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Elaine Stephenson is an Atlanta artist and muralist creating bright and colorful art with positive messages to uplift and inspire.

After a 10 year design career, she now combines both her strategic design skills and an artistic voice to create art that enhances spaces. Elaine is very involved in public art and has several large permanent murals around Atlanta, such as a bridge underpass and a parking garage entrance at Atlantic Station. Her fine art has been exhibited at ABV Gallery, FreeMarket Gallery, Cat Eye Creative, MINT Gallery, The Print Shop, Empire Arts Gallery, Avondale Arts Center, and Arches Brewing. Stephenson has been featured in publications such as the AJC, Arts Atlanta, Shoutout Atlanta, Reporter Intown Newspapers, City Lights on WABE, and the Atlanta Street Art Map.

~ Elaine Stephenson

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“Am I where I should be? Is my business growing in the right direction? Am I happier owning a business?

The truth is everything will ebb and flow. Some days you’ll be happy doing the work, other days it will feel like you’re grinding. When it felt like this vicious cycle wasn’t going to let up, I needed to take some action. I took a few steps back and see if the art I was creating was what I wanted or what others expected of me. After taking a little time to myself I decided to start changing course, and develop my business into something more meaningful to me which is education. I love painting and exploring but what I miss most is talking with people and teaching them how to do both of those things.

I started my brand, Amy’s Workshop, with Pet Portraits, and since 2016 it has evolved quite a bit. I now have a website for my art, an Etsy sticker shop, I’ve done murals and markets, and teaching adult courses.”

• Canvas Rebel Article

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Timbook describes himself as a Renaissance Man, a creative jack of all trades. He grew up in Montgomery, Ala., and attended the University of Montevallo, a small liberal arts college near Birmingham. He worked in Huntsville for a decade, working for Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment.  

Before moving to Tucker with his wife, Molly, in 2021, the pair ran a small toy company in Huntsville, Ala. Timbrook handmade a game called Hedge Lord, which blew up in the maker space and game-con world. 

The toy shop was very hands-on and there was confusion about how COVID was transmitted in the beginning, said Timbrook, so he and Molly shifted gears. They moved to Atlanta, and he pursued his desire to work on film and TV sets. 

As a freelance artist, Timbrook creates handmade, specialty props for film sets. For “Just Beyond,” a comedy-horror show filmed in Tucker, he recently made a decrepit-looking conspiracy board, and for an upcoming Netflix series called “Florida Man” he created a mural and large sculptures.  

~ from Decaturish Article by journalist Logan Ritchie: https://decaturish.com/2022/08/illustrated-map-of-tucker-is-the-talk-of-the-town/ 

Sami Jacq is an emerging artist, born and raised on the outskirts of Atlanta. Her body of work mainly consists of paintings. When she was a sophomore in high school, Sami began painting her favorite songs and soon discovered that she had synethsthesia, a condition that causes her senses to merge and interpret sounds as vivid colors. She feel deeply in love with colors and creative expression, which led her to art school. In 2021, she earned her BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Sami now focuses on painting dramatic, detailed flowers, commenting on life's fragility and including indertones of her personal faith through the symbolism of nature. She continues to expand her portfolio in the Atlanta area.

~ Sami Jacq website

Catlanta aka Rory Hawkins, is an Atlanta based artist primarily known for his colorful and fun paintings of cats. Though he was born in New Orleans, Rory has been a lifelong resident of the metro Atlanta area. Rory attended Georgia State University as a Berner Scholarship recipient where he received a B.A. in Studio Art in 2010 primarily focusing on printmaking during his studies. Since graduation, Rory has produced hundreds of paintings under the moniker ‘Catlanta’, a name that grew from a few cats Rory spray painted on the walls of underpasses and abandoned properties throughout the city of Atlanta in 2011.  The cats, three-legged with dots for eyes and hearts on their chests, quickly became known as an Atlanta street art character popping up all over town. Not interested in being labeled a vandal and inspired by nondestructive art movements like  Free Art Friday, Rory transitioned from painting cats on walls to creating small hand painted wooden cutouts of his iconic three-legged cat (called kittens) which he hides around town for anyone to find. Rory shares photo clues of the piece’s location and invites his followers to track down and keep any kitten that they can find.  Since he began hiding art pieces in 2011, Rory has shared over 1,000 pieces of art via photo scavenger hunt.  These ‘art drops’ are meant to highlight the people, places, and events that make Atlanta and other cities unique while inspiring exploration and engagement within the community where the artwork is hidden.

In addition to painting and hiding cats, Rory is an accomplished muralist with large outdoor works in Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Costa Rica. He has worked with several local and national brands on a variety of projects from label designs to chalkboard art and has volunteered with organizations like One Love Generation and Paint Love to lead art workshops for Atlanta area students. He lives in Ormewood Park, and enjoys evening walks around his neighborhood, Atlanta sports teams (not you, Cobb Braves), and taking hot baths.

-Catlanta Website

Ana is a Colombian, Atlanta based artist.  She is famed for the great vitality of her works which are characterized by expressive and emotive use of brilliant colors and the energetic application of her impasto technique. Ana is also known for her versatile work through different media, such as murals, custom made wearable art, body painting, and her expressionist, and tridimensional artwork.

In Miami (2018) and Georgia (2021), Ana shared her colors at the Colombian Consulate with the Made in Colombia series as a initiative to share representative people, and culture from her homeland Colombia. Recently, these series were displayed on her Solo Exhibition at the Art Station Big Shanty Gallery and at The Quinlan.

In addition, her wearable art clothing was displayed on the runway at the Fashion Week, London 2021.

On March 2022 Ana Córdoba was diagnosed with breast cancer and she still walking this battle, since she chose an alternative and natural treatment as her way of healing. This decision lead her to a new journey of connecting with women healing cancer naturally as well, sharing her knowledge, bringing awareness to general health, which inspired her to start a support group named Mujer Monarca ( Monarch Woman). She is in the process of writing a book, and creating new artwork based on her experience, using art as part of her healing journey.

-Ana Cordoba

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Krista M. Jones, also known as JONESY, is a contemporary artist, based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is best known for her vibrant, symbolic patterned murals and complex canvas paintings. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbus State University. Her canvas works have been featured in exhibitions throughout the United States, including The Hudgens Center for Art & Learning; LAC-Lawrenceville Arts Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia; MOCA GA- Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; ABV Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia; Blue Mark Studios in Atlanta, Georgia; MINT gallery in Atlanta, Georgia; Echo Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia; ArtFields in Lake City, South Carolina; LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, Georgia; DooGallery in Atlanta, Georgia; Red Ink Studios in San Francisco, California; Kibbee Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a multiple grant recipient, including the Laura Patricia Calle grant, Gwinnett Creativity Fund grant, Georgia Council for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts grant.

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She has received public art commissions from notable clients such as the City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, the City of Atlanta Department of City Planning, the City of Chamblee in conjunction with St. Vincent de Paul, The Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, the City of Doraville, Georgia; the Roswell Arts Fund, Mill Creek Residential/Modera Vinings, Jon Ossoff for Senate, Sugarloaf CID, Atlanta Beltline, Inc., Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Livable Buckhead, Path Foundation and Living Walls, the City Speaks. Her murals around the Atlanta metro area are rich with vibrant colors, stylized flora/fauna, and patterns.

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Leah Kellaway (she/her) is an art educator and award-winning illustrator based in Atlanta, GA who blends illustration, fine art, and design to create expressive work that focuses on themes of character and portraiture, everyday magic and adventure, and inspiration and empowerment. After a decade of working independently and collaboratively to solve a multitude of visual problems, she founded Kellaway Creative Collaborative in 2023 to provide vibrant, bold, unique visual storytelling to businesses and individuals of all sizes and kinds. Kellaway holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia (‘16) and a Master of Fine Arts in Illustration from the University of Hartford (‘23).

-Leah Kellaway

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A BlackCatTips is a painter and muralist. A BlackCatTips is a poet and a thinker— a teller of tales. A BlackCatTips is Kyle Brooks, a street folk artist from way down in the American South.

In addition to his studio and mural work, Brooks creates street poems and whimsical roadside art installations. With his brush, bright colors and a few found materials, he paints the world happy.

Brooks lives in Arabia Mountain, Georgia with his nice lady wife and two little babies. He also has a pet chicken and enjoys growing orchids. One day he hopes to live in a biscuit house.

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SINCE I WAS A KID THE ONLY THING I EVER WANTED TO DO WAS BE A FASHION DESIGNER. I HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO BE LIVING MY DREAMS FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS. I BUILT MY CAREER IN THE FAST FASHION INDUSTRY BY HAVING GRAPHIC APPAREL IN STORES SUCH AS TARGET, MACY'S, ZUMIEZ, URBAN OUTFITTERS AND FOREVER 21, JUST TO NAME A FEW. THE COMPANIES I HAVE WORKED FOR HAVE TRUSTED ME TO DESIGN FOR EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC, GENRE AND STYE WHICH HAS MADE ME A WELL VERSED DESIGNER. MY SPECIALTY FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON MENS STREETWEAR APPAREL. I LOVE BRANDING AND BRINGING PEOPLES VISIONS TO LIFE. I AM SOMEONE WHO CAN PUSH BOUNDARIES AND CREATE TREND SETTING DESIGNS THAT APPEAL TO THE MASS MARKET. EARLY ON I LEARNED THAT A T-SHIRT IS REALLY JUST A CANVAS AND IT HAS HELPED ME EXCEL INTO THE ARTIST I AM TODAY.  MY ARRRTWORK UNDER MY ALIAS ARRRTADDICT HAS LEAD ME TO DO CONCERT POSTERS FOR RED BULL, TWO COLLABORATIONS WITH NIKE, BEER LABELS FOR SEVERAL BREWERIES, FLYERS FOR EVENTS AND MURALS ALL AROUND THE CITY OF ATLANTA.  THERE ARE NO LIMITS WHEN IT COMES TO MY ARRRT. I HOPE THAT YOU CAN BE APART OF MY JOURNEY. 

LETS GROW TOGETHER,

-LISETTE CORREA AKA ARRRTADDICT​

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Born in Yonkers, New York, Artist InUs (Muhammad Suber) began sketching at about 4 years old. While growing predominantly self-taught, he started out using colored pencils, pens and markers to inject real-life figures into a fantasy setting, creating superheroes out of everyday people from his life into his work. His goals are to complete public art projects around his current hometown, Atlanta, and form an outreach to a community while breaking into the videogame industry as a 2D artist, creating a nonprofit that trains youth in artistic techniques and current 2D and 3D animation to increase the diversity of representation in emerging art-technology industries.

After featuring in The Art of Giving Showcase at A3C’s 15th Anniversary. Artist became a 2017 Hatch C4 Training Intensive participant, attending weekend coursework on community-based art, grant applications, and interacting in Atlanta’s public art community. He also showcased his art in various shows including: Focus, Art ‘n’ Spark, and TOSA fest. He has experience in portfolio and commissioned works of portraiture, landscape, logo and 2D illustration design using creative techniques such as pointillism, realism, and surrealism from a mixed medium of colored pencil, marker, pen & Ink, and an occupational brush and paint for the creation of his murals. Along with his work ethic, his advanced skills in the Adobe Suite with programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign to enhance the production process of his work’s progression, assisting in the ability to proceed on projects as a Fine Mural Artist.

He wants to used his talents and abilities along with entities like C4 and WonderRoot and Art on the Beltline to become more involved in community projects such as murals  in order to create a form of Socially Engaged Art with his creative vision

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Liz Alzona is an award-winning, published artist and gifted storyteller. Inspired by extraordinary individuals and their stories of struggle and triumph, Liz uses bold and vibrant mixed media collages to ignite inspiration and foster connection. Her work emphasizes the desires, dreams, and legacies of both renowned figures and unsung heroes. Raised in Chicago by artist parents, Liz's passion for art began at a young age. She studied art alongside biology (B.S.), and neurophysiology (M.S.) at Loyola University Chicago, seamlessly integrating science, art, and narrative in her work. Currently based in Atlanta, Liz's work is featured in both private and public collections, including the James Clerk Maxwell foundation in Edinburgh, Scotland.

She was awarded the Rosemary Cox Award for Art from Georgia State University, featured in the Creative License magazine and has been mentioned on various digital platforms. Liz's most recent exhibitions span venues such as the Douglasville Cultural Arts Center, Hudgens Center for Art & Learning, the Alpharetta Arts Center, the Emma Darnell Aviation Museum and Conference Center, and the Swan Coach House Gallery. Notably, her collages also grace Midtown as banners in the “Art! Everywhere” project, the Southeast’s largest outdoor gallery bringing art to the community.

Beyond her artistic pursuits, Liz has been a guest lecturer at Georgia State University and actively engages in local artistic events and workshops. 

Please connect with her on 

Instagram @lizalzonaart

View her work on lizalzonaart.com

Contact her at lizalzonaart@gmail.com.

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I was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Through my father’s profession as a senior economist, our family was afforded the opportunity to live in Nairobi, Kenya, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Gaborone Botswana, Toronto Canada, and McLean Virginia, before I settled in Atlanta Georgia. 

These experiences challenge the idea of identity, specifically as it pertains to “third culture kids.” A third culture kid is a term used to refer to children who were raised in a culture outside of their parent’s culture for a significant part of their developmental years. 

Drawing on my experiences of growing up in these communities, my sculpture reflects the relationship between myself and the world around us. The materials that I use vary just as greatly. I am compelled by the notion of recycling and repurposing, adapting ordinary things using some traditional crafting techniques that are drawn from my Kenyan roots, combined with painting, pyrography, wood working, ceramics and resin. 

Starting with a pile of odds and ends, including but not limited to kitchen utensils, broken furniture, discarded guitars, etc. I combine them like pieces of a puzzle to come up with the initial idea for the structure of the piece. My process is improvisational, and I am open to however the piece develops. Clay or resin are used to form the heads and 

hands, to give the piece character. The sometimes metal frame is built out with sisal fiber, wood, cable ties, plastic bags, rebar wire, paint, pyrography, gold/silver leaf to give the piece expression. 

My process is a combination of creative play and problem solving and reflects the patchwork quilt of these experiences. These elements and many others become the basis for my reinterpretation of the world us. By taking what is familiar and making it new, I create a narrative that engages history, folklore, myth, social awareness, the idea of timelessness, and the complexity of identity. 

~ Grace Kisa on Midtown Alliance website: https://www.midtownatl.com/midtown-alliance/heart-of-the-arts/public-art-commissions/grace-kisa-bio

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Alex Ferror is natural from São Paulo, Brazil, and from a very early age, he showed his interest in art. Drawings of characters and animals could be easily found among the lessons and exercises in Alex’s school notebooks, and although a very active kid, several times, he would rather immerse himself in the sketchbooks and colored pencils than play outdoors with his friends.

The ’80s and ’90s cartoons and comic books were the basis for his style and visual narrative. It was only several years later, though, that street art started to catch Alex’s attention. The wide range of colors and styles of his hometown’s street art scene amazed Alex more and more. Highly influenced by some of the precursors of the Brazilian graffiti scene, such as Speto and Os Gêmeos, Ferror’s character-based work started taking shape.

 Almost two decades later, Alex decided to take a break in his career in fashion and spend some time living abroad. Before leaving Brazil, however, Alex took some classes from some of his Brazilian street art heroes, such as Mundano and Vermelho who taught him some of their “tricks”. This gave him the push he needed to start giving life to his characters on his own murals.

 Motivated by the opportunity to add colors and beauty to the life of the unprivileged children who don’t have access to art and culture in Brazil, Alex Ferror painted most of his first murals in “favelas”, the poor communities in Rio de Janeiro. But it didn’t take too long for Alex to take his childlike characters to other cities and countries, starting in Atlanta, GA, where he lived for four years, and where most of the first works of his US period were painted.

 Today, Alex is a recognized visual artist, illustrator, and muralist and his art can be seen on walls, installations, publications, and products in different countries.

In his colorful work, Alex invites you to connect with your inner child. The artist explores the whimsical universe of childhood imagination and how kids see the world and interact with their feelings. Through his characters, mostly children and their imaginary friends, Alex encourages diversity, creativity, love, and respect, among other messages and emotions that the artist considers essential in our humanity.
Alex’s work can be seen on walls, installations, publications, and other products in many different countries.

 Alex’s most recent accomplishments include an 8 feet tall sculpture of Dom (the pink bear, Ferror’s most recurrent character), installed in Connecticut, USA, "Let’s Explore the Tiny Doors", the second children’s book illustrated by him, and his participation in several international street art festivals.