Lavett Ballard
Atlanta, GA · Mixed-Media Wood Collage
"My strong affinity for imagery and history has led me to focus on creating a visual lexicon of African American female self-identity."
Lavett Ballard builds altars from reclaimed wood, archival photographs, gold foil, and burns layered into works that reframe the African diaspora through the lives of Black women. The first Black woman commissioned for a TIME Magazine cover(2020, then 2023), her art is held in museum and embassy collections worldwide. On our label, it is not a graphic. It is a reckoning.
Maurice Evans
Atlanta, GA · Mixed-Media Painter & Photographer
"As an artist, you must get out of your own way. Let the images and your imagination dictate what happens next."
Maurice Evans came to painting through music, and when music was taken away, he picked up a pencil and never put it down. His mixed-media practice fuses photography, painting, and body art into large-scale canvases that are bold, layered, and cinematic. He debuted at the juried Black Arts Festival in 1994 and earned international collectors at the New York Art Expo. On a bottle, his singular premise, "create art for art's sake", becomes an open invitation.
Tamara Madden (d. 2017)
Jamaica · Painter of the African Diaspora
"My work deals with the social, spiritual, and cultural identity of people of African ancestry, the integrity and dignity of the everyday man and woman elevated to icons and heroes."
Tamara Natalie Madden paints the ordinary into the sacred figures of African ancestry, rendered with the weight of icons, rooted in her Jamaican heritage and a life that refused to be diminished. After surviving a rare kidney disease and receiving a transplant from her brother in 2001, she walked into her first exhibition that same year, honoring a promise to herself. To hold a bottle wearing her work is to hold that testimony.
Vando Davis
Neo-Expressionist · Self-Taught · Atlanta-Based
"Every day is a great day, if you do what you love."
Vando Davis picked up a brush in 2017 to help his son relax and found the thing he'd been looking for himself. A self-taught Neo-Expressionist working in acrylic and oil sticks, his canvases pulse with clashing color, vowel-free words, and an energy that is unmistakably joyful. Selected to the Director's List at Spectrum Miami 2018. A Vando Davis label makes a room louder just by being in it.
Kalidou Kassé
Dakar, Senegal · The Brush of the Sahel
"Through each brushstroke, I tell the story of Africa's soul, one that celebrates resilience, heritage, and the shared language of art."
Known as "Le Pinceau du Sahel", Kalidou Kassé is one of Africa's most significant living artists, with four decades of work held by the United Nations, World Bank, Royal Palace of Morocco, and the personal collections of Barack and Michelle Obama. Founder of the Ateliers du Sahel, curator of the 2025 Dakar Biennale, and exhibited across five continents. On our label, his brushstroke carries an entire continent's memory. You are not just drinking wine. You are holding a piece of Seneg
