Caution!
The Card Game
Card Game Artists
Caution! The Card Game features over 170 unique artworks contributed by more than 40 visual artists working across different mediums, styles, and creative practices. Artwork shown on this page are featured on individual cards in the deck, offering you a sneak peek into a piece you may discover when playing!
The deck invites you to explore a large collection of artworks, attach meaning to what you see and discover new ways of thinking by sharing your interpretations with others. Check out the artists whose creativity makes these conversations possible by clicking on the image above each name.
Leanne Pizio
Leanne Pizio is a potter and painter interested in creating art about life, animals, birds, kings and queens, fairy tales, and the like.
Leanne Pizio was born in Burlington NC and grew up with 3 sisters, 2 wonderful parents, and many fun animals. She went to UNC-Chapel Hill and graduated with a B.A. in Art and a B.A. in Psychology.
Later she attended UNC-Greensboro and received an M.F.A. in 1995. Having worked many different jobs through the years to support her work Leanne is now happy to be able to work at home full time in her studio. In 2002, she married a super fantastic man and moved to a log cabin in the country where they have 3 dogs, 1 cat and 4 chickens. Leanne participates in many shows in this area but also travels to California for shows in the spring and fall. Leanne has perfected the sgraffito technique which involves coating pottery and scratching off parts to achieve an intricate design.
Additionally, Leanne leaves no surface unadorned. The back side of her work is usually as intricately detailed as the front! Designs on her pottery include dreamy Alice-in-Wonderland like characters, rabbits, crows, owls. Currently, she is smitten with her 100 tall, “wonky” bottle project, two of which are in the upper right hand corner.
Emily earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a BFA from Winthrop University. Furr's work centers around feelings of sentimentality and an embracing of play. Her art reflects a vibrant, vivid palette that encourages curiosity and exploration. Emily’s oil paintings demonstrate a unique, sculptural approach to the medium, utilizing shaped substrates that are layered and combined to methodically express her own narratives.
Kate Robinson is a MFA graduate of University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a background in painting, drawing and printmaking and current practice in mixed-media and site-specific installation.
Kidd holds an MFA from East Carolina University and a BFA in Sculpture from UNC Greensboro. Graves’ practice draws from African American folklore, dream symbolism, and domestic traditions, often weaving found and secondhand materials into sculptures, wall tapestries, and tufted textiles. By embedding the histories of these materials and symbolism from African American culture, their works create layered narratives that connect the past with the present into Afro-futurism.
Elizabeth Stone is drawn to the interplay of transformation and ambiguity deeply rooted within the photographic medium. Her work engages the literal and conceptual dimensions of the negative and positive, exploring their duality. Through iterative processes, she examines sameness and difference.
Embracing slow, meticulous processes that integrate the hand and mind, she finds herself recontextualizing and reinterpreting materials, pushing at the edges of what defines a photograph and how it is seen.
Since beginning a daily mindfulness practice in 2019, her work has spilled over into sculpture and installation where she has created large scale, immersive environments. Reading guides her thinking which guides her making with recent explorations into plant intelligence and the nature of consciousness across human and more than human communities.
Emily Moser
Emily Moser is an artist from Raleigh, NC, currently living and working in Greensboro. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art, Classical Studies, and Art History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as well as a master’s degree in Higher Education from Elon University.
Moser’s creative practice is informed by everyday life, tradition, and history, with particular attention to the memories held within landscapes, spaces, and the construction of place. Working across drawing, painting, and collage, she uses color and layering to explore how personal and collective histories shape our understanding of the world around us.
Moser currently works in higher education, where her interests in the scholarship of teaching and learning and public history continue to influence her artistic practice. These fields deepen her engagement with memory, interpretation, storytelling, and the ways knowledge is created and shared.
Caitlyn Schrader is a self-proclaimed facilitator of joy and connection, who just happens to do and make dance. A dance artist, educator, community builder, and arts leader based in North Carolina, Caitlyn works across performance, curation, and collaborative practice. As a guiding principle, she follows art's potential to build community, spark joy, and remain curious.
With the rise of social media and artificial intelligence, Heidi has become interested in how we interact with what is real. Throughout time, from prehistoric cave paintings to medieval cathedrals, from van Ruisdael and Monet to Adams and Eliasson, we have sought to capture and recreate nature. Before smartphones, we made film slideshows, traded shot glasses painted with palm trees, drew sketches, collected rocks, pressed flowers, and wrote songs. Today, we extend that impulse into the digital realm, archiving obsessively with phone cameras and uploading as a souvenir, proof, or memory.
Heidi’s work questions whether this pursuit of simulating the isness of nature and the phenomena of the cosmos can be achieved. The wonder of the aurora borealis, the solitude of standing in an infinite field, the shimmer of moonlight on the ocean that causes something in your chest to expand… They are reminders that awe is as much an emotional experience as it is a physical one. Can these responses be recreated?
Though her work often shifts in form, material, and concept, it is Heidi’s farmstead childhood that always underlies her practice. Witnessing firsthand the whimsy and brutality of nature, this rural upbringing taught her the difference between looking and seeing, hearing and listening. It defined her understanding of good and bad, collapsed the distance between life and death, then urged her to explore what lies in between
Max Baynes
Greensboro-based multi-media artist
Leah Junquera
Leah Junquera (b.1992) is a painter living and working in North Carolina. Junquera received her BFA from Plattsburgh State University of New York, and her MFA from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Junquera’s paintings embrace a sense of magical realism, where landscapes are not only spaces of memory and solitude but also sites of discovery and transformation. The objects she encounters—remnants of her childhood in the Adirondack Park and artifacts gathered from her wanderings—become more than mere fragments of the natural world. In her work, they are elevated to relics, imbued with meaning and reverence, as if unearthed from a dreamlike terrain where the ordinary becomes sacred.
The act of foraging for these objects mirrors the process of painting itself—a quiet, deliberate search for significance in what might otherwise be overlooked. A twisted branch, a weathered stone, or the water’s edge become vessels of memory. In this way, her paintings function as both preservation and exaltation, capturing the fleeting beauty of the landscape and suspending it in a space where time feels still and hushed.
Yet, within this reverence lies a paradox: the desire to hold onto something that was never meant to be kept. These landscapes, though rendered with devotion, resist ownership. They exist in a liminal space between reality and reverie, where nature remains both intimate and untouchable, familiar and mysterious.
Robert Benfield
Greensboro-based photographer
Joseph Blocker is the owner and artisan behind DaBalmBodyBalm, an independent, small-batch skincare business based out of Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a professional dancer and drummer of the band Bloc.
Bjorn Bates
Bjorn Bates is an emerging visual artist and photographer based in Greensboro, North Carolina, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in photography from the UNC Greensboro School of Art in 2023.
Madison Brown-Alexander
Creative film photographer
Taylor Blake-Lee
Taylor is a 2D artist focused on creating fine-line, textured and vibrant drawings which include insightful wording in each piece.
Hailey Chilton
Bio pending
Anthony Carter
Charlotte, NC based photographer
Paula Damasceno is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist and scholar born in 1975 in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, who has been based in Greensboro, North Carolina since 2012. Paula’s works comprise inquiries about history, archives, and culture. Paula focuses on aesthetic strategies that evoke and invoke the past to contemplate the present and recreate futures.
MoMa Photography Curator Lucy Gallun selected her work, Offerings, for Juror’s Choice Award Nomination. Offerings also won a Silver Award from the Budapest International Foto Awards 2020, appeared in the 2020 Hariban Award Catalog, won the 2019 SPE Innovation Award, won First Place at the 2018 Light Factory Throwdown Portfolio, and was an official selection to the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021.
Paula has exhibited work at the Greensboro Project Space Greensboro, Southeastern Center for Photography, and Weatherspoon Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2018 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Art with a concentration in Photography and a minor in Media Studies from the University of NorthCarolina Greensboro. Since 2001, Paula has worked in Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, the US, and Vietnam making art and video documentaries, and developing social practice projects.
James Clemmons
James Clemmons is a visual artist based in Greensboro, North Carolina, who exhibits his work across the local arts community.
I’ve been making art for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are painting with my nana in her backyard and on the roadside in the mountains with a picnic and her basket of watercolors. Aside from a few years of private lessons, I steered away from any formal art instruction until college.
I received a degree in graphic design from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—a practical choice for an artist. It took me a decade to find my voice and own that I’m an artist. Traveling, discovering intuitive painting, and finding inspiration and support from countless artists and others along the way helped me own this truth. Since then, my love for painting, my creative voice, and my art itself has been constantly growing and evolving.
I have a deep passion for intuitive painting and teaching this creative process to others. I believe we are all creative intuitive beings, and each of us has a story and a unique voice that matters. Intuitive painting can be a guide to that space where we find our voice and tell our story—the space that connects us with ourselves and with each other.
I live and paint in a little cottage deep in the woods of Greensboro, North Carolina with my two black cats.
Jesse Einhorn-Johnson
Jesse Einhorn-Johnson (b.1994) leverages her gift of feeling intensely and immensely as a source of inspiration, motivating her artistic practice. The body is a central motif throughout her drawing and spatial work, while her video poetry engages more explicitly with her contemplative meditation practices. Working with themes that emerge intuitively, Einhorn approaches her practice as a conversation rather than a conclusion, an ongoing negotiation to remeet the body, original homeplace of the mind, not as a fixed thing, but as a liable landscape, forever subject to change. She is currently pursuing her Master's in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
Matt Goshow
Matt Goshow is a Greensboro, North Carolina-based musician and bassist. In the local music and arts scene, he is well known for his solo music performance project and alter-ego, Hulk Homeless, which he has humorously referred to as the “Jesus of the Wild”.
Amy Gordon is a fervent, soulful painter and designer. Her abstract work is a reflection of her polarities growing up in rural North Carolina juxaposition to a textile and Menswear design career in New York City, London and San Francisco Which parlay with mindful yogic, poetic teachings give her a voice to converse the diverse.
Through color, texture and negative space, she mimics the ebb and flow of life. Acrylic, oils, pastels, spray paint, metals and composites are combined with her fingers. This hands on approach is her signature to authenicity as an artist.
Sydni Pettway
I am an interdisciplinary that focuses on graphic design. In navigating the art world I have found my space as an artist doing a multitude of digital based works. Working digitally has given me the opportunity to explore + research different genres of art, then subsequently adding my creative spin when conceptualizing it as my own produced work. In this body of work, I have looked to what relates to me and my life experiences to draw inspiration; whether it be womanhood, nature, texture, pattern. I anticipate that with my art I will be able to create work that is a representation not only of myself but of others, spark conversation, and be an overall contribution on a universal level.
Tamra Hunt
Tamra Hunt is a Greensboro-based artist, arts educator and proud member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Born and raised in Greensboro, Hunt has a passion for using art to create unity within diverse communities. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Fine Art with a concentration in Painting and Drawing.
Jason Lord
Jason Lord is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator working in the American South. He grew up queer in a working-class, Catholic family in rural Vermont, where he inherited the experimental resourcefulness of the small town tinker, inventing and building objects, images, and worlds out of humble materials. From the Church, he developed an allergy to certainty and an appreciation for ritual. Through queerness, he embraced a fluid and improvisational nature, happy to make new paths where old roads lead nowhere useful.
After 30 years of experience as a multidisciplinary artist, designer, performer, and arts educator, Jason possesses a wide range of interests, methodologies, and competencies.
He utilizes an expansive toolbox of materials, processes, and strategies for thinking and making, engaging in rigorous conceptual, material, and procedural experimentation through drawing, installation, painting, print, sculpture, assemblage, book arts, social practice, music composition and performance, writing, sound, video, photography, and their many intersections.
Cassandra Liuzzo
Cassandra Liuzzo is a mixed-media artist and art educator from Greensboro, North Carolina, currently based in Lawrence, Kansas.
Driven by the inherent conflict of creating new objects in a world that already has an abundance of things, Cassandra has grown up to internalize her old Girl Scout maxim “Use Your Resources Wisely.” Many of Cassandra’s processes are based on inventing uses for old and found materials, often incorporating leftover bits of former projects, studies, and personal mementos.
Whether she is creating an abstracted personal narrative, fondly referred to as “Indiscriminate Storytelling,” or practicing social critique, her works evoke absurdity, contradiction, and memories lost-and-found.
Cassandra has nearly 20 years of experience facilitating art lessons with youth, teens, and older adults (ages 1-104), and she has completed art & home/studio organizing projects for individuals, schools, and local businesses. For 10 years, she owned and operated Shelf Life Art & Supply Co., a new-and-used art supply store in Greensboro, North Carolina (2014-2020) and online (2020-2024).
Cassandra is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Textiles from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
Mason P. Winfree
Mason P. Winfree is an award-winning old-time musician and flatfoot dancer who has earned numerous ribbons, including first-place honors, at bluegrass and old-time fiddlers’ conventions across North Carolina and Southwest Virginia, such as the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention and the Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention.
Maggie Murphy
Maggie Murphy creates mixed-media sculptures, videos, and installations that bend and loop time, reanimating glitchy toys, defunct electronics, and reconstructed childhood interiors as portals for memory and dream. Her current work layers digitized home video, hand-drawn apparitions, vintage textiles, and sentimental decorative materials to produce shifting realities that hover between the familiar and the uncanny. She is a librarian and an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Hannah Phillips
Hannah Phillips, MPH is a public health professional and a graduate of the Master of Public Health program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Truman Peet
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Kate Robinson
Kate Robinson is a MFA graduate of University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a background in painting, drawing and printmaking and current practice in mixed-media and site-specific installation.
Anna Rafalowski
Anna Rafalowski, a sculpture instructor at Western Kentucky University...
Claire Stromberg
I make art to express the softness and silliness that I feel inside. I want to remind myself and others that we never lose the light of our inner child, we just forget that it is in there. I aim to counterbalance the bad I see in the world around me with something that makes me feel the exact opposite. In art as in life, I aim to make people laugh, see the beauty in the small things, and feel more comfortable and less alien in the world.
Neeraj Sebastien
I am a painter who lives and works in Bar Harbor, Maine. I was born in Puttur, Karnataka, India. I spent my childhood in Hamburg and Bangalore before moving to Philadelphia, where I graduated with a BS in Biological Sciences from Drexel University, and discovered my love for painting. I graduated with an MFA in Studio Art from UNC Greensboro in 2022.
Kevin Vanek
Bio pending
Hawke Kelley
Hawke Kelley is a Greensboro, North Carolina-based musician, theater performer, and local creative.
Alma Stott
I am a naturalist and a printmaker. My interests in biogeography and ecology have led me to volunteer conducting nested plot species counts in the Uwharrie Mountains in NC. I have volunteered outdoors participating in environmental education with elementary school students as well as worked as an educator. I am interested in birdwatching, and rarely go anywhere without a field guide of some sort. I am always excited for a new creative challenge that includes the natural world.