Artist Bios

LaShae Boyd

My name is LaShae Boyd (b. Cleveland, OH, 1996) I am a mixed media artist. My art is dedicated to bringing awareness and conversation surrounding spiritual transformation to strengthen and define individuality. In my art, I create narratives that is within the realm of questioning an existence that is beyond this reality and our understanding. I question if that existence is guiding our life. I also explore ideologies based on experiences we endorse from childhood to adulthood and if this gives us false perception of self also known as the creation of ego. I believe my art is bigger than me. I’m aiming to dig in the depths of each person that comes across my art, providing thought surrounding what it means to be authentic and true to self in a heavily media based world that pushes superficial concerns.

Lynda McClanahan

Lynda McClanahan is a self-taught artist living and working in Columbus Ohio. Her medium is One-shot oil enamel, a paint once used by sign painters and now employed by auto body shops to pin-stripe cars. Lynda’s style is a result of both following this demanding medium wherever it leads and her preference for working at a drafting table.

Lynda is a recipient of a 2019 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and a 2010 Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship. When not making art, Lynda plays the accordion and tends a large urban garden where she grows food and makes her own wine.