Look 12: Commander of Ceremonies, 2025

Rayon Taffeta, Silk linings, poly dupioni, and hardware

Tonio, a Houston native, has always moved through the world with curiosity, creativity, and a touch of the unconventional. Drawn to the arts from an early age, their passion eventually led him to the world of fashion—a realm they entered with a single step and was quickly swept away by its expressive force. For Tonio, fashion is more than fabric and form; it’s a celebration of individuality, a canvas for self-expression, and above all, a space to create joy.

Fashion Design, Columbia College Chicago

@jaluuuuuda

Enigma, 2025

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

DTHRDR

Denim vest, 2024

“IBiza is alchemy. Pain proves purpose. We are true rebels and leaders of change.

Sincerely, IBiza from the UnKnown.”

Fashion Design, Columbia College Chicago

@oneofsvn

Body & Soul

Framed digital illustration, 2026

Second Sense

Framed digital illustration, 25

Clem is a mixed media artist, specializing in ink, colored pencils, and digital techniques. Clemons uses traditional drawings using several materials and renders the drawings digitally. Based on their experiences as a Black person in alternative spaces, they use motifs stemming from the culture they have found themselves in and the background of their identity. Clemons is a sophomore illustration major, planning to work in freelance or education after graduating.

Illustration, Columbia College Chicago

@salamii.lover1234

https://bannanasarepurpleo.wixsite.com/my-site-1

BOYNESKI

Death of a Shadow

BOYNESKI aka Katelyn Boynes is a multi-genre artist from the South Eastside of Chicago. She has performed at Schubas, The Promontory, and many other venues. She is honored by her pure emotions and diverse sound range.

Music Business, Columbia College Chicago

@BOYNESKI

Hellbanger, 2025

Digital collage

Untitled (Marock Queen)

Digital collage, 2025

Jonathan Chester (they/he) is a Chicago-born visual artist with an interest in photography, graphic design, collage, and video art. Through these methods of image-making, Chester explores Black involvement in subcultures and reconciles with how being Black shapes their own identity. Jonathan is a senior at

Photography, Columbia College Chicago

@ctrl.rm

Stand Up

Lithography print, 2026

Beauty Marks

House paint and acrylic marker, 2025

Soul

House paint and acrylic marker, 2025

Lynn Stoudmire (she/her) is a digital illustrator/printmaker specializing in merchandise creation and poster design. Lynn's designs are inspired by patterns found in nature, the intricacies of the human body, and the experience of consumption. Channeling passion in her graphic style, Lynn's illustrations serve as a wayward voice to being perceived as powerless and undesirable, illuminating their experiences with sparkle and pride. Lynn is a Senior Illustration BA student at Columbia College Chicago, currently focused on developing her personal merchandise brand: "Starkor" for post-grad endeavors!

Il lustration, Columbia College Chicago

@starkorillustrations

Jesus freaKKK (Jacob's Ladder)

Oil on paper, 2025

Do you like how I grit my teeth? (Mouth wired shut)

Oil, graphite, permanent marker on canvas, 2025 (WORK IN PROGRESS)

I did all the right things and never stumbled my words (My heart is like an artichoke

Modelling compound, oil paint on canvas, paper, step stool, books, 2025

Trained in oil paints, I started my visual art journey with portraits commissioned by family friends in grade school. Since then, my creative pursuits have evolved, allowing me to root out intersections between oil painting and fields like psychology and to explore other forms of media like film, sculpture, textile-work and photography. I am most drawn to stories of vulnerability and cycles of growth/recovery in the black feminine experience. This most often shows up as compositions depicting black women in aerial suspension, caught in either a moment of transcendence or a fall from grace. My works tend to originate from moody, experimental music as I find it helps me explore feelings and images that may feel unapproachable or distant. Music allows me to translate those feelings into an image, as if I were scoring a movie scene in reverse. To flesh out compositions I draw on historical symbology of witchcraft, mysticism, spirituality and my Antillean heritage. I am also a training astrophysicist, which anchors me to a bigger picture, cosmic view of artmaking. My work, thus, often features spiral structures that call up galaxies and elements that defy physical laws, such as flying or floating. By the actual making stage, my composition is largely finalized, but I continue to investigate the canvas, in the editing room, etc. 

I am interested in how these black feminine characters interact with the worlds I put them in. Specifically, I am drawn to the ambiguity between recognizing confidence or discomfort, vulnerability or fear, weightlessness or freefall. On the transcendence side, my characters are often in active resistance as they defy gravity, asking the question: what could we be without burden? On the other hand, I also discuss oppressive structures, on the institutional and interpersonal scale alike, and how they can irreparably damage those with less power. The black woman, an example of the intersection between multiple marginalizing forces, makes a fitting and personal muse to embody this experience. My works, then, serve to illuminate the struggles of marginalized people and to depict what true and full liberation could feel like.

Chicago Based Arist

@sensorydeprivationtank

https://www.audreyclarendon.com/

I feel distance from what I'm supposed to be

From the series I wanna be able to face my thoughts

Oil and acrylic paint on unscathed canvas, 2023

Untitled

Digital illustration, 2022

Ariaunna McCloud (They/She) is an oil painter and digital artist from Cleveland, Ohio, who creates work that explores one’s individuality. McCloud

graduated from Columbia College Chicago in the fall of 2023 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Chicago Based Artist

@mccloud.jpeg

Untitled

Photography, 2025

Beautiful Light That is Josh Lane (Out of Space Festival)

Photography, 2024

M.EH Salt Shed Debut

Photography, 2026

Born in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, Lyra Anaise - meaning musical grace, has been immersed into the arts from a young age. Growing up around loved

ones who were musicians and visual artists, they showed her a lot of the older styles that would preemptively make her an old soul, helping define

her visual style. Largely inspired by the French New Wave, Linda McCartney, and Maripol’s work, she took all of her influences and went on to

pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Communication, furthering her experience in editorial filmmaking and photography. Since then,

Lyra has ventured into writing, producing content for social media, and venturing into photojournalism. When capturing and creating, Lyra loves to

ideate ideas based on music, reflections of events, and people in her life that words can’t express.

Chicago Based Artist

@artofanaise