GERMAN DUBOIS & BELKIS ‘@LA.YERA’ GONZALEZ

Miami creative German DuBois has been honing his skills in public art since his teenage years growing up in the Bronx, during the emergence of the hip-hop era in the ’80s. German was submerged into the raw B-boy culture of urban street arts, and the collective expression that aligns one’s past experiences to one’s current reality. His artistic vision is to connect moments of life throughout time, highlighting those episodes that tell the untold story of the journey. As founder of HOPE Murals, German is well known for his ARTIVISM, which is born from his passion and capacity to leverage the power of art to effect change in the lives of youth who lack hope.

Belkis Gonzalez, known as YERA, is a multidisciplinary Latina artist based in vibrant Miami, Florida. Throughout the years her creative juices have been extracted from the fruits of countless collaborations among peers, commercial businesses, personal commissions, art spaces, and philan- thropic projects with community-based organizations. In her most recent years, challenging the fine-arts world by mixing mediums with new approaches has been her focus. As she continues to discover the many layers of what makes an artwork timeless, she is continuously committed to the transcending power of art.