Featured Artists Archive
This page includes the bios (when applicable) and artwork or photos of past featured artists dating back to our first artists to follow the artist for whom this art gallery is dedicated, Robin Nance Metz. You can find Robin's art on the ABOUT ROBIN NANCE METZ page.
MPC Youth at Shoal Creek Park
The children of Montevallo Presbyterian Church spent a day at Shoal Creek Park, capturing images of God's beauty in nature. The photos you see here were captured through the eyes of our children.
Josie Shaw (She/Her)
Josie Shaw is a 21 year old artist living in Alabaster. Most of her artwork contains themes about identity, mental health, and spiritual matters. Josie works in mediums like digital, mixed media, video and audio.
We asked students in the art department at the University of Montevallo to share with us what identity means to them as members of the queer community. The result is work that visually tells the story of their perspective and their individuality.
Anna Grace Askelson (She/Her)
Anna Grace Askelson is an Alabama artist and designer pursuing her BFA at the University of Montevallo. Her work uses symbolism and ephemera to explore the connections between environment, memory, spirituality and identity. Askelson works across mediums, focusing on digital and physical collage, painting and drawing. Her work was recently shown in the 2023 Robin Nance Metz Art Competition and MakeBHM’s cultural shifts exhibition.
Coming Soon
Patrick Mayton
Patrick Mayton received a BFA in printmaking at the University of Montevallo in 1998. He went on to complete an MFA in printmaking from Arizona State University in 2004. He won the Nathan Cummings Travel Grant for art research in 2003, which he used to study Letterpress and America through a 6-week tour of the country. He taught as an adjunct professor of art at UAB, Montevallo and Jefferson State Community College from 2005-2010 and has been the full-time art instructor at the Shelby campus of Jefferson State since 2011. He teaches or has taught art appreciation, drawing 1 & 2, 2-D Design, 3-D Design, Intro to computer graphics, Intaglio, Relief, monoprint, screen-print, book binding classes.
Patrick Mayton has focused on screen print as a primary medium since 1997. He has screen-printed limited-edition rock posters for local and national acts, and venues including Bottletree, Saturn, and the Nick Rocks. The new body of work on display at the Robin Nance Metz Gallery is made exclusively using collage and addresses identity, boundaries, and resources.
He lives in Montevallo where he sits on the board of the Montevallo Arts Council. He leads a fearless family of 2 young sons, Adrian and Gabriel, and an industrious wife, Tonia, all of whom are also art makers.
Patrick Mayton's Art
Amy Feger
For more than a decade, Amy has been creating an ever-evolving body of work that examines the fraught human relationship to the natural landscape. Her selection of the plein air paintings features local scenic views including many paintings made at the Mahler Property as it transformed into Shoal Creek Park.
"I hope that viewing the the artworks reinforces your support for the preservation of local natural spaces to enrich the culture and quality of life in our community. In many paintings, the view that I recorded is no longer visible as the property has transformed since the use has changed. I hope that you will see that positive ecological change over time exists in visual harmony with the few local landmarks that persist."
Amy Feger's Art
