(relaxing music) - [Mrozik] North Nashville is a microcosm of just phenomenal artistry.

Painters, muralists, graffiti artists, tattooers, mixed media, sculptors, all kinds of amazing artists, and I'm really happy to be a part of the community of North Nashville and it's artists.

(relaxing music) I am definitely a multidisciplinary artist because my ideas and narratives of what I am wanting to share with people and the questions I want to ask to the world are what I create the art based off of.

I don't necessarily always stick to one medium, but I also love incorporating objects and fabrics or just other types of techniques, things that are non-traditional or found objects.

Whatever gets the message that I want out there is what I want to use.

(relaxing music) The reason I really like murals is because like you think about McDonald's or Coca-Cola, they don't need to advertise.

Everybody knows them, but they do.

And why is that?

Because that subconscious just seeing and noticing something gets into people's head, it changes how they act, they think about it when they're not trying to, and they reach for that instinctive thing.

And murals, I feel like can do the same thing and reach people subconsciously.

Therefore, if you're putting out mural work that is about community, togetherness, good, positive things, those things will kind of get into people's subconsciousness and push the ideas and narratives that are good.

You use the word community a lot, but how many people know their neighbors now?

Like how many people talk to other people that are really in that community in a way that's not transactional?

I just want my artwork to change narratives surrounding Black people, Black lives, Black culture, Black identity, and promote a better place to be and live.

- [Narrator] This NBT Arts Break is made possible by the generous support of the Martha Rivers Ingram Advised Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.