2025 muralists!
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Jamie John
Jamie John is a queer and trans multidisciplinary Anishinaabe and Korean-American artist from northern Michigan making prints, murals, and zines. Jamie draws inspiration from connections to land and water, his Anishinaabe culture and heritage, and the fight for trans civil rights. They are an enrolled tribal citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
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Nicole Salgar
Nicole Salgar is a painter and muralist of Latin descent whose work explores identity, culture, and human connection. Raised in Miami, her passion for travel and cultural immersion has shaped her bold, expressive style. Through artist residencies and community projects in Cuba, Europe, South America, and the East Coast, she uses art as a transformative force to inspire self-expression, elevate communities, and create meaningful dialogue.
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Bakpak Durden
Bakpak Durden, a Detroit-based artist, delves into human consciousness and spiritual existence through a deconstructed cinematic lens. Inspired by Baroque and Afro-Surrealist influences, their work combines in-depth research, introspection, and an antidisciplinary approach to craft compelling, narrative-driven experiences. Renowned for their paintings depicting subjects in transitional states and large-scale murals that foster a deep connection with local communities, Durden continues to exhibit their work and create public art projects nationwide.
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Angie Jerez
Angie Jerez is a Colombian muralist and visual artist based in Atlanta, GA. Born in Bogotá, she moved to the U.S. in 2012. With a background in graphic design, her work explores the relationship between nature and the urban environment, highlighting beauty in forgotten spaces. Through detailed linework, organic shapes, and vibrant compositions, she creates scenes where nature blends with urban surroundings, finding harmony in unexpected places. Her murals can be found in the U.S., UK, Mexico, and Colombia.
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Thiago Porraz
Thiago is a Grand Rapids-born and raised painter and multidisciplinary artist. His work explores themes of queerness, trauma, neurodivergence. His favorite place to be is on the shore of any of the Great Lakes.
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Quinn Faylor
Quinn Faylor is a queer non-binary multidisciplinary artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Working across painting, printmaking, installation, and sculpture, their practice is characterized by a vibrant color palette, playful compositions, and a strong sense of movement. Through abstraction, Faylor explores relationships as creative endeavors, investigating themes of balance, trust, and transformation. Their work is an exploration of the body’s relationship to joy and the ways we can stretch, grow, and care for one another across boundaries.
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Keya Tama
Keya Tama is a South African artist based in New York. Inspired by contrasting the past and present, Keya's practice explores recurring themes that combine ancient and contemporary iconography, family and community, mono-myths, and minimalism.His work has been the focus of numerous exhibitions and mural projects including the Cartoon Network Gallery, Los Angeles; The Museum of Anthropology, Canary Islands; and Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, among others. Tama currently lives and works in New York.
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George F. Baker III
George F. Baker III, also known as GFB3, is a Nebraska-born, Detroit Grown, and Atlanta-Raised Creator. Using his instruments of design, illustration, and production, he employs a playful childlike spirit to engage the inner-child we all have. With a bevy of creative curiosity, he seeks to inspire people to become the person they deeply desire to be.
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La Güita
Bringing magic and folklore to life, La Güita (she/her) is a Calgary-based Nicaraguan-Canadian artist whose murals and illustrations burst with vivid colour and movement that lean into the sacredness of identity. Her work transforms public spaces into dreamlike landscapes that celebrate ancestry and joy.
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Bunnie Reiss
Bunnie Reiss is a multifaceted visual artist known for her murals, sculptures, and mosaics. She has shown in both the United States and internationally in galleries, alternative spaces, bookstores, abandoned buildings, and fields and forests. Her brightly colored folk murals decorate many countries and can be found in Los Angeles, Mexico, Italy, Paris, India, Philippines, Detroit, Milwaukee, New York, and San Francisco. She holds an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and has lived, worked, and created all over the world, including in rural Colorado, France, Los Angeles, and for over twenty years in the Bay Area. Originally from Maryland and raised in Colorado, Bunnie currently lives and creates in a small desert town just outside of Joshua Tree National Park, where she is slowly building up a five-acre property known as Lilac Lane Farms.
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Taylor Berman
I'm an artist and educator living in the St. Croix Valley of Wisconsin, about 30 miles east of the Twin Cities. My work consists of both aesthetic and functional art forms, from printmaking and mural painting, to knife making and fly tying. Regardless of medium, the work I create is often inspired by my love for spending time outdoors, and reflects many of the animals, plants, and geology observed while exploring new places and various aspects of the natural world.
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Emily Luyk
Emily Luyk is an illustrator, fine artist, and muralist based in Grand Rapids. She earned her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design where she studied illustration and metalworking. Her detailed drawings and paintings depict surreal, fantastical scenes focused on flora, fauna, and the cosmos.
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Thumy Phan
I’m a Vietnam born illustrator, artist, muralist and designer currently based in Oklahoma City. I strive to tell stories with my work and bring these stories to life with bold colors and whimsical details.
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Rhiannan Sibbald
Rhiannan Sibbald is a full-time muralist and illustrator based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is best known for her whimsical artworks with flat shapes, playful letterforms, energetic colors and joyful characters. Rhiannan’s creations invoke a childlike wonder that celebrates the magic found in nature and our communities.
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Jasmine Bruce
Jasmine Bruce is a visionary muralist and illustrator whose work explores themes of healing, spirituality, and identity. Through large-scale public art, she brings untold stories to life, fostering connection and conscious awareness. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she is a Grand Rapids Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree and Newsmaker of the Arts, recognized for her impact as both an artist and community advocate.
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Jay
Jay is a multi-media illustrator based in good ol’ Grand Rapids. Heavily inspired by comics and cartoons, their body of work is graphic, colorful, and expressive.
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Mariell
Mariell Guzman is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Dallas, Texas. Drawing inspiration from nature and her bicultural upbringing, she creates vibrant and surrealistic playgrounds that reflect her exploration of identity and the challenge of adaptation. Her bold and colorful murals can be found throughout the United States and Mexico, and she has collaborated with renowned clients such as Meow Wolf, Pepsi, and American Express.
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Muralmatics
Former graffiti artist turned art teacher, insert funding cuts, turned full time artist, Dustin specializes in community-based, site-specific, large-scale mural projects. With his little business, Muralmatics, Dustin facilitates mural camps for middle and high school students, and a paid apprenticeship for emerging artists interested in painting big walls.
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David McGuffie
David McGuffie (b.1994) is a Detroit based painter/illustrator interested in how communities relate to land and Place.
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Max Coleman
Max Coleman is an illustrator and painter from Denver, Colorado who works under the moniker "Oak Bloak". The human condition, mythology, and ecology are all recurring motifs used throughout his drawings which vary wildly in subject matter and execution. Informed by classical illustration and printmaking his murals take on a narrative feel, inviting the viewer to become part of the picture.
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Madeline MacKenzie
Madeline MacKenzie is a painter and designer from Albuquerque, New Mexico who specializes in folk-inspired paintings and murals. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California. She’s really into outsider art, old stories about old places, and diy community art initiatives in any and all forms.