Butterfly Artist

Meet the Artist:

Lansing, Michigan local intuitive artist & visionary, Tea Brown is a lifelong artist of many talents.  Her art came to life in high school, where her art teacher put her drawings and paintings in her very first art show. Since then, she has had her artwork in art shows throughout Michigan, from as far north as Petoskey and Gaylord, all the way down to Detroit. She sells artwork on a national level as well.

Her vibrant, colorful paintings often incorporate hidden symbology and have complex, deep ambiguity. In addition to being an intuitive artist, Certified Art Therapy Technician, Small Business Owner, Reiki Master, & Audio Engineer, she also hosts “Make & Take” parties.  Her most recent large-scale project was released on 6.6.24 and it was entitled “The Michigan Women Walls of Fame Project” located in the capital city of Lansing, Michigan, paying tribute to 9 amazing women who changed society.  

A repeat artist to Grand Rapids’ Artprize, Tea has had her music-inspired series “There’s Always A Billy Project” in 2023’s Artprize, where she created an interactive display intertwining music and her Billy portraits that she painted.  In 2019 she worked closely with the Clinton Arts Council to create and execute the Legendary Artist Passage in St. John’s, MI.  This project brought people of all ages and backgrounds of the surrounding areas, to come and work together and beautify the space while providing art history for all.  In 2018 she was awarded Artpath’s 2018 People's Choice Award for her amazing, uplifting and complex mural “Break Free,” where it is still a highly sought after selfie spot in Lansing.  

In 2021 she graduated as Valedictorian in a class of mostly men, from Full Sail University with a degree in Audio Production.  She did this as a full time single mother, just one year after having her second child in the middle of the pandemic!  Tea attributes her fierce ambition and drive to her two sons that she raises full time. “I do my best to show them that you can have excuses, or you can have results, but not both,” she states.  With this extraordinary visionary, there’s no limit to what she will do next!

 Her professional name is TeaMurduh (Tea + Mur (meaning wall - short for mural) + duh (an inside joke)).