Boulder Creek Festival is just around the corner! Street Wise Arts is excited to announce our artist lineup for the 2025 Art Battle and Community Mural.
Community Mural:
Lizzy Truskin
Art Battle:
Dan Ossandon
Ian Chovies
Isaac Lucero
Julie Young
Katie Curcio
Paula Camacho
Ram Jillio
Shaylen Broughton
Sofi Rami
Wey Mnky
Join Lizzy Truskin for a Community Mural Project in the Kids Zone! A great activity for the whole family.
Watch 10 artists live paint Adirondack chairs during the Art Battle on Saturday, May 24 and Sunday, May 25 in the Art Zone. Vote for your favorite chair during the festival weekend. The top 3 artists receive an additional cash prize. The finished chairs will be available for purchase through an online auction to support future programs of Street Wise Arts (a 501c3 nonprofit organization).
Learn more about each artist or sign up for a volunteer shift below!
Community Muralist: Lizzy Truskin
Lizzy Truskin is an artist from Denver who specializes in mixed-media paintings. She grew up in Denver and was a public high school teacher before moving to art full-time. Lizzy currently instructs after-school art programs for Redline Contemporary Arts Center, art classes for Denver Parks & Rec, and youth and adult art programming at the Denver Art Museum and Art Students League of Denver. She loves combining and experimenting with new materials and connecting with her community through art-making!
Art Battle: Dan Ossandon
Dan Ossandon is a graphic artist known for bold, colorful, and playful designs that blend retro-futuristic charm with a modern aesthetic. Influenced by mid-century modern design and vintage posters, their work features strong geometric shapes, clean lines, and vibrant compositions. With a focus on striking outlines and simplified forms, their art evokes both nostalgia and contemporary energy. Each piece tells a visual story, balancing classic design principles with a fresh, dynamic sensibility.
Art Battle: Ian Chovies
Ian Stewart aka Ian Chovies, is a multidisciplinary mural artist based in Manitou Springs, Colorado. He graduated from Humboldt State University in 2013 with a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. Ian combines his love for all creatures, both real and imagined, in his artwork
Art Battle: Isaac Lucero
Isaac Lucero is a local Xicano tattoo artist from Southwest Denver who specializes in black and grey tattoos. Isaac’s style of art is influenced by his love of graffiti and his Mexican and Xicano cultural heritage. He has been tattooing for 16 years and currently works at a private tattoo studio in Arvada, CO.
Art Battle: Julie Young
Julie Young is a visual artist based in Northern Colorado. After growing up in Indiana, she later spent time in Florida and the Big Island of Hawaii, and she moved to Colorado in 2022 to further pursue her visual art and circus-arts career. Each of these experiences has infused Julie's work with a deep appreciation for movement, energy, and the unseen connections that weave through life.
Her art explores the balance between the spiritual world, the circus, metaphysics, and the complexities of human existence. Through various mediums - primarily acrylic paint - Julie creates vibrant and whimsical works that seek to enlighten hearts and bring joy to herself and to those who experience her art.
Art Battle: Katie Curcio
Katie Curcio is a painter known for her vibrant, fluid depictions of nature. With a background in plein-air painting and large-scale murals, she captures the beauty of landscapes and wildlife with dynamic color and movement. Having painted in locations from southern France to the Rocky Mountains, Katie brings a deep appreciation for place into her work. She has participated in Colorado mural festivals, chalk art festivals, and plein-air festivals, and she enjoys engaging with the community through live painting.
Art Battle: Paula Camacho
Paula Camacho is a Colombian-born, Miami-raised multidisciplinary artist based in Denver, Colorado. Her work has been showcased in 38 gallery shows since 2019, including a solo exhibition in Miami during Art Basel week in 2022. She is currently a resident body painter at The Beacon in Denver, and is simultaneously working to expand her mural and tattooing portfolio.
Paula’s work is a visual exploration of change. There is an inherent oneness and interplay of external and internal phenomena that she strives to emphasize by artistically interpreting the boundlessness of the mind that shapes and is shaped by the physical realm.
Art Battle: Ram Jillio
Ramon Orlando Trujillo Ill, aka Ram Jillio, is a talented Latino artist from Arvada, Colorado. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2019. Specializing in watercolor, acrylic, oil paint, and digital media, these practices form the core of his work, and he has recently began to explore sculpture. In early 2023, he became a finalist for the Larimer Bridge renovation sculptural project in Denver, and he continues to seek opportunities to showcase his sculpture debut.
Since graduating and navigating the challenges of the pandemic, Ramon has completed over 20 public and private art projects. An active member of the local community, he curates pop-up art nights and group exhibitions throughout the year, driven by his passion for art and culture.
Art Battle: Shaylen Broughton
Shaylen Broughton is an internationally-collected abstract artist living in Denver, CO. She obtained her BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design in 2011. Her artistic ambition, however, began long before college. Formally taught by her Grandmother Grace, Broughton went on to excel in the arts throughout grade school and beyond.
In March 2014, Broughton began her career as a visual artist. She has exhibited in group and solo shows and appears in private collections worldwide. In addition, she has worked with several nonprofits, leading community art projects such as large-scale interior and exterior murals and after-school art programs.
Art Battle: Sofi Rami
Sofi Rami is a first-generation Colombian American whose vibrant style is a kaleidoscope of cultural influences and bold artistic exploration. Her journey began with a deep desire to forge connections on a human level. Sofi Rami's public murals are the ultimate expression of that desire. Her public works serve as bridges to empower communities, while her studio work delves into a more intimate conversation within herself - one that she works out in the studio using elements of realism, surrealism, minimalism, and abstraction. Sofi Rami utilizes acrylics and spray paint to create dynamic and dreamlike landscapes across both practices. These vibrant abstract spaces are vessels for weaving together personal narratives, cultural heritage, and a profound connection to the natural world.
Art Battle: Wey Mnky
Wey Mnky is a Denver-based artist and designer known for bold colors, intricate designs, and a dynamic fusion of styles. Drawing inspiration from graffiti, pop art, contemporary art, illustration, and abstract influences, his work bursts with energy and creativity. Playful characters and whimsical themes bring his art to life, blending spontaneity with meticulous detail to create immersive, visually captivating experiences.
