Meet the Fellows
Merrilee Challiss
Studio by the Tracks
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2025
Overton Fellow
Merrilee (b 1971, Cleveland, Ohio) is a multi-media artist who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. Challiss received a BA in Studio Arts (UAB 1994), an MFA Sculpture (Penn Academy of Fine Arts 2000), and a M Ed in Visual Arts (UAB 2022). Challiss was co-owner of BottleTree Café, a music venue, café, bar, and event center in Birmingham, Alabama from 2006-2015 and from 2023-2025 was the ED of Studio By The Tracks, a non-profit art studio that provides materials, studio space, and facilitated studio time to adult and youth artists on the autism spectrum.
