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.megaubrey.com

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

www.temmebarkin-leeds.net, @artsy9

Temme Barkin-Leeds received the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from American University in Washington, DC. Her socially conscious work has been the subject of four solo exhibitions and numerous exhibitions throughout the United States. She was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH and a Resident Fellow at the Hambidge Center. Barkin-Leeds received the Elizabeth Baaart Biddle Award conferred by the full faculty in the MFA program at American University, Washington DC. She also received the International Education Foundation Scholarship from Georgia State University to study at the Santa Reparata International School in Florence, Italy. She was nominated by the Art Department faculty at Georgia State University for the schoolwide Andrew West Award. She has been juried into New York exhibitions by critics Jerry Saltz, John Yau, and Nancy Princenthal. Most recently, she was adjunct professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. Her work was featured in several publications including the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Burnaway, Arts Atl, Atlanta Jewish Times, Amlit, Paintpresent catalogue published by Loudon House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky and Bound catalogue published by Women's Caucus for Art.

www.instagram.com/alisabarry.artist

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

www.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.kellybreedlove.com, @BreedloveArtist

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

www.merrileechalliss.com, @merilka

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

www.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.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.barrettfeldman.com, @barrett.f

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

www.DougFoltz.com, @dougfoltz

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

www.JulieFordhamArt.com, @juliefordham

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

www.vinsonart.com

www.ruthfranklin.com, @artistruthfranklin

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

www.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.lonnieholley.com, @lonnieholleysuniverse

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

www.loftmarietta.com

www.jodiehutchens.com, @jodiehutchensart

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

www.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.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.

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.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.thomasdeansfineart.com

www.carllinstrum.com, @carllinstrumart

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

www.marciawoodgallery.com

www.georgelongart.com

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

driftersproject.net

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

www.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.

michimeko.com

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

www.moorefun310.faso.com

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

www.leylismrart.com

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

www.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.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.StacieRoseStudio.com, @StacieURrose

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

www.Loftmarietta.com

www.DebRosenbury.com

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

www.hasanisahlehe.com

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

Www.carolsantosarts.com

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

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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.

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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.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.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.

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.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.

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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.laurenwoodsart.com, @laurenwoodsart

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

www.HelenZigaStudio.com, @HelenZigaStudio

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