ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Artists are invited by the Blue Heron Arts Advisory Board.
Artists are invited by the Blue Heron Arts Advisory Board.
Dorothy O’Connor has received grants from Possible Futures, FLUX, Forward Arts Foundation, Art on the Beltline, Crusade For Art, Fulton County Arts and Culture and City of Atlanta ElevateART to present her installations as public art. In 2013, she spent two months as Artist in Residence at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, TN where she constructed her installation, Shelter. She is a Hambidge Fellow and was part of the Hambidge Hive Collective in 2017. 2019 concluded with a solo show of her photography series, Scenes, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Ms. O’Connor’s work is part of the permanent collections at MOCA GA, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fulton County Arts and Culture, and is included in numerous private collections.
Caleb Jamel Brown (b.1993) is a multidisciplinary artist and plumber from Atlanta, GA. Brown’s work often examines themes of Black labour & leisure in the south, craft traditions, our relationship to clothing/textiles, and overlapping psychological states. Utilisation of abstraction and vernacular as the foundation for larger cultural narratives is at the core of his practice. Caleb is a 2022 Working Artist Project recipient and a 2020 Mint Leap Year Fellow. Caleb holds a BFA from Valdosta State University and has participated in residencies throughout the United States and abroad including Shandaken: StormKing, New Windsor, NY; Mass MOCA; PATA, Lodz, Poland; Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Coleman Arts Center, York, Al; Aviario, Portugal.
K. Tauches (K.T.) is an artist, designer, and curator based out of Atlanta, GA. Working in ceramics, photography, and graphic design, she hopes to inspire love and conservation of the Natural environment. She received a BA in Communications and Creative Writing from Loyola University, New Orleans, before moving to Atlanta. And, for 20 years she has produced small and large scale exhibitions with many local galleries and art institutions in addition to organizing many independent artist-initiated projects.
She served on the boards of ARTPAPERS magazine, Burnaway.org, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, and the Hudgens Award. She most recently completed an 8-year term as the Creative Director at the Forward Arts Foundation Gallery (Swan Coach House Gallery). HOUSE of TAU is her line of ceramic design.
Steven L. Anderson is an Atlanta-based exhibiting artist, and Co-Director of Day & Night Projects, an artist-run gallery in ATL’s Mechanicsville/West End neighborhood.
Steven is a graduate of the University of Michigan and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States since 1996.
Anderson is a recipient of the 2019 Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant at Château d’Orquevaux Artist Residency in Orquevaux, France. He was awarded a 2018–19 Artist Project Grant from the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and was a 2018 Fulton County Fine Art Acquisition Program finalist. Anderson was a TAR Project Therapeutic Artist Resident in 2016–17, has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary (2013–16), a 2015 Hambidge Center Distinguished Fellow, and a 2014–15 WonderRoot Walthall Artist Fellow. Anderson’s sketchbooks are in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University.
Anderson’s day job is Senior Graphic Designer at the Office of Undergraduate Admission at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Liz, daughter Agnes, and cat Cosmos Dandelion.
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Alison Hamil is an interdisciplinary artist based out of her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. She has a diverse body of work including murals, graphic design, and paintings in watercolor and acrylic. Most of her work incorporates bold colors, graphic patterns, and symmetry, combined with elements of painterly realism. Nature is a common theme in her work, as well as interconnectivity and spirituality.
Alison earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University with a concentration in Drawing and Painting in 2010. She also studied the art of graphic design while she was in school, and now specializes in bridging the gap between design, technology, and traditional drawing and painting.
Hamil has been awarded several public art commissions from the City of Atlanta, and has painted murals in various places across the globe including Nicoya, Costa Rica, and Kefalonia, Greece. She was named Best Emerging Visual Artist in Creative Loafing’s Best of Atlanta 2013, and has exhibited in the Georgia State Capitol, Kibbee Gallery, Mason Murer Gallery, Eyedrum, MOCA GA, and MINT Gallery. In March of 2020, Hamil was commissioned by the Mayor of Brookhaven, GA to paint a pandemic mural containing the phrase, “We Are All Together” alongside Peachtree Road.
Hannah Israel reflects on information as a form of abstraction. The nature of her work maps the relationships of our existence by illustrating how fragile time can be and how predictable our experiences can be based on the temperament of the world around us.
Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum, Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum is touring more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018.
Although a North Fulton native who grew up in Sandy Springs, Hunter had a studio, studied and exhibited for many years in San Francisco. His background is influenced by the Asian and conceptual art he studied during the ’70s. The themes that Tim works with “have connections to a ‘Southern’ sensibility: nature, memory, loss, history and personal expression,” he describes. His studio is now back in Atlanta, where he also teaches Illustration and Design at The Art Institute of Atlanta. For the past several years his work has focused largely on the images of birds at risk, their symbolic associations and his own personal interest.
As a winner of the eighth Open Studios Southern Artists Competition, Hunter’s “Birds in Peril” panels are featured in the Juried Exhibition-in-Print Catalog Number 46. His grey concrete panels with bold black asphalt silhouettes were inspired by Audubon’s bird paintings. In the Catalog, New American Paintings, Tim says ‘I am interested in how every aspect of life combines to create a larger whole and the importance of individuals in the ”Big Picture.”
Tim has left his mark visibly on Blue Heron through his mural “Avian Archipelago” that greets visitors with over 50 bird and plant species that are either extinct or endangered.
Sally was raised in Augusta, Georgia but her first real education was moving to New York City and going to school at the Fashion Institute of Technology. After Sally completed the associate program, she moved back to her hometown to complete her B.F.A. at Augusta College (now Augusta State University).
After receiving her B.F.A, Sally taught art for 10 years to kindergartners through high school students in both public and private schools. While teaching she continued her art practice by selling jewelry and paintings throughout the southeast.
The biggest influence in Sally’s art has always been nature. Her latest series of paintings has focused on different feathers of song birds, birds of prey, and waterfowl. As part of her Artist-in-residence at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve she made an eight foot tall stainless steel feather sculpture. Sally sees feathers as being so fragile just as she sees our environment which has inspired her to be come a big tree activist.