The San Benito County Arts Council is excited to launch Visión Art Fest- a 2 week long, community-rooted mural festival designed to honor, reflect and elevate the stories, images and lived experiences of our community through vibrant public art. Supported by a grant from the California Arts Council as well as through donations from private donors, this festival will create 5 new murals in downtown Hollister.
Festival dates and locations will be available soon. Check back on our website sanbenitoarts.org or follow us on social @sanbenitoarts_ for updates. In the meantime, get to know the five artists and artist teams below, who were selected through a juried, competitive statewide Call for Artists back in June.
Pictured Joey Rose working on his mural ‘Sustenance’ in Bellingham, Washington 2025
Featured artists Include:
Joey Rose is a California-based muralist with a passion for creating site-specific work by showcasing the natural world around us.
Gregory Shilling-Goins is a Sacramento-based artist and muralist who was recently told he’s about to “blow up” so come check out his mural because it might be his last.
Angelica Navarro is a Mexican-American artist inspired by the colorful patterns, architectural forms, and festive traditions of her Mexican heritage, her work often reinterprets these motifs in a unique trompe-l’œil embroidery style-creating the illusion of hand-stitched designs directly on the wall.
Eric Skotnes is a Los Angeles-based urban artist known for interconnecting disparate styles into an aesthetically integrated whole. Skotnes creates murals and works on canvas that juxtapose
his wild style graffiti with figural renderings of classical sculptures from Antiquity.
Venazir Martinez is a multi-awarded Filipina muralist and visual anthropreneur who weaves stories of her ancestral lineage into large-scale public art, using a signature red thread to connect cultural memory with diasporic and multicultural communities.
Rough Edge Collective: MJ Lindo A self-trained artist, MJ Lindo’s creative journey was sparked by her experiences as a young child. Shaped by the civil war in Nicaragua, her family soon relocated to Toronto, where she found a fresh curiosity and inspiration in the city’s subway murals that spawned a lifelong dedication to art. Now, as a full-time muralist in the Bay Area, she and her husband, Joshua Lawyer, operate under the name Rough Edge Collective
Rough Edge Collective: Joshua Lawyer was raised in East Palo Alto and grew up in a strong Tongan culture, rich in tradition. Although art was deeply woven into that culture. It was through the 1990s Bay Area street art scene—and seeing public spaces transformed—that Joshua found his life’s passion.