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This year's artists:

Artist Statement "ArtGals": Eight women artists have teamed up to create a collaborative mural installation. ATL Art Gals is founded by Artsy Elaine. This collective is dedicated to connecting, supporting, and amplifying women and non-binary Atlanta artists. Rooted in collaboration and empowerment, this project reflects the core mission of the collective. This installation brings together eight women artists who share a belief that we are stronger, more visible, and more impactful when we come together to uplift one another. Through collaboration, we honor both individual voices and collective strength.

In recognition of Women’s History Month, the project draws inspiration from the tradition of quilting. Quilts are deeply rooted in regional identity, storytelling, and social history. Historically, women gathered to quilt as an act of labor, care, and community—creating spaces of refuge, connection, and shared purpose. Quilts embody the resilience, ingenuity, and resourcefulness of women, transforming remnants into warmth, protection, and beauty.

This installation merges the legacy of quilting with contemporary artistic expression. Many art forms historically driven by women have been dismissed as “craft” rather than recognized as fine art, leading to the minimization of women’s labor, skill, and cultural contribution. This project directly challenges that hierarchy, asserting the artistic value and cultural significance of these traditions. Each artist in the collective has selected a traditional quilt pattern to reinterpret, honoring the form while pushing it forward through modern materials, personal aesthetics, and contemporary techniques. When assembled, the murals function like a quilt itself—individual panels unified into a powerful, cohesive whole.

Together, this installation celebrates the strength, creativity, and unity of women artists, inviting viewers to reflect on the progress made toward equity, visibility, and recognition, while acknowledging the work that remains.

Brianna Gardocki: Brianna Gardocki is a professional artist and muralist with over five years of experience, based in Metro Atlanta. Brianna has built a career focused on transforming blank walls into vibrant, story-driven artworks that connect people to their environment. Brianna’s murals are recognized for their bold linework, bright color palettes, and imaginative compositions. Inspired by music, film, wildlife, and everyday moments, Brianna designs playful and meaningful pieces that enliven public spaces.







Domonique Stanford: Domonique Stanford is an Atlanta based multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the natural world and the human form, examining how the two shape and reflect one another. Drawing from the rhythms of nature and the complexity of femininity, her practice explores themes of growth, light, stillness, and transformation, while also considering how imagination evolves in adulthood and informs personal meaning. Her work translates these ideas into structured compositions that emphasize form, texture, light and presence.







Elaine Stephenson: Elaine Stephenson is an Atlanta based artist and muralist creating bright and colorful art with positive messages to uplift and inspire. She draws from her personal experience with anxiety and depression as a means to create art that focuses on the beauty of life and encourages others. She studied graphic design at the University of Georgia, which ignited her love for typography and bold design. After a 10 year design career, she now combines both her strategic design skills and an artistic voice to create art that enhances spaces. Elaine is very involved in public art and has several large permanent murals around GA from Atlanta to Blue Ridge, and now Athens. Her fine art has been exhibited in galleries in Georgia and Colorado at ABV Gallery, FreeMarket Gallery, Cat Eye Creative, MINT Gallery, Ryan Joseph Gallery, The Print Shop, Empire Arts Gallery, Avondale Arts Center, and Arches Brewing. Stephenson has been featured in publications such as the AJC, Arts Atlanta, Shoutout Atlanta, Reporter Intown Newspapers, City Lights on WABE, and the Atlanta Street Art Map.

Hannah-Rose Broom: Hannah-Rose Broom is an actor, artist, filmmaker, and yoga teacher. She finds joy in creative problem solving and has a passion for learning new processes, letting the needs of an individual piece dictate their given format. This has led her to create a body of work exploring everything from resin sculpture to analog botanical cyanotype to full-body movement pieces combining mixed-media painting and yogic practices. Whatever the medium, her work is rooted in meditation and mindfulness, exploring themes of the physical manifestations of emotion in the body as well as contemplations of the natural world.









Jane Collins: Jane Collins is a Painter and Illustrator based in Decatur, Georgia. Nature, color, creatures, and whimsy are the main themes of her art. She has been creating for as long as she can remember, but recently has been loving painting murals and larger pieces as well as collaborating with other artists.











Natalie Childers: Natalie Childers is a painter and muralist out of Decatur, Georgia, who has had a crayon or brush in hand—and often a cat in her lap-for as long as she can remember. Inspired by a lifelong love of making, she combines problem-solving and creativity to enhance human spaces through art. Curious and experimental,
she is always exploring new techniques, often juggling several projects.









Vanna Black: Vanna Black is an Atlanta-based illustrator, painter, and muralist (Ormewood/Grant Park native) with expertise in digital communication and a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University. Her work blends African motif patterns with Japanese-inspired landscape and floral aesthetics to create colorful, motion-filled pieces that invite reflection on today’s world and others’ perspectives, while promoting community care and nature-inspired self-sustainability. She has produced custom art for Hermès, Living Walls Atlanta, the City of Atlanta, Canada Goose, Foundry Commercial, and the Sustainable Forestry Industry, and she volunteers with
CreativeMornings ATL while also being part of the Paint Love nonprofit’s newly announced 2025 cohort.




Gabi Anderson: Gabi is an Atlanta based artist and creative director, who primarily focuses on drawing attention to the beauty and whimsy of the everyday.





















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Alea Hurst: Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Alea Hurst began her journey into drawing and painting in high school. She
produces two-dimensional works, particularly drawings and paintings, which range from traditional to experimental and mixed media approaches. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia in Athens in 2013 and her Master of Fine
Arts degree at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2018. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Arch Enemy Arts, ABV Gallery, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, and Mason Murer Fine Art’s Fresh Blood. Her work also has been featured in multiple publications, purchased by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and selected as the 2021 winner of Spruill Gallery’s Amplify mural award.

Artist Statement: “No Limits” celebrates identity, resilience, and community through a vibrant tribute to the boundless potential of women across generations and cultures. The figures with blooming floral hair and fluttering butterflies symbolize growth, transformation, and the organic power of feminine energy. Together, these elements create a joyful and empowering visual narrative that honors the diversity and strength of women. More than a celebration of Women’s History Month, “No Limits” serves as a call to action—reminding viewers that women’s accomplishments expand endlessly when supported by creativity, courage, and community.

Kirsten Sandlin: Kirsten Sandlin is an artist and muralist based in the Mid-South who loves creating large-scale
public artworks that celebrate community, creativity, and quiet acts of resilience. Her work blends painting,
design, and storytelling to create inviting, accessible imagery. She believes public art should invoke conversation and curiosity—encouraging viewers to pause, reflect, and see themselves within the work.

Artist Statement: This mural is a portrait of Peggy Oki, honoring her role as a pioneer in skateboarding and the quiet determination that has defined her life. As the only woman on the legendary Zephyr Skateboard Team in the 1970s, Peggy skated for the joy of it—unbothered by expectations—and carried that same tenacity into her later environmental activism, including her ongoing work to protect whales and ocean life. The image shows Peggy in motion on her skateboard with a subtle wave behind her, linking her skate roots to the path her life has followed.

Amy Patterson: Amy Patterson is a traveling impressionistic realism muralist from Dunwoody. Many of their pieces feature tigers, which symbolize the courage it takes to lead an authentic life. The tigers are used in tandem with other figures and intentional imagery as a medium of storytelling. Traveling often to study other
cultures, Patterson creates murals for international hostels, communal spaces, and live events. These moments of intercultural connection and education provide new perspectives for the work Patterson creates back in Georgia, and the wonderful cycle continues.

Artist Statement: For Women’s History Month, I’m spotlighting Artemisia Gentileschi, a prolific 1600s Italian painter shaped by Caravaggio yet long under-recognized because she was a woman. She became the first female admitted to Florence’s Academy of the Arts of Drawing and painted biblical and mythological women with uncommon realism, power, and emotional weight. A recent graphic novel, I Know What I Am (Gina Siciliano), underscores her hardships: at 17 she endured a seven-month public trial after being assaulted, then married, lost children, left her husband, and was bankrupted providing dowries for her daughters. Even so, she earned commissions for the Medici, churches, and European royalty, corresponded with Galileo, and persisted despite theft and misattribution across Rome and beyond. My composition includes the Colosseum, column blueprints, a symbolic tiger for courage, olive branches for peace, and a sketch of Mary Magdalene as Melancholy.