ABOUT THE GALA Flowers & Seeds is ADAMA's Fundraising Gala.
The gala celebrates an under-recognized established visual artist and plants a seed for an early-career visual artist, both based in Georgia.
The February 21, 2026 gala beginning at 7pm will be an immersive multi-sensory event showcasing art by the award recipients, an awards presentation with live entertainment, and dinner. The money raised will serve as seed money for ADAMA’s forthcoming capital campaign and building fund.
Flowers x Seeds 2025
JOIN OUR HOST COMMITTEE
We are excited to invite you to our Host Committee for ADAMA’s 3rd Annual FLOWERS x SEEDS Gala, which will take place on February 21, 2026.
OUR 2026 FLOWER
OUR 2026 FLOWER
FLOWER HONOREELynn Marshall Linnemeier
Lynn Marshall Linnemeier is a visual artist whose work examines the intersection of memory, history, and place through photography, mixed media, and site-specific installation. Grounded in Southern Studies and African American visual traditions, her practice engages ancestral memory as both subject and method.
Her exhibitions and commissions include Journey to Freedom: Women of the Civil Rights Movement, In Plain View, The Ancestral Memory of Sound, and The Ancestral Memory of Water. Her work has been shown at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Following more than four decades based in Atlanta, Linnemeier now lives and works in Red Springs, North Carolina, where she continues to develop site-responsive projects through The Journey Projects.
OUR 2026 SEED
OUR 2026 SEED
SEED HONOREEAyana Ross
Ayana Ross (b. 1977, Savannah, GA) lives and works in the metro Atlanta area. As a visual artist, her work combines traditional oil painting methods and figurative realism with ornamentation as a visual language that evokes nostalgia, elevates her subjects, and provides historical and cultural context through layered narratives exploring intergenerational themes. Ross holds an MA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and her work has been exhibited nationally, including in solo exhibitions at the Muskegon Museum of
Art, the Reading Public Museum, and, most recently, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as a 2024–2025 Working Artist Project Fellow. Ross was recognized as the 2021 Bennett Prize winner, a 2024 Mellon Arts and Practitioner Fellow through Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, and a 2025 Atlanta Artadia Awardee.
