Ondrian Duncan Reid has been the art teacher at Haynes Bridge Middle School for 11 years and an art educator in Fulton County for 21 years. "I want my students to experience the act of making and learn to express their personal ideas and interests through art," she says.
This quarter, students will create cardboard cakes, paint monochromatic color wheels, and practice juxtaposition by illustrating antonyms.
"As an artist, I explore the connections that we have as humans with the animal world. I create small muti-media paintings of creatures thinking of how they remind me of people I have encountered. I am also a quilter and use quilting to practice an inherited call to make and create objects that are functional and pleasing to the soul," says Ms. Reid. She lives in Marietta with a lovingly bossy 3-year-old Shih-poo named Fozzie.
Mary Besel is a ceramic artist and art teacher at Chattahoochee High School and Alpharetta High School. She first worked with clay in a ceramics class in college. "There’s something about its texture and presence that truly connected with me, and I knew it was the perfect medium to bring my ideas to life," she says. "My work often explores spirituality, folklore, creatures, and nature, letting me create my own versions of fairytales and characters I loved as a child."