Devan Horton is a Northern Kentucky artist who creates paintings with botanical dyes and handmade paints that promote awareness of our impact on our environments. Since receiving her BFA in Painting from Northern Kentucky University, Devan has crafted and promoted her artistic career by exhibiting in local and national galleries, most recently curating and showing in All Else Pales 2, an exhibition intersecting art, science, and community at Studio Kroner and a solo show, Tending Stems at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center as part of the New Woman residency she received last year. She has also completed residency programs at United Plant Savers in Rutland, Ohio in October, 2024 and through Friends of Black Rock, a conservation organization in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada in 2021. For the past two years, Devan has served as art curator for the Green Umbrella Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit, and in 2023 she was a recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women's Art as Activism grant. These funds were used to create non-toxic and plantable art media using materials like goldenrod and walnut for paint and handmade paper filled with pollinator seeds, which she then asked her community to create pieces of art that were then planted in a vacant lot in Bellevue, Kentucky. This lot is now a blooming pollinator haven. Collectiveness, activism, and a love of the natural world have remained steadfast themes of Devan's work.