DJ Rosamii—DJ, community builder, and founder of Bloom Haus Creative Group—found her calling through rebellion and rediscovery. Moving to Memphis in 2020, she stumbled into the local music scene while DJing for a boyfriend's show, quickly realizing she'd been hiding her true musical tastes from strict parents who wanted her to be a doctor or lawyer. What started as sneaking hip-hop past parental censors evolved into a full embrace of house and electronic music that made her want to dance all night in her room. Her confidence came from teenage angst and refusing to accept how people treated her—deciding early on to instill self-worth she couldn't ask others to provide. Now she reads crowds like a psychic, eavesdropping on conversations to sense the energy, building Memphis' most supportive DJ community while dreaming of creating touring black electronic festivals that reclaim the space her community originally built.

Thomas Corbin discovered his creative calling through necessity and rebellion. After being publicly humiliated in art school for not following assignment rules despite creating beautiful work, he fled to biological anthropology, studying Neanderthal extinction and learning that our ancient cousins were sophisticated artists who made jewelry and buried their dead with flowers. But art kept calling him back. Now he operates as a creative "shuffler," constantly moving between music production, visual collages, and multiple band collaborations (General Labor, Cloudland Canyons, Melinda, and Infinity Stairs) because his brain solves problems when switching between mediums. His philosophy emerged from pain: reject the human need to classify and box things in. Instead, he embraces surrealism and channels his subconscious, creating work that feels like it writes itself. Recovery taught him to take on life without buffers, transforming social anxiety into fuel for authentic expression and community building.

Nate Renner is a Memphis-based pop artist who finds inspiration in Southern rituals and commercialism. His work explores the repetitive traditions of the rural South—like the guy who throws beer cans in the same ditch every day after work—and how people prioritize vices over necessities. Growing up Church of Christ, Nate examines the connection between brands and memory, how families attach to specific products that stir up nostalgia. His recent solo show "Flowers Ain't Forever" at Ugly Art Co processed his divorce through black and white dying flower paintings, marking his first solo exhibition in seven years and representing a departure from his typical highly conceptual screenprinting work.