(Northern KY) – Devan Horton is a Northern Kentucky artist with a passion for sustainability who creates paintings promoting environmental mindfulness and awareness of our inseparable connection to nature. Beginning her career as a traditional oil painter, she has radically changed her art practice to a more sustainable one using foraged botanical pigments. Her series, “Penchant”, was recently featured at Studio Kroner in Cincinnati, in an exhibition and fundraising event called “Trash Talk” which benefited three local sustainability organizations; Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Green Umbrella, and the Cincinnati Recycle and Reuse Hub. The show then traveled to the Edward Dixon Gallery in Dayton, Ohio which benefited Waste Free Dayton. She completed a residency program at United Plant Savers in Rutland, Ohio in October, 2024 and another residency through Friends of Black Rock, a conservation organization in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada in 2021. For the past two years, Devan has served as art curator for the Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit. In 2023 she was a recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Art Meets Activism grant. These funds were used to create non-toxic plantable art media, using materials like goldenrod and walnut for paint and handmade paper filled with pollinator seeds, which she asked her community to create pieces of art that were then planted in a vacant lot in Bellevue, Kentucky. That lot is now a blooming pollinator haven. In 2024 she was awarded the “New Woman” Artist residency at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. Activism, collectiveness, and a love of the natural world have remained themes in Devan’s work since college and through her work she hopes to convince others that even through the endless social and economic issues compounding around us, our planet is always of the utmost importance.  

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(Dayton, OH) – Ed Dixon is a native Daytonian and opened the Edward A. Dixon Gallery in the Fall of 2017 in Downtown Dayton, Ohio. After years of involvement in the music, film and fashion industry, Ed decided to turn his attention to his passion for visual art and began the curation of artwork from artists on a world-wide scale.  He has curated and hosted multiple shows at the gallery and exhibited at Artexpo New York (2024). Artists who have exhibited at the gallery include Sabrina Terence, Cedric Michael Cox,m  Marilynn Page, Cynthia Kukla, Erica Arndts, Susanne Scherette King and the late, legendary Beatles animator Ron Campbell. Exhibition themes at the gallery have included We’re Doing It ALL Wrong® and JOY (That’s Just What I needed). He also served on panels for exhibitions and artist grants such as Art of Soul! Juried Art Show presented by NAAMCC , the Ohio Art League Fall Show and the Culture Works Special Projects Grant.

Ed spends much of his time promoting the visual arts, he serves on the Dayton Art Institute Collections Committee, the Executive Committee for the Dayton Sister City Committee, serves in an advisory role for the Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator and writes for his travel blog. Additionally, Ed is a patron and a member of several local art organizations including the Dayton Society of Artists, the African-American Visual Arts Guild and the Dayton Art Institute, as well as, the Cincinnati Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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