Featured Artist

Michael Coleman is a lifelong artist from Kansas City, Missouri, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Louisiana Tech University in 1985. After years working as an illustrator and graphic designer, he moved to New Mexico in the 1990s, where he expanded his creative work through large-scale commercial art projects including murals, faux finishes, signage, and sculptural installations for casinos, restaurants, and community organizations across the country. Alongside this work, he steadily developed his own distinctive painting style.

Coleman also built a long career in art education, teaching drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, and advanced fine arts at colleges and high schools throughout New Mexico and later in Kansas City. He earned a Master of Arts in Education from the College of Santa Fe in 2005 and continued teaching until returning full-time to studio work in Missouri. Today, he creates from his home studio in Belton while exhibiting internationally and locally, earning recognition through visionary and imaginative art exhibitions in New York, Canada, and Moscow, where his painting The Anointing received a third-place award in Fantastic Realism.