2020

Jimmy Baptiste is a art facilitator, Illustrator and muralist raised in Montreal but currently lives in Wakefield.   

With 10 years of experience for the city of Montreal and more then 16 years in professional practice, Jimmy offers high value service and supports on art based pedagogy workshops and activities that delivers and manages curated exhibits and creative community-media projects. His aim is to develop and provides his clients a unique approach to education and appropriation of their learning space through the arts. He promotes the use of murals as graffiti vandalism deterrent, engages people of all ages in positive skill-building experiences while simultaneously supporting local arts and culture, and enhancing the City’s or the cultural establishments beauty for residents and visitors. 

This year was very challenging for everyone. The world faced many challenges from health, environment to politics and social justices. This summer, black peoples and more importantly, people from all walks of life took to the street to protest the killing of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor plus all the other black unarmed peoples that where murdered by the polices in the United States. BLACK LIVES MATTER went from a fringe movement to a political force that helped elect Joe Biden as the new President. 

That force is the same one that as inspired me personal and creatively to move forward to see hope in the future and this is what I tried to represent in this illustration. The power to stand up to what you believe no matter what stands in front of you.