Women’s Way Artists
Jasmine Bruce
Jasmine Bruce is a fine artist whose work emphasizes the healing power of creating. Based in Grand Rapids, MI she obtained her BFA from Grand Valley State University. While creating her mural for Harriet Woods Hill she intends to honor her legacy and the impact she had in our community.
Michi Farias
Michi Farias is a Venezuelan-American artist who specializes in realistic oil paintings, watercolors, murals, ink drawings, charcoal, and resin works. Her work is often environmental, her interest reflects bringing awareness to the human connection to nature.
Esan Sommersell
For artist Esan Sommersell, making is living. In a world where it’s become increasingly more difficult to discern fact from fiction, Sommersell’s paintings remind us that what we see, hear, touch, and taste cannot be separated from what we feel. With bold forms and surreal color palettes taken from the landscape of lucid dreams, his work is an affirmation of humankind’s innate desire to create, to mold, to touch the raw nerve of experience and discover for ourselves what it means to be alive.
Alan Compo
Alan Compo is an Anishinaabe artist from the Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians. Born and raised in Grand Rapids, MI, he has focused much of his time into creating to heal. He believes art is a gift that can help inspire conversation and movement. Always a student, he is eager to learn, grow, and build where his art shall bring him.