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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.

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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.

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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.

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Donte K. Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an art history minor. Donte received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, The Gibbes Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Newark Museum of Art, Wellin Museum of Art, Stanley Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, and the Institute Museum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana among others. Donte was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant Award in 2022. He is also a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow. Hayes has been in residence at MacDowell, Bemis Center, Township 10, Marshall, Penland School of Craft, Hambidge Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. Donte is the 2019 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern art from the Gibbes Museum of Art.

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

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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.

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Hannah March Sanders received her BFA at Tulane University and an MFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University. Along with her husband, Blake, Hannah operates www.orangebarrelindustries.com, an artist collaborative that organizes portfolio exchanges, exhibitions and other art events. She is currently Area Head of Printmaking, and an Associate Professor at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO. Recently, she was featured in the 5 Global Print as part of the Douro Biennial in Portugal; the Paducah School of Art and Design's International Juried Print Biennial in Paducah, KY; and the IAPA Biennale Online Exhibition, International Academic Printmaking Alliance's (IAPA) 3rd Printmaking Biennale in Beijing, China.

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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.