Hey! I’m Jared
I'm a designer who works big—mostly murals these days, with branding and design work in the mix.
Everything I make starts from the same place: research, concept, and a unique point of view. A wall is really just design at scale, so whether it's a hundred-foot mural or a logo, the thinking underneath is the same. My work is intentional, and it's built for the specific people and place it's for.
A decade in Kansas City and a background that's touched nonprofits, healthcare, housing, food and drink, fashion, and government taught me one thing: the good stuff happens when a client's brave enough to get weird with it. A healthcare ball with an '80s circus theme, an adult sports league subverting gender roles with a wink—that's my specialty.
I'm looking for people a cause and the nerve to do something unexpected with it.
ABOUT
Jared Horman is a designer and muralist who has helped shape Kansas City's public landscape for over a decade, known for bold, unapologetic LGBTQ murals that put queer history and joy on the city's walls.
Raised in St. Joseph, Missouri, with formative years near the Lake of the Ozarks, he earned his Bachelor's from Missouri State University. There, an advisor from Bosnia who had studied in the lineage of the Bauhaus shaped his visual foundation and the design-first thinking that still grounds his work today. He also received the Citizen Scholar Award for ethical, community-minded leadership — an honor he didn't fully understand at the time, but which, a decade of citizen-focused work later, reads almost like a prophecy.
His first role took him to Charlotte, North Carolina, with Pi Kappa Phi and its philanthropic arm, The Ability Experience, an organization serving people with disabilities. It was a formative grounding: leadership development, higher-ed programming, and hands-on fundraising and development work, all in service of a cause. Those years taught him how mission-driven organizations actually run — and planted a thread that still runs through his practice, where both LGBTQ+ and disability communities have surfaced in his work at different moments, each approached with the same care for who it's really for.
He's fluent with the tools — VR projection, iPad, desktop publishing — and uses them to move faster, but the work is his own: every decision shaped by his own hand and influences, not handed off to AI.
He's also known for his Rotten Foods series — personified, body-celebrating work that runs on humor and unapologetic sensuality, and has become a signature of his reputation.
More than a decade in, he's still doing what he came to do: making bold, public work with and for his community.