Shanti Artists

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Shanti Artists

Shanti Visual Artist
Alpha Bruton

Alpha Bruton's current inspiration comes from traveling and experiencing the events of which she has transferred to the canvas. In the past she has conceptualized works based on social issues, themes that where idealized from group discussion, made installation work that demanded the audience confront the issue, or made work that was representational and provocative in nature.

What inspires her most is feeling that she has a social responsibility as an artist to record history, and to thrust awareness about life, about the earth, about life in the passing to the viewer to cast another
perspective upon to view the world.

Shanti Visual Artist
Diana Solis

Shanti Theatre Artist
Tiffany Bullard

Tif Bullard is a Chicago-based mover, performer, photographer, and costume designer dedicated to process-oriented theatrical research and creation. Her work primarily focuses on identity and it’s relationship to self, society, and science. She aims to find the intersection in which all aspects can interact together truthfully and peacefully.

Shanti Theatre Artist
Jasmin Cardenas

Jasmin Cardenas is a professional actress and educator working all over Chicago. She uses her love of theater and humanity to help breakdown personal, cultural and social barriers. These dividing lines keep students from realizing their full potential and reveling in the beauty of our diverse human race.

Shanti Spoken Word Artist
Mars Caulton

A teacher for twenty years, Mars Caulton has learned the art of group journeys, of individual dreaming and of creating positive change. Using an ever-expanding bucket of art disciplines, she tailors projects to suit the needs of the community, while encouraging each participant to reveal their uniqueness within it. Mars makes song, percussion, dance, drama, poetry, and installations into tools for exploration, expression, and change.

Shanti Visual Artist
Monika Kimrey

With over a decade of experience conceiving, promoting, teaching and implementing arts and community development programs in the Chicago area and in Africa, Monika brings a broad social and artistic perspective to her residencies. Her dynamic style weaves movement, poetry, and narrative into the arts. In her development programs, she works with participants to build community, connections, curiosity, openness, and discovery, and encourages participants to use the arts as a vehicle for advocacy around issues of importance to them.