Better known as "Ola", this well-known artist has made his mark on Middle Tennessee with popular murals and his art studio & gallery located Downtown Clarksville. For Ola, "Art is Life" isn't just a mantra, it's a mission. He pours his passion into everything he does - from private lessons and art therapy, to transforming K-12 classrooms into hubs of social-emotional learning through the power of art.
For Ola, art is more than creating aesthetic images. It is about releasing emotions that are hard to let go: one’s deepest desires, anger, frustrations, and lust. It’s about expressing the good, the bad, and ugly. It’s about finding solution, discovering yourself, and escaping. Art is therapy. Art is poetry in a different medium. It’s about solving the problems of today, bringing light to the darkness and finding truth in the lies. It is about resolve
Olasubomi Nurudeen Aka-Bashorun was born in Lagos Nigeria, and grew up in Edmond, Oklahoma. Before making Nashville his home, he was a student athlete at Oklahoma Baptist University, where he double majored in family psychology and studio art.
