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Aadam
Keeley
Aadam Keeley is a host/comedian and creative producer proudly from South Florida. He has performed at many national festivals as an improviser and sketch artist and emceed for major companies and events all over the country. Aadam is also the brand manager for the Witness, a Black Christian collective. He is passionate about great content created by believers and operating at the intersection of faith, race and culture.
Liv
Roskos
Music has been her blood ever since she was young. She grew up with parents who were also artists and spent many evenings in the living room around the piano singing with her mom and sister.
Between the ages of 14 through 19, she spent time living in the Czech Republic continuing to play the violin while singing. She met many different kinds of people from all across the world finding common ground through music despite what language they spoke.
She moved to Chicago after highschool for college as music was still a large part of her life through musical theater. After college, she started songwriting and collaborated with well known Chicago hip hop, r&b, and broadway musical artists.
She has had the opportunity to travel nationally & internationally. In the past 5 years she has started to explore songwriting & creativity on a deeper level, making music out of places of pain, depression, joy, & grief. Her passion is to make music that inspires hope & meaning by collaborating with artists from all different genres over the city. Her faith drives her passion and she is working to drop a full length project in the Fall.
D.Lylez
Born and raised on Chicago’s south side, Darious Lyles who goes by the moniker “D. Lylez” started singing at age 9 after listening to R & B group Dru Hill and solo crooner Usher. Lylez has had the opportunity at the age of 12 to star in "The Concert/The Legacy" where he played a young Thomas Dorsey and went on to work in small stage play productions. D. Lylez recently released 3 new singles " Under My Spell , Feel Good , and Who Cares" . Also in 2017 - 2018 D. Lylez reached 1 million plays on Spotify with EDM DJ Gianni Blu. Over the past few years D.Lylez has worked with numerous artist (Local/Mainstream). Darious was recently on NBC The Voice Season 18 . D. Lylez Thanks God every second for his gift of song. Continue to follow D.Lylez on his journey to become great.
Emma
Craigen
I was born and raised in Chicago where stories and people grow and bloom in between the cracks in the concrete. I grew up on the South and West Sides where my parents planted the ideals of love and justice deep in my heart. I have family members all over the city and the world, bonds that transcend blood and legality and are instead built on love and trust, but my two sisters and one brother are woven with me by the strongest thread. Now as an adult and an elementary art teacher I seek to plant seeds of creativity in my students and help them start to weave their own tapestries based on what and who they love. I am an illustrator and painter in medium. A storyteller by nature, an artist by education, and an art teacher by trade, my art, writing, and poetry; all I seek is to tell the stories that have grown in or around my heart. I hope my art and my life does them justice.
Lauren
Scott
Lauren Scott’s music blurs the lines between pop, country and R & B, expertly alternating between genres with a foundation of strong songwriting and singing skills. The 26 year old Atlanta native recently moved to Chicago, where she leads worship and frequently travels to pen songs for other artists and songwriters. Her first release since 2015 is set to stream this Fall.
CW Allen
CW Allen is a faith author and creative, who inspires people to love holistically through thought provoking story telling. He is now in year 15 of his musical journey and is finishing his first book and latest album entitled CATALYST. He had the privilege to share all over the country in bars, schools, camps, and conferences. He has opened for artists such as Cannon, Da Truth, Sean C. Johnson, Shopé, This’l, and the Legendary Curtis Blow. CW is married to Jacqueline for 8 years and has a daughter Ariah who is 10 months. He enjoys watching Netlifx and doing anything creative such as writing and performing music. He wants to see people experience Jesus’ life changing power and equip them to take that change to the world around them. His inspirations are Jesus, Jay Z, Lecrae, Lebron James, his Mother and Wife. CW is a part of the Creative Arts Team for the Chosen Conference.
Tracey
Kearney
Tracey Kearney works as a Clinical Mental Health therapist in West Humboldt Park where she specializes in working with those who have experienced significant trauma. She lives in West Humboldt with her husband and has been actively involved with their church and ministry work in the neighborhood for roughly 8 years. Tracey is originally from Michigan, loves to escape to nature when she can, is passionate about providing mental health resources and support to marginalized people groups, and enjoys using art as a way of communication, therapeutic expression, worship, and healing. Tracey enjoys a multitude of artistic mediums such as ink/graphite drawings, pyrography, clay work, and performance sand art.
Jessica
Love
Jessica Love is a Singer, Speaker, Influencer, Model and Creative Director that provides assimilation, marketing, business strategy and creative services for several prominent churches around the world.
She got her start in marketing and business working for the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls, Nascar, and Wheaton Bible college when her career took a turn vastly after releasing a duet with Todd Dulaney in 2014 that peaked at #15 on Billboard Charts.
Ravin & Renay
Renay & Ravin Mckelvy are sisters and artists based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Ravin is a copywriter at Lifeway Christian Resources and is passionate about the intersection of art and theology and sharing the daily realities of Christian living via social media. Renay is a wife, mother, writer, and creator. With a bachelors in Counseling, she writes and creates with passion for connecting, history, theology, and our current context as Believers. Together, they created a collective called the Drawing Room-a space that uses art to explore the tension in life that we must inhabit through online and social media.
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