Category: Artist Profiles

Mariah French, 2022 Artist Elevated Winner

For Mariah French, to dance is to feel at home. Since she was a child, dance has been a way to connect with the world around her. Mariah has fond memories of gathering all the neighborhood kids in their backyard to choreograph elaborate dances to perform for the neighborhood. But…

Sterling Carter, 2022 Artist Elevated Winner

You can hear it in his voice, his laugh, the way he travels throughout a conversation. Sterling Carter loves the arts. And most of all, he loves being an artist.

Tay Lane, 2021 Artist Elevated Winner

Her dream is to produce a full-length play based on Plato’s dialogues inspired by her studies. Her dream is to start a production company called Walter Lane, named after her beloved dog who recently passed. Her dream is fueled by her late husband, Chris, whose memory is a reminder for…

Quianna Simpson, 2021 Artist Elevated Winner

As a baby, Quianna, would lay on her back and click her feet to the beat of the music floating through the room. She was already connected to movement at a young age. But her mom was uncertain if she would ever dance. Quianna was born bow-legged. Without reconstructive surgery,…

Weekend Warriors: Ready to Kick Back and Be Entertained

By Lacey Luce My first Columbus Arts Festival (as part of the team working it) was as advertised: Awesome and exhausting. I’m not going to lie, my brain is still functioning at a pretty basic level: “fire bad, tree pretty.” As such, I am fixated on events that allow me…

ColumbusArts.com Profile: ANTHONY MOSSBURG

This month’s profile features Anthony Mossburg, a multi-award-winning acoustic artist from West Virginia who is currently residing in Columbus.  According to comments made on his website by his fans, Mossburg is known for writing moving lyrics, creating melodies that stick with you long after the song is over and for…

ColumbusArts.com Profile: Mary Ann Crago

This month’s profile features Mary Ann Crago, whose work reflects her strong intuition and courage in pushing herself out of her comfort zone as an artist.  In doing so, her work has evolved from primarily two-dimensional, abstract landscape paintings, to exquisite mixed-media assemblages that have a dreamy quality and represent…

ColumbusArts.com Profiles: GRETCHEN HIRSCH

As the most comprehensive online events guide and resource for arts and culture in central Ohio, ColumbusArts.com offers a virtual guide through the Columbus art world with a searchable database of events, concerts, performances and more. ColumbusArts.com is an engaging place for artists and arts organizations to share what they do, with…

ColumbusArts.com Profile: BRYSTON WALTERS

This month’s profile features Highball designer Bryston Walters. Walters is a creator and drag enthusiast living in Columbus, Ohio. He is a recent graduate of Columbus College of Art and Design and is the  founder of a self-labeled luggage and handbag company, Bryston Walters Greater Columbus Arts Council: Are you from Columbus?  Where…

ColumbusArts.com Profile: HANNAH STEPHENSON

This month’s profile features Hannah Stephenson, founder of Paging Columbus and The Storialist. Stephenson is a poet, storyteller, and blogger living in Columbus, Ohio. She is a poetry blogger for The Huffington Post, Recently,served as editor for The Ides of March: An Anthology of of Ohio…

ColumbusArts.com Profile: LIZ BOURGEOIS

This month’s profile features Liz Bourgeois, founder of  Team Chipmunk.  Bourgeois is a textile enthusiast, Broadway costume designer, history lover and a mother of two.  Before founding Team Chipmunk in 2009, she lived in New York  and Los Angeles , and earned a MFA from New York University Tisch School of the…

Laura Alexander: An American Artist Abroad

Laura Alexander was one of two artists to receive international artist residencies this year in Dresden, Germany on behalf of the Arts Council’s Dresden Residency Program. With its layers of intricately cut paper, Alexander’s work is both playful and precise.  Combined with the manipulation of light and shadow, its labor-intensive…