NEW! Immersive Fine Arts
Experience the World’s Most Beautiful Theme Park in an all-new light with immersive art displays around the park! From carefully crafted décor that will light up the night above your head, to real-time painters creating art pieces, there is much to see and take in at each of our different villages. Learn more about each art display and the artist backgrounds below!
![Liz Gray art.](/williamsburg/-/media/commercial/busch-gardens-williamsburg/images/events/core-events/summer-of-wonder/2024/art/714x458_liz_gray.png?h=458&w=714&la=en&hash=C911BC6C91BDA60ADB75FE85B34840EF)
Liz Gray | Scotland
Liz Gray is an artist, author, and nail enthusiast better known around the internet as @thegraytergood. She lives in Virginia with her husband and her cat Emmy, and enjoys creating eye-catching content and client work from the comfort of her home studio. Her style of work is detailed, modern, and evokes a spirit of fun, and she enjoys all aspects of content creation but especially loves crafting a story.
![Nico Cathcart.](/williamsburg/-/media/commercial/busch-gardens-williamsburg/images/events/core-events/summer-of-wonder/2024/art/714x458_nico_cathcart.png?h=458&w=714&la=en&hash=FD03C0E016C6F5EF402F2D810335B636)
Nico Cathcart | Ireland
Nico Cathcart is a painter and muralist hailing from Toronto, Ontario, and currently living in
Richmond, Virginia. She strives to discuss Intersectionality and climate change in her highly-colorful realistic works which often include local flora and fauna. The artist is in the process of going deaf, relying on a combination of hearing aids, lip reading, ASL, and CC Apps to communicate. She often includes birds in her work as a nod to her disability. You can find a TEDTalk about her work, and disability on the YouTube TedTALK Channel. An experienced mural painter, she has worked on walls across the country, including- Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Sacramento, Rochester, Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta, Napa CA, and Wynwood Miami. Nico's work has been shown at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, who named her an Agent of Change in 2021, as well as the Hermitage Museum, ABV Gallery in Atlanta, Modern Eden in San Francisco, Blockfort in Columbus, and countless galleries across the country. Among her recent achievements are a 2023 National Mural Award, Culture Candy + Up Street Art Magazines Top 40 Artists to Watch, and she was recognized as one of the influential women in street art in the 2023 book "Street Art by Women."
![Sarah Gallahan art.](/williamsburg/-/media/commercial/busch-gardens-williamsburg/images/events/core-events/summer-of-wonder/2024/art/714x458_sarah_gallahan.png?h=458&w=714&la=en&hash=1556F7FE45795C3DEC57C3C7345E7B0E)
Sarah Gallahan | Wild Reserve
Sarah Gallahan is an artist/muralist from Winchester, Virginia. Gallahan began her career in portraiture but her love of the outdoors, traveling and meeting people led her pursuit for murals. Today she has created over 200 murals spanning the last 17 years of her career. Beyond the paint, Sarah has three children and enjoys homesteading alongside her husband at their cabin in the woods. Encouraged by her oldest sons love of animals and desire to protect them she has made efforts to bring attention to Virginia's endangered species and conservation efforts. You can see this in some of her recent works of sea turtles at Virginias Aquarium and Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach and Local bird life painted at George Mason's Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation.
![Hamilton Glass art.](/williamsburg/-/media/commercial/busch-gardens-williamsburg/images/events/core-events/summer-of-wonder/2024/art/714x458_hamilton_glass.png?h=458&w=714&la=en&hash=E9E96526D8E97FC1CB84DDDC72E7A189)
Hamilton Glass | New France
Hamilton was born in Philadelphia, PA where he spent many years absorbing the arts and culture of the murals and street art in the city, but also the fine art of the Corcoran Gallery where he was often enrolled in classes. He went on to attend Hampton University in Virginia where he obtained a Bachelor's of Architecture. Despite working in the architecture field for 7 years, his passion for public art pushed him to start a career as an artist. He created his first mural in Richmond in 2011, and since then has had the incredible opportunity to create more than 300 murals around the city. These murals live outside on public and private walls and inside more than 60 Richmond Public Schools. He's won numerous awards for his work with public art and his engagement with the community. Public art has always been an inspiration, because of its power to influence and inspire the surrounding community. With every opportunity he is given to create, he tries to convey a message that connects the art to the community. Using his background in architecture, he designs images that reference architectural drafting practices, which are represented in the sharp lines, scale, and balance of the piece. The bright colors, unpredictable lines, and shapes are used to convey energy and movement in each piece. One of the things he enjoys most is creating multi-layered projects that amplify many voices.
![Dathan Kane Art.](/williamsburg/-/media/commercial/busch-gardens-williamsburg/images/events/core-events/summer-of-wonder/2024/art/714x458_danathan_art.png?h=458&w=714&la=en&hash=9C6163E4A95417C8CE56FE9266749687)
Dathan Kane | Rhinefeld
Dathan Kane (b. 1991) is a contemporary abstract Artist based in Hampton Roads, Virginia and holds a BFA in Art & Design from Virginia State University.
His work focuses on the constant duality of life's choices using bold, organic, black and white shapes to explore this complexity and present a sense of balance. Dathan's work has been acquired by private collectors across the U.S alongside Germany and France. Other collections include Dollar Tree HQ, Work Programs Architects at Assembly in Norfolk, Within Interior Design Firm in Norfolk, PMA Architecture in Newport News, Commune in Virginia Beach/Norfolk, Capital One collection, Newport News City Mayor collection, Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
His work focuses on the constant duality of life's choices using bold, organic, black and white shapes to explore this complexity and present a sense of balance. Dathan's work has been acquired by private collectors across the U.S alongside Germany and France. Other collections include Dollar Tree HQ, Work Programs Architects at Assembly in Norfolk, Within Interior Design Firm in Norfolk, PMA Architecture in Newport News, Commune in Virginia Beach/Norfolk, Capital One collection, Newport News City Mayor collection, Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
![art sign at BGW.](/williamsburg/-/media/commercial/busch-gardens-williamsburg/images/events/core-events/summer-of-wonder/2024/art/714x458_wag.png?h=458&w=714&la=en&hash=DA91526C09DFBE94FE8BC2CA4B93A438)
Williamsburg Artist Group | Oktoberfest
Williamsburg Artists Group (WAG) is a community of area artists who have joined together to share their artwork with you. WAG has over sixty active members who create fine art in both two and three dimensions. They share their creations in various local venues as well as online on Facebook and Instagram. They are delighted to now be able to create and interact with visitors in the inspirational environment of Busch Gardens Williamsburg!
![Trevor Lucas Art.](/williamsburg/-/media/commercial/busch-gardens-williamsburg/images/events/core-events/summer-of-wonder/2024/art/714x458_trevor_lucas.png?h=458&w=714&la=en&hash=23C7421F035BB9E38983781CDD575D27)
Trevor Lucas | Italy
From the early 90's to present day Anomaly Art Studio's Trevor Lucas has created murals, illustrated children's books, branded businesses, and designed for clothing companies; using his artistic skills to uplift and spread positive messages through his work. His belief is that we can only go as far as we can see; so through art, his mission is to show the world much better and much more.