Emeryville, USA

Born in Atlanta to Thai and Indonesian immigrants, Amanda studied neuroscience at Columbia and worked at an Alzheimer’s research lab before becoming a full-time artist, educator, and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her explorations of feminism, science, and community have reclaimed space in museums and galleries, at protests and rallies, on buildings, highway tunnels, and subway corridors, as well as on the mainstage of two TED conferences. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, and on the cover of TIME magazine. In 2020-2021, she was artist-in-residence with the NYC Commission on Human Rights and her work has been acquired into the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of the City of New York and the Library of Congress.

Apexer, also known as Ricardo Richey, is a street artist who creates colorful abstract patterns through the use of spray paint. Part of the Gestalt Collective that engages in collaborative murals in San Francisco, Apexer curated mural projects on Bluxome Alley, other districts of San Francisco, and the SFMOMA display windows in association with St. Johns Community Center (San Francisco, 2002). His work has been shown extensively both in the Bay Area and abroad. Recent group exhibitions include Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA (2009); Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2005), White Walls, and the Luggage Store Gallery. He was the artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2007), and was featured in documentaries and publications regarding the Mission District in San Francisco.

Originally from the UK, Cracked Ink has been part of the New Zealand street art scene ever since he made the move down under 10 years ago. Cracked Inks quirky, character-based art is bold and eye-catching, whether it be an art piece from a gallery or a mural in the street. Predominantly an aerosol artist, Cracked Ink also utilizes other creative avenues which include, sketching, painting and sculpting which have been some of his favourite mediums to work in over the past few years.

Evan “ESK” Wilson is a fine artist, calligrapher, muralist, and tattooer based in Northern California. His work is balanced on the line between graffiti and abstract expressionism, with his own personal style of calligraphy being the bridge that connects the two disparate modes of work. This calligraphic style is made up of English letters, but are abstracted through calligraphic mark making strokes. These letter forms draw from and celebrate ancient calligraphic traditions, including Old English, Farsi, Japanese, and Khmer, which are filtered through a contemporary graffiti lens. The resulting works are meditative visual networks of calligraphic line, guiding the viewer towards a looser, more visceral interpretation of written communication.

Founded in a meditative approach towards expression, ESK gives his audience a sensation of peace while being presented with an assortment of mediums: sculpture, ink, paint and more. Each sculpture & piece is full of fragmented objects, seeking to re-contextualize the things so frequently discarded.

Taylor Reinhold was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. In 2009, Tay founded Made Fresh Crew, a collective of artisans ranging in talents from pottery, glass blowing, videography, painting and jewelry making. Since then he has worked to promote creativity amongst the youth through artistic community outreach projects. He has organized and led workshops in multiple non-profit organizations including Youth Now, Mariposa Arts, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Tay has become a major part of the PangeaSeed family, not only as an artist but as an integral part of planning and production for Sea Walls festivals far and wide. Tay has planned and implemented Sea Walls Santa Cruz as the project director, supported ground operations at epic proportions during Sea Walls Boston and Sea Walls Bimini, and painted massive murals as a Sea Walls ARTivist, all while keeping the morale high of the artists and crew. Tay Lion is a legend.

Felicia is a Native American Indian from Santa Fe, NM. She currently resides in
Oakland, CA and is a resident artist at Faultline Artspace in Oakland, CA.
Gabaldon’s work can be seen in galleries in Santa Fe, NM, Flagstaff, AZ, San
Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, CA. She is currently expressing herself on
larger scales in California and other countries when opportunities arise such as
thru ArtScape Saga in Gothenburg Sweden.

Felicia’s work draws from the imagination both a mythical and mystic part of
human experience in the natural world. Her work being experienced through
cultural, iconic, and folkloric content expresses the wonders of nature realized
through symbols and tradition. Felicia hopes to suggest that the production of
space and human experience influence the formation of individual and
communal systems of belief.

The Garden

Garden of Journey symbolizes the path we take to manifest our destiny. My journey in creative arts intertwined with biological sciences the day that I entered Winston-Salem State University as a Biology major and Chemistry minor. If anything, learning the gateways of nature and geometrical patterns was enlightening; my studies really nurtured my sense of wonder and research. Today, I'm empowered to plant seeds of art and science together in hopes to carry conversations of well-being, nature preservation, and humanity.

The Journey

The Journey is the Destination. Past, present, and future. This platform is created with intention to inspire and connect artistry with the real world in hopes to shift perspectives towards truth, justice, and beauty. My work is dedicated to healing.

I am a Greek mural artist that started as a graffiti writer in 2007! I studied in Athens School of Fine Arts, but I also studied graphic art and applied arts!

What I am basically known for is my street art in 3D, an art which is called “Double Exposure 3D”. My specialization wanders around the notions of photorealism, and overlaying images. What I actually do is adding two images in both red & cyan and overlapping these two to create a three- dimensional illusionary effect. In order to get a clear view of the two layers, people use our 3-D glasses, digital color-filters or our characteristic glasses-installations that we have sometimes installed in front of my murals. In addition, I have also created various “moving” digital designs.

Inspired by everyday life and nature, I am always on the go, traveling around the globe in order to make the world's murals a little bit more exciting, but that’s my point of view.

"Kai’ili Kaulukukui was born on the Big Island of Hawaii, and inspired by Hawaii’s natural beauty, abundant ocean life, and rich native culture, began drawing at an early age. He was a BFA candidate at the University of Hawaii Windward campus where he studied under Snowden Hodges who has a deep base in classical techniques of oil painting. Simultaneously, he was trained in oil by apprenticing with Dennis Morton. Later, he transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kai currently works as a painter and muralist in Honolulu, out of Lana Lane Studios in Kaka’ako and more recently has been acting as the Ground Operations Manager for PangeaSeed Foundation's Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans program.

He has been immersed in shark culture, imagery and information that has sparked his imagination. Based on his research, lately Kai’s works illustrate compromised sharks and aquatic environments. His paintings and murals tackle marine life, often sharks with a loose and flowing approach complimented with drips cascading down the work."

Based in Oakland, CA, Kelly Ording has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000, with recent solo exhibitions including An Unseen World, Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID (2019), Shadows and Light, Local Language, Oakland, CA (2018), and Rotations Around the Sun, Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, CA (2018). Her public works and murals can be seen in San Francisco Arts Commission Public and Civic Art Collection, the Alameda County Collection, JP Morgan Chase Collection, and the Ellie Mae Collection. She recently returned from traveling in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia with the Bangkit/Arise Project in association with Clarion Alley Mural Project and Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Kelly currently devotes all her time to her artwork and her two children with fellow artist, Jet Martinez.

Mila Moldenhawer is a painter and muralist working in the realm of figuration and abstraction. He was born in Berkeley, CA, and currently maintains a studio in Oakland, CA. His work is often defined by bold, highly saturated, and contains figures conjured from acrylic and aerosol paints.

Olivia Rose Losee-Unger (ORLUarts) is a Bay Area muralist.

Liv has several years of professional experience creating vibrant and colorful murals of all shapes and sizes. She specializes in murals that celebrate community, honor the environment, and inspire happiness.

An internationally renowned artist, Sonny has become most well-known for his majestic and intricate large-scale wildlife murals that are scattered across the globe. His unique style of art blends realism with abstract coloring and has quickly seen him gain notoriety within the street art world. His passion for using his creative voice to raise awareness for important societal and environmental issues has also built him a reputation for being an engaged artist, driven by a desire to make an impact.

Born in the United Kingdom, Sonny moved to South Africa with his family when he was just eleven years old; a move that sparked a lifelong fascination with wild animals. It was this passion for wildlife that, in 2017, inspired Sonny to embark on his ‘To The Bone’ project. Using his unique style of street art, Sonny set out to raise funds and awareness for endangered wildlife on a global scale.

As a creative ambassador, Sonny not only campaigns for endangered species, but for a range of sustainability issues that face our world today. By taking these conversations to the streets he’s able to tackle difficult themes through his art. Together with organizations such as UNICEF, WWF, The International Foundation for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and Discovery’s Project CAT, Sonny has been able to use the beauty of his creativity to bring important issues to the fore.

As an increasingly coveted urban contemporary artist, Sonny now splits his time between the streets and the studio. The success of his first solo show led to a growing demand for his artwork, which is now featured in several prestigious galleries around the world, including prominent locations such as London, Paris, Cannes, Miami, and Singapore.

Entirely self-taught, the South African urban artist began painting murals in 2012, largely using acrylic paint combined with a variety of spraying techniques. He then moved on to use spray paint, eventually evolving into a style that incorporated a mixture of both mediums and an array of techniques including brushwork, rollers, and an extensive color palette. As of 2019, Sonny has progressed to using oil paints as his primary medium for his canvases, while opting for acrylic paint for his murals to avoid the negative health and environmental effects of spray paint.

Steffi Lynn Tsai was born in Austin, Texas and is now currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Steffi’s work is filled with quirkiness, color and character. She is driven to take normal scenes and moments and make them playful, exciting and enticing. Her work is inspired by everyday things, reactions and feelings, and simple imagery from her imagination or nature.