Meet the Artists of Coral Green Studios

Andrea Tharian

Andrea Henry Tharian is an artist living and working in St. Louis, MO. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Enameling from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2007 and a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2015. In 2018 she received a Missouri Art Education Certification (K-12) from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Andrea’s teaching experience includes the Center of Creative Arts, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and private camps and lessons in the area.

Andrea is a recipient of Artist Support Grants from the Regional Arts Commission (2014, 2023). The 2014 grant supported the creation of Haven, an installation of 1500 ceramic and paper forms at the Kranzberg Arts Center (2016). The latest RAC grant is to support her personal artistic practice as well as ongoing support for Coral Green Studios, a female artist-run collective based in South St. Louis City. The collective strives to support historically marginalized artists, including women, mothers, and LGBTQIA+ persons, through annual exhibitions, special projects, and community programming. In the fall of 2023, Andrea was honored to be selected as an Artist INC Fellow through Mid-America Arts Alliance in conjunction with the Regional Arts Commission.  

Amy Reidel

Amy Reidel is a St. Louis-based artist who has exhibited work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) based out of Chicago, the David and Julia White Artists’ colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica and at the Luminary Center for the Arts in St. Louis. She has exhibited work at venues including the Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis, ACRE projects gallery in Chicago, and the Amarillo Museum of Art. Her work can be viewed online in the curated artist registries and viewing programs at White Columns and the Drawing Center in New York City. In 2014, 2019 and 2020 Reidel was awarded Artists’ Support and COVID-19 relief grants from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis and the Washington University/Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. In 2016 she received the Critical Mass Creative Stimulus award. Reidel is currently a faculty member at Washington University and St. Louis Community College as well as Co-Founder of All the Art: The Visual Art Quarterly of St. Louis (2015-2020) and Coral Green Studios (2022-present).

Greta Coalier

Greta Coalier’s practice operates at the intersection of memory, material, and contemporary femininity. Her work—primarily painting and textile-based—embodies a quiet rigor: intuitive, honest, and deliberately constructed. Each piece is rooted in a politics of care—for the body, for history, and for the often-invisible labor carried by women. Without resorting to sentimentality, Coalier transforms domestic materials into vessels of protection, resilience, and resistance—building armor from thread, softness from structure, and presence from what is often overlooked.

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she grew up with access to public museums and libraries that nurtured her early fascination with both visual art and the natural world. She began sewing in childhood and developed an expansive studio practice integrating painting, handwork, and sculptural forms. Coalier received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She currently lives and works in St. Louis, where her work continues to explore the aesthetics and politics of care, containment, and survival.