Melinda Gray Crider

Background

Crider, Melinda Gray was born on August 6, 1951 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Howard R. and Sylvia O'Kain Gray.

Education

Student, Atlanta College Art, 1975-1977, 83, 84; student, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, 1978-1981.

Career

Director, Claybasket Cooperative, Alpharetta, Georgia, 1981-1983; owner, director, Studio III, Roswell, Georgia, 1985-1987; owner, director, Heaven Blue Rose Gallery, Roswell, 1989-1991; owner,, Crider Studio, Alpharetta, since 1982. Curator art gallery, Roswell, since 1990. State representative membership IndividualVisual Artists Coalition.

Achievements

• Melinda Gray Crider has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fine arts juror Congregation Etz Chaim Arts Festival. Member host committee Carl Ratcliff Dance Company. Member visual arts organizations selection panel Fulton County Arts Council.

Member Roswell Arts Alliance (vice president 1994).

Interests

• Avocations: swimming, horseback riding.

Connections

Married Ronald R. Adams, August 29, 1969 (divorced 1972). 1 child, Shae Marcus. Married Claude J. Crider, February 7, 1976.

1 child, Lindsay Jeanne-Catherine.

Father:

Howard R.

Mother:

Sylvia O'Kain Gray

Spouse:

Claude J. Crider

Spouse:

Ronald R. Adams

child:

Shae Marcus Crider

child:

Lindsay Jeanne-Catherine Crider