KC Winnecke

KC is a visual artist from New Albany, Indiana. Using a variety of design techniques and resources he creates detailed paintings and sketches that vary wildly in size, format, and subject. Drawing inspiration from cultural sources such as graphic novels, Anime, video games, and film he utilizes the heroes of our time as centerpieces to his work. Integrating uncommon canvasses, such as the computer tower featured in this photo, he goes beyond the accepted norms of the art world to allow his work to be displayed in unique ways.

The Lurking Corpses

The Lurking Corpses are a horror punk band from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Their music combines gory lyrics with tongue in cheek humor and dark sarcasm. Mixing elements of Doo-Wop, Rockabilly, Arena Rock, and Country they combine their diverse influences to create an eclectic sound that pairs well with their energetic stage show.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Lurking-Corpses/199078861463

Bil Laschke

Bil is a photographer and abstract artist from Blackheath, New South Wales. His main focus of photography centers around Abstract Realism, in which the form of the picture supersedes the subject being photographed. Using a technicolor arrangement of hues and a stunningly psychedelic layout he makes amazing creations from anything that he photographs.

http://www.bilzeye.com/

Snub23

Snub 23 is a visual artist from Brighton, United Kingdom. Snub uses high impact graphics to disrupt the optical overload of commercialism in the world by scattering the landscape of advertisements and product placement with his own unique style of urban art. Motivated by what he perceives as a future of technology gone horribly wrong he creates diverse works using stickers, paste-ups, stencils and freehand spray paints on a wide variety of canvases.

http://snub23.com/

Licia Evangelista

Licia is an Avant-Garde visual artist from Mondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her innovative and experimental style of painting reflects a revolutionary spirit fighting against the odds to spread a vision of freedom to the world. Utilizing art as a means of social change and peaceful protest she aims to question and change the world in which she lives.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Revolution-Licia-Evangelista/576603512357718

Zabou

Zabou is a French street artist and graphic designer who works and lives in London, UK. She is known for her large stencils, which are hand drawn by eye and inspired by her original illustrations. Using unique design and texture with her digital and street pieces Zabou creates a very distinct style that catches the eye and inspires fellow artists worldwide.

http://www.zabou.me/

Miss Van

Miss Van is a Spanish painter who creates intricately beautiful and wildly controversial murals and portraits that reflect a rebellious and feminine spirit. Through the forbidden world of graffiti art she has discovered her love of wall painting, seeing it as a way to boycott the conventional art world and finding freedom in its lack of censorship.

http://missvan.com/

The Revenants

What can one say about The Revenants? They've been around and playing since the 90's, which by my count makes them the longest running Louisville punk/thrash band. Their music is loud, beautiful, scary, dark, and passionate. With a stage show that would give Edgar Allan Poe nightmares and lyrics that would make even the spookiest of monsters howl with delight they never cease to amaze their crowds. Always a blast to see live, fiercely intense on their albums, and really cool people to talk to. If you haven't heard them, you're definitely missing out.

http://www.facebook.com/TheRevenants

Stencil Killer

Stencil Killer creates masterful paintings with vivid and intense color schemes. Channeling various pop art and counterculture icons as subjects, while maintaining a relevance to modern culture in design and style, they bring a little bit of old style flare to today's art world. With reasonable prices and amazing crafting, Stencil Killer provides quality paintings that can fit the average persons budget.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/StencilKiller

Carmen Abelleira

Carmen is a self-taught Cuban artist who lives and works in Ojai, California. Using many mixed forms of multimedia and found materials she creates a stunning array of surrealist art. Her paintings and sculptures bring to mind a primal and powerful sense of revolution and rebirth, while her use of recycled and restructured materials displays her crafty and resourceful nature.

http://gnawledge.com/blog/artists/carmen-abelleira

Victoria Grefer

Victoria is an author and teacher from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her fantasy trilogy, The Crimson League, explores a mystical world of sorcery where the inhabitants fight to survive against prejudice and evil. Her style reflects years of study in linguistics and creative writing that shows through in her masterful methods of storytelling. She is soon to release a writer’s handbook entitled Writing for You: A Novelist’s Guide to the Craft of Fiction, addressing aspects not only of mechanics and style, but the emotional barriers that can impede aspiring writers.

http://www.crimsonleague.com/

Square Egg

Square Egg is a visual artist from Melbourne, Australia that utilizes graffiti, stencil work, and re-structured objects to create a rebellious and beautiful collection of work. The picture shown (Dolla Dolla Bills Yall) is my favorite piece, it's like a Vampire Pac Man take on Australian currency.

https://www.facebook.com/SQEGART

Lissette E. Manning

Lissette is a self published author from Waterbury, Connecticut. Using the internet and Ebooks she is able to reach out to a wide audience by her own means and connect and share her work personally with her fans. Her stories vary in genre, including Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, and Poetry. Lissette's writing reflects a depth of personality gained from her own life experiences, and a love of the characters that she has created to share with the world.

http://simplistik.org/

Pegasus

Pegasus is an urban street artist from London, United Kingdom. Using a variety of materials, from Spray Paint to Wheat Pasted posters, he is as resourceful as he is controversial. His pieces display a beauty in hilariously exhibited icons of popular culture, questioning even the most revered and honored of people to be subject to the comical eye of humanity.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pegasus-Street-Artist/262813080401099

Evie Asterwyn

Evie is a self promoted and published novelist from Palmerston North, New Zealand. Her passion for writing began at an early age, when she discovered short stories and poetry. Her drive to create blossomed as she grew up and the nature of E-books created an outlet for writers to share their work with a broader audience without having to submit to the needs of a publisher. The Star Kin series, her current project, explores the life of normal people who have been offered an extraordinary chance to be part of a secret and powerful world.

https://www.createspace.com/4056097

C.S. Stanley

C.S. Stanley is an urban artist from Beech Grove, Indiana who uses iconic imagery in his stencil and graphic design pieces. His stages range anywhere from gallery shows to street corners, and his work is recognized internationally among various art scenes. Always clever and unrelenting in his honest view of the world, C.S. Stanley never fails to test the boundaries of creativity.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/kriminalrx

Spence Psylias

Spence is a Psy-Trance DJ and visual artist from Melbourne, Australia. His paintings and music are psychedelic reflections of a life spent traveling the country and experiencing the ways of life for people from coast to coast. His visual work integrates spray paint, airbrush, and UV Reflective paints to create a unique and profound style. Utilizing Live Art as a means of creation, his paintings test the boundary between audience and participant.

The Gnarled Branch

Founded by David Irvine in 2004, The Gnarled Branch is an artistic venture out of Brampton, Ontario that focuses on visual art and repurposed furniture and decorations. The level of skill shown in David's work is incredible, with a strong attention to detail and a creative and unique flair that shows in every piece. His invocation of pop art and cult classic icons in his work showcases a connection with the counterculture undercurrent of multiple types of media. My favorite of his works, the Zombie Jewelery Box (as i've been calling it), is a repurposed jewelery box hand painted with classic horror film zombies, including a stunningly well done nod to Night o the Living Dead.

http://www.gnarledbranch.com/

Kara Willis

Kara is an abstract artist from Albany, Kentucky who uses contrast, bold colors, and suggestive lines in her paintings to portray her view of the world. Utilizing multiple styles and mediums such as original stencil art, abstracts, seascapes, and photography she reaches beyond her specialization of acrylic paint on canvas to explore new ways to create.

https://www.facebook.com/LakesEdgeDesigns

Annette Neumann

Annette is a Singer/Songwriter from Leitchfield, Kentucky. Her music is a blend of Folk and Country that has a primary focus on Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, and other stringed instruments. With deeply personal and passionate lyrics she invokes the ancient art of storytelling with the power of modern music.

www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=342138

Michael Dever

Michael is an extremely talented visual artist from Louisville, Kentucky who creates magnificently deranged and wildly elaborate drawings. Channeling inspiration from the great Nick Blinko this particular piece brings to light the dementia and creativity of a wickedly genius mind.

Ryuk8art

Reed Skocz, the artist behind Ryuk8art, is a self taught visual artist from Chicago, Illinois. His works integrate oil and acrylic paints, ink, watercolors, pastels, as well as graphite and colored pencils. The eerie and haunting images in his prints are phantasms of wild psychedelic daydreams and terrifyingly graphic nightmares.

http://facebook.com/Ryuk8art

Kristel Kelly

Kristel is a painter and mother of twins from Gladstone, Queensland. She finds being a mother inspiring and takes pride in raising her children to think and create with their own artistic talents. Her paintings are stunningly colorful and vividly intense, drawing the viewers eye to central focal points while still maintaining an awareness of the piece in its entirety.

https://www.facebook.com/shadesandcurves

Revival Ink

Revival Ink is an organic and eco-friendly clothing designer from Seattle, Washington. Their images and designs are all drawn by hand, giving them a personal and unique flair, and printed locally with non-toxic, water-based inks. Their diverse and genuinely hip style features something for women, men, and kids of all ages. Their work is sold and promoted locally, showing their genuine interest in their community, as well as distributed online. Keeping in touch with the online savvy nature of modern art fans they offer some really cool internet specials, like a 10% off coupon for their Etsy listings just for liking their Facebook page, that integrate new and progressive methods of promotion.

http://revivalink.com/

Monster Art and Clothing

Monster Art & Clothing is a shop located in Seattle, WA that is dedicated to supporting local artists and sustainable goods. Monster is a colorful, playful space created to taunt the inner child that features local artwork, clothing for men, women, and children, fun accessories and very unique greeting cards (As well as a HUGE wall of socks). Their mission is to create an interactive environment of markets and festivals, where the separation between creator and consumer is as small as possible.

http://www.monsterartandclothing.com/

Empyrean Asunder

A female fronted Anti-Industrial rock band with hypnotically brutal melodies and vocals, they challenge the line between electronic and rock music. Blending Industrial, Electro, Metal, and Punk with a violently theatrical and visually intense performance they set out to be the new aesthetic of instinct and violence.

https://www.facebook.com/empyreanasunder

Steampunk Workshop

Steampunk Workshop is a blog that features amazing Steampunk gizmos, as well as guides and tutorials on how to create your own Steampunk gear. Everything from guitars to motorcycles, PC monitors to kerosene lamps, and even guides for Steampunking out a car or a bus, this blog gives you well written and simple to understand information for creating your own masterpieces with easy to find materials.

http://steampunkworkshop.com/

The Uncontrollables

Miah Akston and her friends are Uncontrollable as they bring listeners unpredictable political perspectives from a range of views. Miah is a transgender, voluntaryist, small business owner, and veteran ... and it just gets weirder from there. With a combination of wit, controversial subject matter, and a strong dose of humor The Uncontrollables will keep you entertained and educated every time.

http://TheUncontrollables.com

The Man-Day Monday Show

A free podcast recorded by some of the manliest men to ever roam the earth, be sure that you will hear lots of talk about drinking, fighting grizzly bears, the evolution of the mustache, and other dudely stuff. Ladies, don't fret however, with their great collections of witty banter and amazing selections of independent music and art there is truly something for everyone here.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/man-day-monday-random-show/id607132903

Pinky Toast

An innovator in the Etsy art scene, and a creator of all things macabre and big eyed, Pinky Toast has been creating masterpieces for as long as those of us in the indy art scene can remember. Her pieces are genuinely eerie, constantly original, and simply amazing. A Brooklyn, NY native, her artwork has inspired many internet legends and amateurs a like.

http://www.etsy.com/people/pinkytoast

Britta Bay

Britta is an elegant and wildly free spirited model from Southern California. Her style is unquestionably unique, tastefully sexy, and blends a mixture of no holds barred animalism with a flare of intense humanism. Basically, she makes you wonder if she's the Lion or the Tamer. When not modelling Britta works on providing a valuable service to her community with her college textbook company.

http://facebook.com/collegetextbooks

Vice Tricks

Vice Tricks are a well crafted Psychobilly band who combine the magic and mystique of 50's-60's Rock & Roll with the hard cutting edge of 70's Punk Rock. Fused with the beautiful sound of upright bass and deliciously dirty electric guitars, they blend various forms of sound to make a wicked combination of all out badass rock.

http://www.reverbnation.com/vicetricks

Vinnie Vicious

Vinnie is a graphic and tattoo artist from Louisville, Kentucky. His work is renowned amongst the local art scene, and he is generally considered to be one of the kindest and most interesting people you will ever meet. His art forms range from still life prints of people from his personal life, to wild images of fantastical scenes and creatures, to anything that his vividly intense mind can conjure up. An innovator in the Live Art scene, he never fails to test the boundaries between creation and interaction.

Natalie Dee

Natalie, known lovingly as "America's Favorite Cracker", is a graphic artist and comedian with a penchant for off the wall humor and an uncanny eye for ridiculousness. Together with her life partner Drew she creates the daily web comic Married To The Sea, as well as her own web comic series depicting hilarious aspects of her life and the chaotic comedy that is the world we live in. Natalie will only bite when cornered, offered cupcakes, or if you are Robert Smith.

http://www.nataliedee.com/

Rusty S

Rusty is a unique and diverse artist whose skill sets range from mask making, to music, to creative writing. His work is that of a tortured and curious soul who seeks to show the world the beauty that lies within chaos and madness. His masks are infamous to those on the underground scene, and have inspired many artists to follow suit with their own design works. Statisticians believe him to be roughly 200 years old, and as far as mankind knows the remains of his thirty seven victims have never been found.

Alexx Michelle

Alexx is an independent tattoo artist from Louisville, KY. Brought up from an early age to be as creative as possible she was taught by her family and friends to express her emotions and thoughts through various forms of art. Her sketch work is a masterful representation of her view of the world around her. Raised in the wild hills of Kentucky, she also has spent years in Toronto, Canada training to fight bears with only her bare hands and combat boots.

Michael Movestro

Michael is a composer from New York City who blends many different styles of instrumental orchestration with a flare of unique sound that is all his own. Currently working on his second album, Micheal plans on utilizing the internet to blow the minds of music lovers all around the world.

http://www.youtube.com/user/michaelmovestro

Emily Horne

Emily is a Canadian Photographer who co-creates the internet comic A Softer World. Her work is mostly satiric with a blend of abstract realism. She, a long with her partner in crime Joey Comeau, create controversial and hilarious weekly comics portraying modern day life and the world as they perceive it. Constantly on the ball with her wit and ninja like camera skills Emily believes in letting her photographs tell the story for her.

www.asofterworld.com/

Samantha Sharp

Samantha is a full time mom and working class hero from Louisville, KY. She adapts images and colors into symbolic shapes that can be interpreted in many different ways by many different people. If you were to ask her what her pieces meant she may very well counter your question by asking you "What do they mean to you?" A huge fan of literature, and a supporter of the late great Hunter S Thompson, she is quiet at times but extremely well spoken when she does feel the desire to express her thoughts with words. She and her life partner Tyler have one daughter, a dog named Izzy, and will always know just how to make you feel better with the power of conversation.