Lailani Gibson is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist, creative producer, audiovisual professional, and community builder creating work across art, live experiences, media, and opportunity.

Her visual practice spans painting, oil pastels, textiles, illustration, and experimental design. Beyond the studio, she produces public programming through The Art Meetup, publishes career opportunities through The Creative Plug, creates digital content, and works professionally across audiovisual production and live event operations.

What connects these disciplines is Lailani’s ability to turn ideas into things people can see, experience, participate in, and use.

Her work is ultimately about building worlds: through art, through experiences, through information, and through the communities that form around them.

Lailani approaches creativity as both an artist and a producer.

She understands how to develop an original idea, communicate it to an audience, build the infrastructure around it, and bring it into the real world. Her experience across art, audiovisual production, marketing, programming, events, and community building gives her a perspective that moves easily between creative vision and execution.

She is equally interested in what captures attention and what creates lasting value after she has it.

That combination allows Lailani to create work that can live across mediums, from a painting or piece of content to a public experience, campaign, program, or larger cultural project.

Lailani has independently built a growing audience around creativity, opportunity, and connection.

Since 2025, The Art Meetup has produced more than 20 programs and generated more than 2,000 RSVPs for creative experiences across New York City. The Creative Plug has grown into a publication reaching thousands of subscribers with jobs, paid opportunities, and career resources.

Her work has connected her with artists, brands, cultural institutions, community organizations, and public agencies while her professional career has given her experience supporting live environments and productions at significant New York City venues.

Most importantly, Lailani has demonstrated that she can move people from attention to action: to attend, apply, participate, create, connect, and return.

She has built that foundation independently. The opportunity now is to see what becomes possible at a larger scale.

Lailani is interested in ambitious opportunities across art, media, entertainment, culture, technology, and live experiences.

She is open to speaking engagements, hosting, television and digital media, brand campaigns, commissioned artwork, creative direction, cultural programming, experiential projects, consulting, strategic partnerships, and select professional opportunities.

She is particularly interested in projects that provide meaningful creative scope, strong distribution, access to new audiences, long-term potential, or the resources to execute an ambitious idea properly.

Paid opportunities are prioritized, but compensation is not the only consideration. Exceptional opportunities offering significant creative, cultural, professional, or audience value may also be considered.

Lailani is interested in building work that can travel further than any single platform, event, or city.

Yes.

Lailani is available for select speaking engagements, interviews, panels, moderating, hosting, podcasts, television, documentary, digital series, and other on-camera opportunities.

Her strongest subjects include creativity, careers, community, live experiences, access to opportunity, audience building, independent entrepreneurship, creating something from the ground up, and building meaningful connection in an increasingly disconnected world.

She brings both lived experience and professional execution to these conversations. Lailani is not simply discussing what it takes to build an idea. She is actively doing it.

She is especially interested in opportunities that allow her personality, perspective, expertise, and creative voice to reach audiences beyond her existing platforms.

Yes, on a highly selective basis.

Lailani already develops and produces her own public programming through The Art Meetup, so she is not generally available to produce private parties, outside open mics, small one-off community events, or projects seeking additional event labor.

She considers select opportunities with brands, media and entertainment companies, cultural institutions, and established organizations where she can contribute at the level of producer, creative lead, strategist, host, consultant, or collaborator.

Strong fits may include brand activations, experiential campaigns, cultural programming, major public experiences, special productions, and select live or filmed projects.

Lailani is most interested in opportunities that value her ideas and perspective as much as her ability to execute them.

Lailani welcomes select inquiries across speaking, hosting, media and television, brand partnerships, commissioned artwork, creative production, cultural programming, consulting, and strategic partnerships.

Priority is given to paid opportunities and projects offering meaningful reach, visibility, creative potential, resources, or long-term value.

Because Lailani maintains her own artistic practice, platforms, programming, and professional career, outside projects are intentionally limited. The strongest inquiries clearly communicate the opportunity, scope, timeline, budget when applicable, and why Lailani is specifically being considered.

For speaking, media, brand, creative, and professional inquiries, contact lailanigibson@gmail.com.