In connection with ADAMA’s Flowers x Seeds Gala and exhibition, ADAMA Arts Salon is bringing together Flower recipient Lynn Marshall Linnemeier and Seed recipient Ayana Ross for a conversation moderated by Esohe Galbreath. The Flowers x Seeds gala celebrates an under-recognized established visual artist and plants a seed for an early-career visual artist, both based in Georgia.

Lynn Marshall Linnemeier

A visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice centers on memory, place, and African American cultural history, with a sustained commitment to community-based and publicly engaged art. Working across photography, mixed media, and site-specific installation, her projects often unfold over time and in collaboration with communities, institutions, and cultural Organizations.

Ayana Ross

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.

The ADAMA Arts Salon is a signature conversation series featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and cultural leaders from across the African Diaspora. Each Salon creates space for thoughtful dialogue, shared learning, and meaningful community connection.