On Our Cover – The Art of Hollie Steil
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By Tracy McCoy
hen not serving as Mayor of Georgia’s highest and coolest city, cover artist Hollie Steil has a paintbrush in her hand or is exploring some other form of creative expression. Hailing from Florida, Hollie was the daughter of a professional race car driver. Her father, a new race car on a track in Florida. Eventually, Hollie’s mother remarried and the family moved to Kentucky.
and trying to ‘do art’. The art muses have consistently whispered in my ear to notice and appreciate the beauty interview. Hollie earned her Undergraduate Degree from the University of Kentucky. She initially explored an art major, but switched to a degree in education. She met her husband, Ed, while attending college and the couple was University of Kentucky. The couple moved to Atlanta to allow Ed to attend gradu ate school at Emory University, where he received a Divin ity degree. He went on to Georgia State University, earning degrees in Special Education and School Administration. Hollie began teaching school and over the years earned graduate degrees in Leadership and Administration from Georgia State University and the University of West Geor gia. The Steils both worked as school administrators until re
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While enjoying time with her in love with the beauty and the people of Rabun County and there. We spent weekends in the North Georgia Mountains for years before making the move to full time residents in Hollie went on to say that she and Ed feel very strongly that it is their duty to help their com munity in any way that they
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