Elizabeth Ivey, an Asheville, N.C. native, is a mixed media artist, specializing in 3D fabric collage. Each original art piece is cut free hand without patterns, or die cutting. Elizabeth is a self-taught artist, developing her craft for over 20 years, mastering a sophisticated artistic skill set working with textiles.

Her artistic style is unique and innovative creating timeless art pieces centered around black life, love, and spirituality. Elizabeth’s artwork begins from pieces of unused fabric manifesting into aesthetically beautiful, one-of-a-kind, and thought-provoking art pieces.  

Elizabeth Ivey, an Asheville, N.C. native, is a mixed media artist, specializing in 3D fabric collage. Each original art piece is cut free hand without patterns, or die cutting. Elizabeth is a self-taught artist, developing her craft for over 20 years, mastering a sophisticated artistic skill set working with textiles.

Her artistic style is unique and innovative creating timeless art pieces centered around black life, love, and spirituality. Elizabeth’s artwork begins from pieces of unused fabric manifesting into aesthetically beautiful, one-of-a-kind, and thought-provoking art pieces.  

Asheville, NC

Kai is a Ringling College of Art and Design graduate who majored in film and minored in photography. He grew up in Florida and moved to Asheville, NC when he was twelve. 

He has always loved photography and film and looks to create pieces that are thought provoking and visually pleasing. Since he was young, he has been lucky enough to work on a multitude of different professional sets and study with high-end professional equipment.

Asheville, NC

Kai is a Ringling College of Art and Design graduate who majored in film and minored in photography. He grew up in Florida and moved to Asheville, NC when he was twelve. 

He has always loved photography and film and looks to create pieces that are thought provoking and visually pleasing. Since he was young, he has been lucky enough to work on a multitude of different professional sets and study with high-end professional equipment.

Micah Mackenzie is a professional photographer from Sumter, SC, although his heart is firmly based in Asheville, NC where he has lived for most of the past 25 years.  

Micah has always felt a strong, intuitive affinity with the visual world and his drive as an artist comes from a desire to explore and communicate with others creatively, sharing with them the unique lights inside his head. He looks beyond the surface of his subjects, seeing inside to what is intrinsically beautiful and empowering – this is what shines out in his photos. 

Micah Mackenzie is a professional photographer from Sumter, SC, although his heart is firmly based in Asheville, NC where he has lived for most of the past 25 years.  

Micah has always felt a strong, intuitive affinity with the visual world and his drive as an artist comes from a desire to explore and communicate with others creatively, sharing with them the unique lights inside his head. He looks beyond the surface of his subjects, seeing inside to what is intrinsically beautiful and empowering – this is what shines out in his photos. 

I move invisibly through the streets of Downtown Asheville with my camera hung around my neck and my fingertips buzzing as I fidget with the shutter button. I am a lifelong city dweller so I look for the sharp shadows of buildings when they’re hit by the noonday sun. The black shadows are stark and neat like the stiff collared shirts I wore to primary school. 

In the evenings, as the sun sinks into slumber with dramatic yellows and pinks, crowds of people are lit like lanterns during a celebration. I investigate the crowds for someone who catches my eye, whether it’s the way light touches their head like an archer’s bullseye or an enigmatic expression that draws me closer. I approach them and make their portrait; I enjoy capturing humanity through my lens.

Although photography is my truest love, my journey as an artist began with painting. My paintings are like people; they are wholly unique because I do not adhere to a particular aesthetic. Instead, I paint my moods. I put to canvas the emotions I feel so closely, they are like family. Painting taught me that my greatest strength is how deeply I feel. As a child, my Jamaican mother taught me three things: education is most important, no boys, and emotions are to be avoided. Yet, painting birthed in me the ability to sit with my emotions as well as the skill of seeing color, texture, and the beauty in imperfection. This has carried over to photography and I hope to continue pursuing both in the future.

Jessica Montanez is an artist from Bronx New York, who now resides in Asheville.

I move invisibly through the streets of Downtown Asheville with my camera hung around my neck and my fingertips buzzing as I fidget with the shutter button. 

I am a lifelong city dweller so I look for the sharp shadows of buildings when they’re hit by the noonday sun. The black shadows are stark and neat like the stiff collared shirts I wore to primary school. 

In the evenings, as the sun sinks into slumber with dramatic yellows and pinks, crowds of people are lit like lanterns during a celebration. I investigate the crowds for someone who catches my eye, whether it’s the way light touches their head like an archer’s bullseye or an enigmatic expression that draws me closer. I approach them and make their portrait; I enjoy capturing humanity through my lens. 

Although photography is my truest love, my journey as an artist began with painting. My paintings are like people; they are wholly unique because I do not adhere to a particular aesthetic. Instead, I paint my moods. I put to canvas the emotions I feel so closely, they are like family. Painting taught me that my greatest strength is how deeply I feel. As a child, my Jamaican mother taught me three things: education is most important, no boys, and emotions are to be avoided. Yet, painting birthed in me the ability to sit with my emotions as well as the skill of seeing color, texture, and the beauty in imperfection. This has carried over to photography and I hope to continue pursuing both in the future. 

She hopes to see her art in a New York Museum someday.

Ricardo’s graphic design work finds its identity in a type-focused, minimalist discipline, and his photography allows him to explore many other avenues he is interested in–landscape and nature, street photography, concert and portraiture work, and abandoned photography. That great love is what led him to start Show And Tale Creative. With his work, he hopes to explore all of the different creative avenues that interest him while inspiring and lifting some truly amazing people. 

Ricardo’s graphic design work finds its identity in a type-focused, minimalist discipline, and his photography allows him to explore many other avenues he is interested in–landscape and nature, street photography, concert and portraiture work, and abandoned photography. That great love is what led him to start Show And Tale Creative. With his work, he hopes to explore all of the different creative avenues that interest him while inspiring and lifting some truly amazing people.