Suzanne Williams (b. 1942, Los Angeles, CA)  is an artist, oil painter, designer, cartoonist, hot-rodder and all-round Southern Californian legend. 

Williams' life has been deeply entrenched in the California underground scene from the 1950’s to present day; packed with radical artists, thinkers and cartoonists such as R. Crumb, Ed Rucha, Timothy Leary and Ed “Big Daddy” Roth among many many others.

With a deep and eclectic background Suzanne combines her fine art aesthetic with her hand-made (non-digital) industrial and graphic design sensibilities. 

She brings the West Coast underground ethos into her practice creating highly detailed abstract works with a pop, roadster aesthetic; reflective of her deep love of hand-made perfection.

Summer McCorkle is an artist whose projects incorporate both still photographs and time based videos and installations. As this year’s micro-grant recipient in the genre of photography, our jury was impressed with her technical skills and artistic eye that she couples with a kind of playfulness to create her compositions, be they still, quasi-still or moving. You can view a sample of Summer McCorkle's work now, and stay tuned for the launch of her online viewing room and an artist’s talk with her this summer. 

Black Ball Projects’ Mission is to serve and support contemporary artists who are underexposed and who have been working diligently on the periphery of the greater art world. Diversity of all kinds, be it gender, racial, or economic, is at the core of the Black Ball Projects organization.