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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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

www.sandlerhudson.com

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.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.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.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.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.

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.

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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.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.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.

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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.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.

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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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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.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.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.

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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.

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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.

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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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.

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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

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.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.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

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.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.