Public Art & Muralist Roster

A&A has a combined 25 years of experience together and they are continuously dedicated to expanding their abilities and challenging themselves to do their best work time and time again.

Allison Bowman is a practicing multidisciplinary artist and advocate who creates experiences for everyday people through painting, collage, murals, and installations. Her artwork explores the line between the creative and subconscious mind.

April Spicer is a visual artist living in Marysville, KS. After teaching high school and junior high for 16 years, April now paints full time.

Baxter Suber likes to approach murals are with vibrant colors with a mix between graffiti style and illustration style work based off of the client’s requests.

Brickmob stands proudly as an urban art brand with meaning. Brickmob hand creates epic murals and partakes in a multitude of events, festivals, and public art projects to help our community thrive and bolster civic unity.

Carr and Kerr are drawn to public art through their dedication to community building and creative place making.

Cody is a professional artist and proud owner of Subvert Studio, which is a tattoo studio and art gallery located in the heart of Salina KS. Every first Friday of the month he opens his doors to local and regional artists, fostering a vibrant and creative community downtown.

Connie is a community-based public art organizer and muralist based in Lawrence, KS. Her work reflects her Peruvian heritage where she lived until age ten and focuses on projects that build racial and cultural equity.

For more than twenty years, Dave Loewenstein’s community-based public projects have focused on collaborative storytelling, civic participation, and the celebration of neighborhood vitality.

Born in 1994 in Chihuahua, Mexico, Deber began painting graffiti and murals at the age of 13 while simultaneously attending to classical training classes at a local atelier.

Doug is a photographer and artist living and working in Kansas. Nestled in the Midwest plains he explores and chronicles the poetic nuances of everyday rural life.

Hasna Sal’s repertoire of work as a public art encompasses urban core areas with blighted communities so as to raise awareness for ubiquitous problems like trafficking, addiction and poverty. Through glass, color and storytelling, she facilitates dialogue between the marginalized and civil society through oral histories and visual narratives, with the intent of dissolving polarities and fostering collective placemaking.

Professional artist and muralist Isaiah Stewart is Lakota Indigenous Native artist who uses his graphic design background to bring Native imagery to the space using portraits, Lakota beadwork geometrics, and landscape to the design.

As established muralists from the Kansas City area, IT-RA understands the power and potential of public art, and the enormous impact it can have on the local community. When they are done right, murals can become focal points. More than just beautiful backdrops for photos and videos, they become sources of inspiration, pride, growth, dialogue, celebration and empowerment for their community.

Jim is a self-taught artist, from Burlington, Kansas. Jim has done murals for over 30 years in various Kansas cities, private homes and public spaces. To date he has done over one hundred murals in the Coffey County area, Kansas City, Wichita, and Topeka. The majority of Jim’s murals have historical significance. Jim researches the history of the area, or subject prior to starting a mural. Jim meets with all parties involved in commissioning the art.

Jonah Graf has been sculpting metal art in Topeka, Kansas, since 2012. Jonah Graf has a unique passion for nature. He sees the world with keen inspiration and loves creating his art from what nature provides.

Jordan E. Brooks is a creative person who is attracted to all aspects of art and design. His overall goal in any project is to promote and push his talents in his own unique and alternative ways.

Jose Faus is a muralist with a long history of community engagement. He has painted murals in the Kansas City Metropolitan area and co-led mural projects in Mexico in the state of Michoacán. He also was a US Cultural Ambassador for a mural project in Santa Cruz Bolivia.

Since 2004, Judith has owned Looking Glass Tattoo & Gallery in Topeka. She also founded the Inky Quills Coalition, a small group of local artists who occasionally collaborate on projects and art shows. She studied fine art at Washburn University, with an emphasis on painting. She created her first mural on Washburn’s campus in 2003.

Lindsey Kernodle is a graphic artist and muralist in Wichita. She has years of experience creating highly detailed projects for clients ranging from Hutton to National Geographic. Much of her work is inspired by her love of nature.

Paul Alexander is an artist with over 30 years of experience. He has done various mediums of art from sculptures, airbrushing, faux finishing, hand painted and mosaic murals, designed jewelry, 3D collages, drawings and painted visual symphonies.

Robert Tapley Bustamante’s primary approach to murals and public art is rooted in collaboration. He gathers insights from organizational leaders and he engages with fellow artists and welcomes creative contributions from the broader community. Every project begins with a conversation: a two-way exchange built on sharing, listening, and collecting detailed notes that later inform his sketches and evolve into refined mockups.

WisdomTree Arts facilitates community engagement through the arts to catalyze positive changes in neighborhoods and forge connections and collaboration between artists, corporate sponsors, social service providers and community residents while creating transformative public art. The approach to public art involves art therapy which uses art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork as a therapeutic and healing process.