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  • Dot Brovarney
    Dot Brovarney
    Literary Arts; Media; Performing Arts: Storytelling; Visual Arts: Performers and Writers
    Proceeds from Dot Bovarney’s book will support Art from the Ashes, a Redwood Valley Healing Mosaic  Historian Dot Brovarney has been involved in the cultural arts in Mendocino County since 1989. She works as an author and publisher through her business, Landcestry. Dot has an extensive curatorial background at the Mendocino County Museum and Grace Hudson Museum. Her exhibits include A Passion for Plants & Place: Carl Purdy of Mendocino County; Edward S. Curtis and the Hudsons: Creating the Arts & Crafts Indian; and Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family, and Friends. Among her publications are The Sweet Life: Cherry Stories from Butler Ranch and Remember Your Relations, based in part, on her oral histories with Pomo elders. Currently, she is writing a book about Lake Leonard and Reeves Canyon in the upper Russian River watershed. When Brovarney heard about Art from the Ashes — a healing mosaic project led by Elizabeth Raybee and Nori Dolan — she was inspired to help. Art from the Ashes is a community-built mosaic scheduled to be installed at the Redwood Valley Grange in October; the one-year anniversary of the Redwood Fire. Wishing to add some sweetness to collective fire-healing (and just in time for cherry season) Brovarney is offering half of the profits from her book, The Sweet Life: Stories from Butler Ranch to support of the project. Below are some pictures from the Butler Ranch. “The stories in The Sweet Life are really all about community,” says publisher Dot Brovarney. “The book’s storytellers convey the communal spirit that the Butlers created through their annual cherry harvest. This mosaic project, too, offers an opportunity for gathering together, and sharing an enriching community experience.” The book is available at Mendocino Book Company, Gallery Bookshop and Braggadoon on the Coast, Grace Hudson Museum, Mendocino Optical, Bona Marketplace, and Westside Renaissance Market in Ukiah. For more information, call 272-8305.  
  • William de la Mare
    William de la Mare
    Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Photography, Sculpture
    Growing up in the vicinities of London and New York, and coming from a family of artists and art lovers, I’ve been exposed to the arts all my life. I received my first camera as a child and developed the interest through high school. I was scouted in high school and given a scholarship to attend art school. Transferring into a more photography-specific path, I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with high honors from RIT. By that time, I was concentrating on photographing water and glass as a means of visually depicting spiritual/philosophical ideas pertaining to concepts of infinity. Along the way, I became a lawyer, ultimately focusing on global risk management, but continued to photograph, wrote the first book in a trilogy of epic novels on the theme of life, and also picked up practices in wood sculpture and porcelain pottery. More recently, I have returned my primary focus to art and water, concentrating on water’s various forms – snow, ice, rain, stream, sea, mist, steam, fog, cloud – and, for more than two years now, the Pacific Ocean from the Mendocino Headlands. Since being in Mendocino I have written the second part of my trilogy called Archetypes (Books I and II are now for sale in the Water Gallery) on the theme of death, and am currently working on the third –  on the theme of Rebirth.
  • Jeanne Duncan
    Jeanne Duncan
    Literary Arts
    I spent my career as a writer specializing in communicating technical information to the layperson. My background is in law, engineering (civil, geotechnical), science (laboratory analysis for hazardous substances in air, water, and soil), and California water quality and water supply issues as a writer of Western Water magazine and Layperson Guides. I grew up in Fort Bragg and graduated from FB High School in 1957, then attended U.C. Berkeley and received a BA in English Literature. In 2001 I published a book about my brother’s experiences as a commercial fisherman during the 1960s and 70s when salmon and albacore were booming, titled “Trolling on the Edge: the story of a Noyo fisherman”.
  • Melissa Eleftherion Carr
    Melissa Eleftherion Carr
    Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Performers and Writers, Photography
    Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Bluestockings bookstore (NYC), & the Kensington Public Library (CA), as well as a group show at MEDIUM Art Gallery. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), & ten chapbooks including: huminsect (dancing girl press, 2013), prism maps (Dusie, 2014), Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press, 2015), the leaves the leaves (poems-for-all, 2017), green glass asterisms (poems-for-all, 2017) little ditch (above/ground press, 2018), trauma suture (above/ground press, 2020), & abalone (poems-for-all, 2021). Her poems & prose have been widely published in over 100 journals and anthologies, & nominated for various awards including the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net. Most recently, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Berkeley Poetry Review, Paperbag, & On the Seawall. Born & raised in Brooklyn, Melissa is an alumna of Brooklyn College (BA), Mills College (MFA), and San Jose State University (MLIS). She founded and co-curates The San Francisco State University Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange with Elise Ficarra. Melissa now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library, curates the LOBA Reading Series, and serves as the Poet Laureate of Ukiah. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com
  • Sunny Franson
    Sunny Franson
    Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Painting; author, publisher, digital formatting including photos,
    Sunny Franson       Currently I live on a small walnut acreage where you feel connected to earth and surroundings. With degrees in wildlife biology and cultural anthropology, minors in language and music, and graduate work in ethnomusicology, I tend to see ecosystems, because that’s how nature works. This planet has so much beauty and intelligence, the scale is infinite and inspiration is a given. Adaptation, oil, 24x18x0.5, ©sfranson, $1300   Like everyone I continue to evolve as a person, for me in ecology, art, and writing. Time is a precious commodity as it is for everyone, and sometimes life and its pitfalls overtake you. Then you have to choose priorities carefully. It’s vital to remain committed because after all it’s your lifetime. See a video of some of my artwork at https://youtu.be/_GMKa3QYKwY Chicken society is part of The Secret Lives of Chickens or Tales from the Chickenyard and Beyond. My dad called the book  he wrote when in his late 80’s Second Age. He had hoped to see it formatted and published, and it was an honor to do that for him. Dark Water is about healing from posttraumatic stress by Opal Rose. Reflections: A Modest Collection of Short Stories includes stories that are complete fiction although some include ecology.  Every experience becomes a teacher and every painting, book, or woodland pool adds to that, but most of all, they underscore the importance of humility. Best not to put your moments off. Once they’re past, they’re gone forever. Never forget to be grateful and to share.  Contact: sunny@pacific.net Webpages at pixels.com: https://pixels.com/profiles/sunny-franson/shop www.rootlets.com Web Gallery Representation: Personal     http://www.rootlets.com Artists for Conservation Foundation   http://gallery.artistsforconservation.org/artists/1334 Fine Art America     https://pixels.com/artists/sunny+franson Professional Affiliations, Art   Current member: Artists for Conservation http://www.artistsforconservation.org Current member: Oil Painters of America http://oilpaintersofamerica.com Current member: Lake County Arts Council http://lakearts.org/default.htm Current member: Gualala Arts Council    http://gualalaarts.org Current member: Arts Council of Mendocino County    http://www.artrsmendocino.org Art Exhibits, Galleries Main Street Gallery, 325 Main St, Lakeport, CA  707.263.6658, www.lakearts.org Dolphin, 39225 Hwy 1, Gualala, CA 95445  707.884.3896, http://gualalaarts.org/dolphin-gallery Gualala Arts, 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, CA 95445 707.884.1138, http://www.gualalaarts.org Art Center, Corner Gallery, 201 South State St, Ukiah, CA 95482  707.462.1400,  http://www.artcenterukiah.org Author, Publisher  Books and ebooks are available online and at brick and mortar stores. More information and links are at http://www.rootlets.com  The Secret Lives of Chickens by Sunny Franson www.rootlets.com/chickens/chickens.html Second Age, by Carl Franson www.rootlets.com/secondage/secondage.html Dark Water: Healing from Stress after Trauma, by Opal Rose www.darkwaterrippling.com Reflections, by Sunny Franson  www.rootlets.com/reflections/reflections.html
  • Jasper Henderson
    Jasper Henderson
    Graphic Arts; Literary Arts
    Jasper is a writer, teacher, and designer from the Mendocino Coast. His work has appeared in Joyland, Juked, 7×7, Lunch Ticket, Permasummer, Your Impossible Voice, and an anthology of California writing, Golden State 2017. As a poet-teacher with California Poets in the Schools, he works with over four hundred students every year, from third-graders to high school seniors. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. His cat is named Sybil, after the sibilant, favorite sound of cats across the galaxy.
  • Mary Rose (Redwood Mary) Kaczorowski
    Mary Rose (Redwood Mary) Kaczorowski
    Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography
    Mary Rose “Redwood Mary” Kaczorowski resides on the Mendocino Coast. She studied photography at Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine; fine arts at Mason Gross School for the Arts/Rutgers University; at U.C. Berkeley Extension and at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg. At San Francisco Art Institute she studied photography with Larry Sultan and Linda Connors. In the 1980s Kaczorowski co-curated/produced “Artists at the Rock Project and Exhibition” in cooperation with the National Park Service Golden Gate National Recreation Area. This interpretive exhibition was the first of its kind in the Western U.S. Kaczorowski was a member of several artists’ groups including ArtLab (San Francisco), Secession Gallery (San Francisco), Ft. Bragg Center for the Arts (Gallery Artist) and the Women’s Caucus for Art. She took part in the San Francisco feminist protest group known as the Guerrilla Girls–originally formed in NYC to protest discrimination against women artists and artists of color in the art world. Kaczorowski’s works range from large scale to smaller paintings, photographs, oil pastels, drawings and watercolor. She states, ” My art delves into another way of seeing. I push beyond the boundaries between what is considered “fine art” and abstract expressionist-style.” She is a published poet & is a member of The Fort Bragg (CA) Poets. Her framed photos/art cards are available at Indigo in Mendocino Village.
  • Karen Lewis
    Karen Lewis
    Literary Arts
    Karen Lewis grew up in Los Angeles then traveled and lived elsewhere before settling in the forest near Albion with her husband, the sculptor Will Lewis. Their four children are now grown and flown. Karen’s essays, poems, and short fiction have appeared in Drumvoices, Hip Mama, Literary Mama, Iron Horse, Minerva Rising, Instant City, and other journals, including the Cricket Media group of magazines for youth. She’s led workshops with California Poets in the Schools since 1996. She’s also a recipient of multiple California Arts Council “Artists in Schools” grants and Arts Council of Mendocino County “GASP” grants. Her work explores the intersection of geography, spirit, and imagination. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Antioch – Los Angeles and previously studied at Stanford University and Mt. Holyoke College.
  • Cathleen Micheaels
    Cathleen Micheaels
    Literary Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Media and Visual Communications; Integrated Literary & Visual Arts:K-12 Schools
  • Blake More
    Blake More
    Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Dance, Spoken Word, Theatre; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers
    A 1987 graduate of UCLA and a lifetime member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Blake More is an artist with many creative voices and expressions. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, her work embraces visual art, poetry, video, performance, costume design, teaching, functional mixed media art/life pieces and hand-painted art cars, including her newest artcar, a Mercedes SL500 painted with a metallic palette she calls “Star Yantra” (staryantra.life). Blake first stepped on stage in Japan in 1994, when she agreed to recite poetry with a friend’s jazz band at a Shinjuku music club in Tokyo. Since then, she has performed her spoken word art in a range of venues—from cafes, art galleries and museums to 1000 seat theaters—in major cities all over the world, including Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, Amsterdam, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Her performance art is a fusion of spoken word, music, yogic contortion, dance, trapeze, clowning and costuming. She creates to reveal, questions to inspire and shares to engage the audience in soulful expression. Among her performance highlights are the time she shared the stage with jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and beat poet Tony Seymour in a Bob Kaufman tribute reading at the Main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, and the International Poetry Festival in Amsterdam (sponsored by the Provost Poets). She has traveled cross country on a performance tour with a group of San Francisco performance artists and musicians that then became the movie “Head Trip”. But her favorite project to date is a multimedia play called Boxing Pandora, which she wrote, produced, costumed, directed and stared in; 75 minutes long, the play itself involved the efforts of over 20 local artists and included an original score, original video (both live and prerecorded), a 13 member Greek-inspired chorus, poetic monologue, dance, audience participation and a trapeze (no monkeys though). A freelance writer for 15 years, Blake’s work appeared in Utne Reader, Yoga Journal, Intuition Magazine Alternative Medicine Digest and Tokyo Time Out. To date, she has written two non-fiction books, one fiction book, and three poetry chapbooks. Her most successful book is a holistic health book entitled Alternative Medicine’s Definitive Guide to Headaches, which has sold over 100,000 copies sold to date. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and books, including Heart Flip (CPITS anthology), The Alchemy Of The Word: Voices At the Edge, San Francisco Poets Live At Venue 9, Wood, Water, Air and Fire: Anthology of Mendocino Women Poets, Hard Love: Looking at Violence & Intimacy, The Toaster Broke, So We’re Going To Get Married. Author of five books of poetry, her book godmeat is a collection of poetry, prose, color artwork, and a DVD compilation of poem movies (available at godmeat.com), and her chapbook Up In the Me World is available on her website. In addition to her writing, she teaches poetry, multimedia art and performance to K-12 youth. A California Poets In the Schools (CPITS) poet teacher since 2000, she is also the Mendocino County Area Coordinator for CPITS. She organizes two annual Mendocino County High Schgool Poetry Slams and serves as the coach of the Point Arena Youth Poetry Slam Team. She also writes grants to do special, longer residencies, including: One of these projects was entitled “The Poetry Of The Blues”, in which she and New Orleans blues pianist Nelson Lunding guided 2nd thru 8th grade students in the writing of original 12 bar blues songs (with titles such as “Rocks in my Shoes”, “Our Bus Life” “Soap Opera School”), which were then arranged by Nelson and sung by the kids. These recordings were compiled into five original Kids Blues CDs, and one compilation CD entitled “We’re Playing Blues”, which is currently on sale as a fundraiser for “Gualala Arts In the Schools”. In another especially noteworthy youth project, she and videographer Christian Birk guided six Native American youth in the creation of a documentary film about living on the Pomo Reservations of Kashia, Point Arena, and Manchester in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Because of its raw power and unadorned honesty, the youth film crew became one of 14 youth groups in the nation to be invited to participate in the 2003 Reel Studio Young Filmmakers Workshop at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; the film has been widely shown to diverse audiences, from schools to art centers, from tribal centers to businesses and social service organizations. It even managed to land a spot on the shelf in the Smithsonian Cultural Heritage Library. She hosts an hour-long public affairs program called Women’s Voices on KZYX&Z FM Mendocino. She is also sits on several non-profit arts and education boards, and volunteers with many local organizations. For an extensive list and exploration of Blake More’s creative world please visit her website: www.snakelyone.com
  • Michelle Peñaloza
    Michelle Peñaloza
    Literary Arts
    Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). The recipient of fellowships and awards from the University of Oregon and Kundiman, Michelle has also received support from Lemon Tree House, Caldera Arts, 4Culture, Literary Arts, Artist Trust, VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN. She now lives in rural Northern California on the land of the Round Valley Indian Tribes.
  • Michael Riedell
    Michael Riedell
    Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word
    Michael Riedell is a poet, songwriter, occasional playwright, and teacher of English and Creative Writing.  He is the author of 3 books of poetry, most recently What We Have Left: Elemental Poems, and he is the editor of Deep Valley: Poets Laureate of Ukiah 2001-2018. He served as Poet Laureate of Ukiah (2016-2018) and currently MC’s Ukiah’s monthly literary salon, Writers Read.
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