Yazz Atmore is just a scattered-brain barefoot babe who likes to dance with words, play in the spirit world, and dabble in art magic. She created her own degree from Metropolitan State University, earning a BA in Supporting High-Risk Youth through the Arts. Yazz is a community organizer, creative, and educator in Denver, Colorado, where she continues to mentor and create with young artists as they explore their lives, stories, and passions through the beauty of art.

Constantly inspired by the youth and community she works with, Yazz continues to develop and deepen her own artistry as an analog collagist and muralist. Her art explores and dabbles in themes of spirituality, ancient and ancestral wisdom, nature, and Afro-Futurism through storytelling, collaging, and the building/re-building of worlds. Her work is also heavily influenced by her spiritual journey as she loves exploring the spirit world with God, her Ancestors, and her Spirit Team. As an expressionist intuitive mixed media artist, she creates breathtaking hand-cut collages and digital works, using bright bold colors, metallic paints, and gold leaf.

Rob Hill @robhill.art

Rob Hill is a geometric abstract painter born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and currently living in Denver, Colorado. He holds a BFA in Painting from California College of the Arts. Hill is pursuing an MFA at the Pratt Institute.

Precise line work is present throughout many of his creative works. Hill draws color inspiration from sports teams and 90s television programs including Martin, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and In Living Color. He also finds inspiration in pioneers like Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Mark Bradford, and Carmen Herrera.

The artist’s 8 years of service in the U.S. Coast Guard influenced his methodical approach to art. His global travel and life experiences inspire his patterns and color usage. While in the Coast Guard, Hill learned valuable skills such as responsibility, consistency, and resilience.

The artist links his admiration for geometric shapes to historic Egyptian architecture, painting, and visual culture. Over time, Hill has applied his geometric aesthetic to fashion design, including denim and leather works, as well as a variety of materials such as glass, wood, marble, and metal.

Hill has created public art projects for the past 9 years, painting on basketball courts, buildings, stores, youth centers, and canvases. He considers himself an artist with deep roots in his community and aims to unify people from diverse backgrounds through the power of art.

Marcus Murray @omega_marcusus

Marcus is a Jamaican-American artist living in Denver, Colorado. His work focuses on storytelling through mediums such as comics, paintings, and digital illustrations. His passion lies in telling stories of his own heritage, fantastical characters, and black futures. When not hunched over his iPad drawing, he can be found attempting to wrangle in his dog, Kali.

Devin “Speaks” Urioste @goodlooksvol.1

Devin "Speaks" Urioste was born and raised in Denver, CO. His work speaks to his values to represent his community, stay true to his culture, forever seek knowledge, and use knowledge as a tool to facilitate critical thinking in his community. Speaks also works as an educator and uses art to create cultural dialogue. The artist wants his visual work to reflect beauty from all different angles. Speaks seeks to make people wonder and ask questions about themselves and others.

Jahna Rae @jahna.rae.art

Jahna Rae is a Denver-based painter, illustrator, and muralist. She uses bold, bright colors, patterns, and sharp contrast with realistic portraits to create dynamic works. Jahna’s experience in portrait painting and illustration allows her to use techniques to visualize topics in connection with self and others through abstract methods.

Detour @detour303

Thomas Evans, a.k.a. Detour, is an all-around creative specializing in large-scale public art, interactive visuals, portraiture, immersive spaces, and creative directing. He creates work where art and innovation meet.

A born collaborator and “military brat,” Detour pulls from every conceivable experience that shapes his landscapes and perspectives. Explaining Detour’s work is no easy task, as ongoing experimentations in visual art, music, and interactive technologies continually expand his practice. Detour focuses on expanding customary views of creativity and challenging fine-art paradigms by mixing traditional mediums with new approaches—all the while opening up the creative process from that of a singular artist, to one that thrives on multi-layered collaboration and viewer participation.

Jasmine Holmes-Piesco @metaphoricalmuse

Jasmine Holmes-Piesco is a Southern artist who creates drawings through a variety of media. She received her BFA from the University of West Florida, and her MFA from Colorado State University.

Jasmine’s works offer discourse on consumerist society and its appetite for devouring Black culture. She uses depictions of staple foods from her Creole upbringing, hair culture, music and textiles to showcase the eternal connections she keeps to her ancestral home. Her work celebrates the many colorful aspects of Black American culture while creating conservation on the multifaceted way it's consumed and regurgitated amongst the populace.

Selah Laurel @selah.laurel.art

Selah Laurel is a self-taught artist who spent the majority of her life in a basketball gym, though since she could remember she had always doodled on everything. She leaned more into her artistic side after tearing her ACL and meniscus in college. ⁠

Selah's style has grown from doodles to more intentional abstract pieces. The artist loves creating faceless people with flowers for hair, keeping things like freckles or a nose piercing but leaving the face somewhat blank in the hope that the viewer is able to feel like they are represented. ⁠