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Jerry Hild

Glass Artist

This is a colorful 48x48 inch Mixed Media painting with collage elements.

Kaci Smith

Fiber Artist; Handweaving; Mixed Media; Visual Artist

Abstract and expressive modern landscape above ground with stylized rock below.

Mason Roberts

Painter

Rashmi Rao

Graphic Artist; Illustrator; Instructor; Mixed Media; Visual Artist

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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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Ebone Brown

Literary Arts: Author; Visual Artist

I’m Eboné Brown, an author and watercolor artist. Creativity has always been an important part of my life, whether I’m telling a story through words or interpreting something that has caught my attention through watercolor. As an author, I have...

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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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Lynn Fulton

Literary Arts: Author; Painter

I am a writer and artist based in Martinez. I’m a member of the Martinez Art Association and the Lamorinda Arts Alliance.

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Ophelia Guerdad

Jeweler; Literary Arts: Author, Poet

Ophelia Guerdad is a Bay Area writer who has been published under different last names (Turner, Leong) which reflect the unique phases of her life. Her story “Always Be Prepared” was one of the winners of the BART Short Story contest and her work...

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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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Erin McCluskey Wheeler

Instructor; Literary Arts: Author, Poet; Mixed Media; Painter; Visual Artist

Erin McCluskey Wheeler is a painter, collagist, writer, curator, and teacher based in Richmond, CA. Erin works in many series at once and across disciplines in painting, collage, works on paper, prints, essays, and poetry. There is always a careful...

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Monique McCoy

Literary Arts: Author, Poet; Performance Art; Spoken Word

Monique “Moe Ministry” McCoy is a spoken word Poet and the Author of Poetry’s Daughter. As a Bay Area poet, she brings a unique perspective to her work, blending the rhythms of hip hop and storytelling. Her poetry is both introspective and...

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Elana O'Loskey

Literary Arts: Author, Poet; Spoken Word; Storyteller

I am a cultural journalist and producer of arts and literature events in Contra Costa County. I have worked as a cultural journalist at The Orinda News for over 16 years and submitted work to other media such as the Lamorinda Weekly. In the past 16...

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Betsy Streeter

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

Betsy Streeter is a cartoonist, illustrator, artist, novelist, and East Bay native. Her work has been seen all over the world in papers, magazines, presentations, books, blogs, coffee mugs, refrigerator doors, and tattoos. One of her cartoons is set...

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