The Voorhees Art Collective is composed of Tyler and Ashley Voorhees. Tyler has an art degree and has been a full-time artist for nine years and counting. He primarily works in collage and painting.  Ashley holds business and graphic design degrees and has been steering the rudder of their art business since its inception. Together, they collaborate on big art projects and the upbringing of their progeny.

Beginning in 2015, Tyler has been studying the history of work through The Jobs of Yesteryear, a series of mixed media paintings that depict historic jobs using his distinctly lanky figures. As a product of these studies, Tyler has completed 300+ paintings and gathered countless fascinating stories about how the life of the worker has radically changed in the past two centuries.

In 2018 Tyler and Ashley brought this theme into the realm of mural art which celebrates and honors the world’s workers in a larger than life form. So far, they’ve completed projects throughout the US and abroad (Morocco, Mexico, Belgium) and The Lamplighter sculpture. By creating these pieces, they aspire to tell the unique stories of each community’s jobs and how the community’s workers have shaped their cities, towns, and villages.