Kiki Kreatrix

A multi-prop fire and flow artist from West Virginia, Kiki has spent the past six years finding both passion and purpose through the art of flow. What began as a creative outlet became a way to manage anxiety, while performing with fire brings her a deep sense of calm and grounding. She especially loves events where music, movement, and community come together.

Kitana

A West Virginia flow artist with more than 10 years of experience under the flames. Kitana is a multi-prop performer who flows to feel free, translating music into movement and light.

Lynx

A multi-prop performance artist specializing in rope dart performance and instruction. Lynx has taught and performed at Mountain Music Fest, Kinetic Fire, PlayThink, and numerous other festivals and events. Her performances combine striking precision with graceful, dynamic movement.

Moon Bear

A multi-prop flow and fire artist with three years spent chasing flames, spinning light, making magic, and finding flow in the chaos. Moon Bear loves being part of the growing flow arts community and sharing that same joy with others.

Necro Nancy

An Appalachian visual and performance artist whose creative work ranges from burlesque to fire performance.

Rachel Toler

A flow artist with 15 years of experience working with multiple props, including hula hoops, rope dart, flowstars, and poi. Rachel has a passion for both performing and teaching others new flow skills. She believes movement is a key to life and that moving in a fun, joyful way is one of the tricks to staying young at heart.

Tumblweed

Created through years of disciplined acrobatics training and flow arts practice, Tumblweed combines strength, grace, fire, and movement into a captivating performance experience.

Austin Short

Austin Short, also known as The Lemon Squid online, is a published illustrator, artist, and YouTuber. He’s known for drawing anything from Pokémon to horror creatures, as well as animating cartoons, and specializes in 60-second drawings where he tries to draw anything you want in 60 seconds for $5, with the disclaimer that it MIGHT be good. Swing by his booth for on-the-spot sketches, prints, paintings, stickers, and more!

Bekah Williamson

Art has always allowed me to explore the intricate dance between human anatomy and our profound connections to both our inner selves and the wider world. Through the fluid movements of watercolor and acrylic painting, the sharp precision of ink, and the earthy textures of pyrography on wood, my work delves into the rhythms and forms that define our existence. Each piece aims to evoke a deeper sense of self-awareness and encourage reflection on how we inhabit our bodies and navigate the dynamic spaces around us, inviting viewers to find their own pulse within three visual narratives.

Robbie Poore

Robbie Poore is a Kentucky born, West Virginia-based
artist who works primarily in marker, as well as recycled
art.

He is especially fond of creating colorful and whimsical images of cats, as Robbie finds them to be a fascinating subject to draw. He is drawn to the challenge of making the familiar strange and the strange familiar in his use of lines and color in his work.

Through his creative reinterpretations of cats, Robbie seeks to attract a new generation of art appreciators and cat fanatics alike. His vision is that one day cats will be revered from Appalachia to Antarctica!

Moriah Lockhart

Moriah Lockhart is a painter as well as a graphic designer. She was born in Welch, West Virginia, and calls Beckley home today. She studied graphic design at Marshall University. That’s where she learned to embrace both of her passions, thanks to great mentors and a group of close friends she met along the way.

She currently works remotely as a graphic designer at Money Pages, a multimedia advertising agency based in Jacksonville, Florida. Her paintings include organic styles, curved line work, shapes, and patterns. She experiments with different canvases; a few of her favorites are murals, vinyl records, skateboards, and bleach-painted denim jackets.

Painting is an emotional outlet and a way to touch base with herself through the many different seasons that life brings. Some pieces are celebrations for the good things happening in life while others are about navigating the messy parts.

For the past few years she has been working with UV reactive acrylic paint and loves the vibrant glow effect as well as the life it gives her pieces. A common theme throughout her work is sea life and fish skeletons. The fish skeleton is the first design she made in high school that resonated and has evolved over the years. Keeping this in her work celebrates her roots and the time she decided to become an artist. After she lived in Saint Augustine, she was inspired by all of the sea life. She noted that it felt natural to start giving the fish skeletons some friends.

You can find three of her community pieces out in the wild. The first is a painted fiberglass train located on Marshall University’s campus, a piece from the Tri-State Artisans Express public art project in 2015. The last two
are skate ramp murals located at Freedom Skatepark in Beckley, WV. If you would like more information, please check out her website: MoriahLockhart.com.
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Wes Eary

I have been exploring with color since I was able to hold a crayon. I’ve constantly been experimenting with various ways to apply acrylic paints, inks, watercolors, and anything you can make a mark with. My process varies depending on what I decide to paint, but I prefer to start in a free flow. This playful process begins with zero intentions, and it will guide me to a stopping point. I come back and pull from what I see on the surface. This is very similar to recognizing shapes in clouds. This process keeps me fresh and excited to begin the next piece. Whether it be a colorful flower arrangement in a glass vase, a portrait, or a psychedelic cluster of chaos pulled from another dimension. They are all tied together by a
very vivid color palette.

Robby Moore

Robby Moore is from Beckley, West Virginia. He is a mixed media artist and graduated with a Bachelor of Art degree in Studio Arts and a minor in Theatre from Concord University. Moore has exhibited his work and curated exhibitions since 1999. He is a theatrical director and has also worked professionally as a scenic designer/artist, costumer, actor, technician and marionette puppeteer.

Moore currently works as WV’s First Arts Extension Educator for WVSU Extension Service and West Virginia Creative Network. His work has been exhibited in various spaces including the Juliet Art Museum, Marshall School of Art and Design, West Liberty University, The Huntington Museum, Carnegie Hall, Morehead University, and Concord University.

Moore’s mixed media artwork explores forms and the relationship between positive and negative spaces. He uses Appalachian traditions (quilting, storytelling) and values (like saving and repurposing) as inspiration to comment on our modern existence. He uses common, often discarded, items to create his work. His media mostly consists of paper, paint, ink, pencil, thread, and fabric. Moore says about his work, “I use what I have to
communicate the strange, triumphant, beautiful, and tragic things that I observe and experience in my daily life. I try to express, through my figures, the sadness and
confidence that comes from the depth gained from thoughtfulness.”

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