Her work is inspired by her deeply rooted familial and rural ties to the South and has been in both national and local group exhibitions and publications. While at UGA Chapman was awarded the Wilson Center Graduate Research Award. She is a two-time Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grantee (2019 & 2021) and has been awarded residency fellowships to attend Vermont Studio Center (2019), The Hambidge Center (2021), and Chateau Orquevaux in France (2022).

The scope of my work explores episodes of working-class life and culture in America’s rural South through the lens of my own family and friends in the Midlands of South Carolina.

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