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Aaron Grayum has lived in and around Nashville since he was 4 years old, receiving his BFA from Middle Tennessee State University in 1999, and has been painting professionally for the past 18 years. Aaron won first place in the Nashville Arts & Business Council's Periscope Pitch competition in 2018. In 2020 he was named one of the top three Art Creators of the Year by Nashville Lifestyles magazine, and is currently a resident artist for Metro High Schools. Currently represented by Swipe Right Art and Art Beat Nashville, he currently lives and works with his wife and son in Fairview, Tennessee.

Adam Stagner, a Middle Tennessee native, has been building his photography and digital art portfolio for the last 13 years. His photography has been featured and awarded on multiple occasions and he currently owns and operates a small art gallery in Franklin, TN where he sells fine art prints and provides custom printing and digital restoration services. His true passions are travel, hiking and photographing waterfalls. Landscape photography is capturing an image that embodies the spirit of the outdoors. It carries a sense of being there to see something incredible. "When viewers look at my work, their hearts should jump. I want them to feel the same emotions that I felt, standing in the middle of nature and bringing back something amazing. The same principles apply to my digital artwork and everything I do as a creative artist."

Nashville artist AJ Armstrong has been painting subjects that pop from the canvas with high accents of color, often centering around landscapes and architecture. Originally creating pencil or pen sketches, he has transitioned to painting over the years, sometimes mixing the two mediums. His style is mostly realistic, accurate depictions with accents of color that bring the setting to life. A majority of his work has been made available through art shows around Nashville. AJ has had a consistent contract with a local realtor presenting pen and ink sketches of their new homes. He has displayed and sold several beach themed paintings at a gallery in the resort town of Seaside, Florida as well as 2 paintings here at the 2023 Soundwaves Gallery.

Amy Krimsier Sterling is a storyteller who creates visual art in a variety of mediums, capturing life's many elements through printmaking, ceramics, watercolor, oil, and anything else she can get her hands on. Glazed with a painter's eye for details, these delightful, intimate ceramic pieces lead the viewer into a different world, offering illustrative snapshots of a much larger story.

Anthony Fazio creates mixed media paintings that are visually striking and thought-provoking, and reflective of the human experience. His studio is located on Music Row in Nashville, where he is able to tap into his creativity and create unique pieces that stand out. His work is heavily influenced by mathematics, which he uses as a tool to guide the viewer's eye and create a sense of harmony and balance in his compositions. Anthony's ultimate goal is to create art that leaves a lasting impression on the viewer that is a true reflection of his innermost thoughts, emotions, and soul. His artwork can be viewed in prestigious galleries in New Jersey and Nashville, where he continues to inspire audiences with his masterpieces that come from the soul.

Arash Shoushtari, a.k.a IMGRNT, is an Iranian-born, American multidisciplinary artist, currently based out of Nashville, TN. As a visual artist, printmaker, musician, producer, composer, and DJ his work explores a range of themes all centered within, and inspired by, the immigrant experience. His visual work is often an examination of visual perceptions, optical illusions, and modern takes on patterns that speak to a rich cultural background. As storytelling through patterns are a cornerstone of Persian rugs and textiles that are a big inspiration for his work. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has had his work exhibited nationally and internationally.

Ashley Mintz is a visual artist and writer creating and residing in Nashville, Tennessee. She can often be found exhibiting her art and reading poetry at different galleries and festivals around Nashville and in other cities in the South. An avid lover of film, she has had her original instrumental music used in indie and short films and some of her paintings have been used as background art in two films. Ashley regularly teaches art and writing workshops to help others cultivate their creativity and to use art and writing as a way of healing. She is currently working on a book of poems and art based around her experiences being biracial.

Since graduating with a BFA from Montserrat College of Art in 2004, Briana Burtsell has dedicated her creative energy to teaching the next generation of artists. In 2019 she earned a master's degree in art education from Boston University and was named a Blue Ribbon Teacher for her work with Metro Nashville Public Schools. Briana's photography work primarily focuses on landscapes and cityscapes. She currently teaches art appreciation at Tennessee State University and is president of North Star Art Education, providing classes, curriculum, and consulting services in art education.

As a Nashville based abstract artist, Christina Wiggins has always been a creative person, driven by intuition and passion. Her art is a combination of both contemporary and abstract styles, which express a sense of balance, emotion and imagination. As an artist, she taps into her emotions and thoughts while sketching, thus creating one of a kind vibrant abstract and contemporary designs. Her mediums include; acrylic paint and resin. Christina's current works are influenced by everyday life, experiences, colors and ingenuity.

"Music paints a picture and colors sing." American painter and bilingual singer/songwriter Dalia Garcia grew up in Madrid, Spain and Irmo, South Carolina. She has now lived in Nashville, Tennessee for over 25 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio from the University of South Carolina and is a former miss South Carolina. Dalia grew up in a U.S. Military family, like a modern nomad, traveling and living around the world. Her expressionistic style paintings are the result of her exploration of the peaceful harmonious coexistence of nature, people, and the power of color, shape, and movement. "I choose to live in the now, and hone in on the optimism, playfulness and serenity of a simple, beautiful moment."

Daniel Arite is a multidisciplinary artist and has been a Nashville resident since late 2000. His creative practice encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, sculptural assemblages, and video. He works with various recycled materials including wood, plastic, leather, metal, etc., to create two-dimensional assemblages and mixed-media collage. This practice grew out of his views on sustainability and a desire to create art in an Earth-friendly way. Daniel's works are abstract and conceptual in nature and to each other. Over the past decade, he has worked with organizations and communities throughout Nashville and Middle Tennessee. He enjoys facilitating art-making and music workshops and leading collaborative murals and mosaic projects. Daniel is also a composer and recording artist.

DaShawn Lewis is a photographer whose work focuses on the preservation of memories and youth arts. Born and raised in Nashville, DaShawn has been drawn towards photography since childhood. Building community, making connections, and storytelling are components that he considers when making photographs. DaShawn does what he likes to call "Life Photography". Life photography aims to document real-life events, people, or scenery in the most authentic way possible. The primary goal is to show the importance of everyday life and everyday people.

David Greaves is a Nashville-based artist and civil engineer. He works in a wide variety of mediums from pen and ink to oil paints, reduction printmaking to woodworking. For his personal work, he chooses subjects that define a location or experience. This could be a local landmark, an interesting scene passed on a bike ride, or something he sees everyday. David is urged to express his relationship to these places by an intense love for his city and a desire to share its sights, moods, and history with others.

Diane M Marsella is a painter, photographer and digital artist. She believes that to capture a memory and encapsulate it on the two dimensional plane of canvas is everything. Balancing light against shadow, from against line transforms the stark into the sublime. Painting in oils allows for free movement of the brush, so that the paint becomes an extension of my thoughts and intentions.

Ford William is a self-taught artist based in Nashville. He began making art and publicly sharing it in 2022 as a form of self-directed therapy in order to practice overcoming perfectionism, avoidance, procrastination, and other forms of anxiety or shame-based behavior. Ford makes playful, imaginative, and often humorous pieces that have been described as folk, outsider, or naive art. Themes in his work often relate to aspects of mental health (based on his own struggles), various absurdities of society, or information learned from his prior career as a transactional attorney. Ford grew up and lived primarily in Texas before moving to Nashville in early 2020.

Visit his website: fordwilliamart.com and Instagram: @ford\william\art

The Wages were run out of Virginia for stealing horses and other boorish behavior. After settling in North Mississippi they evolved into three groups: preachers, drunks & outlaws, and a mid range group. We came from the mid range group. Houston Wages was born in Millington, TN, the country outskirts North of Memphis. The oldest son of the hometown judge, he found art in multiple forms at a young age. He attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC with interest in the stage. Acting later led Wages to LA where he began playing music on a more professional level. Music (in particular songwriting) then brought him here to Nashville where he oddly enough fell in love with abstract painting.

Jake Kobal was born in Pittsburg, moved to Nashville, and started painting pictures along the way. Pointless Paint paintings are characterized by bold lines, usually with a mashup of personified objects as the subject matter. Pulling inspiration from everyday objects and activities, the goal is to produce pieces that everyone can relate to.

Originally hailing from the Metro Detroit area, JaRel ("Relly") has been a Nashville transplant since 2008. A musician since childhood, he is a self taught abstract artist as an adult. Painting began as a way to decorate his own living space after being frustrated with available commercial art. Amassing more pieces than available wall space, it led him to showing in the Downtown Nashville Art Crawl from 2014 until the pandemic. Taking inspiration from a location, he loves creating custom pieces for rooms and has also body painted bands for music videos. His favorite pieces include rich, vibrant colors juxtaposed against loose, gritty textures. The Noteworthy series shown at Nashville SC are about returning to roots and finding your personal freedom.

Instagram: @RellyCreative

A practicing painter for over 30 years, Jess Peoples enjoys contemporary impressionistic approaches to local landscapes, wildlife and portraits. Developed through a process of layering emotive brushwork and intentional strokes, her paintings transform nature observation into playful aesthetic experiences. Each layer plays a role in showcasing a rhythm of life, and pushes exploration into the connections between nature and humanity. Inspired by the astonishing beauty and perpetual tenacity of nature to thrive through different seasons, her art reflects the general spirit of nature and humans to get through different seasons. Currently a Nashvillian, Jess is from Louisville, Kentucky, and received a BFA from Miami University of Oxford, Ohio. She's a proud momma to two awesome kids and wife to another inventive soul of a different kind.

Originally from Augusta, GA Jesse has been proud to call Nashville home for 15 years now. With no formal training he came to art later in life and most certainly intends to make up for lost time. Via trial and error he pursues themes, shapes, colors and compositions that he finds compelling. He is a data analyst by day, and enjoys math geometry and he intends for his affinity for each to come across in his work. He generally prefers non-traditional materials and when painting, he gravitates toward layout-focused work with a bold palette.

Jessica Crouch's atmospheric, moody, nonfigurative works are created using encaustic wax and pigments, that she burns, melts, and carves the medium to create richly expressive, free-flowing designs that galvanize home interiors. And she's having fun doing it: "My abstract expressionist work is definitely about letting go. It's a challenge for me to not be so precise and exact, but the encaustic medium is so unpredictable that I have no choice -- I have to play with it. It's a very freeing feeling."

Joe Geis is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer rom NJ/NYC, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. With a focus on murals, illustrations, and patterns, Joe explores the movement and balance that lines, shapes, and negative space can create within different environments and spaces, as well as the positive influence that work can have on the local community and those who interact with it. Although the final stages of his process are very calculated and thought out, the beginning is very much left to chance. Most elements in Joe's work are influenced by tangible objects and intangible moments, but he enjoys that some only see lines and shapes, while others can identify and resonate with something a little more recognizable and personal.

Jessica Eichman is an artist who works and lives in Nashville. A native of Natchez, Mississippi, Jessica earned degrees in Art and French before living and working in Paris, France; Corvallis, Oregon; and Boston, Massachusetts. Jessica's paintings have been exhibited in the Huntsville Museum of Art, Nashville International Airport, and numerous private galleries, and have been featured in print and online. Her work can be found in public and private collections across the country and internationally, including the permanent public art collection in the Nashville Historic Metro Courthouse and Hermitage Park in Nashville.

Joe Nolan is an intermedia artist based in Nashville, TN. His diverse practice includes photography, multimedia paintings, public radio poetry broadcasts, live performances, musical releases, public art projects, and his critical writing about art and film. He's the author of Nowville: The Secret History of Nashville, Tennessee's Contemporary Art Scene, coming soon from Vanderbilt University Press

"I don't work delicately, I like to be messy. Mistakes and accidents are my secret ingredient. I pour truth into my pieces like a heavy handed bartender, though you may not always taste it because of how well I've blended it with humor. My woman is Black like my mother, my thoughts, my neighborhood, and my sneakers. Nashville, TN raised me, gave me my perspective, along with a thick accent and an understanding of good food. If a picture's worth a thousand words I pray my words comfort you and with insight, inspiration and laughter. I love you though I've never met you and I hope the feelings' mutual."

b. 1988

Kevan Joseph O'Connor cranes his neck toward beauty and empathy - an artist interested in the healing spectrum of creation. He creates "Visual Poems" from his home studio in Nashville, Tennessee. "There are things I don't know how to say with words. My job is to refine my communication, with visual work that serves as transmissions from a deeply human place beyond verbal language, in memory and emotion. I use brooms and the handles of broken wooden tools. I finger paint with mediums until textures and contrasts form a deep harmony. I use ruined paint brushes to create marks I couldn't intentionally make - until a structure of understanding and deep compassion arises on the canvas, and then I stop."

Kevin Wurm is a photographer currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. He focuses on portraiture, photojournalism and fine art photography. His versatility, awareness and ability to communicate with his surroundings and environment allow him to take intimate and aesthetically pleasing photographs.

Raised an art lover in upstate New York, Leslie Haines' career includes being a graphic designer, professor, and fine artist. Currently serving as a professor of Visual Communication at MTSU, she enjoys igniting the passion of future creative professionals. In 2014 she started working on a series of digital animal collages that would later become "Animal Abecedary." The work combines her love of vintage engravings, color, texture, and type and has been exhibited at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville International Airport, and in Queensland Australia. A traveling publisher saw her airport exhibition and reached out to her about a book. Thus "Animal Abecedary: A One-of-a-Kind Alphabet Book" was born. In June of 2023, her work will be exhibited at Oxford University.

Lyn Stevens is a self-taught photographer, who combines her love of photography with her passion for music. She approaches photography as a documentarian; based off the strong belief that she is documenting future history, in a present-day moment. Her work has been featured in Country Weekly, Billboard Magazine, the Nashville Music Guide, and on the live telecast of the CMA Awards. In addition, her work has been displayed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, and at the Williamson County Public Library. Lyn is a three-time Nashville Independent Music Award recipient, for her work on the indie music scene in Nashville, and sells her Fine Art Photography prints, at art markets that are in and around the Nashville area.

Lisa Reed Preston is a visual disruptor, using abstraction and exploring technology to create immersive and interactive experiences that merge the physical and the digital world. A self-taught artist, she creates fine art and augmented reality paintings and virtual reality art experiences. Lisa grew up in a military family, moving and adapting to new environments, winning her first art contest at age 11. Lisa lost focus on her childhood passion as the challenges and practicality of life replaced youthful whimsy. Upon moving to Nashville, she rediscovered her passion for creativity and became part of the Plowhaus Artist Co-Op. Lisa is a graduate of the Arts and Business COuncil's 2022 Periscope: Artist Entrepreneur Program and has shown her augmented reality paintings at Artclectic! Nashville, and was Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. Lisa's experiences as an audio engineer, graphic designer, STEM and robotics teacher, and data analyst giver her an enthusiasm for problem solving and experimentation. Lisa currently lives with her husband in Bellevue, TN.

Martha Morales Purucker was born and raised in Mexico City where she earned her Bachelor's in Culinary Arts. Growing up in a culturally rich background, she was taught that art was created only by great Masters, not by mortals. She never had the opportunity to create art hands-on. Finally, prompted by a challenge from her brother, she created a simple scarf, which opened her mind to a world of possibilities. In 2015 she discovered Kilnformed glass, and began working with glass masters, mosaic masters and other art mentors. She has begun creating with stained glass, mosaic, paint and sculpting. She creates, designs, collaborates and teaches glass and mosaic art. Her work is inspired by different cultural influences from living in different countries and learning from a diverse group of artists from different disciplines. Creating is an everyday need, a way of sharing the good, the bad, the happy, the sad.

Melodie Provenzano lives and works in the countryside near Nashville. After receiving a BFA from NYC's Parsons School of Design in 1996, Melodie freelanced for more than a decade painting window displays, showrooms and commissioned projects for fashion companies including, Saks 5th Avenue, Donna Karan, Louis Vuitton, Ferragamo, Chanel and Hermes. At that time she sharpened her painting skills while developing her fine art. Melodie has exhibited at group shows including the Brattleboro Museum, VT; The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; Museum of Contemporary Art Long Island, NY; and has had solo shows at Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC; Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; The University School of Nashville, TN; and Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC. Recently she had a retrospective solo exhibition entitled "Greatest hits" at Willow Oak Center for Arts and Learning, TN.

Michael Ray Nott began his art career in Austin, Texas as a graphic artist. His work appears in a number of poster retrospectives from that era, including the books, The Art of Rock (1987, Abbeville Press) and Homegrown (2015, Texas Monthly Press). During that same time he was privileged to study photography under the legendary Garry Winogrand who made a profound impression on Michael through his philosophy of photography. His early work in music and street art has come full circle and found its place in his current work in street photography, capturing the zeitgeist of this remarkable time and place in Nashville.

Nadine Shillingford is a Nashville-based artist and writer, born on the island of Dominica and living in West Nashville with her daughter, Hailey. Her work consists mainly of charcoal drawings, but she also enjoys creating mixed media. Her inspiration comes from the people and animals around her. When she draws, she focuses on the lights and darks and the geometric features of the face and body. She focuses a lot on the subject's eyes and expression. It's a gradual process for her and it makes her happy when it all comes together. She is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at the School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS) at Meharry Medical College.

Nija Woods is an abstract expressionist who grew up in a small town in Lexington, TN. Her life was heavily influenced by her grandmother a watercolorist and one of the first black educators during desegregation of high school where she taught French. The French inclusion in Nija's art titling is he way of honoring her grandmother. Soon she took interest in painting and used this talent as a form of expression throughout childhood into adulthood. Currently Nija holds certifications in Color Therapy and Therapeutic Art Life Coaching where she provides others with guidance on how to use their creativity to navigate life obstacles. Using an unlimited medium, her artwork allows others to experience the effects of color intentionality.

Omari focuses on oil painting as his predominant medium. Mixed media including fabric, charcoal, ink, and found objects are essential building blocks of his work, and are also used to create finished pieces. Large scale work has been a constant creative outlet for Omari, and murals are a consistent part of his creative practice. Omari takes a process-oriented approach to his art, embracing it as a therapeutic modality through which he is able to express his passion for the freedom and independence that the creative process allows him to experience. The philosophy that undergirds Omari's work is FREEDOM THROUGH ART and he aspires to create work that communicates to his audience their unique and intrinsic ability to be free.

Contemporary non-objective artist Pam Austin seeks to express Divine Love with paint on canvas and paper. She is a native Tennessean and lives and works in Franklin. Following a successful career in business, she began a full-time pursuit of her childhood passion of creating art. Pam has studied under several regional and nationally known artists and attended Watkins College of Art & Design in Nashville. Throughout Pam's art career, her work has been juried into national as well as regional exhibitions and won several awards. Pam's paintings can be found in corporate and private collections throughout the US and Europe.

After careers in the military and the corporate world, Peach McComb became a full-time artist and teacher in 2016. She is an impressionist, working in oil, watercolor, and acrylic. She has always been creative and, although she did not have the benefit of a formal art education, she studied with several acclaimed artists who helped her become the artist she is today. She paints most of her smaller landscapes on location and must paint very fast to capture the light and mood of a place. There is nothing more rewarding than when someone says that a painting made them feel better, or that they could walk right into the picture. That is when she knows a painting is successful.

Randy L. Purcell is a visual artist based in Middle, TN. IN 2009 he graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a BFA in studio art. Since graduating, his focus has been on his unique encaustic process of transferring ink from recycled magazines onto a thin layer of beeswax. Randy's work has appeared in fine art galleries and in private collections across the United States and Canada. Randy is currently on the board of Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Number Inc. Magazine, and L'Evate, a leadership organization in Donelson/Hermitage. He is a founding member of Four Artist TN, the Nashville Collage Collective, and of the Mystery Art League, a forthcoming interactive art experience.

Originally from Leicester, England, Rhiannon Guppy studied art, photography and silversmithing at Loughborough School of Art & Design as well as Sheffield Hallam University. She spent 10 years working for a global greeting card company in design concept and range planning, before returning to her own artistic endeavors. The opportunity to work with mixed materials alongside her peers fostered her journey to discover her true love: Painting. 

After spending the last 13 years living on two continents with her husband, Steve and their two children, Bailey and Louis, Rhian and her family finally settled down in Franklin, Tennessee in 2020. As the world slowed down, it allowed for her to focus on her technique and various mediums, resulting in her current collection: mixed-medium, abstract landscapes.

She loves texture, minimal palettes, bold strokes & fine detail. While she continues to use acrylics, pens and charcoal, her favourite medium is watercolour because of the way the paint moves on paper and its unpredictability. 

Her favourite artists include: Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, Van Gogh, Henry Moore, Henri Matisse and Alexander Calder. 

You can view her collection or shop by visiting: 

www.rhiannonguppyart.com or on Instagram at @rhiannonguppyart

Rod McGaha was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He likes to reimagine portraits in a way that challenge certain constructs, such as beauty and equity. Much of his inspiration comes from the many African Americans who came before him. Musicians, actors, activists, and dancers of which many came from marginalized communities. Keeping their head up and staying motivated to achieve, while enduring various hardships, are examples that resonate with him. The images he creates speak to the power contained in the dialogue of their lives. The grace and forgiveness exhibited by them, demonstrates the possibility of civility, in the worst of situations. Through art, he can communicate civility through the power of movement, stillness, sight, sound, smell, and touch.

Rushelle hails from a country on the eastern coast of South America called Guyana. She migrated to the city of New York with her family at the tender age of 14. After attending high school in New York City she made her way south to Huntsville, AL for college. After graduating, Rushelle moved to Nashville where she attended dental school. It was during her time in Nashville that she began expressing her passion for art and all things creative. It is her hope that her art inspires anyone caged by the identity of that society dictates to discover the beauty and freedom in who they are.

Sarah Clinton moved to Nashville with her growing family in 2009 from New Jersey. Since arriving, her plans and ideas about life have changed almost as quickly as her adopted hometown. When her daughter was born with a rare genetic condition, she turned to painting as an outlet to help process and document the rhythm of life. Sarah's work is characterized by her unique compositions, and use of a variety of mediums that speak to the viewer on a personal level. Her paintings are regularly featured in juried art shows and at Art Beat in Nashville. You can see the murals she has designed and painted at Saddle Up! in Franklin, TN and at The Susan Gray School at Vanderbilt University.

Visit her website:  https://www.sarahclintonart.com and Instagram: @sarahclintonart

Sarah Spillers is a contemporary painter, art educator, and curator from Nashville. In 2020-2022 her work depicted Nashville going through the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. She explored the new environment that the pandemic had created and translated it into a series of paintings, emphasizing the use of lively color and texture in contrast to the gloomy, more serious times. Her recent work highlights local businesses and neon signs while capturing the city's lively upbeat energy. Spillers aims to create work that brings the Nashville community together. She was named Nashville's "Best Visual Artist" in 2022 by the Nashville Scene and is a member of COOP Gallery and DAC Gallery. She currently teaches art at a middle school in Clarksville and community classes at Austin Peay State University.

Shadale Smith is a Nashville native and self-taught artist. She makes work that expresses her perspective on the need for awareness of equality, self-expression, and positivity. She uses bold colors to capture the viewers' attention, she makes collages that address areas of culture that can spark necessary conversations, and text to encourage positivity. Shadale has exhibited her work in several spaces in the Nashville area, in magazines, stadiums, billboards, and murals. Shadale encourages others to create and be inspired to express themselves to help with confidence and self-esteem. Her goal is to continue to uplift and tell her story through the eyes of her brush in hopes of others receiving enlightenment and inspiration.

Sicasso is currently working on learning more about herself through art as well as what type of artist she wants to be. She is a full on creative working with murals, graphic design, acrylic canvas, and now digital. She explains she just wants to create freely and show the world what her brain shows her! She also has a deep interest in psychology and is considering a career in art therapy. But for now she is taking the world along with her on her artistic journey.

As a high school student at The Webb School in Bell Buckle, TN, Tree Lily Butcher started her own zine. "Sheep Grenade" which caused quite a stir in the small country town due to age appropriate obscenity. Through this experimental zine, she found her love of hand-cut collage. In March of 2020, Tree Lily was 3 months pregnant, an unemployed waitress full of fear, anxiety and depression. So, she shut herself into her home art studio and ripped apart magazines while the world split at the seams. Change is at the very core of hand-cut collage and change is what inspired her to pursue art professionally.

Vanessa Sharp Multon is a lifelong Tennessean. After receiving a BFA from MTSU, she spent many years working in advertising as a graphic designer. She later found her way back to her passion of creating fine art through painting. Vanessa was named one of "11 Emerging Contemporary Artists from Nashville to Know" by The Culture Trip. Her paintings have been displayed on an HGTV show. Her artwork is in private collections around the world, as well as in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center collection. It's been featured in art shows and stores throughout Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. She is also a licensed artist through iCanvas, and Alpha's Inc. Vanessa lives with her husband and two boys in Franklin, Tennessee.

Will Maddoxx is an artist based in Nashville, TN, who is graduating with a BFA in May. He makes 2D work focused on the figure, queered identity, and Christian Theistic tradition. His common techniques include acrylic painting and drawing, and his work is influenced and inspired by botany and color theory. Artists that Will looks up to include art historical icons like Caravaggio and John Singer Sargent, as well as contemporary artists like Cindy Sherman, Jenny Saville, and Sasha Gordon. Will serves as President of Belmont University's Kappa Pi chapter, a national art honors society, and is working on his body of work ICONOCLASM, which centers around sexuality's intersection with religious iconography.

Will Winton is an artist and designer living and working in Franklin, with connections throughout the Metro Nashville region. He creates "Functional Sculpture", that is, bespoke furniture that is both functional and sculptural in form. Will's Winton Guitar Chair (TM) is a unique answer to the age old question of any picker "Where can I sit and play?"