MEET THE TEAM
Linda Parrott (she/her) is a photographer, videographer, musician, & friend figuring it out in Nashville, TN.
She founded & operates Random Sample, having curated + installed 30+ exhibitions in the space.
Linda is a person who enjoys (including but not limited to):
long walks with her dog (Beaux), cuddling with her 2 cats (Wirt & Greg), playing music with friends, cooking w/ loved ones, curating shows at her gallery, & watching movies at the Belcourt Theater.
For more information, check out her website.
Andie Billheimer is a multi-disciplinary electronic musician and co-founder of Nashville/Chicago based experimental pop duo Body Electric.
Andie is the Music Programming Director at Random Sample.
Ivy Welsh is a self taught artist from Tennessee currently based in Chicago.
She is the Arts Programming Director at Random Sample and the founder of Renascence Books, a small independent book publisher with an international distribution of small batch artist books.
Her short films have been screened at Elephant Gallery in Nashville and the Zverev Center of Contemporary Art in Moscow. She was the head curator for Graphic (2023) and Apokalypsis (2026), two group exhibitions at Random Sample.
Olivia is a multidisciplinary artist, working through mediums such as paint, sculpture and music. She was born in LA and raised in Nashville, TN. She completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since returning to Nashville, she has assisted with Alan LeQuire’s large-scale sculpture work, Monumental Figures, curated exhibitions at the Blue Room in a series called Warm Blue Flame, and was Random Sample’s first Artist-In-Residence in 2025.
Olivia joined Random Sample’s team as Gallery Manager in August 2026.
In her free time, Olivia loves to read, hike, craft, and go to museums. Her favorite artists are Frida Khalo, Georgianna Houghton, Ana Mendieta, Hilma Af Klint, and Ann Carrington. She’s enjoying Finn Streuper’s record ‘What It’s Like to Be a Bat’ right now.
Random Sample wouldn’t run without all the help we’ve had from friends + neighbors. We have a number of Nashville based artists and musicians who help by running door, sound, leading workshops, hosting events, painting the walls, and hanging up flyers around town.
Some of those people are: Dax Alford, Ezra Graff, Fox Nelson, Ali El-Chaer, Carmen Kovich, Adele Ruby, Kia Zafar, Caroline Cronin, Nicole Tatum, Jared Harvey, Tara Dugger, Sean Doherty, Liv Cullison, and River Eggert.