Stacy Williams studied art at North Georgia College and State University from 1991-1995, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education, K-12. Upon graduation, Stacy entered the real estate business with her husband. After ten years in real estate, she chose to get back to her passion, art.

Stacy's first art award was received in Grade 10 as part of an art contest to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., for a graphite and prismacolor portrait of Mr. King superimposed over the American flag. This piece hangs in the MLK, Jr. museum in Atlanta, Georgia, today. She was next honored as a high school student for a graphite portrait of Chief Joseph.

She began creating her first portraits of pets at a very early age, using her mother’s show dogs as models. By the age of 15, she was being commissioned by other dog show enthusiasts to create portraits of their dogs. By the age of 18, her work had been published in dog journals, used as cover features, and offered as awards at dog shows. Stacy’s graduating art exhibition featured many of these portraits, in addition to a watercolor portrait of her aunt and a graphite self-portrait, among many other works. A pen and ink portrait of an Arabian was purchased by the NGCSU in 1995 for its collection of student artwork and remains on display in the library today.

Stacy specializes in pen & ink, watercolor, and graphite, and she occasionally works in Prismacolor, an archival quality colored pencil. Stacy focuses on tight, detailed, realistic depictions of her subjects and pays close attention to capturing the personality and soul of the animals.