Kahari Blackburn

Kahari Blackburn is Chicago born and based visual artist who loves analog and digital visual mediums. He is currently obsessed with paper collage and simple flat round children’s book style illustration with the hopes of translating this style into large scale interior and exterior paintings as well as wood sculpture and fiber tapestries.

He is a part of the Mural Moves Paint crew which has designed and installed many large scale murals over the city of Chicago. As well as an active part of Natty Bwoy Bikes & Boards a free weekly youth program that leads and teaches skateboarding and basic bicycle mechanics to kids on the South Side. His art practice mainly comes from growing up in a creative household where visual art has always been a part of our shared passion and favorite form of personal expression many thanks to his mother Dorian Sylvain.