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Featured Live Painter – Emma Gardner

owl with frameEmma Gardner is a third generation painter born and raised in Philadelphia she moved to Flagstaff her primary residence when she finished her studies at University of Delaware where she studied Art Restoration. Her paintings reflect her love of art history and incorporate many diverse themes and iconic references intermixed with Calaveras and Saints, Big Eyed Baby Animals and the surrealistic Earth Girl paintings. A large collection of her work can be seen at MartAnnes Breakfast Palace 112 Route 66 in Downtown Flagstaff.

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Featured Live Painter – Griffin

Treehouse_griffinGriffin was born in Nairobi, Kenya, raised in Sedona, AZ & is currently based out of Oakland, CA. Griffin is an artist of many mediums & themes, and is a Muralist, Fine Artist & Digital Designer. His body of his work incorporates a fusion of elements from our modern technological age with motifs from the old world. He weaves such themes through a seamless use of form, movement & composition. Whether it’s illustrated on a smooth canvas or on a decayed urban wall. His work strikes a chord with one’s imagination and its possibilities. Griffin is considered one to be one of the Pioneers of Live Art in the Southern California Electronic Music scene, beginning in early 2001. Over the years he has since had the pleasure to paint, perform and collaborate with a diverse set of Iconic musical artists ranging from Afrika Bambaataa to Kraddy & many more.

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Featured Live Painter – Keri Nicole Pollard

birds-on-a-wireArtist by design, designer by nature.

An Arizona transplant born and raised in upstate New York, Keri Nicole Pollard utilizes the juxtaposition of simple subject matter against bold and abstract geometry to create stunning visual textures. Inspired by the simplicity of nature, her exciting color combinations and unique drip technique create graceful movement throughout each piece and throughout each collection in it’s entirety. Using her passion for design as a catalyst in creating fresh and exciting pieces, she hopes that her work will inspire others to experiment with the emotions that color can evoke in their lives.

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Featured Live Painter – Matthew Koscica aka Lofti

3Matthew is a live artist, jeweler, and sculpture, reigning from the beautiful mountains of Flagstaff, Arizona. Providing the visual gateway into the surreal dreamscapes of the imagination, Matthew creates breathtakingly unique glimpses into the psychedelic interpretations of his live surroundings and experiences.

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Featured Live Painter – Adam Dumper “Dumperfoo”

dumperfoo-1Dumperfoo is a live artist, event promoter and community leader from Tempe, Arizona. Bridging the gap between music and art with a paint brush as his instrument to create life on a canvas. That is a fair description of this modern day “Renaissance Man”. Live Art By Dumper: If your eyes are open I’m sure you have seen this phrase on hundreds of flyers throughout the US for concerts, festivals and various clubs. You may have wondered, “What’s a Dumper?” and “What kind of live art does Dumper do?” After many years of finding his place in the art community Dumper has pioneered a live progressive style of art. He has taken his art from inside a paint stained studio onto the stage of a live venue where people can experience everything from the first sketch on a blank canvas to him signing his name on a completed work of art.

Dumper is also the promoter of Arizona’s longest running hip hop weekly “The Blunt Club” and catch him there every Thursday night creating mind blowing pieces of art live on stage. As if this didnt keep him busy enough, he also tours with three different bands (Drunken Immortals, The Insects, and Crusher Sound System) doing show after show, city after city, exposing new fans to his craft.

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Featured Live Painter – Bahe Whitethorne, Jr.

Shiprock_bwjInfluenced deeply by, family roots and heritage, and in Native Fine Arts, Contemporary Arts, as well as childhood begins of, Pop Comic art and Japanese Anime. Bahe’s art re-tells traditional Navajo stories, mythologies, with subconscious archetypes that relate to individuals own culture’s, myths and heritage, in the hope to help reconnect people with each other and share our humanity.

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Featured Live Painter – Erika Jaynes

e-jaynes-2Painter and Tattooer out of Tempe, Arizona, Erika Jaynes makes art that has weird surreal themes, often involving unnatural figures and strangely morphed animals, with a colorful comic book and graffiti-esque style. Much of her artwork has dark underlying themes, but with serene characters as the inhabitants. She’s been painting and making art since she was a child, but also as degrees in the Fine Arts from Arizona State University.


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