Leah Grace Craig

Leah Grace is a painter and printmaker from Highlands, North Carolina. She moved to Atlanta 3 years ago to pursue fine art, creativity, and community. She is inspired by the feminine form, grace, and power in the divine confidence we all can access. She uses her ethereal flower girls to communicate her emotions, her dreams, and how she sees the world around her at its best and worst. Her most recent works reflect the comfort and security she feels after one of the hardest years of her life, the weightlessness of freedom, and the light of early morning joined by the repetitious creatures of her dreams.

Her career is now focused directly on oil painting and communicating her ideas and passions through imaginative and surreal feminine figures.

2024

  • August 15th: Concept Orca, ART-Fashion-Architecture, Gallery & Wine Night @Soft Loft. Group Art Exhibition with

  • July 28th: Live painting and Group Exhibition with Terminal d’Art at Lime Light Theatre.

  • March 15th: Exhibition with Artline Atlanta

  • May 30th: Live painting and Group Exhibition with Raphael Bahindwa and Terminal d’Art

  • May 25th: Allcott Student Showcase with SCAD and Kia Lin Art Gallery

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  • January 8th: Launched Palette Chats, a Podcast featuring up-and-coming artists around the world

  • January 24th: Launched clothing line “Art Store” in collaboration with podcast hosts

Work:

  • March 8th: First day as under painter and apprentice to Niki Zarrabi, Atlanta, GA.

  • March 15th: Selected artist for the Dalia Festival in Highlands, NC. Poster art and booth rep.

Shows/Exhibitions:

  • September cover feature in The Laurel Magazine, Highlands NC

  • February 23rd: ArtLien’s Show in the Battery, in collaboration with Art With Dro.

  • March 1st: Drink and Doodle ABV Gallery Guest performing artist

  • March 15th: Selected artist for the Dalia Festival in Highlands, NC. Poster art and booth rep.

Academic

  • Awarded the Alcott trip to NY during the break between the Winter and Spring Quarters of 2024.

    • “Congratulations on being selected by your Professors and Department leaders as exceptional students in your discipline and for being given this wonderful opportunity to travel to New York over Spring Break for a gallery and museum immersive experience over four days.”

  • Deans List

    • Winter 2024

    • Spring 2024

2023

Work:

  • September 16th - November 28th: Actress for The Highlands Players staring in Parallel Lives.

  • March 27th: Visual Arts Judge for Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School’s MADFest Art Completion.

Shows/Exhibitions:

  • Live Painting and auction with ABV Gallery. November 29th

  • Live Painting with Terminal D’Art. September 17th, 2023

  • Festival Horse, Chosen for exhibition and to compete in SCAD’s ‘Drawing Works,’ Savannah, GA.

  • SCAD’s Beyond the Dot Foundations Art Competition 2023

Awards/Honors:

  • SCAD’s Beyond the Dot Foundations Art Competition 2023

  • Winner of the Highlands Dalia Garden Poster Contest 2023

  • 2nd place in SCAD’s Beyond the Dot Competition 2022

Academic:

  • Head of media and advertising for SCAD Atlanta Illustration Club 2022-2023

  • Deans List: 3.98 GPA

    • Winter 2023

    • Spring 2023

2022

Work

  • Designer for The Ugly Dog Public House

Awards/Honors:

  • 2nd place in the 2022 Beyond the Dot Foundations Art Competition, Savannah College of Art and Design.

Academic Awards:

  • Deans List with 3.96GPA

    • Winter 2022

    • Spring 2022

    • Summer 2022

    • Fall 2022

2021

Work:

  • Food runner and busser 2013-1019

  • Server at The Ugly Dog Public House 2019-2021

  • Bartender and Barback 2021-2023

  • Designer for The Ugly Dog Public House 2020-current day