CHANNELS FOR GOOD | Artist Spotlight
In the wake of the COVID-19 Crisis, we have set up an Artist Coalition Fund to help those impacted by loss of work in the entertainment industry.
The Art of Elysium’s EB Studios supports individual artists, individuals who have lost work in the entertainment industry and are in need of living expenses and the philanthropic efforts of The Art of Elysium and the communities it serves. You can donate to an individual artists by visiting the artists' SPOTLIGHT page and clicking on the link on their page. Your donation will help support artists and individuals most in need of creative inspiration.
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Spotlight: Arts Elektra
1 season
ARTS ELEKTRA
Arts Elektra is a NYC-based Music and Arts collective founded by brothers Nikolai Fraiture (The Strokes, Summer Moon) and Pierre Fraiture (Contemporary Artist). Their mission is to “Do Music. Do Art. Do Good.” on a global scale with site-specific performances benefitting selected ch...
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Spotlight: Torie Zalben
1 season
TORIE ZALBEN
Zalben’s work is an exact nexus of varying technical practices and methodologies. She is interested in engaging the exigencies of our time concerning what it means to see the unseen and the multitude of layering in the diurnal.
In her photographic works, Zalben deploys the fundamen...
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Spotlight: Charles Baker Strahan
1 season
CHARLES BAKER STRAHAN
Charles Baker Strahan is an award-winning self-taught Artist based in Los Angeles, CA. After 27 years of working in fashion and entertainment as a Celebrity Hairstylist both in front of and behind the camera and a 10 year stint as the Global Ambassador for Proctor and Gambl...
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Spotlight: MaeMarie
1 season
MAEMARIE WRAPS
MaeMarie Wraps, is a lifestyle and jewelry brand 100% focused around personal intention, from the way you wear them to the message they carry. Founded by a dedicated mother-daughter duo, all MaeMarie Wraps are hand strung with uniquely sourced European glass beads, making each wra...
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Spotlight: Wayland
1 season
WAYLAND
Wayland is a six time charting Rock band hailing from a town of the same name in Michigan. Starting off by touring the world with performance group, The Young Americans teaching children music, their understanding that music is medicine has been their dharma ever since. Wayland toured th...
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Spotlight: Pep Williams
1 season
PEP WILLIAMS
Fine art photographer, videographer, video director, entrepreneur, and third-generation Dogtown skater.Pep Williams is a world-renowned photographer, whose photos have been featured in multiple magazines, in countries such as Brazil, Germany, Australia, Canada, UK, Japan, and of co...
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Spotlight: Oleg Jones
1 season
OLEG JONES
Oleg Jones is an artist, writer, creative director and a clothing brand designer. If Betsy Ross had a child with Jasper Johns you would get Oleg Jones, aka The Betsy Ross of the 21st century. Oleg Jones redesigned the American Flag on the 4th of July. After realizing the US flag was u...
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Spotlight: Lindsay Carron
1 season
LINDSAY CARRON
My work is a dedication to social and environmental justice and resilience. It is solutionary in nature, focused on presenting the positive relationships between human and earth. Community engagement and collaboration are its foundation. Since earning a BFA from Pepperdine Unive...
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Spotlight: Graham Fink
1 season
GRAHAM FINK
Graham Fink is a multimedia artist working in the fields of photography, film, painting, drawing and technology. His career over the years has been defined as never being entirely satisfied with the status quo. A constant challenger, questioner and conceptual thinker.
He has long ex...
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Spotlight: Blair Roche
1 season
BLAIR ROCHE
Growing up surrounded by Art & Fashion, Blair’s creativity blossomed within the Culinary Arts from a young age. Even so, Blair never hesitated to explore his range of professional interests. Ice Hockey, graduated into Sports Marketing and Event Production, then CPG Entrepreneurship, ...
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Spotlight: Lindsey Nobel
1 season
LINDSEY NOBEL
Lindsey Nobel was born in Baltimore, MD and raised in San Diego, CA. Currently based in Los Angeles, her art practice additionally draws upon her time in Rome, New York City, San Francisco, and Monterrey, CA. Building her drawing language on the invisible connections that unite hu...
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Spotlight: Duff Goldman
1 season
DUFF GOLDMAN
Duff Goldman is a chef and artist known for his dazzling, creative approach to food and his awesome stories describing the simple science of baking. Duff starred on the hit Food Network show Ace of Cakes, set in his bakery, Charm City Cakes. He now has cake studios in Baltimore and ...
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Spotlight: Blanda
1 season
BLANDA
Blanda is a Swiss, contemporary artist living and working between New York and Los Angeles. In 2007 Blanda moved to New York to enroll in the School of Visual Arts (SVA) where she received the Silas H. Rhodes scholarship. Her style, a mélange of collage, printmaking, drawing and painting,...
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Spotlight: Cricket Azima
1 season
CRICKET AZIMA
Cricket Azima is a dynamic professional chef who specializes in cooking for and with children. She is the Big Cheese of The Creative Kitchen -‐ a company that teaches children and families through food and cooking, founded in 2001. In addition to classes and events, The Creative Ki... -
Spotlight: Claudia Taylor
1 season
CLAUDIA TAYLOR
Claudia Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist currently working in found object sculpture, photographic prints and ceramics.Primarily self-taught in the ceramics medium, she attends workshops at the ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER in Aspen. Claudia is represented by TRACY PARK GALLERY ...
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Spotlight: Ryan McCann
1 season
RYAN McCANN
Ryan McCann consistently explores social constructs, creating works that encourage people to rethink and alter their perception of the mundane and awareness of everyday belief systems and realities. McCann creates as a painter, sculptor, photographer, and pyrographer constantly chall...
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Spotlight: Donna Isham
1 season
DONNA ISHAM
Donna Isham is a Los Angeles based figurative abstract and expressionist painter, working
primarily in oil, acrylic, charcoals and pastels. Donna Isham’s paintings explore beauty in its
many forms, sensuality and the ephemeral suggesting the spiritual and ecstatic. These concepts
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Spotlight: Ethan Paisley
1 season
ETHAN PAISLEY
At just 19 years old, multi-faceted artist, producer, entrepreneur, and social justice advocate Ethan Paisley is "a force to be reckoned with" (360 Magazine) whose work has already gained acclaim. Paisley’s films have garnered 31 awards including the Young Entertainer Awards’ inaugu... -
Spotlight: Aaron Axelrod
1 season
AARON AXELROD
Influenced heavily by childhood fairy tales, psychedelia, and the occult; inspired by Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney, donuts, and astrophysics. Axelrod is known for his unique use of the spectacle and aesthetic choices. A practitioner of vast disciplines including painting, installation, pe... -
Spotlight: Steven Cogle
1 season
STEVEN COGLE
“My paintings display what is in me — tribal Africa crossed with urban blight. A lot of bad stuff went down in East New York when I was growing up. By layering the paint on the canvas, I am also layering the experience of what I saw, tragedy, loss, confusion, hope, prayer, fantasy, s... -
Spotlight: Amy Nadine
1 season
AMY NADINE
Amy Nadine hasn’t had your typical makeup career. Even though she always lived for makeup, she first got her Bachelor’s degree in Business and worked in Entertainment Public Relations before taking the leap into makeup. Since then, she has worked with Lauren Conrad, Rachel Bilson, Krys... -
Spotlight: Carole A. Feuerman
1 season
CAROLE A. FEUERMAN
New York-based artist Carole A. Feuerman is one of the three founding members of the hyperrealist movement that began in the late 1970’s continuing into the present. Her illustrious career is highlighted by iconic figurative works of swimmers and dancers. She has taught, lect... -
Spotlight: Priscilla Ahn
1 season
PRISCILLA AHN
The quirky and soulful hallmarks that define Priscilla Ahn’s singer-songwriter music and her pristine, ethereal vocals are uniquely her own. Since her 2008 debut LP, A Good Day, for EMI's Blue Note Records, and its heart-resonant breakout hit, “Dream,” Ahn’s lyrical, original worlds... -
Spotlight: Darian Zahedi
1 season
DARIAN ZAHEDI
A native of Los Angeles, Darian Zahedi writes, records and tours with the rock band CRX along with Nick Valensi of The Strokes. The band has released two albums, New Skin (2016) and Peek (2019) and is currently working on its third. Additionally, he composes music for film, televi...