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OUR PASSION
Art is a language of the soul. It's a powerful medium that can evoke emotions, tell stories, challenge perspectives, and inspire change. If you're passionate about art, you're in good company
2023 INNAUGURAL GALA ARTIST
ELISHEBA ISRAEL MROZIK
Queen Bee is a Fine Artist and International Award Winning Tattooist. She’s a part of Nashville Black Artists Renaissance. As the owner operator at One Drop Ink Tattoos, she is an active member of the community sponsoring charitable events, teaching classes and supporting schools and other community building endeavors
PETSZINNIA
Nashville based self taught indigenous artist, PETSZINNIA, brings eye capturing pieces that are as unique, as her. With Navajo/Creole energy, Nizhoni not only creates her art from her dreams, but also from surrounding vibes and makes them reality. With no theme, PETSZINNIA prides her artistic style on being set pieces, all while giving her pieces the ability to stand alone! She credits her ancestry, which allows her to flow naturally and freely on the canvas. PETSZINNIA enjoys the joy her pieces bring, because she believes her art will speak to you and you only in a unique way.
LEXANDER BRYANT
Bryant’s work addresses the challenges of the Black experience, but it does so through celebration. Celebrating Black children. Celebrating Black families. Celebrating Black culture. By doing so, he hopes to explain his love for the South. Beyond that, Bryant also hopes to serve as an example for other Southern artists by proving they can achieve their professional goals without moving to New York or Los Angeles
SHABAZZ LARKIN
Shabazz Larkin is known for creating colorful and often haphazard images with paint on canvas, books and in sculpture. With a focus on portraiture, poetry and immersive visual storytelling, he often deals with issues of history, spirituality and fatherhood.
Larkin Art & Company was founded by Shabazz Larkin, a children’s book author and illustrator, making his picture book illustrator debut with Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table and his author/illustrator with A Moose Boosh: A Few Choice Words About Food. Both were named Notable Children’s books by the American Library Association and published by Readers to Eaters
WOKE3
Woke3 is a muralist and studio artist from Nashville, TN. Woke3 has a special gift: he has the ability to make people feel connected, appreciated, respected, and completely submerged in his art works. His works are greatly praised by the community for being inclusive, diverse, and having the ability to show how no one thing is greater than another.
Artist Statement
“I create art that is meant to be a reflection of who I am in relation to what’s observed in and outside of myself.”
2023 SPONSORS
Special Thank You to all the Sponsors committed to the 2023 Art Gala include AB Hillsboro Village, Thirty Tigers, Mono Mundo Recordings, Slumerican, Liberated Ground, Kyro Ink and many more.
2024 YEAR 🥂 GALA ARTIST
PETSZINNIA
Nashville based self-taught indigenous artist, PETSZINNIA, brings eye capturing pieces that are as unique as her! Creating with her Navajo/Creole energy and good vibes, PETSZINNIA pieces tell a story about LIFE and have the ability to speak for themselves.
XPAYNE
XPayne is a storyteller concerned with the Black American narrative. Through art XPayne creates work that pushes back against the marginalized narrative of Black experiences. His creative goal is to exalt the culture in its entirety through establishing new Black iconography, while conversing with past and contemporary art influences.
KIMBERLY CLO
Kimberly Clo creates art from the future. Her hand drawn pieces are soul-nourishing portals expressed in the language and poetry of geometry. A visionary and thought leader, Kimberly uses her art, writing and speaking experiences to communicate her nourishing message of hope for our collective future. Raised in a mixed-culture family, Kimberly has experience with the ways language can often fail us when communicating matters of the soul. Her art rises above the limitations of language and speaks directly to the spirit and calls forward each person’s own inner treasures and unique perspectives.
CHARLES KEY
Growing up in South Central Los Angeles in the ’80s, Charles Key didn’t have a lot to do. The neighborhood, he says, was infested with gangs, and his parents wouldn’t let him leave the yard. But his imagination was active. His father was an artist, and the walls of South Central were covered in graffiti. You can find Key’s murals around the city, but his focus is the Napier area. His work often depicts historical figures like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis — figures who open up conversations with kids about history.
LANCE SCRUGGS
Lance Scruggs, a 32-year-old visionary artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, transcends conventional boundaries in his pursuit of artistic expression. Unafraid to paint outside the lines and embracing imperfection as a facet of his creative journey, Lance's work resonates with a profound depth that defies categorization.
BNNY
BNNY (pronounced "BEN-o-nee") is an innovative electronic music artist and producer based in Nashville, TN. In 2021, he founded "missinglabelrecords" (MLR) as a platform for his own musical works and those of his frequent collaborators. BNNY's unique sonic approach blends ambient soundscapes and nonlinear compositions, created using modular synthesizers, with influences from Hip-Hop, R&B, and Gospel. This distinctive style has earned him recognition in Nashville's vibrant music scene.