Meet Our 2023 Featured Artists
Each year, we have the amazing opportunity to partner with over 100 local artists at our annual Art for Jobs art sale and fundraiser. Out of this talented group, we hand select three featured artists that showcase a large collection of their pieces. We are excited to introduce those to you this year…Please join us in welcoming Carl Moore, Megan Grinder, and Alexis Miché as the Art for Jobs 2023 featured artists! Below you will find more information on each artist as well as a behind-the-scenes spotlight video about their work. Enjoy!
Carl Moore
Carl E. Moore is an artist who currently lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended the Memphis College of Art where he received his BFA and MFA. He is the recipient of the Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration and the Tennessee Artist Fellowship award from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. He has exhibited in various galleries and museums in the Memphis area and around the country. He has also curated and organized numerous exhibitions in small galleries, non-profits, alternative and independent spaces, as well judged local and national exhibitions.
His work deals with identity and color, by comparing social ideologies about race, stereotypes, and personal beliefs to everyday colors and the perception of these colors in our environment.
His use of media-based events is the primary theme of his work, and by taking those situations and reducing them down to their most basic form, he creates a narrative. He uses color and content to redefine conversations by developing a social connection between the characters and their environment, making the color part of the social statement.
Megan Grinder
Megan Grinder is a contemporary painter working in oil, watercolor and acrylics.
She attended Princeton University, graduating Cum Laude with a degree in visual arts and art history. Megan also studied painting and drawing at the Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence, France and has trained with nationally recognized artists Daniel Greene, Nancy Cheairs and Michael Shane Neal.
Megan is a native Memphian and graduate of Hutchison School. She resides in Memphis with her husband, Brett Grinder, and their two children. Her works have been shown in Memphis and Princeton and hang in private collections in cities across the country from Seattle to New York.
Alexis Miché
Alexis Miché is a Memphis-based artist who creates abstract paintings, line drawings and digital art allowing others to experience her unique perspective. Her artwork has been exhibited in Memphis Art Galleries, Los Angeles, Art Basel Miami and more. She has created artwork for NBA players LeBron James, Chris Paul and Steph Curry, and has worked in collaboration with Rudy Gay and Mike Conley. Alexis has painted murals for businesses such as Amazon and Slim & Husky’s. She has also done projects for Nike x NBA 75, Fader Magazine, and J.M. Smucker Co. To learn more visit www.alexismiche.com.
Aspiring to make a global impact, Alexis Miché strives to be a positive influence and serve as the light she was created to be. She aims to encourage, inspire and motivate others to always chase their dreams regardless of society’s doubts, and to use their gifts from God to help change the world for the better.