Who We Are
Dreamhouse Studios is an artist work space in Savannah, Georgia founded by four female creatives. It’s a home for the resident artist’s businesses to thrive and serves as a gathering place for Savannah’s creative community to continue to grow, collaborate, and dream. Dreamhouse Studios offers monthly workshop experiences to the public hosted by both resident and guest artists.
Meet the artists
Allison Hall
Allison Hall
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Allison Hall (Small Creative) is an illustrator who primarily uses gouache to paint florals, landscapes, and still lifes. Originally from Dallas, her work is influenced by the Texas scenery of her childhood, as well as the lush plant life of her current home in the Low Country. Allison‘s art is encompassed with themes of nostalgia and hospitality, and her hope is that people feel a sense of comfort when engaging with her work.
Amy Challis
Amy Challis
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Born in Delray Beach, FL, Amy Challis creates botanical watercolors and intricate hand-drawn goods. Raised by a prolific painter with a vibrant garden, Amy’s playful abstracts and illustrations capture the essence of Savannah and reflect her colorful upbringing.Amy received her BFA from SCAD in 2016 and currently hosts watercolor classes and craft nights. She is passionate about engaging with the community and helping others have those moments of creative exploration she was blessed to grow up with. You can find her work at Starland Strange, Superbloom, and The Davenport House Museum Shop.
Juliana Lupacchino
Juliana Lupacchino
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Juliana (JULU) is a native of Savannah, Georgia. Throughout her life, she has always been passionate about color, and how it could be explored through methods such as pattern, installation, and fine art. Whatever she is creating, it is important that the audience feels immersed into a deep feeling of joy and magic. Her life’s momentum is similar to that of her paintings; colorful, curious, and adventurous.
Kasey Jeffrey
Kasey Jeffrey
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Kasey makes stuff for people who believe in the magic of handmade goodness. She feels that slow-made, small-batch art created by humans is so important in our fast-paced, mass-produced world. Energized by creative experimentation, you’ll find her exploring multiple mediums. When working digitally, she incorporates hand-done elements into her graphic design and illustration work.
Sophie Tompkins
Sophie Tompkins
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Meet the founder and lead designer behind Mod Bird Creative, a design studio that crafts one-of-a-kind visual identities for the food, beverage, and hospitality industry. Sophie is a designer with a playful, nostalgic bent, finding inspiration in music, interior design, dinner parties, and facebook marketplace gems from yesteryear. She works closely with all Mod Bird clients to figure out the vision for their brand (even if they’re worried they don’t have one) and bring it to life.
When she’s not designing, you’ll find her scouring Zillow (for what, she’s not sure), devouring episodes of Armchair Expert, or trying out new restaurants in Savannah.
Sophie holds a B.F.A. in graphic design from Savannah College of Art & Design, and she’s run Mod Bird since 2019.
Lauren Holt
Lauren Holt
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Lauren is a Savannah based ceramic artist. With a love for the outdoors she enjoys making planters as a way of providing folks a vessel to bring outside, inside. Lauren uses the pottery wheel with hand-building techniques to create her work. She has a loose, organic style which makes for pieces that are never quite the same. Lauren has a passion for sharing the peaceful act of making pottery and has goals to turn buyers into makers themselves at Dreamhouse Studios.
Kaylani Phillips
Kaylani Phillips
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Kaylani Phillips is a SCAD student from Texas and is studying Illustration but specializes in scientific illustration. You can see her with her service dog named Bucky. She is also a lover of crafts and loves a good vegan food reccomendation!