Stolen Summer Artists
Los Angeles
Illustration
Website
Description:
Akiko is a 29-time CLIO award winning movie poster art director, illustrator and designer, who works with directors, movie studios, advertising and movie advertising agencies.
Akiko Stehrenberger
Aniekan Udofia
Washington D.C.
Painter and Illustrator
Instagram
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Aniekan is a muralist, painter, and illustrator based in DC who blends photorealism and comic book style to create powerful, vibrant pieces.
Brian Andreas
Massachusetts
Mixed media
Website
Description:
Brian, aka Kai Andres Skye, has authored nineteen books - filled with colorful drawings & short stories that, through the years, have accompanied so many of you through the quiet moments of living. Now, with a whole new company: an eco-conscious studio where he continues to draw, design, & handcraft raw materials with his unique way of seeing the world.
DaeQuan Alexander Collier
New York
Mixed media
Website
Description:
DaeQuan Alexander Collier is a Bronx-born artist and writer whose work aims to document, respond, and reimagine the complexities of the human experience.
Erica Alexia Ledesma
Oregon
Mixed media
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Description:
Erica Alexia Ledesma is a passionate visual artist, cultural organizer, and storyteller deeply rooted in her community. Born and raised in Southern Oregon, she carries ancestral ties to the rich landscapes of Nayarit and Zacatecas, México.
Heidi Day Wenzel
New York
Multi media
Website
Description:
Heidi has always expressed herself creatively, which was cultivated at a very young age. Her experience over the past decade includes assisting artists, designing theater sets, installing large scale installations, making puppets and scenic work for theater, creating props for television and movie productions, and set dressing as a union member in Local 52.
Joe Ray
Leah and Michael
Rhode Island
Multi media
Website
Description:
Leah and Michael and we are the current Tape Art duo traveling around the USA and the world to make BIG art. We are also dance partners who do video, installation, and sculpture projects when we are not pressing tape against walls.
Alex Webber
Asheville
Illustration
Website
Description:
Alex Webber is a leading scientific illustrator with a unique talent for illuminating the latest discoveries in medical science and healthcare.
Asher Bingham
Los Angeles
Charcoal and Graphite
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Asher moved out to Los Angeles and started working as a film and TV editor all while drawing portraits in her spare time. In 2023, strikes hit Hollywood virtually shutting down the city so she turned full time artist and realized it's what I've always been craving to do.
Caitlin Du
New York
Illustrator
Instagram
Description:
Caitlin is a Chinese illustrator who makes comics and editorial with ink on paper and vibrant colors. There is a sense of naivety and humor to her work even when dealing with melancholic subjects
Daryl McCool
Massachusetts
Graphic Design
Website
Description:
Her experience includes serving as Art Director for Gaiam, in Louisville, CO after which she started d.a.m. Cool Graphics an independent graphic design firm whose focus is sustainable and environmentally conscious companies. Currently relocated to Louisville, Colorado due to the devastating loss of her home of 25 years in the Marshall Fire on December 30, 2021.
Erik Ruin
New York
Mixed media
Website
Description:
Erik Ruin is a Michigan-raised, Philadelphia-based printmaker, shadow puppeteer, paper-cut artist, etc., who has been lauded by the New York Times for his "spell-binding cut-paper animations." His work oscillates between the poles of apocalyptic anxieties and utopian yearnings, with an emphasis on empathy, transcendence and obsessive detail.
Jen Bloomer
San Francisco
Painter
Website
Description:
Jen’s professional work and personal path are deeply intertwined. Trained as an artist with a Master’s Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy, Jen founded Radici Studios, which means “roots” in Italian. Through Radici Studios’ many permutations, Jen brings the tools of the artist’s studio out into our messy beautiful world.
Jose Luis Benavides
Idaho
Moving Image
Website
Description:
Jose Luis Benavides is a Latinx and queer video artist, and photographer, and experimental documentarian. Bringing archival collections to life through moving images and mixed media installations, he engages a range of personal-to-institutional archives in order to participate in and preserve cultural memory.
LMNOPI
Vermont
Painter and Printmaker
Website
Description:
LMNOPI is an American artist dedicated to utilizing her artistic skills as a way to amplify messages emanating from within movements for social, economic, racial and climate justice. Her primary mediums are painting and printmaking.
Roger Peet
Oregon
Multi media
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Description:
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. His visual work tends to focus on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crises of biodiversity and Capitalism and what can and can't be done about them.
SUPERWAXX
Los Angeles
Multi media
Website
Description:
SUPERWAXX is an American artist whose work infuses a multitude of influences from Japanese animation, to street art and expressionism. Cultivating her passion for art at an early age, she maintains a sense of childlike curiosity and nostalgia while also interrogating the human condition through themes and subjects within the sphere of social justice, anthropology, and history across global cultures.
Matthew Decker
Asheville
Illustrator and Screen printer
Website
Description:
My style is influenced by natural elements, psychedelia, mythology and the depths of outer space. All my posters are hand drawn and screen printed.
Sunny Mills
Los Angeles
Photography
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Description:
Sunshine ‘Sunny’ Mills is an artist currently residing in Los Angeles, California and lost her home in Altadena. She specializes in creating captivating imagery and story telling combining the historic practice of tintype photography and modern production design. Growing up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the 90’s gave her a careful eye and appreciation for historic art forms and the desire to preserve these mediums.
Amelia Rozear
Rhode Island
Painter and Illustrator
Website
Description:
Her work engages themes of transformation, pulling elements of a divine “other world” into scenes of girlhood, original narratives, and imagined reality. She is fascinated by the numerous ways narrative illustration has shaped history, and looks forward to publishing graphic novels of her own.
Bellamy Mitchell
Chicago
Illustration
Instagram
Description:
An illustrator based in Chicago.
Carol Hilleary
West Virginia
Painter
Website
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Carol Hilleary is a painter living in Cross Lanes, West Virginia. Her work is identifiable with its highly blended softness. In order to feed her desire for details, Carol pursued some architectural pen and ink drawings which lead to some historical sites displaying her work.
Emily Flake
New York
Cartoonist
Website
Description:
Emily makes cartoons and writes for The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, the New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, and many other publications. She had a weekly strip called Lulu Eightball that carried the jokes that are too vulgar for grown-up publications and too racy for MAD, back when alt-weeklies were strong and we were young
Hannah Rothstein
Asheville
Graphic Design
Website
Description:
Rothstein’s art is poignant and impactful, yet easy to relate to. She releases her work where people from all backgrounds feel comfortable approaching it: online and via social media.
Jocelyn Tsaih
New York
Multi media
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She is a painter, illustrator, and muralist. She received her BFA in Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts. Though she works in various mediums, the connecting thread throughout her work is her depiction of amorphous figures. Often portrayed in abstracted, liminal spaces, she aims to touch on the emotional aspects as well as the otherworldliness of our human experience.
Kelsey Kilcrease
New Mexico
Muralist and Illustrator
Website
Description:
A visual artist based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, her primary focus is painting, with work ranging from digital illustrations to large scale murals. Her work is a celebration of the rich and diverse culture of the Southwest, with a particular emphasis on family and identity .
Luke Haynes
Asheville
Multi media
Website
Description:
Luke Haynes is an internationally acclaimed textile artist who has redefined quilting as a contemporary fine art form. Raised in poverty across the American South and diagnosed as autistic, Haynes turned to creative problem-solving as a way to build comfort, structure, and identity in a world that often felt unpredictable. Quilting became his language of survival—first as a self-taught teenager, and later as a lifelong practice of transformation.
Shar Tui'asoa
Hawaii
Illustrator
Website
Description:
Punky Aloha Studio is the illustration studio of Shar Tuiasoa, a freelance illustrator based in Kailua, Oahu. After studying Fine Art at her local community college for 6 years, Shar moved to California to earn her BFA in Illustration. She moved back to Hawaii shortly after and started Punky Aloha Studio in the summer of 2018.
Tom Toro
Oregon
Cartoonist
Website
Description:
Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author who has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. Tom is currently working on a graphic memoir about becoming an artist during turbulent times
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