Team

meet the

hidden creatives team

Shayna Brewer (she/her/whatever)

Founder, Executive & Creative Director

Shayna Brewer is a Tulsa-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, and community builder whose practice centers storytelling and connection. Drawing from experience in graphic design, animation, and digital media, she creates human-centered work that blends technology with creative expression to foster meaningful engagement between people and third spaces. Her practice explores how digital tools can amplify creative voices and strengthen community relationships.

Brewer designed and produced the first city-wide studio tour highlighting emerging artists working in nontraditional spaces in Tulsa. Between November 2025 and May 2026, she independently developed the project’s interactive map and website, created promotional campaigns and video content, established participation guidelines, designed marketing materials, wrote project copy, and built partnerships with artists, businesses, and community members to bring Hidden Creatives to life.

When Brewer isn't hustling to make this dream come to fruition, she works full time as the Creative Lead for Online Education at the Center for Health Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She also loves to be a potato on her couch, covered head to toe by her three dogs, work on her personal artwork, and hang out in her backyard with her best friend, number one collaborator, and forever partner, Nick Brewer.

A link to the featured artist's instagram account

A link to the featured artist's Tik Tok account

A link to the featured artist's substack account

Sage Ajara (she/him/them)

Video & Documentation Lead

Sage AjaRa is a poet, writer, and artist whose work explores intimacy, tenderness, and the many facets of love through lush language and introspective reflection. On With Love, Sage, a Substack journal of poems, short stories, and musings, Sage invites readers into a world where emotion and imagery intertwine—her head in the clouds, her feet on the earth, and her spirit in conversation with the stars.

Her writing blends heartfelt vulnerability with creative observation, celebrating connection, sensuality, and the quiet power of lived experience. Through incisive lines and evocative storytelling, Sage crafts moments of beauty and self-discovery that resonate with readers seeking depth, solace, and the transformative energy of words.

Ra Vashtar (he/him/any)

Chief Scheme Officer

(AKA Experience Designer & Tour Emcee)

Ra Vashtar is a semI-deposed prInce of somewhere too cool for you to know about, but technIcally he grew up In Ponca City, Oklahoma and moved to the bIg cIty of Tulsa in 2023. He is a fancy boy, genIus artIst, author, Inventor, and glam rock star, who Is now In charge of makIng thIs tour fun and excItIng wIth puzzles and...cool stuff! A few very fun facts about him are he's also a fashIon stylIst who knows everythIng about jumpsuIts, his favorIte drag queen Is Sequin P. Rodmother, and he would never ever ever blow up the moon.

Kamilah Ajara (she/her)

Content Coordinator & Social Correspondent

Kamilah is a community resource navigator, student of sociology, kitchen herbalist and health enthusiast. She has been credited as an actor and fashion model in support of local creatives. Her mission is providing resources to encourage health autonomy among localized communities through the study of Tulsa’s cultural influences.

Ando Anderson (he/him)

Arts Strategist & Director of Curation

Ryan “Ando” Anderson is a Tulsa-born author and cultural journalist raised on the city’s Northside. After graduating from the University of Central Oklahoma, he returned home to document a distinct, thriving hip-hop ecosystem that national outlets were missing. Driven to amplify Oklahoma’s music scene, he founded the media platform Tulsa Lines (www.tulsalines.com).

His reporting has been featured across The Pickup, Tulsa Root, and The Black Wall Street Times. Beyond print, he has contributed to major regional cultural pillars, including the The OAKA, 20onDaTown, IndyPot. As well as helping to facilitate activations during the World Culture Music Festival, and Dreamland Festival, which is the largest hip-hop festival in the Southwest. He published his first book, How Much Does A Dollar Cost, in 2022.

Derio Long (he/him)

Social Correspondent

Derio Long is an artist, writer, and community driven creative based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His work investigates the intersections of identity, history, and creative expression. Raised in Tulsa, he drew inspiration from the city’s legacy of resilience, cultural complexity, and storytelling traditions.

Through visual art and narrative based work, he explores how creative practice can function as a vehicle for community engagement and collective healing. He seeks opportunities that support sustainable creative ventures and collaboration with artists and innovators who view art as a catalyst for meaningful social impact.

Shayna Brewer
Founder, Executive & Creative Director

Shayna Brewer is a Tulsa-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, and community builder whose practice centers on storytelling and connection. Drawing from experience in graphic design, animation, and digital media, she creates human-centered work that blends technology with creative expression to foster meaningful engagement between people and place. Her practice explores how digital tools can amplify creative voices and strengthen community relationships.

Brewer designed and produced the first city-wide studio tour highlighting emerging artists working in nontraditional spaces in Tulsa. Between November 2025 and May 2026, she independently developed the project’s interactive map and website, created promotional campaigns and video content, established participation guidelines, designed marketing materials, wrote project copy, and built partnerships with artists, businesses, and community members to bring Hidden Creatives to life.

When Brewer isn't hustling to make this dream come to fruition, she works full time as the Creative Lead for Online Education at the Center of Health Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She also loves to be a potato on her couch, covered head to toe by her three dogs, work on her personal artwork, and hang out in her backyard with her best friend, number one cheerleader/collaborator, and forever partner, Nick Brewer.

Sage AjaraVideo & Documentation Lead

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Ra VashtarCheif Scheme Officer