MEET OUR ARTISTS

artist/executive director

ALEXANDREA PANGBURN (CO)

Alexandrea Pangburn (she/her) is a Golden, CO based artist/muralist focusing her work on the conservation and realistic representation of wildlife. Originally from Lexington, KY; she grew up with a deep love and respect for animals, her work focuses on the conservation and education of birds, mammals, plants, florals and the connection to the location in which they are painted. Alex loves to paint large scale as well as small scale for galleries and private commissions.

See her work on Instagram at @alexandrea_pang or her website www.alexandreapangburn.com.

ARTIST/creative director

ROMELLE (CDMX)

Romelle is an abstract painter and mural artist hailing from Detroit, based in Mexico City. Her colorful, energetic work explores modalities of healing with color, and the connection the artist has to the cities in which she has lived. She specializes in bright, highly-textured abstract pieces that bring spaces to life, ranging from large scale murals to gallery-based work.

Find more of Romelle's work on Instagram: @r0melle and on her website: www.r0melle.com

ARTIST/Merchandise Manager

GINA ILCZYSZYN (CO)

Exploring the contrasting worlds of geometry and organic realism, Gina Ilczyzyn is known to juxtapose the two subjects into her art world. Gina also blends her illustrative and realistic style into her tattoo work, and paintings, and looks to explore the large scale world of mural painting.

Originally from New York, she studied Art on her own by attending many seminars and workshops to aid in her evolution as an artist, focusing on master oil painting and charcoal courses. Creating artwork in many fields, Gina has a passion for oil painting, and illustration. 

She took her love for art and learned to tattoo in 2012 on Long Island, New York. Developing her craft, she eventually found her love for black and grey, and geometric tattoos and continues to transform her style daily. Traveling often, She now resides in Denver, Colorado, and is a resident artist tattooing at Til Death Denver in the heart of the RiNo Art District. She has recently taken an interest in painting big, bringing her vision to a larger scale.

ARTIST/Graphic Designer

KAITLIN ZIESMER (CO)

Kaitlin Ziesmer is a fine art painter and illustrator working out of Denver and has been featured in numerous exhibits across Denver and throughout the country. She makes brightly colored, poppy paintings that typically incorporate/combine human and natural elements with nostalgia. With a light-hearted sense of humor, she approaches art with a “it’s for fun” attitude.

“I like having a very clean, cut and paste approach to imagery. In my work, it’s so fun focusing on recognizable characters from popular culture. People have such a positive and nostalgic response to them...often following up with a response of a suggestion on what I should do next.

It really creates a dialogue, and there’s something so gratifying being able to make things that you know your friends will dig. Repurposing them into this new, often female body, is my way of injecting myself into it all...quite literally because I’m using myself as the model ninety percent of the time.

ARTIST/Community engagement director

GROW LOVE (CO)

Grow Love (she/they) is a Denver-based artist, educator, and leader in the mural arts field. In 2018, Grow Love founded the organization Grow Love International whose mission is to support female and female identifying creatives with mentorship-based career building and mural arts training. 

In 2019 became a co-organizer of the Babe Walls Mural Festival, which now operates as a non profit, collaborating with cities and communities on mural projects, educational programs, and mural arts career opportunities. 

In 2021 became a member of the Medusa Collective, an artist studio, gallery, and educational space, where they founded a youth lead program to support young artists in the community.

To see their work and what they’re up to please visit Instagram @_growlove_ or www.growlovewalls.org

ARTIST/Marketing

DANIELLE SEEWALKER (CO)

Danielle SeeWalker is Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, where she was born & raised.  She is an artist, writer, activist, and boymom of two, based in Denver, Colorado. Her visual artwork often incorporates the use of mixed media and experimentation while incorporating traditional Native American materials, scenes, and messaging. Her artwork pays homage to her identity as a Lakȟóta wíŋyaŋ (woman) and her passion to redirect the narrative to an accurate and insightful representation of contemporary Native America while still acknowledging historical events.

Alongside her passion for creating visual art, Danielle is a freelance writer and recently published her first book, titled “Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People & Culture.” She is also very dedicated to staying connected and involved in her Native community and currently serves as Co-Chair for the Denver American Indian Commission. Danielle has also been working on a personal, passion project since 2013 with her long-time friend called The Red Road Project. The focus of the work is to document, through words and photographs, what it means to be Native American in the 21st century by capturing inspiring and positive stories of people and communities within Indian Country.

IG: @seewalker_ART Website: www.seewalker.com

ARTIST/Logistics coordinator

KOKO BAYER (CO)

Koko Bayer is a Denver-based artist whose work focuses on outdoor installations of printed images.  Since 2015 she has installed thousands of temporary outdoor works for her “temporary structures project” a collaboration with grandfather Herbert Bayer’s work. Ranging from foot-long prints to large murals, her goal is to “adorn, engage and educate.”  In May of 2020 she began Project Spread Hope a series of installations created in response to the COVID-19 crisis as a reminder of the power of hope. Born in France, Bayer moved to Colorado at age six. She studied design, printmaking and filmmaking at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and the New School in New York. 

Her work has been featured in several mural festivals including BabeWalls 2020, Chrush Walls 2016-2020, StreetWise Boulder 2019/2020, Rocky Mountain Walls, Colorcon and B-Line Chicago. Solo exhibitions include her two 2020 shows “Pink Lemonade Hope” in the Freyer – Newman Center at the Denver Botanic Gardens and “Souvenirs” at Dateline gallery.  

She is a member of ‘BagBaySha” with artists Chris Bagley and Thomas Scharfenberg.  Together they attempt to educate and solve major world issues with art installations. In addition to their 2020 installation “Salt and Pepper Ghost” for “No Place to Go” they have done installations at MegaFauna, Alto and Leon galleries. She is currently directing head+heart+hand a documentary exploring Herbert Bayer’s art. The film uses Bayer’s theories on visual communication to explore his diverse and fascinating work. 

Treasurer

ADRI NORRIS (NM)

On her path as an artist, Adri says,
“A love of creating art and a passion for learning led to my niche as an artist: to tell the stories of women in history through art. The turning point came in my early 30’s, after years of drawing and painting. I discovered the stories of several impressive women—women I’d never heard of—and watched those women show up in my paintings. I saw the portraits come alive and knew I had found my calling as an artist. Today I use art as a platform for my work with schools and in the community.

At an early age, I knew I wanted to be an artist. Throughout all my live changes, moving from Barbados to New York, to New Mexico, then joining the Marines, art was the one thing that persisted. I was raised to be a leader, to see myself as someone who could@help people and improve lives.

It was only in the last few years that I figured out how I would do that. The Women Behaving Badly series was born out of a desire to educate people about women from the past. Their stories have been lost over time and this loss is a disservice to those women. To the women and girls Licko now and to society as a whole. Sharing these stories through my art inspired young girls with role models they’ve never seen before. There’s stories make adults think more about what they have and what they have yet to gain by listening to the voices of the unheard.
I feel as though I am at the beginning of my journey. My list of women numbers in the hundreds and I have barely scratched the surface. I intend to be in it for the long haul.”

Secretary

NICOLE VALDEZ (CO)

Nicole was born and raised in Colorado and has worn many hats throughout her professional career, she has worked in retail customer service, taught dance to people of all ages and abilities, while managing two dance studios. Nicole now works as Corporate Culture and Brand Manager for a property management and development company, specializing in the preservation and rehabilitation of affordable housing. Throughout her experience her passion for people and supporting community has always been her driving force.  

Nicole credits her success to her ability to connect with people and gain experience through jumping into new challenges headfirst. Nicole is very much looking forward to being a part of Babe Walls, learning from amazing community leaders and sharing the Babe Walls brand and mission. Nicole’s experience will help Babe Walls as the organization continues to grow. She will help assist the founding members in organizing and operating the “behind the scenes”.