Meet some of our artists behind the Mint art greeting cards. They are creative types with varied career paths.
Meet some of the characters behind our art cards
Category: Meet the Artist
Meet Oluwaseyi Akintoroye, a Mint creative leader, artist, and mentor
Meet Oluwaseyi Akintoroye: A Mint team leader, artist, photographer, student at Wayne State University and so much more. Calm, creative, and caring, Oluwaseyi Akintoroye has been a member of Mint Artists Guild for about four years. She has worked with Mint Artists Guild as a summer mentor/team leader for more than two years. During that time, she’s helped Mint grow …
Model, photographer and business woman, meet Mint’s new intern Tyesha McLean
Mint intern Tyesha McLean is on a journey of self love and growth.
Meet Toni Topp, our creative marketing intern
She’s creative and business-like and more.
Meet the rest of the 2021 winners and celebrate Imagination and Unity
They believe in the power of imagination – and in Detroit’s beauty and unity. Their art and poetry celebrates all that – and gives us something to think about. This year’s winners of the Metro Detroit Youth Arts Competition are just as diverse as the 2020 winners. But many were drawn to the new theme “Just my imagination … running …
Creative sister and brother are Metro Detroit Youth Arts Competition 2021 winners
Arise and Temple Rock are siblings and encourage each other’s creativity. They both won Mint’s Metro Detroit Youth Arts Competition in 2021.
Join us in August – a very art-filled month
Join Mint at two very artsy events in August, including a garden party fundraiser hosted by artist / arts patron Ellen Stone, whose painting is shown.
Six ways to plan for artists’ care during an art fair
Mint Artists Guild is going to the art fairs again this year – starting with Palmer Park Art Fair this weekend. We will set up at the Belle Isle Art Fair in early August, the Funky Ferndale Art Fair in September and some pop up art events in between. We spend a lot of timing getting ready for these fairs, …
TaNiah McQueen: Mint Alumni combines creative artist and caring nurse
TaNiah McQueen has always been a care-giver since she was a girl. She remembers taking care of family pets and always being interested in medical equipment. More recently, as a second-year nursing student, her care extended to larger groups; she gave about 50 covid-19 vaccines to individuals at TCF Center in downtown Detroit and on another day, in a …
How Frederick Douglass resonates today
Mint alumni Breonna Collins is an artist, filmmaker, student and creative entrepreneur who launched Gospel Beauty, which sells soap, accessories and other beauty items. She attends Wayne State University, where she is majoring in biochemistry with a minor in animation. She has an active, curious mind and is always coming up with ideas and insights. So we asked her about …
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