Layne Takahashi is a mixed media artist born in Tustin, California, and working in San Francisco. Layne attended CCA Precollege, received her BA from UC Davis in 2022, and was part of the Advanced Undergrad Studio program. She also attended the Royal Drawing School and the Dumfries House as an artist in residence this past fall. Currently, she is an artist in residence at the Midway in San Francisco, where she curated a group show, “An Accident, on Purpose.” She has exhibited at local galleries such as Wave Collective and the Drawing Room in San Francisco over the past two years. Layne has recently been accepted to the Kunstraum artist residency program in Brooklyn, NY, for Spring 2025.

Her work embodies duality, oscillating between intense, physical mark making and light, precise touches; fast and slow. It contrasts the commercial with the natural, reflecting on American culture and personal history. The artist contemplates her family’s internment under Executive Order 9066 and the peculiarities of growing up in the internet age.

INSTAGRAM: @laynetakahashi1

WEBSITE: laynetakahash.myportfolio.com

Bud Snow, a Vancouver-born, Oakland-based multimedia artist, infuses character, humor, and joy into public space worldwide through large-scale murals, installations, wearables, performance and digital media. Residing in the Bay Area for nearly two decades, her eclectic body of work reflects a unique upbringing influenced by her imaginative parents. As a child, Bud was involved in performance art and art shows, learning from her mother, a notable Canadian artist, and her father, an “outsider” artist, activist and circus performer.

Bud’s art explores a wide range of human emotions and connections with the natural world, blending playful absurdity with deep reflection. Her style is characterized by bold illustrations, shiny “fades” with spray paint, and an inventive use of materials, including pipe cleaners and gems.

She co-founded Tomorrow Skateboards and has transformed a 1961 Dodge Lancer into a skateable sculpture, while her graphics have been featured in both music and film, including collaborations with bands like TuneYards, and the Growlers, and directors such as Boots Riley and his film “Sorry To Bother You.”

Recognized by Playboy Magazine, and collectors like Susan Sarandon, Bud also integrates her training in theater and film into her practice. Currently, she is working on a film project about Bay Area graffiti, preparing for a residency at San Francisco Gallery, and contributing to a group show at MothBelly Gallery in October.

INSTAGRAM: @bud_snow
WEBSITE: doyouknowbudsnow.net

Orlando de la Garza is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist and designer. Born and raised in Tamaulipas, Mexico, he/they moved to US to pursue higher education. Orlando holds a dual major BFA in Painting and Communication Design from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. And completed his MFA at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. His work explores topics of cultural identity, religion, sexuality, and gender expressions. Including mediums like: painting, digital, video, and performance. Orlando has also a background in dancing and drag performance for theater productions and nightlife. He currently works as a commission-based artist/designer, and produces and co-hosts a podcast in Spanish about art history/commentary in Youtube. 

INSTAGRAM: @orlandodelag
WEBSITE: orlandodelagarza.com

Blitzy, aka Ade, is a large-scale installation artist born in Malaysia and moved to San Francisco over 20 years ago.

Blitzy’s pursuit into the art world came later in life after a career in corporate marketing, starting a sustainable food business, Green Tiffin, and founding a flow collective, Ministry of Flow. Throughout all this, he always strove to nourish proclivities for art and music.

Burning Man catapulted Blitzy’s engagement with immersive art, laying open a desert canvass ripe for imagination. He led an Honorary Project in 2022 called The Afterlife, which received accolades and touched many hearts and minds. Since then, his work has graced many events around San Francisco bringing color and joy. Blitzy is also a flow artist, fire performer and founder of Ministry of Flow Conclave, which has performed over 10 years at Burning Man. 

Blitzy plays in the realm of whimsical and ethereal, with vibrant colors, kinetic movements and flame effects to bring his other-worldly art to life. He infuses spirit into his work, honoring age-old traditions and beliefs. He draws from his ancestral Malay-Chinese culture and often brings other underrepresented ethnic lenses into view.

He hopes his work will elevate queer and POC representation in a straight-white-dominant culture to celebrate diversity and inclusion through the arts.

FACEBOOK: theafterlifeproject

Josué Rojas is a home-grown San Francisco muralist, fine artist and educator.

A socially committed creative, Josué’s work is largely deeply layered, content-rich, luscious paintings, narrative, abstract and satirical. Josué uses familiar imagery; cartoons, comic book art –– and breaks their traditional settings in dynamic, exciting fresh ways remixing new and old exploring tensions between Emojis juxtaposed with Central American folkloric patterns, tropical birds painted traditional Mission-mural style and abstraction; storybook illustration and graffiti elements–– a playful dance in acrylic, spray paint.

WEBSITE: josuerojasart.com

SERGE GAY JR. is an American visual artist and creative designer in San Francisco, California. 
When working on art for himself, Serge infuses inspiration reflective of urban realities from coast to coast. Keen to the racial and economic challenges of our time, influenced by the culture of his homeland, and melded with his life experiences, his voice and the motivation in his work is crisp and clear. His aesthetic incorporates the grit of New York, the beauty of Miami, the wealth of Detroit, and the freedom of San Francisco. All of these places, in their own way, permeate the evolution of his work.
When producing art for others, the acumen he demonstrates, the professionalism he provides, and the listening skills he uses are all at the ready to deliver. Serge’s concern is for the project’s outcome and meeting the client’s vision for their brand or desired aesthetic. A trusted advisor on all things colorful and graphic, his expertise is sought out because he is dependable, and he makes art that speaks and feels like no other.
Serge owns and operates SergeShop, a graphic design and visual arts company. He is also a freelance visual art director working with film and video production design teams in Los Angeles, California. One of the major projects he worked on, with longtime collaborator and film director Matt Stawski, yielded a Grammy nomination for best short-form music video. They continue to collaborate on ongoing video and film production projects.
Additionally, above and beyond producing murals and other visual art that amplify LGBTQIA+ voices, Serge has taken action on behalf of a broader sense of community, having served on the board for the Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza and separately having produced projects with local community benefit districts, the California Health and Human Services Agency, and the United States Consulate working in partnership with the State Department of Cultural Affairs, plus many other organizations.​​

INSTAGRAM: @sergegayjr
WEBSITE: sergegayjr.com