High Heart Creative - Post-Production
High Heart is a creative post house and an all-female team specializing in photo retouching, photo composites, and gif animation for digital, print, and OOH advertising. We love what we do and are passionate about creating exceptional content that will intoxicate the eyes and exceed expectations. We call this elevating the image.
Kaitlin Obermeyer - Illustrator, Multi-Discipline Artist
I’m Kaitlin Obermeyer, maker of The Mad Menagerie and long-time lover of all things dogs, cheese, and the great outdoors.
The Mad Menagerie comes from a night around a table at a Chicago bar after a visit to the zoo. Here at The Mad Menagerie, you’ll find illustrations of animals and the odd things we call them when they’re in groups.
Tayanna Nelson - Photographer, Designer, Business Coach
I’m a designer and business coach & I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for my grandma. I like to think my mom taught me how to walk one day and the next, my grandma showed up to teach me how to use a computer. Then the day after that? I started making xanga, myspace, and eventually Tumblr themes for my friends.
Throughout the last few years I’ve found my passion in working with folks who are trying to fulfill a need first and make money second. They’re the disruptors. The people who want to make the lives of others easier.
Another Tay Nelson brand:
Good Bodies Boudoir
Anna Petrow - Photographer
Anna Petrow is a culinary, travel and lifestyle photographer based in the Midwest, following her lens coast to coast and beyond.
Anna’s wide-ranging clientele includes James Beard award winning restaurants, multinational corporations and international newspapers and magazines. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Food & Wine, Fathom, Jetsetter and beyond– including her newly launched travel guides.
Alyssa Broadus of Little Fixations - Photographer
My name is Alyssa, and I’m a Midwest gal who finds magic in capturing all of life’s little fixations. I started this photography journey of mine back in 2015, snapping product photos for a dear friend. Since then, I’ve gotten the chance to meet incredible people who trusted me to take their wedding photos, food images for their restaurants, style shoots for local businesses, and dabbled in a few products that got me out of comfort zones & will always be forever grateful for. This craft is something I stumbled on after my love of wanting to share Kansas City with others, and many terrible iPhone snaps later, here I am — ready for the next unplanned adventure.
Diana Gonzalez - Photographer, Production
Experienced Freelance Production Assistant and Photographer with a demonstrated history of working in the Media Production industry. Skilled in Microsoft Word, Teamwork, Adobe Lightroom, and Social Media. Strong media and communication professional with a Bachelor of Arts focused in Communications from Truman State University.
Adri Guyer - Photographer
I have been called the Leslie Knope of photography, and it’s true - I believe in giving a damn. Building relationships and caring about you as a person is a core value in my life and in my business. I’m a hype girl in the most sincere way possible. I get so excited seeing the people and small businesses around me succeed.
Travis Young - Photographer
I started pointing the camera at my own life and quickly realized that I held more than just simply put, a photographer's camera. I am wielding a box that captures affection, love, joy, sadness, hate; messages, ideas, problems, current events; snippets of time, human nature, life before my very eyes.
So here I am, a photographer, with life as my subject of interest. Whether it is mine or yours, I seek to find meaning in what is important, things that make me feel human, to note the beauty in the reality of our breathing selves with the tool I know best.
Travis Carroll - Photographer
A commercial advertising photographer living in the United States.
From an early age I was programmed to be curious, persistent, and daring. With an immense love for the craft and utilizing some unconventional tactics I’m all about making great work with great people.
I was born early, my left ear doesn’t work, and I’ve been best described as a walking energy drink.
Michael Pritchett - Writer
Michael Pritchett is a Midwest-based fiction author. He’s the author of The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis and The Venus Tree and winner of an Iowa Short Fiction Award and a Dana Award, and received Special Mention in the 2019 Pushcart anthology for his Pushcart-nominated novel excerpt "A Sort of Woman," New Letters magazine. He teaches fiction writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Shelby Page - Designer, Multi-Discipline Artist
I am Shelby, a designer living and working in Kansas City. I have a passion for print design - from concept to production. In a nutshell, I am a Creative Suite fluent, coffee drinking extraordinaire who loves meeting deadlines, sinking my teeth into projects and learning from creative process.
Cory Hinesley - Set/Prop Construction, Art Director
I am a woman, a dog mother and a strange combination of Lara Croft and Doris Day.
I specialize in set construction, carpentry, set dressing, art direction, and prop fabrication. I’m a realist with what can be done, but I approach each scenario with limitless imagination. I can create almost anything with my scrap wood pile and a few trips to the thrift store. My MacGyver attitude has allowed me to invest in a career of practical effects, miniatures, and forced perspective imagery. I love testing the boundaries of what is possible and what is actual, blending the magical with the practical.
Whitney Manney - Fashion Designer
"My inspiration to create wearable art and textiles started at the age of 13, not because I was obsessed with fashion but because I was tired of growing out of my clothes so quickly. Remixing old clothes into my own creations inspired me to create the WHITNEYMANNEY label. "
A Kansas City, MO native, Whitney Manney graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 with a BFA in Fibers. With a desire to create art in a wearable format, Manney creates garments and textile designs under her independent label WHITNEYMANNEY.
Samantha Lewis of Mystic Revolution - Tarot Readings
Tarot readings are a fantastic tool to examine your life and all of the influences at work. With this knowledge of self and setting you can consciously move toward the path of greatest growth and self-realization. Here we explore recurring themes in the human experience and practices to promote self-care. In becoming more attuned to our own vibes we can consciously create a better space that benefits everyone.