www.JessLself.com
@art.felt.jess

Jess Self is originally from Black Mountain, NC but currently resides in Atlanta, GA. She recently completed her M.F.A at Georgia State University. She has a love for work that is figurative and incorporates textiles. In addition to making exhibition work, she enjoys teaching workshops and participating in craft shows.

@sabrina_j._barilone

Sabrina J. Barilone (b. 1976) is a sculptor and public high school teacher living in Grant Park, Atlanta, GA. She earned her BFA, summa cum laude, in Art Education with a concentration in Ceramics from Georgia State University. She has since worked on post-baccalaureate work at GSU and has been showing her work across Georgia. During a short time in Macon, she juggled a teaching career and served as Vice-Chair on the Macon Public Art Commission. She has attended workshops at Penland through work-study scholarships, Arrowmont and Santa Fe Clay as well as local workshops. Additionally, she continues to study the figure through evening figure sculpture classes at Cherrylion Studios in Atlanta under the direction of Martin Dawe and Susan Krause. While teaching full-time she has exhibited recently across Georgia including group show: Form and Function at 567 Gallery in Macon, Decatur Fine Arts Exhibit at Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, Leading By Example Exhibit at the Zuckerman Museum in Atlanta, GAEA Member Exhibits, received Merits Awards at Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, A Sense of Place Exhibit Augusta, GA and West Main Artist Cooperative 2019 Exhibition, placed at the Bibb 2nd National Arts Program at The Tubman Museum in Macon and received a 1st place and Honorable Mention recognition at Middle GA Summer Exhibit at the MGAA Gallery. In 2020, she has exhibited at Macon Arts Alliance's Drawn to Macon and Valdosta State University's Valdosta National 2020 Exhibition. Her most significant achievement of 2020 was being chosen for a two-week summer session residency at Hambidge Art Center and being named Arrowmont Educator Summer Fellow 2021.

www.patrickdirito.com

@pdirito

Patrick Di Rito is an artist and designer in Atlanta, GA. He earned a BS in Architecture at Georgia Tech in 2012. He helped form gray_matter(s), an artist collective and critical publication. He collaborated on site-specific installations for Flux 2011 and whitespec.

He is a 2016 Hambidge Fellow. He explored working with patterns and shooting outside as a part of the Queer Color Series. He has shown excerpts of this series at Mammal Gallery and Murmur Gallery and published in Number: Ninety and Wussy Vol 2.

He is a 2017-18 Hughley Fellow which culminated in a group show at MOCA GA. He photographed for the Queer Color Series on Ossabaw Island which provided a new set of environments.

He had his first solo show at The Bakery Gallery in 2018 titled "Dusty Rose" which featured excerpts from the Queer Color Series. He also self published a book of the same name that featured the Queer Color Series to date.

He is a 2020 Hambidge Fellow. He was there in March as the pandemic was unfolding. From this environment of uncertainty he continued in his Queer Color Series, but shifted under the apocalyptic future imagined of isolation, face masks, and sheltering in place. Excerpts have been shown in Mary Stanley / ACP's curated group show: "Good Trouble", at Mint Gallery.

He is a 2020 Cisco, UT Contributing Artist in Residency. At the height of the pandemic, he drove across the country to the remote high desert ghost town of Cisco where he continued his Queer Color Series.

He works as an Interior Designer / Interior Architect for Smith Hanes Studio and has collaborated on commercial restaurant and hospitality projects such as: Seabird in Wilmington, NC; Woodlark Hotel, Bullard, and Abigail Hall in Portland, OR; and Wonderkid in Atlanta.

www.patrickdirito.com

@pdirito

Patrick Di Rito is an artist and designer in Atlanta, GA. He earned a BS in Architecture at Georgia Tech in 2012. He helped form gray_matter(s), an artist collective and critical publication. He collaborated on site-specific installations for Flux 2011 and whitespec.

He is a 2016 Hambidge Fellow. He explored working with patterns and shooting outside as a part of the Queer Color Series. He has shown excerpts of this series at Mammal Gallery and Murmur Gallery and published in Number: Ninety and Wussy Vol 2.

He is a 2017-18 Hughley Fellow which culminated in a group show at MOCA GA. He photographed for the Queer Color Series on Ossabaw Island which provided a new set of environments.

He had his first solo show at The Bakery Gallery in 2018 titled "Dusty Rose" which featured excerpts from the Queer Color Series. He also self published a book of the same name that featured the Queer Color Series to date.

He is a 2020 Hambidge Fellow. He was there in March as the pandemic was unfolding. From this environment of uncertainty he continued in his Queer Color Series, but shifted under the apocalyptic future imagined of isolation, face masks, and sheltering in place. Excerpts have been shown in Mary Stanley / ACP's curated group show: "Good Trouble", at Mint Gallery.

He is a 2020 Cisco, UT Contributing Artist in Residency. At the height of the pandemic, he drove across the country to the remote high desert ghost town of Cisco where he continued his Queer Color Series.

He works as an Interior Designer / Interior Architect for Smith Hanes Studio and has collaborated on commercial restaurant and hospitality projects such as: Seabird in Wilmington, NC; Woodlark Hotel, Bullard, and Abigail Hall in Portland, OR; and Wonderkid in Atlanta.

carlacontreras.net

@carla.contreras.art

Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Carla Contreras is a multidisciplinary visual artist living and working in Atlanta since 2016, when she came to pursue her M.F.A degree in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work explores the human condition impacted by the uncertainty and overwhelmingness of our current individual and collective existence through mixed media works on paper and canvas. Contreras's work has been exhibited at MOCA Ga, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Callanwolde Fine Art Center, The Johns Creek Art Center, The Lovett School, Pace Academy, The Coca-Cola Head Quarters, SCAD Art Sales, The Hambidge Auction, the ART PAPERS Auction, O/Art and The City Auction, and local contemporary galleries like MINT, EYP/100, Besharat, FreeMarket Gallery. Contreras has been featured in publications, and reviews for SCAD Connector, BuckHaven Lifestyle Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, BURNAWAY, ArtsATL, SHOUTOUT Atlanta, The VoyageATL Magazine for their "Thought Provokers: celebrating artists & creatives" Series, Univision 34 Atlanta, La Vision Atlanta Radio and Newspaper, ELYSIAN Magazine's Arts and Culture 2020 issue, and the AJC Journal.

@ErinSledd

Academic and artist Erin Sledd works at the intersection of the humanities, art, and technology. She is deeply fascinated by the nature of form and structure, of transformation and permutation. Her research and creative interests span the connections between text and image, the analog and digital world, virtual and material structures, metamorphoses, and hybridity. She has taught literature and composition in the United States and graphic design and exhibition design in Pakistan. Her most enduring obsession seems to be the labyrinth, in all its manifestations; currently she teaches a World Literature course that focuses on labyrinth and labyrinthine texts ranging from Greek Mythology to contemporary novels, films, and stories.

Visually, she draws from a well of knowledge in literature, images, history and science to create images that surprise and delight. Often ornamental and intricate, her work is nevertheless firmly conceptual in origin, reflecting her conviction that compelling art and design is rooted in meaning. She loves designing for print and reproduction because, in a sense, each image is the original. As Fornassetti said, "A thing does not become less beautiful because it is reproduced 20,000 to 30,000 times."

www.inkyoungchoichun.com

@inkyoungc

Born in Seoul, South Korea, In Kyoung Chun is a painter living in Atlanta, Georgia.
She received an MFA at Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design of Georgia State University. She received the Emerging Artist Award 2012-2013 by the City of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs.
Her work has been included to its permanent collection of High Museum of Art, the City of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs and Fulton County Public Library of Atlanta. In Kyoung Chun is a studio artist at the Atlanta Contemporary.

@pressstarttobegin

Ashley Anderson was born in Milledgeville, GA but raised in Tennille and Sandersville. Attending Georgia Southern, Anderson jumped ship on plans for a career in illustration to elope with painting. However, time and circumstance have warmed him to a marriage of convenience with the art of illustration, though there is plenty of room in the relationship for painting. We are all very happy and that's all you need to know.

www.sabreesler.com

@sabreeslerfineart

Sabre Esler is an Atlanta based multi-disciplined artist. She creates works and environments exploring the connections between emotions, thoughts and reality. Esler, an Ohio native, graduated from Miami University, Oxford, OH with a BFA in graphic design/illustration and a minor in biology. She continued her art career, first in advertising and design and began a fine art career after leaving the corporate world. Esler received her MFA in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in 2015. She taught Foundation Studies at SCAD, (Atlanta Campus) 2018. In 2020 she began teaching at Georgia Perimeter/GSU (Dunwoody Campus). She has had solo shows in Boston, Charleston, Knoxville, and Atlanta. Her work has been exhibited at Art Basel the last three years. Twice she has been a Hambidge Fellow. Most recently, she is a recipient of the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Award in 2020. Esler has completed four installations in the Atlanta area, taking her sculptures to room size works. Her work can be found in the public collections of GSU, Miami University, Tufts University, Georgia State University, The Federal Reserve Bank, Fulton County Arts Council, City of Atlanta, and corporate collections of Ritz Carlton, Cognia, Acoustic, Trammel Crow, SunTrust Bank, Hyatt Hotels, Oglethorpe Bank, Preferred Office, Georgian Bank, Atlantic Capital Bank, Waycross Bank & Trust, Boardwalk Inn at Wild Dunes, Hilton Hotels, Schell, Bray, Aycock, Abel, Crowell & Moring, AdvantEdge Executive Offices, Reaction 35, The Lofts at Capitol Quarters, Hilton Hotels, and 1000 private collections.

@saramurphyme

NYC-braised and Atlanta-based, Sara Murphy is a former television producer turned mixed media artist who combines ink drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage. Mixing detailed line work with vintage or commercial imagery and text, her work focuses on themes of nostalgia, mortality, and the juxtaposition of urban landscapes with natural elements, manmade objects with living things.

artistkcole.com

@kevincole2378

Kevin Cole received his B.S. from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.A. in art education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and an M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University. Within the last 32 years, he has received 27 grants and fellowships, 66 awards in art, 51 teaching awards. and over 45 public art commissions. In December Mr. Cole received the 2020 Governor's Award for the Arts and Humanities in the State of Georgia Earlier in February he received the 2020 Brenda and Larry Thompson from the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, The 2020 Trail Blazer Award from Salem Bible Church, in Atlanta, GA and the 2019 Nexus Award from the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. His artwork has been featured in more than 475 exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Cole's artwork is included in more than 3800 public, private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad.

www.susankerseymer.com

@susanks1

Susan Ker-Seymer's paintings, works on paper and collaborative installations have been presented in galleries and contemporary art spaces in the US and the UK. Recent exhibition venues include the Dalton Gallery, Decatur GA; Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta GA; Callanwolde, Atlanta GA; and Horwood Art Space, Somerset, UK.

Susan is a native of New York State, and the beneficiary of a home in which music, dance, craft and literature were a part of everyday life. Her educational background includes degrees in fashion and graphic design, and in-depth study in painting at The Atlanta College of Art. In the last 2 decades, her focus has been on painting, drawing, printmaking and installation. Susan is a Hambidge Residency fellow and her professional pursuits include group collaborations and exhibits with Sixfold Collective in Atlanta, and with UK based Arete Visual Arts.

@ErinSledd

Academic and artist Erin Sledd works at the intersection of the humanities, art, and technology. She is deeply fascinated by the nature of form and structure, of transformation and permutation. Her research and creative interests span the connections between text and image, the analog and digital world, virtual and material structures, metamorphoses, and hybridity. She has taught literature and composition in the United States and graphic design and exhibition design in Pakistan. Her most enduring obsession seems to be the labyrinth, in all its manifestations; currently she teaches a World Literature course that focuses on labyrinth and labyrinthine texts ranging from Greek Mythology to contemporary novels, films, and stories.

Visually, she draws from a well of knowledge in literature, images, history and science to create images that surprise and delight. Often ornamental and intricate, her work is nevertheless firmly conceptual in origin, reflecting her conviction that compelling art and design is rooted in meaning. She loves designing for print and reproduction because, in a sense, each image is the original. As Fornassetti said, "A thing does not become less beautiful because it is reproduced 20,000 to 30,000 times."

www.temmebarkin-leeds.com

@artsy9

Temme Barkin-Leeds received the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University
and a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University in Washington, DC. Her socially
conscious work has been the subject of four solo exhibitions and numerous
exhibitions throughout the United States. She was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH and a Resident Fellow at the Hambidge Center. Barkin-Leeds received the Elizabeth Baaart Biddle Award conferred by the full faculty in the MFA program at American University, Washington DC. She also received the International Education Foundation Scholarship from Georgia State University to study at the Santa Reparata International School in Florence, Italy. She was nominated by the Art Department faculty at Georgia State University for the school-wide Andrew West Award. She has been juried into New York exhibitions by critics Jerry Saltz, John Yau, and Nancy Princenthal. Most recently, she was adjunct professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. Her work was featured in several publications including the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Burnaway, Arts Atl, Atlanta Jewish Times, Amlit, Paintpresent catalogue published by Loudon House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky and Bound catalogue published by Women's Caucus for Art.

lorihaasart.com

@lorihaasart

Lori lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She obtained a BFA from the University of Georgia. A major body of her work have been private commissions, enabling a personal collaboration with the artist but she has also exhibited in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Cortona, Italy.

susiewinton.com

With an interest in the overlooked and discarded as a way to refocus and better see the world around her, Susie Winton has shown work both locally and nationally. She has an MFA from Georgia State University, a BFA from Emory University, and has enjoyed fellowships at the Hambidge Center and the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, as well as a nomination for the Forward Arts Foundation award. She has been a University visiting artist and is presently an instructor at the city of Atlanta's Chastain Art Center.

www.jwarcher.com

@j.w.archer

Justin W. Archer (b.1989) is a sculptor whose work examines the human experience. He received his M.F.A. in 2016 from the University of North Texas. In the Fall of 2019, he joined SCAD: Atlanta as a Foundations Professor. Archer's work has been exhibited at Love Field Airport in Dallas, R02 Gallery in Dallas, Miami University in Ohio, and many other galleries nationally. He has created artworks for Texas Tech University, the United Methodist Healthcare Systems Foundation, Music Bed, Film Supply, and is in various personal collections. In addition to his teaching and studio practice, he has the privilege of working with the print publication "Friend of the Artist". He lives with his wife, Laura, in Atlanta, Georgia.

www.caroljohnpaintings.com

@caroljohnpic

I graduated with honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I have exhibited in the Atlanta area in such venues as The High Museum, MOCA GA, The Atlanta Contemporary, Hathaway Gallery and Poem 88. I have also had the opportunity to participate in The Atlanta Biennial in 2019 and in 2007. Currently, I am part of the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program.

www.jwpaclipan.com

@jeffreywilcoxpaclipan

Jeffrey Wilcox Paclipan was born in Balibago, Philippines. He is currently residing in College Park, GA. He received an AA from International Fine Arts College in 1989 in Miami, Fl. His gallery solo and group exhibitions include Hathaway Contemporary Gallery, MINT Gallery, Jennifer Balcos Gallery, Mason Fine Art, Galerie Tew, Bill Lowe Gallery, Mammal Gallery, Life on Mars, NY, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, NY. Atlanta-area museums and public institutions include Marietta Cobb Arts Museum, Slotin Folkfest, Chastain Arts Center, Fulton Country Arts and Culture Acquisition Program, High Rise Show with ShowerHaus Gallery, The Atlanta Financial Center, Lenox Square, ARTFIELDS 2021. Paclipan's mixed media college submission "Salvador Del Mundo" was highlighted in a Miami Herald art review of the 36th Hortt Museum Exhibition in 1994. Jeffrey is currently a resident of the Studio Artist Program at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.

www.roxanehollosi.com

@roxanehollosi

Roxane is an Atlanta based, multi-disciplinary artist. Originally from the midwest, she was influenced by the Native American spiritual sensibilities and respect for the Earth she encountered there. The foundation of her work is an exploration of the energies nature around her and the energies it emanates.

Roxane is a 2020 Hambidge Fellow and a recipient of the 2020 Fulton County Virtual Arts Initiative Grant for her project "Breathe". Roxane actively exhibits locally and nationally, some select exhibits include: Denise Bibro Fine Art NYC; National Association of Woman in the Arts NYC; ARC Gallery Chicago; MOCA GA; Kai Lin Art Atlanta; Gallery 72 Atlanta; MESA Cont. Arts Museum AZ; Hudgens Center for the Arts; Artfields SC; Abernathy Arts Center Atlanta;

Collections include: City of Atlanta; Atlanta Office of the Mayor; DuPont Beijing; Broadway Crowne Plaza NYC; EMC Outdoor PA; Spalding Wealth Mgmt Atlanta; and numerous private collections.

@nutellabrownbaby

Camisha Butler is an emerging textile artist and craft preservationist born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work explores the human-textile relationship as it applies to the Black American cultural experience. She utilizes "Craft as Resistance" through textiles, fibers and digital design to engage the recollection of our joyful collective memory and fantasy.

Her work has been featured in dance productions, wearable art shows, the Reginald F Lewis Museum, the tv series, Ambitions. Most recently, her work has been on display in The Bakery's 20/20 Vision art show.

www.donnamhorn.com

@donnamhornart

Donna Horn is primarily an oil painter working in abstract imagery, often derived from landscape and the natural world Her work is intuitive and process driven. She layers paint, scraping it back then repainting, while balancing gestural marks with larger shapes. Allusions to connections or pathways can often be seen. Drawing, mark-making, and experimenting with materials and techniques are additional means of artistic expression. For her, painting is a manifestation of life's struggle to attain satisfaction while accepting its limitations.

After transitioning out of the corporate world, Donna earned a BFA from Georgia State University. She participated for two years in the Fine Arts Atelier of New York painter Michael David. Her work has been shown at Bill Lowe, Swan Coach, Spruill and IDEA galleries. While an active member of the Women's Caucus for Art, Georgia chapter, she exhibited in their juried and annual member shows. She also served for many years on their Executive Board. In 2013, Donna was honored to receive a two week residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences in Rabin Gap, Ga.

Growing up in suburban Philadelphia, she never anticipated spending most of her life in the South, but now considers Atlanta home. She maintains a studio at Little Tree in Avondale Estates, GA.

www.davidrobinson.website

@davidrobinson1979

I grew up in a small town in the Mississippi Delta in the 1960's and 70's, an area which has been described as "the most southern place on earth" because of its unique racial and cultural history. On one hand, the rural south was idyllic and pastoral, with pristine woods, bodies of water, and open fields to navigate and explore. On the other hand, it was also a time rife with racism, overt homophobia and the ubiquitous hand of Christianity. These conditions and experiences contributed greatly to my role as an artist and to related themes I have explored off and on in my work. Although I am not formally educated in art or ceramics, I have taken numerous workshops around the US. For several years, I studied drawing and painting at Georgia State and focused on ceramics for several years at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta. My residencies include Gaya Center Arts Center in Bali, Indonesia, The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, and The Hambidge Creative Residency Program in Rabun Gap, GA. During the summer of 2018, I was invited to be a visiting artist at the Ceramics Department at the University of Georgia.

www.donnamhorn.com

@donnamhornart

Donna Horn is primarily an oil painter working in abstract imagery, often derived from landscape and the natural world Her work is intuitive and process driven. She layers paint, scraping it back then repainting, while balancing gestural marks with larger shapes. Allusions to connections or pathways can often be seen. Drawing, mark-making, and experimenting with materials and techniques are additional means of artistic expression. For her, painting is a manifestation of life's struggle to attain satisfaction while accepting its limitations.

After transitioning out of the corporate world, Donna earned a BFA from Georgia State University. She participated for two years in the Fine Arts Atelier of New York painter Michael David. Her work has been shown at Bill Lowe, Swan Coach, Spruill and IDEA galleries. While an active member of the Women's Caucus for Art, Georgia chapter, she exhibited in their juried and annual member shows. She also served for many years on their Executive Board. In 2013, Donna was honored to receive a two week residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences in Rabin Gap, Ga.

Growing up in suburban Philadelphia, she never anticipated spending most of her life in the South, but now considers Atlanta home. She maintains a studio at Little Tree in Avondale Estates, GA.