Jon King
Jon King has been working as queer artist in the Minnesota mural community since 2015. With a background in large canvas and masonite painting, graphic design and branding, today his work focuses on high detail typographic, abstract and illustrative murals for the hospitality, and tech industries.
Noah Lawrence
Noah Lawrence-Holder is a black, nonbinary artist from Madison WI, now based in the Twin Cities. Their work consists of illustration and animations centered around racial justice, equity, intersectionality and gender identity. They have featured work in gallery shows highlighting queer and black artists across Minneapolis and beyond.
Jordyn Brennan
Jordyn Brennan is a visual artist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jordyn received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Jordyn’s work investigates themes of care and connection through drawings, paintings, and murals. She is especially interested in how care, exhibited in a variety of forms, both strengthens our relationships and extends our lifespan and quality of living. Additionally, Jordyn collaborates with businesses and cities across the United States to create site specific murals. Along with her visual practice, Jordyn is an adjunct faculty at Upper Iowa University. Jordyn is also the Co-Founder of the Rural Experience Collective, which exists to share stories and experiences of creatives with past and/or current rural ties.
Wundr
Born and raised in Minnesota, WUNDR has been creating art since his early childhood. Cartoons, Comics, Graffiti, and Community have all influenced his ambition to create in various forms. With strong interest in illustration, printmaking, and murals, WUNDR has managed to keep himself busy with multiple irons in the creative fire at all times.
Biafra
Biafra Inc. (pronounced bahy-ah-fruh or bee-ah-fruh) is an artist residing in the Twin Cities. Taking his name in part from Jello Biafra from the band Dead Kennedys and partially from the former secessionist state, his work deals with current and impending problems. Known for using stickers, stencils, spray paint and posters to get his name and imagery up across the globe his work has shifted from iconography to a more political realm.
Witt Siasoco
Witt Siasoco has been actively engaged in the intersection of the arts and civic processes through a variety of roles – as an artist, graphic designer, and arts educator. Previously Siasoco was selected by Intermedia Arts and the City of Minneapolis as an artist for Creative Citymaking, a year-long collaboration between artists and City planners to develop innovative approaches for addressing the long-term transportation, land use, economic, environmental, and social issues facing Minneapolis.
Leslie Barlow
Leslie Barlow is an artist living and working on occupied Očeti Šakówin and Wahpekute land now known as Minneapolis, MN. Barlow is interested in reimagining our relationship to our racial identities through healing our collective understanding of belonging and what it means to be family. Her life-size oil paintings serve as both monuments to community members and explorations into how race entangles the intimate sphere of love, family, and friendship. Her work is colorful, tender and nuanced, and inspired by community dialogue and personal experience.
Hibaaq Ibrahim
Hibaaq Ibrahim is a lifelong artist turned muralist, based in Minneapolis, MN. Flowers, plants, and patterns are her passions. She draws inspiration from the vivid colors and beautiful shapes found in local flora and fauna.
Martzia Thometz
Martzia Thometz has been making art since 2008. As a self-taught, Minneapolis-based visual artist with a background in graffiti, Martzia works predominantly with aerosol, acrylic and ink. Her trademark imagery seeks to exist between the elemental contrasts of “soft” and “hard”. Her goal is to connect and heal others and herself while creating hope for a better tomorrow for all.
Jordan Hamilton
Jordan M. Hamilton (b.1989) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Twin Cities. His work is rooted in bridging spirit aspirations & connections to earthly transformations & expressions. Jordan explores expression of spirit, cosmic & elemental energies through abstract, surrealist painting, sculpture, collage, adornment, puppetry, mixed media, & music. Jordan has worked as a teaching artist since 2007 with various organizations & schools locally & internationally. His work has been featured in a number of exhibitions, streets & stages throughout the Twin Cities. Jordan’s work is deeply woven with & informed by community, steeped in ancestry & influenced by graffiti, calligraphy, textile art, architecture, sacred geometry, typography & nature.
Alex Smith
Alex Smith is an artist, designer and educator based in Saint Paul. His work ranges from murals to t-shirts, and is deeply rooted in aerosol art. Alex’s work centers around graffiti inspired abstraction and layered collage. He currently leads the Textile and Screen printing program at Juxtaposition arts and teaches aerosol art classes to young people during the summer. Alex’s mural work focuses on futuristic placemaking and adding new layers and representation to the visual landscape of the Twin Cities.
Maiya Lea Hartman
Maiya Lea Hartman is a self-taught multi disciplinary artist and muralist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They create in various mediums such as drawing, painting, ceramics, and mixed media. Their work is heavily figurative, with current work examining traditions of the African Diaspora and including textiles and symbols.
Reggie LeFlore
Reggie LeFlore is a visual artist who creates to praise individual and collective stories through human portraiture.
Philipo Dyauli
Philipo Dyauli is a self-taught painter, muralist and illustrator from Tanzania, currently based in Minneapolis. As a painter, he uses color and scale to illustrate the importance of people over material objects to create a unique form of storytelling, and transform personal experiences into life-size paintings. He is inspired by music, films and childhood memories that consisted of road trips, family reunions and visits to National parks. His practice allows him to explore issues of identity and multiculturalism while reflecting on his life in East Africa and the United States. He aspires to tell stories in our community and for people to see themselves in the artwork through shared experiences and traditions.
Bo Young An
Bo Young An is a Seoul-born, Pattaya-raised, Minneapolis-based creative. She is a graphic designer, illustrator, muralist, curator, and educator. She received her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington, Seattle, and her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2022.
Gustavo Lira Garcia
Professional Art Educator, Artist and Activist.
Victor Yepez
Victor Yepez resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Through his work as a sculptor and muralist as well as an art teacher, Victor Yepez has exposed many people to the power and healing that art can provide. Found objects and recycled materials, especially metal, influence many of Yepez’s sculptures while rich colors and movement are hallmarks of his murals. Victor graduated with a degree in sculpture and print making from the School of Fine Arts, Central University in Quito, Ecuador.