Yassmin Abdul-Malik is a BFA graduate that aims to use her art to share her inner world and connect with others. Her work aims to explore themes such as motherhood, childhood, gender, race, and humanity through fantastical settings. Sometimes these fantastical settings are otherworldly, whimsical but hiding a darkness, or she is simply adding a touch of magic to our mundane reality. Regardless, Yassmin's aim in her work is to show that despite our societal notions, we have more in common with each other than not, and that we are able to connect with each other even when our life experiences and circumstances differ.

Sophia Dehler is and Illustrator and storyteller based in St. Louis Missouri. Her body of work ranges from children’s books and graphic novels to editorial illustration. Exploration of female experiences, anxiety, and fantasy are ever present in her practice. She examines how we navigate the pandemonium of our lives and the deep contemplation that goes on below the surface. Much of her inspiration comes from lived experience and observation catalogued through writing and a practice of keeping detailed sketchbooks.

Dante Douglas is an illustrator based in Southern Illinois. He is pursuing a BFA with emphasis in illustration at Webster University, St. Louis. He has had work presented in the Soulard Art Gallery of St. Louis, and has had work published through Ink and Drink Comics. Dante is a freelance-artist and works in several different mediums, such as oil, watercolor, graphite, digital, and more. His work presents highly detailed, high-contrast scenes with a dark, dreary tone that is offset by a subtle, often comedic tension.

Sam Finch is a cartoonist and multimedia artist based in St. Louis who is graduating with their BFA in Studio Art with an Emphasis in Illustration from Webster University. Sam works with themes of identity regarding gender, sexuality, and dualities of mind. Despite these somewhat serious themes, the meaningless and bright always find their way into Sam’s work with saturated colors and vibrant confusion. Sam views their work as an essential part of their living and homeostasis as a being. Whether it ‘works’ or not, these ideas that are trapped in their mind must come out.

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Riley Gregerson is a modern visual artist whose creations explore the intricacies of emotion, perception, and the human experience. Every artwork embodies a profound link to personal thoughts and feelings, expressed visually through the thoughtful application of color, light, and texture. Gregerson’s art encourages viewers to find their own interpretations, fostering a sense of exploration and self-reflection. uses art to challenge social conventions and spark emotional conversations through a developing and changing practice. Gregerson views painting as a means of understanding the world, converting beauty, uncertainty, and frustration into potent visual narratives that are both intimate and broadly relatable.

Wren Hartke is a graphic designer and artist who creates subjects focusing on empathy and care, both in intention and creation. Many works revolve around nostalgia and natural subjects, specifically finding a way to incorporate these subjects into the graphic design practice. Wren uses a wide variety of mediums in their work, going beyond the digital that graphic design might suggest. They choose to focus on subjects that fulfill a feeling of joy, something that is essential in order to be passionate about the work created. Every work we make is a piece taken from ourselves, and should be treated as such.

Evelyn Italiano is an illustrator and mixed media artist from Imperial, Missouri. While she was growing up, she became fond of the creations of illustrated storybooks as well as the themes of science fiction, thriller, mystery, and fantasy because of their inclusion of imagined characters, suspenseful components, along with impossible situations. Italiano’s works through the years mainly include fictional semi-realistic creatures or characters, vibrantly saturated color palettes, in addition to the presentation of foreboding settings. The aspects of an artwork that are important to Italiano are the purpose of immersing viewers into the environment, imagining the characters coming to life, and considering a suitable color palette for the proposed expression of the work. Ever since Italiano was a child, she has always considered illustration as a method of giving life to a story in addition to a sense of breaking free from reality.

Marcus Reames is an author and illustrator who has lived all across the continental United States and is now based in Saint Louis. He’s graduating from Webster University with a Bachelors of Fine Art: Emphasis in Illustration, a Minor in Creative Writing, and two Certificates in Comic Art and Leadership. While his work is primarily fictional, he’s also interested in providing visual histories, work relating to theater, and tabletop games.

He utilizes both traditional media and digital programs in tandem to create his body of work. His work often favors exploring psychological themes, personal identities, and projects tied to tabletop or video gaming cultures while also tending to favor science fiction or fantasy aesthetics.

Marcus’ work often depicts narratives that are close to his heart for one reason or another. While this applies to both his visual artwork, it also applies to his creative writing work. Over the duration of his artistic career, he has endeavored to unite these two and has doubled down on his efforts over the past four years.

Emerson earned her BFA in Illustration from Webster University in 2026. She works primarily with colored pencils, ink, and paint markers as these best showcase her refined and finished style emphasizing an attention to detail. With a general tendency to create based on her personal feelings related to subjects, fear and discomfort are usually at the forefront of her themes and are typically what drive her to create. Some examples of this are human interactions, particular visuals, sounds, and textures, and transforming negative feelings into aesthetically pleasing visual narratives. Illustrating around topics that make her anxious helps her better understand and cope with her reactions to them. Her pieces represent narrative qualities using organic subjects to convey stories. A vast majority of the techniques she uses come from figure drawing and character design classes and have technical but illustrative aspects. She enjoys combining the anatomy of living beings with narrative facets to design and relay information. Aside from personal work, she loves doing illustration commissions, creative writing, and swimming.

Feel free to contact Emerson at emersonangel124@gmail.com if you are interested in commissioning her or would like to discuss her work.

Alex Watts is an illustrator and concept artist from St. Louis. He earned an AFA from Jefferson Community college and earned a BFA in illustration from Webster University.

Alex is an illustrator with a focus on concept art for games and comics. His work bridges the gap between imagination and reality, bringing an understanding of the world to his works of fiction. Drawing inspiration from video games, comics, and animation, his style simplifies the world through line and shape focusing more on portraying the imagined form of an object as opposed to a hyperrealistic representation. His dream is to create his own works of entertainment in a way of participating in what he sees as a communion of imagination, where ideas are exchanged and built off of in a cycle of creation.

Mikaila Zanghi is a St. Louis based illustrator, painter, and sculptor. She graduated from St. Louis Community College with her Associates in Arts and moved on to Webster University to finish her undergraduate study, pursuing a Bachelors of Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Illustration. She is interested in narrative and materiality; combining 3D materials with traditional illustration processes. Throughout her work, themes of fantasy and historical reference reoccur, inspired by her interest in folklore, mythology, and art history.