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Every Flower That Blooms Had a Bee That Believed in It – Kari Black

For Kari Black the environment has never been an afterthought; utilizing his platform and work as an artist to bring awareness back to the original and irreplaceable creations of our planet.

Zara Cimone: Redefining Self and Purpose

Zara Cimone, an upcoming artist in New York City, uses various mediums to showcase her work often characterized by bright colors, and continuous clean brushstrokes. Cimone’s work often features everyday black life through her creative scope.

Pilgrimage to the Self: Nat Girsberger in Conversation with the Desert

The desert landscape is not only an aesthetic artist Nat Girsberger expresses in her work, it is a sensibility and ethos she lives by.

Heavy Hitters in the Second City: ANGER and the CMK Crew

Let’s take it back to the early graffiti scene in Chicago. Back before CTA train lines were color-coded. Back when feuds were battles between set tribes, and the street was the sole midwife of graffiti culture.

Toys Not Included: Building a Home for Seattle’s Street Art Community

Founded in 2023 by artist GirlSpit, Toys Not Included began almost by accident. After being invited to curate a street art exhibition for a local gallery, she gathered many of her favorite Seattle artists and jokingly titled the show Toys Not Included. While preparing for the exhibition, a group of friends covered the gallery windows with large-scale paste-ups, transforming the exterior into an artwork of its own. The collaboration was so rewarding that they decided to return the following year, unknowingly establishing what would become Seattle’s largest annual street art exhibition.

Wingchow: Delving Into the Divine Through Symbol, Spirit, and Search

Ultimately, Wingchow’s work does not try to pin anything down. It leaves room. Playful, intuitive, and open-ended, her paintings remind us that not everything needs to be explained to be felt.

Side B: Kevin Cincotta’s One Wild Ride

Kevin Cincotta builds paintings like sequences—compressed, rhythmic, exact. Teal trucks, slate-blue faces, terracotta saints: a tight visual vocabulary repeated, bent, and sharpened across murals and canvases. Moving between Brooklyn, highways, and far-flung walls, his work treats narrative like a passing landscape—fragmented, portable, and always in motion.

Melrick Steele: Points of Connection

Melrick Steele’s style bridges the gap between real life and abstract, mixing traditional Afrocentric elements with the reality of the Black American experience. “Culture is sometimes misinterpreted or misrepresented, so my work celebrates the complexity in a good way.”

Deep Roots of Home: CRASH at SPOT

As you walk into SPOT, a gallery space located in Calle Loiza, one of the most vibrant and culturally diverse communities of the San Juan area, the colorful style that distinguishes John Matos, best known as CRASH, blends into perfect harmony with its surroundings.

Emily Ding: Tenderness and Tenacity in Humanity

Emily Ding’s murals are an intimate conversation between body, nature, and soul. Her work is a narrative of inter-connection between all things physical and spiritual, a story of meaning as old as culture itself.