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.kailinart.com

www.philipcarpenter.net, @jphilipcarpenter

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

www.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.amandinedrouet.com

Amandine Drouet was born and raised in France. She grew up in La Borne, a small village in the Loire Vallee celebrated for its ceramic. Early on she learned to appreciate art and nature. After moving to the United States to be an au pair to perfect her English, Amandine settled down in Atlanta to further her studies at Georgia State University. There she obtained a BA in Psychology and an MFA in Drawing and Painting. Amandine's artwork has been shown in public places and private galleries for over twenty years in the United States and in France. In 2015 she received the Emerging Artist Award from the Forward Arts Foundation. Amandine has also been part of several collaboratives and cofounded Embodied Energy Studio, a group of artists that has been working with marine scientists to educate the general public about plastic pollution and sustainability. The three artists created a 35 feet tall public art sculpture made from reclaimed plastic that traveled to several major city (Atlanta, GA, Grand Rapid, MC and St Petersburg, FL) with the help of a NOAA grant and other grants. Chance and randomness guide her work where she chooses to recycle discarded materials to give them a second life. Amandine has always been inspired by the juxtaposition between beauty and decay, death and life, and the idea of rebirth. Sustainability and awareness have always been at the center of her art practice and way of life. Each project takes on a form of its own such as installation, photography, painting, drawing, sculpting, fusing or sewing plastic, or at times all at once. Amandine intends to leave her pieces open-ended and ambiguous to allow the viewer to bring his or her own experiences and personal narratives to the artwork.

www.hannaetelalahti.com, @lahti.art

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

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.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.spaldingnixfineart.com

www.cynthiaknapp.com

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

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.mariakorol.com

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

www.makedalewis.com, @hungermakesme

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

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

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

www.johnsonlowe.com

www.studioswan.com

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

www.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.