Contact
About
Yen Azzaro is an artist, illustrator, and graphic recorder. Since 2011, her work has helped organizations worldwide communicate ideas succinctly and beautifully. Her services are most sought-after for topics like food, health, and education access; Diversity Equity Inclusion Belonging efforts; technology and innovation; environmental, social, and racial justice.
Yen started her career in Chicago working in nonprofit and art administration. As director of Madron Gallery, she curated numerous exhibits in American impressionism and contemporary art. She moved on to education communication, sharpening skills in messaging and design before starting her own business.
Over the last 11 years she has facilitated and/or obtained $100,000 in grants to produce creative projects in the community. Yen is the Illustrator-in-residence for Culture Source, 2024 Arc Fund recipient, and the co-host of Cadence: A Podcast for Creatives. She was the 2022 Graduate Hotels Sweet Dreams Society artist-in-resident and exhibited her piece ALTAR | ALTER in Ann Arbor and Roosevelt Island, NYC. She completed her first year studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a BFA from University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, where she met her husband, artist Nick Azzaro.
Her company is a licensed and insured MBE and WBE.
Press
MLive: Forbes Prize Possible for Ypsilanti Graphic Recording Artist
Concentrate: After Ann Arbor residency, Ypsi artist to show work memorializing Asian hate crime victims in NYC
MLive: Interactive mural planned for new Superior Township library
WDIV: ReVIVE All Zones brings ‘tactical urbanism’ to Ann Arbor
MLive: Yen and Nick Azzaro Propose Interactive, Experimental Art Museum with Youth in Ypsilanti
Culture Source: Essential Illustration with Yen Azzaro
Concentrate: Washtenaw County women leaders of Asian heritage speak out on hate, violence, and healing