Breakfast With Professionals: Eli Saragoussi
February 8th, 2021 at 8:00 am
Join Jaime Bull and Brittainy Lauback as they invite art industry professionals into their Professional Practices class with Breakfast with Professionals. Lectures are open to students across the School of Art.
These zoom based lectures are hosted by ARST4990: Professional Practices. Lectures will give students an opportunity to interact with professionals from various creative backgrounds as a way of exposing students to the variety of career possibilities relevant to their course of study.
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Eli Saragoussi is a local artist and musician that has recently been commissioned for several public art projects around Athens. Eli currently has an exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art and is working at a feverish pace creating fantastical works and installations. Eli will have an open and honest conversation about her journey as an artist, influences, where she discovers opportunities and her experiences creating public projects.
Elinor Saragoussi, from Denver, Colorado, is currently based in Winterville, a small town outside of Athens, GA. She works with a variety of mediums, including felt, set design/installation and illustration to create fantastical, colorful works. Elinor has a biology degree from the University of Colorado, and is also a musician who sings and plays bass in her band Baby Tony and The Teenies. Elinor’s recent work includes an installation at the Glass Cube at Hotel Indigo, a piano she painted for a public art project supported by Athens Area Arts Council and Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, an installation in the small sculpture case at the Lyndon House Arts Center and multiple set designs for the Athens music festival Ad.Verse.
To see Eli’s most recent work, follow her on Instagram: @flimmyflammy
