Shae Fontana is an artist, writer, and creative executive with over two decades of experience shaping meaningful stories, on screen, in print, and through visual expression. Her creative career began in post-production, where she leads editorial and visual teams on Emmy-winning features, broadcast campaigns, and emotionally-driven narratives. She’s worked as a video editor, director, camera operator, 3D artist, and producer, bringing both technical fluency and creative clarity to every phase of the process.

 

But Shae’s creative voice goes far beyond media production.

 

Her personal practice weaves together visual art, narrative design, and poetic writing to explore what lies beneath the surface. Exploring true identity, memory, grief, transformation, and the spiritual longing that shapes us. Through stylized portraiture, symbolic illustration, and prose, she creates work that is emotionally grounded and visually distinct. Her style is both cinematic and intimate, influenced by vintage aesthetics, lived experience, and the realm of the spirit.

 

Her connection to music, especially jazz, has long informed her approach to art. As the creator of Bleu Bop, a blog and podcast exploring music as emotional and spiritual language, Shae examined how sound can hold history, grief, joy, and freedom. That listening-based perspective continues to shape her creative process: layered, attentive, and deeply felt.

 

Shae’s writing spans fiction, poetry, and hybrid forms that blend image and text. Her work often unfolds in fragments, lyrical, symbolic, and emotionally layered. Inspired by memory, spirituality, and the complexity of inner life, she writes with an ear for rhythm and a trust in restraint. Circling themes of transformation, longing, and the invisible threads between people and time. Whether in a prose poem, a vignette, or a narrative sketch, her writing invites reflection, creating space for what can’t always be said directly, but can still be deeply felt.

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Today, she is building a studio that integrates everything she’s learned: creative direction, language, image, sound, and soul. She works with clients and collaborators who value clarity, thoughtfulness, and stories that matter.

 

Her work is informed by the full range of the human experience, by grief, loss, joy, silence, and all that defies language. She creates not to escape the world, but to engage with it more honestly. And in doing so, she hopes her work offers others what it has offered her: a way to see more clearly, feel more deeply, and hold onto what’s worth keeping.