Jacob Rosenburg
Jacob is a Detroit-based graphic artist who has created our featured GIG poster artist for 2025. Jacob’s work is whimsical, surreal, and dynamic. Unafraid of bold colors, lines, and imagery, Jacob’s designs are out of this world. You can talk with Jacob at this year’s graphic artist panel at GIG – The Art of Michigan Music Visual Experience 2025.
Cidney Bundon
Cidney is a Detroit-based photographer and graphic artist whose work harkens back to the glory days of garage rock and punk music. Through Cidney’s art, you are in the studio or on the stage. Pulsating with electric life, Cidney’s images transport the viewer through time and space.
Jackson College Graphic Design Students
led by Associate Professor Chrissy Hughes, the talented graphic design students from Jackson College will be sharing their talents by creating gig posters. I can’t wait to see the vibrant work from these aspiring artists.
Jena Hovey
Jena is a Lansing-based photographer whose images provoke wonder and reflection. Any and all things photography can be obtained through her company, McShane Photography. Catch her concert coverage on Loud Hailer Magazine. You can talk with Jena at this year’s photography panel at GIG – The Art of Michigan Music Visual Experience 2025.
Bryan Durco
Bryan is a Detroit-based graphic artist of vast talent. His posters transfix the viewer with imagery that is hyper-imaginative and hallucinatory
Doug Coombe
Doug is an Ann Arbor-based photographer who should be in some sort of photography hall of fame or something. His work spans 30 years of Michigan music. From the early years of the White Stripes and Eminem to current happenings at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Doug’s images pull you into the front row of every show. On top of his concert coverage, Doug is busy documenting all the happenings in Ann Arbor for Concentrate magazine. You can talk with Doug at this year’s photography panel at GIG – The Art of Michigan Music Visual Experience 2025.
Craig Horky
Craig is a Lansing-based graphic artist whose artwork is like dropping down the rabbit hole with Alice. His work is fantastical, colorful, and mischievous. You may remember the beautiful poster image he created for last year’s event. You can talk with Craig at this year’s graphic artist panel at GIG – The Art of Michigan Music Visual Experience 2025.
Derek Ketchum
Derek is a Kalamazoo-based photographer whose imagery can be found all over the westside’s best music magazine – Local Spins. Derek’s photographs capture the essence of the band’s performance, allowing fans to relive each moment. You can talk with Derek at this year’s photography panel at GIG – The Art of Michigan Music Visual Experience 2025.
Jonathan Doyle
Jonathan is a Manchester-based graphic artist who is a master of the gig poster. Vibrant, animated, and charismatic, the posters Jonathan crafts are iconic and enduring.
Dennis Preston
Dennis is a Lansing-based graphic artist whose legendary art is wildly imaginative. It’s sort of like speeding down the highway in a supped up hotrod with Hunter S. Thompson at the wheel. Dennis’s art is a trip not to be missed. You can talk with Dennis at this year’s graphic artist panel at GIG – The Art of Michigan Music Visual Experience 2025.
Sami Lipp-Mosier
Sami is a Detroit-based photographer who channels the energy of the music into every image. The sights and sounds of the stage are recast as immortal images, allowing you to relive a show again and again. You can find more of Sami’s work on Loud Hailer Magazine.
Jon Rosenberger
Jon is a Detroit-based photographer who turns his camera into a time machine. Each shutter click puts you on the stage at the exact moment that band and fans become one.
Akuro Productions
Led by founder Aaron Lumsden and co-founder Kyle Ariss, Akuro Productions is making a name as the go-to source for musical video productions. They have worked with a number of Michigan bands to create immersive videos that showcase the power of performance. In addition to working with Michigan musical artists, Akuro offers a full line-up of video and photography services.
Trippin Terry
Terry is a Battle Creek-based photographer tapping into the primal energy of the show. Through his photos, you feel the sweat, hear the roar, and smell the savage energy.
Peter Larson
Peter is an Ann Arbor-based photographer skilled in the art of capturing the stories within a scene. Each of Peter’s photos reveals a sentence in the narrative of life..
Nathan Purchase
Nathan is a Muskegon-based photographer who develops images that are cinematic and engaging. Poignant and exhilarating, Nathan’s art absorbs you completely.
Michelle Thibodeau
Michelle is a Detroit-based graphic artist creating provocative and intriguing artwork used on gig posters and album covers. Michelle’s work also graces the labels used by Broad Leaf Brewery. In addition to fabulous visual art, Michelle can be seen in the theatrical punk extravaganza known as Cult of Spaceskull.
Matthew Jacobson
Matthew Jacobson is a graphic artist originally from Detroit and the former Head of Design for Third Man Records. He’s created cover art for The White Stripes, Spoon, and Beck, and is known for concert posters that connect bands to the time or place of each show. A magician since childhood, he has opened for Jack White and RuPaul, and performed at the Michigan State Fair and during halftime for the Detroit Pistons.
Logan Belz
Logan is a Detroit-based graphic artist making art that bores into your third eye with glorious, lysergic fever dreams. Using a lush and intriguing palette, Logan creates eye candy that transforms into mind candy.
Jen Prouty
Jen is an Ann Arbor-based photographer who speaks to you through her fabulous images. Weaving tales of shadow and light, Jen explores every angle in her quest to share each moment with you. When not creating images, Jen works as the Communications director for Creative Washtenaw
Jaylen Westbrook
Jaylen is a Jackson-based graphic artist who weaves narratives through visuals. His work imparts the excitement of a coming event with a deft use of colors, textures, and leading lines.
Isabel Dowell
Isabel is a Grand Rapids-based photographer with an eye that sees beyond the stage and into the heart of the performer. Holding each beat in focus, Isabel’s dazzling images are lightning in a bottle.
Carl Lundgren
Carl is a Detroit-based graphic artist and gig poster legend. His seminal artwork for bands like Pink Floyd and The Who created quintessential and lasting imagery.
Brian Sheehan / LGRDMN
Brian is a Detroit-based graphic artist and photographer. Brian’s work reveals the worlds beneath, behind, and between the shadows. Besides his mesmerizing art, Brian is vocalist for the band Fell Ruin.
Brandon Nagy
Brandon is a Detroit-based photographer and graphic artist who crafts images that are as intense and expressive as the bands on the stage. A true painter of light, Brandon creates images that resonate long after the ringing from the amplifiers has faded.