Oct 16th 5-8pm

I am Reginal Griffin, a visual artist hailing from Atlanta Georgia. My body of work consists of acrylic paintings with vivid colors. My mission is to communicate elements of nature with beautiful and resilient women and or animals. I invite individuals into a refreshing atmosphere created by combining different landscapes, seasons, and different times of the day. In my work, i strive to provide an escape that invokes serenity.

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Brea Te'Ann is a painter & printmaker from Stone Mountain, GA. She aims to convey women in undisturbed spaces of self-reflection and rest. She is also inspired by Pin-up illustrations and vintage imagery but twisting it to make it appealing to our modern times.

I am a queer, non-binary person and art has been my passion since I was quite young. I tend to lean towards surrealism, and love to blend fantasy subjects with those of the real world. My goal is to inspire people to see the magick in everything around them. My favorite things to paint and draw are mushrooms, eyes, and things I find in nature that strike me with awe. I like to create settings with my art that I could imagine otherworldly creatures interacting with. 

My work centers on reusing materials that would otherwise be discarded to create forms from the natural world. There is a focus on dynamic poses or expression to convey the emotional vibrance of the creatures of the world that are often harmed in the name of capitalistic progress.

My art comes from a desire to talk about the little know people that sacrifice to make the world a better place, and to give a deeper understanding of what it means to be Black in a society where race is rarely talked about but the disparity between them are overwhelming and devastating.

I am a full time artist for the past 4 years. I have several murals around Atlanta! I am mused by Nature and love creating in as many forms as possible. I love trying new ways to make beauty.

FRKO, AKA Freako Rico, (born Richard Montgomery), is an Atlanta-based illustrator mixes comics and hip-hop to create hysterical, often belligerent art. FRKO has drawn multiple album covers for Action Bronson, including the graphic identity for the album Mr. Wonderful, and the artwork for Gucci Mane’s “All My Children.” Recent projects include a group exhibition at THE GALLERY, WISH ATL, titled TRPL-DBL; a collaboration with the creative collective LoveRenaissance to design the iconic Reebok Classics, and drawing a Red Bull can for the Music Culture Clash, Atlanta.

Julie Mazzoni is best known for her three-dimensional conceptual and two-dimensional realism mosaics. There is a harmony in her mixed media mosaics that comes from knowing the mosaic “rules” and breaking them when necessary. After living in six cities in twelve years while raising four children, sense of place and home became a driving theme in her work, which has been influenced by contemporary mosaic masters Guilio Menossi and Ilana Shafir. The beauty of mosaic is not the uniformity of hand-cut pieces, but rather in celebrating the variety of texture, shape and reflectivity of tesserae while still seeing the whole work. It is a clear reflection of each of us and our part in the whole of society.

Hey y’all! I’m Preston Woodruff- a young, Atlanta-local folk artist who works with anything I can get my hands on. I enjoy highlighting found and recycled objects in my work. Recovered “trash” from all over the South has made its way into my art, and I am ecstatic to be involved in the Re:Heck project. Everything I make is shaped by my life experiences as a queer, transgender, and neurodivergent person. I hope my art can provide solace to folks that are often underrepresented in art, and display that queer joy is real and reachable.

Jason Hill aka Manic Lawd is a 30 something artist from Atlanta, Ga. His art deals with the relationship of Death vs cute, mental illness and whatever other silly ideas pop into his head. 

Magdalena O'Connor creates work that delights and challenges the viewer. They are an Award-Winning Body Artist and has been competing internationally since 2007. Retrained as a welder fabricator in 2014. Their current practice is primarily sculptural with a focus on knowledge sharing. Magdalena has been developing innovative uses for materials for decades. They have a wide range of skills and experience in multiple fields.

I've been woodworking for 6 years now out of a community oriented makerspace called Mass Collective. My discipline has been changing and growing since then and I've been fortunate enough to do everything from curation to production design as I've grown with the city and within myself. I come from a long line of loudmouths and somehow in also the one who makes loud art as well. I like fruit. My IG is @blackenstien