Columbus
Columbus Ohio
Artist Postcard Series
A few of Columbus’ most prolific and talented artists and creatives joined me to conjure up a pack of postcards which you’ll be delighted to mail or not blamed for holding on to for yourself. Proceeds from the sale of these postcards and limited edition prints are returned directly to the artists in the image to ensure that they emerge from the Covid pandemic alive, well and ready to make the world a place worth savoring. Thank you for your support!
Purchase postcards and prints below or visit the PRINTS page for those and more.
The creation of this Columbus photo set was generously underwritten by the fine art loving folks at Yellowbrick Pizza who covered the photographers travel expenses.
This set of 4x6” postcards includes images of all ten artists in the project. Printed on a heavyweight semigloss paper these might be postcards in name, but could just as well suffice as miniature prints to place on your wall, fridge or bedside table. Heck you could even mail them to a friend.
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Prints
These limited edition prints are created with archival pigments on a gorgeous 21mil Hahnemühle Cotton Photo Rag paper. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.
Editions
- 8x10” prints are available in editions of 40 per each artist.
- 16x20” prints are available in editions of 6 per each artist.
Print Sizes
- 8x10 prints come with a 1” white border for a total size of 10x12”.
- 16x20 prints come with a 2” white border for a total size of 20x24”.
Tariq Tarey
Tariq Tarey is currently the Director of Refugee Social Services at Jewish Family Services in Columbus, Ohio. He serves on Ohio’s New African Immigrants Commission and the Franklin County Board of Commissioner’s New American Advisory Council.
Tariq is also a documentary photographer, skilled in both still photography and filmmaking.
Tariq directed “Women, War and Resettlement: Nasro’s Journey,” which was aired on WOSU Public Television in 2012. Moreover, Tariq’s film, “The Darien Gap,” was shown in the 2nd United States Conference on African Immigrant and Refugee Health.
Among Tariq’s honors are the South Side Settlement House’s Arts Freedom Award in 2006 and the Ohio Art Council’s Individual Artist Award in 2008 and in that same year Tariq won the Greater Columbus Art Council’s Individual Artist Award.
Currently, Tariq is working on a book project documenting representative refugee populations in Central Ohio.
Lalese Stamps
Lalese Stamps is a ceramicist and the founder of Lolly Lolly Ceramics. She started her Ohio-based side business Lolly Lolly Ceramics after she sold ceramics at flea markets to help fund art school. The Black Lives Matter movement put the spotlight on Black-owned businesses and her following exploded.
Mandi Caskey
Mandi Caskey aka Miss Birdy is a muralist, gallery artist, and community activist. Caskey chooses to place her attention on creating imagery that will force the viewer to look outside of their mental and emotional world. Using an array of different mediums, the artwork pulls itself away from the artist and takes a life of its own. Caskey’s mural work tends to bleed into a fantasy world that organically takes over any environment and effortlessly changes the impact of a space. As a gallery artist, Miss Caskey enjoys painting quickly and freely in oils on wood that she cuts in her wood shop. The pieces tend to have more of a realistic tone, which brings balance creatively to the artist.
Blueprint
Albert Shepard, better known by his stage name Blueprint, is an American rapper from Columbus, Ohio. He is a founder of Weightless Recordings. Blueprint is one half of the duo Soul Position along with producer RJD2. He is also a member of the rap group Greenhouse, which currently consists of himself and Illogic
Hakim Callwood
Hakim Callwood is a freelance artist illustrator/designer from Columbus, Ohio, specializing in illustration, design, and teaching. His inspiration in art began with Marvel Comic hand-me-downs from his older brother. He hopes to inspire and bring joy to the world with the vibrant colors in his work. Hakim is currently embarking on a multi city mural painting tour with his suitably dressed Honda Accord.
Henry Hess
Henry Hess is an artist with autism and he has been using drawing as a primary means of communicating his identity for most of his life. Despite living his entire life in the new millennium, his tastes are decidedly 20th century. He surrounds himself with the characters of classic movies, mostly musicals. His paper drawings of these figures travel with him to school, to bed, and everywhere in between. His parents procured a working space for him outside the home in an effort to alleviate the infestation of characters in their house. It was a failed mission of sorts. Hess utilizes the space to create, but he and his paper figures are nomadic. He struggles to consolidate the numerous bags he carries. As his army of characters grows, so do his totes. Some of his creations are so well loved that they have been worn to the point of tatters, beyond recognition to anyone but Hess. Yet he clings to them, occasionally performing some tape surgeries to resurrect these old friends.
AJ Vanderelli
Alicia Jean Vanderelli (AJ) was born in Los Angeles California and was raised in Panama City, Florida. In 2003, she settled in Columbus Ohio. She obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a concentration in oil painting in 2008 from the Columbus College of Art and Design, graduating Magna Cum Laude.
In 2014, AJ created an alternative gallery space called The Vanderelli Room. The gallery, located within the Franklinton Arts District is multifaceted, housing a variety of art exhibitions, performances, private parties and events. Through The Vanderelli Room, Aj has shaped an inclusive environment that enables individuals to reach their potential through self-expression and exploration.
Throughout the pandemic, AJ continues to work closely with artists, assisting and facilitating with exhibitions, workshops and community outreach.
Wyze
Wyze is a Midwest artist who shares her perspective through photography and filmmaking. My work is an exploration of identity and the wonders of the mind through highlighting unique individuals and their experience.
Devon & Pandora
Aimee Wissman & Kamisha Thomas
Founders of The Returning Artists Guild
After serving 5 and 7 years of incarceration respectively, Aimee Wissman and Kamisha Thomas decided to start the Returning Artists Guild (RAG). Both, self-taught artists and filmmakers, they wanted to extend the feelings of community and camaraderie they felt while they were incarcerated. The art groups they created and facilitated on the inside laid the foundation for what is now the RAG: A group of currently and formerly incarcerated artists seeking and creating spaces for our artists to make, exhibit, sell, perform, speak, share, change the narrative around mass incarceration, and to affirm the connection between inside and outside communities.
Thanks again to Yellowbrick for supporting the arts! (and making a kickass pie too!)
