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Vista Studios/Gallery 80808 Artist Studios and Gallery

Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Installation; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography; Visual Artist: Print / Digital Art / Graphic Design; Visual Artist: Sculpture / Pottery

Vista Studios provides studio space to 13 artists and gallery space to community artists. An early project in revitalization efforts of the Congaree Vista, Vista Studios began as a joint venture of the Columbia Development Corporation and the South Carolina Arts Commission. It has matured along with the Vista into a unique and needed outlet for Columbia’s visual arts.

Bonny Calloway

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Jewelry; Visual Artist: Photography; Textile Designer

Dylan Fouste

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Print / Digital Art / Graphic Design

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John Fowler

Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography; Visual Artist: Print / Digital Art / Graphic Design; Calligrapher

I am a wedding calligrapher. I have been addressing wedding envelopes, place cards, table cards, invitations, announcements, and RSVP’s for over twenty years. I also draw pen and inks with watercolor washes. I have items in two art galleries.

Kara Gunter

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Installation; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Sculpture / Pottery

Kara M Gunter was born in 1976 in Lexington, SC. She earned a BFA in sculpture with an emphasis in small metal works and jewelry in 2000 from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, and continued her education at the University of South Carolina in Columbia earning a MFA in 3-dimensional studies and ceramics in 2009. Kara has taught at Lander University, South Carolina State University and currently teaches at the University of South Carolina. She has taught extensively in the community at the Columbia Museum of Art and through residencies at area schools. Kara is also a writer for Jasper, a Columbia, SC arts magazine.

Jellykoe

Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Print / Digital Art / Graphic Design

Jellykoe is a designer toy company located in the heart of Columbia, SC. Jellykoe was founded in 2009 by husband and wife duo Kelly and J. Spencer Shull. Spencer acts as lead product designer and illustrator for Jellykoe while Kelly is in charge of production, design, and marketing. Their toys have been featured in STUFFED magazine, Catapult, and Art Nouveau as well as on Toy News and designer toy websites Tomopop, Urban Vinyl Daily, Plastic and Plush, and the award-winning Spanky Stokes. Jellykoe’s art and toy designs have been shown in galleries in New York City, Sacramento, Seattle, Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Palm Beach. Jellykoe travels full time, appearing yearly at over 40 juried art festivals, comic conventions, and gallery events across the country.

Alicia Leeke

Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Installation; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Print / Digital Art / Graphic Design; Murals

Alicia Leeke, a native South Carolinian, started her artistic studies under Steven Nevitt at Columbia College. During her sophomore year she vacationed in Paris and visited the Louvre, where she fell in love with the French Impressionists. She also visited her most inspiring spot in France, Montmartre. Her travels to paint landscapes during plein-air painting sessions led her to produce a body of beautiful abstract paintings inspired by nature’s ever-changing scenery. More recently, she is inspired by photographers Susan Kae Grant of Texas and John E. Powell of Columbia, SC to produce a body of work combining conceptual art, photography and digital mixed media. Leeke compares a series of art in a body of work to that of multiple product lines in sales. This means she has a paintings produced in a series over time including: abstract textural landscapes, impressionistic landscapes, French cityscapes, digital mixed media cityscapes, vibrant abstracts and an abstract body of work based on phytoplankton. Leeke was awarded a grant by the Charleston Scientific and Cultural Education Fund to produce a traveling exhibition entitled: View from Under the Microscope: Science-based Learning Through Art. The exhibition educates the non-scientific community about the importance Phytoplankton play in our life and why we need to be good stewards of our water bodies. This body of work will be on view at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport starting June 2017. She is also grant recipient from the Joan Mitchell Foundation located in New York City. To purchase artwork please call 803-429- 5456, email info@alicialeeke.com or visit www.alicialeeke.com.

CF Legette

Author / Writer; Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Photography; Visual Artist: Print / Digital Art / Graphic Design

It appears that I have always pursued my creative propensities. For as long as I can remember I have always sketched on various surfaces (Some of them with and many without permission.) My earliest formal teacher (Art Instructor, Mrs. Barbara Townsend, Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School), squeezed creativity out of me sneakily. Before I realized what was going on I had volunteered my service for many school projects. Fortunately, she graded all my construction help around school as extra credits. That always kept me working and that was an important step in guiding my interest. She knew that I would not turn her down when she needed something done. It was all practice without her hands-on instructions. However, it wasn’t until my next Professor (J. Craig Greene – Art Professor: Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC) began to get into my head that I started to really think about what was actually going on with a canvas. It was a question that did not rest well with me at first. That question is too personal to repeat but I pray that other professors are as good with their inspirational techniques with students. Great art can only begin to take shape when an artist realizes who he is. And, that was the essence of his motivation. It took me almost thirty-two years to realize that I am a lost soul saved by Christ Jesus. My energy now is focused on pleasing HIM. Now a simple piece of blank paper, a pencil/ink-pen and creating something with meaning in it is more satisfying than almost anything. Most of my work today is with the simplest media, a reminder to me that God turn anything into beauty.

Michelle Leitzsey Eason

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Jewelry; Visual Artist: Mixed Media

I enjoy creating and move from leather to fabric to metal as my mood changes.

Susan Lenz

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Installation; Visual Artist: Mixed Media

Although born and raised in the Midwest, Susan Lenz has always traveled, spending much time in Austria, England, and Italy. These experiences have been translated into a love of textiles, textures, and cultural diversity. Susan's now lives in Columbia, South Carolina and has both a "home" studio for 3D sculptural and installation work and a fiber art studio at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios. She has studied under several internationally renowned fiber artists and been juried into numerous national and international exhibits. Susan's work has been featured in solo shows all over the United States. She has been awarded four art residencies, several "Best of Show" ribbons, and has had work featured on television and in print.

Flavia Lovatelli

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Installation; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Sculpture / Pottery

Flavia Lovatelli is a sustainable artist residing in Columbia, SC. Born of an Italian father and an American mother, she was raised in Northern Italy where her work won numerous prizes and awards in high school competitions. She made the United States her home in 1979. Founder of Art Ecologie Group a movement of like minded sustainable artists that bring the Annual ecoFAB Trash Couture, an acclaimed inspirational recycled fashion show and the traveling show “Deja Vu” a display of each artist’s ecoFAB Trash Couture piece with wall art and a sculpted piece to show how each influenced each other. One of 4 artists/designers, Flavia was chosen to represent Sustainable Charlotte during the DNC in Charlotte North Carolina, September 2012, her work was chosen to be featured on Charlotte billboards in the 2014 Art Pop inaugural event campaign. Her work can be seen at the Sustain Charlotte Offices in Charlotte, in her Studio in Columbia (by appointment) or hanging at the Gallery PopUp in Ballantyne Village, Charlotte NC. A mixed, multi media and three dimensional artist, Flavia’s signature pieces are made from coiled paper. She is a pioneer sustainable artists before these terms existed or became popular. Her work is mostly made with repurposed materials. In her words: “I love the freedom of creating what I want from random objects. I am held to no parameters, I am sold to no particular media, I like them all and love to cross breed them. This allows me to create many fun pieces and allows me the ability to awe the viewer with a piece of disposed material that is turned into something so interesting when multiplied exponentially”.

Kris Manning

Author / Writer; Musician; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting; Visual Artist: Sculpture / Pottery; Puppeteer

Kris is a mother, artrepreneur, musician, philanthropist, just to name a few.

Jillian aka The Refashionista Owens

Teacher / Instructor; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Fashion Designer

Jillian Owens has been refashioning and upcycling thrift store clothes from frump to fab since 2010. Jillian has been featured on Good Morning America, Buzzfeed, The Associated Press, Bored Panda, My Modern Met, Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan (French), Elle (French), The Gloss, The Rachael Ray Show, Good Afternoon America, ABC Columbia, Jasper Magazine, Skirt, Columbia Metropolitan, The Free Times, Grist, and NYC’s Guest of a Guest.

Celena SCTheGlassLady

Visual Artist: Drawing Illustration; Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Mixed Media; Visual Artist: Painting

A native of New Jersey, Celena is a graduate of Morris College in Sumter SC and a graduate of Webster University.

Janet Swigler

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft

Quilting in a non-traditional style is Janet Swigler’s medium. Her process of cutting free-hand and working intuitively without the use of templates, honors the tradition of quilting and shows the versatility of the medium. The artist has worked in this style for five years while studying with Nancy Crow. Observations of daily life, attentiveness to nature, and reflections on personal insights provide the inspiration for her abstract creations. The use of color, improvisation, and imaginative re-structuring of a simple shape are important components.

Adele Thornhill

Visual Artist: Fiber Art / Fine Craft; Visual Artist: Sculpture / Pottery

Website – adelethornhill.com Like me on Facebook – facebook.com/AdeleThornhillCeramics Shop my Etsy page – etsy.com/shop/AdeleThornhill My process describes many seemingly-paradoxical syntheses of opposites. As the knife pierces, control, order, and rigidity are imposed on the fragile and malleable clay body. The obsessively repetitive process, tedious to some, is soothing and energizing. Like Yayoi Kusama, one of my major artistic influences, my repetitive process enables me to transcend mundanity in favor of, as Kusama puts it, “return[ing] to the infinite universe.” My delicate work and lacy patterns are also inspired by my grandmother’s embroidery and needlework. My grandmother, Beryl, earned her living by sewing and embroidering intricate patterns on dress clothing and decorative home textiles. I know a piece is done when I’ve pushed both the piece and my own patience to their limits. I hope my work recalls complex beauty of handmade lacework of the past like my grandmother’s needlework, while also communicating the great feeling of calm that can be found everywhere, even within chaos.

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