Curriculum Vitae

Self-taught collage artist, storyteller and writer who appreciates all things Black, Southern, and imaginative.

Statement

I am an admirer of revelations and evocative thoughts. My work is inspired by my upbringing and ancestral stories passed down to me by the adults in my life. My visual art centers and celebrates Blackness from the fields of rural America to the stars in the night sky. My performance invites you to ponder the significance of lived experiences and my writing gives you a glimpse of my innermost thoughts.

Education

BA, Women’s & Gender Studies, Mercer University (2015)

Certificate, Public & Nonprofit Management, Georgia Southern University (2017)

MPA, Nonprofit Administration, Georgia Southern University (2019)

Commissions

O, the Oprah Magazine
2017, Illustrator commission, A Family Portrait, analogue collage

The Lavandula Project
2020, Marketing commission, Our Mother’s Garden, 15×15 analogue paper collage

Farming & Other F Words
2021, Marketing commission, Celestial Harvest, 20×20 analogue collage on canvas

Geez Magazine
2021, Illustrator commission, contributed 7 original collages for the annual Advent publication, Songs for the Shadows

Exhibitions

INVOCATIONS
2019, Solo, Rosengart Gallery, Statesboro, GA

To Be Black & Female by Amber C. Coleman
2017, Group, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

MMFA Biennial Art Auction
2018, Group, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL

Scintilla Art Box Project
2020, Group, Jackson Disdale Art Center, Hastings College, Hastings, NE

FAAA Members Small Works Exhibition
2020, Group, Jepson Center, Savannah, GA

FAAA at SSU III
2021, Group, Kennedy Fine Arts Center, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA

“Portrait” Art Exhibition
2021, Group, Virtual, ART Room Contemporary Online Gallery, https://www.artroomgalleryonline.com/current_exhibition.html

Allegories, Renditions and a Small Nation of Women Exhibition
2021, Group, Sarah G. Smith Gallery, Yale Divinity School, https://www.artroomgalleryonline.com/current_exhibition.htm l

Residencies

Dear Artists with Anxiety
2021, Virtual, Instagram: @dearartists

Talks & Features

H.E.R. Campus Women’s Empowerment Conference
2019, Georgia Southern University

You Had Me At Black
2020, Podcast, Season 7 Episode 6, At the House Series: https://youhadmeatblack.simplecast.com/episodes/at-the-house-radical-imagination

Big Team Farms
2021, “Fighting with Friends about Carbon (and action items for people who pre-ordered!): https://sarahmock.substack.com/p/fighting-with-friends-about-carbon