Hi, I’m Meredith.
I’m an artist, educator, and mother in Atlanta, GA.
See also: curiosity-follower, spark-lighter, awe-seeker, delight-nurturer, mistake-celebrator, capability-believer, play-enabler, wonder-noticer, flower-lover, color-relisher, creative guide.
About Me
Teaching Artist
I grew up crafting, writing, painting, drawing, and taking photos. Like a true Babysitters-Club 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.
Now, from my East Atlanta studio to classrooms and community spaces around Atlanta, I invite adults, children, and families to paint, make books, experiment, and rediscover how capable and creative they already are.
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.
"Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds."
~Paulo Coelho, The Spy
About My Work
Flowers and Motherhood
We closed the paper flower business when I had a baby.
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 what it means to live fully in the present, while flowers come and go, and little girls grow up and up and up.
Current Work:
Painting, bookbinding, and printables
My art is still rooted in the expressive language and colors of flowers, but now I paint them in watercolor and acrylics.
I transform many of my paintings into handmade books and design digital downloads that invite you to create something with your hands too.