GUILD BIOGRAPHY & EXHIBIT STATEMENT

Attending artists: Larry McCoy, Ellen Bartels, Phyllis Bergagna, Charles Graves, Charles Green, Fran Shriver, Kat Heitzman, Emily Gerke, Courtney Smith, Barbara Larsen, Kristine Atkinson, Carla Donaldson, Ursula Gierlachowski.

MAG is a regional organization dedicated to enhancing interest in the visual arts, and supporting the development of individual artists.

Our members recognize needs, foster opportunities, provide mutual support and work for the general promotion of art and the advancement of those who create it.

“Birds are important because they keep systems in balance: they pollinate plants, disperse seeds, scavenge carcasses and recycle nutrients back into the Earth. But they also feed our spirits, marking for us the passage of the seasons, moving us to create art and poetry, inspiring us to flight and reminding us that we are not only on, but of, this Earth.

-Melanie Driscoll

                                                                                                                                                Director of Bird Conservation for the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi Flyway