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Large, decorative pendant necklace made from silver metal and purple and green Swarovski crystal beads

Desireé Abbott

Ceramics; Fiber Artist; Jeweler

Jeremy Phillips

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

Tipped heart with cascading flecks and swirls

Lorna Lyle

Painter

A whimsical image of a small character riding in a boat through the stars that is powered by both an engine and sails

Betsy Streeter

Animation; Illustrator; Literary Arts: Author; Painter; Visual Artist; Cartoonist

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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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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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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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Adrian Delgado

Painter; Visual Artist

Adrian Delgado was born January 9th, 1985 to Mexican-immigrant parents, and raised in South San Francisco, CA. Adrian currently resides in Richmond, CA with his family, and paints in his home studio. Adrian earned a Painting/Drawing BFA, with...

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Todd Gilens

Earthworks/Land Artist; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Todd Gilens is a visual artist and garden designer working with people, places, and ideas. Trained in landscape architecture, he uses drawing, photography and writing to investigate and express people and places. He creates projects that can be...

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Sarah Gopher

Visual Artist

Artist working in oils with cold wax.

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Saira Grube

Ceramics; Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

I am a Concord California based ceramic artist and a member of the Martinez Art Association. I create wheel thrown, hand carved, one of a kind pieces. I gravitate towards creatures of all kinds and botanical motifs in my work. I also create...

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Jennifer Lothrigel

Literary Arts: Poet; Painter; Photographer

Jen is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lafayette, CA whose practice spans photography, painting, poetry and ritual. Her work is deeply informed by the natural world, embodied experience, and ancestral narratives. Through her art, she creates...

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Carlos Martínez

Director; Earthworks/Land Artist; Literary Arts: Author, Poet; Mixed Media; Storyteller; Interior Designer

Is an architecturally trained, intuitively led multi-disciplinary artist + interior designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His works explores the relationship between space, material, and presence through a process of attunement: listening,...

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Les Phillips

Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Born in Portland Oregon, I came to San Francisco in the early 1980s to study art and have resided in Contra Costa County since the early 2000s. My work is in private collections and trashcans worldwide.

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Sara Pisheh

Ceramics; Fabricator; Graphic Artist; Jeweler; Media Arts: 3D Modeler; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist; Set Designer and Scale model maker

I’m a designer and maker based in the East Bay, creating handmade fabric jewelry using ethnic textiles from around the world. Rooted in Middle Eastern, Iranian, and Indian traditions, my work blends cultural heritage with modern style. Each piece...

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Daniel Riley

Fabricator; Graphic Artist; Illustrator; Instructor; Mixed Media; Muralist; Painter; Visual Artist

Thank you for your interest in my work. I create modern contemporary abstract paintings most of which are heavily textured and organically composed. My paintings have been described as “creative energy”…”movement on canvas”. I paint what I...

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Lori Rutledge

Graphic Artist; Illustrator; Jeweler; Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor; Visual Artist

Lori Rutledge specializes in acrylic paintings featuring animals, nature and abstract art. She began practicing and studying art in childhood, when she developed a passion for the natural world. Lori studied art at City College of San Francisco at...

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Melissa Wang

Mixed Media; Painter; Sculptor

Melissa Wang grounds her work in abstraction, using painting, sculpture, and installation to explore human and nonhuman entanglements. As a former researcher and designer in tech, she is concept-driven, looking to ecofeminism and science-fiction for...

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Cole Ware

Painter; Visual Artist

Cole Ware is a published Black American artist exploring the identity of the Black woman through a multitude of mediums. She often juggles oil, charcoal, and gouache to effectively communicate her message. Born and raised on the Monterey Peninsula...

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