Jacqueline Valenzuela is a multimedia artist currently residing in City Terrace, while creating out of her studio space in Whittier. Valenzuela's work is centered around her experiences as a woman within the Chicano world of lowriding. By focusing on women lowriders like herself she brings their stories to a wider audience that would otherwise be unaware about women who cruise, work on and cherish their Lowriders. Her works on canvas use bold colors, portraiture and the urban landscape to create compositions that emphasize femininity in a male-dominated world. Her installation work revolves around using found objects to create a sense of home and familiarity to the viewers. Lastly, her newest extension of her art practice has pushed her boundaries more in the lowrider world. Valenzuela has begun to paint on Lowriders as well as found car parts to force the male dominated automotive industry to also acknowledge the impact that women can have when entering these spaces. Her art practice reflects the deep roots she has planted in the lowrider community by bridging the gap between fine art and this underrepresented community.

Katie Sunnerrow is an LA based expressive abstract fine artist. She became infatuated with art when she began to find her own unique style and develop her skills during her studies at The University of Georgia. Her works are remarkable for how they bring about nostalgia, memories and warmth.

Mei Xian Qiu is a Los Angeles based artist. She was born in the town of Pekalongan, on the island of Java, Indonesia, to a third generation Chinese minority family. At birth, she was given various names in preparation for societal collapse and variant potential futures, a Chinese name, an American name and an Indonesian name given by her parents, as well as a Catholic name by the local priest. In the aftermath of the Chinese and Communist genocide, the family immigrated to the United States. She was moved back and forth several times between the two countries during her childhood - her parents initial reaction to what they perceived as the amorality of life in the West countered with the uncertainty of life in Java. Partially as a result of a growing sense of restlessness, her father joined the U.S. Air force and the family lived across the country, sometimes staying in one place for just a month at a time. She has also been based in Europe, China, and Indonesia as an adult.

Lauren "Siyowin" Peters, an extraordinary force, emerges as a fearless and compassionate Native American contemporary artist, wielding the transformative power of her craft to ignite societal change. As a painter, stencil artist, printmaker, street artist, and social activist, she weaves a tapestry of artistry that transcends conventional boundaries, captivating hearts and minds with its resounding call for justice and equality.

Hailing from Native California, Siyowin proudly embraces her diverse heritage, which encompasses Native American-Dakota Sioux and Mexican roots. Her personal connection to the struggles faced by her ancestors is a driving force behind her artistic endeavors. Siyowin's grandparents endured the hardships of being forced to attend boarding schools where their Native language was not allowed, further fueling her determination to reclaim and celebrate her cultural identity through her art.

Beyond her artistic achievements, Siyowin has also excelled in other areas. She showcased her athleticism as an All-State volleyball player and was recruited directly from high school to receive a full-ride volleyball scholarship to Concordia College in New York, where she dedicated herself to the sport and earned her bachelor's degree in Social Work. Expanding her knowledge and impact, she pursued a Master's in Social Work from the University of Southern California. Siyowin's multidimensional talents have also led her to sign with Nomad Management, a well known modeling agency in Los Angeles and Miami.

Driven by a passionate commitment to amplifying Native voices and advocating for indigenous rights, Siyowin's work encompasses both fine art and street art. Through her powerful creations, she seeks to raise awareness, inspire change, and leave an indelible mark on the world.

Big Sleeps is a world renowned artist at the apex of the lettering movement. Utilizing the letters he wrote as a child to once glorify gang culture, David Carasco aka Big Sleeps uses those same letters to now lead an artistic movement and influence a new generation of aspiring and established artists with a style synonymous to L.A. Sleeps lettering is part of the permanent collections of the Getty, Natural History Museum and have been notably showcased locally at the L.A. Louvre and internationally at HHH gallery in Japan.

Yely Diaz is Exclusively at Big Sleeps Studio in Paramount, CA full time. She is a self-taught artist that discovered her love for art at a young age. Yely committed to her first apprenticeship in the year 2005 where she later went on to achieve the position of a certified tattoo artist. She now specializes in black & grey, realism, custom designs and lettering.

Her art has been in various renowned shows such as: The High Art Of Riding Low at the Los Angeles Petersen Museum, The Lowrider Super Show, LA DUB Show, TATUAJE, From Cali With Love at Collective Ink Gallery, To name a few and is Always active in the Fine Arts.

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Alexandria Hilfiger is a painter whose uniquely expressive work carries within it a wide range of human emotion. Her work is intuitive and free, inspired by nature and the raw human experience. The idea of creating a healing experience for herself as well as the viewer informs many of her pieces during her process. Hilfiger believes that there is more beauty in the imperfections of nature and human existence; therefore allowing others to accept the undulating nature of our human experience on earth. Allowing emotion to dictate her work, her background in fashion influences her use of color and texture choices greatly.

Alexandria has been showing work since 2004. Exhibiting in New York City, having a solo show at Soho House NYC, Group show at the Chelsea Art Museum, Novare, Whiplash Studios, MILK, Art Basel Miami 2013, and in Los Angeles at the CUBE. She was recently featured in the Spring Break Art Show in New York, 2022. Alexandria works and resides in Palm Springs.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Hedi El Kholti moved to Los Angeles in 1992, working in the film industry for several years before earning a BFA degree at Art Center College of Design. Over the years he developed an intimate collage practice that materialized in a series of books and smaller fanzines. Sometimes glossy, sometimes Xeroxed, the collages draw content from various eras and include movie stills, book covers, and images from art publications and gay magazines. Part pop culture time capsule, part unfettered stream of consciousness, these works are deeply personal and autobiographical.

Hedi El Kholti has compiled a new folio of his esoteric collaged works, bound into the catalogue for Made in L.A. 2020, and a new double-sided poster, presented as a takeaway stack in the galleries of the Hammer Museum and The Huntington.

Based in her native Los Angeles, Laurie Raskin has exhibited her vividly colored abstract paintings and collages throughout the world. Trained as a designer, Raskin's education at the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a BFA and MFA, awakened in her the perceptions and skills to work in fine as well as applied art, and her ability to generate energetic, high-keyed imagery now finds her working pictorially. She has shown in galleries, museums and art fairs in Tokyo, Paris, Istanbul, New Delhi, Brussels and Miami as well as New Orleans and throughout California. In the last few years Raskin has licensed her art on such diverse applications as a fashion line in England, a vodka label for a Michigan-based micro distillery, and a designer carpet line resulting from a collaboration with Didden & Co in Brussels.

Hedy Torres was born in Colima, Mexico to a family of seven. She is currently residing in Los Angeles CA.

She moved to the United States in 2006 and obtained a Green Card and General Education Diploma (GED) in 2009.

Torres worked various jobs in order to be able to afford her education, including work as a street vendor and an Uber driver. During her time as a street vendor, Hedy came face-to-face with the harsh reality of this hard and often dangerous occupation. This experience inspired the direction of her artwork to focus on street vendors: the unseen, hardworking and often forgotten people who truly make Los Angeles the multicultural city that we all enjoy.

Various personal experiences also prompted the topic of Hedy's dissertation thesis -spotlighting the stories of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

Hedy holds a MA with an emphasis on Painting and Drawing from California State University, Northridge.

Sophia Gasparian was born in Yerevan, Armenia and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sophia Gasparian's narrative paintings intertwine childlike innocence with sociopolitical criticism and her aesthetic approach remains apart from the mainstream art, incorporating stencils, stickers, spray paint and other nontraditional media. The issues of equality of human rights worldwide, ethnic dislocation and social identity inform her everyday thinking and influence her art.Gasparian's work is archived at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. She received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her work has been exhibited at galleries in New York, Berlin and Los Angeles.

Amy Smith is a self-taught contemporary artist always evolving.

Her artwork includes murals, stencils, collage work, illustrations, digital graphic design, paint,
and spray paint, all to create one-of-a-kind pieces that reflect both her passions and fury,
juxtaposed through the lens of imagination.
While some of her work is driven by political, social, and environmental injustice, most reflect her deeply-rooted optimism and belief in the power of the feminist spirit, unity and love.

Her portrait collage series deconstructs recycled fashion magazines to represent both her love for self-expression and her contempt for excessive consumption and manipulation.
Tearing fashion magazines that are carefully crafted to objectify women, she transforms
corporate messaging into words and images that celebrate people that create our beautiful
tapestry of humanity.

When humanity is seen as more than just a number or consumer, we can connect on a deeper level.

Amy Smith's work has been featured in prestigious art exhibitions like the LA Art Show, The Other Art Fair, and has been selected for various public art initiatives including LA County Arts celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment among many others.
With her first upcoming museum show at Ontario museum at the end of 2022, she continues to expand her message throughout the art world.

Her work is internationally collected, gallery represented and featured on many tv/film shows. Her focus is to connect humanity through her art by sharing messages of a hope and unity for a better future