This work grounds her in her Nashville heritage and gives meaning to her practice. And ready access to unwanted industrial parts from her husband’s career in industrial sales spurred her imagination into ways of making artistic use of these familiar materials.īy 2011, her love of spending time in a shop working with her hands and using tools and equipment to create naturally led to the evolution of her glass studio. She named it “Artwork Cubed” because she is third generation Alice, and her works are 3-dimensional.
Being an only child in a “make do with what you have” environment, she relied on her creativity for entertainment and began crafting with readily available materials, a practice she continues to this day.Īs a young adult she pursued her love of learning to earn a degree in Sociology and Philosophy, a way of viewing the world that influences her art.Ī chance encounter with a chunk of windshield slag from the old Ford Glass plant (which operated here in Nashville) sparked her intrigue with glass. He currently lives and works with his family in Fairview, Tennessee.Īlice Shepherd is a native Nashvillian and a self-taught kiln formed glass and mixed media artist who was raised in a family of mechanics and machinists. Words and poetry are integral to much of my work, allowing me to explore the tension between the playful innocence of childhood and the vulnerable truths of a grown-up world that doesn’t always understand.” Using acrylic on canvas, I create images inspired by drawings I made when I was a kid – like birds, umbrellas, and jelly bean trees – speaking a language familiar to both children and adults. In 2020 he was named one of the top Art Creators of the Year by Nashville Lifestyles magazine, and he was a resident artist for Metro Public High Schools during the 2021-22 school year. He won first place in 2018 at the Arts & Business Council’s “Periscope Pitch” competition by presenting his vision for uplifting and inspiring the good in people through his art. His work has been featured in The New England Review, Nashville Voyager, The Saturday Evening Post, and for four seasons on the television show Nashville. Aaron has shown his art professionally since 2005 in galleries and fairs across the country. This is also where he met his wife Michelle (also an artist) and together their art and design business is called The Gray Umbrella. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1999 with a BFA in Graphic Design. Aaron Grayum was born in Ravenna, Ohio in 1977, but has called Tennessee home since he was 4 years old.
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