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www.dididunphystudio.com

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.

www.JulieFordhamArt.com

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.

www.lynsterlingmontagne.com

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.

www.molliemurphy.com

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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.

www.adanatillman.com

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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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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.

www.carolsantosarts.com

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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.