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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.

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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.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.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.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.