Artists

  1. Brittney Boyd Bullock

    Brittney Boyd Bullock is a visual artist living and working in Memphis, TN. As an artist working in fiber, mixed media, and abstraction, her practice explores the power and connection felt when we slow down to reimagine and reframe the observable ...
  2. Renata Cassiano Alvarez

    Renata Cassiano Alvarez is a Mexican-Italian artist born in Mexico City and currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas School of Art. Cassiano Alvarez works predominantly in the medium of clay, in a search for de...
  3. Roger Allan Cleaves

    Roger Allan Cleaves (b. Memphis, Tennessee) received his Bachelors of Fine Art at the University of Memphis. During his tenure at the University of Memphis he was one of fifteen undergraduate students selected from across the country to participat...
  4. MengCheng 梦城团 Collective

    The MengCheng 梦城团 Collective includes LiLi Nacht, Yidan Zeng, Neena Wang, and Thandi Cai. The work of artist and teacher LiLi 丽丽 Nacht explores current issues through the spiritual framework of ancient traditions. Her practice, rooted in meditat...
  5. Ariel Dannielle

    Ariel Dannielle (b. Atlanta, Georgia) is an African American painter who graduated from the University of West Georgia, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Drawing directly from her life, Dannielle creates large scale paintings that depict...
  6. Melissa Dunn

    Melissa Dunn’s studio is in her house in Memphis, Tennessee, where she was born and has lived most of her life. She spent her early years immersed in the city’s music scene, splitting her time between playing with bands and making visual art.  Alt...
  7. Alexandra Eastburn

    Alexandra Eastburn (b.1987) was born and raised in Hot Springs, AR, a place whose forests, mountains, quartz crystals, flowing waters and historical architecture left a deep impact on the artist. Her curiosity and reverence for these things are la...
  8. Ahmad George

    Ahmad George (b.1994 Memphis, TN) is a painter and multimedia artist. Ahmad received a BFA from Memphis College of Art in Design/Illustration. They’ve shown at NADA Miami as well as national and international group and solo exhibitions. Ahmad crea...
  9. Keiko Gonzalez

    Born in Texas and raised in the United States and Bolivia, artist Keiko Gonzalez currently works out of studios on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia and at The Studiohouse on Malvern in Memphis, TN. Keiko completed his undergraduate studies at Step...
  10. Erin Harmon

    Erin Harmon earned a BA in Studio Art from San Diego State University and an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited extensively in both group and solo exhibitions at venues including Field Projects, NY; Sarah Doyle G...
  11. Stephanie Howard

    Stephanie Howard was born in the Appalachian region of South Carolina and still resides in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her art is inspired and influenced by outsider and folk art, vintage photography and illustration, as well as emb...
  12. Mary Jo Karimnia

    Mary Jo Karimnia is an artist, former Artist Residency Director, and curator based in Memphis, TN. She founded and runs The Studiohouse on Malvern which includes the Front Porch Window Gallery. Karimnia builds rich collaged surfaces with vintage a...
  13. Paula Kovarik

    Paula Kovarik is a full-time artist and fiber art teacher from Memphis, TN. With a background in design and art history from Southern Illinois University and a 30-year career in graphic design she creates story and art with stitch and fabric. Kova...
  14. Susan Maakestad

    Susan Maakestad is a Memphis-based artist whose honors include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an ArtsAccelerator Grant from ArtsMemphis and direct purchase awards from the UrbanArt Commission in Memphis. In late 2021 she completed h...
  15. Rahn Marion

    Rahn Marion was born in Memphis, Tennessee in September 1993. He attended MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore Maryland. Majoring in Painting, with a concentration in Film. As a young working artist, Marion has found jobs that keep...
  16. Althea Murphy-Price

    Althea Murphy-Price (b.1979, San Jose, California) Has been recognized for her broad approach to printed media through the use of photography, 3D printing and printmaking methods.  Her variable practice often involves decoration, embellishment and...
  17. Kong Wee Pang

    Kong Wee Pang (b. Labis, Johor, Malaysia) moved to the United States in 2001 from multicultural Malaysia after graduating from the Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Art. Following her relocation, she received a degree in Fine Art and Design and an...
  18. Matías Paradela

    Matías Nicólas Paradela (aka Niño Grande), born in 1989 in Tolosa, Argentina, is a painter. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the school of the University of La Plata, specializing in Social and Design Studies. He briefly studied sculpt...
  19. Joel Parsons

    Joel Parsons is an artist, curator, and teacher based in Memphis, TN where he is an Assistant Professor of Art, Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Director of Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College. His multidisciplinary art centers qu...
  20. Alexis Pye

    Alexis Pye (born 1995, Detroit, MI) explores the tradition of painting as a way to express the Black body outside of its social constructs, to evoke playfulness, wonder, and blackness, as well as the joys amidst adversity. Pye received her BFA in ...
  21. Anthony Sonnenberg

    Anthony Sonnenberg (b. Graham, Texas) earned a BA with an emphasis in Italian and Art History in 2009 and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2012. His work which ranges from porcelain to performance has been shown ac...
  22. Clare Torina

    Clare Torina (b. Eugene, Oregon) is a multi-disciplinary artist who was raised in Memphis. She received her BFA from the University of Memphis in 2009 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. She has been a resident at t...
  23. Khara Woods

    Khara Woods is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer who lives and works in Memphis, TN. Her studio practice includes abstract geometric paintings, wood assemblage and public art, including murals and community engagement projects. Her w...
  24. Pam McDonnell

    Pam McDonnell was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1969 and has resided in Memphis, Tennessee since 1996. Her alma mater is the University of Memphis where she completed her BFA in 2005 and her MFA in 2023. She uses sculpture, painting and hand-built s...
  25. Alex Paulus

    Alex Paulus is originally from southeast Missouri, but has been a resident of Memphis, TN since 2007. He received his MFA in 2009 from the Memphis College of Art and is now an Assistant Professor at SWTCC. Paulus’s work has been shown in numerous ...