Grow Your Network: Brianna Collins Is An Artist Who Just So Happens to Play in a Band Too
January 21, 2026·0 comments·zg
Do you know Brianna Collins? She's the keyboard player, co-songwriter, creative director, and visual architect for Tigers Jaw - one of the most consistently vital bands to emerge from the Northeastern Pennsylvania DIY scene over the last two decades. If you haven't been paying attention, that's your loss.
If not, allow me to introduce you. Brianna showed up to a church basement show in seventh grade because she liked a boy who made her a mixed CD. She crowd surfed. She found her people. By sophomore year of high school, she was in Tigers Jaw - having never written a song before in her life, just knowing she could play piano and she loved going to shows. Twenty years later, she's teaching art, designing all the album/merch artwork, keeping meticulous control over the band's creative vision while working a day job in sales, and somehow keeping it all moving forward.
I wanted to connect with her because she represents something I'm obsessed with: the person who shows up early, does the actual work, stays committed to their community through every phase of life - and builds something genuinely meaningful without needing validation from outside to know it matters.
Our conversation is LIVE now on the Cultish Creative and Epsilon Theory YouTube channels. Listen and you'll hear two artists from opposite coasts and opposite decades discovering that they built their movements the exact same way - through church basements, through DIY logistics, through showing up for people, and through the simple stubborn refusal to move away.
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