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Welcome to the February Columbus Artists Magazine, our sixth issue! If you like what you see/read remember: our back issues are archived for your enjoyment at ColumbusArtistsMagazine.com. This month we are pleased to present Brenda Stevens' inspirational conversation with Betsy Eby. Brenda and I visited Betsy in her spacious, light filled Columbus studio; Brenda to talk to Betsy, me to photograph her for the article. Here are a few exhibits that open this month: Gallery on Tenth hosts a reception for their Behind the Scenes at the Springer exhibit on Sunday February 7, 2-4pm; Atlanta photographer Calvin Burgamy's exhibit No Exit Here opens February 5, 6-8pm at the CSU Rankin Arts PhotographyCenter; We Tattooed Your Father: The Global Art of Tattoos opens with a reception on Sunday February 28, 2-4pm at the Columbus Museum. Add them to your calendar! Columbus Artists Magazine and ArtCurrents operate on the belief that visual artists, individuals who often work alone, recognize the benefits of banding together for the common good; we are in the process of testing that belief. If you are an artist who supports our mission and wants to join us, consider that for the cost of a lunch in uptown each month, you can have your own page in our magazine and share your work with thousands of area art consumers. Together we can change the landscape for the visual arts in Columbus. We hope that you will continue to read, enjoy and share Columbus Artists Magazine and ArtCurrents in 2016. Think of them as your windows into the works of art and artists in Columbus and beyond. Brenda and I wish you a peaceful and prosperous February! Peace.
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Betsy Eby: Leading a Poetic Life ___________________________________________________________________________ My first encounter with Betsy Eby’s captivating encaustic paintings was at the Columbus Museum in 2013. I just stood there, mesmerized; I'd never seen anything like them. So I'm very happy to have the opportunity to meet her and talk to her about her work and her life. Betsy, I know you spend part of your life each year in Maine. Talk about living by the sea. I grew up by the sea, in the Pacific Northwest. I lived in Seaside, Oregon as a young girl and I love the Oregon coast. It’s the place that makes me feel connected to my roots. Maine gives me a sense of home. The island where Bo (husband, Bo Bartlett) and I live in Maine is extremely wild. We are twenty four miles out to sea; just the two of us on a rock, surrounded by the elements. We feel we are a part of the wild, wild, unrelenting forces of nature, but also feel small by it, and grateful to it. It is an incredible place. On your website you wrote a message titled Habitat and the Artist. I love the way you describe your childhood years in Seaside, “…an ideal life, where I roamed freely around the forests, fished with string and stick for polliwogs in the cow trough, mucked through the swamp of skunk cabbage, and played follow the leader with my pet duck”. That’s a wonderful image of place. You said you believe “habitat is so important to an artist because artists absorb, filter then express our surroundings, we must place ourselves in environments that foster our process”. I believe we are porous, particularly as artists. We can’t block out the external. Everything informs our work, whether it is music, poetry, place or something else. It is a commingling of information. Some artists, including me, find it hard to maintain balance between their responsibilities to family, spouse, self, making art, other jobs, and in many cases, children. It is something I constantly struggle to do. Do you have any helpful tips or guidelines for achieving that balance?
I do have a discipline of working every day. I’m in the studio every day, seven days a week, when I’m not traveling. I paint every day and I play the piano two to three hours every day as well. You are a classical pianist? Yes, so I really work hard on that, and on my painting. I think the secret to balance is that you somehow tap into flow, whether it is painting, or music or meditation or walking. One exercise Bo and I practice each night before going to sleep is naming three things that went well for us during the day, and why. That’s a healthy habit; keeps you positive. What gave you the idea to do that? Well, there is a psychologist named Martin Seligman who is the founder of positive psychology and wrote the book, Learned Optimism; How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. He was the director of the Positive Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. The book lends practical offerings as to how to shape mindset toward wellbeing. As I understand it, Learned Optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. Yes, I’m fascinated about how plastic the mind is and how we can make changes in the mind. The exercise of naming three things that went well, and why, comes from his book. What I like most about it is that it asks you to state why something went well, rather than just asking you to make a gratitude list. I love that component of the exercise. The “why” emphasizes ownership, acknowledges a skill set; that you (or the other person) worked at resolving a conflict. It didn’t just happen by accident. Are there other disciplines or practices you incorporate in your daily life to help achieve a feeling of balance? Here are the things I practice: writing my Morning Pages, listening to my dreams, eating organic and lots of vegetables, drinking lots of water, yoga, exercise, painting and piano every day. A discerned life is important to me; discerning what is true and what is essential.
Morning Pages, the exercise I just mentioned, came from the book, The Artists’ Way, by Julia Cameron. One of the things both Bo and I practice is writing our Morning Pages when we wake up in the morning. Instead of hitting the ground running, thinking only of all the things that need to be done, we take time while having our morning tea to write down what is on our mind; concerns, dreams, whatever thoughts we may be having. I feel like that time, the bridge between the sleeping life and the waking life, is the most fertile time of the day and we should let that steep for a little while, honor that part of our day. It happens to me rarely, but sometimes when something’s going on in my life, maybe I’m dealing with some conflict, I’ll wake with an answer. I’m fascinated by that. Several years ago you and Bo made a feature length film, SEE, “an art road trip” which premiered at the Camden International Film Festival in 2013. Kenny and I were in the audience the night it was shown at the Columbus Museum. We loved it and recommended it to all our artist friends, and we really enjoyed the Question & Answer session after the movie. You both gave everyone a chance to get to know you a little better. How did you come up with the idea to make the movie and what did you learn from the experience? We started with the idea around 2005, during a time when America wasn’t being perceived well in the international community because of the Middle Eastern invasions and we were aware of a contrast, between the heaviness of what was happening in the news and the beauty that is everywhere in our everyday lives which has the potential to transcend strife. We began to write a script, about a couple who go stumbling along looking for the beauty in America and how art is around us all the time, and we planned to introduce a plot point, to give it structure, but then Bo had a series of events happen to him. We had started recording and then this thing happened to Bo, and we thought, “We don’t need the artifice of a plot point”. Here was this divine plot, for better or worse, which was dropped in our lap; sort of this morbid contrast of savoring eyesight, and his eyesight going away. The threat of losing one’s vision is an artist’s worst nightmare. That was a terrifying experience for the two of you. I was relieved, along with the rest of the audience, that the story had a happy ending; Bo had surgery to remove the tumor pressing against his optic nerve and that restored his eyesight.
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When Bo was telling his story, he talked about how amazing our brains are and how his brain compensated for his loss of vision. He said he misidentified a boat three times when you pointed to it out on the water. At first he said it was a sailboat, then he said it was a tugboat. When you gently corrected him each time, he would look again and tell you what he was seeing, or what he thought he was seeing. The third time, he guessed correctly, it was a ferry. He explained that his brain was making an attempt to fill in the missing information by pulling up slides of every boat he had on file. Everything we’ve ever seen, smelled, felt or tasted is archived in there. On your website, you write about SEE, “We celebrate the gift of seeing and the visible world around us, we speak to the ideas of how memory can hold us to habit and how habit can lead us to see with blinders on. What we think we know are just rehashed versions of by-gone events or lessons learned. Our challenge is to see with fresh eyes every day”. Betsy, I want to learn about encaustic painting. I know so little about the medium I’m not sure what questions to ask. That’s ok, I’ll just sort of give you what I know, Encaustic is an old, old medium that dates back to 4th century BC. The first application of encaustic was excavated out of Egypt. The Egyptians used encaustic to paint funerary portraits, portraits of the deceased, which they placed on the mummy. These are known as the Fayan portraits. The portraits were painted on the mummies? No, they would paint the face of the deceased on a wood panel and then attach it to the mummy’s head where the face would be. The Metropolitan Museum has a lot of them. Gorgeous. Encaustic is beeswax and Damar varnish, (which is just a tree resin; tree sap), and pigment, and involves heat; fusing, burnishing. The material is archival; the pigment will hold lightfast in the wax. So the Fayan portraits are still very rich in color. How do you get the color into the wax? The wax is heated and then the pigment is put in. I use pigment blocks. I don’t use powder pigments because of the airborne toxins in them. I heat the purified beeswax in pots, mix with Damar crystals, then I pigment it. I move it around on the canvas with big knives, spatulas and brushes and blow torch it, and layer it. --And that’s how I paint.
Tell us a little about what you are working on now. I’ve worked with cold wax and with hot wax. Working with cold wax, I was tapping into the ambient nature of the work; diffused edges, softness and rhythm. Where I’m from, there is coastal fog, mist, giant fir trees. Puget Sound is dewy, and misty, with moss and fern; mysterious, ethereal landscapes. The work was born from that. Now, since moving here to the south, there is a change afoot in my work. I’m less interested or less contemplative about that soft diffusion. I’m more aware of the edges of things, elements bumping up next to each other. I see edges everywhere here; light against really distinct shadows, cultural edges, the religious and the secular, and all of that is informing the work, in a way. So I’ve been asking myself this year, how I can get that into my work, without abandoning what I do. So over the course of the summer on the island, I started working on a new series of work that I’m really happy with, using hot wax and achieving sharp edges. I’m interested in the sea; the froth, the magnetic power of the sea, the crashing elements. So the work here in the studio here is a continuation of that. Betsy, because Valentine’s Day is coming up, I thought I’d ask for a romantic story. Our mutual friend, Cathy Fussell suggested I ask you about the tea house in your back yard. On my birthday several years ago, Bo and I were walking, as was our habit after a work day, and we were walking on our property on Vashon Island, in Washington. We had several plots of property we had joined together into about ten acres. Bo suggested we take the steep trail that led to an area we called the Sanctuary. It was our favorite spot, a mystical place. Owls lived down there and they would sometimes come swooping down, sit low on a branch and look at us. As we made our way along the trail and came around closer to the Sanctuary, I saw something through the trees I hadn’t seen before. There, in our special place, sweetly perched, stood a beautiful Balinese tea house. The door was flanked with potted tulips and inside Bo had placed two cushions on either side of a low table. I was reading a list of birthday presents he had surprised me with when he surprised me again. He proposed to me. He proposed to me in that beautiful tea house. When we moved here, we dismantled the tea house and brought it with us. The evening he proposed, he also threw a giant surprise birthday party for me. It was very special. He is a beautiful soul. What a romantic love story! Thank you for sharing that with us.
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Betsy your website (betsyeby.com) is simple, elegant and easy to navigate. I encourage our readers to visit to learn more about you and your art. I especially enjoyed seeing photographs of your Wheaton Island and Columbus studios and watching the videos of you working in them, so I am including them below. Thank you, Betsy, it’s been a pleasure spending time with you.
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Scarlet by Betsy Eby
Scarlet captures a reoccurring theme in my work which is Ascension. It could be about the Scarlet letter and ascending the confines of the secular, it can be about savoring desire but not being enslaved by it like Scarlett O'Hara, or it could be about the intertwining of the sensual and the passion-filled fury of this life. Resurrection and rebirth are more than just metaphors, we live with the opportunity to recreate ourselves everyday. Betsy Eby
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Discovering the Chattahoochee Valley Silk Paintings by René Shoemaker Galleria, Columbus Museum Through July 2016
Behind the Scenes at the Springer Gallery Artists Gallery on Tenth Reception February 7-4pm
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We Tattooed Your Father/The Global Art of Tattoos Galleria Cases, Columbus Museum Opens February 21, 1-5pm
At the End of the Tunnel Ian Johnston Illges Gallery, CSU Corn Center Through February 13
Master Printmakers 1920-1940 Selections from the Collection Woodruff Works on Paper Gallery, Columbus Museum Through July 3
Calvin Burgamy: No Exit Now CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center February 5th through March 4 Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6:00-8:00pm
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I began the painting as an oil sketch with brush on toned canvas. Relying heavily on an enlargement of the retirement photograph of Dr Rowland I decided to make my painting look as much like the photograph as I could before making him younger. The lightly sketched age lines on his face gave way to smoother skin as I added color and continued referring back to the younger image that echoed his strong bone structure. I flipped, in my computer, a few other images of the doctor that were facing the wrong way compared to the painting. Although some had bad lighting and did not flatter him they helped me find more information of how his features changed as he aged. The painting needed to rest after a day or so of work. I let it "GET COLD" to see it in fresh light then made corrections before turning to other projects in the studio. Finally, I gave the painting that "Official" look with the draped American flag in the background. I knew it would please Dr. Rowland and honor his years of military and public service. Now, it was time for the reveal. More: Read the full story on Frenasee's website.
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Geri M. Davis is an honored member of the Columbus Art Community, where she has taught for over 40 years. She works primarily in watercolor, earning Signature Membership in the Southern Watercolor Society (Past President), Georgia Watercolor Society, Mississippi Watercolor Society and Watercolor Society of Alabama. Geri graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Architecture and Art and holds a Master of Science degree from Troy State University in Counseling and Human Development with a concentration in Art Therapy. Geri teaches using a therapeutic approach and lectures on Art As Therapy. Geri is Vice President and Founding Member of Gallery on 10th, serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for Liberal Arts at Auburn, and is a member of the Columbus Artists' Guild and the Bo Bartlett Center Advisory Board.
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Gloria Sampson earned a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. She also took postgraduate classes at The University of California at Berkeley, and for many years was a student of George Post, one of California's premier watercolor artists and teachers. Her work has been included in museum exhibits in California, Washington state, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, as well as in a gallery in New York City. Her paintings have been purchased by numerous corporations, including the Bradley Company, the Columbus Museum, Dean Day Smith, Coca Cola, Knight Ridder Newspapers, Mead Paper Company, and Pratt and Whitney.Gloria has published three sketchbooks and art journals from her daily life and travels that she and her husband have experienced throughout the world: Historic Churches and Temples of Georgia: A Book of Watercolors and Drawings, Alaska Travelers Sketch Book and Silver Mining Cities of Mexico.
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Brenda Stevens has been a watercolorist for twenty five years. Her paintings have been published in magazines, won awards in local and regional competitions, and are included in many private collections. Her painting Southern Magnolia won the Manfred Metcalf Award in the Columbus Artists' Guild 2013 Exhibition. In 2014, Cat Briar, Hadden Woods won the Carmike Cinemas Corporate Sponsor's Award at the Time For Art event. In 2015, she won the Laurie Bode Memorial Watercolor Award at the Columbus Artists' Guilds' Annual Members Exhibit for her painting Dune. Nine of her paintings appear in Leffel’s Tales, stories of her father’s childhood, which she wrote and self-published last year. Brenda has developed many watercolor and drawing classes and currently teaches adults at Columbus State and Auburn Universities, and at Sunnyside School in Pine Mountain.
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Although her paintings include landscapes, still lifes, figurative and abstracts, Roseanne Peters' passion is portraits. She is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists and the Portrait Society of America. Roseanne sees and focuses on the beauty in each face and attempts to create the most exquisite and compelling art possible. “I like to think that my art helps connect families from one generation to another. I create the ultimate hand-me-down” says Roseanne. She studied at The California Art Institute and in workshops and private understudies with such well-known artists as Daniel Greene, Michael Del Florio, Tony Ryder, Tom Browning, and Neil Boyle. Her works can be found in galleries, homes, businesses and collections across America, and in Europe and Singapore.
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Adleyn Scott earned Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees in Piano Performance at Auburn University, and taught at Columbus State University. In 2009, after retiring, Adleyn took an art class and discovered a passion for art. She studied with notable local artists, and in 2014 discovered the art of Iris Scott, a renowned artist and teacher, who paints in oil using only her fingers. Adleyn was inspired. As a member of the Columbus Artists' Guild, she arranged for the group to sponsor a Columbus workshop by Ms Scott in Fall of 2014. Since that time she has been developing her own impressionistic finger painting style. Adleyn's paintings are hanging at Riverside Galleria and can be seen at the annual Columbus Artists' Guild Exhibit each July.
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Susan Dolan studied on scholarship at the Art Institute of Chicago, earned her BFA at Drake University, and studied in Florence, Italy. Her paintings are inspired by travels in the U.S., England, France, and Croatia. She enjoys painting the Chattahoochee Valley in Plein Air. Susan has exhibited at Two Sisters Gallery, the Columbus Museum (“Let There Be Art”), the CSU Illges Gallery (annual Columbus Artist Guild show), and the Annette Howell Turner Center in Valdosta, GA,. She received a Purchase Award Ribbon at the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Ga. in 2013. Her work can be viewed at Two Sisters Gallery and the Gallery on 10th in Uptown Columbus, GA.
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Debbie Garrett began her art training in 2004 when her husband gave her a Christmas gift that changed her life: a series of art lessons with Jill Chancey Philips. During her first lesson Jill told her students, “When you leave here today, you will never see the world in quite the same way.” She was right. Debbie has since taken group and private lessons from Jan Miller, Liliane Nublat, Karen Stewart, Gloria Mani, Erin Gregory and most recently, Jo Farris. In addition, she has taken several workshops with renowned plein air painters Ken Wallin and Morgan Samuel Price. Debbie's paintings are available at Schomburg's Jewelers, Valley Fabrics and Interiors, and directly from the artist.
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Garry Pound, a native of Columbus, Georgia, grew up in an artistic environment: his mother was a well-known painter and his father an architect and expert draftsman. Garry graduated with honors from Sewanee, the University of the South, in 1977. He spent a year at Indiana State University working on his Masters in Art, then he went to Ohio University where he was awarded the Siegfried Scholarship for overall achievement in graduate studies. He taught classes in art appreciation and critical analysis, receiving his doctorate in Comparative Arts, a cultural history degree, in 1985. Dr. Pound returned to Columbus, where he now works as a professional artist. He is well known for his portraits, and he has a strong interest in the human figure as well as landscape. Studio: 706-327-3024
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Frenasee Rathel Daughety, a Georgia Artist working in oil and watercolor, currently lives in Dublin,GA where her studio is located. She has strong ties to Columbus, has developed a following throughout middle Georgia and is currently taking new commissions. Primarily a portrait artist, she received a Senate Proclamation from the State of Georgia 2004 for her historical depiction of the life and work of Senator Hugh M. Gillis. She has recently completed a portrait of retired Congressman J. Roy Rowland. A former art educator, Frenasee also enjoys teaching and creating paintings of landscapes and architecture. Her work hangs in homes and institutions throughout the region. For available work and a list of shows and awards visit her website.
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Amy Patterson is primarily a landscape painter, with a passion for the palette knife, texture and intense color. Amy holds degrees in art education from Columbus College (undergraduate) and the University of West Georgia (Masters). Her paintings have been shown in the Site 109 Gallery in New York, New York, Bank of America Plaza on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville, Georgia. Her work has been exhibited in the National League of American Pen Women Biennial Exhibit (Atlanta, 2014), Georgia Art Education Association Members Exhibit (various cities, 2004-7), Governor’s Exhibits (offices of the Governor, Capitol, Atlanta, 2004, 2005), University of West Georgia Alumni Exhibits (Bruce Bobick Gallery,Carrolton,Ga 2011, 2013, 2015), Columbus Artists’ Guild Member Exhibitions, the Georgia National Fair (2011-2015), and the Art in the Armory Exhibit (Perry,GA 2015).
Juanita Barrow earned a Batchelor in Art Education from West Georgia College in 1975, and a Master in Art Education in 1980 from the University of Georgia. In 2010, after teaching art for 30 years, Juanita turned her interests to painting, printmaking, ceramics and metal fabrication. Juanita has received many awards since she began her “second career”. In 2011, she won the First Exhibitor Award from the Columbus Artists’ Guild Member’s exhibit, and in 2014 the Best of Show Award at the same exhibit. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the southeast and has won numerous other awards. Juanita’s work can be viewed at Front Porch Gallery in Columbus, Georgia and in her online gallery. She is also a member of Britt David Pottery Studio in Columbus, Georgia where she creates her ceramic pieces.
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A quilter for almost 50 years, Cathy Fussell works out of her home studio in Columbus, Georgia, where she produces both hand-quilted and machine-quilted pieces. She makes traditional quilts, art quilts and modern quilts, and she salvages vintage quilt tops. Cathy often collaborates with a family member during the design phase, she sometimes exhibits work in shows, and she occasionally teaches a class. She is constantly evolving as a quilter. Artist's Statement: Quilts are about history and art and politics and stories and patience and beauty and community and economics and place and expression and freedom and transition and family and warmth – and love. And they’re feminized and devalued. All that is why I’m so into quilts and quiltmaking.
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A casual photographer for most of his life, Rob St. Clair finally found the time to work on improving his photography skills when he retired and moved to Columbus. Primarily a landscape photographer, Rob travels widely and recently added images to his website from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Peru, Japan, Israel and Jordan. He is currently president of the Columbus Artists’ Guild and a charter member of Gallery on 10th, in Uptown Columbus, where his photographs are on permanent exhibit. Rob’s photographs have also been exhibited at the Dempsey Arts Center in Auburn, Alabama, the CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center in Columbus, Georgia, the Joseph House Art Gallery, also in Columbus, and in the concourse at the Columbus Metropolitan Airport.
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Marie Massey has a Masters Degree in Art Education from Columbus State University. She taught art for eight years and primary grades for over thirty years in the Muscogee County School District, before earning her Digital Photography Certificate from CSU Continuing Education in 2009. Marie's fine art photography has been exhibited at the CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center in the annual Columbus Photographers exhibit three times (First Place Award in 2013), and the Desire: Ten Photographers and Linwood: Twelve Photographers exhibits. Marie is also a member of the Photopia Photography Group and an accomplished portrait photographer.
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Born in Yorkshire, England and transplanted to Columbus in1999, Peter's love of photography began with his first camera at age 16. He earned a degree in Scientific Photography and an Associateship of The British Institute of Professional Photographers. He worked as a photographer for the Ministry of Defence until starting Amber Visual Photography, with clients throughout the UK and Europe. Peter's first photography exhibition was commissioned by The National Eisteddfod of Wales; his second opened at the Museum of Modern Art (Wales). Peter's images have been published in the UK and USA and won several awards with work appearing in public collections such as MOMA (Wales), The National Eisteddfod, The National Library of Wales, The Millennium Collection and private collectors in the UK and USA.
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Julie Dice Wynn is a macro photography specialist, and her photographs have been published in Country Magazine (twice) and Modern Luxury/JEZEBEL. They have been exhibited for three consecutive years in the Annual Juried Columbus Photographers exhibition at the CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center, where she earned a Digital Photography Certificate in 2013, and where she is an instructor teaching Macro Photography and Photoshop I. Julie's fine art photography has also been exhibited in Slow Exposures, a national juried exhibition that celebrates the rural South, and at CSU's Oxbow Meadows. She is a contributor for USA Today's Your Take feature. In addition to her fine art photography, Julie is a professional portrait, wedding and event photographer.
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Lori Harrell earned her Digital Photography Certificate from Columbus State University Continuing Education in 2010. Her fine art photography has been exhibited at the CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center (RAPC) in the annual Columbus Photographers exhibit three times and in the Desire: Ten Photographers exhibit. She has also twice been included in the annual Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange (VAAL) exhibit at the LaGrange Art Museum in LaGrange, Ga. In 2015, Lori had a print chosen for Slow Exposures, a national juried exhibition that celebrates the rural South. She is co-chair of VAAL and an active member of Photopia, a photography group that meets monthly at the RAPC. Lori also creates portraits on commission and her work has twice been published in the magazine Entertainment Empires.
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Kenny Gray is Director of the Columbus State University Rankin Arts Photography Center, in Columbus, Ga. He is also Program Coordinator for the CSU Digital Photography Certificate Program and an instructor teaching advanced classes. In 1972, Kenny established one of the South's first galleries devoted to the exhibition of fine art photography, The Living Image, in Atlanta. His photography is included in many private collections and in the collections of the Lamar Dodd Arts Center in LaGrange, Ga., and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, in Atlanta.
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Kevin Kelly has been a serious student of photography for ten years, studying primarily at the CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center (RAPC) in Uptown Columbus. Kevin's fine art photography has been exhibited at the RAPC in the annual Columbus Photographers exhibit four times, and the Desire: Ten Photographers and Linwood: Twelve Photographers exhibits in 2014. Eight of his photographs were published in the book Linwood Through the Lens: Contemporary Photographs of Historic Linwood Cemetery. In 2015, he had a print selected for the national juried exhibit Slow Exposures, part of a week-long celebration of photography each Fall in Concord/Zebulon, Ga. Kevin is also an active member of the Photopia Photography Group which meets monthly at RAPC.
Ricky Kammenga earned a Digital Photography Certificate from Columbus State University Continuing Education in 2011. That same year he had an image selected for Slow Exposures, a national juried exhibition in Concord/Zebulon, Ga., and was featured, along with photographer George C. Slade, in an exhibit, Southern Expressions, at the CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center (RAPC). Ricky's photography has also been exhibited in each of the annual Columbus Photographers exhibits (2011-15), at RAPC, and in Photopia Interprets Nature, at Callaway Gardens, in 2013. Ricky is an active member of Photopia, a photography group that meets monthly at RAPC.
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Lee Brantley has a BFA in Visual Design from Auburn University. He worked as a television art director for both commercial and public broadcasting stations, producing films, graphics, and sets. As his career took him from professional artistic endeavors and into management, he focused on photography as a personal creative outlet. Lee has had a solo exhibit at the Sautee Nacoochee Art Center in Helen, Georgia, and in 2014 was accepted into the Slow Exposures exhibit in Concord, Georgia. His images have been selected to hang in the annual Columbus Photographers exhibit where he won 3rd Place in 2014, and he shows his work each year at Arts on the River in Uptown Columbus, winning Best of Show on twice and First Place four times. Lee's images are on display at the Gallery on Tenth in Columbus, Georgia.
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DeDe Wilson studied art and photography at Auburn University, and digital photography at Columbus State University's Rankin Arts Photography Center, where her photographs were exhibited in the annual juried Columbus Photographers exhibit in 2014 and 2015. In those same years, she exhibited with the Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange in its annual exhibit at the LaGrange Art Museum. DeDe has a passion for photographing dancers and performers, whom she meets through her position as official photographer for The Lafayette Society for Performing Arts in LaGrange, Ga. She is owner of DD Photography, also in LaGrange.
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Janet Hathaway has a B.A. in Language and Literature from Columbus State University and a Digital Photography Certificate with dual specialties (Portraiture and Fine Art) from the CSU CE Digital Photography Program. She earned a Certified Professional Photographer (CCP) designation from Professional Photographers of America in 2014. Janet's fine art photography has been included in several juried exhibits at the CSU Rankin Arts Photography Center (RAPC) in Columbus: Desire: Ten Photographers, Linwood: Twelve Photographers, and Columbus Photographers 2014 and 2015. She also has work in the book Linwood Through the Lens: Contemporary Photographs of Historic Linwood Cemetery, published by Historic Linwood Foundation, Inc. in 2014. Janet is an active member of Photopia, a photography group which meets monthly at RAPC, and her writing on photography has appeared on ArtCurrents.net and in Columbus Artists Magazine.
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