Lauren Amanda Garrett (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist. Ancestor work and spirituality inform Lauren's overall process. She primarily braids music, visual art, poetry, with media that includes beadwork, photography, and experimental performance art. Lauren is Federally enrolled with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. She also embodies ancestral bloodlines of Celtic, Nordic, and Teutonic origins. Lauren's first four original "Indigenous Flower Fairies" paintings are on display at the Fort Bridger State Historic site in southwestern Wyoming.
Khadija Jahmila (b.1993, Maryland) is an Afro-Caribbean visual artist, creative entrepreneur, and thrift hunter. She is best known for her surreal and futuristic original collage artworks including her popular “Back to Love, Back to Cosmology” zodiac series. Specializing in cut-paper and digital collage, Khadija creates cosmic worlds that explore Afrofuturism and celebrate the otherworldliness of the African diaspora.
I've always enjoyed making things but I fell away from it in my 20s, although I flexed creative muscles when it came to writing and photography. It was only in my mid-30s—paradoxically a time of both stagnancy and seismic changes—that I reclaimed the makery part of myself and wove it into my life as a kind of therapy. In my 40s a friend and I started selling our art at a few dark/indie craft shows each year.
I create sports graphics because of my love for the sports world and art world.