About The Artist

Brandi Nuse-Villegas is a Fresno, California mixed media artist who explores the nature of the connections within human experience and often invites the viewer to co-create the artwork. 

After finishing undergraduate school in Los Angeles County, Brandi returned to the Central Valley of California, believing it is important to develop and create art in the context and for the benefit of one’s own communities.

Brandi creates using a wide range of media, seeing the strengths of each, often mixed together, to explore questions and the world around her. She is involved in relational aesthetics; bringing the community in the artmaking process and giving them opportunities for creative expression within visual conversations, as she notes that the human need for connection cannot merely be satisfied visually, but through interaction and touch. This involvement is reflected in collaborative public art such as murals, often addressing community justice issues as well as in more quietly introspective collaborative sculpture and installation.

She is a muralist with the 559 Mural Project and art facilitator and board member of Creative Fresno. 

The past twenty years have afforded her the opportunity not only to make and show art in this context, but also to work with artists in new and developing art councils and communities, assist in the creation of art spaces, and teach art and creative expression in community venues and in my employment.

She received my B.S. in Studio Art with an emphasis on Drawing and Painting at Biola University in 2000 and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Studio Art at California State University, Fresno, started in Fall 2021.