2010 Artist Market Judges

Charnelle Holloway

Ms. Holloway has gained recognition in local, regional and national competitions/ exhibitions. She was included in the ground-breaking exhibition "Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects; The Legacy of African-American Craft Art", and her work also traveled with the exhibition "Bearing Witness; Contemporary Works by African- American Women Artists". Holloway's work has been exhibited in such venues as Mingei Museum, the Renwick Gallery and the The American Craft Museum. In addition, by invitation, she has been included in the African-American Archives of the Smithsonian's National Design Museum. Charnelle is a member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, The American Craft Council, and the Organization of Black Designers. Presently an associate professor of art at Spelman College, she is involved with many aspects of two and three -dimensional design, computer-aided design, and a variety of interdisciplinary plans for the future. For more information on Charnelle Holloway's creations please see her gallery at http://www.charnelleholloway.com/

Catherine Goolsby

Cat Goolsby has worked with metals since 1999. Her primary focus during this decade has been the fabrication of art jewelry and small metal sculpture. Her forte is designing jewelry in sterling silver with semi-precious and precious stones to create unique, functional art work that excites and dazzles collectors. She also work in gold and semi-precious metals and work on commission as well as repair/restore damaged and antique metal artwork and jewelry.
Using some of the studies and skills in Psychology and Photography she approaches metals as a scientist, researching and documenting the impact of Metalsmithing processes; this experience enables her to see the finished product before the final work is complete, just as she saw the final pictures through the lens of the camera before the negatives were developed.
Translating her life into the metal form has given birth to more than one collection of artwork; each piece of art embodies either a concept, passion, memory, thought or experience of her life-each has a special, individual meaning. The Fold Form collection is most widely known.
Her inspiration for this sought out line of work was to incorporate the free flowing nature of fabric into the metal, successfully creating works that reveal an intentional, non-symmetric and tensionless rhythm. Her Ribbon Fold Form bracelet looks like ribbon elegantly dancing around the wrist. Select art work from the Fold Form Collection of jewelry is represented at Topaz Gallery in Buckhead (Atlanta, Georgia). She is currently teaching jewelry and metalsmithing classes at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Midtown, Atlanta.

Deanna Ranlett

Deanna Ranlett is currently owns Atlanta Clay, a ceramic and pottery supply store. She is also a studio artist in Atlanta, GA. She received a BA from UGA in 1998, and an BFA with concentration in Ceramics from Georgia State University. She has taught and given workshops locally in glaze chemistry and using commercial products in a unique way.
Ranlett focuses her work on exploring abstract form and microcrystalline glaze structure at lower firing temperatures.
Her exhibition record includes work in Atlanta's Mudfire Gallery, Creative Spirit Gallery, Lowe Gallery for Aids Awareness Foundation Auctions, Macon Arts Gallery, Mable House Gallery, Summit One in Highlands NC as well as recognized Georgia pottery shows such as Fired Works in Macon, GA and Perspectives in Watkinsville, GA.
Her work has been featured in Clay Times on several occasions. She can be contacted at www.atlantaclay.com.

Melissa Galt

“Art is inspiration for daily living,” so says Melissa Galt, interior designer, speaker, author, and artist’s advocate to name but a few of the hats she wears. The former host and producer of The Art Full Life, a radio program dedicated to interviewing artists, collectors and gallery owners, Melissa also spent a decade teaching design, decorating, and art collecting to busy professionals at Evening at Emory and Oglethorpe University’s continuing education.
As a designer she has been widely publishing including features in Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Planhouse, Better Homes & Gardens, Atlanta Style, Jezebel, Living Spaces, and many more. She speaks often on the value of design and offers her book Change Your Interiors, Change Your Life: 209 Home Improvement Tips; as well as to the trade on relationship marketing and business development. Melissa enjoyed an invitation to speak in China this past April on Western Design Trends. She is also the author of Celebrate Your Life! The Art of Celebrating Every Day, dedicated to her late mother, the Oscar winner, Anne Baxter.
Melissa has a love of art and design in her genes. As the great granddaughter of the American architect and icon, Frank Lloyd Wright, she agrees with his philosophy “give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.” She views design as a necessary luxury and art in all forms as the foundation for great design. Melissa travels from Atlanta and can be found online at www.melissagalt.com and www.melissagaltinteriors.com.

Camille Russell Love

Camille Love is a Senior Arts Professional, with almost 20 years of experience in the arts and cultural community. She currently serves as the Director of the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs. From 1993 to 1998 she was the Director of the Camille Love Gallery and from 1989 to 1992 served as Founder and President of For the Love of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2009 she was named to ABL’s “100 Black Women of Influence” and honored as one of “Georgia’s 100 Most Influential Women in the Arts” in 1997
Love has served on the board of the APEX Museum, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, National Black Arts Festival, United States Urban Arts Federation, Arts & Business Council, Piedmont Park Conservancy, Robert Ferst Center and WSB-TV Arts Advisory Board

Mindy Spritz

Mindy Spritz is the Director of Education & Development for the Spruill Center for the Arts in Atlanta. Ms. Spritz has spent her career as an administrator or faculty member at a variety of arts centers and colleges of art in the Midwest and the Southeast. Previous to the Spruill Center, Ms. Spritz held the position of faculty member and Coordinator of Student Success at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Ms. Spritz has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and a Master of Arts/Studio Arts–Painting. Currently Ms. Spritz is completing her Doctorate in Educational Administration & Supervision, as well as developing creative programming for youngsters who are experiencing personal hardships or adversities and innovative art classes for people who are living with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.