Denver-based Artist Brayan Montes-Terrazas is better known by his alias YAMZ. Under YAMZ, Brayan’s unwavering identity-driven art stresses the importance of putting marginalized voices at the forefront of our conversations and the stories we tell.

He is driven by the essential need to tell the stories of his identity as an undocumented, queer person of color. Using art and design as the vessels, Brayan demonstrates to others that they are not alone in the fight toward equity, justice, and sound mental health.

While he continues to develop the YAMZ: World of Color as both an art-based brand and community-driven organization, he maintains the principle that when we uplift marginalized identities through art we can heal, provide business solutions and bring each other up – because representation matters and we must strive to build equity in the art and design fields.

Brayan has created work for some of the world’s biggest brands. While it is a privilege to help these large corporations with their creative work, Brayan continues to say that the most impactful work is when he creates for small queer owned, women-owned, and queer owned organizations across the country.

Shop his bold and colorful art at yamzworld.com or reach out for custom illustration and branding work at yamzcreative@gmail.com

Together, we can add more color to this world.