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

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

www.Pressstarttobegin.net

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

www.kailinart.com

www.StevenLAnderson.com, @stevenl.anderson

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

www.sandlerhudson.com

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

www.wolfganggallery.com

www.instgram.com/lloydbenjamin4

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

www.rickbermanceramics.com

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

www.mitchellbiggio.com, @mitchellbiggio

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

www.instagram.com/boszilkov

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

www.rebeccajbuglio.com @rebuglio

Rebecca Buglio was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is an alum of the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Ceramics ('16) and an alum of Berry College where she obtained her BA in art with concentrations in K-12 art education and studio art, ceramics ('13). She enjoys teaching children and adult ceramic and broom-making courses that use a variety of techniques while exploring nature for inspiration. Rebecca frequents art markets around East Tennessee selling her art as owner of Dust to Dust Studio. She has shown in a number of galleries across the United States and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2021. Rebecca currently helps run and lives at Rising Moons Farms in Philadelphia, TN with her fiance. She works full time at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts as the Director of Local and Regional Programs.

www.jessicacaldas.com, @zinkaproject

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

www.kailinart.com

www.philipcarpenter.net, @jphilipcarpenter

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

www.hopecohnprojects.com

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

www.visual64.com, @shannondavisphotos

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

www.ElyseDefoor.com

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

www.mantydey.com, @mantydey

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

www.masonfineartandevents.com

www.RENSWORK.COM, @rensworkdotcomshop

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

www.lesliedrennan.com, @_drennanb

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

www.amandinedrouet.com

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

www.whitespace814.com

www.instagram.com/didi.dunphy

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

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.scotteakin.com, @scotteakinart

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

www.instagram.com/flagmountain.studio

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

www.sabreesler.com, @sabreeslerfineart

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

www.hannaetelalahti.com, @lahti.art

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

www.instagram.com/jayburnz/ www.instagram.com/freaughouse/

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

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

www.barrettfeldman.com, @barrett.f

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

www.DougFoltz.com, @dougfoltz

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

www.mssuefox.com, @suefoxart

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

www.thesignatureshop.com

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

www.instagram.com/graffeokc

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

www.kristagrecco.com, @kristagrecco

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

www.whitespace814.com

www.matthaffner.com

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

www.whitespace814.com

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

www.henleystudios.com, @jennyhenleystudios

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

www.juliehenrystudio.com, @juliehenrystudio

Julie Nellenback Henry is a mixed media artist who creates abstract paintings, textile collage works and assemblage constructions using the strategies of layering, fragmentation and reduction. In her work, she blurs the relationships between architecture, landscape and the body. Henry's mother was a design student at RIT in the 1960's and her grandfather was a typewriter engineer for Smith Corona. She credits them both for her love of design and for teaching her to see the intrinsic value of a handmade aesthetic. "As a young person I was surrounded by people who were steeped in the values of the Arts and Crafts movement and who understood how a particular type of beauty emerges from a work ethic of discipline, diligence and frugality. Commitment to craft was revered and those who made things by hand garnered respect. Today when I go to create, I reach into those roots and let the materials themselves call forth involuntary memories and recollections of childhood influences." JNH Born in New York state in 1968, Henry's family moved to the south when she was very young. Today she lives and works in Atlanta, where she has a devoted studio practice with a focus on creating paintings and objects that illustrate the symbiotic relationship between craft and concept.

www.judyhenson.work

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

www.margarethiden.com

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

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

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

www.robertojamora.com, @robertojamora

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

www.thesignatureshop.com, @signature_atl

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

www.AnnaJensenArt.com

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

www.floridamininggallery.com

www.jeremiahjossim.com, @jeremiahjossim

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

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

www.cassiakite.com, @cassiakiteart

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

www.spaldingnixfineart.com

www.cynthiaknapp.com

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

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.mariakorol.com

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

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.georgelongart.com

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

www.graceleelawrence.com, @gleeleelawlee

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

www.nunimonalee.com, @artist_nuni_lee

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

www.makedalewis.com, @hungermakesme

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

www.bethlilly.com, @sbethlilly

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

www.thomasdeansfineart.com

www.carllinstrum.com, @carllinstrumart

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

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.georgelongart.com

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

www.cynthiamason.com, @cynthiamasonvisualart

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

www.forest-mcmullin.com, @forestmcm

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

www.sandlerhudson.com

www.DonnaJMintz.com, @donnajmintz

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

www.chiekomurasugi.com, @cmurasugi

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

www.tracymurrell.com, @tracymurrellart

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

www.eleanornealart.com

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

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

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

www.carolrobinsongallery.net

www.jolesart.com, @john_oles

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

www.erinhammstudio.me, @erinpalovick_studio

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

www.adampaulek.com, @adampaulek

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

www.instagram.com/phaemonae.555

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

www.Honeypierre.com

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

www.nancyraceart.com, @nancyraceart

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

www.noahreyesartist.com

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

www.pamrogersart.com, @rogpk

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

www.instagram.com/politicalpotter

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

www.katerusek.com, @thekaterusek

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

www.hasanisahlehe.com

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

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

www.loftmarietta.com

www.shanonschneiderfineart.com, @shanonschneiderfineart

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

www.instagram.com/great_moon_hoax

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

www.tfa-advisory.com

www.barbaraschreiber.com, @thatschreiber

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

www.jenniferbalcosgallery.com

www.karenschwartzartist.com, @kschwartz_art

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

www.AngeliqueScott.com, @Ceramics.ByAngelique

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

Spaldingnixfineart.com

www.Corrinasephora.com, @corrinasephora.metalartist

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

www.TimShortArt.com, @culturedstruggle

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

www.StephanieSmithArt.com, @StephanieSmithArt

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

www.michelestancil.com, @M_stancil_artist

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

www.mikestasny.com, @EXTREMELY_MICHAEL

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

richardsudden.com

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

www.johnsonlowe.com

www.studioswan.com

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

www.parkerthornton.us

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

www.pennytreese.com

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

www.instagram.com/Suzzieeque

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

www.themwgallery.com, @themwstudio

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

vanessabrookwilliams.com

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

www.showroom.love

www.edwoodham.com

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

www.laurenwoodsart.com, @laurenwoodsart

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