Freddy Cole and Elias Bailey Canvas Print

I loved this photo shoot! Venue restraints, rules, and regulations, made the challenges to get these shots great. Those challenges prompted me to accept, be thrilled by, and innovative with the images I was capturing and how I would present the results from that evening in Chastain Park, in Atlanta, Georgia. The Freddy Cole Quartet opened for Joe Sample. Please see the Joe Sample shot sin my Music Musicians Musicality Gallery. While you are at it, also see Curtis Boyd... and enjoy!

CLEASTER COTTON Cleaster Cotton is an African American/Native American multimedia artist. Born into a large, close-knit family, she was lovingly raised by southern parents in Brooklyn, New York. Cleaster began traveling nationally and internationally at a young age - researching cultures, the arts, education, cuisine and nature. Her alma maters are Fordham University and San Diego City College. Cleaster’s scientific and natural approach to her creative process is influenced by the methodology of her ancestors, elders and ancients. At age five, she fell in love with her mother’s artistic abilities... and right then and there she knew she was an artist! Her first childhood creations were made of mud, twigs, paper and plant pigment....