Artist Directory

Bill Jones

Storyteller

Bill Jones is a storyteller. He takes events from his own lie and shapes them into stories that entertain and explore universal themes of life. “Can the smallest boy from Junior High survive the bully?” "How does a kid who doesn't like camping end up on a nineteen day canoe... More

Chris Little

Visual Artist

Chris Little is a Memphis folk artist whose pieces have shown and are in collections all over the world. In addition to his art, Chris is a teacher and has worked as an interpreter for the deaf. He has five children and lives at his home, dubbed by local artists... More

Annie McDaniel

Storyteller

Annie is a professional storyteller who lived on Mud Island and is a long-time favorite of teachers throughout the area.

Donald Meyers

Actor - Filmmaker

I was born and raised in Chicago where I studied art and drama in city colleges. I worked at Playboy in the early 60s as an art director and later free-lanced at local ad agencies designing ad campaigns and designing print literature for various corporations such as Gillette and The... More

Loretta Nash

Visual Artist

I love to create things. I got into being an artist because it allowed me to let my imagination flourish with out judgment. I like the encouragement and the satisfaction that I did something with my own hands. I received my Bachelors of Arts in Art in 1992.
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Jenny Odle Madden

Jenny Odle Madden, Co-founder and Executive Producer of Voices of the South, is a graduate of The University of Memphis with a BFA in Theatre Performance. Her professional career began as a company member and the Director of Development for Memphis Playhouse on the Square where she received accolades as... More

Joe Oser

Musician - Writer

Joe is an accomplished string musician who has performed and taught in the Memphis area for many years. He operates and owns a recording studio and has written many songs used in the Center for Arts Education’s Wolf Trap Early Learning through the Arts Program.

Chuck Parr

Musician

Chuck is an accomplished musician who works well with students and teachers. He is sure to be a hit with your kids and you will marvel at the energy he brings into the classroom.

Joe Pizzirusso

Actor

Owner of Creative Works, which allows him to do work in advertising, television production, graphic design, and marketing, Joe is also an adjunct professor at the Memphis College of Art and teaches acting at John Robert Powers Inc.

Sybil Presley

Actor - Writer

Actress,writer,poet,author and comedienne. Creator of the Memphis Movie Makers and Talent Guild . Fundraiser and Network Marketer

Aisha Raison

Actor - Poet - Writer - Producer

Aisha Raison-spoken word artist, photographer and producer-has recited poetry all through the south since 1997. Starting off in Memphis at the Firehouse on October 24, 1997, she emerged as a developing writer with a curiosity for making the audience...well, comfortable. On April 9, 1998, Aisha created Afrodeesiack Press in order... More

Benjamin Sanders

Poet - Storyteller - Writer

Poetic, energetic, and thought inspiring, IQ is a combination international poet and homegrown mindspring. A nationally ranked slam poet, IQ is Founder of the Hands-On Poetry Experience (H.O.P.E.) and Slammaster of the Southern Vernacular Poetry Slam of Greater Memphis.

Katie Smythe

Choreographer - Dancer

A native of Memphis, Ms. Smythe returned in 1997 after a 17-year career as a dancer and actor in Minneapolis, New York and Los Angeles where she performed in works varying from George Balanchine's Serenade to the ground breaking play, Tarantula, by Darrell Larson (based on the series of short... More

Jon W. Sparks

Actor - Director - Filmmaker - Writer

Freelance writer, reporter, performing arts critic, documentarian, filmmaker and film actor. For more information: jonwsparks.com

Christopher St. John

Visual Artist

Although I have led a peripatetic lifestyle for the past 16 years, I have maintained an active art practice in one capacity or another for much of that time. I have just recently moved back to the city.

Stormie Steele

Storyteller

As a storyteller, Stormie engages her participants in a journey that evokes memory, body movement and imagination. Through voice and essence characterization, each story comes to life...experience! Ms. Williams has worked with youth (k-12) for eight years; as a substitute teacher, she facilitates group dialogue that builds self-awareness and self-confidence.... More

Diana Stein

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Sarah Volkening

Visual Artist

While my primary interest lies in the realm of art as therapy, I enjoy creating work for exhibition as well. I work mostly in paint, ink and collage but also photography. I received my BFA in Art Therapy and Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (or... More

Mattie Williams

Visual Artist

I am a native of Brownsville, TN and self taught. I enjoy working with acrylics, pen and ink and watecolor. My favorite subject matters are abstracts, still life, florals, floralstracts, seascpes and landscapes. I am the mother of 10 wonderful children and have an oldest son who is also an... More

Michael Williams

Visual Artist

Hello, I am a native of Memphis, TN and have been visually impaired since birth. Whenever, I tell someone that I am partially blind, it is like the response from the audience is like I am pulling their leg. I love to paint and have been doing so since the... More

N.J. Woods

Visual Artist

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