JOSHUA CONRO aka Zoomcreep, is a Visual artist, educator and filmmaker with a background in a variety of mediums. His passion for visual arts stems from an innate need to create and to share.  Originally from Los Angeles, he moved to Chicago in 2002  and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus in Film Video & New Media. He produced and directed his first film, “ Sharkula: Diarrhea of a Madman, inspired by the rawness and the originality of local hip hop legend, Sharkula.  ‘It Was Written’ is the ideal follow up documentary, being an accumulation of his interests in Hip hop, street culture and art .  He currently resides in Houston, Texas. 

HIRAM VILLA aka TEEL is a born and raised Chicago artist who has spent his life painting on anything and everything he could get his hands on.  His works span a wide range of mediums, anything from multimedia, murals, canvases, sculpture, comics and design. TEEL is the owner of the  independent spray-paint specialty art store on the outskirts of Chicago called 'Momentum Art Tech' and is currently working on opening an Art Gallery. 

 ULISES VILLA is a self-taught artist based out of Chicago whose professional works have primarily been interior and exterior murals. In 2010, he co-founded Momentum Art Tech – a company focused on painting, training artists and retail sales of high-end and specialty art supplies.  Additionally, Ulises has offered his professional skills in graphic design and digital media, and video. Artistically, he works with many traditional techniques, such as oil painting, acrylics, portraits, abstract and video/photography. His work can be found throughout Chicago and across the United States. 

MARK MCKENZIE better known as Mac Blackout was born in Bedford, Indiana, later attending college at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana where he graduated with a BFA in 1999. During his high school and college years he became a well known street artist in the midwest underground. In 1999 he moved to Chicago, Illinois channeling his creative energies into music and music related art of posters and album covers. Mac is currently a muralist and multimedia artist creating large scale public works with a studio focus in painting, drawing, sculpture and mixed media art.

 SAM KHORSHID  is an Emmy award winning artist that has spent 18 years in the entertainment industry, working in feature film, commercials, television, ride films and games. This experience has provided Sam with a diversified background in the VFX industry. A strong focus on methodology has given Sam an in-depth understanding of the visual effects process. 

SHAWN CONRO  a Los Angeles based photographer and videographer with years of Chicago winter experiences under his belt while earning his Bachelor of Arts in Film from Columbia College. Shawn is an expert at capturing urban landscapes with drone photography and owns his own production business in Los Angeles, California.

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