Art Gallery exhibits are organized by the Friends of Smyrna Library.
Artist Statements:
Margery Kellar grew up in the Midwest, graduating from Ball State University with a BS in Art Education. She moved to Atlanta in 1979, employed by Fulton County DFACS in Adult Protective Services, retiring in 2011. She became interested in creating stained glass art when her church was demolished in 2006, seeing the colored windows in shards on the ground. Margery creates window art, cabinet windows, suncatchers, jewelry, lights and lanterns, plant sticks, and does custom work. She also repairs broken pieces. She participates in at least three shows per year: Stone Mountain Highland Games (October), Central Florida Scottish Highland Games (January), and Apple Annies Craft Fair (December). She is a teaching assistant at the Spruill Center for the Arts in Beginning and Intermediate Stained Glass. She is the current president of the Atlanta Glass Art Guild, which has given her a better understanding of the many ways glass is used in art.
Mosaicist Julie Mazzoni finds the splendor in everyday moments and captures it in mosaic. After living in six cities in twelve years while raising four children, a sense of place and home became driving themes in her work, expressed through subjects of nature and people. Julie teaches mosaic classes at The Art Place Mountain View and Spruill Center for the Arts. She has a YouTube channel showing her process from the studio. Julie creates three-dimensional hand-built substrates for her mosaics, but also explores in two dimensions. Her contemporary take on mosaics emphasizes the unique qualities of the medium – the reflectivity and refraction of light on the work, dimensional or sculptural possibilities, the texture of the tesserae, the nature of substrate and the andemento, or flow of the pieces.
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