Gaia Weise

Gaia Weise is a multimedia creator who specializes in visual art, specifically comics, illustration, painting, and design. Gaia was born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida and now lives in West Oakland. They received a BA in American Studies from Tufts University (‘15) and an MFA in Comics from California College of the Arts (‘20). For as long as they can remember, art has been the major motivating force in their life, concocting characters and storylines in sketchbooks from an early age. Though they have skills in a variety of media, including printmaking, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance art, Gaia has focused their talent to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a published comic artist. They write and draw autobiographical comics about being Black and gender non-conforming. Their artistic style could be described as stylized realism, rich with a vibrant color palette and lush botanical motifs, meshed with a sci-fi sensibility.