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 1,000 works by 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: Cece Kirksey, B.F.A., photography, 2025 Left: lé dieguê, M.F.A., painting, 2022
Alexia Burgos B.F.A., painting, 2026
Alexia Burgos is a painter based in both Atlanta and Houston. Their work dissects themes of Americana, investigating how landscape and region influence the body and self. Charmed by the unspoken rule of the sea and its magnetism, Burgos explores their Texas upbringing, Indigenous heritage, and life in the Deep South. They seek connection between familial ties and the land by rendering and depicting experiences in bucolic scenes. Oscillating between history, location, and experience, Burgos creates intimate and ephemeral scenes that blur the line between the earthly and the metaphysical. The artist’s oil painting process alludes to historical practices, techniques, and allegories, reconfigured and ranging from Baroque to Regionalism. Obscuring both the body and the space it exists within, Burgos’ compositions are grounded yet otherworldly, realized in sumptuously sincere work that allows the viewer to slow down and appreciate the minutiae of another viewpoint.
Cece Kirksey B.F.A., photography, 2025
Cece Kirksey is a photographer, set designer, and prop stylist based in New York. Her practice spans still life and portraiture, focusing on concepts rather than a specific style of photography. Kirksey embraces vintage advertisements and fashion as well as cartoons and comics in her aesthetic, ultimately filling her work with color, tonguein-cheek references, and unadulterated fun. Her background in illustration likewise informs her hands-on approach to inventive imagemaking.
lé dieguê M.F.A., painting, 2022
Based in Savannah, Ga., lé dieguê (b. 1994, Caracas, Venezuela) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and instructor who studies light and color as signifiers of memory, culture, and existence. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Caracas, Miami, Tokyo, New York, Shenzhen, Atlanta, Savannah, and Dubai. As a 7-year-old, lé dieguê began painting under his stepfather’s guidance and later became enthralled with graffiti. With the foundation and support of an artistic family, what began as a secret hobby and an ambitious dream of a future away from Venezuela became a career. As a professional muralist and an internationally exhibited fine artist, lé dieguê combines his interests in science, ancient cultures, op art, kinetic art, and graffiti. His work is divided into multidimensional investigations and a series of “Chromologic Palettes.” These palettes are analyzed introspectively, associating states of mind, experiences, and their impact with hues within the visible spectrum. Through photography and experimentation, lé dieguê documents ocular manifestations, as we interpret them, to reconnect his life to its primal composition, or “inner plasma of the being.” His paintings honor light as a constant yet sometimes ignored interaction between us and the universe.
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Left: Alexia Burgos, B.F.A., painting, 2026
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