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Observational drawing using acrylic and charcoal of guitar player in foreground with another figure in the background.

Stefanie Sylvester

Mixed Media; Visual Artist

Julee Richardson

Sculptor

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Carlos Martínez

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

Brandon Harris

Painter

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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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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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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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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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Warren Dreher

Painter

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, just after World War II, I started painting in the mid 1960’s. At the time I was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. As a child I had grown up living in third and fourth floor tenements and was...

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lee gorton

Fiber Artist; Illustrator; Instructor; Mixed Media; Storyteller; Visual Artist

A childhood of drawing Batman and dragons led to art school of drawing slightly less Batman, but even more dragons had led to jobs as a store artist for Tower Records, illustrations for local bands, zines, comics, and now as an instructional aide...

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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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Marsha Mees

Mixed Media

“I have no special talents. I am only persistently curious.” Albert Einstein. My art is an exploration of intuition, energy, and transformation. As an Intentional Creativity Teacher, Reiki Practitioner, and Yoga Nidra Facilitator, I approach...

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Rashmi Rao

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

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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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Stefanie Sylvester

Mixed Media; Visual Artist

Art is a nonverbal vocabulary that allows me to discover thoughts and emotions I can’t access in other ways. I usually start my artmaking with no idea of what’s about to be created. To get me started with observational drawing, I’ll pick a place to...

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Nancy Vachani

Mixed Media; Painter; Visual Artist

I was born in Massachusetts in a suburb of Boston. I was not exposed to the visual arts outside of elementary school art. My family moved to a suburb of Chicago where my mom enrolled me in a local art teacher’s Saturday morning class. The teacher...

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Donna Ward

Mixed Media; Painter; Photographer

Growing up in Pleasant Hill and the surrounding cities of Martinez, Concord, Walnut Creek, Clayton and Pittsburg, Contra Costa County has always been home. I left the area soon after high school to attend college and explore the Santa Cruz and...

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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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Diane Williams

Instructor; Mixed Media; Painter; Visual Artist

Diane Williams is an abstract painter, educator, and curator based in Crockett, California. She earned her BA in Studio Arts from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in Studio Art from California State University, Sacramento, and an MFA in Arts and...

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Dennis Yee

Illustrator

I grew up on a farm in rural Central California. I’ve loved drawing ever since I could hold a pencil. I’m mostly self-taught, with comic books being my first instructional texts. No surprise that I drew comics for a couple of years. I’ve since...

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