www.madisonnunes.com

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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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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.

www.ElyseDefoor.com

www.instagram.com/ElyseDefoor

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.

https://richardducree.com/

http://www.nancyfloyd.com

https://whitespace814.com/

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.

https://www.carriefonder.com/

https://www.instagram.com/clfonder/

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.

www.markschoon.com

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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.

www.anyaliftig.com

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.