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Bri Covert
Experience: Bri Covert (she/her) graduated from Gonzaga University in Spring 2023 with a B.A. in English and a B.F.A. in Art. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Teaching at Gonzaga in both subjects and is excited to begin her work as the Educational Advocate and Art Instructor at the Juvenile Detention School Programs in Spokane and Medical Lake. Bri, having grown up in Western Washington, is excited to settle down in Spokane and is looking forward to deepening her roots as an artist in the area.
Carly Ellis
Experience: I am an extremely creative and hard-working individual. Recently I have been accepted into the BFA program at EWU where I will finish my senior year. I have had the opportunity to take the lead on over 5 mural projects. I enjoy taking on a large project as well as working with a team. I love art and the creative artists in the field. I enjoy establishing my own skills and styles as well as helping others find and express theirs.
Danielle Davis
Experience: I have completed several murals, including one sidewalk mural, and a basketball court mural.
My specific art style lends itself well to asphalt art, with bold colors and shapes that add a playful element to the environment and engage the viewer, even at a “below-eye-level” angle. I try to be very thoughtful about my designs and would have a blast coming up with a site-specific concept if I had the opportunity. I love the idea of being part of a movement to make Spokane a more beautiful and welcoming place!
Mallory Battista
Experience: I have painted over a dozen murals of my own design in the Spokane area since 2019, the majority solo and outdoors, and have assisted or collaborated on a handful more. I love working with neighborhoods and local business districts to add art to our community. As far as asphalt murals, I designed and installed a temporary asphalt mural in Airway Heights in 2021 as part of a traffic calming and community outreach project, as well as volunteered to paint with Tiffany Patterson on her basketball court mural for a few hours in 2020. I was also a contracted mural repair artist for Spokane Arts in 2021 and touched up various murals around the city. I have experience working with neighborhood councils and am wrapping up a large collaborative public sculpture installation with Lisa Soranaka at the border of Emerson-Garfield and North Hill. I coordinated with and received support from both neighborhoods, both the Garland and North Monroe Business Districts, and the Spokane Arts Commission, and coordinated with multiple city departments on the installation plans. I also worked with the North Monroe Business District for my “Blossom” mural in 2020. I am drawn to creating site responsive art in part because I love the process of including details and symbols that are meaningful to the space and its audience, building layers of meaning through imagery and wordplay, and working in features that are both locally relevant and universally felt. My art tends to be colorful, uplifting, and a bit whimsical.
Matt Smith
Experience: I’ve painted many large mural projects, including the Steven’s Street Underpass fish mural, the Garageland entry way, the fish at Berserk, the staircase at Remedy, the LC gymnasium and Versalia Pizza in Kendall Yards. I have been painting large-scale mural work for close to a decade now.
Corrina Ren
Experience: I have painted 20 of my own murals and assisted on a handful more. Murals are hands down my favorite way to create art, especially when both the art and the process are shared with the community. I have years of experience serving clients and helping to bring people’s ideas to life. My art often explores the natural world because I am passionate about connecting people with nature and the things we care about. I love to tell stories with my work and capture what it means to be human. I often lean into imagery that represents us or the person or place that I am working with. I’m always full of ideas and love diving deeper into whats possible!
Scott & Monica Hampton
Experience: Scott and Monica Hampton are Spokane artists who paint fine art and murals. With inspired color palettes and distinctive textures, they interpret the natural environment of the PNW through abstract expressionism. Working out of their South Hill studio, “Hampton Visual”, the two enjoy creating paintings in a range of styles and sizes.
Susan Webber
Experience: I have 20+ years doing murals, including helping with the pride asphalt mural recently. I am easy to get a long with and have fun with doing art projects.
Yelena Yunin
Experience: I have great experience with Murals. Normally when I do art projects there is a lot of collaboration with the clients to develop a piece that they specifically want. For example, I recently completed a large wall mural for Spokane Club. The mural spans 40 ft long, and is approximately 18 feet tall and its raised on the wall overlooking the gym. I worked with several individuals to complete the final design of this project. There were adjustments and changes made along the way to make sure that all parties involved were completely satisfied before the project was started.
I start my collaboration by asking all interested parties what kind of piece they are looking for and ask for their ideas. I then take about a week to put together different conceptual designs and then send them to the clients. I then get feedback on what to change and what needs to be improved. I make the changes as requested and send the design back for additional revision. Most clients it takes a few back and forth emails before they are 100% satisfied with the piece that they had in mind. I can create artwork with Pen and Ink, and then use programs to digitize the design to ease the discussion as these can be emailed.
Miles Toland
Experience: Miles grew his roots in the artistic city of Santa Fe, NM and is currently making art in Spokane, WA. His creative juices have been squeezed from the fruits of graffiti culture, a BFA at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, live painting at festivals, and traveling around the world creating street art in places including Paris, Switzerland, Art Basel Miami, Mexico, Canada, and India. His mural series at the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh has been published in the Smithsonian Magazine and The New York Times blog. Another one of his murals in India was readapted to be featured as the artwork in the second season of the AMC show Better Call Saul. Miles’ work finds an even split between studio art and street art.
Reinaldo Gil Zambrano
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Experience: Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an award-winning printmaking artist based in Spokane, WA from Caracas, Venezuela. From an early age, RGZ began collecting unique stories from random social encounters that highlight the common aspects of the human identity that later enriched the visual narratives of his drawings, relief prints, installations, and murals.
Staci Boyer
Experience: Stacie Boyer is a mixed media artist who works primarily on murals and public art installations. She works with both acrylic and aerosol paint while weaving surrealistic elements in nature with vibrant color and whimsical detail. She works as a painting party instructor, children’s book illustrator, and graphic artist.
Sarah Rose
Experience: Sarah Rose can talk about bugs and bicycles and the design of cities all day long. Most known for leading Spokane Reimagined’s 29 Benches project, she’s a local artist and advocate constantly looking for ways to brighten public spaces and bring community together in the Inland Northwest. While she started as a visual artist working with watercolor and paper, you can find her painting intersections, building benches, dropping bars at city council, and dancing through it all.
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Reinaldo Gil Zambrano
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Experience: Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an award-winning printmaking artist based in Spokane, WA from Caracas, Venezuela. From an early age, RGZ began collecting unique stories from random social encounters that highlight the common aspects of the human identity that later enriched the visual narratives of his drawings, relief prints, installations, and murals.
Cat Truong
Experience: My past mural projects have all been completed start to finish by myself (with the nursery mural exception listed below). My organization, time management, attention to detail while still being able to see the big picture, adaptability, and easy to work with nature also qualify me to be a lead artist of an Asphalt Art project. My mural experience spans a diverse variety of clients including an above mantel mural for Gonzaga’s former community service house (CCASL), another Gonzaga mural for their Alumni office, a Star Wars mural for a work space at Bonneville Power Administration, an off-center rainbow mural custom set for a baby nursery, and my latest private commission living room/dining room/kitchen mural for Spokane clients. My mural and art work are not my main source of income, which have allowed me to apply, choose, and pursue only jobs/applications to fulfill my passion and are a good fit for my skillset. I enjoy collaborating with different clients and working with my hometown Spokane community would be a great joy and addition to my body of work.
Maker + Made
Experience: Maker + Made is a Spokane-based creative studio specializing in branding, environmental design, and community-centered visual experiences. With a multidisciplinary team of designers, strategists, and creatives, the studio brings a holistic approach to public art blending storytelling, spatial design, and visual impact.
The team has contributed to a range of public-facing murals and installations across Spokane, including projects for Indaba Coffee Roasters, The Light Factory, Hidden Bagel, and The Scoop. Each project is approached as an opportunity to reflect the identity, culture, and energy of a place, resulting in work that feels both intentional and locally rooted.
Grounded in a philosophy of authenticity, collaboration, and meaningful design, Maker + Made creates murals that go beyond aesthetics—transforming everyday spaces into experiences that connect with and inspire the communities they serve.
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Jennifer Batey
Experience:My goal for every project I undertake is for the finished artwork to evoke a connection with the imagination of the viewer. I want them to think and to feel. I am artist, but I define myself as a muralist. The majority of my work is commissioned for private homes. However, I have also had the opportunity to paint in various public spaces too. I love working with people, taking their ideas and visions and translating them into reality with my own artist license. Designing site specific work where architecture, spacial surroundings, and a clients ideas mold what the mural work will become, it is a design challenge I relish.Throughout my career, I have both developed my techniques in my favorite media of acrylic and also explored many other media such as epoxies, plasters, glass, wood and stone. I will use anything at my disposal that inspires me to create. And honestly, I’ll paint on anything, panels, canvas, fabric, furniture, the possibilities are only limited to the imagination.
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Daniel LeClaire
Experience:Human connection to the natural world is the core theme interwoven through the different expressions of my artistic vision. Imagery of the magic contained in the elements of our surroundings drive my work and provide a base for experimentation with color and shape. My imagery, optimistic and happy, is meant to give the viewer a pause, a moment of reprieve and a reminder of the magic contained in our daily contact with nature.
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Melissa Kupka
Experience: Hello! I’m Melissa Kupka a 44 year old 2D artist living in Airway Heights WA. I recently worked with my city to complete a mural as well as their first utility box wrap. I combine my love of gardening, nature and geometric shapes, mostly circles, to express my point of view. I’m most comfortable working in the following mediums: Watercolor, oil pastel, acrylic and more recently digital art for concept creation. I hope when people interact with my art they notice my love of colors and feel connected to the environment.
Melissa Singh Cole
Experience: Cole was born in Oregon and raised in London, Hong Kong, and India. She graduated from OSU with a degree in Zoology, served as a forestry Peace Corps volunteer in the DR and spent time as a naturalist guide in Mexico and the Caribbean. She derives much of the inspiration for her brightly colored steel and mosaic sculptures from these experiences. She has won international awards for her public works of art, including juror’s choice award for Confluence at the Society of Mosaic Art’s International Mosaic exhibition in 2015.In February 2017, she was a guest instructor for HAPI (Haitian Artists for Peace International) where she worked with a community artist coop to create a large mural mosaic for Mizak Maternity Center in Mizak, Haiti. Her project at the Moscow, ID Public Library, completed in 2018 is titled “Inspiration and Pollination” and highlights native flora and pollinator species in glass mosaic along the exterior walls of the library. Over 130 community members participated in fabrication of portions of the mural mosaic.In 2021 she created community based public art for Tapteal Elementary School in Richland WA where she involved over 400 students in creation of the interior mixed media project. “Tapteal Journey” was commissioned by ARTSWA and is now part of Washington State Art Commission’s permanent collection. She recently created sculptural seating for Horizon View Park in Lake Forest Park, WA. Her creations are showcased in national galleries, corporate and private collections, aquariums, hospitals, museums, and numerous public places worldwide.
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