ARCADE ARTS
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MANDY ROGERS HORTON
Mandy Rogers Horton is an artist in Nashville, Tennessee where she is an Assistant Professor at Belmont University. Her artwork in painting and mixed media reflects on the ongoing formation of our world and worldviews from eclectic sources. The artist’s upbringing in a large, military family imprinted on her the intrigue and complexities of human cultures and ideologies.
Rogers Horton is included in the exhibit “In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-first Century” at the Frist Art Museum and the accompanying exhibition catalog edited by Kathryn E. Delmez and Laura Hutson Hunter. She was an inaugural Artist Residence at Arcade Arts (Oct 2024-June 2025) located in Nashville’s historic downtown arcade.
Earning her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., she also studied at Anderson University, IN, The Queen’s University of Belfast, and The Chautauqua Institute, NY. Rogers Horton is the recipient of Tennessee Arts Commission Professional Development Grant, a residency at The Vermont Studio Center and the Pentaculum Residency at Arrowmont. Her work has been featured in The Tennessean, Nashville Arts Magazine, The Nashville Scene, and New American Paintings, Issue #178. Rogers Horton is a founding member and former president (2019-2021) of COOP Gallery, a non-profit curatorial collective in Nashville, TN.
SISAVANH PHOUTHAVONG HOUGHTON
Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton is a Lao American interdisciplinary visual artist and Painting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Recently exhibited internationally in Italy and Greece and nationally at The Knoxville Museum of Art and Susquehanna Art Museum. She has been featured in The New Art Examiner, The Next-Door Neighbor, and various podcasts. Permanent collections include the Hunter Museum of American Art and the American Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname.
Houghton earned her BFA at the University of Kansas and an MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, IL. In 2023, she won Best in Show for the 38th Positive/Negative Exhibition, 2022 awarded a Tri-Star Current Art Warhol Foundation Fund and a MTSU’s 2022 Distinguished Creative and Teacher of the Year Award, 2020 nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Arts Award, a 2019 Artfields’ Painting Award, and 2017 Tennessee Arts Individual Artist Fellowship recipient. She is represented by Tinney Contemporary Gallery in Nashville, TN.
HERB WILLIAMS
Herb Williams was born in Montgomery, AL, in 1973. Mr. Williams received a BFA in sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College. Upon graduation the artist immediately went to work at a bronze foundry in West Palm Beach, FL. There he cast hundreds of sculptures with the atelier Popliteo and the last work of art by photo realist Duane Hanson, “Man on Riding Lawnmower”, which is on view at the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art. Herb Williams then moved to Nashville, TN, where he has lived and created art since 1998. Mr. Williams received The Joan Mitchell Foundation Museum Purchase Grant in 2005, the Next Star Artist Award in 2008, and was sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011. He received his first public art commission in 2017 to create “Skylake” for the Smith Springs Community Center, and then was awarded the public art commission to create six larger-than-life sculptures for the International Concourse at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, “Ripple”. Most recently his artwork is being featured as the inaugural art window installation of the Hermès store in Nashville.
Exploring relevant issues such as climate, politics, and immigration his artwork was featured at the Inaugural art exhibit Manifest Hope in Washington, DC. Mr. Williams created a large-scale outdoor installation at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas, which dealt with the wildfire devastation, and raising awareness for education, safety, and future planning. A collection of seventy sculptures and paintings were exhibited in Shanghai, China. Recently, his multi-story graffiti paintings have been featured along with internationally known street artists in the Nashville Walls Project. Herb Williams is currently represented by the Haley Gallery in Nashville, TN, the Vickers Collection Galleries in Vail, CO and the Dawson Cole Gallery in Palm Desert, CA.
ALEX LOCKWOOD
Alex Lockwood is an artist and the owner/director of Elephant Gallery in Nashville, TN. His practice includes painting, drawing and sculpture. Since moving to Nashville in 2011 his work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Zeitgeist Gallery, Belmont University, Lipscomb University, Vol State, OzArts and David Lusk Gallery Nashville and Memphis. Alex founded Elephant Gallery in 2017 to curate ambitious and off-beat shows of early and mid-career local and regional artists. He lives in East Nashville with his sons Roman and Oscar.
ELISHEBA ISRAEL MROZIK
Elisheba Israel Mrozik, a Memphis native with a BFA from Memphis College of Art, is renowned as a multidisciplinary artist and Tattooist. Influenced by a foreign exchange to Japan in high school, her personal work explores black identity. In Nashville since 2007, she became Middle TN’s first licensed black tattoo artist, opening One Drop Ink Tattoo Parlour. Her art has been featured at The Frist Art Museum and the National Museum of African American Music. Known for public art engagements enhancing Nashville’s cultural landscape, Elisheba founded QueenBeeInk, LLC an arts agency to elevate black women through community-engaged fine art. This initiative underlines her commitment to diversity in art. Elisheba’s accolades include InkMaster and appearances on BET’s About Her Business. Her installation “Culture Commodity” at The Frist Art Museum, coloring books, award winning tattoos, sculptures and large scale murals underscore her artistic range. Her Mural- “They Fought with Words” was awarded best mural in Nashville 2025. A leader in the North Nashville Arts Coalition, she’s dedicated to fostering emerging artists of color and integrating art with social purpose. Her mission is always Fine Art with Community Purpose.
