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YASIN MALIK JALAL ‘16

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Painting & Printmaking

Work Experience:

  • Freelance Artist, Atlanta
  • Artist at Monster Drawing Rally, High Museum of Art
  • Sculptor, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
  • Group Exhibitor, Hi-Lo Press, Atlanta
  • Designer at Smithworks Iron & Design, Atlanta

Studio Visit with Y. Malik Jalal in Atlanta

ZACK KEVORKIAN ‘13

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Medical Illustration

Education: M.S. Medical Illustration, Augusta University

Work Experience:

  • Illustrator & Production Assistant, Nucleus Medial Media
skeleton foot drawing
black and white art

LARISSA RANDALL ‘18

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Painting & Printmaking

Experience:

  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta
  • MINT Gallery, Atlanta

Sable Elyse Smith ‘11

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Film & Photography

Education: 

  • MFA in Studio Art, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
  • Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME

Work Experience:

  • Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
  • Fellow, Queens Museum Jerome Foundation
  • Sable also has work in the collections of MoMA Library and the Whitney Museum of American Art
Iron Woodland sign
Jack be nimble poem on a billboard

Tyler Yvette Wilson ‘17

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Photography & Painting

Education:

  • MFA in Studio Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • BA in Studio Art, Davidson College, Davidson NC

Work Experience:

  • Freelance Time-based Media Artist
  • Exhibiting with the Mount Royal School of Art at MICA

Sonny Pimentel ‘16

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Film & Photography

Work Experience:

  • Freelance Cinematographer
  • Freelance Artist
  • Ksana Spirits, in Milan, Italy
  • On the Road, in Beijing, China
  • El Astillero de Artistas, in Mexico City, Mexico
Aerial view of a mountain
A group poses in front of a Moxie background

AUDREY STADLER ‘18

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Film & Photography

Work Experience:

  • People Store, Atlanta Talent Agency
  • Freelance Filmmaker and Actress

Gaoya Grace Yang ‘16

Studio Art Major

Concentration: Film & Photography

Work Experience:

  • Film Producer at Immaterial Media LLC
  • Curator
  • Korean Wunderkammer 2018: Su Muk, Milan, Italy
  • Arriva il Mia, Milan Imagine Art Fair, Milan, Italy
  • Ksana Spirits, in Milan, Italy
  • On the Road, in Beijing, China
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Alumni at a dig site

Holly Bostick ‘15

Art History Major

Education: MA in Art History at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Work Experience:

  • Art Appraisal Assistant, Hardy & Halpern Inc.
  • Archaeology Fellow, Maya Research Program
  • Intern, The Carter Center, Atlanta

Abbie Argo ‘18

Art History Major

Work Experience:

  • Guest Experience Assistant, The Children’s Museum of Atlanta
  • Freelance Artist
  • Programming Intern, the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
The Children's Museum entrance
Painted mural art inside a building

LARISSA RANDALL ‘18

Art History Major

Work Experience:

  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta
  • Sara Giles Moore Foundation Research Fellow in American Art
  • Curatorial Intern
  • Oglethorpe University Museum
  • Guest Lecturer, “East Meets West: Japonisme and Mary Cassatt’s Printmaking”
  • Advising Assistant for the Ellerkmann Collection
  • Lecturer at AAMG Annual Conference “The Academic Museum as a Vital Resource for a Liberal Arts Institution”

Taylor Roberts ’21

Art History Major

Work Experience:

  • Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellow, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
  • Intern at the Oglethorpe University Museum
  • Lecturer at AAMG Annual Conference, “Inspiring Partners: Storytelling in Rural and Urban Communities”
  • Curatorial assistant for the exhibition, “Stories Without an End,” in conjunction with Auburn University
A Student poses with framed art in a gallery