Studio Artist Program

Dayna Thacker works in collage, assemblage and installation. Her work investigates the systems we create for ourselves in order to make sense of the world and our place in it; and the connections between the physical and psychological aspects of our lives, and how they affect and shape one another.

Thacker spent much of her youth in Tennessee, and received her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She moved to Atlanta in 2006. A finalist for the 2010 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, Thacker is a Fellow of the Hambidge Creative Residency Program, and will have her first solo show with the Barbara Archer Gallery in May 2010.