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From Fulton County Public Art Program

  1. Girlfriends by Sway Jones, Image 4.

    Sway Jones

    Girlfriends, 2024

    acrylic on canvas

    36 x 24 x 2 in (91.44 x 60.96 x 5.08 cm)

  2. Grandma's Hands by Anthony Marcus (blctxt contxt) Bottoms, Image 2.

    Anthony Marcus (blctxt contxt) Bottoms

    Grandma's Hands, 2019

    Canvas Or Fuji Film photo paper

    36 x 24 in (91.44 x 60.96 cm)

  3. George Bush by Fahamu Pecou, Image 1.

    Fahamu Pecou

    George Bush, 2008

    Serigraph

    17.5 x 10.5 in (44.45 x 26.67 cm)

  4. Given by Willie Little, Image 2.

    Willie Little

    Given, 2000

    Screenprint

    26.5 x 19.75 in (67.31 x 50.17 cm)

  5. Giving Thanks (originally part of the collection at New Horizons Neighborhood Senior Center) by Charly Palmer, Image 2.

    Charly Palmer

    Giving Thanks (originally part of the collection at New Horizons Neighborhood Senior Center), 2000

    Acrylic & mixed media on paper

    28 x 40 in (71.12 x 101.6 cm)

  6. Giwayen Mata - Woodruff Arts Center Performance by Jim Alexander, Image 1.

    Jim Alexander

    Giwayen Mata - Woodruff Arts Center Performance

    Photograph

    21 x 26 in (53.34 x 66.04 cm)

  7. Jim Alexander

    Giwayen Mata - Woodruff Arts Center Performance

    Photography

    21 x 26 in (53.34 x 66.04 cm)

  8. Grapes & Glass by Abernathy Arts Center, Image 1.

    Abernathy Arts Center

    Grapes & Glass

    tempera on paper

    17 x 21 in (43.18 x 53.34 cm)

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About the artist

Mia Merlin

Mia Merlin is an Atlanta native and lived there until 2014 when she began teaching as a Lecturer in Art at Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus, in Savannah, GA. Previous to her current position, she completed a three year Visiting Lecturer position at Georgia State University and has also been an instructor at Spelman College, Emory University, Georgia Gwinnett College and Kennesaw State University. Merlin studied Psychology and Comparative religion as an undergraduate at Hampshire College and did not take her art making seriously until long after graduation. This happened in no small part through finding her mentor, Ralph Gilbert, who believed in her and saw her potential long before she or anyone else did.

She has had solo exhibitions at the University of West Georgia, Emory University, Georgia State University and Fay Gold Gallery. Collections she has work in include King & Spalding law firm and the Estate of artist Fairfield Porter. Her solo exhibition “Birthday Party” was rated among the top 10 art shows of the year by Atlanta’s art magazine, Creative Loafing. Other exhibition highlights include exhibits in Vatican City and Manama, Bahrain through the Art in Embassies program, Fiat Lux, a nationally juried show sponsored by the Phillips Collection, Art at Play at The Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama and the Rosenthal International Juried Exhibition where she won Best in Show. Recently, her work was published in the “Menninger Perspective,” an international journal for the Menninger psychiatric clinic.
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