Equilla Marie is a Visual Storyteller. She creates stories thru her lens or breathes life to recycled materials thru her collage and mixed media artwork.Photography has given her a creative outlet to celebrate, cry, learn, teach, and dream through her lens. Her most important role in life is mother to 4 beautiful creative children. However, her first love is photography which can be traced back to 1999 in the form of a 35mm camera. She studied business at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Clark Atlanta University and has always loved art, photography and just anything creative. Equilla Marie is most excited by the click of her camera shutter and bringing images to life with her Canon camera. She has had two solo exhibitions Visions from the Lens of My Soul and Black Child Beautiful (February 2019 Williams Library Little Rock, Arkansas). Her time is spent as lead photographer at Equilla Marie Photography and teaching workshops through Equilla Marie Creative. Most recently she became a Teaching Artist for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art thru Arts Integration Services, LLC. Thru this endeavor she is provides art residencies to students in Little Rock School District Schools.