Hi, I’m Meredith.
I’m an artist, writer, and mother in Atlanta, GA. My background is in art education, and I also ran a small business selling hand-crafted crepe-paper flowers.
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About Me
Teaching Artist
“She’s never bored — always making something!” my grandmother used to say.
I grew up crafting, writing, painting, drawing, and taking photos. Like a true Babysitters-Club-inspired tween of the ‘90s, I ran art camps in my parents’ basement for younger kids in the neighborhood.
I naturally gravitated to art and education as an adult.
After earning my Masters of Art in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I worked for several years as a teaching artist in museums, art centers, and schools. I taught all ages—children to adults—an eclectic range of subjects including book arts, guerrilla art, and installation art.
In between teaching jobs, my mom and I began playing with paper flowers. MORE↡
About My Work
Paper Flowers
For several years my mom and I ran Amaranthus Paper & Flora, a small business making lifelike crepe-paper flowers.
I loved creating sculptural tributes to nature, capturing fleeting flower forms in ways that distilled and preserved a spark of their joy and whimsy.
One of my favorite parts of the process was hand-writing the messages our collectors composed for their loved ones—messages of celebration, encouragement, sympathy, gratitude, support, and love.
Flowers are a fleeting means through which we draw attention to moments and feelings—they help us say, "I see you.”
With their vast variety of amazing forms and endlessly nuanced colors, flowers are a medium we use to connect with each other.
About My Work
Flowers and Motherhood
We closed the paper flower business when I had a baby because I wanted to focus on my daughter.
But in the last several years of mothering, flowers' lessons—of truly seeing someone, of trying to freeze time and preserve moments, of bearing witness to the embodiment of joy (and fear, grief, luck, accomplishment, and everything else), of accepting that things come and go and always change—keep offering themselves to me.
In that time, I've dabbled in writing about motherhood and am now exploring painting and drawing flowers as a subject for abstraction. My work reflects on what it means to live fully in the present, while flowers come and go, and little girls grow up and up and up.
Current Project:
Printables You Can Share
I’ve started designing a collection of printable items that incorporate my painted florals and ideas I explore in my essays: holding on, letting go, loss, and love. I hope my work may offer a simple way of connecting with someone else or with a part of yourself to say, “I see you.”