GAEA Conference Fall 2024

Local Artist, Leah Kellaway, shares about her work. Leah Kellaway (she/her) is an art educator and award-winning illustrator based in Atlanta, GA who blends illustration, fine art, and design to create expressive work that focuses on themes of character and portraiture, everyday magic and adventure, and inspiration and empowerment. After a decade of working independently and collaboratively to solve a multitude of visual problems, she founded Kellaway Creative Collaborative in 2023 to provide vibrant, bold, unique visual storytelling to businesses and individuals of all sizes and kinds. Kellaway holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia (‘16) and a Master of Fine Arts in Illustration from the University of Hartford (‘23).

Life and work of Local Artist, Ana Cordoba. Ana is a Colombian, Atlanta based artist. She is famed for the great vitality of her works which are characterized by expressive and emotive use of brilliant colors and the energetic application of her impasto technique. Ana is also known for her versatile work through different media, such as murals, custom made wearable art, body painting, and her expressionist, and tridimensional artwork.


In Miami (2018) and Georgia (2021), Ana shared her colors at the Colombian Consulate with the Made in Colombia series as a initiative to share representative people, and culture from her homeland Colombia. Recently, these series were displayed on her Solo Exhibition at the Art Station Big Shanty Gallery and at The Quinlan.


In addition, her wearable art clothing was displayed on the runway at the Fashion Week, London 2021.


On March 2022 Ana Córdoba was diagnosed with breast cancer and she still walking this battle, since she chose an alternative and natural treatment as her way of healing. This decision lead her to a new journey of connecting with women healing cancer naturally as well, sharing her knowledge, bringing awareness to general health, which inspired her to start a support group named Mujer Monarca ( Monarch Woman). She is in the process of writing a book, and creating new artwork based on her experience, using art as part of her healing journey.