Art for all at SCAD Atlanta
The Savannah College of Art and Design proudly celebrates the creativity and ingenuity of SCAD students, alumni, and faculty with a dynamic public installation on the façade of the university’s Atlanta location on Peachtree Street. Since launching the installation in August 2021, SCAD has showcased more than 900 works by nearly 150 SCAD artists, delighting and inspiring our university and local communities in the heart of Midtown, the city’s premier arts and entertainment district. For more than 15 years, SCAD has been a visionary leader and integral part of the Atlanta arts community. The Peachtree Street installation further embodies SCAD’s exemplary leadership as a champion of the city’s vibrant arts scene. SCAD is honored to present this accessible exhibition for all in Atlanta to enjoy.
Cover: Angela Burson, B.F.A., painting, 1991
Left: Hollis Maxson, B.F.A., fashion design, 2025
Angela Burson
B.F.A., painting, 1991
Angela Burson (b. 1969, Liberty, Mo.) is a visual artist working across various mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, and needlework. Influenced by anachronistic images of fashion and personal objects, her paintings feature figures, their belongings, and interior spaces that indicate complex psychological and social relationships. Burson often renders the figures headless to portray the subject as a collection of ubiquitous patterns, creating a surreal connection between realism and flat, repetitive design. The objects, personages, or fragments of a body are often culled from Burson’s existing family photographs. Shirts, empty suits, bandaged arms, headless torsos, a suitcase, a cat, a toy, a vacant room, and myriad other everyday objects and scenes are all incorporated as signifiers, providing glimpses into the complexities of identity. Based in Savannah, Ga., Burson has exhibited in museums and galleries across the U.S. and abroad, including the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga.; Hashimoto Contemporary, New York/San Francisco; Tong Art Advisory SoHo Salon, New York; Galerija Most (Bridge Gallery), Podgorica, Montenegro; and Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando, Madrid, Spain. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Juxtapoz Magazine, Widewalls, Create! Magazine, Creative Boom, Frankie Magazine, The Jealous Curator, and Paprika Southern Magazine.
Hollis Maxson
B.F.A., fashion design, 2025
For Hollis Maxson, fashion is a narrative form, a language that communicates with the world through fabric and fit. Maxson’s deep appreciation for traditional crafts, combined with their profound understanding of modern application, delivers accessibly chic garments with signature elements and embellishments. Hailing from the Appalachian town of Berea, Ky., Maxson is deeply influenced by heritage and familial practices. Whether woodworking, glassblowing, leather smithing, embroidery, or sewing, the people of Berea live by hand, expressing emotions and experiences through art, passing down the town’s soul from generation to generation. In 2024, Maxson was awarded the CFDA x Crystal Bridges Heartland Scholar Award, honoring his ongoing dedication to and exceptional expression of craft culture. In 2025, Maxson’s collection “Heritage and Hands” debuted at the SCAD FASHION runway show.
Photography: Cameron Emory, B.F.A, photography
Weaver of the green and white fabric: Elise Goosen, B.F.A., fibers, 2025
Joanna Paige Silver
M.F.A., painting
With a practice rooted in painting, printmaking, and installation, Joanna Paige Silver (b. 1988) creates work that assumes many forms via various processes. Born and raised in Miami, Fla., she threads the familiar vibrancy of her roots through her use of bold, saturated colors and coastal imagery. Silver’s work seeks a dialogue with life’s dualities, splitting attention between hope and disappointment in reflection of the past. After spending 15 years in the fashion industry, she naturally incorporates design and patterning in her work. She has exhibited in group exhibitions throughout the U.S. including her first solo show in Savannah, Ga.
SCAD: The University for Creative Careers
SCAD is a private, nonprofit, accredited university, offering more than 100 graduate and undergraduate degree programs across locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia; Lacoste, France; and online via SCADnow. SCAD enrolls more than 18,500 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 110 countries. The future-minded SCAD curriculum engages professional-level technology and myriad advanced learning resources, affording students opportunities for internships, professional certifications, and real-world assignments with corporate partners through SCADpro, the university’s renowned research lab and prototype generator. SCAD has earned top rankings for degree programs in interior design, architecture, film, fashion, digital media, and more. Career success is woven into every fiber of the university, resulting in a superior alumni employment rate. A 2024 study found that 99% of recent SCAD graduates were employed, pursuing further education, or both within 12 months of graduation. SCAD provides students and alumni with ongoing career support through personal coaching, alumni programs, a professional presentation studio, and more. Visit scad.edu.
Left: Joanna Paige Silver, M.F.A., painting