ARTiculate ATL Round 2

Jamie Lee Harris is an African American artist from Notasulga, Alabama who received her BA in art from Alabama State University, a historical black university located in the heart of Montgomery, Alabama. Her practice shines a focus on the African American diaspora that contextualizes lost and forgotten histories of Black rural America. Harris’ mediums include the use of oil paint, to account for visual narratives of historical reverence and familiarity in juxtaposition to sculptural and utilitarian use of clay ceramics often attributed to craft. Her main influences are taken from the likes of the Edgefield Potters of South Carolina, Josiah Wedgwood, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Amy Sherald, and a plethora of portrait artist spanning from the 1600s to now.

Harris was a 2022 recipient of the National Black Arts Foundation’s Horizon Award for visual arts and a Sam Fox Graduate Fellow Ambassador. She has participated in a host of group shows in the metro of Atlanta, Georgia, the Montgomery Artist’s Guild, the Montgomery Museum of Art, The Kemper Museum in St. Louis, and The Luminary. After completing her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023 she has worked as a fabricator for Kahlil Robert Irving and Crystal Z. Cambell. She currently is an instructor at two non-profits, South Broadway Art Project and Wildwood Green Arts.

Jamaal Barber is a creative, imaginative soul born in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. In 2013, after seeing a screen printing demo at a local art store, Jamaal started experimenting with printmaking, making it his primary focus. His woodcuts and mixed-media prints illustrate the new Folio Society special edition of The Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead. Jamaal recently participated in the MTV/Smithsonian Channel art competition show The Exhibit. He has also worked for Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America, and Emory University.

In 2004, Jamaal moved to Atlanta, GA, with his wife and two children.

IG/threads: @jbarberstudio

Tanzanian-Nigerian collage artist Marryam Moma intricately reconstructs repurposed archival paper and mixed media, to create vibrant narratives, delving into the complexities of the Black experience. She highlights Black bodies, their strength and joy, while challenging societal perceptions. Moma’s work is a masterful tapestry of multidimensional stories. Her collages grace international corporate collections like Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks. Her global impact extends to TV programs and prestigious magazines. Recently, one will find several of Moma’s analog collages in award-winning New Brownies Book, non-fiction, 2024. Departing from formal architecture, inspired by the mundane and extraordinary, Marryam Moma creates layered analog collages from apparently disparate elements that uplift and empower. Moma has exhibited in the US and abroad, creating works that foster understanding and inclusion.