Previous Artists in Residence

These visiting artists bring their expertise to Indiana County so that we can delight in their skills and build our own. These murals will last for years and so will the experiences of meeting them!

Justin Suarez

Justin Suarez was born on a farm in upstate New York. He is a multidisciplinary artist who brings together the rural and the urban. He specializes in wildlife, with an emphasis on raptors. His murals capture their majesty and brings them to life through explosive graphics and remarkable technique. With over 15 years of experience, he has painted murals across the United States, and his fine art work has been exhibited around the world.

Lena McCarthy

Lena “MAC” McCarthy is a painter, international muralist and street artist. After attending the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, she took her work to the street while living in Santiago, Chile and has continued to paint across the globe ever since.

Both in the street and studio, Lena’s work imagines energetic spaces and interior realms of the human experience. Through flowing strokes and abstraction, she explores fantastical spaces, interwoven with metaphor inspired by the natural world and feminine power. Themes of duality, transformation, and resilience recur frequently, painted in sensitively selected color.

 Lena approaches mural making as gift giving to the public space, using bare walls as a platform for messages of hope, and to connect communities. Her murals span across Latin America, Asia, Europe and the United States.

Sabrina Dorsainvil

Sabrina is civic designer, public artist and illustrator whose work ranges from playful drawings to the development of strategic design projects used to address complex issues such as housing, healthcare and human rights. She has worked with international and local community based organizations, non-profits, large institutions and startups on issues regarding social, spatial and environmental justice. She is fascinated by people; the way they move, speak, touch, interact and experience environments, objects and each other.

Souls

Dionelo Alvarez aka Souls Nyc was born and raised in the South Bronx. Growing up a few blocks away from the infamous Bronx Zoo, he has always looked at the city as an inspiration board. 

"From an early age I felt creativity was my preferred language in a loud and lively Dominican household.

Art has always been my escape and chosen language. 

Sketching on the train, working on canvases, designing my next mural, art is in me. I don't think about creating, it bursts out of me."

Currently studying Fine arts at Laguardia College, Souls Nyc also mentors youth and directs art related workshops. Dedicated to his chosen style, Aerosol Art, this Bronx artist integrates it's methods and history in his lesson plans for the youth