Beth Hall Thrasher is the Creative Director of Thrasher Photo and Design, a boutique creative agency specializing in Photography and Video, Print and Web Design, and Illustration– plus Branding, Marketing, and Business Strategy for Creative Personalities, New Products, and Small Businesses. Beth is also the owner of the Ace Francisco Gallery which presents fine art exhibitions of the work of Southern artists as well as special arts, music, and literary events in its 1500 sq. ft. gallery space. The gallery is self-supporting through the sale of limited edition prints and through event sponsorships.
Beth Hall Thrasher’s work as an art director for television at NHK-Tokyo, CNN-Headline News in Atlanta, and CBS in San Francisco won her an Emmy Award and two Broadcast Designers Association and Radio-Television News Directors Awards for Art Direction; her experience as an interactive designer started with freelance gigs for Electronic Arts and Apple in California; her web designs have garnered an Earl Award at the prestigious SXSW Interactive Conference and a NAPA Award for Outstanding Web Design; and her most recent print designs for Soldier of the Sea Distillery— a partner project with her illustrator-daughter, Frances— were awarded two GDUSA Package Design Awards last year. Beth is also the founder of the Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival which toured curated programs of super-short films internationally for more than ten years; the collection of more than 600 films was accepted into the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection in 2025. She is also the co-curator of the New Town Revue with Deirdre Sugiuchi and Al Dixon– a literary and music series founded in 2011 in Athens.
In the early 2000s, Beth was the day-to-day manager of UGA’s downtown tech incubator, The Athens New Media Synergy Center affiliated with the Grady College of Journalism, where she helped tech entrepreneurs write business plans, secure funding, and grow their companies quickly. She has previously served on the boards of the Athens Economic Development Foundation, the Athens Small Business Loan Review Committee, and her favorite local charity, Nuçi’s Space. Beth has also served as a Clarke County School District Work-Based Learning Partner where she mentored high school graphic design students each fall from 2022-2025.
