Decatur, GA-based artist and teacher Joe Tsambiras received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. After travelling throughout the southeastern United States, he relocated to Glyfatha, Greece, in 1996. Over the next two years, he developed his first important body of work, before moving to Atlanta in 1998. In 2007, he received an MFA in Drawing/Printmaking from Georgia State University. Creative Loafing awarded him the 2010 Reader’s Picks for Best Opening and Best Gallery Show for the four-person show Here We Hide (with Sam Parker and the Paper Twins), as well as Runner-Up for Best Emerging Artist. He regularly exhibits his prints and drawings, and was nominated for the prestigious Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award in both 2009 and 2010.