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.

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.

SC artist with work in private collections internationally.

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 emphasizes texture and glaze.

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.