Nikoli Shaver is a professional illustrator and designer. He is a mixed media artist who pulls inspiration from beauty, editorial, modern life, and plants. Prints of his work are available online via INPRNT. Find him @56MINOR and www.nikolishaver.com.
Kaitlin Ziesmer is a fine art painter and illustrator working out of Denver who’s been featured in numerous exhibits across Denver and throughout the country. With a light-hearted sense of humor, she approaches art with an “it’s for fun” attitude, focusing on recognizable characters from popular culture. Repurposing them into a new, often female body, is her way of injecting herself into it all. Contact: kaitlin.ziesmer@gmail.com
Daniel Semanas is a director and animator who’s developed projects for clients such as Lollapalooza, Absolut, Nike, Mercedes, Youtube, and Google. He’s also directed and animated IDs for Mtv Brazil. In 2012 he won his first international award at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 2013 he won the Best Newcomer Director Award at the São Paulo Short Film Festival. In 2018 he released his first graphic novel Roly Poly, making him the first Brazilian solo artist to be published by Fantagraphics.
Fred Stonehouse was born in 1960 in Milwaukee, WI. He received his BFA from UW Milwaukee in 1982. He had his first solo show in Chicago in 1983 and shows regularly in New York at Howard Scott Gallery and in Los Angeles with Koplin/DelRio. He has exhibited in Mexico, Amsterdam, Rome, and Berlin. He has been the recipient of an NEA Arts Midwest Grant and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Individual Artists Grant. He is currently an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Wisconsin.
