Fine Arts Program, 2016-17

The educators in the Visual Arts Department are practicing artists who specialize in a variety of art mediums. Each member concentrates in one or more areas, including architectural design, art foundations, art history, ceramics, computer graphics, drawing, film, painting, photography, sculpture, and videography.

Sally Crouse teaches 12th grade AP Art History and 9th grade Western World History, and has been at Lovett since 2005. She holds a master’s degree in Art History, with a specialization in Italian Renaissance paintings. She taught for several years in the Lovett Lower School, and was an adjunct professor at Georgia Perimeter College.

Katy McDougal rejoined the Lovett Fine Arts faculty in 2012 as the Middle School visual arts teacher. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Wayne; her daughter, Violet; and two dogs, Tilly and Vito.

Her interest in art began in college at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where she grew up. She received a BFA with a focus in ceramics from the Appalachian Center for Crafts, in Cookeville, Tenn., in 1996. Katy has taught in several Atlanta private schools and community art centers since 1998. She has been a studio potter since 2003.

She creates functional and non-functional objects that are reminiscent of antiquity and enjoys the idea of creating contemporary heirlooms to enhance connections within families. Her art is inspired by nature and she uses birds to create a metaphor of nesting and comfort.

Joy C. Patty is the Kindergarten–Grade 2 art teacher and the exhibition coordinator for the Lovett Galleria. She holds a master of arts degree in art education from Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. Her career positions include head of adult education at the High Museum of Art; curator of education at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; education coordinator at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas; and community education art instructor at Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas, and at Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta. Her art is influenced by natural surroundings, contemporary art and architecture, and interior and fashion design.

Ashley Schick Ashley L. Schick is a practicing artist and art educator. She completed her MFA in Printmaking from SCAD-Atlanta, where she also worked as the lead printer and constructor for Kiki Smith’s artist book Color Noise. Ms. Schick has taught many art workshops for students of all ages from children to adults, most recently in collaboration with the High Museum of Art, Georgia Tech, SCAD, and as the Studio Program Director for the non-profit One Love Generation. In 2014, she was selected to be a part of the Georgia Center for Nonprofit’s High Potential Diverse Leaders program. Ms. Schick was an artist’s assistant to sculptor Brian Dettmer and a resident in the Creatives Project’s two-year Studio Residency Program.

Her works on paper and artist books have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in multiple private and university collections including Vanderbilt, University of Florida, and Baylor.

You can see her artwork at www.ashleylschick.com and at Kai Lin Art Gallery in Atlanta.

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