Calliope Speaks For The Birds
About The Artist
Calliope Ross, a four year Alabama School of Fine Arts visual arts graduate, now currently a BA candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, focuses on creating most work, if not all, about pigeons and how she finds them an interesting and underrated common bird.
Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Calliope has worked as a Sloss Metal Arts youth apprentice for three years, upon other shifts as a part-time worker and instructor, specializing in the skills of cast iron, welding, blacksmithing, and fabrication. By using watercolor, India ink, and graphite, she hones in on bettering her skills with these mediums by creating highly detailed abstract illustrations based on the anatomy and histology of pigeons.
Calliope won a scholarship for a workshop at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in 2022, taking the silversmithing workshop. She has also has done many workshops with adults and kids as paid and volunteer work. She has had a few group shows in high school and with Paper Workers Local, along with her own solo show in 2022 held in Lowe Mill located in Huntsville, Alabama. She has won multiple gold and silver keys from the Scholastics Arts and Writing competitions from the years 2018 to 2021.
