Tami Adedayo
N. Minneapolis, Minnesota (OMG Studios Innovation Lab Artist)
Tami is an emerging artist. She is skilled in painting, drawing, and specializes in beadwork by creating pieces where beauty and love can emerge. More >>
Teni Adedayo
N. Minneapolis, Minnesota (OMG Studios Innovation Lab Artist)
Ella Beard
Minneapolis, Minnesota
15 year old Ella founded “VIBE Art,” which stands for “Visual Inspiration by Ella,” with a mission to inspire others through her creative talents. Since 2021, she’s been creating inspirational and colorful canvas paintings. She hopes to inspire other youth and show her peers that business ownership isn’t just for adults. More >>
LaKelle Brawley
Montgomery, Alabama
LaKelle Brawley is a mixed media artist and painter whose work explores softness, healing, femininity, and the emotional depth of Black womanhood. Through acrylic paint, textured materials, and beaded elements, she creates expressive works that celebrate vulnerability, resilience, and self nurturing. More >>
Daphne Burgess
Sacramento, California
Daphne Burgess was born and raised in Sacramento, CA, but has deep roots in the South, with both parents born and raised in Alabama and spending every summer there as a child. More >>
Giovanni Caprice
N. Minneapolis, Minnesota (Juxtaposition Artist)
Giovanni Caprice is a multidisciplinary artist, collector of stories, and architect of improbable encounters. Working across collage, sculpture, installation, performance, and social interventions, Caprice creates environments that blur the boundaries between memory, mythology, luxury, migration, and aspiration. More >>
Joseph Ra Cole
Saint Paul, Minnesota (OMG Studios Innovation Lab Artist)
Brother Ra is an artist that uses history, poetry, and painting to empower his community and tell the story of his ancestors. He has been in OMG Studio Innovation Lab for 4 years and is striving to connect young people in the Afrikan Diaspora. More >>
Zaria Dunn
Wetumpka, Alabama
Zaria Dunn is a self-taught portrait artist from Montgomery Alabama. Originally a colored pencil portrait artist, Zaria has expanded her practice with acrylic markers and acrylic paints, to create room for her to develop her skills. Through her art, she seeks create images that draw attention to details. More >>
Seitu Jones
Saint Paul, Minnesota (OMG Studios Art Innovation Lab Featured Mentor)
Artist and advocate Seitu Ken Jones has been tending the soil of community through art for more than 40 years. Throughout his career, he has harnessed the tools of visual art, infrastructure, and civic engagement to create work that links history to the present and honors the community’s assets — from its historic figures to natural resources to cultural traditions. More >>
Carly Linder-Roman
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A visual artist, healer using art as therapy and meditation. Carly is an advocate for children with autism and loves her little doggies. More >>
Avi Noelle
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Avi is a multidisciplinary artist based in St. Paul, Minnesota and has recently completed her B.A. in Studio Art and Psychology at Grinnell College. She is drawn to observing habits, bodily responses, social interactions, and moments of discomfort as a way of understanding both herself and others. More >>
Jayla Poe
Birmingham, Alabama
Jayla Poe is a painter from Birmingham, Alabama, and a graduate of Alabama State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her work centers women of color and blends surrealist elements with bold color and symbolism to explore identity, emotion, and personal experience. More >>
Curtis Riley, Jr.
Oakland, CA
My work explores the intersection of memory, ancestry, and cultural resilience within the African American experience. Through painting, illustration, and mixed media, I create visual narratives that examine how history, family, and community shape identity across generations. More >>
Wren Westdal
Minneapolis, Minnesota
I am a 16 year old student at DeLaSalle and I am always drawn to Vibrant colors. I love creating and challenging myself with new tips and tricks. More >>