27 year old Artist, Designer, Creative Director for brllantmnds. Born and raised in St. Louis MO.

Kaila Austin is a mixed-media artist, arts administrator and mother born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. She went to college at Indiana University, triple majoring in Art History, African American African Diaspora Studies and Painting. She was the 2019 Design + Diversity Fellow through AIGA and the Burroughs Wright Fellow through the Association of African American Museums. Currently, she is a Fellow for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and seeks to add history and place into her art whenever she can.

In her paintings, she works primarily in figures, working to place everyday people into enlightened positions using the history of Western portraiture and contemporary collage as a talking point on how the past influences the present. She was one of the muralists for the Murals for Racial Justice Program and is working to create several more murals based on creating spatial justice for Black people within urban cityscape. Her work has been featured in Pattern Magazine, Pigment International Magazine and Black Art in America.

Contact:
Email: ktaustin08@gmail.com
Instagram: @kailataustin

My goal through photography is to express self reflection, transparency, and personal experiences of being a Black American. By controlling lighting and composition, I share my perspective of myself and the world around me. With my work I seek to provoke emotion and encourage the viewer to not only see my work but to think about and imagine what it means to be Black in America.

-Bold, ethereal, rich in whimsicality, a nouveau artist with a modern queer sensual twist. These are just a few words to describe The Rusty Artist’s work. Tiélere Cheatem is a daring artist whose vibrant and emotionally charged oil paintings showcase the beauty of expression through the male form. Cheatem’s artistic career has quickly grown popularity, leaving a lasting impression across the United States, Canada, and the UK. A St. Louis native, and contributor to the local Theatre scene. Cheatem was awarded Best in Show with the Metro Trans Umbrella Group’s (MTUG) art show and has had work appear in productions such as The St. Louis Actor’s Studio’s Predilections, Rebel & Misfits Productions’ Macbeth: Come Like Shadows, Community Arts Festival Live at The Grandel, and Fly North’s world premiere of The Gringo, and ShakesFestSTL A Late Summer Night’s Stroll. Follow his work on Instagram and Facebook @rutsyartist.

My name is Destini Clark. I am a St. Louis based artist and student. I currently attend UMSL as Senior in Graphic Design. I specialize in editorial makeup, hair styling, figure drawing, graphic design, beauty & fashion photography, and set design. The art I create is dedicated to black culture by storytelling through the exploration of different mediums. I mostly do work for creative black women. My style includes vibrant colors, graphic lines/shapes, and dimension with hair textures.

St. Louis based artist + designer, writer, and practitioner, Taylor operates as TAYLORTHEMIRROR, a multimedia streaming service translating art across dimensions of healing, creative + spiritual theory, and thought provocation.

Kyla Hawkins is a visual artist and activist, living and working out of St. Louis, MO. Her work has been exhibited in Atlanta, Chicago, and Saint Louis. She creates pop surrealist paintings, showcasing mental health awareness, spirituality, and African American stories.

Mee Jey is an Indian artist-mother, whose sensibilities are shaped by the mythologies and folk lore of India, historical accounts of past, archaeological remains of ancient India and her travels to the length and breadth of Indian subcontinent. She has MFA from Sam Fox School of Arts, Washington University in St. Louis (2019), Master’s degree in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and MPhil in Liberal Arts from Ambedkar University in Delhi (AUD). Recipient of McDonnell International Scholarship (2017-19) and USA States Fellowship LFP (2017), Mee’s works have been exhibited in India and in St. Louis. Currently she is practicing from St. Louis, USA

I see my work as a reflection of who I am. I aim to use my work to inspire all those around me, artist or not. Also, to show that no matter who we are or where we come from that we are all connected by experience.

Hello, my name is Erika McClellan. I am a recent Marriage and Family Therapy graduate from St. Louis University and the founder and owner of A Therapeutic Slay LLC. I founded this company in 2020 after finishing my graduate degree and being determined to use my multiple talents and educational background to help others make both internal and external changes in their life. While studying for my Marriage and Family Therapy licensure exam I continue to use my passions and talents in art, cosmetology, fashion and interior decor to connect and service my community in a variety of ways. True to the name I help people slay while making therapeutic core changes. As a clinician, I understand how our internal experience and external appearance are often intertwined. My services include braiding and loc twisting & styling (with special interests in servicing parents and children with special needs); Guided Shopping Experience at the Thrift, in this service I take clients to thrift stores to reinvent their wardrobe and; interior styling,  where I help clients create a space and home that truly represents them and is an extension of themselves. In all of these services I use my background in Family Therapy and knowledge of systems theory to build rapport, unlock creativity and make lasting client changes. A Therapeutic Slay “Helping people look and feel good since 2002”

De Nichols is a designer, arts activist, and public lecturer who mobilizes creative changemakers to address issues within the built environment through the production of interactive experiences, digital media, and social initiatives. She serves as the Principal of Design and Social Impact at Civic Creatives in St. Louis, MO, and she a co-organizer of the national Design As Protest initiative. Nichols is also a 2020 Loeb Fellow of Harvard University, lecturer at the Stanford d.school, and 2020 Transnational Fellow with Monument Lab and the Goethe Institut. She is a 2010 graduate from the Sam Fox School of Design and 2014 graduate of Brown School of Social work at Washington University.

Edo Rosenblith was born in Tel Aviv, Israel but has spent most of his life in the United States. Rosenblith received his BFA in painting in 2011 at the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in Visual Art at Washington University-St. Louis in 2017. Edo is a compulsive draftsman who works in a verity of mediums: murals, painting, drawing, printmaking, and book arts. Throughout these methods of image making, Edo implements a cartoon vernacular as a way to reexamine both personal and historical narratives.

Rosenblith has exhibited throughout St. Louis, at The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis; The Center of Creative Arts, The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, The Luminary, Fort Gondo, Des Lee Gallery, Parapet Real Humans, and The Millitzer Gallery. Rosenblith has exhibited nationally at the So What Space Gallery in Brooklyn, The International Print Center, New York; The Elmhurst Museum, Chicago and internationally, at Jenifer Nails Gallery in Frankfurt and Weserburg Museum in Bremen, Germany.

A two-year survey of Edo’s sketchbook drawings became the content of his first book, PINK, published by Fort Gondo Press in 2013. In 2017, Rosenblith illustrated a chapbook for New York-based poet Paul Legault entitled “What Dorothea Did” published by Dikembe Press.

Rosenblith lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. He became a member of Monaco USA in 2019.

Jayvn is an interdisciplinary designer who explores projects and experiences that explore progress, innovation, social equity, and environmental sustainability.

Charlie Tatum is a Creative Operational Manager. This is her current serving title at an interactive photography exhibit collection in downtown St. Louis. As a recent transplant from Atlanta, she’s coordinated a number of large scale events in the hospitality field for clients like The City of Atlanta’s mayor’s office and iHeartRadio. Charlie’s background studies in Justice and Communications at Georgia Southern University have married with her creative passions to help establish the organization, Painted Black; a group dedicated to connecting local black artists to resources and commissioned art opportunities.

(Art Culture King LLC) In my Art I love to express myself through colors and emotion through the pieces I create to show what I see compared to what the world sees.