Justin W. Archer
Forecast, 2021
Wood, Acrylic Paint
32 x 8 x 6 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

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 Sculpture 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.

Mitchell Biggio
Ramps and Planes No.10, 2020,
Wood and Paint
15 x 30 x 3 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Mitchell Biggio (b. 1991) is an artist living and working in Atlanta. He graduated with a BFA in Sculpture from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015. His work has been exhibited at a number of galleries including a 2019 solo show in Whitespec at Whitespace Gallery. Along with his own practice, Biggio has worked alongside a number of Atlanta based artists creating public and private works around the country. His studio is located in East Point where he primarily works in wood sculpture and 2-d works on paper.

Eileen Braun
Intent, 2021
Rattab reed, Encaustic wax, Cotton string, adhesive and Specialty paints
43 x 31 x 13 inches
Courtesy of Thomas Deans Fine Art.

Eileen Braun has lived and worked in Atlanta since 2004. Since obtaining a BA from Indiana University, Braun has had broad professional experiences such as serving as the Executive Director at Croton Cortlandt Center for the Arts, being an Art Educator in Illinois and managing Chicago's Spertus Museum's gift store. Her sculptures currently focus on the use of encaustic wax and rattan reed in the creation of large open biomorphic forms. Braun exhibits nationally and has her work in numerous private and corporate exhibitions. She has had work in two Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport exhibitions. She was also a part of MOCA GA's Georgia Artists Selecting Artists and in 2015, Braun received the NICHE Award.

Emily Budd
Unmeasuring, 2021
Cast aluminum, pigment
3 x 3 x 3 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Emily Budd is a lesbian artist specializing in time travel through mold-making. Drawing from a background in bronze-casting and paleontology, her sculptural explorations challenge the human perception of time and speculate on our own futurity and fossilization. Reformative monuments, artifacts and memorials become an act of queer place-making while contemplating human sustainability when facing imminent environmental and societal change. Budd currently lives and works in Las Vegas, where she teaches Sculpture at University Of Nevada, Las Vegas.

John Donovan
Encouraging Bunny Warrior Rattle, 2021
Pit-fired terra cotta
11 x 7 x 7 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

John Donovan has spent 45 years with his hands in clay and 25 years teaching professionally. At the young age of five, John first met clay in the studios of Stonehaus Architectural Ceramics in Pensacola, FL. John later earned his BFA from Loyola University, New Orleans and his MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas. He received an honorable mention in the 2005 World Ceramic Biennale Competition in Icheon, South Korea, and in 2011 John was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft Media from the Tennessee Arts Commission. John is represented by Zeitgeist Art Gallery in Nashville, TN and LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, LA. Creating community through clay is a life-long pursuit that John continues at Buchanan Arts.

Sabre Esler
Hierarchy II, 2016 Ink, plexiglass, aluminum barrels, oil on wood
18 x 18 x 4 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Esler is an Atlanta based artist. She creates works and environments exploring the connections between emotions, thoughts and reality. Her latest body of work explores the relationship between physics and creativity, particularly improvisation, to find elegant solutions. Esler graduated from Miami University, Oxford with a BFA in graphic design/illustration and a minor in biology. Esler received her MFA in painting from SCAD in 2015. She began teaching at SCAD in 2018. In 2020 she started teaching at GSU. Her work has been exhibited at Art Basel three times. Twice she has been a Hambidge Fellow. Most recently, she is a recipient of the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Award in 2020. Her work can be found in the public collections as well as over 1000 private collections.

Rachel K. Garceau
Current #4, 2021
Porcelain
18.5 x 15 x 4 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Krista Grecco
Nostalgia: Cat, 2020
Porcelain and wire
14 x 10 x 9 inches

BFA Alfred University, MFA The Ohio State University, Graduate Fellowship Krista Grecco is a ceramic sculptor and Professor of Foundation Studies at SCAD in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work explores ideas of companionship and the seduction of nostalgia fueled by family, friendship, heartache, and humiliation. In 2015, Grecco was invited to participate in the Parcours Céramique Carougeois biennial in Geneva, Switzerland. She was awarded a solo exhibition at Galerie Maya Guidi and conducted demonstrations at Bruckner Foundation for the Advancement of Ceramics. Examples of Grecco's work have also been featured in 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form, published by Lark Books as well as American Craft, New Ceramics, and Ceramics Monthly magazines. She exhibits regularly in the U.S. and Europe, with work included in numerous public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe.

Linda Hall
Double Bear, Double Senses, 2020
Paper Mache, Paper Clay and Paint
17 x 19 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Linda Hall Biography Linda Hall holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her two- and three-dimensional works have been shown in many regional, national and international venues. Her works have also been featured in numerous publications and civic projects such as concerts, plays, processions and parades. Her paintings have also been featured in New American Paintings. She currently makes her home in Tallahassee, Florida, where she maintains a studio in the historic Smoky Hollow section of town.

Isys Hennigar
Double Crown Frog Cup, 2021
Glazed porcelain, china paint, gold luster
6.5 x 3 x 3 inches

Isys Hennigar is a North Carolina and Georgia based artist, currently in her third year as an MFA student at the University of Georgia. Her work, in ceramic sculpture, considers the complex ways in which humans engage with, use, and interpret the living world. Isys received her BFA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Lump Gallery, and the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and was named one of Ceramic MontlyÕs 2021 Emerging Artists. She received a Distinguished Fellowship from Hambidge in 2018.

Julie Henry
Apalachicola, 2021
Repurposed leather, waxed twine, brass button studs
19 x 12 x 3 inches

Henry is a mixed media artist who creates abstract paintings, textile collage works and assemblage constructions using the strategies of layering, fragmentation and reduction. In her work, she blurs the relationships between architecture, landscape and the body.In her desire for a timeless expression, she constantly mines the seam between what is primitive and what is modern. Henry's mother was a design student at RIT in the 1960's and her grandfather was a typewriter engineer for Smith Corona. She credits them both for her love of design and for teaching her to see the intrinsic value of a handmade, stripped-back aesthetic. Today she lives and works in Tucker, Georgia where she has a devoted studio practice with a focus on creating paintings and objects that illustrate the symbiotic relationship between craft and concept.

Julia Hill
Cockfight, 2019
Salvaged metal objects
12 x 12 x 36 inches

Julia Hill was born in New Orleans, LA. She studied sculpture at Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2005. A passionate life long learner, Julia's studio practice incorporates many different genres. She has worked in performance, installation, puppetry, public art, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and painting. Julia and her puppets have performed at The High Museum, The World of Coca-Cola, The Atlanta Zoo, The Hambidge Center, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and numerous other regional parades and festivals. In addition to studio pursuits, she works as a consultant and technical director, designing and constructing physical components for other artists and productions. She spends a lot of time studying and observing nature...hiking, gardening, and exploring Atlanta's urban forests, watershed, and the surrounding region. These explorations provide the salvaged materials found in her sculptural works-found objects from stream beds, rusty bits from parking lots, and scrapped materials from other human activities. The discovered objects, shapes, and textures guide her creative practice, often reflected through organic flowing forms reminiscent of wind, water, roots, and other natural elements.

Donna M. Horn
Ancient Allusions, 2021
Oil, cold wax, pigment stick, hemp twine, adhesive on paper.
15 x 11 x 3 inches, Framed: 30 x 20 x 3.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Horn's work is intuitive and process driven, drawing inspiration from the natural work. She layers paint, scrapes it back then repaints, while balancing gestural marks with larger shapes. Allusions to landscape, connections or pathways can often be seen in her painting. Drawing, mark-making, and experimenting with materials and techniques are additional means for her artistic expression. During the months of the pandemic, Donna's explorations resulted in a new direction in her practice...one which repurposed drawings and paintings on paper. They found new life after being torn, rolled, wrapped, and then glued or tied together into three-dimensional structures. Donna earned a BFA from GSU. Donna is a Hambidge Fellow. She maintains studios in her home and at Little Tree in Avondale Estates, GA.

Trevor King
Chartreuse Loop (Luna Moth Sighting), 2019
Ceramic, underglaze
11 x 12 x 7 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Trevor King lives and works in New York City. His artworks are open-ended projects that ruminate on the endurance of the human spirit in the face of time and mortality. For him the making of an object is an act of witnessing, and a medium used to articulate the poetic relationships between place, history, and the momentary. Trevor grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania, a rust-belt mill town that experienced enormous job loss after the war-time boom. He attributes the post-industrial landscape to his interest in material culture and the resonance of objects. The mundane, the low-brow, and the commonplace inform his imagery, resonant with stillness, vacancy, and the poetry of the redundant. King received a BFA from Slippery Rock University. During this time, he also studied in the Sculpture and Intermedia departments at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. Trevor received an MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2015. He has been an artist-in-residence at Touchstone Center for Crafts, Ox-Bow School of Art, Haystack Mountain School, Sculpture Space NYC, Greenwich House Pottery, MASS MoCA, and The Hambidge Center. King has been a Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Articles on his work have been published in CFile, Floræ, Maake Magazine, and Sculpture. Exhibitions of King's work include Melting Point, a group exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, and solo exhibitions including Notions at Sculpture Space NYC, and STILLNESSNESS at the Emmanuel Barbault Gallery.

George Peterson
Stripes & Screws, 2021
Recycled Skateboards, screws, paint
32 x 9 x 2 inches
Courtesy of Signature.

Self-taught sculptor and skateboarder. My aim with this series is to celebrate the iconic nature of the skateboard as well as the creative/destructive energy that goes into forming the raw material I start with. As a person who obsesses about all the different wood species, I have come to see these broken and banged up pieces of plywood as a type of exotic material. Not because it's rare or expensive, but that it's been processed in very unique and specific ways. Creatively speaking, this series owes a lot to the culture and industry of skateboarding. Like making art, skateboarding is a very creative and personal outlet. It is also inherently destructive; boards get worn down, cracked and broken. It is a subtle and unintended type of wood sculpting.

Allen Peterson
Beekeeper from the installation "Let's All Be Beekeepers When We Grow Up", 2011-2019, Open Edition
Cast iron, enamel paint, beeswax
Dimensions variable, figures are 6 inches tall
Courtesy of the artist.

Allen Peterson is an artist and educator in Atlanta. He works in various media, from welded steel, to iron that is melted and shaped during performance art, to hand-cast paper and iron oxide printing, to raw beeswax that is placed on his sculptural work by live honeybees. He became an amateur beekeeper over a decade ago in order to learn about honeybees in a hands-on way. He is currently part of a beekeeping collective at South River Art Studios in Atlanta. Peterson has taught sculpture at several colleges and universities, including ACA, and currently KSU. He balances roles such as beekeeper, musician, friend, husband, and father with those of metal fabricator, educator, and artist.

Rainey Rawles
Bound (Skew), 2021
Poplar, rope, paint, steel
20 x 8.5 x 5 inches

Rawles explores stigma associated with sexual deviance and its impact on traditional binary gender roles within her work. She is the Preparator of Fabrications at the High Museum. Her role as the museum's first female carpenter has shaped her artistic practice and conceptual exploration. Prior to the High, she was the woodshop technician at SCAD. Rainey received a BFA from KSU. Her work is featured in private collections throughout the US. She previously served on the Exhibitions Subcommittee for the 2021 National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices, and currently serves on the grant writing committee for the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art. Rainey is part of an artist collective, Horror Skwaad, that creates short films and movie reviews, and currently hosts a podcast called Movies You Missed.

Carley Rickles
Southern Special, 2020
Porcelain
6 x 5 x 5 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Rickles is an Atlanta-based artist, designer, and researcher. Rickles' projects interrogate themes related to everyday life and the built environment through field research, documentation, scholarship, exhibition, and social practice. Rickles holds a Bachelor's in Landscape Architecture from UGA and a Master of Science in Urban Design from the Georgia Tech. Carley was a recipient of the 2019 Dream Warriors Foundation Spark Grant for the Arts and the 2020 Idea Capital Travel Grant. Rickles is a 2020-2022 Creatives Project Artist in Residence at the Goat Farm Arts Center. She was an artist in residence at Hambidge in 2021 with collaborator Jennifer Martin. Rickles and Martin co-founded Martin Rickles Studio, an interdisciplinary art and design studio in 2020.

Helen Rogers
Stuffies Totem, 2019
Fired clay body, gesso and acrylic paints sealed with lacquer, wire, repurposed wood.
15.25 x 5.625 x 3 inches
Courtesy of the artist and HiglyPigly Studio.

Until December 2018, I was a scientist with the CDC. After 27 years of working as a laboratory chemist and later as a field epidemiologist, I was offered early retirement, and have now devoted myself to being a full-time artist. A very large part of the reason for my early retirement is that I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2010. After the worst of the chemo, I converted my home office into an art studio and vowed to spend my evenings doing art, not calculations. When the possibility of an early retirement was offered to me, I took the chance at a second career. My work is largely playful and positive because the world can be a dark and scary place at times. But staying focused on the positive and keeping hope for the future can carry us through.

Jeff Schmuki
Tattery Pair #12, 2021
Glazed and Multi-fired Porcelain and Porcelain
11 x 16 x 7 inches
Courtesy of PlantBot Genetics.

Schmuki was raised in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, an environment of extremes that nurtured a unique relationship to the fragile landscape and respect for our limited natural resources. Concerned with a broad range of environmental stressors and wasteful practices, a wide variety of sculptural processes and operations are connected to green issues. His recent collaborative work, PlantBot Genetics, has been awarded NEA funding and Pulitzer Foundation Grants for exhibitions or programming. In addition, Jeff is the recipient of several honors, including Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants, State, and international awards or residencies. He holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred Univ. and a BFA from Northern Arizona Univ.

Jess Self
Cleansed, 2019
Needle-felted wool, latex
32 x 28 x 28 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Jess is a contemporary artist from Black Mountain, NC who primarily makes female figurative sculptures. She MFA at Georgia State University in sculpture and continues to work as an artist full time in Atlanta. Her work has reviewed many awards and is included in several publications. Her newest body of work has recently won the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation award which has ignited her newest ambitious project. Along with making exhibition work she loves running her craft fair business, Heart Felt Designs, attending residencies and teaching workshops.

Corrina Sephora
Native Lands I, 2019
Recycled Hand gun, forged and fabricated, mild steel.
6.75 x 7.75 inches
Courtesy of the artist/Spalding Nix Fine Art.

Corrina Sephora is an Atlanta-based artist specializing in metal sculpture, painting, and public installations. Through her repetitive symbolic imagesÑladders, boats, nets, water, and trees, she conveys loss and transformation within the context of contemporary society. Corrina's work considers these themes as personal and universal. Her artistic practice includes art-making, teaching, and executing public and private commissions. Corrina holds a BFA in Metals and Sculpture, Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA in Sculpture from GSU. She has completed multiple residencies throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her public installations are featured in prominent locations, including The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, and Atlanta Jewish Academy.

Ann Stewart
Derivative, 2021
Watercolor on paper
4 x 4 x 3
Courtesy of Whitespace.

Ann Stewart is a visual artist who uses drawing, printmaking, and sculpture to investigate the visualization of perception. Stewart received her MFA from the University of Michigan and her BFA in Painting from Auburn University. She has shown her work at whitespace, International Print Center New York, Robert Henry Contemporary, Christie's, Fay Gold Gallery, Mason Murer Fine Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.

Saudade Toxosi
The Book of The Mutes. Inspired by Octavia Butler's Patternmaster Series., 2021
Copper Computer boards, Wire, Nails,Wire Screen,Collage,Radio and Intercom parts
15 x 17 inches

Saudade is a multidisciplinary artist and image curator working in painting, charcoal drawings, photography, mixed media, sound design and assemblage. For more than two decades, Toxosi has engaged in a meditative curatorial process of selecting and organizing found images that explore and articulate her thoughts about the 'New Indigenous African' experience in the United States as well as all people of color around the world. These image pairings through her prevailing curatorial project Equinox 1600 have garnered attention from artists, filmmakers and cinematographers and have informed some of the most important visual and narrative statements of our time.

Gregor Turk
Bosporus (Reverse) 01, 2019
Ceramic 1
4 x 14 x 3 inches

Known for his public art installations, sculpture, photography, and wax-oil rubbings, Gregor Turk often incorporates mapping imagery, signage and cultural markings into his artwork. He has had two residencies at Hambidge including one in 2017 that resulted in the site-specific installation, Phalanx, that was commissioned by Hambidge and debuted at the Total Solar Eclipse Party. He has permanent public art installations at the Atlanta and Jacksonville airports. His work is included in the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, High Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art- Georgia and numerous other public and private collections. Turk grew up in Atlanta, received his B.A. from Rhodes College in Memphis and his M.F.A. from Boston University. Between degrees he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia. His studio is located in Blandtown on Atlanta's Westside.

Vadis L. Turner
Blue Quilt Vessel, 2018
Antique quilt, fabric dye, acrylic paint, resin and thread
15 x 17 x 3 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Vadis Turner's first solo museum exhibition, Tempest, was presented at the Frist Art Museum in 2017. Her next exhibition will be at the Huntsville Museum of Art in 2022. Her work has been shown at numerous museums and institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum, ICA Portland, Andy Warhol Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art and Cheekwood Museum. In 2016, Turner was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. She was granted funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation & Tri Star Arts in 2021. Residencies include Yaddo, Museum of Arts & Design and Hambidge Center. Turner received a BFA and MFA from Boston University. She is represented by Geary in New York and Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, TN.

Matthew White
Rearranging Borders #1, 2021
Reclaimed fence parts, canvas torn from frame, nails, and ink
21 x 26 x 6 inches

Themes of technology, connection, and compulsion characterize multimedia artist Matthew White's work. Working with a variety of materials and digital tools to explore intersections of contemporary and new media art, White's art practice is informed by years of professional experience with web, social, and mobile technologies. Further, he often looks to more traditional materials, mark making, and found objects to explore contemporary concepts and issues. White co-hosts the Brain Fuzz podcast (https://brainfuzzpodcast.com) with painter Joe Camoosa. Along with a variety of guests, the two explore the creative life as well as trends in contemporary art, music, and popular culture.

Martha Whittington
Split Study, 2020
Poplar, mahogany: mounted on canvas, enamel painted poplar shadowbox frame
3 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches, Framed: 5 x 5 x 1.5 inches
Courtesy of Sandler Hudson Gallery.

Martha Whittington received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She received her MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Ms. Whittington has been the recipient of artist residencies at Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, TransATLantic GALLERY twenty-four in Berlin, Germany, Vermont Studio Center, and Chateau d'Orquevaux in France. In support of her work, Ms. Whittington was awarded First Place National Winner from Herradura Tequila Barrel Art and grants from Idea Capital, the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Office of Cultural Affairs Atlanta, and Austin Green. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Ms. Whittington is a Professor of Sculpture at the SCAD Atlanta.

Nicole Rene
Woodard Wanderer, 2021,
Ceramic, aqua resin, plaster
31 x 12 x 6 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Nicole Rene Woodard is an interdisciplinary sculptor from southeastern Wisconsin. She recently earned a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Kansas in 2021. In 2017, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin Ð Milwaukee. Nicole was awarded the Foundation Residency at Belger Crane Yard in Kansas City, MO in 2021. During 2020, she completed short term residencies at Penland School of Crafts and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. From June 2017-2018, she was the artist-in-residence/intern at James May Gallery in Algoma, WI. Nicole has been exhibiting nationally and has received awards for her artwork, including Best in Show for 'Self Portrait' from the Southern Miss Ceramics National in 2020, and the Brosseau Art Award for 'Hesitant' from the Spencer Museum of Art in 2021.

Pandra Williams
Exina Obligata, 2021
Bisque porcelain, stainless steel wire, Terra Sigillata, encaustic media
9.5 x 4.5 x 4.25 inches
Courtesy of the artist.

Pandra Williams is an environmental artist and advocate based in Atlanta, Georgia. When not in the studio from 2000-2007, Williams worked extensively with the Southeastern Climber's Coalition (SCC) to acquire or purchase acreage of the Boat Rock Ridgeline in Southwest Fulton County, GA. From 2007 until 2012, Williams founded and directed the nonprofit organization EcoAddendum. The mission of this effort was to create programming, Artscapes and Birds Butterflies and Bees, for children and youth that used gardening and art to teach conservation, environmental science, and the importance of native plants and their pollinators. From 2012 through 2015, the Artscapes and Birds Butterflies and Bees programming reached over 3,000 students under the tenure of Trees Atlanta. Currently Williams' environmental activities include directing a native wildflower farm, Beech Hollow.

Rebecca J. Buglio
Cobweb Broom, 2021
Broomcorn, shellac coated tree branch, ceramic mason stain colored beads, nylon strong, leather cord, nail
78 x 3 x 3 inches
Courtesy of artist.

Rebecca was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is an alum of the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Ceramics ('16) and an alum of Berry College where she obtained her BA in art with concentrations in K-12 art education and studio art, ceramics ('13). She enjoys teaching children and adult ceramic and broomaking courses that use a variety of techniques while exploring nature for inspiration. She has shown in a number of galleries across the United States and was a 2021 Hambidge Fellow. Rebecca currently resides in the Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee working at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts as the Program and Studio Manager.