Shelby Mathis is an award-winning visual storyteller and artistic peacemaker using brand and story to redesign the world.

From Colorado to the Middle East, I have worked for over a decade to develop the creative expertise to craft distinct visual identities and brands for organizations and trailblazers transforming lives and doing good in the world. Today I help purpose-driven leaders and creatives reach their most ambitious creative goals through creative consulting.

My visual storytelling and artistic peacemaking has taken me from refugee camps in the Middle East to Washington, D.C., and has built a perspective that deeply influences the way I approach art and complex visual solutions through meaningful design, connection, and story. In my uniquely global-minded, transformational work, I become a partner in mission and storytelling. I’m committed to helping you propel your organization and work from where you are to where you want to be.

In other words, I am a creative by profession and a humanitarian by vocation.

I have a BFA and professional background in visual branding and design, project management, marketing, and documentary photography and film. Leveraging this expertise, I offer robust services in creative consulting, publication design, and photography. In addition, I also write a newsletter and occasionally sell fine art on Etsy.

Work distinctives:

    • Visual storytelling

    • Artistic peacemaking

    • Brand

      • Creative

      • Development

      • Marketing

    • Story

      • Design

      • Photography

      • Writing

      • Fine Art

    • Transformation

    • Impact

    • Integrity

    • Collaboration

    • Dignity

    • Be a part of what visual storytelling and artistic peacemaking can do for communities and our world.

    • Seek to amplify good stories, strengthen connections, and bring transformational brands and projects to life.

    • Spread goodness through collaboration, creativity, and generosity.

  • My collaborative network stretches worldwide. Here are some notable organizations who have partnered with me:

    • Operation Homefront

    • Invisible Children

    • Vellore CMC Foundation

    • Encountering Muslims

    • CFK Africa

    • Beirut and Beyond

    • Embassy Church Denver

    • Mercy Project

    • Museum of the Palestinian People

    • Donkeysaddle Projects

    • GiveBetter

    • Holistiplan

Sound like a good fit?