Sarah Bauer is an emerging abstract artist based in Blythewood, SC, known for bold, textured compositions that balance modern intensity with refined restraint. Through her studio name, Organic Artistry, she transforms personal resilience into layered visual narratives of strength, movement, and raw beauty.
I work in a woodsy studio outside Columbia. My work speaks to disconnection from nature & the self. I exhibit internationally & enjoy travel, I retired from USC in 2022–since, my interests in healing arts, native materials & diverse media grows.
Born in Atlanta and raised in Columbia, Brown has lived in Gilbert for the -last 17 years. A construction worker by day for the past 30 years, Brown attended SCAD but is, for the most part, self-taught.
My name is Kimber and I am an acrylic artist from Irmo, South Carolina. I have a background in graphic design and am a self-taught painter. I love to use bold colors and am constantly searching to find new ways to set myself apart from other artists.
A graduate of U of SC and Kendall College of Art and Design. Currently an Instructor of Art at Gray Collegiate Academy and USC Union
My work centers around embracing the principles of Dadaism. I’m drawn to the quirky and rebellious spirit of Dadaism, and I aspire to infuse my work with elements of absurdity and nonconformity.
Jane Couch-Osmelowski is retired from a combined 38-year career as an art educator, both as an elementary art teacher and an adjunct instructor in art education at USC. She focuses on ceramics, sculpture and fiber arts.
An ink and pencils maestro, Roc Bottom has garnered praise from hundreds for his stylistic and innovative approach to his craft.
I am a ceramic artist based in Columbia, South Carolina. My work is primarily functional and uses form, texture, and glaze effects to encourage close attention to potential for beauty and creativity in the world around us.
Born and raised in Sumter, South Carolina, Dominique Hodge, known artistically as “Jakeem Da Dream”, is an afro futuristic artist specializing in "AFRO ALCHEMY".
I’m a mixed media artist. Went to school and worked as a commercial artist. I belong to several artist organizations TAG, South Carolina Artist , Works with the Door project, Art in the Home , SAMA Miami show, Trout Project. Gemini studio
Ron is a visual artist working in film, photography and as a painter. He is the founding director of Gemini Arts, an artist studio and exhibition center in Columbia. His work is at times on social issues but also a variety of other work.
Betsy is a self-taught, mixed media, assemblage artist. Her art incorporates found and repurposed materials, in which she sometimes adds oils, acrylics and/or wax, making each piece unique.
2011- 2025, 701 Center for Contemporary Art Open Studios Participant, 2023 Juried into Artfields, Lake City, SC, 2025 Jasper Solo Show at Motor Supply Jan-March, 2025 November, Southern Exposure Music Festival contributing artist
Leila Heidari lives in her hometown of Columbia, SC. She is an environmental health scientist, knitter, and a member of the Soda City Mask Bloc. Her Persian/Iranian American and disabled identities, environmental justice research inform her work.
An artist’s search never ends. It ebbs and flows as each new challenge, idea or inspiration makes its impression. From art student, wife, mother, display guru, art educator, tromp l’oiel artist and muralist to currently allowing the tides to carry me, the world of art has always been my grounding.
Tajuan Huiett “Huey TJ”, is a photographer born and raised here in Columbia, SC. Using my creativity to document black art and history over the years that won’t make it to the history books.
I’m the leader of an art group called About Face that focuses on portrait/figure painting/drawing. I am from South Carolina and I’m a muralist as well as a portrait artist.
I’m Alexander S. McDonald Jr., a South Carolina–born artist who has spent the last 18 years on the road as a long-haul truck driver, always with a camera within reach. I’ve crossed nearly every highway in America, capturing the land with a mix of curiosity and reverence—from the complex architecture of rugged mountain ranges to the quiet beauty of a single roadside flower.
Janet Kozachek was born in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where her formative years were spent drawing and writing in nature. Her subsequent education was unusually eclectic, having traveled, worked and studied in Europe, China and the United States.
Dogon Krigga is a Columbia, South Carolina based multi-disciplinary artist. Their interests in journalism and music production brought them into community with musicians for whom Dogon began creating commissioned works of digital collage.
I paint and create because I must. Lately I am reinventing myself. I am reimagining my purpose through words, color, shapes, lines, and paint. Mostly a response to betrayal and grief, and the state of the world.
Cait Maloney is a published illustrator, award-winning designer, muralist, and exhibition artist in Columbia, SC. She holds a BFA from Syracuse University and serves as Creative Director at Flock and Rally while running Cait Maloney Creative.
Harry A. McFadden is an accomplished artist recognized for his innovative approach to mixed media. His work draws from personal history and cultural narratives, using texture, symbolism, and layered materials to communicate narratives that reflect universal experiences.
Tristan McLawler is a ceramic artist creating both functional and sculptural pieces. As a wife and homeschooling mom of three, she weaves her family life into her creative practice and community.
Ginny Merett is a collage artist. She reconstructs magazine pages and found papers into complex layered compositions. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and her pieces have won many awards. Look for her on all social media.
Cam Moore is an artist who creates from instinct and presence, exploring the balance between control and surrender. Their process invites space to be still, disconnect, and let discovery guide the process.
Trebor is a self taught artist with a passion for recycling, ever piece of art has some sort of recycled materials. Weather it's a piece of wood from a dumpster or paint left over from a remodel project. It all works to become its own.
My name is Breezy. I have a BA in studio art with focuses in graphic design and printmaking from Columbia College. I paint & draw with various tools, sculpt, make linocut prints, photograph, and do various mixed media pieces.
A graduate of the SCGSAH and USC- after studying painting in Tokyo, Japan, his work has continued experimental explorations of postmodern abstraction and figuration with far-ranging influences from religious art and alchemy to sci-fi and anime.
Ivan Segura is a poet and multidisciplinary artist. Fiercely committed to social and economic justice, his art is infused with extensive experiences in community activism, arts advocacy, and grassroots leadership development for Latinos in South Carolina.
Lucy Kienitz Spence is a contemporary painter from Payson, Arizona. Her work explores perception, memory, and the landscape through layered mark-making and experimental surfaces. She incorporates oil, acrylic, and watercolors suggesting the effects of light and atmosphere.
Megan Tapley (She/They) is an emerging artist working in Columbia, SC. Tapley attended Clemson University and received her BFA with a concentration in ceramics (2024). Her work encompasses pattern, texture, and symbolism that relate to her identity.
Keith Tolen is an American illustrator, painter, and veteran educator based in Columbia, South Carolina. A lifelong resident of the state, he is widely recognized for his community-driven approach to art and his distinctive "dot technique"
Local to the Columbia area, I'm a visual artist and a member of Gemini Arts. My work explores the relationship between form and absence through the disciplined use of negative space. Using acrylic on canvas, I focus on portraits of musicians.
Barry J. White is a St. Matthews, SC native who explores the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of Black men through his acrylic paintings, which have been exhibited at Roc Bottom Studios, Gemini Arts, and Drummond Studio Gallery.
Lindsay Wiggins is a multimedia artist and photographer whose practice focuses on watercolor and fine art oil painting. She was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Columbia College in 2011.
Nolan Wright is a largely self taught fiber artist, born in Tucson, Arizona, who uses basketry techniques to make sculptural forms. He currently lives in South Carolina, but grew up in the desert southwest and was deeply impacted by the rugged landscapes there, and by his family’s collection of traditional and contemporary crafts, including the work of indigenous artisans from many parts of the world.
Olga Yukhno is an artist originally from Russia. She has spent the past two decades dedicated to her passion for art. Yukhno has had the honor of training and studying under some of the most prominent artists in the United States and Europe, focusing on learning primarily ceramics and metalworking.
Ellen Naomi Zisholtz is the President/CEO of Center for Creative Partnerships. For ten years, she served as the Director of the I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium at South Carolina State University, where she was Assistant Professor, teaching Museum Studies in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
Susan Lenz is a fiber and mixed-media artist renowned for her ability to transform found objects into meticulously composed works of art. From a distance, her pieces captivate with striking cohesion and visual balance
Perry McLeod is a Fullbright scholar, retired high school teacher, and a photographer and avid traveler. He shoots sports, concerts, events, “and just about anything else I can point a camera at,” he says. “I love photography!
