Artist Info
Johnathan Mayers
Jonathan Mayers was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr. Mayers attended Louisiana State University as a computer science major before changing his course of study and earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art with a concentration of painting and drawing in 2007. While living in New Orleans, Louisiana, he received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2011 with a concentration in painting from the University of New Orleans. In 2012 he became a Co-Manager and founding member of the TEN Gallery + Collective. Mr. Mayers currently lives with his wife, Austyn, creates artwork, and enjoys his life in New Orleans, LA.
Anna Timmerman
Anna Timmerman is an artist as well as the curator of New Orleans’ OCH Gallery for southern artists, and a public/private gardener living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the 2014 Hambidge Residency Distinguished Fellow for Southern Environmental Arts and Sciences
Hannah Cooper McCauley
Hannah Cooper McCauley (b.1989, Tupelo, MS) received a BFA from Jacksonville State University in 2012 and is currently pursuing an MFA from Louisiana Tech University. She enjoys working in narrative photography, both digital and analogue, and her most recent project Seven Days addresses the complexities of growing up based on the transitory nature of her childhood. Cooper McCauley’s work has been exhibited in group shows at various venues throughout the United States, including Louisiana Tech University, Photoplace Gallery (VT), and the Gadsden Museum of Art (AL). In 2013, she was awarded the Board of Regents Fellowship at Louisiana Tech University, which serves as a collaboration between the Departments of Art, Engineering, and Science. Cooper McCauley currently lives in Ruston, Louisiana with her husband, Zachary, who is also pursuing an MFA in Photography at Louisiana Tech
Kelli Scott Kelley
An Associate Professor of Painting at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Kelley’s work explores multiple states of reality through personal and universal icons. Symbolic figures, animals, and objects appear in narratives, which explore humankind’s connections, disconnections, and impact upon the animal world. We love some animals and sweetly distort them into books to entertain and teach our children lessons. We also grow animals in inhumane conditions, slaughter them and cause their extinction. I appropriate the images of animals from popular culture, taxidermy and hunting catalogs, natural history illustrations and other diverse sources to conjure images that reflect on this human and animal link.