Samantha Nibblett

Samantha Nibblett is a Maryland-based graphic designer and visual artist raised on the Eastern Shore of Delmarva. Her love for art began early, spending years drawing and painting throughout school before later studying graphic design at Delaware Technical Community College from 2018 to 2021. Although graphic design became her career path, visual art has always remained at the core of who she is, from sketching and painting to photography, videography, and advertising work.

For Shore Walls, Samantha stepped into something entirely new by creating her first mural. One of the biggest goals of the festival was to create real opportunities, not just showcase established muralists. Samantha represented exactly that mission: a talented local artist stepping outside her comfort zone, taking on a large-scale public artwork, and sharing her work with an entire community.

Her mural features a crow descending onto a cracked snail shell, creating a powerful image of growth, release, and transformation. The piece feels bold, symbolic, and deeply personal. The longer you look at it, the more the story begins to unfold.

What makes this mural especially meaningful is how closely its message mirrors Samantha’s own journey. Here is an artist breaking through her own barriers, taking on her first mural, and discovering what is possible when she is given the space to grow. In many ways, the mural became a reflection of Shore Walls itself: creating opportunities, supporting artists, and helping new creative voices take their place in the public art world.

Samantha’s mural reminds us that public art is not only about finished walls. It is also about the artists who grow through the process, the chances that open new doors, and the courage it takes to say yes to something bigger than you have done before.

Hannah Webb / The Obanoth

Hannah Webb, known professionally as The Obanoth, is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work brings bold color, movement, and imaginative energy into public space. As one of the non-local artists selected for the inaugural Shore Walls Mural Festival, Hannah’s presence helped show that Salisbury can be part of larger creative conversations happening across the country.

Her mural, created on the Delmarva Veteran Builders office in Downtown Salisbury, became one of the festival’s most visually striking pieces. The work features an octopus, a creature known for its intelligence, adaptability, and problem-solving abilities. Through bright colors, flowing movement, and a composition designed to fit between the building’s windows and doors, Hannah transformed an everyday wall into something that captures attention, sparks curiosity, and invites people to see the city and its surrounding environment in a new way.

Throughout the week, Hannah fully embraced the Shore Walls community. She spent time with spectators, shared her creative process, welcomed questions, and went above and beyond with the students who joined us for field trips. Her participation reflected one of the larger goals of Shore Walls: to bring new creative voices to Salisbury while creating space for exchange between artists, residents, students, and visitors.

Hannah’s mural helped prove that when a city creates the opportunity, artists will travel thousands of miles to share their talent, learn from a new place, and leave something meaningful behind.

Hanna Moran & Lindy Swan / Red Swan Walls

Hanna Moran and Lindy Swan are the artists behind Red Swan Walls, a Baltimore-based mural studio known for combining realistically rendered flora and fauna with colorful abstract elements. Their work is joyful, uplifting, and deeply rooted in place, often drawing from the local landscape, history, and community input so each mural feels connected to the people and environment around it.

For Shore Walls, Hanna and Lindy created a vibrant nature-inspired mural for Avery Hall Insurance in Downtown Salisbury. The piece features an osprey guarding its nest, surrounded by bold florals, grasses, color, and movement inspired by the Eastern Shore’s natural landscape. Native to the Chesapeake region, the osprey brings a sense of strength, protection, vigilance, and connection to place.

What makes this mural especially meaningful is how naturally it connects to Avery Hall’s story. The osprey, wings outstretched, serves as a fitting symbol for a company with a long history of safeguarding families, businesses, and dreams across the Eastern Shore. Set against a backdrop of vibrant color and regional plant life, the mural celebrates both nature and nurture: the care of the osprey guarding its nest and the care Avery Hall provides to the communities it serves.

Hanna and Lindy’s mural helped bring a sense of wonder, warmth, and pride to one of Salisbury’s most visible downtown corridors. Their work reflects one of the core beliefs behind Shore Walls: public art should be accessible, uplifting, and woven into people’s daily lives, creating moments of connection in the places we pass every day.

Jason “JBUG” Wharton

Jason “JBUG” Wharton is a Salisbury-based pinstriper, sign painter, and Kustom Kulture artist with more than 22 years of experience rooted in East Coast car culture and hand-painted traditions. His work blends old-school craftsmanship with bold personality, pulling influence from hot rods, motorcycles, custom signage, lettering, skate culture, and the kind of hand-done details that give a piece real character.

For Shore Walls, Jason brought that signature style to Roadie Joe’s with a mural that feels vibrant, playful, and full of movement. The fish, bubbles, colors, and dark line work all come together in a way that feels fun and unmistakably his. One of the strongest details is how he used the existing windows as part of the design, turning them into custom signage instead of treating them as interruptions. With years of experience creating hand-painted signs and window lettering, he was the perfect artist for this wall.

Jason’s mural helped show the range of Shore Walls by bringing sign painting, pinstriping, and Kustom Kulture into the public art conversation. His work is a reminder that public art can be joyful, highly skilled, deeply local, and rooted in traditions that have shaped visual culture for generations.

Brandon Bell / We Are Limitless Studios

Brandon Bell is a Salisbury-based muralist, creative director, and Co-Founder of We Are Limitless Studios. His work centers on transforming public spaces through large-scale murals that reflect community identity, lived experience, and the way people connect to place. As the creator of Shore Walls, Brandon sees murals as more than paint on a surface. To him, public art is a form of infrastructure that shapes how people feel, gather, move through, and experience the spaces around them.

For the inaugural Shore Walls Mural Festival, Brandon created a riverfront mural rooted in growth, stewardship, and possibility. Located beside the river and overlooking a thriving community garden, the mural reflects the spirit of a place where people are already planting seeds, caring for one another, and helping Salisbury grow from the ground up.

At the center of the piece, a child carefully tending a young plant serves as a reminder that meaningful growth does not happen overnight. It takes patience, care, and a willingness to invest in something larger than ourselves. Surrounded by vibrant flowers, native greenery, and bold color, the mural reflects a simple truth: strong communities are cultivated the same way gardens are, one act of care at a time.

The mural was brought to life with the support of Gillis Gilkerson and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, alongside creative collaborators Kayla Allen and Basta. Together, their work helped turn the wall into one of the festival’s most recognizable landmarks and a lasting symbol of what Shore Walls set out to prove: when we nurture our neighborhoods, relationships, and shared spaces, growth follows.