Isaiah Vazquez is a multimedia artist originally from Milwaukee, WI who currently lives and works in Kansas City, MO. He is pursuing his BFA in Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute (class of 2025). Vazquez’s work illuminates mundane activities by facilitating and highlighting spaces for them to take place. He is also interested in ideas of reverence and maintenance, whether for materials or subjects and how the practice of either creates hope for the future. These interests started during Vazquez’s childhood upbringing during which he detailed cars with his Father and colored Pokémon characters that his mother would draw for him. For Vazquez, art was a major part of his childhood, spending lots of time at the kitchen table drawing graffiti or various characters that he would see from cartoons. The emphasis on self expression that was present in his household molded him to be the creative that he is today. Outside of his studio practice, Vazquez spends his time cutting hair, making music with friends, washing his car, and spending time with good people - all with an emphasis on the importance of sharing experiences and finding the deeper connections that we share as people.