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Bea Haase

Visual Artist

Handmade ceramic mug. Wheel thrown, hand carved, gas kiln reduction fire cone 10

Saira Grube

Ceramics; Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Avery Liell-Kok

Animation; Illustrator

Mixed media collage. Wood, metal, paint.

Twirbutt

Muralist; Painter; Sculptor

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Desireé Abbott

Ceramics; Fiber Artist; Jeweler

I’ve been making things for as long as I can remember, starting with crafts in Girl Scouts and eventually finding my way to crochet and jewelry, which I’ve been doing for more than 20 years. In 2024, I took my first pottery class at the Richmond...

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Saida Adias

Photographer

Photography is an art for personal expression. Everyone’s form is very different. There really isn’t a perfect right way, only personal opinion. My photography reflects how I feel about the beautiful wonders of nature. Every creation is unique. I...

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Sadiqeh Agah

Painter; Printmaker; Visual Artist

I predominantly paint with watercolor and gouache. Recently, I have explored printmaking with rubber carvings and produced playing cards inspired by Persian miniatures and block printed textiles. My work is inspired by the delight and sometimes...

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Kimberly Antoinette

Fashion Designer; Fiber Artist; Mixed Media; Painter; Storyteller; Visual Artist

Kimberly A. Ross (p/k/a Kimberly Antoinette) is a multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer whose work bridges visual arts with fashion design. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Apparel Design & Merchandising from San Francisco State University...

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lauren ari

Illustrator; Instructor; Mixed Media; Muralist; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Born: Buffalo NY Lives in: Richmond, CA Education : Masters in Art/U.C. Davis Artist/Educator/Dancer/Gardner/Mother/Cook and lots of other stuff too

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Miguel Barajas

Graphic Artist; Illustrator; Painter

Growing up in the Bay Area Miguel was influenced by the music, local sports team and the street culture. From his family’s taste a cultural upbringing to the modern and ever evolving trends and cycles that are in our modern world. Miguel finds a...

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John Barry

Literary Arts: Author, Poet; Mixed Media; Performance Art; Visual Artist

An author and editor by profession, I started producing visual puns with found objects in the 1990s. In 2011, I developed a technique I called trAction Painting–because of the need for traction and as an homage to Action painting. Using this...

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Roger Bass

Painter

Mr. Bass is a painter, concentrating on, Landscape, Abstract/Geometric and Figurative compositions, generally in Acrylics, and drawing on his 5 decades of experience as an Architect. His initial art education took place in the late 1960’s at the...

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Irene Bee Kain

Painter; Visual Artist

Irene creates work with the hope that it will brighten a viewers outlook. Inspired by Architecture, Icons, views of everyday life with Heritage as a major influence along with Asian and garden styling. In her current works she applies acrylic in...

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Tajanique Bell

Literary Arts: Poet; Spoken Word; Visual Artist

Tajanique Bell is a visual artist, poet, and dedicated youth advocate for underserved communities. She uses the Arts as a tool for healing, leading workshops that help young people build confidence and find their voice. Her diverse experience ranges...

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Pooya Berahmandi

Animation; Instructor; Media Arts: 3D Modeler; Mixed Media; New Media/Technology; Photographer

Bay Area-based since 2011, Pooya is a curious creative drawn to storytelling in all forms, whether through 3D animation, or capturing real-life moments with a camera. Pooya loves cooking, cats, and turning everyday scenes into lasting memories...

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Barbara Breashears

Mixed Media; Painter; Printmaker; Visual Artist

After working as a graphic designer for 22 years, I went back to school and received my teaching credential in art. I taught high school art classes for the next 12 years. Now, I teach in my home studio and create to my heart’s content. I’m one...

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Jacqueline Sarah Brown

Visual Artist

I’m Jackie Sarah Brown, an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. My practice centers on graphite drawings that transform fabric, objects, and architecture into spaces of longing and impossibility. My artistic path moved through illustration...

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Teryn Brown

Fiber Artist; Graphic Artist; Illustrator; Instructor; Painter; Printmaker; Visual Artist

Teryn Brown, a.k.a. Lorraine Goldenhar, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is inspired by deep ecology, women’s traditional craft and spirituality, and resonant neuro-aesthetics. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University in...

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Lawrence Buford

Ceramics; Illustrator; Painter

Lawrence H Buford was born in Arkansas and moved with his family to Northern California at an early age. He worked as a lithographer and master printer throughout the East Bay for over thirty years. After retirement he moved to the Napa Valley and...

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Bill Carmel

Literary Arts: Author, Poet; Storyteller; Visual Artist

The Biography of Bill Carmel Bill was born at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. He brushed his teeth with coal dust and malt. He wove his clothes out of chain mail and cotton threads from the mills. Dream after dream of...

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Avi Chakravarty

Ceramics; Painter

I am a retired engineer, now following my passion for art and ceramics. I paint mainly in acrylics and am mostly interested in moody, peaceful landscapes and seascapes, capturing calm emotions and colors in a “Tonalist” style. I work mostly on...

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Joo Chase

Instructor; Mixed Media; Painter; Visual Artist

About Joo Chase Joo Chase is a Korean-American artist and art educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through her active participation in local exhibitions and her work as an educator, she has become part of the Bay Area art community, sharing...

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Ellen Christensen

Graphic Artist; Illustrator; Mixed Media; Painter; Photographer; Printmaker; Visual Artist

Ellen Christensen is a designer and artist who grew up in the unincorporated areas of Richmond. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design....

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Donté Clark

Actor; Literary Arts: Poet; Musician; Performance Art; Spoken Word

Donté Clark is a spoken-word poet, actor, and writer based in California’s Bay Area. He co-founded an artist collective called RAW Talent (Richmond Artist With Talent) in 2008, which encouraged young people in his community to get involved with...

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Mark Coffey

Graphic Artist; Painter; Photographer

Mark Coffey has lived most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area with a career in architecture, construction management and real estate development. Several years ago, he decided to try something a little different and began publishing an...

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Brian Conery

Mixed Media; Painter; Photographer; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Brian has a BA in Painting from CSU Chico, where he grew up, identifying as an artist from an early age. He began painting at 12 and was selling his work by age 15. He also spent a year studying illustration at Art Center College of Design in...

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Donna Cooper

Handweaving; Jeweler; Beader

Very involved with creating and designing beaded jewelry since the age of 12. Every job I’ve ever held was jewelry-related, either selling parts to create beaded jewelry sets or complete fine jewelry with diamonds, gold, and gemstones. My school...

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José Cordón

Literary Arts: Poet; Performance Art; Spoken Word

Entrepreneur and poetic artist José Cordón, known as CordonConcepts, is a sought after spoken word poet, Antioch’s Poet Laureate, and founder of Grassroots Poetry. His upbringing in a church-going immigrant home taught him the value of faith,...

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