Global Citizen’s Emerging Creatives Program provides a platform for emerging creatives in the Global South that are highlighting the need for open civic space worldwide. Through their art, they call for change, shine a light on social injustices, and advocate for the advancement of the Global Goals.
OCTOBER 2025
FEATURED CREATIVE
Orlin Daniel Canales Martínez
HONDURAS
This month's Emerging Creative is Honduran artist, Orlin Daniel Canales Martínez. Despite growing up in a neighborhood marked by violence and displacement, the painter, muralist, sculptor, and teacher continues to show how creativity can rebuild hope and transform realities.
He told us: “I aim for it to have a psychological effect and to adapt that identity on a philosophical level.”
Through his art, Orlin transforms that reality into hope, reclaiming civic space and empowering youth to use creativity as a form of resistance and healing. His murals, co-created with local young people, reflect on education, migration, and inequality, turning public walls into powerful messages of peace and resilience.
For his spotlight with Global Citizen, Orlin Daniel Canales Martínez has compiled a video that shares some insight into his work.