Micah Blacklight
Micah BlackLight can perhaps be described as a defiant, volcanic force of Nature’s creation, wearing the body of a brown-skinned catalyst and bursting with perpetual inspiration and enthusiasm to match. A skilled multi-media, multi-dimensional artist, writer, speaker, and mentor (among other things), proficient in the creation of artworks in a myriad of mediums: visual, graphic, audible and otherwise.
He strongly believes that art, and fantasy art in particular, has profound and transformative effects on people’s psyches. Since it seems that one has to search so much harder to find brown people depicted in mainstream fantasy art, he addresses that by creating beautiful, intriguing brown beings and archetypes. He gets to introduce these pieces into the collective conscious, allowing people of all ethnicities/races to witness what parts of themselves resonate with what aspects of the art.
He believes there are ineffable energies that wish to be expressed in some form. Some approach him because they wish to come through his specific filter. He also loves lines and feels they speak to him. His process is therefore comprised of a dance between how those particular energies feel, how he wishes to express them, and the alchemy the lines bring to the actual page/canvas/etc.
A resident of the Rogue Valley since 2010, he welcomes fantasy commissions and is also the lead artist on the ‘Ancestor’s Future: Crystallizing Their Call’ permanent public art installation slated for Ashland Creek Park. Please feel free to reach out via any of his channels.
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From the artist
I am a multi-media artist working across textiles, clay, pen, watercolor, marker, digital painting, drawing, and animation. My art often skates the edges of fantasy or plunges headlong into it. I believe people need to see themselves depicted in fantastic ways, and as a Black artist, I am especially aware of how rarely Black and brown communities are centered in such work. My practice is a direct response: creating mythic, magical, and archetypal visions that make space for them. For me, the fantastic isn’t escape but expansion. Seeing ourselves in imagined worlds stretches what we believe possible. I try to make that expansion visceral: each painting or drawing is a doorway, each line can be a spark. I am a conduit for energies that clamor for expression, and this, plus my filter, plus the lines themselves become collaborators—alive, insistent, alchemizing form. At the heart of my practice is a call to inspire and be inspired. Art, for me, is a universal language—one that births symbols, tells stories, and that is capable of awakening empathy, sparking joy, and engendering moments of profound revelation.
