs from dreams, ancestors, and a deep connection with nature.

The studio is based out of an Historic 1890s House in the heart of Cabbagetown. K.T. aka K.Tauches is the artist behind House of TAU. At the studio, she produces her own work, and opens up her studio to a local community of potters who fire with her, acting as a "pottery coach" to all levels of practitioners.

House of Tau has operated as an official studio since 2022, when K.T. shifted gears to focus on the materialism of ceramics. That year she was the artist in Residence at The Blue Heron Nature Preserve, where she curated the outdoor exhibition "Light as A Feather," and had a solo exhibition entitled, "Everyday Deities." This piece is from her three-person exhibit this Spring at The Pollinator Art Space, entitled, "Lost Horizons," at the Goat Farm. Previously K.Tauches participated in the Atlanta Art Scene as a curator, arts writer, designer, and artist since the late 90s.

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"My CONSISTENCY, IS INCONSISTENCY" I love all things, am naturally curious and enjoy exploring all things to do with color, line and shape. My work varies as life varies. I enjoy creating abstracts, landscapes and botanicals. I find joy working in bright vibrant rich colors and find peace in soothing, calming neutrals. I cant't ever imagine sticking to one palette nor one subject matter. I believe it would take the joy out creating for me. My enthusiasm comes from creating from the various inspirations and moments life send me. What's next? I am unsure... It is my aim to put one foot in front of the other and create based upon my daily experiences and blessings brought my way. This is my spark. My Joy. I am forever grateful to be who I am, where I am. My work is an expression of my gratitude.

I am located in Ruston, Louisiana. A quaint little artist community in the piney hills of North Louisiana. The local university, Louisiana Tech, has had one of the strongest art departments in the south for many years, fostering a community that posses an unmatched enthusiasm for the visual arts for many generations. I am blessed to say, I Am A RUSTON ARTIST~ thank you Ruston!

My formal training is as an artist and as an educator with a BFA degree in painting and drawing with an emphasis in printmaking. I additionally hold a MED in art education. My collegiate career consisted of multiple majors and multiple universities. I began as a journalism major due to my father's strong writing influence in my life. A few years in, I switched my major to studio art after returning home from a trip to Europe. I am blessed to say I did have the privilege of beginning my first quarter of my art degree at Louisiana Tech as well as finishing my last year here. These classes at Louisiana Tech were by far my most formative years as a young artist. I had the privilege of studying under Tech's greats, Peter Jones, Ed Pinkston & Charlie Meeds. The knowledge these teachers passed on to me is still the foundation of my daily studio life. I will be forever grateful for their influence. The middle years of my BFA were from the former South West Texas University in San Marcos and Austin Community College. In these years, I gained cultural influence and knowledge from various Austin artists and professors. In between my undergraduate and graduate degree I spent over a decade and a half traveling and living out west in Colorado, Montana and California

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Alex Mari (they/she) is an interdisciplinary performance artist from Atlanta. They have an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta and a current Ph.D student in Art, emphasis in Art Education, at the University of Georgia. They have shown work across Atlanta including MINT Gallery, whitespec, Echo Contemporary, The Goat Farm, and Mason Murer Fine Art. She's performed in the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival and in Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival and made several other appearances in NYC and Seattle. They've also performed or shown work internationally in Berlin, London, Monrovia, Puri, Fez, and notably at the Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing. They have been awarded prizes from Franklin Furnace, Burnaway, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. They are a previous Fellow at Emory University's Arts and Social Justice Fellows Program, Artist-in-Studio Resident with The Creatives Project in Atlanta, and KODA lab in NYC. Their body of work seeks to stimulate rupture through narrative, duration, becoming-other, ritual, objects and tasks, video, installation, and digital ephemera.

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Sorina Susnea is a Romanian-born contemporary artist known for abstract paintings and metallic sculptures, currently recognized for her work with coastal, aquatic, and cosmological themes. She holds an M.A. from George Enescu University (2001) and an MFA from the University of South Florida (2005)

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Yoko Sekino-Bove, born in Osaka, Japan, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Musashino Art University in Tokyo. After working as a commercial designer in both Japan and the U.S., she shifted her focus to ceramic art, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Oklahoma. Now based in Washington, Pennsylvania, Yoko works from her home studio and teaches ceramics at local colleges and art centers. Her porcelain works have been exhibited internationally, including in Canada, South Korea, Japan, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, and the Dominican Republic. Notable exhibitions include the NCECA Invitational and the Icheon World Ceramic Biennale. Yoko's recent solo shows were held at the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, and Baltimore Clayworks. She has received recognition as one of the "Emerging Artists 2011" by Ceramic Arts Daily and completed residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and the Archie Bray Foundation. Her work appears in several craft books, including 500 Cups, 500 Teapots Volume 2, and Humor in Craft, and her technical articles have been published in Ceramics Monthly and The Pottery Making Illustrated. Yoko is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor of Ceramics at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lonnie Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood.

Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley's sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the country, on permanent display in the United Nations, and been displayed in the White House Rose Garden. In January of 2014, Holley completed a one-month artist-in-residence with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida, site of the acclaimed artist's studio.

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Mattiel Brown is a songwriter, musician, and occasional linocut printmaker living in Florence, Italy. She is originally from Atlanta and wrote three critically-acclaimed albums while living there between the years of 2015-2022. When she's not touring or recording music in the studio, she explores themes of ancient folklore and the divine feminine with her large-scale linocut prints. This print, "Taking Up Serpents," is an expression of feminine power and strength in the face of adversity. The feminine figure in this print expresses a direct confrontation against the distractions and challenges of a modern patriarchal society, while also referencing imagery from the ancient world. "Im Gras lauert immer eine Schlange" translated from German: "There is always a snake lurking in the grass."

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Debra Fleury is a multidisciplinary sculptor working in West Dennis, Massachusetts. Her figurative work is rooted in the expression of introspective energies. Fleury studied art and design at MassArt in Boston and received her MFA in sculpture from the Penn State School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited her work at The Archie Bray Foundation (MT), The Workhouse Clay Arts Center (VA), Wayne Art Center (PA), The Clay Center of New Orleans (LA), and Highfield Hall and Gardens (MA), among others. She is currently working on art installations for the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord (MA) and the Woskob Gallery (PA). In addition to her sculpture practice, Fleury has taught at MassArt and Penn State University.

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I grew up in both Illinois and Iowa along the Mississippi river. I was introduced to art and clay at a young age. I remember ordering drawing books and pencils from a magazine and how excited I was when it came. However, I knew at a young age I wanted to join the Marine Corps; I did right after high school.

I was stationed in Camp Pendleton, CA with the Raiders, Bravo 1/1 a Zodiac company and SOC unit. SOC is an acronym for Special Operation Capable unit. I was with them for two years as a Assult Climber. After returning from my first deployment two months later I deployed with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion as a Scout. We deployed Augest, 1990 the beginning of Desert Shield and then Storm. I got out of the Marine Corp after a challenging, tense, yet rewarding four years. I still have a band of brothers who I served with out there Semper Fi. I received an honorable discharge September, 1992.

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Emma is a ceramic artist from Woodstock Georgia, currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. She was first introduced to ceramics in early high school, where she built a foundation learning hand building. After graduating, Emma spent time as a studio assistant for professional ceramicist Betsy Oh. During her assistantship, she continued developing her skills, learned how a studio operates, and observed an artist in practice. Following the pandemic, Emma spent a summer doing an independent study at Art Center West in Roswell, Georgia. In the fall of 2021, she began her undergraduate studies at Georgia State University and received her BFA in Ceramics in 2025. Emma is currently creating and working at Grit Ceramic Studio in Atlanta.

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Emma is a ceramic artist from Woodstock Georgia, currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. She was first introduced to ceramics in early high school, where she built a foundation learning hand building. After graduating, Emma spent time as a studio assistant for professional ceramicist Betsy Oh. During her assistantship, she continued developing her skills, learned how a studio operates, and observed an artist in practice. Following the pandemic, Emma spent a summer doing an independent study at Art Center West in Roswell, Georgia. In the fall of 2021, she began her undergraduate studies at Georgia State University and received her BFA in Ceramics in 2025. Emma is currently creating and working at Grit Ceramic Studio in Atlanta.

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Emma is a ceramic artist from Woodstock Georgia, currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. She was first introduced to ceramics in early high school, where she built a foundation learning hand building. After graduating, Emma spent time as a studio assistant for professional ceramicist Betsy Oh. During her assistantship, she continued developing her skills, learned how a studio operates, and observed an artist in practice. Following the pandemic, Emma spent a summer doing an independent study at Art Center West in Roswell, Georgia. In the fall of 2021, she began her undergraduate studies at Georgia State University and received her BFA in Ceramics in 2025. Emma is currently creating and working at Grit Ceramic Studio in Atlanta.

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Noushin Mousavi is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist based in the United States. She immigrated with a background in graphic design and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she also serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Noushin has presented solo exhibitions in Iran and has participated in group exhibitions in the United States, Iran, and Italy, including the Matres and Pandora International Festivals of Women's Ceramics in Italy. Her work has been accepted into artist residencies across the United States.
Working with a wide range of materials and processes, Noushin's practice is deeply shaped by her lived experience as an immigrant and the shifting reality of leaving one home to build another. Her work investigates how senses of home and belonging are formed and reconstructed through everyday rituals and materials, framing these acts as gestures of resilience.
In addition to her studio practice, Noushin has professional experience as an educator, curator, and writer. Her article has recently been published in Wayward Education Exchange, further extending her engagement with critical discourse and contemporary art practices.

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Charlita is a 38-year-old Indigenous Scenic Designer and multidisciplinary artist whose work lives at the intersection of craft, culture, and transformation. Rooted in mixed-media traditions and sculpted through years as a prop maker and painter, her practice is a tactile conversation between material and meaning. She moves fluidly between murals, ephemeral collage, and immersive installations. Each piece an exploration of how space holds memory and emotion. Through texture, light, and form, Charlita reimagines environments as living stories, places where the familiar becomes sacred and the fleeting becomes profound.Her installations encourage those to feel as much as they see; to enter spaces of wonder, reflection, and sensory dialogue.Her work honors craft, culture, and sensory engagement, inviting

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Katy Beltran is a Latinx artist from Bogota, Colombia, based in Atlanta, GA since 2016. Her work is part of the City of Atlanta's permanent art collection and has been exhibited internationally across the United States, South America, and Europe. This year, she is one of the participating artists in the Every Woman Biennial 2026 in New York City. Beltran earned an MFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta) and is a certified XR designer through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2015, she founded Museo Nueva Memoria (The New Memory Museum) in Colombia, a nonprofit using art and photography to honor the life narratives of at-risk communities. As a creative director, she has collaborated with organizations including Emory University, Black Voters Matter, and SisterLove, Inc., supporting initiatives that challenge systemic discrimination, advance gender justice, and address the impacts of the HIV epidemic. Her artistic language is grounded in women's rights, bodily autonomy, and collective memory, exploring intimate human dramas with a focused lens on the feminine body and the soul.

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Angelyn S. Chandler is an Atlanta based artist. After graduating from Emory University she pursued graduate studies at the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN; Art Students League of NY; Joshi Bijutsu Daigaku (Women's Art University), Tokyo, Japan; Atlanta College of Art; and Georgia State University, Atlanta. "I experience painting as an exploration of myself and of my surroundings in order to widen my reality I am exploring map like images, pictographic markings and the coincidence of writing and picture making in asemic writing. Among her one person exhibits is a solo exhibit at the Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University; Wesleyan College Macon, Georgia; the Great American Gallery; the Connell Gallery, Atlanta; and Image South Gallery, Atlanta. She has been in numerous group exhibitions, such as "Women in the Eighties", Swan Coach House Gallery; "Atlanta Art Educators Exhibition", Art Institute of Atlanta; Gertrude Herbert Art Institute Regional juried show, Augusta GA; and "Chastain Art Center former Instructors" exhibit. Angelyn served as the Executive Director of the Atlanta International Museum of Art and Design (now MODA) for 13 years. She served as a Board member of the Nexus Contemporary Art Center. In 1997 she was an Honoree for Achievement in the Arts for Georgia Women, Historic Preservation Office in the Department of Natural Resources. Angelyn is currently a full-time studio artist, making ceramics and painting in her home studio.

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Ruby Chavez is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between painting, sculpture, and installation to reflect on resilience, identity, and reclamation. Based in Atlanta, her work transforms familiar materials into testaments of strength-pieces that have both history and hope. Each work is both document and offering, reflecting on the purity of life within the everyday and the narratives that shape community. Through Imaginink Studios, Ruby refines a practice devoted to storytelling, reflection, and reconciliation. Creating art that not only observes the world but seeks to restore it.

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Trained as a landscape architect, my acts of design have always been about "surfaces." In the past, earth, plants, brick, and stone were my materials; now cloth, fiber and colorants. A bridge between past sensibilities and present expression continues to be forged as I move from working with wool and felt process to exploring plant-based color and bast fibers.

Creating connection and stability through my work and relationships is fundamental. I moved around a lot as a child and that had an impact on a lot of levels. While I have lived many places, three stand out as major influences. If I may use a plant metaphor: my roots are in both Hawaii and the Puget Sound area, my crown is in Georgia, and my heart is in all three. Marine environments and forests are the substrate, expressive movement and eastern philosophy, the connective tissue; and long-evolving, valued friendships with amazing artists and craftspeople, my nourishment. I begin to see that "net"-works and their re-forging, along with shelter and terrain (both interior and exterior), are central themes in my work (even in the choice of surface pattern in my design work). The dance continues.

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Myrtie Cope has been focusing on nature, landscape, and architectural photography since graduating from the photography program at Rocky Mountain School of Photography in 2008. She is honored to have photos in several private and public collections around Atlanta including the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport and Emory University Hospital Tower. She has won numerous awards for her work which has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Her winning images have been exhibited in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers at Fotonostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, multiple times. Her body of work, "Nature Embroidered", was one of the projects featured in All About Photo Magazine's Nature issue in September 2023. Ms. Cope received the Denis Diderot Artist-in-Residence grant at Chateau Orquevaux, France, in 2021 and was awarded a second residency at Atelier AIR in Dangeau, France in 2023. The residencies allowed her to focus on and refine her work and experiment with new techniques as well as traveling around France for photography. In 2024, Ms. Cope was awarded the Williams Family Distinguished Fellowship in Photography for an artist residency at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences where she continued her work in embroidered photographs.

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Corinna Cowles followed a traditional academic fine arts track, currently holding a BFA and MFA in painting and studio arts from Columbia College Chicago and the Tyler School of Art respectively. She is continuing her education through dialogue, self-determined projects, and skill exchange via teaching, a professional ceramics practice, and artist residencies, which include The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, New Harmony Clay Project, and the Archie Bray Foundation.

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Elyse Defoor (b. Greenville, SC, 1952) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Atlanta. She received her education at the University of Georgia and the Atlanta College of Art. She uses photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation to create art that touches people's minds and hearts. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous private and public collections, including MOCA GA and the New York Public Library. Highlights of her solo and group exhibition are listed on ElyseDefoor.com. Videos of installations and exhibition tours may be seen on her YouTube channel. A Fellow since 2005, Defoor values the solitude, community and encouragement of the creative environment that Hambidge offers. She is honored to donate "The Last Rose," a reflection of the beauty of life, in support of Hambidge's continued cultivation of artists and the work that sustains us.

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Nancy Floyd uses photography, video, and mixed-media to address the ways in which lens-based media can connect deeply with experience and memory. Much of her work addresses the passage of time, representations of women, and the aging female body. More recently she's begun a wide-ranging exploration of trees. Nancy has received numerous grants and awards including a 2024 Victoria & Albert Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2021, her 39-year self-portrait series, Weathering Time, was published by the International Center of Photography and GOST books and the work was featured in the New Yorker Photobooth and New York Times T Magazine. Her artwork is in the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and in numerous private collections. Nancy is represented by Whitespace in Atlanta and lives in Bend, Oregon.

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Carrie Fonder is a sculptor, installation artist, and video artist whose work employs humor as an investigative strategy to examine and critique culture. She earned her MFA in sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art and is a Fulbright Nehru Award recipient. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, and a member of Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has had her work in solo and group exhibitions in various galleries and museums, including Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; LaMama Galleria, New York, NY; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL; Acadiana Center For the Arts, Lafayette, LA; Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN; The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE; Good Sport, London, ON, Canada; and Mono8 Gallery, Manila, Philippines. She has participated in various residencies, including Stove Works, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wassaic Project, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Popps Packing, and, most recently, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts.

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Julie Fordham is a mixed media painter living and working in Tucker, Ga. With the birth of her child, she began to explore embroidery and adding it into her already established painting practice. She instantly fell in love with the repetitive, deliberate way of leaving color and texture on her paintings. The work she creates is autobiographical with a strong focus on relationships and mental health. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and has shown around the city of Atlanta, Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance and the Book as Art show hosted by the Decatur Arts Alliance.

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Vandorn Hinnant Born in Greensboro, NC, Vandorn received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Design from N C A & T State University in Greensboro NC in 1981, and briefly studied sculpture at UNC-Greensboro. He is a recipient of a 1993-1994 NC Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award, and has participated in artist residencies at The Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Project Row Houses (Round 10), Penland School of Crafts, Center for Design Innovation (Winston-Salem, NC), the National Arts Education Association, and the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia PA. The artist has a long history of public exhibitions and public art commissions to his credit. He sees his purpose as a creative to serve as an inspiration to others wishing to live fully engaged with 'the creative response'.

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Caroline Maddox is a Georgia-based artist whose work celebrates the quiet beauty of everyday life. Rooted in mindfulness and a deep connection to nature, her pieces carry a contemplative spirit, designed to elevate daily rituals and invite presence. Her botanical motifs are created intuitively, inspired by what is blooming around her in the moment-an ever-changing reflection of season and place. A devoted yoga practitioner and teacher, Caroline finds that her art and yoga practices continually inform one another. Each discipline grounds and expands the other, helping her remain rooted, observant, and open. In addition to her studio and teaching work, Caroline serves as Deputy Director of Philanthropy at the High Museum of Art. She holds undergraduate degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Georgia, a master's degree in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art, and a Ph.D. in Art from the University of Georgia.

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Zap McConnell began investigating dance/movement performance at North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) in 1988. Upon leaving NCSA, she began traveling, splitting her time between performance, visual arts and direct environmental activism in Northern California, NYC, Idaho, Mexico, Costa Rica and Colorado. Zap has been involved with the Zen Monkey Project (ZMP) since 1995 performing, teaching, stage managing, producing and directing evening-length pieces. She facilitated the New Dance Space and co-facilitated Studio 11 at the McGuffey Art Center, organized performance festivals and ZMP's summer dance intensives. Zap is also a visual artist who regularly creates and prints cartoon books, paints, makes murals, sculpture and who builds performance installation sets that also include lights and costumes. Zap has been a main organizer for many large scale community endeavors, spanning from a huge local artist created carnival (A Charlottesville Wunderkammer), to an in-depth political community weekend investigating the past and present of Native Americans (Columbus Day; Myth and the American Dream), to the adoption, with the stream ecology class, of a highly impaired stream for over ten years. Zap was a full time core teacher at the Living Education Center for Ecology and the Arts, an alternative high school in Charlottesville, Virginia, for almost a decade.

Since 2008, Zap has split her time between U.S.A. and Mexico; and between performances, art shows and teaching. In Mexico, Zap started her connection through a commission from Performática (an International Dance Festival) to make a site specific performance on the campus of Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), working with students of Dance and Visual Arts in order to explore the history of the land. She has returned countless times as a guest artist, teaching and making extensive work with UDLAP students, within Performática and working with local artists in Cholula/Puebla.

In the U.S.A., Zap has had over a dozen art shows (N.C./V.A.), created @hand productions, been part of many Dance Festivals, planned/produced/participated in countless Artistic Residencies, and performed/built sets/ran tech/toured/consulted for Theater/Art/Dance groups. Zap co-created the Chicken Bank Collective (CBC), an interdisciplinary and international arts collective, the fall of 2014, then relocated to North Carolina to create her art studio: CABIN. Zap (with-in CBC) has been invited to be part of On-site/In-site Dance Festival two years in a row (Spring 2016/2017). She has screened her first feature length Dance for Film: Secondary Succession she directed and co-created with CBC, in NC, California, Colorado and Mexico. Zap recieved her MFA in Dance Performance from Hollins University in 2019. She resently released: the owl of Minerva arrives only at dusk, a 7 chapter dance for film in solidarity of BLACK LIVES MATTERS.

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Casey McGuire and Mark Schoon have been working as a collaborative team since 2015. Their collaborative work has been exhibited in exhibitions at 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL; Filter Space, Chicago, IL; SoHo Photo Gallery, NY; and Kai Lin Gallery, Atlanta. Their work is in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art. McGuire received an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2007. Her installations have been shown at Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Alexander Brest Gallery, Jacksonville, FL. Residencies include Pop-in Residency at Artspace, Raleigh, NC, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA, Vermont Studio Center & Atlanta Contemporary. Schoon earned an MFA in Photography from Ohio University in 2009. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He has been awarded residencies at AIR Serenbe, Serenbe GA and the Camera Club of New York, NY. McGuire and Schoon each serve as Professors at the University of West Georgia.

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Carol Santos is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Brazil and currently based in Atlanta. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in her family's heritage and personal experiences. Santos' diverse artistic repertoire spans acrylics, oils, and natural pigments on canvas, as well as sculptures, textiles, conceptual, and performance art. Her work serves as a dialogue between the past, present, and future, inviting viewers to reflect on their own experiences within a multicultural contemporary society. By preserving oral and visual histories, Santos breathes new life into recycled materials and collaborative memories.

Carol fosters an inclusive creative environment where her children and friends are encouraged to participate, transforming her artistic narrative into a shared community experience. Her artwork is featured in private collections across the United States, Brazil, and Europe. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has worked with various art institutions in promoting culture.

Carol holds an MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design as well as a Master's and a Bachelor's in Marketing and Communication. Santos is a researcher, an educator, a volunteer, and an avid traveler. Residing in Sandy Springs with her husband and three children, she enjoys a house full of people and working in her kitchen and garden.

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Intricately detailed ceramic wall hanging made from a mold of a petroglyph carved into a rock which is located in Phippsburg, Maine. This piece adorns a Hermit thrush. This technique helps capture eloquently the essence of the rock. It has a glossy finish and successful petroglyph transfer.

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Zola Simone is an interdisciplinary artist from Atlanta, GA. Working across sculpture, drawing, writing, and installation. Their practice is informed by relationships between craft, ecology, and adornment as modes of survival and intergenerational sites of imagining possible worlds.

Her practice is shaped by personal histories of matrilineal and patrilineal wisdom sharing, considering the confluence of time, memory, and possibility found among craft and the land which sustains it. Making is a means of gathering, remembering, and imagining futures rooted in lessons carefully carried forward among the work and rituals of daily life.

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Beverly Tu is a fashion designer and mixed-media artist currently based in Taiwan. She received her AAS in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design in 2017. Tu has showcased her collections at Atlantic City Fashion Week 2019-2024, StylePointe Fashion Show 2019, and Designow Runway competition 2017. Her other creative projects and curatorial works have been shown at Central Park, El Barrio's Artspace PS109, New York Live Arts, Chashama Space, Trestle Gallery, La Bodega Gallery, and Ground Floor Gallery, among others. Tu was an Artist in Residence at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Brashnar Creative Project in Skopje, Macedonia in 2018. She participated in the NYFA immigrant artist mentoring program in 2019 and participated in the Bead Project at UrbanGlass in 2021. She was awarded The Leisa Rich Distinguished Fellowship for Fiber Artists in 2022 at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. In 2023, She moved back to Taiwan and did artist residencies at Lize Puppet Art Colony Residency in Yilan, Taiwan (June) and Cepo Art center residency in Hualien, Taiwan (October).

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Jasmin Warnock is a British Immigrant, raised in Mississippi, who is now living in Atlanta. Growing up in the deep south, the environments in which she has lived have heavily impacted her work as a biracial black queer woman. She uses her work and printmaking as a vessel in order to portray the process of grappling with her identity. This portrayal also seeks to foster connection with others who have similar experiences. As a graduate of Georgia State University, Jasmin studied Marketing and minored in Studio Art, with experience in digital and art marketing as well as arts administration. Her printmaking practice is centered around building community and creating accessible learning environments. As a working artist, Jasmin has had the opportunity to expand her practice through residencies, including the 2025 Emerging Artist residency at Atlanta Printmakers Studio and the 2026 Winter Residency at Penland School of Craft. She is currently the Exhibitions Manager at The Bakery Atlanta.

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Tina Mullen is a visual artist currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. For 31 years she held the position of Director of UF Health Arts in Medicine - a program that brings the arts to patients and families struggling with serious illness or injury. She currently serves as Visiting Faculty for the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine teaching courses that focus on the foundation of arts in health, the use of the arts in health design and administrative leadership.

"I have painted and drawn pictures my entire life. I believe that the arts are a vehicle for transformation and personal expression, and my passion is to help others bring art into their lives in meaningful ways."

Tina has been a drawing instructor at Santa Fe College and the University of Florida, as well as Interim Director of the University Galleries at UF. Tina is also a working artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States. She has received numerous awards including the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Florida Department of Cultural Affairs. She has been an instructor and visiting artist at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and an artist in residence at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown New York.

Tina has a BA from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She studied abroad at the Cleveland Institute of Art Program (now SCAD) in Lacoste, France, and has an MFA from the University of Florida.

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Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her first book, a memoir titled Holler Rat, was published by Abrams Press in August 2023. Called "a searing debut" by Publishers Weekly and cited by Jo Ann Beard as a new influence in her writing, Holler Rat has become a USA Today Bestseller. Liftig's artworks have been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Queens Museum, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, and many other venues around the world. As a dancer and actress. Liftig's work has been published and written about in the New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, PAJ, New York, Theater Magazine, and many others. Her experimental film and video work has been screened in festivals in Canada, Greece, UK, Holland, France, and many other countries. Her essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Non-Fiction. She is a Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Award, and fellowships at MacDowell, Kimmel Harding Nelson, VCCA, Hambidge, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Yaddo. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State.

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Katrina DeMarcus Santiago is an Atlanta-based multimedia artist whose work is rooted in icons of nostalgia as markers of memory and preservation. Her work explores color, shape and light as it relates to her own layered identities as a boricua and a third-culture kid growing up in the South. DeMarcus Santiago has her BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute in New York and focuses largely on reinterpreting central figures that line the memories of her coming of age in both Atlanta and Puerto Rico including the vejigante, orchids, and the soft turns of the body. Her textile mascara caretas are hand-knit and crochet - a softer adaptation of the iconic cultural symbol, and the vejigante is prominently featured on her ceramic works as well - marbled vessels reflecting the natural softness and shapes DeMarcus Santiago pulls from the world around her. Her work has been featured in the Rosehouse Art Residency in Cobbleskill, New York, on Adult Swim's Assembly Line Yeah!, and the Mijita Art Collective. She is currently working and living in Atlanta, GA.

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Mary O'Malley is a ceramic artist based in Macon, Georgia. She holds an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art in London and a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. O'Malley first gained national attention with her Bottom Feeder series (2011-2013), exhibited with the American Craft Council, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, a solo exhibition at The Clay Studio, and more. One of her earliest career achievements was an Award of Excellence from the American Craft Council which included a residency at the Hambidge Center in 2013. She has since returned twice to Hambidge and is proud to be part of its fellowship network.

Her work has since shown internationally at institutions including the British Ceramics Biennial, Saatchi Gallery, Christie's, Chun Art Museum (Shanghai), and Parcours Ceramique Carougeois (Geneva). She co-founded Collective Matter, a London-based artist collective that held a six-month Tate Exchange residency at the Tate Modern. Her work is represented by Taste Contemporary (Geneva, Switzerland) and held in public and private collections worldwide, including the, TaoXiChuan Art Center, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and 21C Museum Hotel. O'Malley has participated in residencies in China, Italy, India, Ireland, the UK, and the United States, with a forthcoming solo exhibition at Artlink at Fort Dunree in Donegal, Ireland (Summer 2026). The work donated to the silent auction is an early iteration of an installation in development for this show. Themes include: bricks as metaphor for colonization, degredation of empire, and the power of nature to overshadow human-centered conflict. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Mercer University.

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Sid Henderson is a graduate students at GSU. He's exhibited work in the UK, and is currently exhibiting at the Jurien National NCECCA Exhibition

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I grew up in both Illinois and Iowa along the Mississippi river. I was introduced to art and clay at a young age. I remember ordering drawing books and pencils from a magazine and how excited I was when it came. However, I knew at a young age I wanted to join the Marine Corps; I did right after high school.

I was stationed in Camp Pendleton, CA with the Raiders, Bravo 1/1 a Zodiac company and SOC unit. SOC is an acronym for Special Operation Capable unit. I was with them for two years as a Assult Climber. After returning from my first deployment two months later I deployed with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion as a Scout. We deployed Augest, 1990 the beginning of Desert Shield and then Storm. I got out of the Marine Corp after a challenging, tense, yet rewarding four years. I still have a band of brothers who I served with out there Semper Fi. I received an honorable discharge September, 1992

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Currently living and working in Atlanta, GA.
I grew up in the next small town in central Georgia to get busted up by Sherman after he captured Milledgeville. If you know where he left any of his legendary neckties, please let me know.
Gramps helped build the interstates after fighting in the Pacific theater in World War 2. Papa Ray was a farmer and introduced integration in our home county, fielding anonymous death threats from locals and phone calls of assistance from Gov. Maddox. Dad worked for DFACS and Mom worked for the Technical University system.

I've been a radio DJ, an RA, a Middle/High school art teacher, a sailor on a gambling boat, a sign maker, an antique restorer, a bellhop (hated it), a parking officer, a picture framer, a pizza man, and a pop slinger. All the while I have made art; Dad always says "Support your art until it can support you!"

I grew up on Warner Brothers cartoons, early Nintendo, Liquid Television, and anime. Then I grew up to love Brian Eno, Moebius, James Burke, and Modernist painting. There are others. I was forced into freelancing by the COVID 19 pandemic. It was an unanticipated benefit of the times, but here I am!

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LaDonna Benedict is a retired psychotherapist and current suburban folk artist who finds joy in the intuitive, nonverbal magic of porcelain clay. Her work has been juried into multiple juried cup and art shows in Georgia, including but not limited to the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning, The Hambidge Center for the Arts, and The Swan Coach House Gallery Emerging Artists Summer Invitational curated show. LaDonna holds two non-art related masters degrees, neither of which is in ceramics. She hopes her work is an antidote to the seriousness of life.

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Katrina DeMarcus Santiago is an Atlanta-based multimedia artist whose work is rooted in icons of nostalgia as markers of memory and preservation. Her work explores color, shape and light as it relates to her own layered identities as a boricua and a third-culture kid growing up in the South. DeMarcus Santiago has her BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute in New York and focuses largely on reinterpreting central figures that line the memories of her coming of age in both Atlanta and Puerto Rico including the vejigante, orchids, and the soft turns of the body. Her textile mascara caretas are hand-knit and crochet - a softer adaptation of the iconic cultural symbol, and the vejigante is prominently featured on her ceramic works as well - marbled vessels reflecting the natural softness and shapes DeMarcus Santiago pulls from the world around her. Her work has been featured in the Rosehouse Art Residency in Cobbleskill, New York, on Adult Swim's Assembly Line Yeah!, and the Mijita Art Collective. She is currently working and living in Atlanta, GA.

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Sid Henderson is a graduate students at GSU. He's exhibited work in the UK, and is currently exhibiting at the Jurien National NCECCA Exhibition

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Sid Henderson is a graduate students at GSU. He's exhibited work in the UK, and is currently exhibiting at the Jurien National NCECCA Exhibition

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I was born in Singapore and worked as a dentist for twenty years before moving to Atlanta in 2001 with my family. Always being very keen on the arts, I began making pottery and sculpture 10 years ago at the Spruill Art Center in Dunwoody, GA, under the tutelage of Carol Brull, while homeschooling my autistic son.

My years of teaching special needs pottery has taught me to simplify, laugh, and "just do it".