about the artist
Chantelle Chapman is a graduate of the School of Art and Design at Kennesaw State University, where she earned a BFA in Art with a minor in Art History (summa cum laude).
The daughter of a painter, Chantelle was born in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where she grew up surrounded by the beauty of art and nature. Her greatest source of inspiration is the abiding passion for natural history that was kindled during those early years.
Working in a variety of traditional media, from oil to ink to gouache, Chantelle uses her art as a powerful storytelling tool, combining written and visual media to craft compelling narratives drawn from the natural world. Such pieces rely on a strong backbone of scientific inquiry, leading Chantelle to conduct in-person research amid the collections of institutions such as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Currently, she is working on multiple projects on the theme of extinct and endangered birds, which she hopes to publish in the future.
Exhibitions
2025
JURIED
Juried Show 2025
Rockmart Cultural Arts Center
Rockmart, GA
JURIED
Roll the Dice
The Mable House
Mableton, GA
GROUP
Year of the Snake
The Art Station
Kennesaw, GA
2024
GROUP
Little Things
Swan Coach House Gallery
Atlanta, GA
JURIED
National Juried Arts Show
Cultural Arts Council Douglasville
Douglasville, GA
JURIED
Metamorphosis
Rockmart Cultural Arts Center
Rockmart, GA
JURIED
Metro Montage XXIV
Marietta Cobb Museum of Art
Marietta, GA
JURIED
NCUR Visual Arts Gallery
2024 National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Long Beach, CA
GROUP
Off the Wall Pin-Up Show
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Atlanta, GA
GROUP
KSU Spring Arts Festival Pin-Up Show
Kennesaw, GA
JURIED
&yet again & again
Dalton Gallery
Decatur, GA.
JURIED
Juried Show 2024
Rockmart Cultural Arts Center
Rockmart, GA
JURIED
New Visions
Zuckerman Museum of Art
Kennesaw, GA.
2023
JURIED
The Celestial Show
Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore
Atlanta, GA.
JURIED
National Juried Arts Show
Cultural Arts Council Douglasville
Douglasville, GA
JURIED
Art at the Avenue National Juried Exhibition
South Cobb Arts Alliance
Marietta, GA
GROUP
Flora & Fauna
The Art Station
Kennesaw Georgia
GROUP
Under Lucky Stars
The Art Station
Kennesaw, GA
JURIED
The May Day Show,
Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore
Atlanta, GA
GROUP
Flora & Fauna
The Art Station
Kennesaw, GA
JURIED
Earth Day College Student Juried Exhibition
Marietta Artist’s Collective
Marietta, GA
JURIED
Black & White
Alpharetta Arts Center,
Alpharetta, GA
GROUP
KSU Spring Arts Festival Pin-Up Show
Kennesaw, GA
JURIED
I Am Woman
Sewell Mill Cultural Arts Center
Marietta, GA
JURIED
Juried Show 2023
Rockmart Cultural Arts Center
Rockmart, GA
JURIED
New Visions
Zuckerman Museum of Art
Kennesaw, GA.
2022
JURIED
The Celestial Show
Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore
Atlanta, GA.
GROUP
Love Shouldn’t Hurt
Kennesaw State University Women’s Resource Center
Kennesaw, GA
JURIED
The Mayday Show
Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore
Atlanta, GA
GROUP
KSU Spring Arts Festival Pin-Up Show
Kennesaw, GA
JURIED
New Visions
Zuckerman Museum of Art
Kennesaw, GA
2021
JURIED
Arcana
Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore
Atlanta, GA
2020
GROUP
Annual Member Exhibit
South Cobb Arts Alliance
Powder Springs, GA
Awards
2025
Best of Show
Juried Show 2025
for Restoration
2024
Honorable Mention
CACD National Juried Arts Show
for The Meek
First Runner Up, Undergraduate Presentation
KSU Symposium of Student Scholars
for Parakeet Lost series
Runner Up, KSU Outstanding Student Scholar
Second Place
State Botanical Garden Student Art Competition
for Georgia Flora and Fauna
Director's Choice
New Visions
for Restoration
2023
First Place
CACD National Juried Arts Show
for Restoration
Emily Bourne Grigsby Visual Arts Scholarship
Athos Menaboni Art Research Scholarship
Hazel and Morgan McNeel Memorial Scholarship
Honors Annual Scholarship
Annual Flourish Visual Arts Scholarship
Honorable Mention
State Botanical Garden Student Art Competition
for Endangered Spring
First Place
Earth Day College Student Juried Exhibition
for Extinct in the Wild
First Place, Art
Collision Literary Magazine
for Polly Chromatic
Second Place, Community Division
KSU Spring Arts Festival Pin-Up Show
for After the Snack
ArtsKSU Gala Scholarship
John L. Collar South Cobb Rotary Arts Scholarship
Honorable Mention, Painting Division
Rockmart Cultural Arts Center Juried Show 2023
for Her Thoughts Full of Feathers
2022
Honors Annual Scholarship
Florence B. Beddingfield Memorial Scholarship
Athos Menaboni Art Research Scholarship
It’s About Engagement Award
First Place, Community Division
KSU Spring Arts Festival Pin-Up Show
for Childhood Memory of the Custody Battle
Director’s Choice Award
New Visions
for Extinct in the Wild
Artwork Published
2024
Restoration, Prescribed Burn, and To Each According to His Appetite, in The Pierian, Albany State University 2024 Edition
The Trophy Farm, exhibition poster for CACD NJAS
Puppet Rearing, exhibition poster for Metamorphosis
Restoration, exhibition poster for Metro Montage XXIV
Brave Sir Mouse, in Create Your World Here, Kennesaw State University, Spring 2024
2023
Polly Chromatic (cover), Flightless, and Extinct in the Wild, in Collision Literary Magazine, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2023
2022
Sailor Take Warning, exhibition poster for The Celestial Show
2021
In a Room Full of Shadows, album cover
for Phantom of the Opera by Tom Alonso
2018
Human Trafficking Poster, in Pearson
Humanities Victorian Curriculum 8 SB
Pearson Australia