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Artist: Kade Franco

Artistic Discipline: Music, Visual
Location: Spokane, WA
KADE FRANCO IS A MIXED-MEDIA ARTIST WHOSE WORK AIMS TO CONVEY MEANINGFUL MESSAGING THROUGH A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND APPROACH. HIS ARTISTIC APPROACH PRIMARILY CONSIST’S OF ELEMENT’S SEEN IN STREET ART FUSED WITH BOLD COLORS, PRECISE LINE WORK, AND HEAVY USE OF SYMBOLOGY TO CREATE CAPTIVATING PIECES MEANT TO BE UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZABLE AND FUNDAMENTALLY RELATABLE. HE STAYS’S TRUE TO HIS STYLE WHILE ALWAYS LOOKING TO WORK WITH NEW MEDIUMS TO PROVIDE HIS OWN ARTISTIC TWIST AND FURTHER THE PLATFORM OF ART HE USES TO SPREAD LOVE AND SPEAK FOR THOSE WITHOUT A VOICE.

BORN AND RAISED IN CALIFORNIA KADE ALWAYS HAD A KNACK FOR DESIGN AND CREATIVITY BUT NOT TILL HE MOVED TO SEATTLE WHILE OBTAINING HIS BA IN ILLUSTRATION HE DECIDED TO PURSUE ART AS MORE THEN JUST A HOBBY BUT AS HIS LIFE’S WORK. MADE WITH A HEART TO SERVE HE USES THE EXPERIENCES OF WEAKLY VOLUNTEERING AT OUTREACHES TO HELP FUEL THE SUBJECT MATTER OF EACH PROJECT TO CREATE WORK THAT IMPACT’S CULTURE BY UPLIFTING THE COMMUNITY.