Corrina Sephora is a metal sculptor and mixed-media artist specializing in blacksmithing. She explores emotion, memory and ritual with what she calls “repetitious imagery,” prominently featuring trees, ladders and nautical and celestial motifs.

She moved to Atlanta in 1996 after graduating from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and though she cherishes the coastal life, Sephora says the landlocked city she calls home influences her with its strong arts community, as do “the Cherokee and Creek people who, at one time, walked on these lands.”