Art Alumni
2024 Public Art Alumni
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Ash Atterberry
Ash Atterberry has traveled extensively in her 20s, gaining numerous experiences from the Ozark mountains to California's coast. Clay has been her driving force, bringing her to various locations through artist collaborations and ceramics programs. Her clay has helped her process emotions and events, providing an escape to dreamy places. She now has a studio space at her favorite gallery in Nashville, Elephant Gallery, where she collaborates with her favorite artists and friends. Her journey has led her to create some of her best memories.
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Beizar Aradini
Beizar Aradini has been a renowned artist in residency at various institutions, including Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Arquetopia International Artist Residency, and Nashville Metro Archives Audiovisual Heritage Center. She was recently selected as a South Arts 2023 Tennessee State fellow and received the Metro Arts Thrive Grant for a community-based art project. Aradini's artwork has been exhibited at various museums and galleries across the US, and she has also taught workshops at various institutions.
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Jeremiah Britton & Joe Geis (Also Dept.)
Jeremiah Britton, with over 10 years of experience, expresses brand stories through various mediums and disciplines, including graphics, image-making, art, typography, and environments. He is interested in telling contemporary culture stories across all mediums and disciplines, and his experience in design, branding, strategy, and curation allows him to combine these practices to solve creative problems. He and Joe Geis, who began collaborating in 2015, established Also Dept. in 2020, often using nostalgia and 90's motifs in their art installations, murals, and projects.
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Jason Brooks
Jason Brooks, a Nashville-born musician and software engineer, decided to use his tech skills to bring cutting-edge art to the local scene after visiting interactive art installations in New York City. He has been involved in multiple installations in Nashville and New York, focusing on the interactivity aspect.
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Amanda Browder
Amanda Browder, a renowned artist, is known for her large-scale fabric installations, collaborating with local community groups and sourcing textiles from donations. She has exhibited her work globally, received a NEA grant in 2016, and is an artist in residence at UNLV Las Vegas and Erie Arts & Culture. Browder is also the founder of an art podcast.
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Jodi Hays
Jodi Hays, a painter from Arkansas, has exhibited her work at various galleries and museums across the US. Her work has been featured in publications like ArtForum International, New York Times, and New American Painting. Hays has received grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Sustainable Arts Foundation. Her paintings are in public and corporate collections.
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Shabazz Larkin
Shabazz Larkin is a multi-disciplinary artist and activist who explores black culture and contemporary spirituality through his work. He uses vibrant portraiture, typographic printing techniques, and film to create images that explore societal issues of race, justice, and religion. Larkin has worked with major brands and is a children's book author and illustrator. He also serves as the head of content for a wellness app called True Voice, designed to provide guided meditations and wellness content for women of color.
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Marlen Lugo
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Marlen Lugo attended art school in Boston and later joined The Revolving Museum. Her first commissioned work, "The Puerto Rican Tea House," was inspired by Japanese tea ceremonies and informal Puerto Rican gathering spaces. In 1991, she received a fellowship in Sculpture from the Massachusetts Artist Foundation. In 1992, the National Endowment for The Arts awarded him a fellowship for "Dulcinea and Her Imaginary Lover," inspired by Don Quixote de la Mancha. She moved to New York in 1993 and continued exploring site-specific work.
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Duncan McDaniel
Since Duncan McDaniel graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006, he has embarked on a creative journey covering a wide range through the avenues of painting, drawing, public art, and site-specific installations. Through this multi-disciplinary practice, he is always searching for a better artist within. This open-ended journey always leads to new and uncharted territories with a plethora of art along the way. You can find him in Nashville, TN, living and working alongside his wife and two daughters.
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Jason Peters
Jason Peters, a graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, has been exploring his ideas in residency programs, studios, and institutional commissions since 1999. His installations aim to expose our notions of reality as assumptions, inviting the viewer to suspend their experience and enter a world where the mind is free, even as the body remains constrained by gravity. Peters calibrates his pieces to indoor or outdoor sites, operating within the notion of a contemporary sublime, dealing with feelings of fear and awe when confronted with dark, mysterious, incomprehensible, and potentially threatening objects.
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Katrina Sánchez Stanfield
Katrina Sánchez, a Panamanian-American artist based in Charlotte, NC, uses soft sculpture to explore themes of connection, healing, and security. She creates Magnified Weavings, using knit and woven textile structures to create vibrant, tactile works. Sánchez's work is influenced by her family's cultural backgrounds and personal objects, and she received a BFA in Fibers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with her first solo exhibition at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Boston. She has been commissioned by companies like Lowe's, Credit Karma, Truist, and Ally bank.
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James Worsham (Handy)
James Worsham, raised in a wealthy county, embodies the irony of defying expectations. Despite his appearance, he has tattoos and a husband, making him feel out of place in many places. Worsham's introversion allows him to communicate effectively, despite his awkward stories and phobias. His work can mean something to one person and another, forming the foundation of human interaction. Now, he uses his work to initiate conversations and relate to others in the most genuine way he knows how, demonstrating the importance of understanding and respecting one's own unique perspective.
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Tracee Badway
Tracee Badway has been passionate about art for over 30 years, thanks to her supportive parents. She began painting a room in her elementary school, focusing on scale and the impact of large paintings. Her personality revolves around being an artist, and she adopted the nickname "Clash" to experiment with unique wardrobe ideas. She won numerous talent and art competitions at a young age, boosting her confidence. Recently, raising children in a new city has reintroduced her to art-making for the first time in over 20 years, challenging her identity and making her appreciate working more than ever.
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2023 Public Art Alumni
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Andrés Bustamante
Andrés Bustamante is a sculptor and muralist born in Cali, Colombia, based in Nashville, TN. His immigrant experience at a young age led him to existential questions about reality, exploring the abstraction in human emotion, concepts of human divinity, and researching the abstract mystery of life. Unquenched awe and wonder inspire his creative journey. Bustamante lives by the conviction that creativity is healing for humanity. He is passionate about community empowerment, mental health, and accessibility in the visual arts.
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Lindsy Davis
Lindsy Davis was born and raised in northern New Jersey. She spent time in South Africa studying paper-making and printmaking at the University of Johannesburg, Artist Proof Studio, and Phumani Paper. She relocated to Nashville Tennessee to build and run a small nonprofit papermill. Lindsy is featured in the permanent collection of Soho House and Four Seasons Hotel, plus private collections throughout the country, Europe, Canada, and South Africa. Recently, Lindsy has shown at the Mint Museum in North Carolina, Ice Cream Social and Buster Levi Gallery in New York, Zeitgeist Gallery, the Parthenon Museum, and Elephant Gallery in Tennessee. Lindsy is represented in Tennessee by The Red Arrow Gallery.
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Troy Duff
Troy Duff is a graffiti and fine artist based out of East Nashville, Tennessee. His passion lies in public art and a spontaneous creative process. Through graffiti, he pays tribute to the lost art of penmanship. As a fan of photorealism, painting and typography, Troy discovered that graffiti perfectly combines all three. Over the years, he crafted a clean, legible lettering style and honed his scaling, 3-D and blending techniques. Troy began receiving calls from corporations requesting live graffiti demos. The raw, street art canvases he created appealed to Calvin Klein, Converse and the Dish Network. Troy wants graffiti to be a means of connecting with the community. He wants his art to be accessible and assembled like a puzzle. It is a challenge both for himself and the viewer, and when he creates it, it is the moment when he feels most alive.
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Rachel Hayes
Rachel Hayes was born in Kansas City, Missouri and lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Often using fabric to create large-scale work, she is interested in inserting color and form into both built and natural environments. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Award in Painting and Sculpture, Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in Sculpture, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship in Sculpture, Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, and a Charlotte Street Fund Award. Hayes has collaborated with the Italian fashion house Missoni on four projects, culminating with a solo exhibition during Milan Design Week. Her work has been covered by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Vogue, The Cut, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Boston Art Review and Artforum among others.
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Brett Douglas Hunter
Brett Douglas Hunter is a Nashville-based artist whose work incorporates figurative, sometimes fantastical forms into sculptural objects and furniture. Growing up in Illinois in a family of self-taught artists and folk-art collectors, Brett was inspired and encouraged to explore the world inhabited by the creatures and characters that filled his imagination. His creative process is intuitive, letting the medium inform the work's progress as he goes. Hunter has had solo exhibitions at kinder MODERN (New York), The Future Perfect (New York), Julia Martin Gallery (Nashville), Elephant Gallery (Nashville), Infinity Cat (Nashville), and dozens of his fantastical works are on permanent display at Creature Camp (Nashville).
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Alex Lockwood
Alex Lockwood is a sculptor and the owner/director of Elephant Gallery in Nashville, TN. He works with repurposed materials, primarily plastics, in very large numbers. Since moving to Nashville in 2011 his work has been featured in solo shows at Zeitgeist Gallery, Belmont University, Lipscomb University, Vol State, OzArts and David Lusk Gallery Nashville and Memphis. Alex founded Elephant Gallery in 2017 to curate ambitious and off-beat shows of early and mid-career local and regional artists.
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Bryce McCloud
Bryce McCloud, Acting Print Meister at Isle of Printing. Found on a misty morning in 1997 swaddled in a bespoke hand printed paper suit, Bryce has sought to do his family and uncle proud by manufacturing novelty letterpress ephemera and inflicting public art mayhem on the largest possible audience allowed by the laws of nature. Notable Notes: He hopes that neon replaces twitter and that all that glitters IS gold. Founder of the 50-cent sidecar tour of Nashville. Interested in practical time travel machinery.
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Beth Reitmeyer
Beth Reitmeyer is a visual artist who likes to make people happy with her colorful installations. Her work investigates landscapes and the joy of unexpected yet beautiful spaces and places that are discovered as one explores the land and structures within it: clouds, rivers, caves, geodes, stars. Comprised of rich, luscious, inviting materials, such as fabric, glitter, and twinkle lights, these inviting environments allow viewers to explore and get to know one another in a deeper, more profound way, providing space for renewal and perseverance. Reitmeyer teaches with Western Kentucky University, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, Briarwood Elementary and Cumberland Trace Elementary. She is a member of COOP Gallery in Nashville and serving as its President.
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Kit Reuther
Kit Reuther is an American painter and sculptor, currently living and working in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. She is represented by David Lusk Gallery, with locations in Memphis and Nashville, and Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Camilla Spadafino
Camilla Spadafino boldly explores color and pattern, capturing the essence of pop culture while engaging viewers. Her extensive body of work includes commercial and fine art, including her playful paint-by-number kits, inspired by Andy Warhol's famous quote, "Art is what you can get away with." Her seamless blending of mediums invites us into a world where art, culture, and imagination converge. Through vibrant compositions, she sparks dialogue, encourages participation, and reimagines artistic expression's boundaries. With bold colors, intricate patterns, and a playful nod to popular culture, Camilla invites viewers to celebrate the fusion of art and life.
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Vadis Turner
Vadis Turner’s first solo museum presentation was at the Frist Art Museum in 2017 followed by the Huntsville Museum of Art in 2022. Her current exhibition is on view at the Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2016. Turner’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, 21C Museum, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee State Museum, Huntsville Museum of Art and the Hunter Museum of American Art. She teaches at Vanderbilt University and is represented by Geary in Millerton, NY.
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Yanira Vissepo
Yanira Vissepo is from Santurce, Puerto Rico, and moved to Tennessee at the age of 11. Her work merges her cultural upbringing with her life as a visual artist in Tennessee. Vissepo has shown locally at Lipscomb University, ZieherSmith, 21c Museum and Hotel, Elephant Gallery, Open Gallery, and has had solo shows at The Electric Shed, Fort Houston and Coop Gallery. In 2019 she studied traditional woodblock printmaking at The International School of Mokuhanga, Japan. Vissepo has taught at the Frist Museum and the Nashville Public Library.
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Herb Williams
Herb Williams was born in Montgomery, AL, and received a BFA in sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College. He moved to Nashville, TN, where he has lived and created art since 1998. Williams received The Joan Mitchell Foundation Museum Purchase Grant in 2005, the Next Star Artist Award in 2008, and was sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011. He received his first public art commission in 2017 to create “Skylake” for the Smith Springs Community Center, and has just been awarded another public art commission to create six larger-than-life sculptures for the International Concourse at the Atlanta Airport.
2023 Artville Walls Alumni
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