Featured Artists at
the 2019 AMA ChalkFest
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Heather Cap | 2018 winning artistThe winning artist at the inaugural ChalkFest in 2018, Heather Cap, of Fayetteville, Ga., is returning this year to defend her title. A relative newcomer to chalk art, Heather attended her first Pop Up Chalk event with the Georgia Chalk Artists Guild in April of 2016 and was instantly hooked. She has since organized and chalked in Fayette County’s first ever Chalk Festival in May of 2016 and again in Tyrone at the Shamrock Arts Celebration in 2017. She has also led chalk classes for students at several Fayette County schools including Peeples Elementary Cultural Arts Week and The Campus in 2016-17. Heather has been the featured artist at several special events in Georgia, including Hops and Props in Peachtree City, Paws for a Purpose in Tyrone, NASA Link Up Live, and the Build a Better World summer reading event in Fayetteville.
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Leigh AlfredsonLeigh Alfredson (known for over 20 years as Lee Jones in the chalking community) is a professional street painter living in the Orlando, Florida area and has been street painting and teaching this art form for over 23 years. Her company VIBRANCY DESIGN (formerly LJ Designs/Chalk It Up) provides professional street painting services, as well as street painting festival consulting services. Leigh has traveled all over the United States, Curacao, and Italy to paint, and helps organizations and non-profits hold street painting events as fund-raisers, or as an added aspect to an already established event. She is now focusing on teaching street painting in schools (LEARNTOSTREETPAINT.com) all over the country, keeping the art form alive by teaching our youth, as well as teaching other groups (kids or adults), or individuals one-on-one. Leigh’s style is graphic/realism, and she loves to do portraits, animals, or reproductions of Masters works such as Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Bouguereau. Leigh has produced over 300 street paintings and produces street paintings and pastel drawings for some of the major Orlando area attractions.
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Chelsey AustinChelsey Austin is a Melbourne, FL native currently working as a graphic designer and artist living in Atlanta, GA. Chelsey has been traveling and exploring the world of street art for over a decade. Along the way she has won several awards, been on TV, illustrated a children's book, been published in a variety of outlets, owned a central Florida Gallery, and participated in social marketing events with NASA. She received her Master Chalk Artist certification from the Florida Chalk Artist Association in 2014 and is currently a member of a number of chalk art societies, including the Georgia Chalk Artists Guild.
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Cathryn BozoneCathryn Bozone is an Atlanta based artist and member of the Georgia Chalk Artists Guild. She lives in downtown with her plumpish, black cat named Bear. She graduated from The University of West Georgia last spring with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a concentration in Graphic Design. She has experience with a variety of mediums including painting, printmaking, street painting, and design. She loves analog artistic processes and doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty.
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Fawne DeRosiaFawne DeRosia is an artist currently living in Thomaston, GA. She is the owner and operator of Flint Rose Studio where she shares her artworks, hosts paint-along parties and life drawing sessions, and offers a communal space for local artists to meet up. She loves trying out new techniques and mediums, from watercolor and acrylic, to wood-working and chalk. She fell in love with chalk art in 2014 and ever since has traveled all around Georgia and Florida participating in sidwalk chalk festivals. Fun fact: Fawne's Etsy shop, FawneDArt, was the first Etsy shop ever!
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Lata Mary FieldsLate Mary Fields, a native of India, moved to the United States in 2000, but discovered her affinity for art four years ago when she moved to LaGrange, Ga. Beginning with charcoal and pastels, she turned to YouTube to gain insight from other artists. Fields paints or draws every day when she isn’t working or homeschooling her daughter. She also works with local artists and is a member of both the Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange and West Point Fine Arts.
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Destiny JoinerDestiny Joiner, of Thomaston, Ga., is a freelance designer. She studied printmaking and graphics at Southern Crescent Technical College.
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Jennifer RichardsonJennifer Richardson is the owner and resident artist of Golden House Studio. Jennifer got her B.A. in Art History from the University of Memphis and then went on to get her M.A. in Art History from George Washington University in Washington, DC.
During her time in the nation's capital, she interned with the Smithsonian Associates and became the Fine Art Specialist for Sloans and Kenyon Auctioneers. After the birth of her son, Jennifer and her family moved to her husband's hometown Murfreesboro, TN. Once established in Murfreesboro, she began teaching art history at the Art Institute of Tennessee-Nashville and working as the Arts and Outreach Coordinator for the Center for the Arts in Murfreesboro. Jennifer was also a board member of Artsy Mamas, a non-profit organization that provided art opportunities for mothers. When her job at the Center was eliminated due to budget shortages, she decided to continue providing the residents of Murfreesboro with art education, and Golden House Studio was born. |
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Anat RonenStarting her art career from scratch and with no formal education, later in life, Anat Ronen, of Houston, Texas, says her perspective and views come from those of a "normal," “average” person. Life was never too easy for her, but she discovered there's more to it than just existing. Creating is a part of who she is.
After initially doing commission-only work, a 2013 invitation to paint a mural for a museum exhibit made Ronen more aware of what is in her, leading to follow her true passion -- urban art. Art for the people. Anywhere and everywhere. She says it made her want to break the rules, experiment, test the boundaries only to disregard them. Now a decade into her art career, Ronen says each project teaches her something new – about art, about people, about herself. |
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Beth ShistleBeth Shistle is both a fine artist and street painter who creates in and out of her studio in DeLand, Florida. She loves to explore the natural world and the world of art by working in different media, but favors acrylics and pastels. She has a Maestro designation from the Florida Chalk Artists Association, and has won quite a number of awards at street art festivals including Best of Show, Mayor's Choice, Grand Prize Large Format, Best Reproduction of a European Master, and People's Choice.
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Victoria SlagleVictoria Slagle is Education Coordinator at LaGrange Art Museum. She has a BFA from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga. Slagle says she hopes to spark a conversation about mental illness and the way it is experienced and viewed in our society through her art. Life as a twenty-something, already full of terrifying firsts and trial & error, is complicated with the diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder. At a time where she's supposed to be figuring out who she wants to be in life, she's having to learn to deal with the stigmas, symptoms and side effects that accompany her diagnosis.
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Brittany WilliamsBrittany Williams is an Atlanta artist who has been practicing chalk art for the past couple of years. Her specialty is vibrant pop culture portraiture, featuring everything from musicians like Lynn Gunn to TV and movie characters like Lara Croft, Kelly Maxwell from Ash vs. The Evil Dead, to the monosyllabic Groot of Guardians of the Galaxy. Come check out this rising talent at the 2018 AMA Chalkfest!
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Header Image: Original Art - The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard | Chalk Artist - Chelsey Austin
