Please email kbanks@hambidge.org with your t-shirt size and color preference.

www.corinneadamsart.com, @corinne.adams.754

Corinne Adams creates photography and mixed media images that evoke a world of dreams, imagination, symbols and mystery. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Gregg Museum of Art (Raleigh, N.C.), Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson and Los Angeles (LAX) International Airports and corporate collections including King & Spalding, Western International Media, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance and Ritz-Carlton, Westin, Mandarin, Four Seasons and Omni hotels across the U.S. She is also included in the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography (2005, Routledge Press). Corinne is co-founder of ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY, the city's annual photography festival held during October. Her work has been reviewed in such media as Contemporary (international art journal), ArtPapers, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is represented by Soho Myriad Inc. and Faulkner & Locke (Atlanta).

www.sample.haus, @sample.haus

Diana Adams, founder of SampleHAUS. She started her ceramic journey at Cal State Dominguez Hills in 2005, and is now a full-time potter working in Long Beach, California. Her work is eclectic, graphic, and colorful; finding inspiration in African tribal markings, and color/geometric nods from the Bauhaus movement. She has had opportunities to work with Tia Mowry x Etsy in a home line collaboration, sells her work on West Elm online store, and thrives to build the black ceramic community on social media.

www.goldfinchdesigncompany.com

Sculptor & jewelry designer, Kelly Aker, is driven by creating unique pieces of adornment that are best be called "sculpture to wear". More than jewelry, Aker's jewelry is a palpable representation of the journey that she has been on as a sculptor for over twenty years. Each of the handmade pieces are bold statements. Driven by a deep appreciation of handmade art & the value of skillfully crafted design, Aker is influenced by the textures, colors, & landscape of the natural environment around her. When you purchase a piece of Aker's Jewelry, you are selecting a piece of art that has been created with care & the exact depiction of a true artist's vision. Everything in the collections, unless noted, have been meticulously designed, crafted, and finished by Kelly herself in her home studio in Clayton, Georgia. Pepperdine University - Bachelor of Arts 2008; Savannah College of Art & Design - Masters of Fine Arts, Sculpture 2012

www.lisaalembik.com, @lalalembik

Lisa Alembik is an artist, educator, and curator. Her artwork centers on the fragility of corporeality, and how cultural and political ideas of nature and home often rest in the female body. She considers the suffering of those torn and traumatized through forced diaspora, both the atrocities of current events and history-especially those perpetrated against those who identify as women. Alembik's drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, City College Art Gallery in San Francisco, CA and the Hyde Gallery at Memphis College of Art, TN among other venues. In recent drawings like the "Fallen Fire Explosion" series, Alembik reimagines the vulnerability of battle-weary protectors, soldiers and those who are displaced, utilizing daily documentation of war posted by photojournalists on Instagram and in the news. Alembik was the gallery director at Agnes Scott College for over a decade, and she is currently an associate professor of art at Georgia State University Perimeter College.

www.zeitgeist-art.com

www.carolineallison.com

Caroline Allison is an artist based in Nashvile who photographic work explores the landscape as an expression of our collective future history. Born and raised in Atlanta, she is a 2023 Hambidge Resident (National Endowment for the Arts Award) and a 2022 recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship. In February 2024 she will debut a new body of work, Waiting Between Trees" in her fifth solo exhibition with Zeitgeist Gallery. Her photographs have been included in exhibitions both nationally and internationally including ZieherSmith, David Lusk Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Momentum Gallery and the University of the South. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from The University of the South.

www.Pressstarttobegin.net

Ashley is an honors graduate of Georgia Southern University with 6 solo shows under his belt. In recent years he has become more active in the local market scene but still dearly loves painting above all. Currently in portrait mode, Ashley lately loves to shut his bedroom door and paint for hours at his desk while grinding through podcasts.

www.kailinart.com

www.StevenLAnderson.com, @stevenl.anderson

Steven L. Anderson is an exhibiting artist, and Co-Director of Day & Night Projects. Anderson is a graduate of University of Michigan and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States since 1996. His artworks are found in the Microsoft Art Collection, the Tim & Lauren Schrager Collection, and in collections of Fulton County Public Arts, Coca-Cola Inc., Emory University Hospitals, the National Park Service, and others. Anderson's sketchbooks are in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University. Anderson is a two-time winner of the Artists Project Grant from the Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs. He is an Uncool Artist resident in Brooklyn, NY in Fall 2023; has been an Artist-in-Residence at Yes We Cannibal in Baton Rouge, LA in 2022, and at Atlanta's Blue Heron Nature Preserve for the year of 2021. He received of the 2019 Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant at Chateau d'Orquevaux Artist Residency in Orquevaux, France. Anderson was a TAR Project resident in 2016-17, has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary (2013-16), a 2015 Hambidge Center Distinguished Fellow, and a 2014-15 WonderRoot Walthall Artist Fellow.

www.sandlerhudson.com

Linda's response to her exposure to the natural world is to make art based on her ability to display the results in her own intuitive language. Her methods are grounded in a minimal yet contemplative sensibility. She has been awarded residences at Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin; Germany; ComPeung, Chiang Mai, Thailand; The Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India; The Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers, Balgowan, South Africa; The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellow, Sweet Briar, VA. Selected solo exhibitions have included Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia; The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Ybor Art Gallery, Tampa, FL; Lee Hall Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA; Milliken Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC.

www.megaubrey.com

Meg Aubrey earned her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design. She has received the Artistic Honor Scholarship, the Hambidge Residency Award, the Encore Series Award for the best MFA thesis show and was a finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Aqua Art/Art Miami, The University of Nevada, The Huntsville Museum of Art, The University of North Carolina and the Mississippi University for Women. Aubrey's work examines the iconic suburban experience and its effects on the people who inhabit it. Her subjects are pared down and scrutinized to reveal a disquieting psychological isolation present within these seemingly idyllic planned communities. Aubrey is a Professor of Art at Savannah College of Art and Design.

www.davidbaerwalde.com

David Baerwalde received his BFA from Winthrop University and is based in Atlanta. He has lectured and taught at universities and art schools, and his mixed media drawings, paintings and sculptures are included in many prominent collections, such as the Woodruff Arts Center and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Baerwalde's output ranges in scale and material, from intimate drawings or objects to larger public experiences. Current and ongoing collaborations also engage other mediums, with commissioned projects in video and music, as well as temporary/pop-up and installation environments. Public works include projects for Elevate Atlanta, Ponce City Market, Goat Farm Arts Center, Dashboard's PRISM in Woodruff Park, T. Lang Dance, Flux Projects, and The Rialto Theatre. Baerwalde is a recent Hambidge Fellow, and his work has been reviewed in Art in America, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, Burnaway.org, ArtsATL.org and others

www.temmebarkin-leeds.net, @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 schoolwide 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.

www.alanaveryartcompany.com

www.michaelbarringer.net, @michaelbarringerpaintings

The Cheekwood Museum, The Huntsville Museum, The Albany Museum, The Hunter Museum, Georgia State University, and Georgia Tech University have presented Barringer's work. Public Collections include: The Atlanta Botanical Gardens, The Federal Reserve Bank, Morgan Keegan, Delta Airlines, The Ritz Carlton, King and Spalding, Alston and Bird, UPS, Pfizer, Fidelity, Saks Fifth Avenue, Georgia Power and IBM. His work is in private collections throughout the country. Barringer states: "It ALL seeps in, but, particularly, the written word is important for my inspiration. Poetry, novels, paleoanthropology, cosmology, biology, and art history are all areas where I may find grist for the mill. A question which is always present for me: how does the world fit together from its many parts, and what drives our need to know and create and seek the spiritual."

www.rosembarron.com, @rosembarron

MA (Photography Concentration) from Georgia State University, and her BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia. Her art work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions across the Southeast including Atlanta and Huntsville, as well as internationally at the Espacio Común in Panama City, Panama. Rose has shown in many group exhibitions across the nation including the Athens Center for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Whitespace Gallery, Art on The Beltline, Poem 88 gallery, Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, Coloriad Galeria de Arte in Lisbon, Portugal, Georgia State Univerrsity, the Art Center in Xi'an, China, and Umbrella Gallery in New York City. Her films have been in numerous film festivals throughout the United States. Collections of her work include the Four Seasons in Morocco, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Fulton County Arts and Culture fine arts acquisitions Program, the Marriott Courtyard in Nashville, the March of Dimes Corporate Office Collection, and the APG Collectors Portfolio. She is a past resident with The Creatives Project and has completed numerous artist residencies including Taller Portobelo, the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Science, University of North Texas, The Rensing Center and Straw Hat

www.instagram.com/alisabarry.artist

My work is an exploration of the relationship between the sacred and mundane. I am interested in rethinking repetition and how discipline as devotion can transform everyday autopilot activities into sacred ritual. I investigate these themes through a movement meditation practice using Japanese ink on paper. The ensO series, which is derived from the sacred symbol of enlightenment in ancient Japanese arts culture, has been a studio practice for over 25 years, based on a one-brushstroke method, which is said to reflect the state of consciousness of the artist at the time of creation. The philosophy of the practice honors the perfection of imperfection. The resulting art works are offered as a meditation in motion, a prayer on the page.

www.whitespace814.com

www.laurabellstudio.com

Laura Bell is an Atlanta artist working in mixed media. The works reference the natural world and the astonishing, often unsettling beauty found in natural phenomena, is explored through the use of hybrid, imaginary, and existent imagery. She was born and raised in Seattle, WA, received a BA degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and a an MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1999. She is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta. In addition to working as an artist, Laura Bell is a professor at GSU Perimeter.

www.wolfganggallery.com

www.instgram.com/lloydbenjamin4

Lloyd Benjamin (b. 1978) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas and currently resides in Atlanta, GA. Benjamin is a self-taught artist who works in a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. His work is influenced by extensive traveling in the US and Canada by freight train and on the road in Europe, Mexico, Morocco and Colombia. His work has been presented at numerous venues across the United States. He was the owner and curator of Get This Gallery in Atlanta from 2004-2014.

www.BiscuitCeramics.com, @biscuitbermanceramics

Jorie Berman earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Georgia in 2002 and a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. She loves clay because of its inherent ability to record the actions of its maker and its environment. Jorie handbuilds sculpture and pottery and enjoys experimenting with low-fire through high-fire processes. Memory and impressions are major themes in her work, which makes clay her ideal medium. Jorie moved from Athens, Georgia to Tampa at the end of 2018 and set up a home studio. She exhibits and sells her work nationally in galleries, juried shows, and through her online shop, BiscuitCeramics.com. Jorie is passionate about people living with art in their homes and works every day to make that dream a reality.

www.rickbermanceramics.com

Rick Berman has been a potter for forty-three years. He earned his MFA in Ceramics from the Universtiy of Georgia in 1973 and served as founder and director of the ceramics program at Callanwolde Art Center in Atlanta from 1973-1980. After a nine month Artist in Residency with the South Carolina Arts Commission he and his wife Jennifer opened Berman Gallery (1981-1997). Rick has taught at numerous schools including Penland, Arrowmont, John C. Campbell Folk Scool, The Hambidge Center, Brookfield Craft Center, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, North Georgia College, West Georgia College, The Everson Museum, The Universty of Hawaii, Emory Universtiy, The Arusha School in Tanzania, Africa, the Pune Ceramics Center in Poona, India, and The University of Kentucky to name a few.

www.johnniebessart.com, @johnniebessart

Johnnie Bess is a D.C. based, multi-media artist who specializes in ceramic sculpture and portraiture. After receiving his BFA in painting and photography from Howard University in 2009, Bess began to teach Visual Art in Washington D.C. public schools. In 2011 the artist settled his family in Miami, Florida, where he has been teaching and showing work ever since. In 2016, inspired by pre-Columbian pottery encountered with elders in travels to Guasca, Columbia and joyful memories of insight gained via mentors at Howard, Bess reacquainted himself with clay and hasn't looked back since, incorporating ceramics widely into his own curriculum and steadily more extensively in his exhibition work. Bess uses his paintings and ceramic work to question and affirm our collective identities, our roots. As a military "brat" who moved around every few years as a kid, the artist has developed a keen sensitivity to an ever nagging question... "Where you from?" In 2019 Bess was awarded the Oolite Arts, Teacher's Travel grant to return to Iwakuni, Japan, where he lived in his childhood, to learn the city's 400-year-old style of traditional ceramics pottery known as Hagi ware. For Bess, art serves as a means to explore and elucidate compartmentalized areas of his own spirit, exploring veiled nature/nurture aspects of the psyche to make them whole again, free and spontaneous, mirroring the collective evolution he envisions for all children of the African Diaspora.

www.mitchellbiggio.com, @mitchellbiggio

Mitchell Biggio (b. 1991 Salem MA) is an artist living and working in Atlanta area. He graduated with a BFA in Sculpture from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015. His work has been exhibited in a number of galleries including a 2023 solo show "Forms in Exchange" at Echo Contemporary Art in Guardian Studios and the 2021-2022 "Gathered" juried exhibition at MOCA GA. His studio practice focuses on creating architectural wood sculptures, abstract works on panel and furniture. Along with his own practice, Biggio works with other local artists in creating public and private large scale sculpture and installations

www.instagram.com/boszilkov

Morgan comes from a family of professional artists and is inspired by nature, her travels to Asia and Europe, and the various materials with which she works. Her eclectic travels and self-taught craftsmanship culminated into a successful line of eco-friendly wedding gowns, Natural Bridal Collection by Morgan Boszilkov. Her sustainable gown designs were featured in Brides Magazine, Skirt!, CNN, OneWed, and Style Me Pretty, and she even designed a dress for Melissa Rivers, during TLC's "Who are you wearing?" design challenge, and won the competition. Her current ceramic work featuring handmade tiles has been highlighted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and HGTV. You can see her most recent public art installation in Serenbe, a memorial tile mosaic celebrating the life of Shelton Stanfill.

www.kellybreedlove.com, @BreedloveArtist

My work deals with themes of memory, change, loss and isolation stemming from early familial relationships. My work is photo based, but I am not a photographer. I begin by choosing photos I connect with on a visceral level, photos that resonate with me from my core. These are usually personal family photos, but not always. Sometimes they are of strangers, but the activities or emotions depicted in the photos always resonate with me deeply, and usually connect to my childhood in some way or another. Through my selection and handling of each photograph, I try to explore and uncover the true emotion, "my truth", in what is depicted on photo paper at that moment in time. Oftentimes the scene depicted doesn't match the true emotional undercurrent present in the situation. I use mark making techniques to shift the visual focus, evoke certain moods, reveal hidden meaning and help me connect on a deeper level with the subject matter in the photo. My mark making may take the form of sloppy splashes of paint, collaging of material elements, adjustments in photoshop and the physical deconstruction and deterioration of the photo itself. I do this all in an effort to discover and convey the photo from my point of view.

www.roxannebrownart.wixsite.com/site, @rbrown8383

A daily dose of fabric, threads, and yarn is nearly as essential to me as breathing. For as long as I can remember, I have sought out the tactile satisfaction of creating with fibers. I am mostly self-taught, but completed a 2-year fiber program at the Worcester Center for Crafts (Worcester, MA) in the early 1990's. Upon graduation, I received the annual David Morreale memorial award for outstanding achievement. I returned to full-time attention to my art in mid-2021. My present work focuses on "thread painting" with a sewing machine. The natural world is my constant inspiration. Texture and close-up details catch my eye: for instance, the vein patterns of leaves illuminated by the sun. I constantly explore how to depict the textures and colors and majestic emotions of the natural world with fiber as my medium. I most often begin with one of my own photographs, enlarged and perhaps digitally manipulated to better understand light and shadows. As the stitching begins, some "editing" happens as the thread layers build onto one another. Each piece develops in its own way and, like nature, is never entirely predictable.

www.rebeccajbuglio.com @rebuglio

Rebecca Buglio 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 broom-making courses that use a variety of techniques while exploring nature for inspiration. Rebecca frequents art markets around East Tennessee selling her art as owner of Dust to Dust Studio. She has shown in a number of galleries across the United States and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2021. Rebecca currently helps run and lives at Rising Moons Farms in Philadelphia, TN with her fiance. She works full time at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts as the Director of Local and Regional Programs.

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.lucindabunnen.com

Lucinda Weil Bunnen began her photography career at age 40, when she and her family took a trip to Peru for her birthday and she discovered a love and a talent for the art form. From that point on, she was a prolific photographer, artist, collector and benefactor to the photography community in Atlanta and around the country. Bunnen's work is the subject of eight books to date. She co-authored three of the books: Movers and Shakers in Georgia, published by Simon & Schuster in 1978; Scoring in Heaven, Gravestones and Cemetery Art in the American Sunbelt States, published by Aperture Foundation in 1990, and ALASKA Trail Tales and Eccentric Detours, published in 1992. Bunnen's work can be found in numerous public collections, including Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia, The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, MOCA GA, Morris Museum, Augusta, GA and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, among others. She was both donor and curator of "Subjective Vision: The Lucinda W. Bunnen Collection of Photographs" for the High Museum of Art. Lucinda Weil Bunnen Photography Gallery opened at the High Museum of Art in 2014 with "The High Museum of Art Celebrated Lucinda Bunnen and Thirty Years of the Bunnen Collection of Photography, 1983 - 2013." In 2004, she was named the Master Series Artist for the city of Atlanta. The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center awarded her the Nexus Award in 2013. She was honored by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2018. Bunnen was an exceptional photographer well into her 90s, before passing away in 2022.

www.jessicacaldas.com, @zinkaproject

Jessica Caldas (b.1986) is a Puerto Rican American, Georgia and Florida based artist. Her work connects personal and community narratives, usually centered on the experiences of women and women identifying folks, to larger themes and social issues through bodily, multidisciplinary works. Caldas has participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Vermont Studio Center in 2020, the Art on the Atlanta Beltline AIR in 2020-2021, and was a 2022-2023 MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellow. Her work has been shown at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, the Art & History Museums of Maitland, MOCA GA, and is included in the collections of Kilpatrick Townsend, The City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, and the Kyoto International Community House. Caldas received her MFA at Georgia State University in 2019 and received her BFA in printmaking from the University of Georgia in 2012. She is a part of Living Melody Collective, a multidisciplinary collective of femme artists that is based in Atlanta but is also nomadic along the East coast and throughout the Southeast. She is the founder and director of Good News Arts, a community arts space and gallery in rural North Central Florida.

www.kailinart.com

www.philipcarpenter.net, @jphilipcarpenter

Philip Carpenter has made art and exhibited in Atlanta since 1978. He received a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts grant in1989 and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2001. Notable exhibitions include: 1994 Atlanta Biennial: Nexus Contemporary Art Center; "Revival of the Figure": City Gallery East 1995; "Personal Circumstances": Spruill Gallery in 2000; "Transitions": MOCA GA 2002; "Work and Play": Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport 2005; "Primary Color": Marcia Wood Gallery 2005; "Manipulating the Commonplace": Swan Coach House Gallery 2007; Color Pencil Society of America Exhibition 2009 and 2015; "Play": Spruill 2009; "The Painted Photograph": Southwest Arts Center 2011; "40 over 40": EBD4 2017. His work was exhibited in "Georgia Artists choose Georgia Artists" at MOCA GA and "Drawing Inside the Perimeter" at the High Museum of Art and in UNCA's "Drawing Discourse" 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023.

www.merrileechalliss.com, @merilka

Merrilee Challiss (b 1971, Cleveland, Ohio) is a multi-media artist who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. She received her BA in Studio Arts from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1994, an MFA in Sculpture from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2000, and a M Ed in Visual Arts in 2022 (UAB). She was a Post-Graduate Apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2000, and was a member of the artist-run co-operative gallery, Vox Populi, in Philadelphia, PA. She co-owner of BottleTree Cafe, a music venue, cafe, bar, and event center in Birmingham, Alabama from 2006-2015 (www.bottletree.com). She is the current ED at Studio By The Tracks, a non-profit art studio that provides materials, studio space, and facilitated studio time to adult and youth artists on the autism spectrum (www.studiobythetracks,org). Over the years, Merrilee has worked as a window decorator in Berlin, worked on a few murals of endangered species for the Center for Biological Diversity, taught drawing and foundation courses as an adjunct at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as teaching art to all age groups. She received a "Window of Opportunity Award" by the Leeway Foundation in 2000, an Alabama State Council of the Arts grant in 2005, was included in the Juror's Pick for the 2015 New American Paintings, Southeast Edition. She has exhibited her work from Portland, Oregon to Phnom Penh and is in many private collections around the globe.

www.kayashoots.carbonmade.com

Adrianna "Kaya" Clark (b. 1977, Oxford, MS) began her love affair with photography at the age of three. After traveling the world due to her father being in the Marine Corps, she settled in Atlanta in 1995. She attended Spelman College, and in 1999 began an 18 year career teaching elementary school in the Atlanta Public School System. After the birth of her son in 2007, she was given a camera and ventured back into photography. Drawing inspiration from conversations with women of the African diaspora about life, love, and living, she aims to capture her subjects natural beauty. Clark sees every individual in her lens as a muse. In 2021, Clark was accepted into her first artist residency at MINT in Atlanta, the Leap Year residency. Her solo exhibition at MINT in June of 2022, LateBloomer, was an ode to self-love with a collection of seven newly created mixed media self-portrait collages, utilizing gold leaf and 3D elements for the first time.

www.hopecohnprojects.com

Ms. Cohn received her M.F.A. from Pratt Institute and B.F.A. from the Atlanta College of Art. She has curated exhibitions for MOCA GA, Swan Coach House Gallery, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Ms. Cohn was the Director of the Spruill Gallery where her exhibitions such as Katrina: Five Years of Reflection, LATinGA and Breaking New Ground: Intersections at the Crossroads of Art and Technology earned a Creative Loafing, "Best Gallery ." Ms. Cohn has taught at GA State University, SCAD, Harvard University GSD, School of Visual Arts NYC, and has developed programs for the High Museum of Art including her lecture series on Modern Museum Architecture. She has served on public art panels including Fulton County Arts, SouthArts and the Aviation Art Program. As a Consultant, Ms Cohn is devoted to supporting artists and guiding clients to appreciate the impact of art. Her clients include Bennett Thrasher, Alliance Residential, LabCorp, Wood Partners and Emory University Hospital. Prior to moving to Atlanta, Ms. Cohn was Studio Director for Frank Stella in New York. Ms. Cohn's artwork is included in several private and corporate collections including King and Spalding, Allston and Bird, Neiman Marcus Cooperation and The Highland Group.

www.kathycolt.com, @kathycoltartisan

Kathy Colt is an Atlanta-based textile and fiber artist/designer. While working toward a degree in Landscape Architecture in the early 1990's, she began exploring cloth and fiber in earnest. Since that time she has continued to create with textile and fiber techniques, including nuno felting, cloth surface enrichment (dyeing, printing and painting on cloth - frequently for her micro apparel line, Petal-una Collection), as well as cloth & fiber-based free-form 3D and relief constructions. Kathy has shown in both Atlanta-area and national exhibitions, including the American Craft Council shows in Atlanta and San Francisco. She has also taught workshops and presented on a variety of topics/textile techniques including nuno felting, surface design on cloth, indigo dyeing, and "slow" textiles.

www.corinnacowles.com, @corinna.cowles.clay

Corinna Cowles is a first-generation college graduate who followed a traditional academic fine arts track, currently holding a BFA and MFA in painting and studio arts from Columbia College Chicago and the Tyler School of Art respectively. She is continuing her education through dialogue, self-determined projects, and skill exchange via teaching, a professional ceramics practice, and artists' residencies. Corinna's work has garnered awards, scholarships, grants, fellowships, and the interest of private collectors since the beginning of her academic career. Among the most personally valued of these honors are the special places her paintings and ceramic pieces hold in the homes of her friends, artistic colleagues, and mentors.

www.isabelldaniel.com, @isabelldaniel3391

Isabell Daniel is a ceramic artist and educator living in Farmington, Georgia. Her work has ranged from functional pottery, to conceptual installation art, to its current incarnation in ceramic and mixed-media figurative sculpture and expressive cups. She received her BFA from Alfred University's College of Ceramics in New York, and her MFA from the University of Georgia. She lived in Japan for two years, exploring the contemporary as well as historical world of Japanese ceramics and folk arts, and later returned a number of times to lead a study abroad program for ceramics students with the University of Georgia. In addition to teaching in various community art centers, she has taught at several colleges and universities, most recently at the University of North Georgia, where she was a faculty member for ten years. Her ceramic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. When she is not working in her studio, she feels most at home hiking in the mountains and forests of the southeastern US.

www.isabelldaniel.com, @isabelldaniel3391

Isabell Daniel is a ceramic artist and educator living in Farmington, Georgia. Her work has ranged from functional pottery, to conceptual installation art, to its current incarnation in ceramic and mixed-media figurative sculpture and expressive cups. She received her BFA from Alfred University's College of Ceramics in New York, and her MFA from the University of Georgia. She lived in Japan for two years, exploring the contemporary as well as historical world of Japanese ceramics and folk arts, and later returned a number of times to lead a study abroad program for ceramics students with the University of Georgia. In addition to teaching in various community art centers, she has taught at several colleges and universities, most recently at the University of North Georgia, where she was a faculty member for ten years. Her ceramic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. When she is not working in her studio, she feels most at home hiking in the mountains and forests of the southeastern US.

www.antoniodarden.com

In 2006, Darden earned his BFA in Sculpture from Georgia State University. He co-founded The Art Officials in 2009 and exhibited work in the US, UK, and Mexico. He won MOCA GA's Juror's Choice award and the Southern Prize State Fellowship for Georgia in 2022, and recently opened two solo shows in Atlanta. He lives and works in Atlanta.

www.visual64.com, @shannondavisphotos

With decades of design and creative directing experience, Shannon Davis chose photography as her medium for making art. Her conceptual projects feature a deep awareness of balancing form and content, exploring mood and motion within a single frame. She shares her creative passions as a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her project "I Got Somethin' To Show You" was a Lens Culture Exposure Award Finalist, Ain't Bad Magazine Top 100 Photography Series, and top ten finalists in the Duke University Lange/Taylor Prize. Her artist book "Controlled Burn" has recently been acquired by the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Houston Museum of Fine Art.

www.ElyseDefoor.com

Elyse Defoor (b. Greenville, SC, 1952) is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator who lives and works in Atlanta. She received her education from the University of Georgia and the Atlanta College of Art. For the last thirty years, she has used her art to respond to the wonders and the tragedies of the world. She consistently uses personal iconography as a vehicle to outwardly express her inner response to universal conditions. From this passionate inspiration, she produces artwork that causes a visceral shift in the eye and mind of the viewer. Defoor's photography, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and large-scale installations have gained international recognition. In addition to numerous private collections in the USA, Singapore, Switzerland and Africa, her work has been collected by MOCA GA, Acoustic Headquarters, and the New York Public Library. In 2022, a solo, survey exhibition entitled "Slivers of Time" which included thirty-four works of art was hosted by the Art Institute of Atlanta. Recent group exhibitions included "Gathered" at MOCA GA and MOTION > BLUR at Praxis Photo Arts Center in Minneapolis. Past residencies include The Hambidge Center for the Arts and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Video documentation of "Elyse Defoor-Slivers of Time," "Loss. Redemption. Grace," "Uncloaked," "Unbridled," "all of us, alone" and her "Relics of Marriage" outdoor installation, along with exhibition tours, NBC, and a PBS special, may be viewed on Elyse Defoor-YouTube and her website, ElyseDefoor.com.

www.wendydeschene.ca

Canadian-born Wendy DesChene graduated with an MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art and immediately incorporated materials to support activist-inspired works. Weary of limitations placed on art, she invited audiences to participate in installations. The outcome was a community collaboration titled WYSIWYG that toured to 11 different communities, including the Houston's Art League, Minnesota University, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and The Henry Street Settlement, NY. Other collaborative-based projects exhibited at the Soap Factory, Tomio Koyama Gallery Japan, and The Drawing Center New York. Recent environmental educational outreach titled PlantBot Genetics, has been awarded NEA and Pulitzer Foundation Grants for programs at Bach Modern Austria, the New Gallery Canada, and Marfa Dialogues St. Louis. Recently the Boston Globe titled her a conceptual prankster for collaborative projects at HubWeek sponsored by Harvard and MIT. Due to racist laws in Canada, DesChene's family has only recently been able to reclaim their indigenous status in the Metis Nation. As a large part of being First Nations is finding a path back to one's ancestors, this artwork focuses on reclamation and reinvestigating what it means to be indigenous. Digital Paintings, allow First Nations Imagery to overtake and disintegrate classical European Landscapes.

www.mantydey.com, @mantydey

Manty Dey (b. 1988 Kumarghat, India) is a visual artist working in Atlanta, Georgia. Dey earned a BFA in painting and drawing from Georgia State University, and an MFA from the University of Georgia. Dey's work has been exhibited at MOCA GA, Georgia Museum of Art, Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, and MINT Gallery. She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.

www.masonfineartandevents.com

www.RENSWORK.COM, @rensworkdotcomshop

Ren Dillard is a multidisciplinary creative who uses curation, oil and acrylic paint, precious metal, spoken word, and collage to convey rich, often complex philosophical ideas through his work. An affirmed contemporary black artisan, Dillard critically examines the western canon, the works of old masters, the traditional notions of authorship and mastery. Questioning the systematic erasure of black bodies and black identity in his work, he translates glimpses of the mundane and transient moments of life with profound empathy and insight.

www.thomasdeansfineart.com

www.terridilling.com, @terridilling_art

Terri Dilling is an abstract painter and printmaker inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Through gestural marks and organic forms, she makes reference to the landscape around her, and also the emotional landscape within. She has a BA from Indiana University, a BFA Georgia State University, and she has also studied visual arts in England, Spain, and Italy. Dilling has received numerous grants and awards, and her art is in public and private collections around the world. She works with several galleries around the United States and is represented in Atlanta by Thomas Deans Fine Art.

www.dowelltrey.com, @dowelltrey

Treyvian Dowell is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Atlanta, GA. As a recent graduate of Georgia State University, he has moved into exhibiting in Atlanta. His first solo show titled makeitallmakesense was held at MiNT gallery. He's also participated in a group show at Kai-Lin Art titled whimsy and wander. Treyvian is currently expanding his body of work as he explores the potential of his mark-making.

www.Derekellergallery.com

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www.williamedowns.com, @wdowns.studio

William Downs was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina and lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Downs' practice, mediums vary from drawing, painting, murals and printmaking to experimenting with installation and three-dimensional studies. The line is his current notable element which he considers paradoxically fundamental and surreal based on its infinite capabilities. His work expresses truth in common forms turned ambiguous. His use of repetition distorts what one expects to be or be true. Are his forms containers or do they find themselves contained by culture? Time and certainty lose their structure when one looks at figures that reform and deform simultaneously. His solo exhibitions include: University of Alabama Birmingham: Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, Alabama; Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia and the Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri. He is the recipient of the 2020 Artadia Award and Working Artist Project and has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Parsons The New School for Design, New York, New York; The Cooper Union, New York, New York and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. His work is in the permanent collections of: Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Microsoft Collection, Seattle, Washington; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; The Hort Family Collection, New Jersey and New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia and the Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington D.C. Downs is also a fellow and board member at the Hambidge Arts and Sciences.

www.lesliedrennan.com, @_drennanb

Leslie Drennan is a sculptor and visual artist from the American South. Drennan's work searches for new ways to define home through a materials-first approach. She often fuses the intimate details of her life with the larger story of environmental change happening at a global scale. Drennan graduated with a BS in psychology from the University of Georgia in 2016 and is currently completing an MFA in sculpture at Georgia State University. She was selected by the Welch Foundation at Georgia State to participate in a residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, which she attended in May of 2023. Her work will be included in the upcoming Little Things exhibition at the Swan Coach House Gallery in November 2023 and the upcoming group exhibition Interconnect at Echo Contemporary Gallery in early 2024.

www.amandinedrouet.com

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 that has been 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) with the help of a NOAA grant and other grants. 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.

www.whitespace814.com

www.instagram.com/didi.dunphy

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. A number of features have been written about Ms. Dunphy as well as art and exhibition reviews in the LA Times, SF Chronicle, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and others. Her design works have been placed in a number of collections and design publications such as Elle Décor, Paper, Interior Design, Vogue, as well as book publications including Downtown Chic by Rizzoli, Toy Design by Braun Publishing and Fun Rooms, Collins Design publishing. Her last solo show was reviewed by burnaway and artsATL. Dunphy is a former Visiting Scholar at the Dodd School, UGA, works in the curatorial field across the Southeast and has been the Program Supervisor at the Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, for the past 9 years. Her curated exhibition Picture This: Highlighting Contemporary Art in GA is traveling throughout the state till 2024. Dunphy received the GA Governors award for Arts & Humanities. Ms. Dunphy is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta with an upcoming exhibition in 2024.

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.scotteakin.com, @scotteakinart

Born in Illinois, I attended the University of Wisconsin as a declared art major. When offered an opportunity to play music, I left the university and my art studies. That was 1969. In 2001 I returned to painting. Over time a kind of unconscious distillation of my work occurred. I removed all gestural and curvilinear elements from my work and focused exclusively on straight lines, right angles and color. These constraints continue to guide my practice. I have completed residencies at Hambidge in 2018 and the Virginia Center For Creative Arts in 2019 and 2022. I was the recipient of a Jurors Prize at the 2019 MOCA GA 'Gathered' exhibition. Marcia Wood Gallery represents my work. The most recent solo show, 2022, A Line in the Code. Recent group shows include Artists Talking at Marcia Wood Gallery; Harper College, Palatine, IL; Masur Museum, Monroe, LA; the Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL; Macon MOAS, and Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art. Collections include the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, the City of Decatur, Microsoft Inc., Selig Enterprises, Arcspring Transformational Capital, William Blair & Co., Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, Atlanta Hawks State Farm Arena, TriBridge Residential, Shaw Industries, Capital One Boston.

www.instagram.com/flagmountain.studio

Angela Eastman is an artist and teacher from Hillsborough, North Carolina. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and completed the Core Fellowship program at Penland School of Crafts, and has participated in numerous residencies, including at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (GA), MASS MoCA (MA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild (NY), Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (OR), Talking Dolls (MI), the Ragdale Foundation (IL), and SIM and Nes residencies in Iceland. Angela is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. In addition to sculptural work, Angela creates jewelry, baskets, furniture, and other home goods through her design business Flag Mountain Studio. Angela also teaches art workshops to adults and youth. She is an advocate for craft education as a vital component of understanding the material world we live in.

www.Thaddeuserdahl.com, @tjerdahl

Thaddeus Erdahl has been creating and teaching art for over 25 years, working predominantly with the human figure sculpted in clay. He was born and raised in the small midwestern town of La Porte City, Iowa. His art and background in education started at the University of Northern Iowa where he received his BA in Art Education and a BFA in Ceramics. Thaddeus went on to receive his MFA in Ceramics from the University of Florida where he was a University of Florida Alumni Fellowship recipient during his three years of graduate study, from 2006-2009. He was selected as a 2010 Artist In Resident at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and he was a recipient of the American Craft Council Emerging Voice in Craft Award in 2015. Currently he is a devoted studio artist, teaches workshops across the country and is showing work nationally and internationally. Along with his many creative journeys in life Thaddeus is also the head roaster and owner of ZAGGS Coffee a boutique coffee roasting company in Clarkesville GA. One of its missions is to help bring art to students through a scholarship program at national arts and crafts centers.

www.sabreesler.com, @sabreeslerfineart

Sabre Esler (b. Cleveland, OH) lives and works in Atlanta Georgia. She received her MFA from SCAD, Atlanta and her received her BFA from Miami University, Oxford OH where she studied graphic design, illustration and biology. Esler has exhibited in New York, Charleston, Knoxville, Boston, Connecticut, Atlanta, Nashville and Miami, and museums such as Alexandria Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Miami University, Oglethorpe University, SCAD Museum of Art, Valdosta State Museum, Agnes Scott College, and Georgia State University as well as Atlanta Contemporary, Chastain Art Center, and Glynn Visual Arts Center and SCOPE and Aqua during Art Basel Miami. She is currently a studio artist at Atlanta Contemporary where she is preparing for a solo exhibit September, 2023 at Georgia Southern University. She will be in a three-person show at Greenville Center for the Creative Arts October, 2023. Esler has been invited to showcase her work in a solo exhibit at Venice Biennale next April, 2024. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of Georgia State University Perimeter College, Miami University, Tufts University, The Federal Reserve Bank, Fulton County Arts Council, City of Atlanta, and corporate collections of Acoustic, Atlantic Capital Bank, Boston Consulting Group, Cognia, Georgian Bank, Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, Lure Real Estate Gallery, Dubai, UAE, Oglethorpe Bank, NCR, Ritz Carlton, SunTrust Bank, Trammel Crow to name a few. Collectors through out the United States and internationally have been collecting her work since 1995.

www.hannaetelalahti.com, @lahti.art

Hanna Etelalahti is a visual artist from Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the Fever collective. Through their pen and ink and printmaking works, Hanna explores emotions of shame, guilt, and repression - meditating on the systems that serve to suppress these emotions and prevent healing. Hanna's work has been featured at Atlanta galleries such as The Bakery and Cat Eye Creative and in branding for local businesses such as Atlanta cassette label, Familiar Face Records.

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Julia Burns, a Georgia native, graduated from Georgia State University where she received a BFA in Ceramics in 2015. Growing up in a creative household she knew from an early age that art would be a way of life for her. She is known for her work with animal sculptures. In 2016 she was awarded a studio assistant position at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center where she began to focus on atmospheric firings, including soda and salt firing, teaching classes, and leading workshops on raku and saggar firing. She has taught ceramics at Abernathy Art Center, and South Fulton Art Center, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Oxford Emory. DK Contemporary Gallery represents Julia.

Eddie Farr is an artist focused on physical and digital technology living in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a graduate of Georgia Southern University where he received a B.A. in Music and an M.M. in Music Technology. As a musician and composer, he has performed internationally and throughout the U.S. As a visual artist, he has shown works throughout the Southeast. Farr is a Hambidge Fellow and an inaugural cohort of the Fulton County Futures Lab, a residency program designed for technology-based artists in Atlanta, Georgia.

www.barrettfeldman.com, @barrett.f

Barrett Feldman is an artist, practicing architect, and founding Principal of PSF Projects, an architecture firm located in lower Manhattan. As an artist Barrett's work has been shown at WUHO Gallery in Hollywood, California, at Whitespace and Spruill Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia, and in several Art Papers and Hambidge Auctions. She was awarded an artist residency at Hambidge during the summer of 2011, and returned again in March 2022. Barrett received a Bachelor of Art degree with High Honors in studio art at Wesleyan University and a Master's in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Following graduate school she was a Fulbright Fellow in Tokyo and later taught architecture and drawing at Wesleyan. Arriving at a career in architecture through a deeply embedded impulse to draw, drawing continues to be inextricably connected to Barrett's work as an architect. In her art practice Barrett seeks to make surfaces and spaces that flicker between landscape, fabric and bio-morphic matter, providing a new lens to view object, space, surface, and context. She has made intimate textile installations created from discarded plastic objects which are deployed to give them new life, beauty, and potential.

www.DougFoltz.com, @dougfoltz

I find great peace and power in nature and great energy in curiosity and discovery of any kind, exploring new places - finding something new about the world and the relationship you share with it. Painting has long been a way for me to indulge that exploration. I am fascinated with water and light and believe that composition is king. I see graphic form in almost everything and try to open new views of both the expanse and the detail of the coastal landscape. I think of my work as "interpretive", easily departing to explore more abstract character... but usually returning to a representative home, less about the way a place looks, than the way it makes me feel. Born and raised on the water. Bachelors of Environmental Design and Bachelors of Architecture - Auburn University. Just over forty years in creative and management roles as architect, graphic designer, painter, photographer, branding and visual communication consultant. I've been painting and drawing since childhood and am fortunate to have work hanging in private and corporate collections from Seattle to the Bahamas and northern Europe. I've participated in solo and group shows across the eastern US and had work published regularly in American Art Collector, Costal Living, Southern Accents, Decor and Traditional Home magazines, and The Best of American Oil Artists. I served on the Hambidge Board of Directors for many years and I work hard to nurture the creative spirit in everything around me. I currently work from studios in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida - where I live happily with my wife Alecia and Airedale Stella - and in regular sessions on the southeast Georgia and Central Maine coasts.

www.JulieFordhamArt.com, @juliefordham

Julie Fordham is a mixed media painter working in Tucker, Georgia. With the birth of her child in 2007, she began to explore embroidery. She instantly fell in love with the repetitive and methodical way of leaving color and texture on her paintings. The work she creates is autobiographical with a strong focus on her relationships and mental health. She studied Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and has shown around the city of Atlanta, including pieces at the SouthEast Fiber Art Alliance and The Book as Art Shows hosted by the Decatur Art Alliance.

www.pryorfineart.com/artists/gail-foster

www.studioswan.com/gail-foster

Gail Foster was born in the fall of 1955 in Providence Hospital, Providence RI. USA. Currently living in a cottage on a small lake with her husband, the artist Thomas Swanston, she works daily in their renovated Masonic Lodge, 30 minutes south of Atlanta. Gail graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1978 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree where she matriculated Summa Cum Laude, after having attended Rhode Island University and Boston University. Matriculating from Parsons School of Design ~ the New School, in 1980 she was one of twelve in the first Master of Fine Arts Diplomas Parsons offered. Exhibiting continuously for the past 40 years in non-profit and for-profit venues and galleries in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York and Santa Fe and with Fine Art consultants across the country. Gail has had 9 solo and 25 group exhibitions. She has been included in 4 museum exhibitions, 1 solo museum exhibition and published in over 46 trade and lifestyles magazines. Gail's artwork can be found in public and private collections across the US, in Canada, China, France, Korea, Taiwan and Turkey.

www.mssuefox.com, @suefoxart

Sue Fox is a mixed media artist from Chicago living in Chattanooga,TN. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003, and has shown extensively throughout the United States. Her work largely focuses on meditation thru color exploration. She has been published in Numbers Inc, Studio Art Magazine, and She has shown multiple times with Kai Lin Gallery in Atlanta, GA, and Gallery Studio Oh in Chicago,IL. Recently, she received 1st place in the "Eugene Brown Memorial Show" (an annual art show for Miami Tribal Members) at the Myaamia Heritage Center,in Miami, OK,. Recently she has participated in the Chattanooga Airport's inaugural art gallery, a 3 person show at Wavelength Gallery & Channel to Channel in Chattanooga, exhibited in Art Fields in Lake City, SC, Sulfur Studios in Savannah, GA and completed a residency at Hambidge this March.

www.vinsonart.com

www.ruthfranklin.com, @artistruthfranklin

Ruth Franklin is an England-born, Atlanta-based artist who studied at Brighton Art School before emigrating to the US in 1994. Unless she's traveling, Ruth begins work in her studio before dawn, seven days a week. Her distinctive, expressive style has become easily identifiable. She has always maintained her identity as a painter and has stuck to her own ideas about what makes a good painting. She prefers Auerbach to Hirst and has continued over the past thirty years to push around paint in her own way, reveling in the process to create evocative and compelling pictures. She's an observer of life. In addition to solo shows in Atlanta and New York, her work has featured in group exhibitions at The Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College, Secret 7" charity shows in London, Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists at MoCA-GA, Harlem Fine Arts Show, Raw Art Fair - Rotterdam and Under Different Circumstances at the Atlanta Contemporary.

www.coulterfussell.com

Coulter Fussell was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia, an old textile town. She is the youngest family quilter, hailing from multi-generations of seamstresses and quilters. She produces quilt-works using discarded and donated textiles as her sole materials. Coulter has exhibited works across the country including The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami. Her textiles works are in the permanent collections of the Columbus Museum of Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Coulter is a 2023 Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship recipient, the 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Inductee, a 2021 Museum of Arts and Design Burke Prize Finalist, the Jane Crater Hiatt Fellow and winner the the 2021 Mississippi Museum of Art Biennial, a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Craft, the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Inductee, and the Finalist for the 2017 SouthArts Southern Prize. Coulter lives in rural north Mississippi with her family.

www.angusgalloway.com

Angus Galloway works between drawing, painting, installation and sound as his primary art practice. He received his undergraduate degree from Emory University where he majored in Philosophy and minored in Studio Art and Art History. Attending Georgia State University for his M.F.A., he concentrated on drawing and painting along with sound design. His installations have been included in exhibitions such as New Genre Landscape in an Atlanta park, Art in Odd Places in New York, and Tenderlandscape at Agnes Scott College. His work has been included in many exhibitions including Sprawl: Drawing Outside the Lines at the High Museum, The Drawing Experiment at Chastain Arts Center, Triple Play at Marcia Wood Castleberry, Gathered at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and 40 Over 40 at EBDB in Chamblee Georgia. In 2015 he completed a residency with the Creatives Project at the Goat Farm Art Center in Atlanta. His work has been featured in national and international exhibitions as well as a variety of publications including Direct Art, New York Art, Art Papers, Burnaway, and Trigger Magazines.

www.thesignatureshop.com

Charles D. Gandy, a TKGA Master Knitter, learned to knit at the age of four from his mother, a designer and shop owner. A two-time winner in Knitter's Magazine "Think Outside the Sox" contest, three of his designs are featured in the book of the same name: "Dread Sox", "Snake in the Grass" and "Pedicure Polka Socks". His own book, The Embellished Sock: Knitted Art for the Foot" features eighteen creative patterns and numerous techniques and is available in yarn shops worldwide. His latest collections "Crazy Socks" and "MORE Crazy Socks" for REGIA Yarns have been received worldwide. He is a popular teacher at workshops and conferences worldwide. BEYOND THE SOCK, Knitted Art by Charles Gandy, featuring 28 one-of-a-kind sculptural socks was shown at The Bascom, A Center for The Arts in Highlands, NC from March 12 - June 12, 2016. His work placed as a semi-finalist in the 28th Annual World of Wearable Art in Wellington, New Zealand and later was on display at the 7th Wearable Expressions at the Palos Verdes Art Center in California. In February of 2022, HIDDEN FACES: Knitted Masks premiered at Atlanta's Signature Contemporary Crafts Gallery

Www.rachelkgarceau.com, @rachelkgarceau

Rachel K. Garceau is a studio artist living and working in the Atlanta, GA area, and has been recognized as a 2015 Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and one of 2017's Women to Watch by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She utilizes slip-cast porcelain forms to construct site-responsive installations. Her work is often born from a curiosity about an object or a place and a desire to come to a deeper understanding of it. Rachel received a BA in Fine Arts from Franklin Pierce College in 2003 and went on to pursue her education through studio assistantships, workshops, and residencies. In 2013, Rachel completed the two-year Core Fellowship at Penland School of Crafts (NC). She has received residencies at Vendsyssel Kuntsmuseum (DK), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), All Is Leaf (MA), and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA). Her work has been shown nationally and has been published in Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, and NCECA Journal, and also appears in CAST: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process.

www.robischongallery.com

www.gibsonrecoder.com

Dear Frankie is the original artwork for an album with the same title:

https://recoder1.bandcamp.com/album/dear-frankie

Collaborating artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have been exhibiting their expanded cinema installations and projection performances since 2000. Their works are in the permanent collections of major art museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, and Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf, Germany. Artist awards and commissions include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy, National Endowment for the Art's U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship, and Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art in New York. Lecturing appointments include both long and short-term teaching residencies in the media departments of the University of Colorado Boulder, Denison University in Ohio, and California Institute for the Arts. They were recently featured artists and research associates of RESET THE APPARATUS! A Survey of the Photographic and the Filmic in Contemporary Art, hosted by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Gibson + Recoder live and work in New York.

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Karen Graffeo is an active multi-media artist in photography, performance and installation and as well was a model for the photographer Jerry Uelsmann. She has had numerous national and international solo exhibitions. She is a Professor Emeritus of Art and directed the photography program at the University of Montevallo. She is the recipient of a Tanne Foundation award for humanitarian documentary projects within her art practice, and in 2013 was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar appointment to Romania. In 2005 she was named University Scholar at the University of Montevallo for her long term (1999-present) documentary photography work in Roma communities and refugee encampments in Europe. Her work has been published in Aperture Magazine and is included in public and private collections in Japan, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Ireland, Italy, Hungary, and Birmingham, Alabama. Her work is currently on display at the Museum of African History in Havana Cuba. She has moved her practice from Alabama to Atlanta and relocated her studio practice first to Mint gallery in Atlanta and is currently at Echo Contemporary and Guardian Works Studios in Atlanta.

www.kristagrecco.com, @kristagrecco

Krista Grecco is a full-time sculptor working in porcelain. She can be found outside most mornings, homeschooling her son among the pine trees and ferns around Atlanta, Georgia. Together they marvel at mushrooms and classify caterpillars while they pick up and recycle an array of interesting garbage. Drawing influence from nature, Art Deco, and vintage toys, Krista imbues her work with emotion and saturated color. Grecco earned her B.F.A. from Alfred University in Alfred, NY, and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. She held the title of Professor of Foundation Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta for 13 years before shifting to a full-time studio practice in 2022. Public and private collections include Ariana Museum of Ceramics and Glass in Geneva, Switzerland, Emory Decatur Hospital in Decatur, GA, and Orlando International Airport (Delta Airlines) in Orlando, Fl. Her work and process have been featured in 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form (Lark Books), American Craft, New Ceramics, Ceramics Monthly, and Ceramics: TECHNICAL magazines.

www.amandagreene.com, @amandagreenephotographs

Amanda Greene grew up in Atlanta, GA and then traveled west to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. She lived in the Los Angeles area for 17 years before returning "home" to Atlanta in 2010. Greene's photography work has been published in The New York Times, The Oxford American, Garden & Gun Magazine, Buzzfeed, Outside Magazine, Nylon Magazine, Paper Magazine, and featured on The Bitter Southerner, The New York Times LENS blog and The Oxford American's Eyes On the South. Clients include Synovus Bank, Phoebe Health, Guardian Pharmacy, Regions Bank, Digitas, The Varsity, NPR, and Turner Broadcasting. Exhibitions include Slow Exposures, MOCA GA "Gathered", "Edge to Edge" and "Fast Forward // Rewind", Atlanta Celebrates Photography "Ones To Watch", Looking at Appalachia online and print exhibit, Hathaway Contemporary Gallery "In The Real World" and "Landscapes and Interventions", Hambidge Center For Creative Arts & Sciences gallery "Minding the Gap", The Hudgens Center for the Arts "Southern Values" BFA, Photography, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 1997

www.Lorihaasart.com, @lorihaasart

Lori lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She obtained a BFA from the University of Georgia. Recent exhibitions in Atlanta have been at the Swan Coach House Gallery, The Terminus, Atlanta City Hall, Brickworks Gallery, 378 Gallery, Hudgens Center for Art, Hambidge Art Lab, and South River Art Studios. Other exhibitions around the United States include the Museum of Infinite Outcomes (Knoxville, TN), NEXT Gallery (Denver, CO), San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center (San Fernando, CA), and the Flagler County Art League Gallery (Palm Coast, FL). She has exhibited in internationally in Italy and Canada, and her work has been featured in "The World of Interiors" with Conde Nast (2022, 2023). Lori's work can be seen at the Swan Coach House Gallery Artist Market, and at Apres Diem in Midtown Atlanta. A major body of her work have been private commissions, enabling a personal collaboration with the artist.

www.whitespace814.com

www.matthaffner.com

Matt Haffner is a photo based, mixed-media artist whose gritty and aesthetically graphic artworks range from large-scale installations to diminutive works on paper. His works are made from combinations of humble materials including; wheat-pasted paper, cardboard, newsprint, salvaged street signs, rusted metal, and spray paint that pay homage to his roots as a street artist. He often combines his drawings with photographs or video projections that explore ideas about multilayered vision and investigate the dynamic between the static and moving image. Matt's works are in a variety of public and private regional, national, and international collections. He has won countless awards and grants in support of his work, including a National Endowment for the Arts Project Award, MOCA Georgia's prestigious Working Artist Award, and a Forward Arts Foundation Award. His works additionally, have been published in a variety of books, magazines, web pages, and periodicals. Mr. Haffner is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is Professor of Photography and Video at Kennesaw State University. Matt is represented by White Space Gallery in Atlanta.

Www.lindahallart.com

Linda got her MFA from university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a practicing artist in Tallahassee. Her sculptures, performances and paintings have been shown regionally, nationally and internationally. Her work is also in several museum collections in the South. Her works have been featured in publications such as Oxford American, Five Points, Raw Vision and New American painting. She maintains a studio in the Smokey Hollow neighborhood in Tallahassee

www.tomhaney.com, @tomhaneyartwork

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1962, Tom Haney has always been fascinated by mechanical movement. His fascination would manifest itself often - he regularly took apart household items, much to his parents' disapproval. He took art classes in high school and attended college studying Industrial Design. Before becoming a full-time artist in 2000, his professional work consisted of making props, models and miniatures for television commercials, still photographers, and motion pictures. With the inclusion of collected found objects, another connection is made, albeit to a more recent past. I search out and collect, as an archivist or archeologist, discarded, obsolete artifacts and breathe new life into them as they are remodeled into devices that help tell my stories. Stories that often illustrate man's perseverance to overcome life's obstacles, often with open-ended narratives that are completed by the viewer." He's made kinetic figurative work since 1994, and began working as a full-time artist in 2000. While he has shown in galleries and art shows from coast to coast, currently he works as an independent artist, and survives on his commission work. Haney's artworks can be found in collections all over the US, in the UK, and Europe.

www.whitespace814.com

As an artist working with sound and sensation, Dana investigates how our bodies remember the physicality of its history. Dana has been a resident in the Atlanta Contemporary's Studio Artist Program, is a Hambidge Fellow and is represented by Whitespace Gallery. He has recently been shown at the Atlanta Contemporary, Zuckerman Museum at Kennesaw State University, the Macon Museum of Arts and Science, and the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids Michigan and won the Forward Art Foundation's 2021 Edge Award. Dana received his MFA from the University of Iowa and currently the Director of the Visual Arts Program at Emory University.

www.hawkceramics.com, @Hawk.Nest

Danielle Hawk was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2016 Hawk received bachelor degrees in Art Education and General Fine Arts. She currently teaches ceramics for Baltimore County Public Schools and Towson University. In 2022 Hawk received her MFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in ceramics from Towson University. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions nationwide and was recently published in Studio Potter.

www.dontekhayes.com, @dontekhayes

Donte K. Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an art history minor. Donte received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, The Gibbes Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Newark Museum of Art, Wellin Museum of Art, Stanley Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, and the Institute Museum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana among others. Donte was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant Award in 2022. He is also a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow. Hayes has been in residence at MacDowell, Bemis Center, Township 10, Marshall, Penland School of Craft, Hambidge Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. Donte is the 2019 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern art from the Gibbes Museum of Art.

www.henleystudios.com, @jennyhenleystudios

Jenny Henley is an Atlanta based fine artist working with a methodology that embraces sculptural practices in a two-dimensional interdisciplinary framework. Typically, Henley uses socially recognizable imagery, appropriate for an audience familiar with contemporary notions of art; yet fused to a slightly nostalgic sensibility. I do extensive research on the tech I invest in to photograph for my pieces. My Technics SL-1200 MK7 (Silver) is the 'gold standard' dj turntable. This turntable is custom built with additions to be the most iconic instrument with a Technics headshell, Stanton 500 stylus (in gold), Technics mat and the 45 adaptor.

www.juliehenrystudio.com, @juliehenrystudio

Julie Nellenback 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. 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 aesthetic. "As a young person I was surrounded by people who were steeped in the values of the Arts and Crafts movement and who understood how a particular type of beauty emerges from a work ethic of discipline, diligence and frugality. Commitment to craft was revered and those who made things by hand garnered respect. Today when I go to create, I reach into those roots and let the materials themselves call forth involuntary memories and recollections of childhood influences." JNH Born in New York state in 1968, Henry's family moved to the south when she was very young. Today she lives and works in Atlanta, where she has a devoted studio practice with a focus on creating paintings and objects that illustrate the symbiotic relationship between craft and concept.

www.judyhenson.work

Judy Henson received an MFA from Ohio State University for work in sculpture and photography. Much of her work melds the two in 3D constructions and installations. Her work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, MOCA GA, the Michael C CarlosMuseum, Haverford College, Heath Gallery and Poem 88 Gallery. She has designed many exhibits for natural history and history museums.

www.margarethiden.com

Hiden is a Birmingham, Alabama native and received her B.F.A. with a concentration in photography from Birmingham-Southern College. After receiving her Master of Fine Arts in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design, she taught at Kennesaw State University, Atlanta Technical College, and SCAD and has shown her work internationally. Currently, she lives and works as a User Experience Designer in Atlanta. In her work, she finds reward in and seeks to make unexpected visual conclusions through experimentations in both the digital and analogue photographic worlds. These manifest through the act of appropriating found imagery and play with non-traditional photographic techniques. As media is employed, deconstructed, manipulated and constructed once more, she is curious to expose the photographic medium beyond its usual callings and uses. A common thread in her work, is her personal investigation into loss, attachment, family and the layering of history in order to create new narratives.

www.sculpturethings.com, @sculpturethings

Julia Hill is an artist based in Atlanta, GA. She was born and raised in New Orleans and received her BFA from Tulane University in 2005. Julia spends a lot of time playing in, cleaning up, and observing nature. She loves exploring urban forests and wastelands, waterways, and wild spaces. Her ecological studies and interests are reflected in her work through abstracted natural forms and animal representations. Objects salvaged from her wanderings often inspire the eventual works. Twisted and weathered steel bits, old bed springs, concrete rubble, and other found detritus is an increasingly dominant component in her body of sculptures. Over the years her studio practice has incorporated installation, puppetry, public art, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and painting. Through her business Sculpture Things, she manages projects including custom fabrication, installation services for public art, creative project facilitation, and art direction.

www.susanhillyard.com, @shillyardphotographer

Education Northwestern University San Jose State University Exhibits Capturing Dance, Santa Cruz Art League On the Road to the Summer of Love, California Historical Society, San Francisco Wildlife Beyond Borders, Pacific Grove Art Center The Beast Project, Sagebrush Art Center, Sheridan WY The Art of Dance, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz CA Preacher's Daughter, Alameda, CA Lineage and Legacy: The Imaged Horse, Ucross Foundation Gallery, WY Published Work, D'Alessandro, J. and C. Terry, ed. Summer of Love, Art Fashion and Rock and Roll, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, University of California Press,Scott, Felicity, Outlaw Territories, Zone Books/MIT Press, Shadow and Light, Vol 1, #1, featured artist, October, Phren-Z, online literary journal, featured artist, August, A Collection of Works by Women Photographers Residencies: Hambidge Ucross Playa Le Moulin a Nef Jentel Ragdale VCCA

www.lonnieholley.com, @lonnieholleysuniverse

Lonnie Holley was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley's sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the country, on permanent display in the United Nations, and been displayed in the White House Rose Garden. Hollley currently has studio space in the Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab in Atlanta.

www.musecofineart.com

www.roxanehollosi.com

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. Roxane is a 2020 Hambidge Fellow and a Grant recipient of the 2020 Fulton County Virtual Arts Initiative. Roxane earned a BFA from ISU where she received the Janice Peterson Anderson top design award. Roxane actively exhibits locally and nationally, some exhibits include: Artfields 2023, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, NYC; National Association of Woman in the Arts NYC; ARC Gallery Chicago; MOCA GA; EYPGallery100, Atlanta; Gallery 72; 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; and numerous private collections including Darla Moore and Don Roman. My Art is a visual document of the emotional, social and environmental energies I encounter in that moment of creating. I express myself in 2D and 3D works. The foundation of my work is an exploration of the nature around me; and the energies it emanates. I want to encourage others to see something; investigate something; be curious about something; in order to make visual discoveries and open doors to spiritual ones. It advocates for taking a good hard look and consider realities beyond your own truth; to the participation in something bigger, more universal. My Breathe collection became a way to transform my fears, angers, and uncertainties into visually spirited collection of work. It is a response to our suffocating oceans and the continual dump of waste, it speaks to the time of Covid and "I Can't Breathe". The worlds social, environmental and political crises crashed together in that word, "Breathe"

www.loftmarietta.com

www.jodiehutchens.com, @jodiehutchensart

Leaving behind a quarter century career in television design and animation, Georgia-based artist Jodie Hutchens now embraces creative life within the fine arts. Early employment began in print media, but soon, she landed in broadcast television design; enjoying a career spanning over two decades with CNN. Her artistic focus evolved from graphic design to art direction, and soon presided over projects that became signatures of many CNN's noteworthy programs. While serving as CNN's Design Director, she pursued post-baccalaureate studies in Fine Art at Georgia State University; a profound life-changing experience, leading to full-time studies at Kennesaw State University. After her studies, her body of work largely focused on interiors, shaped by a passion for architecture and decor. Although representational, her loose brush stroke enticed the viewer to fill in the blanks with their own imagination. Jodie's current body of work has migrated from strictly representational compositions to broadly personal, yet abstract themes. She yearns for surprises in her work, and calls out for the beauty of imperfection. She celebrates the uncovering of lost layers, and is especially interested in line as an element of expression and artistry. Jodie now works from her studio at the Urban Art Collective, in Chamblee, Georgia.

www.henrymjacobs.com, @h.m.jacobs

Henry Macbeth Jacobs is a photographer, filmmaker, drone pilot and musician in LaGrange, Ga. He is also the Deputy Director for Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Born and raised in Decatur, Ga., he graduated from LaGrange College in 2013, and in 2020, he was part of Georgia Trend Magazine's Georgia 40 Under 40 list. In his role with Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Henry oversees communications, outreach, educational programs, water monitoring efforts and organizes trash cleanups and paddle trips. Together with his father, Hal Jacobs, they formed HJacobs Creative in 2014 and began making films and social media focusing on the arts, nonprofits, and higher education. Musically, Jacobs has recorded with GRAMMY-Nominated blues musician Jontavious Willis and continues to occasionally play percussion for Jontavious. Henry is a 2018 Hambidge Fellow and his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Lamar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College. His photography has appeared publicly in a solo exhibition at the LaGrange Art Museum (2019), SlowExposures, A Novel Experience (2018) and the LaGrange-Troup Memorial Library (2017). His work has also been featured in juried exhibitions hosted by the Atlanta Photography Group, Lamar Dodd Art Center, Brickworks Gallery and SlowExposures.

www.robertojamora.com, @robertojamora

Roberto Jamora is an artist and educator based in Richmond, VA. He holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from the State University of New York at Purchase. Jamora makes abstract paintings that feature colors from his memories, photos of loved ones, landscapes, and artifacts from family, ultimately asking the viewer to reflect on the meanings and power of color. He is an Assistant Professor and Area Head of Surface Research at the Virginia Commonwealth University Art Foundation Program. He is also the Asian Centennial Distinguished Fine Arts Fellow at William & Mary. He is represented by Page Bond Gallery (Richmond, VA) and FLXST Contemporary (Chicago, IL) where he has a solo exhibition opening in November 2023. He has exhibited work at spaces including Topaz Arts, Maake Projects, Antenna, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, Frost Art Museum, and Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans. His paintings, drawings, and prints are part of collections including the Atlanta Hawks NBA Team, State Farm Art Collection, Capital One Art Collection, Harvard University-John F. Kennedy School of Government, Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary, and private collections throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines.

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

Maggie Jaszczak is a potter and mixed media artist from Ontario, Canada. After completing her undergraduate studies at Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC and Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, AB she received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She has participated in ceramic residency programs at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat, AB, and Penland School of Craft, Penland NC.

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

Maggie Jaszczak is a potter and mixed media artist from Ontario, Canada. After completing her undergraduate studies at Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC and Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, AB she received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She has participated in ceramic residency programs at the Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat, AB, and Penland School of Craft, Penland NC.

www.AnnaJensenArt.com

Anna Jensen's paintings are a synthesis of classical and abstract figuration. Her body of work is inspired by moments of both trauma and exaltation. They are the fruit of years of rigorous and concerted research conducted in her home of the American South. With immense drive and rare sensitivity, Anna demonstrates the power of an individual to prevail through challenges and difficulty via creative transfiguration. She is mostly self taught, yet has exhibited internationally and to great acclaim over the past nearly twenty years. "My paintings are psychological landscapes and emotionally complex narratives. I combine references to art history, pop culture, natural science and personal chronicles to represent the conflicts of life. The titles are important elements. Like me the stories are at once funny and sad."

www.floridamininggallery.com

www.jeremiahjossim.com, @jeremiahjossim

Jeremiah Jossim earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Florida in 2023. He received his BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010. He has participated in residencies at the Wassaic Project and the Hambidge Center. His work was recently published in New American Painting's South and MFA editions. Jossim's practice speaks to a deep reverence for the American landscape, but also questioning the privileges of recreation, tourism, and who has the right to explore and live alternatively in this country.

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(b. 1938 - d. 2023) Born in New York City, Kempler received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Brandeis University. She later studied architecture at Harvard University. In 1963, she moved to Atlanta with her former husband, Bernhard Kempler, and established a ceramic studio in their home. She expanded her craft at Penland School of Crafts and through extensive travel, particularly in India. Her work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Nexus Art Center (now the Atlanta Contemporary), the Swan Coach House Gallery, AIR Vallauris Gallery in France, Wheeler Seidel Gallery, American Craft Council Craft Fair and Greenwich House Gallery in New York, the Albany Museum of Art in Georgia and many galleries throughout the country. Her work is in the collections of MOCA GA, The American Craft Museum and the Museum of Art and Science in Macon, among others.

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(b. 1938 - d. 2023) Born in New York City, Kempler received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Brandeis University. She later studied architecture at Harvard University. In 1963, she moved to Atlanta with her former husband, Bernhard Kempler, and established a ceramic studio in their home. She expanded her craft at Penland School of Crafts and through extensive travel, particularly in India. Her work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Nexus Art Center (now the Atlanta Contemporary), the Swan Coach House Gallery, AIR Vallauris Gallery in France, Wheeler Seidel Gallery, American Craft Council Craft Fair and Greenwich House Gallery in New York, the Albany Museum of Art in Georgia and many galleries throughout the country. Her work is in the collections of MOCA GA, The American Craft Museum and the Museum of Art and Science in Macon, among others.

www.instagram.com/marcuskenneysparade

Marcus Kenney (b. 1972) was born and raised in rural Louisiana and lives and works in Savannah, Georgia. Kenney earned an M.F.A. in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998. He works in many mediums including sculpture, collage, painting and photography and neon. Kenney's narrative works present a tumultuous clash of imagery reflecting America's melting pot of culture and considering issues including consumerism, environmentalism, religion, mortality, identity, race relations and authority. Kenney has exhibited in museums, institutions, galleries and art fairs internationally, including Tel Aviv, Paris, London, Montreal, New York, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Miami and Portland. His work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, New American Painting, Artpapers, New York Times, Boston Globe, ArtVoices, Atlanta Journal Constitution, New York Art Magazine, and Art News.

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

My work evokes a place between the metamorphosis and the evolution of substance. I use material modified and hybrid as a metaphor for amorphous communication and the struggle for psychological interaction which is associated with circumstances. My work attempts to reveal persuasive reflection on the essence of the subconscious and its connection with objects, nature and creatures. Born: 1976 Daejeon, South Korea. Education: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Ceramics, Chicago, IL (2015); MFA, Graduate School of Arts in Ceramics, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2006); BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics & Glass, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2004)

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

My work evokes a place between the metamorphosis and the evolution of substance. I use material modified and hybrid as a metaphor for amorphous communication and the struggle for psychological interaction which is associated with circumstances. My work attempts to reveal persuasive reflection on the essence of the subconscious and its connection with objects, nature and creatures. Born: 1976 Daejeon, South Korea. Education: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Ceramics, Chicago, IL (2015); MFA, Graduate School of Arts in Ceramics, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2006); BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics & Glass, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea (2004)

www.Andrewpeterking.com, @notandrewking

King will receive his MFA from the University of South Florida in Spring 2024. He has shown work with Heiress Gallery in St. Petersburg, FL, and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC.

www.cassiakite.com, @cassiakiteart

Cassia Kite is an interdisciplinary artist who created Soundstitching, a multimedia project that transforms color from a hand-stitched image into a musical composition that can be interpreted by a musician and/or performance artist. Kite has collaboratively produced large-scale work for chamber ensemble and dancers using color-coded graphic scores derived from her hand-stitched tapestries. Kite's work was premiered at the KANEKO in Omaha, Nebraska in July of 2017. She has been featured as an experimental composer and visual artist in music festivals, museums and universities. Kite has been awarded artist in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in 2018 and The Hambidge Creative Residency Program in 2019. She is the recipient of the Paul J. Smith Excellence in Fibers Award from the Fiber Art Network 2018, the Dixon Ticonderoga Award of Excellence from the Florida Art Education Association in 2019, Sarasota Art Educators Association Award from the Florida Art Education Association in 2021 and the Ringling College of Art and Design Award in 2022. Cassia Kite is an interdisciplinary artist who created Soundstitching, a multimedia project that transforms color from a hand-stitched image into a musical composition that can be interpreted by a musician and/or performance artist. Kite has collaboratively produced large-scale work for chamber ensemble and dancers using color-coded graphic scores derived from her hand-stitched tapestries. Kite's work was premiered at the KANEKO in Omaha, Nebraska in July of 2017. She has been featured as an experimental composer and visual artist in music festivals, museums and universities. Kite has been awarded artist in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in 2018 and The Hambidge Creative Residency Program in 2019. She is the recipient of the Paul J. Smith Excellence in Fibers Award from the Fiber Art Network 2018, the Dixon Ticonderoga Award of Excellence from the Florida Art Education Association in 2019, Sarasota Art Educators Association Award from the Florida Art Education Association in 2021 and the Ringling College of Art and Design Award in 2022. Kite is currently the Cross-Curricular Liaison and a Visual Art Instructor at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. She resides between her Nebraska farm and Sarasota, Florida.

www.spaldingnixfineart.com

www.cynthiaknapp.com

Cynthia Knapp grew up in Canada where she earned a BA with honors in Fine Arts degree from the York University, Faculty of Fine Arts in Toronto. Returning to the US she began a full-time studio career in Atlanta, GA. Knapp was represented by Fay Gold Gallery for over 35 years while also maintaining gallery relationships with numerous dealers all over the US. Her work is found in private, university and corporate collections in the US and Canada. In addition to the steady 45-year exhibition schedule and commissions of canvas and works on paper, Knapp has been creating site-specific public art pieces for over 20 years. Both the sculptural work and two-dimensional pieces have been placed for health care facilities, airports, libraries, and both corporate and civic meeting and gathering spaces, often because they are playful, colorful, and optimistic. Currently her work is represented by Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta.

www.thomasdeansfineart.com

Kathryn Kolb was raised in the rural environs of Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1983 she received a BA in History from Emory University in Atlanta, concentrating on ancient Europe and the Near East. First working as a free-lance photojournalist, Kolb later shifted her focus to fine art images of natural forms and landscapes. Her work is known for strong graphic elements, abstract constructions and unusual focus. In both film and digital image capture, all images are designed in the viewfinder without significant post processing. Collections include: Georgia Museum, (Athens, GA), Fulton County Arts Council, City of Atlanta, DeKalb County, Calloway Gardens, Goizueta Business School (Emory University), Piedmont Hospital, Emory Health Care, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, King and Spalding, Eversheds Sutherland, Barg Coffin Lewis &Trapp LLP, (San Francisco), Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Boar's Head Inn (University of Virginia), Georgia TECH, Mark Hopkins Hotel (San Francisco), Mandarin Hotels (NYC, Atlanta), Hyatt Regency (Muscat, Oman) Southern Company, Omni CNN Center, and private collections. Kathryn Kolb is represented in Atlanta by Thomas Deans Fine Art.

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.mariakorol.com

Maria Korol's artistic practice is rooted in drawing and painting. She is interested in storytelling, literature in conversation with history, memory, and transformation. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980, in the middle of a military dictatorship, she was exiled to Brazil for four years and later returned to grow up in her home country. She moved to the United States in 2004. Korol has shown her artwork nationally and internationally at MOCA GA and Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta, The Painting Center and Prince Street Gallery in New York, and the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, among other places. Her artwork is in numerous collections. She is a distinguished fellow of the Junge Akademie der Kunste, the Hambidge Center, and the Women's Art Institute. She was a finalist for the Artadia Award in 2022, the recipient of the 2020 Edge Award with the Forward Arts Foundation, and was selected for The Creatives Project and the Hughley Fellowship. Her work has been published in ART PAPERS, Burnaway, and ArtsATL. Her studio is based in Atlanta, where she is an assistant professor of art at Morehouse College. Maria Korol is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.georgelongart.com

George Long has been a working artist in Atlanta since 1990. He recieved his BFA from the Atlanta College of art and has shown throughout the us and internationally. This work is part of an ongoing series that explores how we catalog our lives.

www.graceleelawrence.com, @gleeleelawlee

Gracelee has attended twenty residencies in the US and abroad and opened her second solo show in New York at Postmasters in June 2022 with a glowing review by Roberta Smith in the New York Times. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University at Albany, SUNY. Recent exhibitions include Peter Gaugy (Vienna, Austria), PRIOR Art Space (Barcelona, Spain), Patrick Mikhail (Montreal, CA), Kavi Gupta (Chicago, IL), Turley Gallery (Hudson, NY), and more. She has installed large-scale outdoor sculptures at the Upstate Immersive (Poughkeepsie, NY), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), Museum of Museums (Seattle, WA), Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN), Mary Sky (Hancock, VT), and others. In 2017 she returned from 15 months as a Visiting Professor in the Multidisciplinary Department of Art at Chiang Mai University and assistant to artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook on a Luce Scholars Fellowship. She is a member of the collective MATERIAL GIRLS, a recipient of the 2021-22 Individual Artist DEC Grant, a 2019 Jerome Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park, a 2016-17 Luce Scholars Fellow, a recipient of the 2015 UMLAUF Prize, 2013 Eyes Got It Prize, and the 2011-12 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant. Press for her work includes The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtNet, Hyperallergic, Artspace, The Creative Independent, and MAAKE Magazine, among others. She is an enthusiastic dancer, a lifelong horsewoman, and a passionate gardener.

www.michellelaxalt.com, @michellelaxalt

Michelle Laxalt is a multidisciplinary artist working in ceramics, textiles, and on paper. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University and BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno (her hometown). She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Laxalt has had recent solo exhibitions at Oats Park Art Center (Fallon, Nevada), Hi-Lo Press (Atlanta, Georgia), and whitespec (part of whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia). She was an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center in 2022 and 2019, and at Vermont Studio Center in 2016. Her artwork is in collections at the Center for Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus), Georgia State University (Atlanta), and Oats Park Art Center (Fallon, Nevada). In addition to her studio practice, Laxalt is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she resides.

www.nunimonalee.com, @artist_nuni_lee

Nuni Lee is a visual artist and teacher based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her recent pieces evolve from paintings that she makes en plein air, which she then brings into the studio to incorporate her cat muses. As beautiful as the places are, it gets only better when she imagines sharing these natural environments with her cats, and painting is a way for her to make these visions more enduring. She currently lives with her husband and five cats, Minnie, Choa, Ruby, Zula, and Flare, and uses time outside of teaching and painting to volunteer at a local cat shelter. Some of her most notable exhibition venues include the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Olive Tjaden Gallery (Ithaca, NY), and Aqua Art Miami.

www.makedalewis.com, @hungermakesme

Makeda Lewis is an artist, emerging curator and program coordinator based in Atlanta. She loves key lime pie, and you.

www.bethlilly.com, @sbethlilly

Beth Lilly is an artist whose photographs, installations and videos investigate how individuals, cultures, and geographies become what they are, and the role choice, chance and circumstance play in that ongoing evolution. Her work resides in permanent collections such as the High Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, MOCA GA, and the Zuckerman Museum. Her critically acclaimed performance/interactive project "The Oracle @ WiFi" was published by Kehrer Verlag. Select exhibitions include New Mexico Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Zuckerman Museum, Spalding Nix Fine Art, Whitespace Gallery, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. Grants and awards include a grant from Fulton County Arts Council, the High Museum/APG Purchase Award, Society for Photographic Education Regional Grant and Atlanta Celebrates Photography Public Art Grant. Her work has been reproduced and reviewed in such publications as Blind Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Lensculture, Art Papers, Papermag, Burnaway, and The Bitter Southerner. Lilly earned an MFA in Photography from Georgia State University and an A.B.J. in Telecommunication Arts from the University of Georgia. She is represented in Atlanta by Spalding Nix Fine Art.

www.thomasdeansfineart.com

www.carllinstrum.com, @carllinstrumart

Carl Linstrum's professional experience spans a broad range, including his work as an internationally exhibiting painter, through nearly twenty years as a gallery owner and art consultant, and into his current position as a professor in the School of Foundation Studies at SCAD Atlanta. He received his BA in Printmaking from The University of South Florida in 1992 and his MFA in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University in 2002. In his role as a professional artist, Carl has accumulated an extensive exhibition record, participating in solo and group exhibitions regionally, nationally and internationally in galleries, museums and universities. His drawings and paintings have been collected into numerous private, corporate and public collections throughout his career. As owner of Aliya Linstrum Gallery from 1992 until 2009, Mr. Linstrum represented a highly respected stable of artists working in all media. He worked closely with these artists, securing commissions and curating exhibitions with the intent of aggressively developing their careers as professionals in their field. During these years, Carl also served on the board of the Atlanta Gallery Association, whose goal was to promote the active visual arts community in Atlanta and highlight the city's role as the cultural capital of the South. Since joining SCAD Atlanta in 2009, he has taught a full range of drawing and design courses in the School of Foundation Studies and the School of Fine Arts. Carl Linstrum lives and works in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters. He is represented by Thomas deans Fine Art in Atlanta, Addigntom Gallery in Chicago, and Virginia Cannon Fine Art in Nashville

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.georgelongart.com

George Long has been a working artist in Atlanta since 1990. He recieved his BFA from the Atlanta College of art and has shown throughout the us and internationally. This work is part of an ongoing series that explores how we catalog our lives.

driftersproject.net

Pam Longobardi (born 1958) is an American contemporary artist and ecofeminist, currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. She is known internationally for sculptural works and installations created from plastic debris, primarily from marine and coastal environments, as a primary material. Much of her work includes community-based research, such as carbon or plastic audits, as well as collaborative art creation. In 2013, Longobardi was awarded The Hudgens Prize [2] and in 2014, she earned the title Distinguished University Professor of Art at Georgia State, and was named Artist-in-Residence of the Oceanic Society.[3] In 2019, she was appointed Regents' Professor by the Board of Regents for the State of Georgia.

www.xxostudio.com

www.tyrus.co, @tyruslytton

Tyrus Lytton (b.1978) is a native of Atlanta, Gerogia. Tyrus received a BFA in Painting as a Presidential Scholar from the University of Georgia and his MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. As a Vermont Studio Center Fellow, WonderRoot Walthall Fellow, and Hambidge Fellow his work has been exhibited internationally and is in presidential, corporate, and individual collections. Primarily a painter, Tyrus also utilizes photography, printmaking, sound, and video which are characterized by a unique combination of neo-surrealist abstraction with realism to investigate social bonds, the movement of information, and self-reflection. He maintains a playfulness and excitement that keeps artwork important as a transformative tool while developing it in a way that engages in a process of creative exploration and discovery bridging investigation and practice.

www.gabimadrid.com

Gabi Madrid is a multi-disciplinary artist, intuitive, and energy healer based in Atlanta, GA. Their approach to art has always been based around the medium or concept that "calls" to them. The mediums range from new media installation, found objects, paper art, collage, and reclaimed materials such as wood and metal. With Muscogee Creek heritage but being raised outside of the tribe and in the South created a cultural diaspora which has led a searching for connection to tradition and spirituality. This has guided the artist on an existential journey to explore healing of generational patterning, societal roles, and the collective unconscious. An introspective search into their own past and trauma led to the emergence of various series. Madrid graduated in 2019 from The Savannah College of Art & Design with their BFA. Working as a fine artist granted them experience in writing grants/proposals, woodworking, metal fabrication, and public art installation. Their work has been included in a group shows at the Zuckerman Museum of Art - Fine Arts Gallery and exhibited at the Palazzo Ca' Zanardi in Venice, Italy. Their work is also publicly on display on Freedom Park Trail and on the BeltLine in Atlanta, GA.

www.cynthiamason.com, @cynthiamasonvisualart

Trained as an architect and fascinated by the overlap and edges of topographies, Cynthia Mason makes soft sculptures and mixed media constructions that scramble the spatial and material codes of painting and sculpture. Mason's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States. Mason received her MFA at the University of South Florida and BFA from Ringling College. She lives and works in St. Petersburg, Florida.

www.forest-mcmullin.com, @forestmcm

Forest McMullin is a photographic artist and writer based in Atlanta.

michimeko.com

Multidisciplinary artist Michi Meko (b. 1974, Florence, Alabama) He received a BFA in Painting from the University of North Alabama.Michi Meko has exhibited widely, most recently holding solo exhibitions at Kavi Gupta, Chicago; Gallerie Myrtis, Baltimore ,MD; Richmmond Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Cress Gallery at University of Chattanooga; Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA; and MOCA GA, Atlanta GA. Group shows include Contemporary Arts Center, Mobile, AL; Artspace New Haven, New Haven, CT; Zuckerman Museum of Art. Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw GA; and Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA among many others. In 2017 Meko was awarded two prestigious grants: the Atlanta Artadia Award and the Joan Mitchell Award. In addition, Meko has received a DashBoard Co-Op Residency Grant, an Idea Capital Grant, a Flux Projects Grant, and a Wonderroot CSA Grant. His work is collected in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art.

www.CharmaineMinniefield.com, @BlackAngelATL

Firmly rooted in womanist social theory and ancestral veneration, the work of Charmaine Minniefield draws from indigenous traditions as seen throughout Africa and the Diaspora to explore African and African-American history, memory, and ritual as an intentional push back against erasure. Her creative practice is community-based as her research and resulting bodies of work often draw from public archives. Minniefield recently served as the Stuart A. Rose Library artist-in-residence at Emory University. Through a collaboration with Flux Projects, she presented her work Remembrance as Resistance: Preserving Black Narratives in Atlanta's historically segregated cemetery to honor the over 800 unmarked graves that were discovered in the African-American burial grounds. Minniefield was awarded the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant to present her Praise House project at three different locations in the metro Atlanta area to celebrate the African-American history of those communities. She currently splits her time in residence between Atlanta and the Gambia, where she continues to study the origins of her cultural identity and Indigenous traditions by tracing the Ring Shout. Her exhibition entitled, "Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story" was recently presented by the Michael C. Carlos Museum on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta

www.sandlerhudson.com

www.DonnaJMintz.com, @donnajmintz

Donna Mintz is a visual artist who writes about art and literature. Her painting and installation is a meditation on memory, time, and place and can be found in the permanent collections of such institutions as the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Mobile Museum of Art. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Sewanee Review, Sculpture magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the arts journals Burnaway.org and ArtsATL.org where she is a regular contributor. Mintz is a past writer-in-residence at Rivendell Writers' Colony, a fellow at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, and a current studio artist at Atlanta Contemporary. She holds an MFA from Sewanee's School of Letters at the University of the South and recently completed a book on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

www.marryammoma.com, @marryammomaart

Marryam Moma, a Tanzanian-Nigerian collage virtuoso, creates mesmerizing narratives through analog collage. Drawing from contemporary events and personal encounters, she ingeniously melds repurposed archival paper, mixed media, vibrant paints, and gilded elements, pushing artistic boundaries to craft multi-layered imagery laden with subtle symbolism. Her work meticulously dissects the experience of inhabiting a Black body while highlighting Black experiences, and celebrating Black joy. With a background in architecture and a familial artistic heritage, nurtured by her art-loving mother, Moma's disciplined approach challenges stereotypes. Her art endeavors to reshape perceptions of Black women, revealing their profound power and complexity. Marryam's artistic exploration delves into the intersections of race, sexuality, and spirituality, reframing societal perspectives on the Black body. Her work graces the collections of corporate giants like Microsoft and Starbucks and has appeared on TV shows like Black-ish, Bel Air, and Cherish the Day. Featured in esteemed publications such as The NEW Brownies Book 2023, Marryam's exhibitions have left a mark internationally, including a heartwarming return to Nigeria, her forever home. Moma recently debuted her inaugural solo exhibition the US, "ICONoclasts," in Atlanta, GA, her newfound artistic sanctuary.

www.moorefun310.faso.com

Jennifer Moore is a Rabun County, Georgia artist. Her strong sense of color and composition makes her paintings unique and appealing. After graduating from Hollins College in 1987, she began a career in marketing and design which culminated into her own company, Jennifer Moore Decorative Painting. After refining her drawing skills at the Cincinnati Art Academy, she moved to Georgia and started studying under well-known abstract landscape artists, including the late Ann Templeton (named one of the top 100 landscape artists in America) and Guido Frick. Jennifer has also studied more locally with Libby Mathews, Nancy Dusenberry, figure painter Kay Hibbard, James Richards and Qiang Huang. With the instruction of these fine artists, Jennifer has learned new techniques that have allowed her to further refine her own style of painting. Jennifer makes her home on Tiger Mountain in Rabun County, Georgia with husband Scott, where she continues to refine painting the beautiful rural scenes of the Southeast.

www.cynthiamorelli.com, @cmorelliclay

Cynthia Morelli, a 2020 Rasmuson Foundation Fellow, lives and works in Homer, Alaska. In 2021, she hosted a six week artist-driven residency at her studio with three ceramic sculptors from around the US. In autumn 2022 Morelli was an artist in residence at Hambidge Center in north Georgia. Again in spring 2023 she hosted a sculpture residency with one invited collaborator, Isabell Daniel of Georgia. Since 2013, she has primarily fired her abstract sculpture and functional wares in an anagama style wood kiln that she designed and built. After receiving her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, she lived in Japan for five years, with a Cultural Visa to study Butoh and calligraphy for three of those years. She resumed working in clay upon moving to Homer in 1993. Morelli exhibits her sculpture and drawings in Alaska and the lower 48, most recently in her June 2022 exhibit titled Core Reverberations at Bunnell Street Art Center in Homer, Alaska.

www.cynthiamorelli.com, @cmorelliclay

Cynthia Morelli, a 2020 Rasmuson Foundation Fellow, lives and works in Homer, Alaska. In 2021, she hosted a six week artist-driven residency at her studio with three ceramic sculptors from around the US. In autumn 2022 Morelli was an artist in residence at Hambidge Center in north Georgia. Again in spring 2023 she hosted a sculpture residency with one invited collaborator, Isabell Daniel of Georgia. Since 2013, she has primarily fired her abstract sculpture and functional wares in an anagama style wood kiln that she designed and built. After receiving her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, she lived in Japan for five years, with a Cultural Visa to study Butoh and calligraphy for three of those years. She resumed working in clay upon moving to Homer in 1993. Morelli exhibits her sculpture and drawings in Alaska and the lower 48, most recently in her June 2022 exhibit titled Core Reverberations at Bunnell Street Art Center in Homer, Alaska.

www.meganmosholder.com, @meganmosholderart

Visual artist Megan Mosholder reacts to the social-political landscape through site-responsive installations. Her three-dimensional drawings, often enhanced by light, emphasize obscured elements within recognizable places correlating symbolism with lived experience. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in painting, Megan boasts numerous awards from institutions such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. She is commissioned by leading corporations and included in public art programs, museum exhibitions, and art fairs. Interest in her installations led to international interest in her work, evidenced by her inclusion within the European Cultural Centre's 2022 Personal Structures exhibition presented during the Venice Biennale and a public art space in Sydney, Australia (2017). These works speak to the power of site-specific work to make a lasting impression upon the viewer. Her large-scale installations also express her tenacity. Following a September 2018 car accident where the gas tank ruptured and ignited, trapping her inside, she endured burns to over sixty percent of her body. While the event left indelible marks, it also provided new heights for her to reach. Megan continues to create installations that relay her devotion to her work and the communities she engages. Currently, she resides in Atlanta, GA, where she is a consultant to RangeWater's Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program.

www.masonfineartandevents.com

www.pammoxley.com

Pam Moxley's mixed media works are a combination of acrylic, wood, photographic image transfers and resin. The combination of these techniques brings each of these individual works of art to life. Mixing the distress of the transfers with the brilliance of the resin creates a beautiful mix of nostalgia and high concept polish. Pam has been exhibiting her work throughout the United States for the last several years and has had many solo exhibits including shows at the Atlanta Botanical Garden and Mason Murer Fine Art. Recent museum exhibitions include MOCA GA, Southeast Museum of Photography, Mobile Museum of Art, and The Grand Rapids Art Museum. Pam's work is held in many private and public collections throughout the United States including the MOCA GA collection, the Pinnacle Bank Collection, City of Atlanta collection, the APG collector's portfolio, Blackbird Technologies, and the Southeast Museum of Photography. Pam's work has also been featured in films and national magazines.

www.leylismrart.com

Her works depict a mixture of all human feelings gathered in love, fears, fragility, faith, passion, romanticism, loneliness, warmth, hope, promises. Revealing the beauty of human interior. An endless list of sensations to be tasted in a blink. Leylis V. Burnette (Leylis MR.) was born in Ica, Peru in 1986. She received her bachelor's in art education (Visual Arts) from Servulo Gutierrez Art School Peru in 2006, concluding her studies with honorable mentions accomplishing a gold medal for graduating first in her class. Burnette artworks have been exhibited in her country and abroad such as The United States, Germany, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico, including shows at the Brazilian Embassy in Peru, Ministry of Cultural Affairs Peru, Institut Fur Alles Mogliche Germany, Latino Art Museum California, Agua Fuerte Gallery Mexico, and IX International Art Biennale SUBA Colombia, among others. Her works has been also featured in contemporary poetry and compilation of female artists works selection publications. Her passion for art is not limited to painting, she also embraced other disciplines like music, theater, poetry, Peruvian folkloric dance enriching her artwork inspiration in a philosophical interpretation. Burnette resides in Atlanta, where she continues her incessant effort as an artist and art educator.

www.chiekomurasugi.com, @cmurasugi

Chieko Murasugi was born in Tokyo, raised in Toronto, and lived in San Francisco for 20 years before relocating to North Carolina in 2012. She studied Visual Perception in humans (PhD Experimental Psychology, York U, Toronto) and monkeys (Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurobiology, Stanford Medical School). After a decades-long painting practice, she earned an MFA in Studio Art from UNC-Chapel Hill (2019). Chieko has exhibited her work widely in galleries and museums, including Greenhill, the Mint, Wiregrass, and Ackland Museums. Her paintings reside in the collections of Duke University, the cities of Raleigh and Durham, TIAA, and Honeywell. She has been awarded residencies at Hambidge, Black Mountain College Museum (digital), and Wildacres. Her art practice is featured in Liza Roberts' 2022 book, "Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina." Chieko is a co-founder and co-curator of BASEMENT, an experimental project space in Chapel Hill, and she is currently represented by Craven Allen and Peel Galleries.

www.tracymurrell.com, @tracymurrellart

Tracy Murrell is an Atlanta based visual artist. Murrell exhibits both locally and nationally. Her work has been featured in art publications including Create! Magazine, New American Paintings, Atlanta Magazine's Home, and Thom Magazine. Murrell is ArtFolio's 2022 Gold category winner in Painting: Traditional/Contemporary. Murrell has been awarded residencies at The Hambidge Center; Atlanta Printmakers Studio; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and Green Olive Arts in Tetouan, Morocco. In 2022, she was awarded a Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) Practitioner Fellowship. In 2020, Georgia Tech University unveiled two paintings by Murrell commissioned by the AKA Sorority for the Crosland Tower library. In 2021, Microsoft acquired 6 works from the Sumaya series and, in 2022, The Coca-Cola Company acquired "Rose and Enoch" from The Haiti Series for their permanent collection. For 2023, Murrell started a 2-year residency with The Creative Project's Artist-in-Studio program exploring community engagement and public art to add to her practice. Her latest accomplishment is The German publishing company, Rowohlt, releasing four of Toni Morrison's books with Murrell's work on the covers. The covers feature "Her Mind is Open", "The Little Ballerina", "Dahlia I" and "Sister, I Got Your Back".

www.andynasisseart.com

Andy Nassise received his BFA from Adams State College of Colorado and his MFA from the University of Colorado. Nassise taught at the University of Georgia as a ceramics professor and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Georgia Council for the Arts, and a research grant form the University of Georgia. His work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; Ashville Art Museum in Ashville, NC; Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, AL; and numerous other institutions throughout the United States.

www.eleanornealart.com

Eleanor Neal received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eleanor has artwork in the Permanent Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Exhibitions include the Sarah Ball Allis Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport with MOCA GA. A one-person exhibition in 2023 with September Gray Gallery. Works on Paper Fine Arts Show with September Gray Gallery in New York City. Also, the Atlanta Biennial, Of Care and Destruction, at the Contemporary Arts Center. Drawings and printmaking artworks explore abstraction and its connection to myths and Southern stories, where identity and nature intersect. Inspired by Spanish moss, water, and historical stories of powerful women. Inspiration comes from nature; Spanish moss which lives on the trees along the Georgia Sea Coast. I work with paper and non-traditional printmaking processes. I explore the landscape and the women of the South; how their spirit can carry off, through nature; plants, flowers, trees, to move, change, yet always searching for a place of permanence and empowerment. The selected artwork is from collected plants from Daufuskie Island South, Carolina. The home of the Gullah community. It is a place where remnants of Gullah Island life and culture endure.

www.sharonnorwood.com/home.html, @sharonnorwoodartist

Sharon Norwood is an interdisciplinary artist working in a variety of mediums to include painting, ceramics, and other mediums. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of South Florida and a Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Florida State University. Her work has been showcased not only in Canada and the United States, but also Jamaica, Korea and Germany through solo exhibitions, group collaborations, and site-specific installations. She has earned multiple awards for her accomplishments and her pieces have been featured in several academic publications. Additionally, she has been given the chance to participate in residencies at places like the Banff Center, McColl Center for Creative Arts, Hambidge Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, PILOTENKUECHE (Germany), Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts (Maine), and ROKTOWA (Kingston Jamaica). In 2019 she became a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant nominee! She is included in both private and public collections and has works in the permanent collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC, The Gardiner Museum Toronto, and Washington and Lee University in Northern Virginia. Norwood maintains her studio in Savannah, Georgia.

www.dorothyoconnor.com

Dorothy O'Connor's constructed, fantastical works often combine elements of photography, installation and public art. A native Atlantan, she graduated with degrees in Literature and Studio Arts and a certificate in photography. As a fabricator, she is largely self-taught. Inspired by the natural world, and shaped by events in her life, her themes explore various personally meaningful subjects both broad, such as animal welfare and environmental concerns, to the more intimate; friends, family and community. She has received grants from Possible Futures, FLUX, Forward Arts Foundation, Art on the Beltline, Crusade For Art, Fulton County Arts and Culture and most recently, City of Atlanta ElevateART to present her installations as public art. In 2013, she was artist in residence at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville where she built and presented her installation, "Shelter." She is a Hambidge Fellow and was part of the Hambidge Hive Collective in 2017. 2019 concluded with a solo show of her photography series, Scenes, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Ms. O'Connor's work is part of the permanent collections at MOCA GA, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fulton County Arts and Culture, and is included in numerous private collections.

www.wchesterold.com

An Atlanta native, W. Chester Old studied ceramics and printmaking at Penland School of Craft. After his studies, Old founded a ceramic design studio and began exhibiting his work throughout the eastern United States. He received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art (SCAD) while incorporating video, sound, light, and unusual materials into his installations and sculptures. Awards include Southwest Arts Center commission for eight light sculptures in the theater (Atlanta); artist-in-residence/exhibition at SECCA (Winston-Salem, NC), sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation; and purchase for Truman Hall, residence of The United States Ambassador to NATO (Brussels, Belgium). Old's current work examines conceptual ideas he experimented with during his undergraduate studies. The results are his Dysfunctional Objects (included in the MOCA GA permanent collection), the Shadow Portraits series, and most recently his Book as Object series.

www.carolrobinsongallery.net

www.jolesart.com, @john_oles

John Oles was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, and holds a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts (1998) and an MFA from Tulane University (2008) in New Orleans, Louisiana. John taught ceramics at Loyola University from 2008-2013. Currently, John is Associate Professor of Ceramics at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL.

www.erinhammstudio.me, @erinpalovick_studio

Erin Palovick is an transdisciplinary artist and educator from Atlanta, GA. Her practice is situated at the intersection of performance, installation, and research. She experiments with a wide variety of materials and immaterials as a way to learn, unlearn, and complicate goals. Palovick received her BFA from Georgia State University in 2010 and her MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2023. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally, including shows at the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgia, and Design Festa Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. She was a Walthall fellow in 2015 and an artist resident at the Hambidge Center in 2019. Palovick is the co-founder and co-director of fLoromancy an arts publication started in 2016 that received funding from Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs in 2020. She is currently a part time instructor at Georgia State University.

www.Yeshaart.com, @Yeshaart22

Yesha Panchal was born in Gujarat, India, and currently living in Suwanee, GA. She earned her BFA with a concentration in ceramics at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA in 2017. She is currently an instructor at the Hudgens Center for Art in Duluth, GA, an organizer of the Clay to Table, serves on the board of NCECA, and works from a home studio. Her article "Working Potter" and work were published in "Thoughts on Collaboration" in the June/July/August 2022 issue of Ceramics Monthly

www.adampaulek.com, @adampaulek

Adam Paulek is currently an Associate Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, VA. He is originally from Keosauqua, IA, and earned a B.A. with a major in art at Buena Vista University, IA, in 1999. His passion for clay led him to Asheville, NC, where he apprenticed under potter Hank Goodman for three years. Following this experience, Adam pursued graduate studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, earning an M.F.A. with an emphasis in ceramics. He then established and operated a clay-based art center named Mighty Mud Studios in Knoxville while simultaneously nurturing his personal work and studio development. In 2009, Adam relocated to Virginia, where he created a new studio, partially constructed from recycled steel shipping containers, and reimmersed himself in the academic community. In 2012, he was featured as the Salad Days Artist for the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine. In 2013, he received the "100 Cup Artist in Residence" award at the Guldaergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark. Adam also served as an artist in residence at Maison Des Metiers D'Art De Quebec in Quebec City. Most recently, Adam participated in the Cooking and Clay residency at the Hambidge Center.

www.laneycontemporary.com

www.willpenny.com

Will Penny is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice incorporates an assortment of media ranging from painting, video, sculpture, programming, and projection. His work aims to combine traditional art making tools with new technologies, to create space to explore themes such as embodiment, presence, fantasy, and the sublime. He was born in Woodstock, Ontario in 1984, and lives and works in Savannah, Georgia. He received his MFA in Painting and BFA in Painting from The Savannah College of Art and Design, and a diploma in Fine Art from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. His work has been exhibited at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Francis Marion University, Florence; Telfair Museums, Savannah; the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon; Georgia Southern University, Statesboro; and HUBweek, Boston. He is the recipient of the SCAD Dean's Fellowship award, and his work has been acquired by collections such as Telfair Museums, Savannah; Google Ventures, New York; and the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta.

www.instagram.com/echo_contemporary_art

www.allenpeterson.com, @allenptrsn

Peterson's sculpture is on permanent public display in front of the Northwest Atlanta Library at Scott's Crossing, on the Atlanta BeltLine, and in the public park of York, Alabama. He has received many grants and awards, including an Art of Giving public art award in 2016, sponsored by Americans For The Arts, for his library sculpture Northwest Atlanta Globe. In 2011 he was awarded an NEA New Artist Initiative grant by the Hambidge Center. Peterson's beekeeping informs his artistic practice; his work involving bees has been curated into group exhibitions in art venues such as the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, but also into science-related art exhibitions at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum, and at Emory University. His work has been curated into many invitational exhibitions, including at the Atlanta College of Art, the Chautauqua Center in New York, universities across the United States, and the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Berlin.

www.instagram.com/phaemonae.555

PhaeMonae she/her/they/them is a mother of two Echo and Free , a movement engineer, creative HMUA, and Designer. Originating from the chocolate city, Washington D.C. and P.G. County Maryland. The voyages to Atl in 2015 began to propel forward in following the creative itch to make and shake. PhaeMonae loves to explore multiple mediums that feel transcendent of their personal joys and creative layering. A human who shape shifts as a form of expression and protection with deep connections to her ancestral realms and future selves. Collaging and turning trash to treasure can be key describing words to PhaeMonae's style and approach to art-making. Landscape research and jovial sparks of inspiration to encourage folks to be their most authentic selves. If i don't know anything about myself one thing i know is "I will DIE FLY". PhaeMonae has presented her designs in a multitude of presentations like "Birth of Pleasure" in 2019, "Pink Booth Confessions" 2022 , "Barbie in a Box" at the Windmill with Fly on the wall 2022, Common Thread fashion show 2023 with The Bakery and Elevate ATL, "Form" in Sub-itch gallery 2022 and "Bridezilla" 2023, Witnessing a light bath in 2023 at No Tomorrow, Patchez Circus fashion Show 2023, "Untitled" at Auburn research library and For Keeps Bookstore 2023. The birth of PhaeMonae's Adornments came to conception by way of her last commissioned wardrobe engineering "Untitled" choreographed by Anicka Austin. PhaeMonae has just taken the leap of faith to LLC their designs and is beginning to sell to a larger audience.

www.Honeypierre.com

Honey Pierre creates vivid textile collages that depict stories of maternal lineage, love, and communal identity. Born Cassandra Hickey to Rhonda Harris, Honey Pierre hails from Cleveland, OH and has three siblings. She weaves family orientation into every jovial portrait, composing high contrasting patterns against blue skin tones. As a child, fashion magazines were some of Honey's first fixations and inspired her to illustrate dynamic silhouettes everyday. Honey's high school art teacher recognized her artistic talents and introduced her to new media, techniques, and her own confidence. Although pursuing a fine arts degree is a goal of HoneyPierre's, she joined the United States Army for three years after high school. Since completing her military duties, Honey has been a full time visual artist.

www.alliepohl.com

This series is in the collection of c21 Museum Hotels, Citibank, and Bob & Ann Myers.

Allie Pohl is a Los Angeles-based conceptual artist whose work explores the social and cultural constructions of contemporary Western society. Questioning the notion of perfection, Pohl created the "Ideal Woman" by digitally enhancing Barbie to fit Western society's ideal female measurements of 36-24-36. This avatar symbolizes anti-perfection and is repeated throughout Pohl's work in sculpture, video, ceramic, and installation. In an effort to continue the conversation outside of galleries and museums, Pohl has made her work more accessible through the "Ideal Woman" jewelry line and sticker packs. In her latest series entitled "Peacocking," Pohl turns her attention to the opposite sex and examines how contemporary men market themselves to women on popular dating apps, such as Tinder, while also dissecting male mannequins to highlight how society's conception of the ideal male form has transformed over the decades. Pohl's unique aesthetic has been widely exhibited with features in the Orlando Museum of Art, Context Miami, Dallas Art Fair, Photo LA, Cornell Museum of Art and American Culture, the Denver International Airport, and a public sculpture show curated by Olga Viso where she won the People's Choice Award. Allie Pohl (b. 1984) received a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College before attending Parsons, The New School for Design, in New York City, where she received an Associates of Applied Science in Graphic Design. She then went on to receive her MFA in Electronic Media Arts & Design from the University of Denver.

www.broadwovens.com, @lynnlpollard

Lynn Pollard was thrilled to see her indigo dyed landscape work gracing the cover of a French art album on two separate occasions. Living in Atlanta, she has sold her indigo landscapes and collages through UGallery.com, the American Craft Council shows, art consultants and interior designers. Her work is in many private collections as well as public collections including the Skyline Lodge, Hotel Nobu, Emory University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. She currently divides her time between her studio, her arts and crafts advocacy work, and her garden. Her heart belongs to her grandsons in Asheville.

www.philproctor.com, @philproctorsculpture

Phil Proctor is a professional sculptor practicing in Atlanta since 2003. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from East Carolina University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Southern Mississippi. His permanently installed public art works can be found across the southeastern United States and Eastern Europe. Proctor has developed a professional reputation in the public art community by his involvement in the infrastructure of public art. Some examples are: his role as a committee member for the development of a public art master plan for the city of Suwanee, Georgia and his initiatives leading to the first annual temporary outdoor sculpture exhibition in the city of Decatur, Georgia. Phil Proctor works in his studio in South Atlanta where he generates his sculpture and other specialty metal work. His company is Nucleus Sculpture Studio LLC, where he designs, engineers, fabricates and installs custom projects for designers, architects and other artists.

www.nancyraceart.com, @nancyraceart

Nancy was introduced to painting through a casual art class with friends. As an interior designer, the study of color came naturally. But she was astonished by how much she loved two dimensional art, and couldn't get enough of it! In New York City, Nancy studied at the Art Student's League and the National Academy of Art. She has worked with a number of artists including Cat Tesla, Adele Sypesteyn, and Nicholas Wilton, in his Art2Life Academy. She loves to take frequent workshops to increase her knowledge and meet other creatives. Nancy is represented by Stellers Gallery and Missy's Art & Pieces in Jacksonville, FL, as well as Toby West Antiques in Cashiers, NC. She is currently in a one-woman show at the Madison Artist's Guild for August/September 2023.Her collectors include individuals and corporations nationwide. She donates a portion of her proceeds to local charities. Nancy shares her time between Atlanta and her family farm in Cashiers, NC. She is so grateful for the beauty and peace of the mountains of Western North Carolina, relishing the opportunity to share painting with her three grandsons, and exploring nature with her family and two Boykin spaniels.

www.noahreyesartist.com

Noah Reyes is an artist/writer based in Atlanta. After having obtained his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Noah returned to his hometown of Atlanta to entrench himself in the arts and culture of this verdant city. Writing reviews and proposals for shows, Noah hopes to blur the lines between artist/writer/curator. He is interested in experimental curation/art experiences, trying to illuminate spaces in between cultures and exposing what grows from the cracks between art and society. Representing half of the curatorial duo Eso Tilin Projects, Noah pushes to redefine artist-run spaces, and what support means in a fragile and ever-changing ecosystem for artists today. He also works for Art Papers, and serves as a board member of Lostintheletters. He is a romantic silly goose that laughs, sings, and whistles often when he works in his studio.

www.lisasettegallery.com

www.atoribeiroart.com, @ilaama99

Ato Ribeiro (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including sculptural installation, drawing and printmaking. He was born in Philadelphia, PA. and spent the formative years of his life in Accra, Ghana before relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, where he is currently serving as a 2022/2023 MOCA GA WAP Fellow. He was a 2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee, MINT 2021 Leap Year Artist, and has received Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME. His work has been exhibited at Lisa Sette Gallery (Phoenix, AZ), Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), the Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Rozsa Center (Houghton, MI), and Anastasia Tinari Projects (Chicago, IL) among others. He earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his M.F.A. in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

www.davidrobinson.website, @davidrobinson1979

David Clayton Robinson grew up in the 1960's in a typical dysfunctional family in a small town on an Alluvial plain in the Mississippi Delta. On one hand, the rural south was idyllic, with woods, lakes, and open fields to explore. On the other hand, it was also a time rife with deeply entrenched racism, homophobia and the ubiquitous hand of Christianity. The contrasts and conflicts of this time and place contributed greatly to Robinson's growth as a person and artist. Largely a self-taught artist, Robinson's education was supplemented with a variety of workshops over the years including classes at Georgia State, Callanwolde, Arrowmont, and Penland. In addition to an undergraduate degree in English and French, Robinson also has a graduate degree in Instructional Technology from Georgia State University. Robinson had a solo show at {Poem88} in 2021and currently has work in Houska Gallery in St. Louis, Chauvet Arts in Nashville, and The Archie Bray Gallery in Helena, MT. Robinson currently enjoys participating in art residencies around the US and world. He has been honored with invitations to Hambidge (Georgia), The Archie Bray (Montana), Anderson Ranch (Colorado), Gaya Ceramic Arts Center (Bali, Indonesia), and Guldagergaard (Denmark).

www.facebook.com/gallery441intheheartofdillard

Www.BlueEyeBandit.com, @Helenr486

Helen Rogers Blue Eye Bandit Studio 404-784-2531 The most important thing to know about me is that I am a retired government scientist turned artist. For 27 years, I worked in the field of environmental health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My training is in analytical chemistry and I have investigated many disease outbreaks in the US and abroad (Africa, Central and South America, Europe). Although the popular public perception of scientists is of stodgy men and women in white lab coats seriously gazing into microscopes, the truth is that the greatest discoveries are made through risk-taking and creativity. I've been driven by a passion for making things all my life, and have maintained flirtatious love affair with art. I have very little formal training in art techniques-most everything I do, I learn on the fly and infer the rest. Art involves the action of prying open the places between the dark and the light, the natural world and technology, folk traditions and modern marvels, and then finding ways to blend them together. To that end, I blend folk tales into the stories and poems I write about my pieces. I collect natural materials and found objects to blend into creatures-of the forests, of technology, of my imagination.

www.pamrogersart.com, @rogpk

Pam Rogers is a painter/sculptor/creator exploring the roles of the artist within nature. Focusing on materials and process, Pam creates pigments from locally sourced plants, soil and minerals exploring natural environments augmented by humankind. Additionally, she uses plants to create ephemeral sculptures. Born in Boulder, Colorado, Rogers has a BA in Art History: Wellesley College, MFA: Savannah College of Art and Design, and certificate in Botanical Illustration. After a long-term residency at the Arlington Arts Center, VA., Rogers relocated her studio to Denver, CO. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally with recent exhibitions at the Gintner Botanic Gardens, Richmond, VA, American University, Washington DC and Weir Farm National Historic Park, CT. Rogers has worked on numerous curatorial projects as well as being a 2015 Sondheim Semi-Finalist. She has received fellowships at multiple artist residencies, including the Ucross, Hambidge, I-Park, Ragdale Art Center, Mass MoCA, and Brush Creek Arts Foundation. Rogers continues to work as an independent illustrator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

www.StacieRoseStudio.com, @StacieURrose

Stacie Rose has lived and worked in Atlanta since 2008. She has shown in Atlanta at Poem88 Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCAGA), Swan Coach House Gallery, Kibbee Gallery, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Barbara Archer Gallery, Mason Fine Art, Marcia Wood Gallery, Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, and Lamar Dodd School of Art (UGA). Her work is included in numerous corporate and private collections around the country. Projects include large scale paintings in CODA Tech Square, and the MARTA's Arts Center Station. Stacie earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and is a fellow of The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Science.

www.Loftmarietta.com

www.DebRosenbury.com

I grew up in northern Indiana and always enjoyed art and making beautiful objects. I am a largely self-taught artist, I attended Interior Design courses at Indiana University and continually take courses to learn new techniques and approaches to art making. I have owned design businesses in Texas and Nashville and eventually landed in Atlanta, GA, for good. In Atlanta I pivoted to creating charming, hand-crafted artisan objects for local home stores. Eventually I started offering original paintings and decided to focus entirely on creating works of art. I am a productive artist and create paintings, drawings, one-of-a-kind artisan books and other beautiful objects for a variety of clientele, home stores and galleries. My studio home is currently the Urban Art Collective in Chamblee, GA.

www.instagram.com/politicalpotter

Stephanie Rozene (she/her) b. 1980 Portland, ME; MFA in Ceramics and Craft History, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS Canada 2004; BFA, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 2002; Stephanie A. Rozene is a Professor of Art, the Wandersee Scholar in Residence (2023-24) and the ceramics program coordinator at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY where she was recently awarded the and the Teacher Scholar Award (2020). Rozene's two research streams include the use of historical ornament and porcelain as a visual language in order to critique contemporary political rhetoric and investigation of the history of clay as a tool for cooking. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at multiple venues including the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), The Philadelphia Clay Studio, Red Star Studios (Kansas City, MO), Harvard Ceramics, (Boston, MA), SOFA Chicago and VIA Vallauris (France) and has completed residencies at the International Ceramics Studio (Kecskemet, HU) VIA Vallauris (Vallauris, FR), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Maine) and The Hambidge Center (Georgia). Her work was recently included in the National Council for the Education for Ceramic Arts Annual exhibition, I Contain Multitudes at the Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rozene serves on the board of trustees at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME. She is dedicated to the advancement and development of the field of Craft History and Theory.

www.katerusek.com, @thekaterusek

Kate Rusek is a sculptor and textile artist who splits her time between New York City and the Pacific NorthWest. Influenced by man-made environmental catastrophes, emotional landscapes, and ecological systems, she assembles highly tactile artworks transmuting these themes into abundant maximalism. Selected exhibitions include Spring Break Art Fair, Socrates Sculpture Park,Mizuma, Kips, and Wada (NYC), XO at The Colosseum (Seattle), Site Brooklyn, The Lowe Art Museum (Miami), The Gallery of Visual Arts at The University of Montana (Missoula), 440 Gallery (Brooklyn), and Governor's Island Art Fair (NYC) among others. They are a recipient of a Wingate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft and the Devra Freelander Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2023. Rusek has been awarded residencies at Socrates Sculpture Park, The Archie Bray Foundation, Chulitna Lodge, Vermont Studio Center, Vashon Island AIR, Centrum, and The Hambidge Center. Additionally, Kate Rusek is a Daytime Emmy winning designer and builder of costumes, puppets, and props for her work on Sesame Street and works extensively within the broader television and film industry.

www.hasanisahlehe.com

Hasani Sahlehe experienced his formative years in a four-generational setting in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he was born. He was raised by his grandmother and among his many relatives, several of whom were musicians, educators, artists, and fervent preservers of local history and culture. Sahlehe graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015. His practice investigates perception through exploring color and the possibilities of the body of paint. Sahlehe is a recipient of a 2023 Macdowell Fellowship. He has exhibited internationally and has had solos at SCAD Museum of Art, Adams and Ollman in Portland, OR, LAney Contemporary in Savannah, GA, Tops Gallery in Memphis, TN, and Gallery 12.26, in Dallas, TX among others. His solo show, You Really Gotta See It Live is currently on view at the Atlanta Contemporary until the end of 2023. The High Museum of Art recently acquired his work for their permanent collection.

www.hannahmarchsanders.com @predisastered @orangebarrelindustries

Hannah March Sanders received her BFA at Tulane University and an MFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University. Along with her husband, Blake, Hannah operates www.orangebarrelindustries.com, an artist collaborative that organizes portfolio exchanges, exhibitions and other art events. She is currently Area Head of Printmaking, and an Associate Professor at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO. Recently, she was featured in the 5 Global Print as part of the Douro Biennial in Portugal; the Paducah School of Art and Design's International Juried Print Biennial in Paducah, KY; and the IAPA Biennale Online Exhibition, International Academic Printmaking Alliance's (IAPA) 3rd Printmaking Biennale in Beijing, China.

Www.carolsantosarts.com

"My work explores the childhood memories as a form of preserving the family history, traditions and culture through works of art. It investigates the human relationships between members of my family, and how the experiences we have may shape our sense of self and affect our connections to others. In creating paintings in oil and acrylics, installations, textiles, and sculptures Ioffer a narrative of preservation; a homage to heritage. I am influenced by my mother's and grandmothers' experience and my Brazilian nationality. In my practice, I investigate the beauty of found materials that carry a past with them, including recycled and repurposed found objects, family heirlooms and used items. My repetitive mark making is a meditative practice, creating intricate abstract imagery reminiscent of the act of cataloguing the passage of time. The natural pigments of beets, coffee and turmeric relate to my childhood and find their way in my art. The laborious handwork of my grandma's rag rug are present in my soft sculptures. Some of the works have multiple layers and as they are peeled, sanded, and delicately woven together I excavate the layers of our contemporary world. In using different elements to tell an autobiographical chronicle, Iam interested in fostering connections with my daughters and son while preserving our family history. In this process, Iperform everyday rituals from my childhood in Brazil with my own children. It si an emotional archive. My work explores the childhood memories as a form of preserving the family history, traditions and culture through works of art. It investigates the human relationships between members of my family, and how the experiences we have may shape our sense of self and affect our connections to others. In creating paintings in oil and acrylics, installations, textiles, and sculptures Ioffer a narrative of preservation; a homage to heritage. Iam influenced by my mother's and grandmothers' experience and my Brazilian nationality. In my practice, I investigate the beauty of found materials that carry a past with them, including recycled and repurposed found objects, family heirlooms and used items.
My repetitive mark making is a meditative practice, creating intricate abstract imagery reminiscent of the act of cataloguing the passage of time. The natural pigments of beets, coffee and turmeric relate to my childhood and find their way in my art. The laborious handwork of my grandma's rag rug are present in my soft sculptures. Some of the works have multiple layers and as they are peeled, sanded, and delicately woven together I excavate the layers of our contemporary world. In using different elements to tell an autobiographical chronicle, Iam interested in fostering connections with my daughters and son while preserving our family history. In this process, Iperform everyday rituals from my childhood in Brazil with my own children. It si an emotional archive. Carol has participated in various group shows and solo exhibitions. She holds a MFA in Painting from the Savannah College or Art and Design."

www.loftmarietta.com

www.shanonschneiderfineart.com, @shanonschneiderfineart

Shanon Schneider is largely a self taught artist from Syracuse, New York. Shanon studied studio art at Potsdam University and The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. She continued to take a variety of art workshops following her relocation to Roswell, Georgia in 2002. She opened Two Doors Art, a co-op art studio and gallery in 2007 with a group of local artists. With a transition in artists, Two Doors Art became Synergy Fine Art Gallery in 2009. Shanon owned and operated Synergy Fine Art Gallery from 2009 through 2018 in Historic Roswell, Georgia. In 2018 Shanon transitioned her studio to the Urban Art Collective in Chamblee, Georgia where she refines her work in colorful, impressionistic abstracts. She currently exhibits her work locally at The Loft Gallery in Marietta, Westside Market in Roswell, and SWOOX in Buckhead. She is also represented throughout the southeast by Designed by Art. Her work is shown at Find Home Market and Design in Tallahassee and the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville as part of their fall exhibition. Upcoming fall shows include "Melange" an exhibition at the Madison Arts Guild in Madison, Georgia and the GA Lawyers for the Arts annual Gala and Art Auction. Her works are in private collections throughout the country. Shanon Schneider is largely a self taught artist from Syracuse, New York. Shanon studied studio art at Potsdam University and The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design. She continued to take a variety of art workshops following her relocation to Roswell, Georgia in 2002. She opened Two Doors Art, a co-op art studio and gallery in 2007 with a group of local artists. With a transition in artists, Two Doors Art became Synergy Fine Art Gallery in 2009. Shanon owned and operated Synergy Fine Art Gallery from 2009 through 2018 in Historic Roswell, Georgia. In 2018 Shanon transitioned her studio to the Urban Art Collective in Chamblee, Georgia where she refines her work in colorful, impressionistic abstracts. She currently exhibits her work locally at The Loft Gallery in Marietta, Westside Market in Roswell, and SWOOX in Buckhead. She is also represented throughout the southeast by Designed by Art. Her work is shown at Find Home Market and Design in Tallahassee and the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville as part of their fall exhibition. Upcoming fall shows include "Melange" an exhibition at the Madison Arts Guild in Madison, Georgia and the GA Lawyers for the Arts annual Gala and Art Auction. Her works are in private collections throughout the country.

www.instagram.com/great_moon_hoax

The Great Moon Hoax: Science and the Recreation of the Artificial merges science and art by exploring the complicated relationships between observation, representation, and understanding. This collaboration springs out of McGuire and Schoon's individual research that address different aspects of the real, artificial, and unattainable. The Great Moon Hoax has been included in 13th Annual National Alternative Processes Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY; New South IV, Kai Lin Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Gregory Harris Selects, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA; Context, Filter Photo Space, Chicago, IL. Mark Schoon is a Professor of Photography at the University of West Georgia. He holds a BA in television production from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and an MFA in Photography from Ohio University. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, CA, Casey McGuire is an Professor of Foundations and Sculpture at the University of West Georgia. McGuire received her BFA from Alfred University and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder. McGuire is a resident in the studio artist program at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center.

www.tfa-advisory.com

www.barbaraschreiber.com, @thatschreiber

Barbara Schreiber makes mournful, but vivid paintings. Focusing on environmental issues, they are small elegies leavened with hope and sometimes humor. Schreiber's exhibitions include the High Museum of Art, PS 1, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, SPACE Pittsburgh, the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Telfair Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Sorbonne, and numerous other spaces. In addition to the Hambidge Center, she has completed residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, McColl Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Goodyear Arts. When not making art, Schreiber can sometimes be pestered into writing about visual art. Her articles, essays, reviews, and navel staring have appeared in Art Papers, Sculpture, Metalsmith, Creative Loafing Charlotte, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Charlotte Observer, and other publications. Born in Baltimore MD, Schreiber attended Atlanta College of Art and graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art. Schreiber is represented by Toshkova Fine Art Advisory. Her work is in numerous collections, including JPMorgan Chase, Ally Bank, Davidson College, King & Spalding, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Telfair Museum of Art, and others.

www.jenniferbalcosgallery.com

www.karenschwartzartist.com, @kschwartz_art

Karen Schwartz is an Atlanta and New York City-based artist working primarily in painting and drawing in a range of media. Largely a self-taught artist, Schwartz was heavily influenced by twentieth century abstract expressionist aesthetics she inhaled growing up in the NYC cultural environment. Schwartz brings an attitude of experimentation to her exploration of the properties and interactions of materials and trusts that meaning will emerge from the piling up of imagery without regard for hierarchy. Currently represented by the Jennifer Balcos Gallery in Atlanta, Schwartz was a featured artist at the Hathaway Contemporary and The Bill Lowe Gallery in Atlanta. Her work, twice curated into the Red Clay Survey of Southern Contemporary Art at the Huntsville Museum, earned a merit award in 2017. In Brooklyn, NY, Schwartz's solo exhibitions have been at Life on Mars Gallery (reviewed in Hyperallergic, The New Criterion, Tilted Arc, The Huffington Post and Painter's Table) and at David & Schweitzer Contemporary. Karen's works reside in private and public collections, including an acquisition by the New York HIstorical Society for the launch of their Women in History Center.

www.AngeliqueScott.com, @Ceramics.ByAngelique

Angelique Scott is a ceramicist/sculptor and educator who has been working with clay for over 15 years. She received her BFA in Art Education and Craft/Materials Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and currently pursuing an MFA at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Scott is presently a Board member for the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) co-organizing the upcoming 2024 annual conference taking place in Richmond, VA. Scott creates functional vessels using clay, fiber, metal, and beads that reference contemporary Black culture, and the symbols we use to beautify and adorn ourselves. Her studio practice explores concepts of spirituality and wellness; an investigation of physical, social, and spiritual aspects of our individual and collective wellbeing.

Spaldingnixfineart.com

www.Corrinasephora.com, @corrinasephora.metalartist

Corrina Sephora is a multi-media Atlanta-based artist specializing in metal sculpture, painting, and public installations. Through her repetitive symbolic images Corrina utilizes nautical and celestial atmospheres to explore emotion, memory and ritual. Corrina's work considers these themes as personal and universal. Her artistic practice includes art-making, storytelling, teaching, and executing public and private commissions. Corrina holds a BFA in Metals & Sculpture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, 1995, & an MFA in Sculpture from Georgia State University, 2005. She has completed multiple residencies throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her public installations are located at: The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, and Atlanta Jewish Academy, and in permanent collections such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia, and King and Spalding Contemporary Art Collection, and featured in private collections, notably Sir Elton John. Among her most recent accolades, Corrina received the Judith Alexander Foundation Relief Fund for Visual Artists, & Fulton County Arts and Culture Virtual Arts Initiative. She was selected through a national call to create a public installation at the Freeport Art Museum's Arts Plaza, Freeport, IL, in 2023. She received the Honorable mention award from the City of North Charleston.

www.sextonlarson.com, @sextonlarson

Rebecca Sexton Larson is a Tampa-based studio artist/curator working with historic and contemporary photographic processes. She graduated from the University of South Florida with degrees in Fine Arts (painting) and Mass Communications (journalism). Most recently she was Chief Curator at Art and History Museums - Maitland where she oversaw multiple historic sites and the artist residency program. Sexton Larson has been awarded three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships (1998, 2002, and 2008). In 2006, she received an Artist Enhancement Grant from the State of Florida. In 2005, she was commissioned by the City of Tampa as its Photographer Laureate. Sexton Larson's photographs are in numerous significant collections throughout the country, including Polaroid; Progressive Corporate Art; Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young); Polk Museum of Art (Lakeland); Cassilhaus (Durham, NC); Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg); the Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa); Historical Museum (Santa Fe); and Candela Gallery (Richmond, VA). Many of her one-of-a-kind works are in private collections. Her photographs have been featured in photographic publications including The Polaroid Project by various curators, Poetics of Light: Contemporary Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, View Camera Magazine, Black and White Magazine, Afterimage, and others.

www.TimShortArt.com, @culturedstruggle

Timothy Short is a narrative painter who focuses on building imaginative, atmospheric works centering the Black figure. He was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1993 where he developed an early passion and practice in visual world-building and constructing narrative. Upon moving to Atlanta in 2011, Timothy pursued painting and drawing at Georgia State University. He obtained a BFA in Visual Art and Design and a minor degree in African American Studies in 2015. He currently resides in Stone Mountain, GA, working out of his studio space at Echo Contemporary Gallery in Atlanta.

www.spaldingnixfineart.com

www.jerrysiegel.com

Jerry Siegel (American, b. 1958 Selma, Alabama); Siegel was born and raised in Selma, AL, and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. He was awarded the Grand Prize of the first Artadia Award in Atlanta. His first monograph, FACING SOUTH, Portraits of Southern Artists, was published by the University of Alabama Press and features portraits of 100 Southern artists. This body of work has been featured in 6 solo museum exhibitions in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. His second book, Black Belt Color, published by the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, GA, focuses his attentions on documenting the unique, cultural landscape of the South, concentrating on the Black Belt region of Alabama. His on-going series of Drag Artists, REVEAL, will opened at the LSU Museum in Baton Rouge, LA, September 1, 2023. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, The Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA, Montgomery Museum of Art in Montgomery, AL, The Morris Museum in Augusta, GA, The Jule Collins Smith Museum in Auburn, AL, and The Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. A commissioned body of work for the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, was featured in the 2009 solo exhibition Now and Then, Snapshots of the South. His work is in many private, corporate and public collections, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA, Georgia Museum of Art, in Athens, GA, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, Birmingham Museum of Art, in Birmingham, AL, the Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA, The Morris Museum in Augusta, GA and many other Southeastern U.S. Museums. Siegel is represented by Spalding Nix Fine Art

www.StephanieSmithArt.com, @StephanieSmithArt

Stephanie Smith is an Atlanta-based artist/printmaker and educator. She earned her B.F.A from the Atlanta College of Art and received a M.F.A. with Distinction from the University of Georgia. Stephanie is a Senior Lecturer in the Art Program of the University of West Georgia and in 2005 she co-founded the non-profit community arts organization, the Atlanta Printmakers Studio. Her work is in many collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Royal Museum of Fine Art, Belgium, the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, the University of Dallas, and Boston Consulting Group.

www.vernonsmith.com

Vernon Smith received his BFA in Ceramics from University of West Georgia and studied sculpture at the Arts Students League of New York. He was a studio assistant at Coleman Clay Studio in Las Vegas for four years and completed a two-year residency at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center before starting to teach ceramics at local community art centers. He currently teaches ceramics at The Lovett School and works in his home studio in Decatur, GA.

www.michelestancil.com, @M_stancil_artist

Michele received a BFA from the University of Georgia and is a working artist living in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta with her husband and two children. Michele began her career in corporate art consulting in Washington DC and later worked in public relations at the Georgia Museum of Art. Specializing in architectural renderings for more than fifteen years, Michele's current work focuses on abstract paintings on canvas and paper. Michele welcomes commissions and enjoys working side by side with her clients to create the perfect piece to complete a room or space.

www.mikestasny.com, @EXTREMELY_MICHAEL

Inspired by the intrinsic learning achieved by a state of childish "flow" while at play - Mike Stasny often refers to his work as "the same thing I was doing at 4, but on the scale of a 42-year-old". He is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician, producer and curator from the midwest working and based out of Atlanta for the past 10 years. His primary focus is "creative place making" or "creative space design" in which he activates under-utilized locations with imaginative experiences that activate community in time, culture, the economy, and space. Mike's current primary focus is MOM SAID IT'S FINE gallery - an ever changing immersive experience of past and present projects acting as an open studio, showroom, and space for creative collaborations in historic Underground Atlanta.

www.whitespace814.com

www.annstewart.net

Ann Stewart is a visual artist who uses drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture to investigate the visualization of perception and spatial relationships. 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.

dkgallery.us

thinkgreatly.com @thinkgreatly

Lauren Pallotta Stumberg (b.1981) is a muralist, painter, sculptor, and arts advocate. Her work honors the human experience through abstracted portraiture and symbolism, where patterns and forms coalesce to create a distinct vernacular. Much of the nuanced motifs in her work derive from experiences living and working abroad over the course of several years in the Marshall Islands and Sicily. In both places, learning the respective culture and language translated into abstract painted narratives. Tattoo patterns in the Marshall Islands have strong underpinnings in her artwork's storytelling; the rich landscapes and word origins in Sicily inspired investigations into new ideas and themes. Since moving to Atlanta in 2012, Stumberg has used her creative offerings to engage with community. She started Think Greatly with a mission to facilitate neighborhood projects as part of her social practice and to curate female-driven collaborations and narratives. Stumberg's work has been awarded grants from Living Walls, Fulton County (GA), the City of Atlanta, and Georgia Council for the Arts; public and private commissions of her work can be found in neighborhoods across metro Atlanta and cities outside the perimeter such as Suwanee, Norcross, and Canton, Georgia. Stumberg is one of two local artists to receive a 2017 Emerging Artist Award from the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs. She is a Hambidge Fellow, and represented by dk Gallery in Marietta, GA. "The symbol I use most frequently in my work is an abstracted magpie. This bird is fascinating to me because it is cloaked with superstition. Magpies are described in various folklore and historic literature to be thieves, chatterboxes, gossips, and ominous creatures. In fact, a group of magpies is called a "mischief." Cultural lore also translates one's fortune based on the number of magpies one sees, and to salute the first magpie one sees as a sign of respect and wish for good fortune. It is this perception of the magpie that inspires my work - the bird is an omen of change, and change, good or bad, is invaluable. In this way, the presence of the magpie is a calling to enter a crucible of the spirit. It asks you to rethink social norms, to shift perspectives, to be open to personal transformation

richardsudden.com

Formerly represented by Fay Gold Gallery, Marcia Wood Gallery, and Whitespace in Atlanta, Ga. also by Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago and Lois Lambert Gallery in Los Angeles, Multiple solo and group shows and collections in all places mentioned and then some... A traveller to far corners of the earth, collecting signs and symbols, returning inspired to make art... sell the inspired art..have money for another journey... repeat... read great books constantly. living in the countryside, tending a garden, and making art.

www.johnsonlowe.com

www.studioswan.com

Currently living in a cottage on a small lake with my wife, the artist Gail Foster, my studio practice is in our renovated Masonic Lodge, 30 minutes from Hartsfield Jackson airport, Atlanta, Georgia. I matriculated from Parsons School of Design in 1980, with a Master of Fine Arts, in the first MFA program Parsons offered, after graduating from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Exhibiting continuously for the past 40 years in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Houston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Fe I've had 24 solo, over 75 group exhibitions and been included in 8 museum exhibitions. With two hardcover exhibition catalogs, I've also been featured in over 55 lifestyles and industry magazines. My artwork can be found in public and private collections across the US, in Canada, China, France, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey, and the Caribbean. Created with a range of traditional materials, recombined in methods and ways that looks to American color field painting from the 70's, the Romantic aesthetic of the Sublime, 19th C Japanese screens, current Pattern and Design, my studio practice represents the continuation of bringing the natural world to the forefront of the cultural dialog about who we are, who we want to be; it promotes ideas of beauty and idealism, encouraging the consideration of ways to contribute to a more Balanced world.

www.house-of-tau.com, @houzz_of_tau

HOUSE of TAU is the ceramic work of K.tauches, an artist, designer, and curator based out of Atlanta, GA. Tau is designing a collection of plates to commemorate the last year that persons in America were killed in the "witch hunts" Twenty six final small name plates will be taken to Salem and Andover, Massachusetts for placement by a direct descendant of John Proctor. This hanging plate is an initial study for a what is being called a Quantum Healing project involving a local women's goddess circle in which Tau participates.

www.daynathacker.com; @daynathackerstudio

Working primarily in cut paper, collage and installation, Dayna Thacker uses meticulous, meditative methods as she investigates thought systems we use to make sense of the world and ourselves, with a particular interest in the overlap of contemplative disciplines and scientific theory. A graduate of the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Thacker lived in Atlanta from 2006 to 2014, during which time she was a studio artist at Atlanta Contemporary and a finalist for Atlanta's Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Since mid-2019 she has been living and working in Birmingham, Alabama. Her work has been included or reviewed in Art Papers, New American Paintings, ArtsATL, Burnaway, and The Atlantan Magazine, among others.

www.parkerthornton.us

Parker Thornton is an artist and educator who lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She earned a BA from Oglethorpe University in 2013 and an MFA from Georgia State University in 2020. Her practice includes sculpture, photo/video, and writing that explores narratives of the body and the self as they relate to power, queerness, and transformation. She has exhibited work internationally at National Centre for Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus) and nationally at Whitespace and Historic Oakland Cemetery, with solo shows in Florida (2021), Georgia (2021), and Louisiana (2023). Parker has been an artist-in-residence at Stoveworks (2023), Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (2021), and Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland (2019).

www.pennytreese.com

Penny Treese is a fine artist who specializes in the ancient technique of encaustic painting. She uses pigment, molten wax, and a blow torch to create paintings that celebrate survival, freedom and the unique beauty within each of us. She believes the feminine form grows more spectacular as it is decorated by life's journey. Through her own healing, Penny's art transformed into expressions of bold courage embraced by delicate splendor. Today each piece emanates a spirit of unbridled joy and audacity, tamed only by a harmonious dance between the gentle and strong. "My ultimate dream is that my art gives each viewer a vivid realization of their rare beauty and an unchartered sense of freedom." EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION Bachelors of Fine Art + Graphic Design, Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL Inaugural member, Fine Arts Workshop & Atelier with Michael David and Thomas Swanson Attended + taught within national + international conferences EXHIBIT and AWARD HIGHLIGHTS Best of Show-Judged by global art critic, Bill Arnett Barcelona Biennial Contemporary Venice Miami Spectrum Art San Diego MvVO Ad Art Show, New York, NY Hambidge Juried Art Auction Exhibition, Atlanta, GA-12 consecutive years. 2019 Emerging Female Artist of the Year, Art Design Consultants.

www.instagram.com/bifoli2

Beverly Tu is a fashion designer and mixed-media artist currently based in Taiwan. She received her AAS in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design in 2017. Tu has showcased her collections at Atlantic City Fashion Week 2019-2021, StylePointe Fashion Show 2019, and Designer Runway competition 2017. Her other creative projects and curatorial works have been shown at Central Park, El Barrio's Artspace PS109, New York Live Arts, Chashama Space, Trestle Gallery, La Bodega Gallery, and Ground Floor Gallery, among others. Tu was an Artist in Residence at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Brashnar Creative Project in Skopje, Macedonia in 2018. She participated in the NYFA immigrant artist mentoring program in 2019 and participated in the Bead Project at UrbanGlass in 2021. She was awarded The Leisa Rich Distinguished Fellowship for Fiber Artists in 2022 at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.

www.velizabethturk.com

Artist V. Elizabeth Turk was a student of painting before making a life in photography in the 1970s. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the High Museum of Art, the Polaroid USA Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, the Lamar Dodd Art Center in LaGrange, GA, and Il Museo Palazzo Riso, Palermo, Italy and in numerous private collections. Her photography was featured in the High Museum of Art exhibition Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection. She holds a Master of Visual Arts Degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta; and as a professor of photography has for decades mentored students (first at the Atlanta College of Art, then at the Savannah College of Art & Design).

www.karenvarshaphotography.com, @karenvarshaphotography

Karen Varsha is an Atlanta artist. Her current work as a still-life photographer is influenced by her work photographing people and culture in Atlanta. Her work currently focuses on floral still life that simulates paintings. Her interest in photography began at an early age when she received a camera for camp and continued taking photos through college at the University of Ga where she majored in art. Classes from Mary Ellen Mark and Joyce Tennyson inspired her growth. She opened a studio at the Goat Farm, a well-known arts center in town. But when her husband received a cancer diagnosis and the Covid quarantine was in effect all in the same month, she was forced to work at home. Her new Florals Still Life work began as a reaction to the quarantine and her husband's treatment for cancer. She looked for an outlet for her grief. She found it in these prints which make her joyful and give her hope. Karen exhibits her work in local juried shows and recently displayed at the Swan House Gallery, Atlanta Photography Airport Show, and Marietta Cobb Museum of Art.

www.annevincent.com

Anne Vincent (1952-2020). Anne received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia and worked as a commercial and residential interior designer for 30 years with several Atlanta firms, notably Hendrick Associates. After taking a Saturday nunofelting class with friends Chastain Park, she was fascinated by the possibilities of working with wool, silk and dyes. In 2008, she retired from interior design to devote her full energies to this aspect of the textile field. She loved this creative process. It became her "passion". Her work has been shown across the country in multiple American Craft Council Shows and other venues. She took special joy in the many friends who wore her work.

www.annevincent.com

Anne Vincent (1952-2020). Anne received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia and worked as a commercial and residential interior designer for 30 years with several Atlanta firms, notably Hendrick Associates. After taking a Saturday nunofelting class with friends Chastain Park, she was fascinated by the possibilities of working with wool, silk and dyes. In 2008, she retired from interior design to devote her full energies to this aspect of the textile field. She loved this creative process. It became her "passion". Her work has been shown across the country in multiple American Craft Council Shows and other venues. She took special joy in the many friends who wore her work.

www.instagram.com/Suzzieeque

Susan is an avid outdoorsy person and draws much of her inspiration from nature. Actively painting most of her adult life, her paintings imbue her sensitivity to color, texture, paint strokes, while enjoying the play of light. Her painting medium includes acrylic, oils, and watercolor. Susan organizing a small group of artists who aptly call themselves the Monday Morning Painters. Currently they exhibit recent work at offices in Decatur.

www.themwgallery.com, @themwstudio

Themes of technology, connection, and compulsion characterize Matthew White's work. Exploring intersections of contemporary and new media art, White's multidisciplinary practice is informed by professional and educational paths in web, communications, and information technologies. White was first featured as an emerging artist in publications such as Art Takes Miami and Fresh Paint Magazine. Always looking to stage projects differently, his 2011 Moon Phase event at King Plow Arts Center in Atlanta combined photography, mixed media works, crowd-responsive sound installation, and live rock performance. The 2015 #StopInfluenceNow Atlanta Branch Office installation was housed in Atlanta's Ponce City Market in a similarly unorthodox manner. This mock office installation included a variety of works and performance. In the waning days of the pandemic, White began staging shows in his Atlanta area studio's walk-in vault, safe : space, including For The Ear / Eye and Rearranging Borders. His additional contributions to the arts ecosystem include co-hosting the Brain Fuzz podcast with painter Joe Camoosa, where they explore the creative life, art, music, and more with various art world guests. White is a Hambidge Fellow, and his work is in both corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe.

www.jwpaclipan.com

Jeffrey Wilcox Paclipan received an AA degree in 1989 from International Fine Arts College in Miami, FL. His gallery solo and group exhibitions include Hathaway Contemporary Gallery, Mason Fine Art, Galerie Tew, Bill Lowe Gallery, Mammal Gallery, MINT Gallery, Life on Mars, NY, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, NY. Atlanta-area exhibitions and installations in museums and public institutions include MOCA GA, Slotin Folkfest, Chastain Arts Center, Fulton County Arts and Culture Acquisition Program, Fulton County Aviation and Community Cultural Center, Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center, High Rise Show with ShowerHaus Gallery, The Atlanta Financial Center, Lenox Square, ARTFIELDS 2020, ArtPrize 2022. Paclipan's mixed media collage submission "Salvador Del Mundo" was highlighted in a Miami Herald art review of the 36th Hortt Museum Exhibition in 1994. Recent group exhibitions in 2020 include MINT Gallery, Mariette Cobb Museum of Art, Studio Artist in Resident at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center 2020/23, Atlanta, Ga and was a featured artist represented by Jennifer Balcos Gallery at Scope Miami Beach, Art Basel 2021. Jeffrey is a multidisciplinary processed based artist compelled to create objects with marginalized and discarded materials imbued with greater meaning. His development as an artist has followed the same path as his ongoing quest to coherently embrace his definition of self. He was born in the Philippines and lives in College Park, GA.

www.kehindewiley.com

This limited edition, 2023 leather basketball features Kehinde Wiley's 2008 painting Morpheus, reimagined from the Jean-Antoine Houdon 1777 marble sculpture of the same name. Featured in the 2008 exhibition "Down" at Deitch Projects, the series references and re-conceptualizes classic pictorial forms of heroism in the face of death. Morpheus features a model from Brooklyn, lain across a white sheet while florals from the background spring into life around his body. Unlike its 18th century counterpart, he addresses onlookers with direct eye contact and a seductive look of invitation, with the repeating floral background protruding into the foreground.

Kehinde Wiley (born February 28, 1977) is a portrait painter based in New York City. He is known for his realistic portraits of contemporary Black subjects that heavily reference paintings by the "Old Masters" Wiley received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and an MFA from Yale University in 2001. In 2017, he was commissioned to paint the portrait of President Barack Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Wiley's work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide, and his paintings are included in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, LACMA, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Seattle Museum of Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, among others.

www.instagram.com/@BCWClay

I connect to minimalistic, primarily functional, forms with my ceramics. My approach is simple, unadorned, but sometimes embracing repetitive patterns. I favor a limited, primarily neutral palette - with the occasional saturated color.

www.instagram.com/@thecarvingstudio

Born in Atlanta, Ife Williams began her formal training in the arts at Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan, receiving a BFA in Sculpture and Metalsmithing from University of Michigan's School of Art and completing coursework for a Masters of Arts in Museum Studies at Syracuse. Over the last three decades she has worn many hats within the arts community: Sculptor-in-Residence at the Paul Abrams Endowment Project, NEA Distinguished Fellow at The Hambidge Center, Grant Writer for Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Collections Manager at the Henry Art Gallery at UW-Seattle, Public Art Coordinator and Deputy Director at the Fulton County Arts Council and Executive Director at The Hudgens Center. She currently serves as Deputy Director of The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA and sits on the Board of Directors of NCECA

vanessabrookwilliams.com

Vanessa Brook Williams is an Atlanta-based artist whose delicate work ranges from small sculptures to room-sized installations. She grew up in Decatur, GA, in front of her father's lens and in the dust of her mother's ceramic studio. This happy childhood laid the groundwork for her creative pursuits as an adult. Over the years, she has focused on the technical and conceptual development of her work through research in her studio with the community and educational institutions' support. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2007 and completed a Post Baccalaureate at Burren College of Art in 2010. In 2013-2014 she was a recipient of Mint Gallery's emerging artist fellowship, Leap Year, and has been a fellow of the Hambidge Center since 2014. She was a finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award in 2015-16 and 2017-18. She was a 2017-18 Hughley Fellow.

www.susiewinton.com

Susan Winton's work, through a variety of mediums, focuses on the seemingly insignificant leftovers and cast asides of everyday life. Most recently she has turned to the drawers and bins of her own studio, mining her more than thirty years of sketches, experiments and project leftovers. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University, a BA from Emory University, fellowships from the Hambidge Center and the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, and is an instructor for the City of Atlanta's Chastain Arts Center.

www.showroom.love

www.edwoodham.com

Ed Woodham is an elder Southern queer. Ed is a Manhattan-based conceptual artist, educator, producer, and curator entangled in a mélange of NYC activities across media and culture for over 45 years. He employs humor, irony, subtle detournement, and a striking visual style in order to encourage greater consideration of - and provoke deeper critical engagement - with the environment. Woodham created the project Art in Odd Places (AiOP) as a response to the disappearance of public space and personal civil liberties. Woodham has taught workshops in politically based public performances at NYU Hemispheric Institute for EMERGENYC and at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He was a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow in Social Engagement. = He was a featured speaker for TEDxGowanus and TEDxIndianapolis in 2014. From 2016- 2017, he was artist-in-residence at The Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University Art Department. For 2017-18 Ed was the UVA Studio Arts Board artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. in 2019-20, he was artist-in-residence for the City of West Hollywood, CA. In 2022, he led the program Arts Connection's Teens Curate Teens program working with a curatorial teen team to produce a city-wide exhibition featuring 35 teens' artworks on Governor's Island.

www.laurenwoodsart.com, @laurenwoodsart

Lauren Woods (she/her) is an artist whose practice and creative research explore concepts of mythic time. Artworks become spaces to examine notions of nostalgia, desire, power, beauty, death, and embodied expression. Personal myth is developed visually across various mediums such as painting, video, and dance performances. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Lauren received her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art after completing her BA in studio art at Spring Hill College. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Auburn University, where she teaches figure drawing and painting. Lauren has exhibited in galleries across the US and abroad. Regionally, she has shown work at the Gadsden Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the Wiregrass Museum of Art. She is also a recipient of a 2024 Individual Visual Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

www.packergallery.com/yorke

www.jenniferyorkeartist.com, @jennifer.yorke.artist

Jennifer Yorke examines the uneasy relationship between consumption, identity, the physical body and the natural world through installations, collages, drawings, prints, photographs and books. Yorke's work is held in over twenty public collections, including those of the Auckland Gallery of Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum and other institutions. Jennifer has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist-in-residence at Anchor Graphics; the Brush Creek Foundation; the Hambidge Center; the Jentel Artists Residency; Madrono Ranch; the Millay Colony; La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers France; the Ragdale Foundation; the Ucross Foundation; the University of the West of England Centre for Fine Print Research; and the Vermont Studio Center. Jennifer earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which she attended through a Graduate Trustee Fellowship; and a BA from Carleton College. To date, Jennifer Yorke's work has been the subject of nine solo exhibitions, and included in nearly 100 group exhibitions. She lives with her husband Rob and dog Phoebe in Chicago, where she is represented by Aron Packer Projects.

www.HelenZigaStudio.com, @HelenZigaStudio

Helen Ziga is an Atlanta-based artist working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, fiber arts and graphic design. She strives to create artworks that evoke harmony and tension through the use of juxtaposed shape and subject along with carefully selected color. She sees these formal components of art as metaphors for the spaces we live in and the relationships we have with each other.

www.instagram.com/@lubazygarewicz

This artwork is part of the "100 dwellings" Series. It is #8 in the second set of 100 dwellings on altered teabags. Luba Zygarewicz is a Chilean-Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist and educator based in New Orleans. She grew up in Bolivia and moved to San Francisco at age 15. She attended from San Francisco Art Institute (MFA) and Loyola University (BA Sculpture). Zygarewicz gravitates to creating pieces that, in time, accumulate to a larger whole, working with materials such as hair, lint, twigs, cotton, and tea. Her work comments on the transience of time and landscape, and elevates the seemingly banal through immersive, place-based installations and sculptures. She has exhibited at the Ogden Museum and CAC in New Orleans; 'OPEN Space', Venice, Italy; City of Santa Rosa Public Art, CA; Walter Anderson Museum, Mexican Cultural Institute of New Orleans; Women's Gallery, Chicago, IL. Some community projects include 'Sentinels' in conjunction with Tides Institute and Museum of Art; 'the HOPE project' at the ruins of San Sebastiao, Messejana, Portugal; and March Against Poverty, Lake Providence, LA. Zygarewicz has been an artist-in-residence at The Hambidge Center, StudioWorks, Buinho Creative Hub in Portugal, and Chalk Hill Artist Residency; and has collaborated with the European Cultural Academy in Venice, Italy.

www.lisasettegallery.com

www.atoribeiroart.com, @ilaama99

Ato Ribeiro (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including sculptural installation, drawing and printmaking. He was born in Philadelphia, PA. and spent the formative years of his life in Accra, Ghana before relocating to Atlanta, Georgia, where he is currently serving as a 2022/2023 MOCA GA WAP Fellow. He was a 2022 Atlanta Artadia Awardee, MINT 2021 Leap Year Artist, and has received Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME. His work has been exhibited at Lisa Sette Gallery (Phoenix, AZ), Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), the Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Rozsa Center (Houghton, MI), and Anastasia Tinari Projects (Chicago, IL) among others. He earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, and his M.F.A. in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.