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Paul S. Benjamin received his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught workshops at the Terra Foundation for American Art at DePaul University and the Romare Bearden Foundation through the Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago. Benjamin has had numerous solo/two-person exhibitions, including his most recent at the Ferguson Gallery at Concordia University in Chicago, Antiques and Heirlooms. He was also featured in the MOCA GA group exhibition Dissolving Stereotypes/Forging New Dialogues: An Exhibition Beyond Race, curated by Larry Walker in 2009. Among his awards to date are the Diasporal Rhythms Artist Recognition Award, Hambidge Fellowship, and the Forward Arts Emerging Artist Award. The artist describes his work: “My works are primarily about rebirth and transformation. The materials used for my sculptures and installations are found and appropriated objects that have been deconstructed and reconstructed to create new form and purpose.”
Helen Blythe-Hart, inventor of the acclaimed Heat Zone Soldering Method, has been practicing her metal artistry for over 30 years and teaching students for 19 years both at University and Community levels on the East Coast and locally. She has won numerous awards in this country and her work has been collected internationally by the Deutsches Goldschmeidehaus, a metalsmithing museum in Germany, and Orphan Pharmaceuticals in Paris, France. Other corporate collections include the Hyatt Regency, Johnson and Johnson, and AOC Corporations. She specializes in sterling silver and glass sculptures with a futuristic edge, and loves to combine natural stones with patterned gold and silver to create lushly extravagant jewels that sparkle with brilliance and articulated movement. Degrees include a BFA in metals from Indiana University, and an MFA in Sculpture and Metals from Georgia State University. Graduate Gemologist (GIA) and member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Her work is shown in fine art galleries across the US.
Jan Willadsen is the owner of Willadsen Scale Models, a full-scope scale model making company that encompasses study, highly detailed and prototype models. For over 20 years she has established and maintained professional relationships with the well-known and just- known including Disney Development, BellSouth, Fazio Golf Course Architects, Frederica, Reynolds Plantation and the Orange Country Convention Center.
At the Atlanta College of Art, she focused on printmaking and drawing but has applied a BFA degree to various fields of creative expression. Her design talents have extended to art & creative direction, traditional cell animation, multi-media branding, displays & exhibitions, graphic design, photography, painting, murals and residential & commercial interior design. Clients and design awards include Coca-Cola, Georgia Power, Neiman-Marcus, McDonald’s, Ramada Renaissance and the Smithsonian Annual Kite Festival.
Dale Sizemore graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics in 1977 and then pursued and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of North Texas in 1981. He also earned a Masters in Education in 1985 from Georgia State University. In 2001 Dale achieved National Board Certification in Early Adolescent to Young Adulthood Art. He has taught at Newnan High School for 27 years and was selected as the Coweta County Teacher of the Year in 2002. In 2003 he was one of 200 teachers selected to go to Japan with the Fulbright Memorial Fund where he spent 3 weeks visiting cultural centers, elementary, middle, high school, and universities. Dale retired from teaching in May of 2010 to begin building a rural folk school that will provide week long retreats in Ceramics, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Weaving, and Blacksmithing. He also teaches Art Appreciation for Brewton Parker College at their satellite campus in Newnan. In 2005 he started the first and only statewide ceramic arts show and workshop for high school students for which he enlists the help of college ceramic faculty from various Georgia universities to jury. Dale has maintained a studio with his wife and partner, Nancy Sizemore, creating functional and sculptural ceramics since they moved to Moreland in 1983.
BVA Ceramics Georgia State University 1971
MFA Ceramics University of Georgia 1973
Founder of the Ceramics Program at Callanwolde Art Center and was there from 1973-1980. Artist in Residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission 1980-81. Owned and operated Berman Gallery in Atlanta 1981-1997. Pace Academy Art Faculty 1997-present. Associate and Contributing Editor of Clay Times Magazine 1996-2000. Present gallery affiliation- Mason Murer Gallery. Workshops, one man and group exhibitions worldwide.
Author:
Teapots 1981 and Rick Berman: Clayworker 2009.
Collections: The High Museum, The Macon Museum, The Greenville Museum, Takasago Research Institute, Tokyo Japan, The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, The Hariett Tubman Museum, The Bayle Museum, The Albany Museum, John Portman, Yo Yo Ma, Congressman John Lewis, Jane Fonda, Andres Serrano, The Chicago Art Institute, Peter Voulkos Estate, The Mehera Irani Estate, Meherazad, India, Sing'isi Public School, Arusha, Tanzania, Africa, and more.
Don Bryant is an American born photographer ( Chattanooga, TN – 1951 ) and has amassed over 40 years of experience in the world of photography ranging from recreational and professional photofinishing management, event photography, fine art photographic printing specializing in historical 19th century photographic processes. He currently serves on the Board of Directors as President of the Atlanta Photography Group, the oldest non-profit gallery in Georgia dedicated solely to traditional and contemporary fine art photography. |
