Leandra Berrios is an artist who ties the abstract world with realism. She loves to stimulate the mind using the color theory while opening the viewers’ perspective. Her art sends out a message that gets the viewers into thinking of an abundant positive shift.

Kim is a full-time clinical psychologist in Grand Rapids, MI. She has been painting since 1996 and likes to use watercolor, colored pencils, and acrylic. She is interested in how art promotes social justice and mental well being in communities.

Aya Hasan is an international student bringing a a diffrent artistic prespective straight from the Middle East and North Africa. She is a self taught makeup artist and painter. Her inspiration was initiated by space,the galaxy and the stars.

Matthew Farrell grew up spending his time building forts, box cars, bike jumps, and anything else out of scrap wood and metal. Now living and working in Grand Rapids, as an artist he uses these materials through sculpture and printmaking to explore his personal relationships. Placing emphasis on materials, space, and interactions between forms. He received his BFA in Printmaking from Colorado Mesa University and his MFA in Printmaking from Kendall College of Art and Design.

Tylan Davis is a graphic designer from Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work explores experience and storytelling through large scale environments. The style of his work and his process are influenced by an interest in the history of commercialism and pop culture, and typically include historical symbols to convey the message.

Erin began making art by capturing the features of family members in portraits. She sharpened her work through high school and college, graduating from Calvin College (now Calvin University) with a Bachelor of Arts. Erin creates for the joy of creating with a particular love of drawing in many different mediums. She finds motivation in her close relationships and frequently displays her love of food and animals in her work.

Finding beauty in the broken, Barbara works steps away from traditional art media to embrace the deep red of an old traffic sign, or the sheen of a vinyl record, or the jumble of possibilities hidden in old telephone wire. She connects these fragments by painting, weaving, sculpting, and fabricating and give them new life in celebrating the flora and fauna of our world.

Nick Nortier is an illustrator, mural painter, and printmaker, but also enjoys woodworking, performing spoken word poetry, and the overall process of making creative work. Growing up, his main interests were skating and drawing, two hobbies which would eventually merge into one. From skating, he learned to look at the environment in new and creative ways, which would end up influencing how his work interacts with the area that it’s placed in. He believes the role of street art and murals is to be an art form that is accessible to everyone.

My name is Hallie LeBlanc. I have an MFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and currently live in the Creston neighborhood of Grand Rapids, Michigan. In between taking care of my small toddler and making artwork, I teach in after-school art programs. I hike a ton and love finding wildflowers in all seasons, watching migratory birds, and keeping an eye out for gnomes.

Ryan Crawley is a resident of Grand Rapids, MI, located in the Creston neighborhood. Ryan graduated from Western Michigan Universities Gwen Frostic School of Arts in 2010 with a Bachelors in Fine Art emphasis in painting. His work maintained a very stylized approach painting, and this has become the sort of signature to his work. Movement and color have played a large part in the pieces he creates, and that stems from trips from Wisconsin to Michigan. Light is the past, present, future. The only thing that changes is our perception upon the moment we first noticed it.

Kate Westbrook is an artist currently residing in the Creston neighborhood and is pursuing a B.F.A. in Printmaking at Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids. Although working primarily as a printmaker in her personal practice, Kate takes interest and inspiration through painting, textile art, and natural dyeing as well. Her work is focused on the observation and contemplation of the natural world, and the relationship we as humans have with it.

Kelly Allen is a visual artist who works with both traditional and non-traditional materials to create paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Allen's work has exhibited in New York, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle, Tokyo and Melbourne, among other creative epicenters. She holds an MFA in Drawing from Kendall College of Art and Design and a BA in Painting from Humboldt State University, and teaches a wide range of artistic practices to people of all ages and abilities.

Kevin Forest Wolfrom is a painter working out of Grand Rapids, MI. Graphite being his first love, Kevin eventually gravitated towards painting. Having a great appreciation for the intricacy of the stars and what lies amongst them, a good portion of Kevins's work is inspired by it. Having the ability and freedom of painting aspects of space is an amazing feeling.

Anya Potter is a stylistic illustrator born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan currently studying at Hope College. Influenced by the rich culture of her Carribean heritage, Anya strives to tell vibrant stories through her artwork that is often aimed at children through a variety of mediums.

Kyle Brand is a freelance illustrator, photographer, and designer living and working in Grand Rapids, MI. He has been drawing before he could even write, inspired by comics, video games, and other media of the time. He spent his childhood creating long and short-form narratives and comics both original and inspired. Currently, he is using these past narrative experiences to inspire his large paintings along with both traditional and digital illustrations and designs.

Nancy Morales is a multi-disciplinary artist but am primarily known for her alternative-style, sterling silver jewelry. In 2015, she started her multi-disciplinary business, Weird Wolf Arte, which focuses on jewelry and metalsmithing along with illustration, printmaking, and small sculpture.

Katie Moore is an artist, project manager, and Senior Exhibitions Manager at ArtPrize. She is passionate about the Grand Rapids art community and bringing challenging contemporary art to West Michigan. Moore has a long history of working with artists, engineers, municipalities, and contractors to install a wide range of ambitious public artwork. Prior to ArtPrize, Moore was Director of Community Engagement at Kendall College of Art & Design, and Exhibitions Coordinator at Open Concept Gallery.