APR 10-12 & 17-19, 2026
GV Black aims to have a meaningful and impactful change in our community for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)! Returning to Coachella this year is our Party In My Living Room activation and our Merch Collaboration! Check out the designers below.
In 2017 by Russell Westbrook, honor the gift is a Los Angeles based lifestyle brand, rooted in self-belief and living in your purpose. Drawing inspiration from neighborhoods, experiences and communities int he inner city, every collection stands as a tribute to the journey rather than the destination. HTG is sold in retailers worldwide and continues to show up in spaces of community.
Victor Koast—born Victor Jimenez—is a Southern California artist, illustrator, and creative director whose work sits at the crossroads of street culture, typography, and hand-crafted artistry. Raised with the visual language of graffiti and steeped in the traditions of ink-on-paper craft, he developed a signature style that is unmistakably raw yet deeply intentional: bold lines, rich halftones, and a reverence to the high desert that runs through everything he creates.
Lauren Halsey (b. 1987 Los Angeles) produces standalone sculptures, graphically maximalist collages that blend real and imagined geographies, and site-specific projects that include immersive installations that bridge sculpture and architecture. Based in South Central Los Angeles where her family has lived for several generations, Halsey rethinks the possibilities for art, architecture, and community engagement. Combining found, fabricated, and handmade objects, Halsey’s work maintains a sense of civic urgency and free-flowing imagination, reflecting the lives of the people and places around her. Through critiques of gentrification and disenfranchisement paired with real-world proposals that celebrate on-the-ground aesthetics, Halsey creates a visionary form of culture that is at once radical and collaborative. In March of 2026 Halsey opened sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles, a major public sculpture park in South Central LA on view through September 2027.
Juan Pilar is an NYC-based designer and art director specializing in merchandise driven by the human connection between pop culture and fashion. His work ranges from emerging artists and international headliners to global brands, including De La Soul, Green Day, Blackpink, and Oracle Red Bull Racing. He believes in elevating merch to rival well-known clothing brands and emphasizing the symbiotic relationship between design and a musical artist’s identity.
Sydney Rose Maubert (b. 1996) is a Haitian-Cuban artist and architect based in Miami and Chicago. She holds degrees in architecture from Yale University and the University of Miami, with double minors in writing and art. She is the founder of Sydney R. Maubert LLC., her art and mural practice, which has been awarded by the Graham Foundation, Oolite Arts, Locust Projects, NALAC Foundation, GreenSpace Miami Museum, Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, Cornell Council for the Arts Award, Yale Moulton Andros Award, and University of Miami Alpha Rho Chi Award.
Benjie Escobar is an LA-based, multi-talented creative, with a broad set of artistic abilities, which encompass a wide variety of media. His work and his artistic style reference an equally expansive collection of influences, including his childhood in Pomona, lowrider culture, graffiti, raves, streetwear, 1990's culture, typography, professional design & illustration experience all tinged with a bit of snarky humor.
Terrell Jones is a Michigan-born, Los Angeles-based digital artist and designer whose work explores themes of nostalgia, spirituality, and introspection. Rooted in early influences from cartoons and manga, his work is defined by a vibrant, stylized approach.
Jen White-Johnson (she/they) is a Black and Puertorriqueña, disabled and neurodivergent art activist and design educator. Jen uses zines and collages to explore the intersection of race, disability, and care work, emphasizing redesigning ableist visual culture. Jen’s heart-centered and electric approach to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies, influential dynamic art and media that all at once educate, bridge divergent worlds, and build a future that mirrors her Autistic son’s experience. Jen’s work is also permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian National African American Museum of History and Culture.
Jasmine Hawamdeh is a Palestinian American artist, designer, and storyteller whose work explores themes of memory, identity, and cultural preservation. Working across illustration, film, and multidisciplinary design, she centers narratives from the Arab world and diaspora, often weaving together personal history, folklore, and social justice. She is the founder of Jas Hawamdeh Studios, where she develops artwork, prints, and storytelling projects that reflect themes of belonging, resilience, and community.
Her practice reflects a deep belief in the power of art as a tool to inspire change. Jasmine currently lives and creates in Washington, D.C.