Featured Artists for the Holidays
We Feature Artists and Makers at Where Monsters Dream throughout the year.
Winter Season 2025, we have a wonderful selection of LA Artists and Creators from our recent Forest Yokai Forest Festival.
Available for a limited time at Where Monsters Dream through Jan 31st, 2026.
Visit Us and explore the collection - you just might find a one of a kind piece that you can't leave without!
Ombro Umbra Labs
Ombro Umbra Labs explores the intersection between technology and art, where the boundaries separating the two disciplines become increasingly ambiguous. With a background spanning over thirty years in the realm of digital photography manipulation, Dya, the artist-scientist behind Ombro Umbra Labs has harnessed this medium as a powerful tool to not only challenge traditional artistic conventions but also to provoke deep and thoughtful reflection on the nature of our evolving reality within an ever-advancing digital age.
At Where Monsters Dream : Featured art created for the Forest Yokai Festival on exhibit and available for purchase on demand ordering.
ombroumbralabs.org
IG: @ombroumbralabs
Diane Heron
Diane Heron is an abstract expressionist from Los Angeles.
Her current body of work is done through the process of Automatism. Her medium is pen and ink on paper.
Diane comes from a family of artists. Her love and appreciation for architecture and interior design of all periods, are often a source of inspiration in her use of color and objects in her mixed media work.
A prolific artist, she enjoys working with different mediums as to create fresh style that provokes a second glance.
At Where Monsters Dream: Original framed artwork, hand screen printed t-shirts and canvas bags printed with drawings from her collection of work.
https://www.dianeheron.com/
IG: dianeheronart
Little Ghouls
Little Ghouls channels the dark faęry realm through art, apothecary, and fashion.
At Where Monsters Dream: Little Ghouls will be featuring a selection of their creations made especially for the Forest Yokai festival - tea ware and ceramics, essentail body oil blends.
https://littleghoulsart.com
IG: little.ghouls
The Wise Wyvern
The Wise Wyvern fashions Hand made chainmail jewelry and decorative armor one ring at a time! Bring out the confidence and power of the dragon that lies dormant in us all with one of their striking and powerful designs.
At Where Monsters Dream:
We are featuring Chainmail necklaces, earrings and sun catchers as well as Scale-mail decorative shoulder pauldrons.
https://www.thewisewyvern.com
IG: @thewisewyvern
CYUN DESIGN
Aileen Lin, the designer behind CYUN, draws inspiration from tradition Chinese culture combining it with a modern aesthetic to create a unique and timeless fashion experience.
At Where Monsters Dream: CYUN created a limimited-edition artist's series t-shirt for Where Monsters Dream.
IG: cyun_official
La Dama Luna
La Dama Luna is a traditional artist, illustrator and photographer. She grew up with fantastic folk tales, plant remedies and legends that impacted her perspective on life. Her Illustrations are inspired by things that go bump in the night, dreams, nightmares, Mexican folk tales, the occult, and everything in between!
At Where Monsters Dream: A special selection of signed prints from her the creature series - iright at home at the Forest Yokai Festival!
https://www.ladamaluna.com/
IG: ladamaluna
AUWL Design
AUWL is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Keoni, the designer behind AUWL, lets the process and materials inform the design finding motivation in creating a physical form from the ephemeral.
He has always seen the objects in his environment as having their own energy; seensing the animate in what most would consider inanimate. Subconsciously embodying the Golem tradition, he has a long history of creating robots with a rooted fascination in being able to make a creation that can continue on the kinetic energy of creating on its own.
At Where Monsters Dream: featuring jewelry, accessories and light sculptures.
IG: @auwl.design
AXZUL Bodywork + Jackie Fink Wellness
AXZUL Bodywork offers Intuitive, creative massages fusing techniques from various disciplines to create healing that is unique to your body.
Jackie Fink, the owner behind AXZUL also has a signature line of wellness products.
At Where Monsters Dream: Facial Mists and Body Salves created by Jackie Fink Wellness.
https://www.axzulbodywork.com/
www.jackiefink.com
IG:jackiefinkwellness
DEANN DUTEIL
SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS
Northern, CA
DeAnn has a wonderful sense physical and energetic balance in her sculptures, incorporating ethically sourced natural bones, feathers and stones.
We are excited to feature her signature sculptures as well as her new abstract series, explorations in India and alcohol ink paintings.
We also have a selection of her Jewelry, Photographic Art Cards and Handmade Journals.
Exclusively at Where Monsters Dream.
About DeAnn Duteil
"I have been many things but it has always been about creativity."
"As I’m drawn in by the materials, they guide me to create what they want to become and in the process their gift to me is the joyful opportunity to lose myself in the creative energy!"
At Where Monsters Dream:
DeAnn's paintings, jewelry, photography art cards and hand made journals are available for purchase at Where Monsters Dream.
IG: @birthdeath.and.otherfairytales
Evan Sornstein,
Composer + Sound Artist
Evan Sornstein is a composer and sound artist whose work explores the presence of ancient wisdom and folklore in our modern world.
Born in Los Angeles, he grew up finding magic in everyday places— a curiosity that grew into a lifelong fascination with the unseen.
He studied music composition at Bennington College, where he began blending narrative, field recordings, and unexpected instrumentation into immersive sonic experiences. Evan has composed music for film and contemporary dance, and has created a range of sound installations that invite listeners to slow down, listen deeply, and sense the subtle “life inside things.”
His ongoing project, The Lullaby League, reimagines ancient philosophies, folktales, and spirit lore through modern experimental sound.
At Where Monsters Dream: Evan joins us for his second site-specific interactive sound installation with Where Monsters Dream for the Yokai Forest Festival . Created especially for the Festival, Evan presents new “yokai portraits” — sound spirits born from today’s world — inviting us to hear the echoes of old stories in our technology, our objects, and the spaces we move through every day.
On Exhibit At: 609 S. Anderson St.
https://evansornstein.com/
IG: @evansornstein
Emily Saunders
Emily Saunders is a designer who loves creating spatial, digital, interactive and immersive environments. With a background in architecture, her work focuses on enlivening “forgotten” spaces in a way that engages people.
Fueled by both the technical and creative aspects of each project, she has fun designing, visualizing, fabricating, and programming when creating her work. These activation installations often contain an interactive and evolving component that creates a biometric feedback loop between the space, the artwork and the viewer.
Originally from England, she now lives and works in Los Angeles.
At Where Monsters Dream: On Exhibit a digital interactive display that is right at home in the land of the Forest Yokai!
Experience At: 609 S. Anderson St.
Artist’s Portfolio
IG: @_rainbowmilk
Kieva Dvashe + DVASHE
Kieva Dvashe is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from Los Angeles and currently based in New York.
A selection of her mixed media paintings will be on Exhibit during the Festival.
DVASHE
The creative venture of artist Kieva, is a process-based fine sculpting studio in New York City. Grounded in formal training and industry experience, DVASHE approaches each piece as a negotiation of values. Working primarily in sterling silver, Kieva transforms raw metal into marked elegance while crafting unique narratives that bridge fine art and bespoke adornment.
At Where Monsters Dream: We are featuring her original paintings and Jewelry pieces.
DVASH
IG: @___dvashe
