Shoebox Artists

Here are some of the artists who make up the Shoebox Arts community.

Each brings their own style, perspective, and creativity, contributing to a space where artists

support each other, share their work, and grow together.

April Bermudez http://aprilbermudez.com @aprilbermudezart

April Bermudez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on the objects and ephemera of a life lived. Books, toys, clothes, and forgotten things are the receipts of experience. She collects them, cherishes them, and lets them speak. For Bermudez these inanimate objects can illustrate who we were more delicately and honestly than words. Her art is built from personal experience and the continuous deciphering of existence, stretching beyond conventional boundaries of medium and style.

Born and raised in Los Angeles and currently based in Las Vegas, Bermudez works across clay, painting, assemblage, collage, and conceptual performance. She studied art at Cerritos Community College and Pasadena City College. Her work has earned Special Congressional Recognition from the United States Senate and recognition from the Consulate of Mexico in Las Vegas. Recent press includes profiles in Bold Journey, Canvas Rebel, Shoutout LA, and Voyage LA.

Lynette K Henderson https://www.lynettekhendersonart.com/ @lynettekhenderson

Lynette K. Henderson is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, and mixed-media sculpture. Her work explores relationships between people, nature, and the environment, challenging romanticized notions of the natural world while examining the impact of human activity and climate change on species and habitats. A central thread is how humans project emotions onto animals. Her art serves as collective reflection on our interconnectedness with the environment.

Henderson holds a BFA, MFA, and PhD in Art Education and is Professor Emeritus at California State University Northridge. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally. A solo show opens February 2026 at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles.

Flor Quinto https://florquinto.com/ @florquintoart

Flor Quinto is a Los Angeles-based mixed media artist working with forgotten objects, resin, wax, paint, and found materials to explore themes of attachment, memory, and impermanence. Her practice begins with holding an object and waiting for placement to feel inevitable, allowing pure emotion to guide her hands as hidden narratives emerge from discarded materials. Warped tape becomes drawing, CD fragments catch light like jewels, letters yellow into new meaning. Her process transforms the overlooked into a universal language of longing and renewal.

Born in México and raised moving city to city, Quinto developed a deep attachment to the emotional resonance of objects and the ephemeral nature of existence. She holds degrees in French and Anthropology from California State University San Bernardino. Exposure to the downtown Los Angeles underground art scene pushed her practice from representational painting into layered experimental mediums. She is currently based at the Brewery Arts Complex and is a resident artist at The Hive Gallery and Studios.

Laura Henneforth http://www.laurahenneforth.com @lorelei970

Laura Henneforth is a Los Angeles-based collage artist whose practice is rooted in sustainability and intentional creativity. Working with discarded books, magazines, and forgotten papers, she transforms overlooked materials into something new. She also explores sustainable alternatives to traditional processes including sun-developed anthotypes with plant-based emulsions and intaglio prints made from repurposed Tetra Pak cartons. For Laura sustainability is not just about recycling. It is creating with intention, finding beauty in what others discard, and embracing experimentation without fear.

Born and raised on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Laura discovered art before she could read and continued her formal studies at 31. While she works across colored pencil illustration, mixed media, and graphic design, collage remains her primary voice. It found her during the pandemic shutdown of 2020 through a Call and Response pairing organized by Shoebox Arts, and it has been her most joyful and prolific form of expression ever since.

Emily Araújo https://emily-araujo.com/ @searaujoart

The grief of losing everything in the Eaton Fire sparked urgency in my art practice. Post-fire, colors simmer and patterns teem through my works on paper. My gouache and watercolor paintings champion wildness in form, color and texture. The imagery is directly tied to my experiences in the L.A. landscape. Uprooted from Altadena, I move around L.A. more. In transit, I look at the interplay of nature with the built environment: agaves like burst stars in gravel patch lawns, geometric shrubs carved to fit walkways, palms thrusting to find the sun. Potted plants line apartment steps like beacons signaling home. Urban gardens are thresholds and mirrors for reflection on how the natural world shapes us, as we shape it. Painting, I cultivate new growth.

Marianna Baker mbfiberandclay.com @mbfiberandclay

As a contemporary fiber artist, I harness the tactile nature of fabric, embroidery, and beading to convey powerful narratives that resonate on both emotional and societal levels. My work explores themes of identity, memory, and transformation, weaving together intricate textures and vibrant colors to create dialogue between viewer and material.

Through meticulous handwork and fabric manipulation, I elevate traditional techniques into contemporary statements, inviting audiences to reflect on their own experiences and connections. Each stitch, bead, and fold serves as both medium and storytelling form, celebrating resilience and the complexity of the human spirit.

I embrace experimental embroidery as a means to challenge tradition and explore new narratives. By merging unconventional materials and techniques, I create tactile pieces that invite curiosity and provoke thought. My work celebrates the beauty of imperfection and creativity's unpredictable nature.
My artistic journey testifies to craft's transformative power, where every piece becomes a visual and tactile exploration of what it means to be seen and heard in a world that often overlooks life's intricacies.

Isabelle Hayeur isabelle-hayeur.com @ihayeur

I am known for my photographs and experimental videos, though I've also realized public art commissions, site-specific installations and artists' books. My work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and social conditions. Since the late 1990s, I've been probing the territories I travel through to understand how our contemporary civilizations take over and fashion their environments.

Concerned with the evolution of places and communities within the current neoliberal context, I produce images that evoke an ambiguous feeling, reflecting our unease in the face of a dehumanized system's flaws. My art practice proves to be both political and poetic, with constant striving to blur lines and highlight the ambivalence of our relation to the world.

In recent years, I've been captivated by the American West, immersing myself in its landscapes. I'm particularly drawn to Southern California and the arid expanses of Arizona and New Mexico, growing intimately familiar with these deserts, connecting with their communities and embracing the unique, often overlooked no-man's lands.

Katie E Stubblefield katiestubblefieldart.com @katiestubblefieldart

Katie Stubblefield creates wood cut prints, oil paintings, sculptures, large-scale drawings, and site-specific installations that explore order, chaos, and entropy. Growing up in Tennessee's old-growth forests before relocating to Southern California, she developed a fascination with tracking wind through tree canopies—an experience that continues to inform her investigation of nature's overwhelming power.

Her imagery is informed by site visits, forensic photography, first-hand accounts, and evidence of changed environments caused by super-sized storm patterns and climate change. Working with both traditional materials and repurposed substrates like discarded plexiglass and sailcloth, Stubblefield transforms environmental debris into layered studies of ecological disruption and renewal.

Recent works examine dust devils and updrafts as real-time indicators of global warming, overlaying imagery from flood zones and earthquake fault lines with local infrastructure. Her sculptural installations incorporate fishing nets, concrete, rebar, and architectural debris, freezing moments of environmental onslaught while questioning what emerges in devastated landscapes.

Stubblefield holds an MFA from California State University, Long Beach, and teaches at Coastline College. She has received fellowships from the Long Beach Arts Council and a 2025 Kipaipai Artist Development Fellowship. Her works are exhibited nationally and held on consignment at galleries including K. Imperial Fine Arts, SCAPE, and SALT.

Lynn Heinz lynnheinzart.com @lynnheinzart

I work as an unreliable narrator in my art, telling stories that aren't complete, truthful, or entirely accurate. My mental state, biases, and personal purposes shape how I bend reality. I filter everything through my own perceptions and interpretations, never seeking to depict consensual or historical truth.

My sources are varied—found photos, family images, and ephemera I've collected over time. I interpret color and emotions freely, adding elements to amplify narratives while leaving out details lost to memory and time's decay. I always leave space for viewers to decide their own version of the story being told.

I'm Lynn Heinz, an artist living and working in Los Angeles. I received my Bachelor of Arts degrees from UCLA. My work has been included in shows at Coastline Community College, Lancaster Museum of Art and History/Cedar, Art Share LA, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Avenue 50 Gallery, LA Artcorps, and Art Division.

Sharon Cannon sharoncannonstudio.com @sharoncannonstudio

I didn't start painting seriously until I retired. There was no plan—just a need to do something that felt free and alive. I work mostly in oils, using whatever gets me closer to that feeling: palette knives, rags, my hands. Rarely a brush. I'm drawn to color combinations that aren't supposed to work together—and that's exactly why I use them.

I don't sketch or plan things out. I just begin, and the painting takes over. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. I'm very self-critical, but I'm learning to leave space for accidents and surprises. That's where the truth often shows up.

Born into a farming family in South Dakota, I spent my first eight years in a single-room schoolhouse. After earning my Executive MBA from USC, I became Vice President of Unique Projects in high-end design furniture, collaborating with creative designers on projects for cruise ships, parks, and restaurants. Now living in Los Angeles, I've studied with Susan Manders and Kimberly Brooks, plus mentors in Scotland and Cornwall. I am also pursuing collaboration work with my friend, Don Saban who is a great photographer. Saban merges photos of my oil paintings with his photography, creating layered works that blend emotion and realism. Our pieces are really fun and well received.

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja adeolastudio.org @adeolastudio_art

My art practice is a spiritual and cultural offering—a visual language shaped by memory, ancestry, and the urgency to witness. I draw from my Yoruba heritage, personal migration story, and the collective experiences of Black and marginalized communities. Through vibrant color palettes, layered surfaces, and symbolic motifs, I navigate the complexities of joy, loss, resilience, and connection.

I work across media—painting, enamel on metal, sculpture, printmaking, and performance—letting the material speak. Some works, like those in my Mystic Series, emerge through intuitive mark-making and abstraction, creating organic forms that echo nature and spirit. Others, like Sacred Imprints, are deeply research-based, invoking ancestral DNA and reimagining narratives tied to slavery, migration, and survival.

As a curator, educator, and cultural bridge-builder, I believe in art's power to restore dignity, inspire reflection, and build community. My Menopause Art Project and cyanotype workshops create intergenerational dialogue around health and healing, while my recent installation work explores elemental forces as metaphors for transformation. I continue expanding my performance practice.

Palmer Earl palmerearl.com palmerearl_art

I am interested in a world when Goddesses were worshipped and women revered. Ancient cultures and polytheistic religions have been slowly mitigated away from our great grandmothers and replaced with monotheistic religions that promote women's subjugation.

Through my work I explore stories and ideas from polytheistic religions made obsolete long ago. These religions included powerful female deities and celebrated women's strength and unique beauty, encouraging more egalitarian societies and respect for our planet.

Using visual cues of medieval illuminated manuscripts—gold leaf, floral motifs, marginalia, and vertical formatting—I infuse polytheistic Goddesses from ancient religions in place of male monotheistic patriarchal icons of abrahamic religions.
Raised in New York City, I now live and work in Los Angeles with a BFA from School of Visual Arts. My subject matter mines the ancient origins of modern patriarchy, drawing on my own experience as a woman today. In remembering mythologies with strong female gods, we can empower ourselves to imagine how our world could be better for us and our daughters to come.

Aazam Irilian aazamirilian.com/ @aazamirilianstudio

I am a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of nature, memory, and the unseen forces that shape our reality. Through painting and mixed media, I examine the interplay of color, light, and texture, using fluid layers and transparencies to evoke depth, movement, and space.

The mystical aspect of my Iranian heritage deeply informs my practice, particularly the understanding of light as divine presence and the veil as a threshold between visible and invisible worlds. This cultural lineage, combined with influences from Helen Frankenthaler, Agnes Pelton, and Georgia O'Keeffe, drives me to give form to the intangible.

I create layered, translucent compositions that suggest multiple realities existing simultaneously—where what is hidden and what is revealed exist in constant, beautiful dialogue. My process embraces spontaneity and surrender, allowing materials to move organically and reveal unexpected connections through intuitive mark-making and accumulated translucent layers.

Originally from Iran, I've resided in Southern California for over forty years. As a Kipaipai Fellow and educator for thirty years, I continue bridging art and science to reveal nature's complexity and beauty.

Linda Litteral lindalitteral.com @lindalitteralartist

Through the process of making things, I strive to open a door for those who have no voice and provide them a place to speak. Childhood trauma and abuse thrive upon silence and secrets. My visual language articulates the "unspeakable" while establishing a sense of hope and healing for the viewer.

Patriarchal constructs foster the silence that supports abuse. My art is a form of social protest that addresses these problems publicly. The goal is that abuse prevention will stem from greater awareness.

I am a multi-faceted artist working alternately with ceramics, bronze cast and clay sculpture, oil and acrylic paint on canvas, pen and pencil on paper, wood, and three-dimensional mixed media sculpture. I earned my MFA from San Diego State University, where my thesis explored art as a way to expose and heal childhood abuse.

I've taught art healing classes to inmates at detention centers and state prisons, and facilitated similar classes at New York City's prestigious Bluestockings Bookstore. As an artist, I'm passionate about making the world a safer place for women and children, using my art to educate and heal viewers.

Indi Carlton indicarltonart.com @indicarltonart

My work begins with intuition, with a kind of inner listening that guides each brushstroke without knowing what will emerge on the canvas. I follow a process that allows color, texture, and form to surface on their own timeline. The result is a blend of figurative abstraction and quiet mysticism, where vivid layers create openings into emotional and imaginative worlds.

Across my paintings I explore transformation, resilience, and the subtle forces that shape our inner lives. Some pieces lean into the mystical, others into whimsy or symbolism, but all are invitations to slow down and feel what rises between what is seen and what is felt. My goal is to create art that stirs something awake, offering a moment of wonder or recognition.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, I landed in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California in 1999. As a self-taught artist, I return again and again to acrylic paints, applying them in thick, delicious layers or as wet, dripping cascades. Greatly influenced by Marc Chagall and the intuitive painting process, I became a Master Facilitator of Intuitive Painting & the Expressive Arts in 2024.

Dellis Frank dellisfrank.com @dellisFrank_theartist

I create fiber-based assemblages rooted in social justice, environmental advocacy, and cultural identity. Using repurposed materials, I've coined "The Greening of Fine Art" to describe my sustainable practice and "Vibrational Cooking" to reflect my intuitive, process-driven approach. Materials often guide each piece's direction, leading me into multidisciplinary work where symbolism and color invite viewers into self-reflection.

As a full-time artist passionate about visual art with a message, I focus on fiber sculptures that challenge societal norms while offering abstract pieces for aesthetic balance. My goal is transforming discarded elements into meaningful dialogue—one fiber at a time. Previously, I taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District, advocating for arts education and helping write media arts curriculum standards.

I currently serve on boards of several arts organizations and work with community groups focusing on arts advocacy. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including features on Peacock TV's Bel-Air. As a wife, mother of three, and grandmother of two residing in Lomita, California, I remain deeply committed to addressing social justice issues through my environmentally conscious art practice.

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