Bike Month Community Show
Bike Month Community Art Show
May Artists of the Month
To celebrate Bike Month, we're highlighting not just one Artist of the Month, but many talented local artists who are also passionate members of our biking community. These artists don’t just create extraordinary work—they also ride for pleasure, fitness, commuting, and the thrill of the ride. So join us in celebrating Bike Month: hop on your bike, enjoy the ride, and remember—this month and every month—to always share the road.
Aidan Lawrence Halpin, LWR.NC
They / Them
Instagram: @LWR.NC
Aidan Lawrence Halpin is a graphic designer, book maker, bag maker, typographer, and avid cyclist. His work, in a broad sense, centers around the concept of finding place. Having discovered a sense of place in many different contexts, his creative practice remains rooted yet versatile, spanning a wide range of subjects and methods. Wayfinding plays a key role in both his design and cycling, serving as a metaphor and practical tool for navigating life. For Aidan, bicycles offer a deep connection to his surroundings, to others, and to himself. Design allows him to process and communicate information in a way that resonates with others—often on his own terms, but with a desire to connect. He firmly believes that beauty arises from the sum of parts. Bicycles are a testament to this belief, as are bags, books, and the individual letters that form words. Nearly everything he values reflects this philosophy, and few things are more meaningful to him than the cycling community he’s found and helped shape through his work.
Andy Slaughter
He / Him
Andy Slaughter lives in Durham, NC and is a longtime bicycle commuter. He regularly volunteers with the Durham Bike Co-op, helping to reuse and repair donated bicycles and components. Through paintings & drawings, Andy seeks to capture the magic of the ordinary people, places and things.
Bobby Strayborn
He / Him
Instagram: @bobbystrayborn
He like bones. He like bikes. He likes bones on bikes.
Christy LaGuardia
She / Her
Instagram: @christylaguardiaart & @firstfridayride
Christy is one of our resident artists and one of the employees in charge of events here at the Studio.
Emmon Roth
He / Him
Instgram: @emmonem
Emmon is an avid bike enthusiast from a young age, as well as a technician, builder, and fabricator/modifier of bikes and frames. He believes in form through function, with an emphasis on high performance and extreme-duty machines. He enjoys going fast and having fun.
Erin Karcher
She / Her
Instagram: @erinswildmushroooms
Erin has been a Durham native since 2005. During the pandemic, she had time to explore her love for both biking and mushroom foraging. She’s discovered that biking is not only a wonderful outlet for social connection, but also the most enjoyable form of exercise, sightseeing, transportation, and anxiety relief all in one. She’s often surprised and delighted when she’s able to find mushrooms on bike rides. Erin is also the owner of Arcana Bar and Lounge.
Galen Wilson, Fortini Frameworks
Instagram: @fortiniframeworks
With a decade of experience as a metal fabricator, Galen began building steel bike frames three years ago. This particular bike is the fourth frame he has created. The process has become a meaningful creative outlet—combining elements of design, fabrication, sculpture, and paint. While the future of the project is still taking shape, Galen hopes it will become a part of the local cycling community and looks forward to helping others modify or build their own frames.
K. L. Graywill
She / Her
Instagram: @graywillcreative
Kelsey learned how to ride a bike in 2022, shortly after moving back to Durham following graduate school. Without a driver's license and in need of reliable transportation, biking became a necessity. Having never played sports or exercised regularly growing up, learning to ride was a steep and physically demanding challenge—but one that opened up an entirely new chapter in her life. Still without a car, Kelsey now bikes everywhere, and cycling has been transformative, deepening her connection to Durham and helping her rediscover the city. She currently works at Bike Durham, where she advocates for sustainable transit and safer streets. Through her art, Kelsey fosters a sense of community and connection rooted in her experiences as a cyclist and resident of Durham.
Mandy Monroe
She / Her
MTH
MTH is an outsider artist/activist/advocate working under many different names in music/performance/printmaking/street art for 30+yrs. They have been working on and riding bikes since they were a young kid which lead them to the many skills and life lesson biking has to offer.
Outtama Tulachanh
Instagram: @outtama
For Outtama, biking represents a stronger, better community. Beyond being a form of physical exercise and a way to experience nature in all its glory, biking brings people together in a way that’s both joyful and deeply meaningful. To Outtama, it’s a true form of expression—much like art.
Rosie Mirsner
She / Her
Rosie is a lapsed athlete, excellent euchre partner, and tentative embroiderer. After several knee surgeries took rugby off the table, biking became a consistent source of sanity, community, and silliness for her. Catch her riding singlespeed cyclocross, trucking around on a fat bike, or meandering around the triangle in search of back ways and shortcuts.
T. Mark Bentley
Insttagram: @tmark_art
Mark grew up surrounded by simple machines, thanks to his father—a physicist and engineer with a passion for building and maintaining them. Their home was always filled with bikes in various states of repair. Growing up as a free-range kid in small-town Tennessee, Mark's bike offered early freedom: a way to ride into town to browse music shops for the latest albums or speed-read comics he couldn't afford at the local comic store. Today, Mark lives near Yanceyville, North Carolina, where he has become something of a data junkie—constantly chasing his personal bests on familiar cycling routes in the area.
