Featured Artists at
the 2021 AMA ChalkFest
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Jessi QueenJessi Queen is a chalk artist and UX designer living in Atlanta, GA. She started chalking at the SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival in 2007, receiving Honorable Mention, while she was just a high schooler. While attending SCAD herself, her chalk art was featured in the SCAD Connector. Jessi has led workshops at various colleges, festivals, and events. In 2013, she was asked to be a Featured Artist at the Marietta Chalk Festival, and in 2014, she started the Georgia Chalk Artists Guild. She has won a number of awards for her work and has displayed chalk drawing in local art shows.
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Zachary HerndonZach is a chalk artist living in Atlanta, GA who was first introduced to chalking through his wife, Jessi Queen, at the 2011 SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival. Zach co-founded the Georgia Chalk Artists Guild with Jessi Queen and Katie Bush in 2014. The organization has since grown to over 40 members and partners with festivals throughout Georgia to bring chalk art to various corners of the state. He’s passionate about engaging festival patrons and including them in the process; he created the Pop-Up chalk festival to help explore ways of bringing chalk to communities. In 2015, Zach and Jessi shared a chalk piece at the Gwinnett Arts Fest and won First Place and People’s Choice Award. Later that year Zach chalked solo for the first time at the Sarasota International Chalk Festival. In 2016, he participated in the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival and developed his own method for chalking Lichtenstein’s famous ben-day dots. He has traveled to festivals across the south east including GA, FL, KY, MN, TN, TX. In 2016, he and his wife Jessi participated in street art festivals in Italy and Germany.
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Chelsey ScottChelsey Scott is a Melbourne, Fla., 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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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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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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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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Heather CapHeather Cap is an artist living in Fayetteville, GA. 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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Sonia SummersSonia Taboada Jackson Summers, a resident of Knoxville, Tenn., graduated in 2008 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she studied Illustration and Writing. Her cartoons were featured in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville student newspaper, and she interned at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 2011, Sonia and her husband' moved to his hometown, Birmingham, Ala., where she regularly exhibited at varied venues in the greater Birmingham region. Their family returned to Knoxville, where she has been an enthusiast for public art. Sonia has won several sidewalk chalk art competitions in the Birmingham area ad in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
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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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Anna WilschetzAnna Wilschetz, of Albany, is moving into the professional chalk artist ranks this year after winning the amateur art category for adults in both the 2018 and 2019 AMA ChalkFests. She also created some of the storefront art a the virtual 2020 AMA ChalkFest. A humanities teacher at Deerfield-Windsor School in Albany since 2016, she had an M.Ed. from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Mo., and a BA in history from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
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Header Image: Original Art - The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard | Chalk Artist - Chelsey Austin
