McColl Center for Art + Innovation

My work explores portraiture as a form of world-building. Through paintings, sculptures, and objects, I create intimate portraits of people of color and others whose bodies have historically existed outside the bounds of traditional portraiture, representing them as whole, complex individuals.

Wade Mickley is a Virginia-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice integrates drawing, graphic design, and mixed-media assemblage. He works primarily with found objects—especially worn, weathered, and decayed elements—to create dimensional works that investigate memory, natural forms, and emotional resonance.

Hopeton St. Clair Hibbert, Jr. is an Atlanta-based multidisciplinary artist whose work examines how Black memory persists through materials shaped by labor, extraction, and time. His practice is grounded in the belief that history is not only preserved in archives or monuments, but embedded in ordinary materials that have been worked, weathered, and overlooked.