Mellow Portobello Studios, created by Zoey Schnacker, brings vibrant psychedelic art to life, sparking imagination, color, and fearless creative exploration.
Tracey Myers, a former chemist turned singer-songwriter, crafts earnest and mystical songs that explore authenticity, healing, and the beauty of becoming.
Mandie works primarily with the human figure, using painting and drawing to explore vulnerability, strength, and shared human experience. Influenced by classical techniques and contemporary narratives of identity and resilience, her work captures quiet, often overlooked moments through oil, acrylic, charcoal, wood burning, and mixed media. Holding a BFA from the University of Missouri–Columbia and […]
Justin Canja presents experimental visual work exploring sociopolitical themes, neurodiversity, and the human condition through painting, collage, sculpture, and installation—using bold gesture, irony, and color to create striking emotional connections.
Izzy Heller, a Kansas City–born singer-songwriter, brings heartfelt songs shaped by lived experience, blending lyrical softness with emotional intensity as she explores growth, loss, and connection through honest storytelling.
Bailey is a Missouri-based animator, illustrator, and story artist whose work blends multiple animation styles to tell heartfelt, human-centered stories. A 2021 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute with a degree in Animation and Art History, Bailey also holds a graduate degree in Computer Animation from Sheridan College and is passionate about pushing the creative boundaries of animated storytelling.
Kirstie Lynn is a songwriter whose music reflects a life shaped by many places. Originally from New York’s Finger Lakes region, her songs weave together influences from Rochester, London, Appalachia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Midwest. Through intimate lyrics and intricate finger-picked guitar, Kirstie creates melodies that feel lived-in, reflective, and deeply rooted in place.
Interdisciplinary artist Angela Brown will showcase her work and her mission and Jessica and Jennifer from Facing Giants will give us a stripped down and raw unplugged concert, living room style!
Phil is a self-taught artist who graduated with a degree in film and video production in the early 1990s, though he did not discover painting until much later in life. He began painting and working with resin as a form of therapy. Early in his art career, he was fortunate to contribute to several large-scale projects around Kansas City, including work for Society, The Uptown Theater, and The Fall, among others.
Described by rock journalist Sasha Geffen as “Best Feminist Rock n’ Roll Exorcism,” SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES is the project of artist, singer, and performer Kate McCandless, a Chicago transplant. McCandless creates music and performances using her voice, a looping pedal, and collaborations with other musicians and artists. Armed with her body, voice, and a fierce, shamanic energy, SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES often lures audiences with nostalgia—while simultaneously embracing and interrogating its comfort and authority through a dark, feminist lens. The result is jarring, haunting, and ultimately a cathartic call to healing.
Hilari Holt is a Kansas City, Missouri born and raised multifaceted individual; from acting (Film, stage, commercial) to producing to writing, leading and comedic performing (specializing in improv comedy since 2016). She is the founder, executive director/producer of Black Comedy Fest KC, Kansas City’s first all encompassing (improv, stand-up & sketch) comedy festival centered on showcasing black comedic creatives l since 2024. Apart from career, Hilari is not a stranger to a board meeting (and speaking up in one) or community service projects and is a huge lover of & believer in all that Kansas City has to offer.
Gwynevere is a kansas-based illustrator and student at the University of Kansas that loves the sea, hot tea, and cuddling with my cats! to experiment in both a range of media and topic!
They are often inspired by nature, story-telling, myth, and experimentation with both a range of media and topic–and so while they seek a place at the table of science illustration, they still harbor a great love for literary, music and game design and always ready to jump at the chance for an odd-job or three.
Kelsey Miles blends blues, rock, and soul into an unforgettable live experience. With her guitar, harmonica, and heart wide open, she turns every show into a shared celebration of truth, courage, and connection.
2025 Semi-finalist International Blues Challenge (Memphis, TN) Representing Kansas City
2024 Harmonica Player of the Year Wisconsin Area Music Industry Award nomination
2024 Female Vocalist of the Year Wisconsin Area Music Industry Award nomination
2020, 2019 Blues Performer of the Year, Madison Area Music Awards (MAMAs)
Poppy Flowers (Polly Alice McCann) is the Executive Director of Creative Spark Gallery on Englewood Row in Independence, Missouri. Artist, poet, book designer, and speaker, she has shown art internationally crediting much of her creative work to her master’s thesis on the subconscious creative process, which won her an Ernest Hartmann Award.
Saxophonist NICK MAY is recognized as “a highly expressive, virtuosic, and fresh performer” (David Del Tredici, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner) whose artistry “knows no boundaries, neither technically nor emotionally” (AM:plified Magazine).
Chico Sierra’s works are driven by a desire to magnify overlooked historical narratives and illuminate current social issues, fusing pre-Colonial imagery with contemporary Chicano Movement aesthetics.
Jayme Smith and Anelyse Abright- A powerhouse duo storytelling through covers, originals, through a captivating blended delivery of piano, acoustic & electric guitar, and most importantly- the very thing felt unheard growing up- our voices. You have NEVER heard a thing like this before. Controlled & Calculated Chaos.
Join us May 10 for an explosion of color and grit as we explore art and music on a whole new level. Painter/Muralist Laura K Orr and Violinist/Singer The Beatrix Project are coming together to host one hell of a party!
