Meet 2022-2024 Resident Artist Yazz Atmore!
Yazz Atmore is just a scattered brain barefoot babe who likes to dance with words, play in the spirit world & dabble in art magic.
Having created her own degree from Metropolitan State University, Yazz obtains a BA in Supporting High Risk Youth through the Arts.
Yazz is a community organizer, creative & educator in Denver, Colorado where she continues to mentor and create with young artists as they explore their lives, stories, and passions through the beauty of art.
Constantly inspired by the youth and community she works with, Yazz continues to develop & deepened her own artistry as an analog collagist and muralist. Her work is heavily influenced by her spiritual journey as she loves exploring the spirit world with God, Ancestors & her Spirit Team.
As an expressionist intuitive mixed media artist she creates breathtaking hand cut collage works, with the use of bright bold colors, metallic paints, and gold leaf.
Watch the video of Yazz in her RedLine studio to learn more about her and her practice!
"I am a collage artist, an analog collage artist, a digital artist now, a wheat paste muralist. In other words, I cut up people's faces and play in glue all day. Yeah, that's a little bit about me.
"All of my practice is rooted in my spiritual practice. And so all of my art is simply just conversations with the divine. And so each piece represents a conversation, a message that just came through and I'm like, 'All right. Let me figure out what it is.' And then throughout, I just decipher those conversations. But yeah, just conversations that I have with my spirit team.
“So yeah, they're my family. From ancestors to spirit, to angels, guides, all of them, the whole team be having to deal with me. So I know they be going back and forth. I know they sick of me. But you know what? We here. We together. They sick. They stuck with me.
"So this one's called Lotus. This piece represents for me the blooming and how I'm blooming into the artist and the woman I'm meant to be. Also, my teenage punk self loves this.
"Community, I was raised in a community. All I know is community. So I'm excited to work alongside just amazing, extraordinary artists. Even though I definitely play a lot with collage work already, the educator, the teacher in me is always wanting to learn, expand, and grow.
"So I really want to get into floral work and floral installations and incorporate that into my murals, incorporate that into my work. I want to work with real flowers. I want to work with real plants. I want to play in dirt really, and build stuff. Why not? And so yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to [at RedLine]."
Meet 2022-2024 Resident Artist Jasmine Holmes
Jasmine Holmes is a Southern artist who creates drawings through a variety of media. She received her BFA from the University of West Florida, and her MFA from Colorado State University.
Her works are meant to offer discourse on consumerist society and its appetite for devouring Black culture. She uses depictions of staple foods from her Creole upbringing, hair culture, music and textiles to showcase the eternal connections she keeps to her ancestral home.
Watch the video of Jasmine in her studio at RedLine to learn more about her and her practice >
