Ivette Spradlin

Ivette Spradlin is an award winning, Cuban-American artist whose work centers around the emotional aspects of transition, adaptation and communal ties. She holds a MFA from Tyler School of Art and a BFA from the University of Georgia. Since the 1990’s she has photographed and recorded the stories of members of different subcultures and their environs, such as punks and skateboarders, Cuban exiles in the United States, female-identifying artists, those who have experienced a Bigfoot…

Ivette Spradlin is an award winning, Cuban-American artist whose work centers around the emotional aspects of transition, adaptation and communal ties. She holds a MFA from Tyler School of Art and a BFA from the University of Georgia. Since the 1990’s she has photographed and recorded the stories of members of different subcultures and their environs, such as punks and skateboarders, Cuban exiles in the United States, female-identifying artists, those who have experienced a Bigfoot sighting and her friends and neighbors during the 2020 lockdown. Spradlin has shown her work nationally and internationally, and has taught photography and art at colleges and universities, including Carnegie Mellon University for eleven years. In 2021, Spradlin relocated back to the Atlanta area where she began working on an oral history project called The Wild Wild West End. She currently teaches part time at Kennesaw State University.