Patti Johnson

He's amazing and I highly recommend him.

Number nine, detour.

Detour.

He also goes by Thomas Evans.

If you don't follow him on Instagram, I recommend going ahead and doing that right now.

He offers all kinds of tips to amateur artists and is a brilliant educator and social media maverick.

He is a model artist.

And he has professionalized his own practice to the point where he has a major commission at the Denver airport.

So he's doing really big work and I think is not only someone to watch, but someone to learn from because he makes his whole practice and everything he does completely transparent, really a lot like raising other people up with him.

I love it.

All right, last person on our list, number 10, Amy Klugman.

So Amy is the outgoing executive director of Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City and a longtime artist advocate, in part because she's an artist herself.

She's leaving the foundation to pursue her own dreams to be released in the coming year or so.

I'm not at liberty to discuss all those plans, but I can tell you this, it will be a tremendous support to artists.

It's worth mentioning that she was a guest inside Network for our Slide Slam, an event where guests reviews an artist's artwork every minute for an hour.

And she was just incredible, like highly articulate, pulling out relevant information from all the work, all on the fly, like tour de force.

So I recommend just watching her and seeing what she does because in the next year or two, I think you're going to see a lot of the plans that she's had for some time start to come into fruition.

And that's going to be really exciting because she will be, as she has done her entire career, supporting artists.

So there are so many professionals who aren't on this list and could have easily been included, but there's just not this space or time for that.

Unfortunately, if you know of someone you love to see profiled here though, please reach out and let me know.