Staff Bios

EDITORIAL BOARD

Jeremy Abernathy, Editor-in-Chief, Cofounder
Susannah Darrow, Executive Director, Cofounder
Karen Tauches
Meghan Norman

CONTRIBUTORS

Jeremy Abernathy is a freelance writer and editor. A native of Mississippi, Jeremy relocated to Atlanta to study art history and international relations at Oglethorpe University. He lived for a short time in Japan, but he now lovingly calls Atlanta home. His professional biography includes experience as a custom framer, but he currently works full-time for the Georgia state legislature. Jeremy reads mostly nonfiction and his interests include continental philosophy and linguistics, but his growing library contains a suspicious number of comic books. He is a lover of bad jokes and good beer. Jeremy’s writing has appeared in Creative Loafing newspaper, ART PAPERS magazine, and ART LIES magazine. He was a 2009 finalist for a Workshop Fellowship through the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.

A well-known critic, poet, and ART PAPERS staff member, Dr. Jerry Cullum has been a keen observer of the metro Atlanta scene for decades.

Susannah Darrow is a freelance curator and arts enthusiast. She is a native Atlantan who left briefly to study art history, printmaking, 60s and 70s underground music, and English at the University of Georgia. She now works at the Spruill Gallery. Susannah is a member of the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award Committee. She also writes for the Atlanta blog, Pecanne Log. The majority of her spare time is spent coddling her pug, Orson Emmanuel Bean—named for the comedian, Orson Bean, as well as writer, Orson Welles, who he resembles when confused—and listening to albumns by Caetano Veloso and Townes van Zandt on repeat. Susannah lives in a cottage in East Atlanta with her pug.

Sally Hansell is a freelance art writer and curator. She frequently writes for Fiberarts magazine and has contributed to numerous publications including American Craft, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Southern Voice, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, and Roswell: A Pictorial History. A native Atlantan, Sally holds a bachelor’s degree in art history and English from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in English from the University of Virginia. She serves on the advisory board of Brenau University Galleries. When not engaged with art, she champions quality early childhood education as a trustee of the Child Development Association in Roswell.

Santiago Junca was born in Queens, New York, to Colombian parents but has been living in the South since he was five. He plays drums with a few acts around the metro area and enjoys drawing. Santiago has a degree in audio production from the Art Institute of Atlanta and is completing his bachelor of arts at Georgia State University. He is currently pursuing interests in graphic design and writing.

Meghan Norman is a 20-something art historian full of Southern charm and useless trivia. She completed her bachelor’s degree in art history from the College of Charleston, graduating in 2006, and is currently working on her master’s degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design, focusing on contemporary art. As a recent Atlanta transplant, she is learning to cope—the beach is now much further than ten minutes away! She has been the recipient of several awards, including second place at the 10th Annual Art History Paper Competition and Symposium sponsored by the Savannah College of Art and Design (2008). Like any native North Carolinian, she enjoys college basketball and barbeque.

Staci Stone is an artist from Phoenix, Arizona. After graduating from Arizona State University with her BFA, she was awarded a public art commission to create a permanent work on campus. Staci has continued her interest in public art and photography through her graduate studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design. On most weekends, she can be found at local garage sales or Thrashers games.

Karen Tauches is an artist, designer, hopeless idealist, lazy perfectionist, localist, foolish prognosticator, armchair traveler, wannabe filmmaker, independent curator, and an unauthorized critic, especially of art and architecture. Oh, and she’s a seriously challenged speller (thank god for editors!).

Charles A. Westfall was born in Albany, New York, in 1980 and raised in a farmhouse in nearby Easton. His family moved to Alachua, Florida, in 1991. Charles graduated from The University of Florida in 2008 and is currently pursuing his MFA at The University of Georgia. His wife says he is “6 foot 3, enjoys soccer, pictures taken without flash, and babies … when they’re not crying.”

Alana Wolf is a freelance writer, curator, and art historian. When not actively obsessing over her thesis on 19th-century anatomical museums at Georgia State University, she can be found hosting parties at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and directing artistic anomalies for Public Acts of Art. Hailing from Miami by way of California, Alana currently shares an untidy home with two pugs, one Weimaraner-moose mix, one ferret, and four bipeds. She is very interested in your mojo criollo recipe.

SUMMER INTERN 2010

Ciara Sames is a painter, writer, student, and art-finder extraordinaire from Riverview, Florida. She is currently an arts administration major at Georgia State University and president of the Art History Student League. Ciara spends her free time reading about dead artists, updating her blog Glass & Sable, enjoying wine, and sketching in Moleskine notebooks.