Artist Biographies

Selena Wolf Berkley (she, her, hers) was born in Mannheim, Germany. She lives and works in Greensboro, NC with her family and a tiny flock of “chicken babies.” She first became interested in creating art during the pandemic as a way to calm anxiety and cope with rising mental health issues. She is self-taught. 

Joanna Blitch was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and grew up in Georgia before moving to North Carolina. She earned a BFA in ceramics, printmaking, and alloys at Appalachian State University.  These works grew out of the long confinement and altered temporality of the strangest year the artist has ever known. During pandemic, the very small house she shares with her family and pets expanded, and also shrank, to become an entire world. During pandemic, days spooled into weeks and months, seasons came and went, and the small house and its inhabitants formed unexpected, interior dimensions. 

Emily Clancy grew up in Baltimore and upstate NY and has called Greensboro home since 2001. A comic artist since 2018 and a web analyst and mother by day, Emily’s someday art will blend beauty, punk irreverence, and a sense of social justice. Emily celebrated the chance to work remotely last year by clearing and improving and studying the spaces around her. The works in this show reflect that introversion and stillness. 

Instagram: @mundanewizardry

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With a passion for line and bringing order to chaos, Jessica Dame experiments with a variety of processes through the combination of analog collage, illustration, and painting. She seeks to blend fine art and design by creating pieces with an emphasis on clean lines, negative space, and surprising use of color. Jessica is inspired by the cycles and beauty of the natural world, illustrated stories of her childhood, fashion illustration, and design. Jessica has exhibited in Washington DC, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Under the moniker of Lady Dame Prints, her designs appear on greeting cards, postcards, and stickers. Her designs can be seen on storm drains across Columbia, South Carolina.

Instagram: @LadyDamePrints

Website: jessicadame.com,

Rebekah Evans lives in Cary, NC. She studied Drawing and Printmaking at UNCG, where she received her BFA in 2017. Her works are created with watercolor, graphite, and ink on paper. They feature things that make her happy. She draws full time and runs a small business sharing them with others, hoping to bring them the same joy that they bring her.

Instagram: @beckybagel

Website: www.rebekahevans.art

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Melissa Read Healy was born in Augusta, GA. Her work focuses mainly on Documentary Family Photography, but her love for nature photography has always been close to her heart. It brings peace and quiet in a world full of noise. It allows her to stop and sit and reflect on the beauty that surrounds us daily. Her influences include but are not limited to, Elliott Porter, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Ansel Adams. Her workdays are filled with her Documentary Family Photography business in Greensboro, NC 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissareadhealyphotography/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/melissareadhealyphotography

Website:  https://www.melissareadhealyphotography.com

Olivia Layley Kellogg is a single mother of two wonderful kids. She has lived in North Carolina for the past 22 years. Her artwork is a reflection of her love for the woods and the ocean, but it is also a reflection of her inner self, her struggles with depression and anxiety, as well as her fight against internalized misogyny, racism and homophobia. Olivia works with Sharpie markers when she creates drawings. She enjoys the vivid colors achieved and the work often includes color experiments to see how the colors speak to each other. The pandemic allowed her to open up and begin to express feelings through art.

Instagram: @oliart27

Alexis Lavine’s watercolor paintings appear to be realistic ... but they are thoughtfully conceived, strategically designed, and carefully drawn around abstract shapes, values, colors, movement, and positive and negative spaces. She feels that this approach gives the work a more contemporary feel, and results in paintings which convey her personal reaction to her subject, not merely the visual facts. She was a passionate “plein air” painter for many years. Recently, she has been spending more time in the studio, where she can slow down and take more time to design and craft paintings with the utmost of care, to create the most impact in her work and communicate with her viewers as effectively as possible. Her work can be found in galleries in the mid-Atlantic and Southern states, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. You can learn more about her art and teaching by visiting her web site. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexislavineartist

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Alexis Michelle is an artist located in Asheboro, NC and a graduate of Drawing/Printmaking from UNCG. Her inspiration comes from common everyday objects, including food, and using them as a means of self-expression. Her work involves humor, farce, and an element of honesty with herself which makes her work relatable.

Instagram: @aasinalien

Website: alexismichelleart.com 

Crystal Owens has a BFA from UNCG, with a concentration in sculpture and a minor in psychology. She considers herself an abstract expressionist, her works are autobiographical in nature and she does not always title pieces. She is fascinated by what the viewer projects and therefore interprets. She enjoys the ambiguity and freedom of self-expression, without the fear of judgement, abstract expressionism affords. Her process is informed by stream of consciousness drawing. During this year of quarantine, she has felt artistically paralyzed. Observing information and waiting to process it, has been a tumultuous endeavor. She has decided that, in retrospect, it was the year of grace. Grace, in the sense of giving it to others and learning how to give it to herself. Everything is material for making art. I look forward to seeing how it will further impact my process.