Tiffany Zen is a multidisciplinary artist and architectural designer whose work lives at the intersection of fine art, material craft, and the built environment. With a background in large-scale architectural and experiential design, Zen approaches painting and object-making with an architect’s sensitivity to structure, surface, and human experience.

Her practice is best known for the Gilded Adornment Portrait series—mixed-media works on wood panels that combine acrylic paint, metal leaf, and integrated jewelry elements. These portraits explore identity, memory, and adornment as both personal and cultural language, blurring the boundary between image and object. Drawing on techniques from traditional gilding and contemporary design, Zen treats each piece as an intimate artifact, part portrait, part reliquary.

In parallel with her studio practice, Zen has contributed to major civic and sports environments through architectural wayfinding, experiential branding, and site-wide storytelling projects. This dual career informs her art with a deep awareness of scale, movement, and the emotional impact of space.

Through Zen Earth Studios, she continues to merge fine art, architecture, and design thinking, creating work that is tactile, symbolic, and deeply human.

Micah Zen is a multidisciplinary artist and maker based in Kansas City whose work spans sculpture, lighting, furniture, murals, and architectural renovation. Rooted in material exploration and craftsmanship, his practice blends fine art with functional design, emphasizing honesty of materials, structural clarity, and lived experience.

Working primarily with wood, metal, glass, and found elements, Zen creates objects and environments that feel both intentional and intuitive. His sculptural lamps and furniture pieces often function as spatial anchors, works that shape atmosphere as much as they serve a purpose. Murals and site-integrated pieces extend this approach into architectural scale, responding directly to place, light, and movement.

In parallel with his art practice, Zen continually renovates and reimagines his home as a living laboratory, testing ideas, materials, and construction methods in real time. This hands-on approach informs a body of work that values durability, adaptability, and human touch over perfection.

Through each piece, Micah Zen seeks to blur the line between art and utility, creating work meant to be used, lived with, and experienced daily.