By Laura Ellstrom
After being dubbed “weird” by childhood classmates, Laura Ellstrom has embraced the label and enjoys creating art that is “just shy of normal.” She is endlessly supported by her husband; her four cats mostly tolerate her. Find more of her work on IG @lauraellstrom.
By Loria Carnefix
Loria Carnefix makes art that pushes back, art that acts as a megaphone—a visual voice—a tool to help empower people with confidence and worthiness and validation in the only way she knows how: photography. Her featured photo is from a shoot called “Black Paint,” which was part of a collaboration with the band Zealot. You can find more of her work at www.carnefixphotography.com and on IG @carnefixphotography.
Douglas Spencer is an artist, musician, owner of Parallel Lines Framing, and founder and president of Disguise Club!
Kelsi Jo Silva is an artist and comic illustrator
based out of Denver, Colorado. She lives in a
small apartment with a small horde of plants,
comics, and coffee mugs.
Erica Keeling is an analog photographer and multimedia artist living in Seattle, Washington. Her photographs explore various social conditions, pulling from her own experience, that of those close to her, and what she witnesses on a larger scale. She exhibits nationally and enjoys creating for various performing artists and musicians. In sharing her work, she honors the connectivity of the human experience as well as the unseen becoming seen. More of her work can be seen at EricaKeeling.com