Carmit Haller is a visual communications designer, and the owner of Carmit Design Studio. For the past two decades she has been working as a lead graphic designer in the fields of consumer market, high-tech startups and luxury real estate. Her passion lies in poster design and typography. Carmit Haller is the recipient of worldwide prestigious awards such as Graphis and Rockport Publishing. Originally from Israel, Carmit holds a BA in Social Work from Tel Aviv University, and a BFA in New Media from The Academy of Art University, San Francisco. She currently resides in San Francisco, California.
Courtney Alnutt's work reveals personal insight into her life and reflects self-exploration. Her work also documents her own personal academic journey. The techniques used in her work are those traditionally employed for representational art and produced with oil paints on fine linen panels.
Maya Mekira is a contemporary artist working in four mediums: sculpture, painting, manga style and illustrations drawing, and sculptural painting. She always tries to create works that give the viewer the impression that they are breathing.
Chichetam Okoronta (b.1997) is a self-taught visual artist living in Owerri, Nigeria. He creates realistic figurative artworks that explore his thoughts and views on the beauty of the mind and how it defines every aspect of our experience with life as it relates to mental health awareness and self-discovery.
Internationally renowned as the Queen of Double Eyes, Alex Garant studied visual arts at Notre-Dame–De-Foy College just outside Quebec City. After graduating in 2001, she moved in Toronto, Canada. She decided to truly commit to her passion for Arts after suffering from a heart attack in 2012, changing forever how she would see the world.
An artist of multiple disciplines living in Scotland, Noar Lee Naggan has worked in animation, graphic design, web design, and illustration. Chiefly interested in telling stories through his art, Noar aspires to one day write his own books and illustrate them. Nowadays Noar has also started moving towards the world of fine art painting/drawing.
Debra Keirce works from the size of your palm to four feet tall. The true miniature pieces are less than 25 in sq and ⅙ life size or smaller. It is a genre that harkens back to the work of the scribes and European miniature portrait artists, and it intrigues me. Miniature work is so small and detailed that it invites the viewer to lean in, get closer, and experience the art with more intimacy.
Forest Rogers, daughter of two painters, received an MFA in Costume Design from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Forest has an eclectic history. She has painted nine-foot angels in a cathedral dome, and sculpted creatures that may dwell in your toybox. Creating education toys, she collaborated with palaeontologists on dinosaur prototypes, and with aquariums on sea life and poison dart frog models. In recent years she has focused entirely on her own art, exploring mythology, fairy and folktale, and the surreal.
Karin Hauck is self-taught, her serious involvement in painting only began in 2016 after she completed a painting course in the technique of the old masters. Since then, she has been constantly evolving. This happened mainly through numerous visits to museums where she found inspiration in the old masters of the Italian Renaissance such as Raffael and Leonardo or by Flemish and French painters such as Van Eyck, Vermeer, Ingres, Flandrin and Bouguerau.
Sarah Lee was born in San Francisco, and currently lives and works in the Bay Area. She is a self-taught sculptor, and most of the skills – welding, bondo, resin, fiberglass, and auto body painting - were learned from mechanics and body men working at her father’s auto body shop. She occupies a small room on the first floor of the auto body shop, which was originally a storage space and eventually became her studio.
Giulia Grillo aka Petite Doll is an Italian artist based in the UK. After studying for a Bachelor in Graphic Design at The Academy of Fine Arts in Italy and a Masters of Photography in UAL, she started to combine the idea of surrealism to transform herself into fictional characters, building a bridge between reality and fantasy. She handcrafts her own sets and props with the use of polymer clay, SFX prosthetics, resin, plaster etc. and often collaborates with artists from around the world.
Michaela Ďurišová is a fine art photographer, and a designer of floral accessories and decorations. In her spare time, she enjoys watercolour painting and singing, but her heart is drawn more and more to fine art photography. She is enchanted by art itself.