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 From the artist, "I am an artist based out of Atlanta, Georgia who grew up in a multicultural family. I spent much of my life traveling as a military brat. It was overseas in Germany at a young age that I fell in love with my first taste of fantasy in the collected stories of the Grimms Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. I grew up with the dream that one day I might be able to follow in their footsteps and tell stories to awe and terrify future generations, to capture that sense of danger, triumph, and hidden magic.
I’ve woven my way through an education that includes three degrees, a BA in English, a BA in Studio Art, and a MA in Arts Administration. It seems I could never choose between my love of writing, of illustration, and for helping other artists. Nowadays, I’m living my dream and hope to have my first illustrated book out in stores in December, with many more to come!"
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 Georgiana is lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama. She was raised in stories of the Old South and ghost stories. As a child she had fondness for writing horror stories while other children were reading Dr. Seuss. Photography was a passion for her for most of her life starting with an old used 620 Brownie camera. In 2008 she had her first taste of working with Wet Plate Collodion photography and she never looked back.
Her favorite subjects to photograph are people. 
 Lyric was born and raised in the Deep South where she developed a passion for the darker side of art from her studies of old Southern cemeteries. She started out as a sketch artist and move to 19th Century Wet Plate Collodion photography after making a trek to New York to study with the legendary tintypist John Coffer.
Though Lyric mostly prefers dark subjects, some weekends find her alter ego near the battlefields of Civil War reenactments where she strikes the images of living historians.
Their Web site: http://silverandcyanide.webs.com/
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 April Robinson was born in Memphis, Tennessee but grew up in upstate New York and eventually spent 16 years in Florida before moving to Arkansas where she now resides. Her mother was a commercial artist and April started drawing at a young age. 
One of her first memories is of drawing ghosts in purple crayon on every available surface in the house, walls, sheets, upright piano, etc. She then moved on to creating and illustrating books for her family. She sold my first piece of art in middle school, a pegasus she drew in study hall, to another student and soon after that parents started commissioning her to do art. Since then she has done commission work off and on, everything from abstracts to portraits, and when she had time the pieces she found more interesting and typically less conventional. She worked in pencil for years but recently started painting after being commissioned to do a painting and now her apartment is almost overflowing with oil paintings in various stages of completion. She currently lives in Little Rock, less than a mile from her daughter Shannon, who is also an artist. April can be contacted at
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 Jean Alexander is an artist/illustrator from Atlanta, GA. She has a BFA from the University of GA in Visual Arts/Illustration and is a member of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators and also Oil Painters of America.
While a student at UGA, she was able to participate in the Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, and has been trying to find a way to get back over there ever since! In addition to architectural illustration, Jean also paints commissioned artwork, including portraits, murals, and even the occasional fresco. She works in oils, acrylics, and watercolor.  Jean is married to Bill, and has two sons, David and Ryan. Her websites: www.artworksbyjean.com and www.architecturalrenderingatlanta.com 
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 As a child I played dress up and made a mess of myself in makeup. Rather than grow out of it, I went to UAB for a degree in technical theatre and studio art. As an Alabama native, I mix fine art with my redneck streak. I have to have my hands on some sort of project or else I do something that will get me in trouble – like constructing a trebuchet and baiting it to fling the squirrels across the yard.
I would say most of my work is multimedia, and by that I really mean that I’ll work in any medium that I can get my dirty little hands on. I never know when I’ll need to know how to weld, spin yarn or throw clay. I am driven to create. It’s the most positive outlet I have found and I know the squirrels appreciate it. I have most recently delved back into leather working for my mask making. One of the things that I enjoy most about theatre is the transformation. It can be of a stage into a set, fabric into a costume, the audience throughout the production or of an actor into his character. Time and again I have heard actors say that the character really doesn’t come completely to life until they put on their costume. It is through this mindset that I have been drawn to making masks. I love that a mask can both hide who you are and transform you into who you would like to be, or show a side of yourself you never let out. After I graduated, life got in the way and rather than moving away and becoming a famous costumer I moved in with Linsey Martin so she won’t be living off ramen and potatoes while she finishes grad school. I drool over her watercolor and borrow her face paint when she isn’t looking. With sharing a space has come the sharing of ideas and the creation of art. In my spare time I love to make my friends up as zombies and set them loose on the local villages, take pictures of people’s shoes and make clothes for my creepy Japanese ball-jointed doll. http://silvercicada.deviantart.com/ http://silvercicadadesigns.com/ |
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