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Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara) was born in Ecuador, raised in NYC, and currently resides in the countryside north of the city. In 1979 she started writing graffiti and soon became well known as the only female capable of competing with the boys in the graffiti subculture. Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979-1985, having a starring role in the motion picture "Wild Style" in 1982. That role and her other significant contributions to graffiti have made her a cult figure in the hip-hop subculture.

While still in high school she was already exhibiting paintings in art galleries, and at the age of 21 had her first solo show at the Moore College of Art. As a leading participant in the rise of graffiti-based art, Lady Pink's canvases have entered important art collections such as those of the Whitney Museum, the MET in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Groningen Museum of Holland. She has established herself in the fine arts scene all over the world, and her paintings are highly prized by collectors.

Today, she is well documented as a community activist by creating murals throughout the world and mobilizing artists to create in culturally neglected communities. She has brought her artwork full circle from the subways and commuters, to the cultured and elite in galleries, back to working class neighborhoods. Lady Pink and her husband Smith are one of the few professional mural teams to arise from the graffiti subculture. She now shares her many decades of experience by holding mural workshops with students and actively lecturing in universities throughout the US.

Fine arts painter and muralist Sydney G. James is proudly a girl raised in, and by, Detroit. Her name is synonymous with colors and brushwork as strikingly defiant, and ever changing, as the city itself.

Since returning to her hometown in 2011, Sydney has personified artist in flow, quickly building upon her creative roots as a BFA graduate of Detroit’s College for Creative Studies. Her murals have transformed Detroit’s skyline and its arts narrative, and helped her earn a coveted 2017 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship.

But it is Sydney’s artworks – on walls, on canvas, on fabric, on Vans shoes; on whatever she damned well chooses – that give her name and her life a fierce focus. She is a painter on a pointed mission to let each brush stroke spark conversations long silenced. In paintings and murals, Black women are first. Never last and never forgotten. Her works boldly rewrite the narrative in hues evoking the complexities of Black reality, joy and pain, and phoenix-like resilience.

Her artwork has been exhibited at Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MOCAD), the Charles H. Wright Museum, Inner State Gallery, PlayGround Detroit Gallery, Collective Detroit Gallery, Detroit Artist Market, Red Bull House of Art; and Janice Charach galleries as well as the Arts, Beats and Lyrics traveling exhibit. Sydney’s murals have lit up walls in New Orleans, Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta, GA.; Los Angeles, CA.; Pow Wow Hawaii, Pow Wow Long Beach, Pow Wow Worcester, and across six continents.

She is a co-founder of the biannual BLKOUT Walls street mural festival which debuted in Detroit in 2021. Sydney’s artwork is featured by major marketing brands looking for authentic cultural connection. Brands include: Vans shoes, PepsiCo, Ford Motor Company, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Lions, as well as being one of the faces of the Lip Bar brand of cosmetics.

Robyn Frances, professionally known as Grow Love, is a Denver-based artist recognized for their dynamic contributions to the street art movement and unwavering commitment to uplifting female and non-binary voices in the field. Through mentorship, spray paint education, and mural installation training, they actively cultivates space for underrepresented artists.

A graduate of the University of Denver (2007), Grow Love initially focused on studio arts before immersing herself in aerosol-based work in 2017, exploring both urban walls and canvas. In 2019, they co-founded Babe Walls, a nonprofit mural festival dedicated to promoting female and non-binary artists. Since its inception, the festival has grown into a national platform, with events held in cities including Atlanta and on the lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Between 2023 and 2025, Grow Love has balanced large-scale public art commissions with a prolific studio practice. Their versatility across mediums continues to draw interest from public art programs and private collectors alike.