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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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
are ...

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...

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...

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, ...

KATARINA KUHL
My name is Katarina Kuhl and I'm an artist & illustrator from Hamburg, Germany. I have been drawing since I can remember and never stopped, really. Usually I am drawing with pencils and then I color the drawings digitally, sometimes I use manually painted surfaces. But I also work w...

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...

BRETT TUTOR
Brett Tutor is the handsome, charismatic new carpenter starring in the much-anticipated new season of “Trading Spaces,” the beloved hit series returning to TLC on April 7, 2018.

The chiseled Renaissance man who People Magazine calls ‘much more than just a pretty face’ has an incred...

SAMMI ROTIBI
Sammi just wrapped on the indie film THE OBITUARY OF TUNDE JOHNSON and he currently stars in the Ron Howard / Brian Grazer series MARS. He recently premiered in the Fox trilogy THE DARKEST MINDS and the film ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENICE opposite Bruce Willis and John Goodman. Other cr...

ALYSHIA OCHSE
Alyshia Ochse As her impressively diverse list of credits attests, Kentucky-born Alyshia Ochse has always been lured by the unconventional, tackling every role with fearlessness and finesse. Ochse is best known as the gutsy truck-stop hooker, 'Lucy', a desperate drug dealer to 'Rust...

BIANCA BARTOLO
I'm a Queens, NY native. When searching for a career path I was looking for something that married my love of fashion and creating something that was hands-on, that's when I found Visual Merchandising. I received my BBA in Visual Merchandising in 2014 from LIM College. Currently I ...

Billy Morrison
Born in England. Made in America.

His rise from homelessness and drug addiction on the streets of Los Angeles, to being in seminal rock band, The Cult and now playing guitar for music Icon Billy Idol since 2009, is a fantastically inspirational story. Billy Morrison has already ...

Ashley Heathcock
Since she was a little girl, Ashley Heathcock has always been passionate about Costume Design and fashion. This passion led her to pursue a higher education in fashion design at AIU London. From Wardrobe PA, to Fitter, Shopper, Seamstress, Illustrator, Ager/Dyer, Set Costumer and...

Amy Paffrath is an actress and TV host known for her work on 2 Broke Girls, Hot in Cleveland and The Thinning movies as well as hosting shows on networks like E!, MTV and VH1. She currently produces feel good segments for Spectrum 1 News SoCal, highlighting the do-gooders of LA. She is the second...

Born and raised in NY, Jeremy Glazer received a BA in Theater and Communications from the University of Delaware. One month after college graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and worked consecutive production jobs at Paramount Studios. Soon after, Jeremy moved in front of the camera with one of hi...

Grace Mitchell is an Oregonian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and producer. Her genre-bending, frenetic sound can only be illuminated by her lifelong reverence for Tori Amos and Beck. Mitchell encompasses all manner of modern music from pop, hip-hop, to punk-rock, and her highly aware ...

Mason McCulley is an actor and artist and has been volunteering with The Art of Elysium since 2008. He's best known for playing Ken for three seasons on the critically acclaimed HBO show INSECURE from Issa Rae. Additional acting credits include GREY'S ANATOMY, MOM, CASTLE, CSI:NY, BIG TIME RUSH ...

Denna Thomsen is a maverick performer, choreographer and artist who has made a significant impact with how dance is used in the entertainment industry. From “Booksmart” with director Olivia Wilde to Gucci’s upcoming campaign with Floria Sigismondi, Denna’s choreography has paved the way in creati...

JOMARI GOYSO
Style expert, humanitarian and entrepreneur, Jomari Goyso embodies the wonderfully unique combination of Hollywood, humor, humility and heart. Now featured on two of Univision's most popular shows, Jomari is fast becoming one of the leading beauty authorities dedicated to serving the...

Omniflux is the audiovisual work of multi-disciplinary artist + producer, Mahsa Zargaran.
She integrates her sculpture, animation, painting, and collage practice into the live performance of her electronic music.

Zargaran writes, engineers, and produces her own work. World-building as a one-wom...

CARA SANTANA
Cara Santana has solidified a very unique niche for herself in Hollywood. Born in El Paso, Texas, she left at age fifteen for California and has since built an impressive career. She has established herself as an actress to watch with several projects in various stages of development...

Visual Artist: Cole Sternberg
Cole Sternberg was born in Richmond, Virginia. He lives and works in Los Angeles and practices in a range of formats including painting, installation, video, and writing. Series of his work have focused on a variety of social issues, from current human rights activis...

Meet movement artist Drea Sobke and join her as she walks us through an exercise in exploratory movement.

Drea Sobke is a Mexican-American movement artist from San Diego, California whose work closely explores the relationship between the human body and pop, fine art, landscapes, architecture a...

Alicia Witt is a classically trained musician with a three-decades long acting career.
Follow along as she walks us through her process of songwriting and write your own song!

Years before kicking off her career as an indie-pop songwriter, a seven year-old Alicia Witt took her first classical p...

Andrew Ondrejcak is a unique artist working in the intersection of film, art and performance.
You will find curated pieces directed by Andrew along with a drawing tutorial you can do at home.
Support Andrew Ondrejcak by dedicating your donation to him at www.theartofelysium.org/donate.

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Actor/Director/Producer: Shanola Hampton

Shanola's cause: The Art of Elysium
To support her cause donate at www.theartofelysium.org/donate. Please don't forget to dedicate your donation as inspired by Shanola.

Best known for her role as Veronia on Showtime's "Shameless," Shanola has also starr...

RAIN PHOENIX
Music chooses its vessels early on.
At three-years-old, Rain Phoenix first uncovered her voice. Standing next to late big brother River, she belted along as he strummed “a guitar way too big for his five-year-old body.” Her story as an artist started there. “My first music memory wa...

Tamar Levine is an LA-based filmmaker, photographer, and creative producer.
Watch curated pieces directed by Tamar along with a tutorial on lighting for photo & video.

After receiving a BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design, Tamar went on to create commercials, videos, and photo c...

Nick Rosen is a jazz musician and music producer/engineer.
You will find curated pieces featuring Nick's work along with a tutorial on bass and cello.
Support Nick Rosen by dedicating your donation to him at www.theartofelysium.org/donate.

NICK ROSEN
A self-described L.A. gutter punk in his you...

HEAVEN is a one-night artistic installation conceptually curated by a chosen Visionary. The Visionary is annually selected based upon their creative contribution to the community. This elegant black tie affair promises an unparalleled creative experience, rooted in the Art of Elysium's mission an...

An introduction to the mission behind The Art of Elysium and Elysium Bandini Studio's past Genesis festivals, an event featuring and celebrating the work of emerging artists.

A series by Tamar Levine and Stephanie Lysaght that showcases the myriad hideous, hilarious things about being a woman.

A special look at our artists and the communities we serve.

A special collection of short films in 10 Chapters interpreting Stevie Wonder's ideals of Heaven through his iconic song "Signed, Sealed, Delivered."

Celebrating The Art of Elysium's HEAVEN Gala's 10th Anniversary Visionary Stevie Wonder and the launch of the first ever philanthropic studio E...

Stories from the people and programs of The Art of Elysium charity.

Elysium Bandini Studios presents The Feature is Female, our initiative highlighting diverse perspectives from women in film, including Official Selection films by emerging filmmakers as well as a special Spotlight on two directors.