Author: andrewthedesigner

  • Sam Sykes

    Sam Sykes The featured artist for May 2021. Artist Bio: Prior to welding, I made my wages as a professional poker player, but eventually I became bored and complacent. I was living in Asheville in 2015, and as luck would have it, I was introduced to the idea of welding by a friend. A week…

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  • Tracy Gansrow

    Tracy Gansrow “It’s Not Just Black & White – Looking Behind the Obvious” by Tracy Gansrow will be on display the month of April 2021. Artist Bio: Tracy Csoka Gansrow was born in Heirlin, Netherlands. She lived the majority of her youth at USMA, West Point, NY, where she later taught painting, drawing and framing…

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  • Jay Watson

    Jay Watson February 2021’s featured artist. Artist Bio: Jay started his art career as a painter/mural artist painting many murals in Hilton Head Island, SC and Savannah, GA. After completing college for audio engineering he combined his visual art with his music compositions. He moved to Atlanta to produce music and had countless gallery shows.…

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  • Tim Petrinec

    Tim Petrinec December 2020’s featured artist Artist Bio: Tim Petrinec had his first professional art show in Brooklyn in 2003. A few years later, he was a visual artist at Bonnaroo Music Festival and in 2009 was 1 of  12 artists chosen from around the United States to complete an art reality show call “Work…

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  • Jon Mullen

    Emily Berger “The Light Returns” by Jon Mullen will be on display the month of November 2020. Artist Bio: I was born in Nepal, in the sky scraped shadow of the Himalayas. I grew up with whitefire glaciers and silent soaring vistas.  Scraped sunlight on wind-swept rock. Later, I lived in the searing heat of…

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  • Elijah Kell

    Elijah Kell october’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Elijah Kell is a glass artist from Mint Hill, North Carolina. His artistic journey began at the age of ten when he was first introduced to the medium and discovered an instant connection. Since then, he has immersed himself in the art of glass developing his craft through…

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  • THE WILD INSIDE

    THE WILD INSIDE The Wild Inside is a collaborative exploration of the role that imagination and wonder play in coping with the collective experience of isolation, ambiguity and grief as a result of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The artists worked together (while apart in their separate homes) to create pieces that interlace joy and anxiety,…

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  • Brian Twitty

    Brian Twitty Visual Artist Artist Bio: A multi-award-winning photographer with a background in board sports, portraiture and varying commercial industries, BT has wide-ranging work from local portraiture and headshots to multiple publications nationally to local arts entities Blumenthal Performing Arts and Bechtler Museum to celebrities like Tony Hawk, LL Cool J and Blake Shelton. He…

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  • Holly Spruck

    Holly Spruck Connect: to bring together so as to form a new whole. Artist Bio: Holly Spruck, class of 2018 #ArtPopCLT. Palette knife enthusiast. Former elementary art teacher. Kindergarten should start with Monet…just sayin’ . Lived in Europe for nearly a decade. Loses track of reality in museums. Learn more about Holly Spruck by visiting www.hollyspruck.com.…

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  • Dakotah Aiyanna

    Dakotah Aiyanna “Art is a language where no words are needed to make you feel or understand what is trying to be said.”. Dakotah’s artwork displayed the month of August. Artist Bio: Self portraits can manifest in any way you see fit and that’s the beauty of art. This series tells a story of emotions…

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