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ARTIST LINK PROJECT: VISUAL ARTISTS
KAREN MILLER ANDERSON Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.kmamakesart.com/ Zazzle Online Store: https://www.zazzle.com/store/drmilleranderson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kmamakesart Bio/Statement: Karen Miller Anderson received her
B.F.A. from the College of the Dayton Art Institute. A former Art and Commercial Art teacher, she left teaching after being introduced to the then emerging computer graphics technology. She pursued her M.S. at Middle Tennessee State University in Engineering Technology, specializing in computer enhanced graphics. Dr. Miller Anderson enrolled in the Textile Technology Management Ph.D. program at North Carolina State University’s College of Textiles in 2001. She completed all requirements for her Ph.D. and officially received her diploma, on August 10, 2006. All of her work is signed as K.M. Anderson. Dr. Miller Anderson can currently be found in her studio working on her photography, metal-smithing or fiber-art. JOAN BALLARD – Painter / Acrylic Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: My art found me, and gave me an outlet I desperately needed, and reminded me I still had worth… Art saved my life! ERIN BRADFORD – Jewelry-Maker Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: I first learned how to make jewelry after becoming legally blind. I began with wire wrapping, moved to bead stitch and now moving towards metalsmithing. I also dabble in crafts such as flower making. I love the challenge.
KAITLYN BRIGGS – Ceramicist Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: As an art therapist I have been involved in many studio arts… My favorite and most extensive experience is in ceramics and pottery. Uniquely, I understand some of the struggles of persons with disabilities as I myself struggle with my own loss of vision. It would be my honor and privilege to teach, be a helping hand, asset, and friend to all with an artistic interest. JACOB CLAYTON – Photography & Mixed Media Email: [email protected] Website: https://jacobclayton.com/ Bio/Statement: My first and truest love is music, but I’ve always been enchanted with the various forms of artistic expression. In recent years, at the suggestion of a therapist, I have begun studying and practicing visual arts on a much more serious level. I aim to use photography and mixed media as means to communicate what it has been like living for decades as a closeted transgender man in America. Through art, I am finally able to reveal the debilitating mental illness that has plagued me my entire life. Through art, I am finally beginning to heal. Current projects include Deprivation of Self, Portraits, which expands the vocabulary of photo-based art to challenge gender identity, expression, and expectation – from every side. And Sustained Trauma, a therapeutic journey through dissociation and the road to gather and assemble the reclaimed pieces of a life.
DIANA REED COOK – Visual Artist Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: I have no formal art education but took local group lessons. Frequent moves(military family, having 3children and horses left little painting time. When I moved to NC in 2007, I saw acrylic painting offered at the wake forest senior center. I belong to the wfga and franklin county art council.low vision plus lack of organization and trapotationare things I struggle with. Painting is my God given gift that gives me much joy and hopefully to others!
CHARIESE COOLEY - Visual Artist Email: [email protected] Facebook Url: Unity Art by rese cooley - Home
ANGELA DAWSON – Mixed Media Artist Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: I use bold colors and fluid strokes, delineated by textures, and words that grip and hold the senses; to convey the story of my community. My paintings, books, and collages draw on mysterious and whimsical images to speak about serious subjects; and the reality of my existence… My art is documentation of the abandon of our music, of swaying hips, the clarion call for success and the strength of character that is born in pain but still the will to dance, our smile, an eternal rhythm that
belies time. I am a Mixed- Media Artist because I could not choose one way to express myself. When you have read one of my short stories, books or viewed one of my collages or paintings; I hope you feel motivated, or at the very least, to inspire or cultivate a smile; you have unlocked the secret, and I have done my job.
GILLIAN FINK - Painter / Acrylic Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.gillianfink.com/ Bio/Statement: Inspiration comes when you least expect it. For Gillian, a young woman with intellectual disabilities, it all started a little over ten years ago when she was working on
a giant jigsaw puzzle of brightly colored tropical fish. As she worked the puzzle she thought she would like to make a painting of the parts that she liked. Her first painting of the jigsaw puzzle turned out as she had hoped. And so her journey began.
KING NOBUYOSHI GODWIN – Painter / Acrylic Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.kinggodwin.com/ Bio/Statement: I am a painter and it is my job. I like colors
and numbers with animals. Those make happy. I have a studio to pain. People like my works, and buy them. So I can buy more colors and paint more. It’s a good life.
SCOTT HACKWORTH - Visual Artist Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: I am a disabled artist who finds joy and peace in creating artwork. Art helps me cope with my disability and provides me a connection to communities. I’m growing my art career and I’m grateful for the support. Currently, I use oil, acrylic, and pottery and I wish to learn more given the resources.
MELANIE HAVEN – Jewelry-Maker Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: Since early childhood, Melody has demonstrated a remarkable artistic ability. During her middle school years, Melody’s pen and pencil self-portraits and illustrations earned her several first and second place awards at the North Florida Fair. While in high school, her creativity was further encouraged and nurtured during summer art camp at Le Moyne Center for the Visual Arts. Today,
Melody specializes in custom wire wrapped jewelry and incorporates a variety of gemstones into her work. Each piece is unique and her designs are original. Her work includes necklaces, pendants, earrings, bracelets and rings. Melody’s wire work is extremely intricate and nothing short of extraordinary.
WILEY JOHNSON – Painter / Acrylic Email: [email protected] Website: www.wileysart.com Bio/Statement: Wiley Johnson is a 32 year-old artist from Raleigh, NC who has Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD. He enjoyed art classes in the public schools, Achievement School, Raleigh Parks and Recreation, and Transitions
Day Program. Inspiration for his paintings has come from walks in the park and various
museums. He developed a passion for painting from the encouragement of an art therapist. Painting has been a therapeutic way for him to spend his time alone.
RAEANN MACDONAGH – Painter / Acrylic Email: [email protected] Website: www.rawartists.org/raeannmacdonagh Bio/Statement: I was born legally blind and with a passion for art. I have been painting since I was a child and went on to receive my BA in the Arts and Humanities in 2014. Art for me has given my life purpose, it’s led me to success, independence, serenity, and joy. I
have spent years volunteering with various organizations with the same main objective as Arts Access of making art accessible to individuals with disabilities. I am dedicated to this cause of empowering others and engaging my community through art.
RACHARD McINTYRE – Painter / Mixed Media Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.rachardmcintyre.com/ Bio/Statement: My name is Rachard Mcintyre and I am an artist. I like to draw, paint and do other forms of art. I happen to have Asperger’s, which is a form of Autism. I guess about twelve years ago I was diagnosed with having Asperger's. So it is the kind of disorder that affects the social part of a person but I don’t let it bother me. I continue to focus on art.
SHIRLEY MILLER – Painter / Oil Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: I am 77 [years old]. Liked to do art all my life. Since my injury it’s limited somewhat. I like to paint folk art. My paintings sold in Atlanta, GA in 2006 at Sloton Folk Art. I paint animals on river rock, and canvas. ANN MILLETT-GALLANT – Painter Email: [email protected]
Bio/Statement: I am a congenitally disabled woman and survivor of traumatic brain injury. I am an art historian and disability studies scholar. BERNARD LILES – Visual Artist Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. Drawing helps me view the world in a different way. As I go through my day, I’m always seeing what to draw.
KEN MORGAN – Digital Artist Email: [email protected] Website: www.ctartistkenmorgan.com Bio/Statement: How much can anything be? Reducing everything to its common denominator (a curve, an angle, a straight line or combinations of the two) – I’ve started with what many may say is nothing – to me everything. I’ve allowed myself to start all over. I’ve found first grade again. Sometimes more literal at other times less. To show something we all know in a way never perceived =
my answer… or to create a belief in that which we may not know = another answer. As an artist, my performing past surfaces and I remain that entertainer to this day. Given the choice of work or play, I’ve chosen play… I create safe havens, mindscapes, places to play, places to ponder, momentary impossible realities. ere I find hope for all our tomorrows.… Most recently I continue this quest with a computer in hand, using a state of the art dye fused aluminum process to transform my images.
ALEXANDER ROA – Paper Artist Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: As a coping mechanism to the stress I started doing origami and other crafts compulsively. As paper was cheap and easy to come by, most crafts involved paper in some way shape or form… What was once a necessity and coping
mechanism is now a hobby and done strictly for enjoyment. ROBERT SCOTT - Photographer Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: Started age 15 (1965). Professional photographer 1967-70 for Crawdaddy Mag in NYC, Greenwich Village - shot concerts at Filmore East Wkly. Also covered original Woodstock. I had the opportunity to shoot Swan Lake at Lincoln Center
by American Ballet Co... I covered Moscow State ballet, International Ballet of Korea, and Darci Kistler and Stars of the American Ballet, and others including NC Ballet… I also worked for celebrity Golf magazine… covered ESP awards while still at Radio City Music Hall. And the International Special Olympics in NYC in 1999
BARBARA SILVER – Visual Artist Email: [email protected] Bio/Statement: The beauty of nature inspires me. I am legally blind, and love working with Clay. My work is mostly wheel thrown and altered. Meant to be used as functional pottery. I also make garden sculptures. I began losing my site about 40 years ago. The joy of working with Clay at every stage is a never ending attraction to me.
SHERRY SPENCER - Painter / Watercolor + Collage Email: [email protected] DJ SVOBODA – Pen and Ink Artist Email: [email protected] Website: http://myimagiville.com/ Bio/Statement: I am an Autistic Artist. I have created characters called the Imagifriends. The live in a land called Imagiville. In Imagiville, everyone is accepted just as they are and there is no bullying or teasing. CHRISTINE WATERS – Photographer Email: [email protected]
ALLISON WRIGHT – Artisan Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.facebook.com/FrameWright Bio/Statement: FrameWright is a micro-enterprise owned by Allison Wright. This business is located in the restored Eno River Cotton Mill, Hillsborough. Together with her father and alongside other artisans, Allison produces one-of-a-kind handcrafted mirror frames, small
ornaments, chalkboards and sells wood products made by a CNC. This is a
computerized router. All these items are finished using old world techniques, as is still used by art museums…