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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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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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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'.

www.angelynschandler.com

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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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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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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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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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.