The Artists
Pan Pantoja
Pan Pantoja is the lead artist and founder of the Potentialist Workshop. His creative vision is what launched the House of Infinite Potential and the story of Upside Down Land was written by him to tell his son before bed. Pan embodies what it means to be a Potentialist by creating and excelling in all the mediums. He is a sculptor, muralist, painter, poet (former Reno Poet Laurate), vocalist, and mentor. The list trails on for decades of creation and accomplishment in the arts.
Steve Debruyn
Steve is an installation artist from London, Ontario. His work is primarily made from wood and paint. He likes to make sculptures that people can sit, walk and even skateboard on. Steve is the lead artist of Tinker Town and applied for Under The Mountain via our international art call.
Krystal with a K
Krystal with a K is a Reno artist, poet and actor. She’s also a resident artist at The Potentialist.
Lee Lanier
Lee Lanier is a contemporary narrative painter and muralist who lives in Boulder City, Nevada and runs a gallery in Las Vegas, Nevada. His colorful paintings breathe new life into historical, literary, and mythological stories. Of late, his paintings have joined 7 solo shows and 70 group shows at 36 galleries and museums in 8 states. He co-founded the Dam Short Film Festival and sat on the board of the Las Vegas Arts District. Lee Lanier was the primary artist selected from our international art call for Under The Mountain.
Colin O’ BrYan
A Reno native, Colin O’Bryan has been an active sculptor in the community , with 5 city pieces for the publics enjoyment. Colin also creates small, medium, and large Art as a full time occupation at this point in his carrier . A proud member of the potentialist Art group, pushing the art scene forward with all his might.
Deniz Nicole
Artist. Dancer. Teacher. Lover of the desert and the stars. Lead artist in the flower cave.
Jeff Johnson
The State of Nevada’s ‘’Minister of Inert Gases, OG’’, Jeff Johnson, splashed into Reno’s Art scene in 2001 with “Fish Breath in the Year of the Plague”, 20 neon cutthroat trout swimming upstream to spawn under the Truckee River in downtown in Reno. Inspired to create unprecedented applications of neon art in outdoor settings, neither Nevada nor Eastern California have been immune to his alfresco spectacles. Mr. Johnson owns his means of production at the Pilfered Pines Neon Landscape Gallery, Reno and Northern Nevada’s unique and premier neon art museum. His evolving neon window display at Bruka Theatre, ‘’Asexual Reproduction in Nevada’’ has been a feature of fine art in downtown Reno since before Believe, before the whale, since when the Mapes Hotel was still standing. Johnson has collaborated with a thousand local artists and entrepreneurs for signage and art. In 2007 he was the Noble Grand Instigator of the original Dada Motel, a community art show ‘’Celebrating Reno’s Unlimited Potential for Absurdity’’. His favorite work is restoration of classic and landmark neon signs from the 20th century. Timeless and Postmodern neon art concepts independent from authoritarian entities are his specialty.
Nick Noyes
Nick Noyes is a fine artist and muralist from Reno, Nevada, USA. His primary themes are portraits, flowers, and non-figurative abstracts. His primary mediums are oil paint, spray paint, oil pastels, chalk, collage, and 2D sculpture. His styles include abstract, impressionism, abstract expressionism, and cubism.
Naomi Divine
Naomi DiVine is a mixed media artist based out of the Potentialist Workshop.
She is a visual artist, singer/songwriter and performer who has been putting together collaborative shows since 2015. She enjoys writing and creating 3D paintings, collages and cartoons as well as stained-glass-style glass and mirror etchings. Her artwork features loud colors and bold linework inspired by creatures in the natural world around us.
Miss stencil
Mixing influences from my Chinese roots with my experience living and traveling around the world, I often focus on the interplay between cultures in my artwork. Coming from a family who loves history and archeology, I often juxtapose ancient and modern elements in my work too.
After being a multimedia artist and a photographer for many years, I started to do stencil street art during the pandemic, decorated boarded up windows and vandalized walls with whimsical art related to local history. I don’t limit myself on mediums or styles, I only want to experience as much things I am curious about as possible, just like what an innocent child would do. I hope to reach out across the boundaries of culture and country to share my experiences and perspective and to bring some thoughts and smiles to our lives.
Sprocket
Jessi Sprocket is an artist, community activist, organizer and mom living in the high desert of Northern Nevada.
Fairy garden sculpture lead.
vera paints
Artist, Muralist & Designer Making A More Colorful World
IG: VeraPaints
jack ryan
Mermex creator, storyteller, actor, magician.
jonathan johnson
Lead fabricator for Upside Down Land art fence. Owner of Biggest Little Handyman.
Joe Atack
Daisy Mae
Creator of creatures including the Mermapuss, Double Deer and Deer Goddess Shrine,
Lina Liz
Reno artist specializing in soft sculpture and textiles.
Alysia Dynamik
Executive Director at The Generator Inc. Lead artist of Cloud City.
Adam RObbins
I basically draw inspiration from multiple sources a day. Whether it’s seeing a cool magazine advertisement, t-shirt, hearing a funny joke or sad story, it all mixes together in my guts and later gets splattered on canvas.
Edward Henry Gurd
Metal artist, creator of the metal dragonflies in the Cathedral.
Lu Brock
Dark fish maker.
mxkt
Abstract painter from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Based on Nevada, USA.
Painter of the black light mural above the Star Pups.
Ray Frost
Ruby Jo
RUBY IS A FIRST-GENERATION SALVADORAN AMERICAN ARTIST BORN AND RAISED IN RENO, NV. THEY'RE A SELF-TAUGHT/INDEPENDENT VISUAL ARTIST HAVING SHOWN IN GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS LOCALLY. RUBY IS AN ARTIVIST UTILIZING A UNIQUE ARTISTIC VOICE WHICH THEY COINED NUWAVE MAYAN, A STYLE THAT INCORPORATES THEIR SALVADORAN MAYAN ANCESTRY AND HERITAGE IN THE CREATION OF SOCIALLY RELEVANT WORK. RUBY’S EXHIBITS, TALKS, PERFORMANCES, PUBLIC ART, AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT SPEAK TO THEIR COMMITMENT TO ENGAGING WITH THE PUBLIC THROUGH THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT CREATING BETTER MORE INCLUSIVE FUTURES.
eric brooks
Arts & Culture Program Manager at Visit Carson City
Curator of the forest house.
Chris Crow
Artist, Musician, Poet.
Lead problem solver of Under The Mountain.
Additional Artists:
Axiom Pantoja
Dale Slingland
Lee Johnson
Eduardo Garcia
Holly English
Emmalou Ras
Sebastian
Tana Lynn Zunino
Ray Studio X - Infinity Mirrors in Upside Down Land
Nate Griffin