RiNo Made Pop Up Artist Residency

LOCATION: Truss House - 3400 Arkins Ct

CATEGORIES: Art Events | RiNo Sponsored | First Fridays | RiNo Events

UPCOMING DATE AND TIME:

• Fri, Feb 13, 2026 - Mon, Mar 16, 2026  

RiNo Made Pop Ups are designed to support the creative economy, strengthen community connections, and activate unoccupied retail, office, and community spaces. By helping to subsidize short-term leases for local artists, the initiative provides space for public exhibitions, interactive installations, and on-site creation, while providing honorariums to each artist to support their practices.

This first iteration of RiNo Made Pop Ups features 5 talented local artists working across several mediums. Meet our amazing resident artists!

Yvens Alex Saintil
Saintil is a Haitian-born multidisciplinary artist currently working in photography and mixed media. Saintil draws on his experiences as a Black man, an immigrant, and a U.S. Army veteran to create work that intertwines deeply personal narratives with broader social critiques. A decorated combat veteran, he has transitioned into the arts with a sincere commitment to activism and storytelling.

Jenna Annunziato
Annunziato is a visual artist who employs traditional oil painting and woodworking techniques to explore our relationship to impermanence. She has shown work nationally; her most notable exhibitions include Hudson Valley New Folk at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in NY, the solo exhibition Forest of the Forgotten at Bell Projects in Denver, CO, and Soho House After Party at the Aspen Art Fair.

Erin McAllister
Fiber artist and emerging filmmaker Erin McAllister creates immersive work that examines memory, human connection, and the emotional turbulence of life. Her practice, once largely abstract, now includes illustrated characters formed from fabric and thread — works that read like drawings from a distance but reveal themselves as textiles up close. Whimsical and richly colored, these pieces explore the chaos of life and the hard truths, conversations, and emotional complexities beneath the surface.

Miguel Aguilar
Aguilar is a Mexican American painter who works primarily in figurative painting. Influenced by street art, urban lifestyle and visual culture from a young age, he began painting in 2016, using the human figure as a way to explore identity, environment, and cultural presence. His work reflects lived Latino experience through gesture, color, balance, and interpersonal moments, often depicting figures that feel both intimate and confrontational.

Justin DeCour aka JUHB
JUHB creates large-scale paintings, murals, and installations using bright, busy, chaotic shapes and abstracted body parts that come together into cohesive patterns. His work balances playful, doodle-like characters with bold color and movement. He says, “At its core, my work is meant to be fun, light, and distracting — a visual break from stress, heaviness, and overthinking. I want viewers to momentarily forget how overwhelming life and the world can feel, and instead get lost in color, motion, and playful chaos.”

A special thank you to the RiNo Business Improvement District (BID) for generously approving funding for the second year of RiNo Made Pop-Ups.