Justin Rabideau was born in West Chazy, New York, a rural town in the Northern region of the state. He attended The State University of New York at Plattsburgh, where he received a BFA in Sculpture and Printmaking in 2002. While in Plattsburgh, Justin participated in many exhibitions and received the Jane Prescott Rowlson Award for achievement in the arts. Justin also participated as an Artist Intern at Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minnesota, as well as, an Artist in Residence at Sea Side Sculpture Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the summer of 2003, he moved to Athens, Georgia to pursue his MFA degree with a concentration in Sculpture. During his time in Georgia, Justin had an active role in the artist community. He participated in exhibitions which included; Fresh Assortment, organized by Michael Lucero, The First Annual Artist Symposium in Navidad, Chile, as well as, completing a commissioned sculpture located in Athens, Greece. Upon completion of his degree in 2006, Justin moved to Syracuse, New York where he was the Preparator at the Everson Museum of Art, as well as, an Adjunct Instructor at Cazenovia College and Pratt Munson Williams Proctor. In 2008, he moved to West Palm Beach, Florida where he worked as the Preparator at the Flagler Museum and as an Adjunct Instructor at Palm Beach State College. In May of 2011, Justin relocated to Atlanta to work as the Production Manager at Chisel 3D, a design and sculpture company. Currently Justin is an exhibiting artist with Dashboard Co-op and an Artist in Studio Resident with The Creatives Project.

Brandon Sadler’s style is unique, its roots in graffiti and urban pop culture, and reminiscent of the technical mastery of art from traditional Japan. He has created a fusion of East and West fluidly and employs it to comment on topics relating to the human condition, such as man’s battle with himself, society, and nature. Sadler speaks with a visual language of symbols and metaphors that beautifully articulate his concepts. Yakira is young artist who is eager to learn, with a talent that is maturing quickly. Her work displays great potential and is heavily inspired by manga and anime. Yakira has created a piece inspired by Brandon’s work and the result is a beautiful image depicting the young artist’s “self image” utilizing three symbols.

Ashley L. Schick graduated with an M.F.A. in Printmaking from SCAD-Atlanta. She received her undergraduate degree in Printmaking, with a minor in Packaging Science, from the University of Florida. She has participated in exhibitions across the United States and internationally. In the Spring of 2010 she coordinated the village-wide Exposition and Vernissage in Lacoste, France. Ashley is currently part of the Creative Project’s Artist-in-Studio Residency at the Goat Farm Arts Center and is working as a studio assistant to book artist Brian Dettmer. She also teaches workshops in multiple media, including monoprint, letterpress, and book binding. Her current series of work explores how the keeping and retelling of stories over time alters how she defines herself and her environment.

While pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture at Kennesaw State University, I cultivated an interest in constructing well-crafted, conceptually-derived figurative sculpture. Before working with ceramics I was primarily a painter. Once I started using clay I found that modeling and painting a threedimensional surface was far more intriguing and interesting to me than a two-dimensional surface. I carry my interest in refined craft and conceptual investigation beyond the limits of art making and into my everyday life. With an open mind, I seek to critically analyze and question the nature of ideas and objects. I am not afraid to think or try something different to learn or see things in a new way. While I was a full time student I worked my way through school by having several jobs and working sometimes up to forty hours a week. From being a cashier to a cake artist to a studio assistant and now a scenic artist, I have never tired in my commitment to art, learning and growth. In fulfilling my commitment, I am not afraid to travel to new places, experience different ideas, or meet new people.Art is ambiguous and undefinable.

Margaret Hiden is a passionate, photography-based fine artist and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Birmingham, Alabama native holds a B.F.A. in photography from Birmingham-Southern College and recently graduated at the top of her class with an M.F.A. in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. Hiden is actively involved with organizations such as the Society for Photographic Education, College Art Association and has spent time living in Rockport, Maine working with esteemed photographers such as Andrea Modica and Debbie Fleming-Caffery as a photography faculty teaching assistant at the Maine Media Workshops. Her work and research explore themes dealing with the photograph’s function; specifically, those that incorporate appropriated and original imagery leading to commentary on philosophies of the medium that pertain to memory. She has a particular obsession with Kodachrome transparency. Margaret has exhibited locally and nationally and has been internationally recognized.

Jerushia Graham is a printmaker & fiber artist. She is an Art Foundations instructor for the Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur, and a printmaking/book arts instructor for Southwest Arts Center & Abernathy Arts Center. Ms. Graham served as the Outreach Coordinator for Atlanta Printmakers Studio for 3 years. She has taught printmaking at Kennesaw State University, been a guest lecturer at the University of Georgia as well as designed and taught arts programming for organizations such as, African American Museum in Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, The Living Loft Museum at the Spiral Q Puppet Theater, The Spelman College Fine Art Museum, and The Dream Community in Taiwan. She holds a Printmaking B.F.A. and a Fabric Design B.F.A. from the University of Georgia and an M.F.A. in Book Arts/Printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Hannah Perner-Wilson combines conductive materials and craft techniques, developing new styles of building electronics that emphasize materiality and process. She received a BA in Industrial Design from the University for Art and Industrial Design Linz and an MA in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was a student in the High-Low Tech research group. Since 2006 Hannah has collaborated with Mika Satomi, forming the collective KOBAKANT. In 2009, as research fellows at the Distance Lab in Scotland, KOBAKANT published the website titled How To Get What You Want, where they share their textile sensor designs and DIY approach to E-Textiles.

Marcy Starz is an emerging artist living in Atlanta, Ga. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the city such as Beep Beep, Mason Murer, and earlier this year was included in MOCA GA's Movers & Shakers exhibition. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Kennesaw State University in 2009 and is one of the recipients of The Creatives Project's Artist in Studio award. Marcy's work is an observation of human character and the role gender plays in our perception and expectations of one another. Animals carry a lot of symbolism and meaning for most people, representing any characteristic from wisdom to violence to fertility, the meanings associated with one animal can vary cross-culturally or stay quite similar. In our fast-paced and techno-centric society she choses narrative imagery that has a timeless quality and bridges across generational gaps. The juxtaposition of realistically rendered figures against flat, repetitious surfaces create an environment of negative space where the characters interact. The layers created in the pieces produce a ghostly effect, causing the figures to take on a ethereal appearance and reinforcing the notion that they are figments; fleeting urges and hazy memories.