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Evoke is a non-profit collective of famous and developing digital artists, musicians, and photographers from around the world. The group was founded in June of 2005 by designers Justin Bristow, Sean Graham, and Ted Yavuzkurt.

Early History of the Group
Before Evoke came into being as a cohesive group, it existed on DeviantArt as a small abstract-art group called Visual Sentiments. In April of 2005, the then 14 year old Justin Bristow and 15 year old Sean Graham began discussing the possibility of creating a standalone group dedicated to digital art.

After exploring a variety of names (including Anexias) the name EvokeOne was chosen and the domain www.evokeone.com was purchased.

Soon thereafter, Ted Yavuzkurt, a former visual-sentiments member, emerged as the new group's director of operations, a position he holds during the current day.

Development of the Group
EvokeOne changed its name to Evoke as a de-facto measure in early 2007, as most members referred to it by this name. However, the group is still located at evokeone.com.

The group releases themed exhibitions every two to three months, which generally include a variety of 3d renders, 2d illustrations, photographs, and music. Supposedly, the group is working to include animation as well, but the implementation of this is yet to be seen.

Member Achievements
Many of the members of Evoke's team have won national and even international recognition. Although the group itself is non-profit, many of its members are professional, famous artists and musicians from around the world.

Joao Oliveira, known in the group by the alias Biomachina was the winner of the MTV Take-Action-Make-Art competition.

Amy Hollingsworth, known as starfantazy, had her piece titled Quit Being So Technical selected for the annual computer arts book Exotique 3.  She has also been interviewed by layers magazine, and has had multiple works featured as daily-deviations on DeviantART (see below).

Igor Scekic, known as Virus-69, interviewed by Nokka Magazine after being chosen as one of Croatia's leading designers.

Other members, including Alexander Vinther, Duong Tuan Nghia, and Matthew Dobson have been the winner of local prestigious graphic design competitions.

Online Recognition
A good deal of Evoke's recognition comes in the form of online popularity, as the group has garnered many daily-deviation awards from DeviantART.

A daily deviation is a piece of exceptional caliber that is selected by artistic staff to be shown to the online art community at large.

Group Members
The group consists of mostly younger, developing designers. The administrators of the group have expressed no desire to stop the group in the foreseeable future, but rather intend to keep on developing it as a hub for talented designers around the world.