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Spencer Brewer & Esther Siegel

Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Music; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Spencer Brewer & Esther Siegel Overview Transforming the everyday cast-off into something extraordinary… Spencer Brewer & Esther Siegel have a passion for creating quirky and fantastical pieces of art out of re-purposed, or ‘found art’ materials. From the whimsical and humorous to the punk and dark, each piece is one of a kind. Creating “new compositions” from vintage or unusual objects, they inspire viewers with a sense of delight, surprise and sometimes awe. Working both separately and as a team, Spencer & Esther confer regularly on their artwork. “We don’t always have the same vision, but we always listen and that feedback can open new doors.” Their studio is a wonderland of eccentric odds and ends and then some. Nicknamed the “Barn of Curiosities, Oddities and Light”, one discovers a much venerated collection of eccentric obsolete ephemera & vintage electromechanical obscura giving these artists endless options for their transformative art. Esther Siegel Esther’s “late in life artist” emerged from the scrapbooking world. From there she expanded to unique one of a kind greeting cards and then moved into ‘found art’ sculptures. Her pieces are a mixture of the whimsical and dark humor. They range from Barbie Doll parts (Altered Barbies) to old neck ties (Awards), to horse and doll parts (Horse People) and antique toasters (Twisted Toasters). She describes her creative process as sometimes very slow and frustrating and goes through many variations on a theme before settling on the finished piece. Spencer Brewer Spencer Brewer has been creating art and music since he could walk. For much of his life his focus was on pianos, composing, creating, recording and producing music. He also worked on over 20,000 pianos, crank phonographs and pump organs which gave him the opportunity to collect unique and obscure vintage mechanical objects along the way. In 2006 he began to focus his creative energy on ‘re-purposed or found-art’, using parts he had amassed over the years to create unusual sculptures. “I love vintage 60-150 year-old beautifully designed parts and objects. The graphic design and engineering of the industrial to the science fiction eras inspire me.”

Lincoln Andrews

Performing Arts: Music; Sound Engineer

Born and raised in the hills of Mendocino County, Lincoln Andrews has devoted his life to studying and producing the art of sound and music. After graduating from a digital sound arts program in the San Fransisco Bay Area, Lincoln and his father built a remote cabin in Dos Rios to use as a home base and artist retreat from the travels to come. Photo by Sharon Garner Shortly thereafter, Lincoln built a career as a freelance sound engineer in the city of San Francisco. Teaching music production courses at the Academy of Art University, working for venues like the SFJAZZ Center and the Boom Boom Room, as well as doing sound in the corporate world for Facebook, Google, and many others. After finding himself working long hours for multiple companies in order to stay afloat in the exorbitant economy of SF, he realized he had put his music in the background of his life. He decided to give it all up, move to New York City and put all his time and energy into playing the bass. This was short lived, as it turned out the life of a NYC musician is a difficult one. Performing a summer tour with his older brother ‘Blue Luke’ in his home county of Mendocino reinvigorated the idea of returning home. The pandemic hit us hard, and artists got the worst of it. An entire two years of paid events were cancelled. Lincoln took his chances on the road and drove to Mexico with a fellow musician. He immediately found himself performing in three different bands and was able to make a living as a musician for the following two years. Lincoln has since settled in the town of Fort Bragg, building a small sound company capable of providing audio production services (recording/mixing/mastering), live sound reinforcement, and a fat low end for all the local bands. With over 10 years of teaching experience and 15 years of performing experience, Lincoln has his hands and ears in all aspects of music in this community. He channels the unique experiences he has acquired from around the world and expresses them directly through his instrument. Do not miss the chance to see and hear Lincoln Andrews perform in your area. Click here to sign up for a monthly newsletter informing you of all music events featuring Lincoln Andrews. Associated Projects: Mendocino Latin Jazz Group: “La Onda” https://www.facebook.com/musicadelaonda Psychedelic Jam Band: “The Runabout” https://linktr.ee/therunabout Experimental Live Electronica: “Ketracell” http://ketracell.com Jazz/Rock Fusion: “Blue Luke & The Elements” https://blueluke.bandcamp.com/album/the-elements

Spencer Brewer

Performing Arts: Music, Vocal

For over 30 years, Spencer Brewer has been a composer/pianist/performer on the cutting edge of instrumental music, – inspiring audiences and listeners worldwide with his piano skills and hauntingly unique melodies. Spencer Brewer is a world recognized composer, pianist, entrepreneur and producer inspiring audiences and listeners worldwide with his piano skills as well as his creative business acumen. He has 16 solo recordings to his credit and over 250 recordings and film scores produced in his Redwood Valley Laughing Coyote Studio. His music has been featured on Home Alone 2, LA Law, Sex & the City, Thirty Something, The Opray Winfrey Show, The Barbara Walters Show, over 15 years of Olympic World games, NPR, CNN, virtually every airline in the skies and 100’s of TV programs and movies across the globe on a daily basis. In 2003, he started the Ukiah Music Center and has been restoring, buying, selling, tuning and doing virtually anything with the piano for over 30 years. While donating dozens of private concerts over the years for local non-profit agencies, he started and produces the highly successful “Sundays in the Park” concert series in Ukiah. He also created the series’ ‘Live at the Playhouse’, ‘The Professional Pianist Series’, ‘Happination’, ‘BandSlam’, ‘Acoustic Café’, ‘Sunset at the Cellars’, “Lightening Jam’ and is a consultant to many performance organizations, individuals and businesses throughout the area regionally around promotion, publicity, media relations and events. He and his wife operate their home as an emergency foster care home for high-risk youth and in 2001 he was one of three people to be nominated for Ukiah’s “Citizen of the Year” award and in 2008 he won the Mendocino County Arts Champion Award.

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.

Lauralee Brown

Performing Arts: Music, Vocal

Lauralee Brown is a vocalist, entertainer, and singer songwriter who has been living in Northern California since the mid-1980s. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she had been residing in the San Fransisco Bay Area until 2020 when she and her husband moved to Fort Bragg, CA. Over the years Lauralee Brown has been involved in many musical and other creative endeavors including many studio recording sessions, and, Comedy, Dinner Theater, Community/Public Radio. She also co-hosts a singer songwriter series in Marin County, which she founded in 2009. She’s been in numerous groups ranging from duos, trios to six and seven-piece bands. Her own group, “Lauralee Brown & Company, Jazz and Beyond”, features local players in what ever area she is living in. While the main focus is on Jazz, there is a bit of Blues, Country and Rock thrown into the mix. In her solo act, “Acoustic Folk/Pop with an Original Twist”, Lauralee Brown plays guitar and sings an eclectic array of material featuring classic standards from Patsy Cline, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, The BeeGee’s, Leonard Cohen, Fleetwood Mac and more. In these musical configurations, Lauralee Brown also sings her own originals as well as ones collected from many fine songwriters she has met along her musical journey. Lauralee has a unique vocal style and approach to the songs she performs Her Recent CD “Nature Of Belief” is available for purchase

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.

Alexander DeGrassi

Performing Arts: Music

Wendy DeWitt

Performing Arts: Music, Vocal

With a piano style influenced by the greats of Chicago blues and Texas boogie Wendy performs at festivals and leads workshops and master classes around the US, Caribbean and Europe. Wendy toured with Hank Ballard and the Midnighters seeing first hand the evolution of blues to rock and roll, and has performed with Joe Lewis Walker, Big Time Sarah, Otis Rush and Steve Freund. Since moving to Ukiah seven years ago, Wendy hosts concerts at the Church of Boogie Woogie, live and on-line, produces Hella Piano Night at major theaters, and hosts Blues Invitational at Hopland Tap every Wednesday with special guests from around the country and Europe. From Seattle to West Virginia, Wendy teaches workshops on blues and boogie woogie piano, transcribed Dr. John for Homespun Video, and created the San Francisco International Boogie Woogie Festival and The Queens of Boogie Woogie. Wendy served as Vice President of the Golden Gate Blues Society, and was responsible for major funding of the Society’s Musician’s Relief Fund through partnership with the San Francisco International Boogie Woogie Festival, has served as a judge at the International Blues Challenge, and is a voting member of NARAS. Wendy holds the position of Musician for California State Grange, is a board member of the Ukiah Community Concert Association and the Mendocino College Music Arts Board of Advisors. Tune in to KLLG-LP Willits for Blues Piano Orgy, a two hour radio show hosted by The Queen of Boogie Woogie and feast on the roots of American popular piano styles. The show features the stories and music of Blues and Boogie Woogie pioneers. With Kirk Harwood on drums, Wendy and the band are currently recording the next album.

Reid Edelman

Performing Arts: Theatre

Helene Eve

Performing Arts: Music

Vocalist Helene Eve performs an eclectic variety of styles, either accompanying herself on guitar, or backed by other players. She has performed in solo or duo combos at Art in the Gardens at Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens and Mendocino Art Center Fairs, and at various Mendocino County venues including Mac Callum House Restaurant/Gray Whale Bar, Heritage House, Django’s at the Noyo Harbor and local coffeehouses such as Headlands. Accompanying herself on guitar, she presents soulful and sweet music from classic standard tunes, to bluesy, jazzy, folk, pop, country and several original tunes As a jazz vocalist, she has performed with the CR Stage Band on the coast, at Jazz on the Lawn Series at the Art Center, the Ellington Festival, and at the Sequoia Room backed by jazz trios. For a sampling, go to Soundcloud.com and search for Eva Yo Teh He. Sample here: Helene Eve singing on Robert Dease Jr. original song– Autumn. https://soundcloud.com/user-787626977/autumn-peter

Lavender Grace

Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Music, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre, Vocal; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Performance Art, Performers and Writers

“Music is my medicine, my story of healing. my offering to you, on your journey, to help you find your Medicine in your own song, within your own rhythm.” Lavender Grace is dedicated to the tools of Heart Song Medicine, for the good of all, for the collective evolution of all beings. She is a Sacred Ecology Specialist, and facilitator of Intuitive Drum Song, a course created by the lands and people of Northern California, informed by the lineage of her Celtic Ancestors & the influences of Moorish song and dance. At the very core, Lavender Grace is instructed by the Bees. She moves to the rhythm of the hive, the path of co-existence, the life song path, the life dance to the beat of the heart drum. Dedicated to the shared responsibility of our times, to elevate our consciousness. Come, show up, be courageous, you are needed! She is a facilitator, musician, actor, dancer, poet, artist, and consultant to those in need of her services. For more info visit www.honeyhivemendo.com

Janice Hawthorne Timm

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Music, Theatre, Vocal; Pianist & Accompanist, Musical Theater Director

Originally from Montgomery, Alabama, Janice has lived in the Ukiah area since 1987. She currently directs the Mendocino College Choir and Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and performs with the Mendocino College Jazz Band. She also works locally as a music director with the Ukiah Players Theatre and SPACE, and is often the accompanist for musical theater productions at Mendocino College and Ukiah High School Vocal Music performances. As a choral conductor, and music director, Janice brings 30+ years’ experience directing choirs and teaching singers of all ages, ranging from preschoolers to elders. Her goal is to help each person to find their voice — and to use that voice with joy and confidence in collaborative music-making and performing.

Happy/L.A. Hyder

Performing Arts: Spoken Word; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Photography

I am celebrating 48 years of making images. My desire to photograph began in the 1950s as I became aware of the power of photographic imagery (although I wouldn’t have been able to articulate it at the time) through the Life magazines that came through our door weekly. A self-taught photographer, I count Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, and the myriad other pictorialists in Life’s pages, as my mentors. Shortly after moving to San Francisco in 1969 and two days after using a friend’s 35mm camera, I had my own Nikkormat with a 105mm (portrait) lens. At a camera store, I learned about film and how to load the camera. I joined the SF Photo Center, and, following their two-hour fundamentals in developing and printing class, was let loose in a darkroom. Within two years, I began working with a Hasselblad medium format camera (the negative is 2 ¼” square and there are 12 shots to a roll of film) with a 150mm lens (equivalent to the 105mm) and had my own darkroom. I grew to love the square format and credit the twelve shots per roll of film with the honing of my style of shooting – I spend much time setting up my shot, using my negative as a painter would her canvas, in order to print full frame. I walk away without shooting if my framing cannot achieve what first attracted me to look through the lens. I still credit those Life photographers for helping me hone my visual perspective. While the Hasselblad remains my most cherished tool, in 2009 I was dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age. I find the lightweight digital cameras I’ve been using feed my creativity. Able to carry one at all times, I am able to capture those images that earlier would only be captured in my mind since the heft of the Hasselblad meant I would only carry my camera when I was focused on photographing. With digital, I am also enjoying, and getting very interesting results, working with movement to produce abstract images. I also work with mixed-media assemblage, most often using my own images within the piece. Although taking more images using a digital format, I retain the habit of setting up shots with precision and printing my images full frame, and continue to retain a strict sensibility when choosing what to print. I also use an Epson 1400 printer and the immediacy of these digital tools is truly a wonder to my years of working in film, first in a darkroom during my 22 years working in b&w, and, with a switch to color exclusively in 1997, in having film developed and working with a professional printer.

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 photos/art cards are available at Indigo in Mendocino Village and at the Frame Mill in Fort Bragg.

Dorian May

Performing Arts: Music

Today, people in Mendocino County know me as a jazz & Latin pianist playing with a variety of ensembles throughout Mendocino County and beyond. I moved to Mendocino County in 2002 and got inspired to develop as a jazz musician after attending a Sunday jazz jam at Headlands Coffeehouse hosted by local pianist Richard Cooper. The creativity and fun coming from the bandstand was just inspiring and so where the beautiful chords and improvised solos. From Concert Pianist to Rock Keyboardist In my early music career I mainly focused on classical music and studied to become a concert pianist at Cal State Long Beach, where I received a degree in piano performance. However, instead of playing piano concertos, I started working with one of the top professional cover bands in Los Angeles as a keyboardist and started touring with them throughout California and neighboring States. World Music In my 30s I started exploring world music and learned various percussion instruments, which lead me to being able to perform as percussionist and accompanist at colleges such as Chapman University and at the Idyllwild Jazz Festival. I was fascinated by the poly-rhythms found in Middle Eastern, African and Cuban Music and recorded several odd meter pieces in my home studio. Music sample: Teaching Career Jazz and classical music came back to my world when I had the opportunity to complete my student teaching for my music teaching credential with Jeff Towers, who had an award-winning high-school jazz and concert band program. After teaching band at various schools in California & Oregon, I eventually settled into a part-time teaching career at River Oak Charter School in Ukiah, where I teach band and elementary music. In addition to piano, I play trumpet, trombone, flute and drums. Piano Artistry Today my piano artistry shapes together classical, modern and Latin jazz with Bach harmony and counterpoint, world and poly rhythms. My diverse collection of influences and continual study of the jazz masters like Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans allow me to develop my unique voice in the jazz world. I love the improvisatory nature and creativity offered by jazz as an art form Ensembles You can see me perform at many different venues throughout the local counties but also in Sonoma County and beyond including the Headlands Coffeehouse, North Coast Brewing Co., Barra Winery, Sea Ranch Lodge, Soper Reese Theatre, etc. with a variety of ensembles including the following: BongoLatte Latin Jazz Quartet https://www.reverbnation.com/dorianmay/song/7622527-besame-mucho Live @ the One World Festival 2013 Mendocino– “La Bamba Descarga” https://youtu.be/FlJE9a8aFVg Dorian May Trio and Quartet Trio – Gualala Arts Center – “Stranger in Paradise” https://youtu.be/eAnd2va3jWs 40s Style Quartet with Jim Leonardis (sax & clarinet) “Take the A Train” at Soper Reese https://youtu.be/0wswyQbri3U “Mack the Knife” at Mendocino Film Festival 2015, Seabiscuit Heritage Foundation https://youtu.be/1ai71Sw-Gfo Trio with special guest Harrison Goldberg (Sax) – Whale & Jazz Festival May 2015- “Take Five” https://youtu.be/eM0OVVVxmZA Mad Cow Jazz (five-piece swing jazz combo with vocalist) Dorian May’s Little Big Band (Swing & Jazz with two vocalists and 2-3 horns) I played piano in the Mendocino College Big Band for 5 years under the direction of John Parkinson. In my newest project, Little Big Band I try to recreate the sound and feel of the classic jazz big band with less instrumentation. I create my own score and arrangements for the band. Sample shown below. “I Love Being Here With You” http://youtu.be/acoHM3Jy9xM “Steppin’ Out” https://youtu.be/7RET_d-9-sc “I’m beginning to see the Light” http://youtu.be/JRoqylcfmXQ Musical Partnership My wife, Dorothea, is my musical partner. She shares my love for classical & world music and jazz. When moving to Mendocino County she started learning upright bass and we continue to grow and learn together as musicians and partners. More information & music clips: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dorian-May-Trio/215474678662496 http://www.dorianmayjazz.com

Trudy McCreanor

Performing Arts: Dance

Trudy is the Artistic/Executive Director of the Mendocino Ballet Company and School since 2001,where she has implemented a comprehensive, professional Classical Ballet training program for the serious dancer and a multi-discipline recreational dance program including ballet, tap, jazz, modern dance, flamenco, character dance, creative dance, and more. She has performed numerous roles in contemporary and classical ballet and has taught classical ballet, jazz, tap, creative dance, floor barre, and gymnastics throughout the country and internationally in southern France where she was a Guest Instructor and Choreographer in a cultural exchange project with over 30 dancers from schools north of Paris and in Valence d’Agen in southwest France. She has organized Outreach Programs for Arts in Education Programs and taught movement workshops and dance history throughout the community and school districts of western Colorado and northern California. She also taught Dance Movement and Dance History Workshops at Woodlands Charter School and Tree of Life Charter School in Ukiah and Classical Ballet and Performance classes at Mendocino College. She was a guest teacher and taught Arts Management, Ballet, and Dance History at Mesa State College in Colorado. She has produced and choreographed musical theatre productions for the schools and community theatre in western Colorado and northern California as well as classical and original ballets for Colorado West Ballet and the Mendocino Ballet.

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

Performing Arts: Spoken Word, Storytelling, Vocal; Visual Arts: Film, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

JAYE ALISON MOSCARIELLO, MFA, Transart Institute/Plymouth University Cell/Studio: 310.970.4517 artisall@earthlink.net www.chasethemonkey.org BORN New Haven, CT RESIDE Redwood Valley, CA SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 2007 “The Last Show,” Asto International Art Festival, Asto Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Simultaneous Multiplicity,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA Gwangwhamoon Int’l Art Festival, Korea National Assembly Library of Korea GIAF, Korean Cultural Center, Bejing, China 2006 “15th Lantern of the East LA International,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2002 “Mane Manebu,” Kid’s Plaza Museum, Osaka, Japan. 2000 “Bridging Two Milleniums,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India 1999 “Group Show,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India. Rutman, Howard, “What’s Up & Coming,” LA City Search.com, January 2002. Emenegger, Ashley, “How to Get Unstuck,” Artline Newsletter, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2001. Etkin, Jay S., “Body & Self – A Hit in Memphis,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.7, num.2, Mar 2000. Lalit Kala Akademi, Catalog, I.A.S.G. Invitational, March 1999. Shaw, David, “1nE Review,” Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN, December 1999. Shay, Daniel, “7th Street Int’l: Round Up the Usual Suspects,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.4, num.10, Washington, DC, December 1997. ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES 2006 – 2008 SEA, Montebello, CA Berendo Middle School, Los Angeles, CA La Vida West Pregnant Minor Program, Lawndale, CA Sponsored by Theatre of Hearts/Youth First, Los Angeles, CA PUBLIC ART 2008 Walgrove Elementary School – Courtyard Mural , Mar Vista, CA Hillcrest Elementary School – Outdoor Mural, Los Angelels,CA 2007 99th Street Elementary School, Library Mural, Los Angeles, CA 42nd Street Elementary School, Outdoor Mural, Los Angeles, CA ART WORKSHOPS 2000-2005 “Breaking Out”, Art Bootcamp for Blocked Creatives, Santa Monica, CA “One Minute Storytelling” Sister Corita Art Center, Los Angeles, CA “Sending a Message,” Sister Corita Art Center, LA, CA EDUCATION MFA, Transart Institute/Plymouth University, Berlin, Germany and Plymouth,UK

Jaye Alison Moscariello

Performing Arts: Storytelling, Vocal; Visual Arts: Film, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

JAYE ALISON MOSCARIELLO 12400 Bakers Creek Rd. Redwood Valley, CA 95470 310.970.4517 artisall@earthlink.net www.chasethemonkey.org www.jayesite.com @jayepo BORN New Haven, CT RESIDE Redwood Valley, CA EDUCATION 2013 – 2015 Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany and New York, New York Masters of Fine Art 2012-2013 Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA 2004 Santa Monica Community College, Santa Monica, CA 2000 University of California Los Angeles, CA 1993 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 1977-1978 Creative Arts Workshop Studio, New Haven, CT 1972-1976 Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 “The Anthropocene Show”, Redwood Valley Grange, Redwood Valley, CA* 2015 “Transient Transgressions”, Somos Gallery, Berlin, Germany* 2015 “Loose Ends”, Somos Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2014 “Pop-Up” Show, Transart Institute at Somos Gallery, Berlin, Germany (July) 2014 “Fifth Annual Altered Books Exhibition”, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA (Apr.) 2013 “Pop-Up” Show, Transart Institute at SuperMarket, Berlin, Germany 2012 “Food for Thought” Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA 2012 “Anderson Valley Artists” Oddfellows Hall, Mendocino, CA 2010 “Anderson Valley Artists” Oddfellows Hall, Mendocino, CA “Artist Collective at Elk at Gualala” Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA 2009 “Artists Collective at Elk” Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA* “113th Annual Open Juried Exhibition” Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, National Arts Club, NY “Art in the Redwoods,” Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA 2007 “The Last Show”, Asto International Art Festival, Asto Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Simultaneous Multiplicity,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA Gwangwhamoon Int’l Art Festival, Korea National Assembly Library of Korea GIAF, Korean Cultural Center, Bejing, China 2007 “Paris Open 2007” Atelier Grognard, Rueill-MalMaison, France/Espace, Villpinte, France 2007 “THE Swimming Pool Show” ROARK, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “15th Lantern of the East LA International,” Asto Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “15th Lantern of the East LA International,” Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “10 Points of View,” ROARK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA * 2004 “Hollywood Bowl Sphere Art Project,” Cause & Effect Gallery, Torrance, CA. 2003 “From Korea to Iraq…” Anti War Posters Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. 2002 “Reactions,” The Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA. “Naughty Bits & Pieces,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA. curated by Christopher Miles “Reactions,” Exit Art, New York, NY 2002 “Mane Manebu,” Kid’s Plaza Museum, Osaka, Japan. 2001 “California Open,” curator, Christopher Miles, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA. “Watermedia,” Bigfork Art & Cultural Center, Bigfork, MT. 2001 “It Figures,” Key Club Video Billboard Show, Los Angeles, CA.4- Person Show, 1st LA Billboard art show. page 2/Moscariello 2001 “Lust & Revenge in the Year of the Snake,” Josephine Butler Center, Washington, DC. 2001 “I.A.S.G. at MOCA,” Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Washington, DC. 2000 “Bridging Two Milleniums,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India 2000 “Invitational,” MOCA-DC, Washington, DC. 2000 “California Open,” curated by Carol Ann Kloneides, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA “Reflections of Humanity,” Marlboro Gallery, Largo, MD. “Body & Self,” Cooper Street Contemporary Gallery, Memphis, TN.* 1999 “1nE,” Vertigo Gallery, Memphis, TN. 1999 “I.A.S.G. Group Show,” Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India. 1998 “Downtown Lives_,” Downtown Artists Development Association, Los Angeles, CA “Erotica,” Olympia Hall, London, England. “Speak Out_,” Matrix Arts Gallery, Sacramento, CA. 1997 “Generations,” A.I.R. Gallery -25th Anniversary Invitational, New York, NY. 1994 “Art of Northeast America,” curated by Holly Solomon, Silvermine Artists Guild, New Canaan, CT “Group 1V,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY. 1993 “Art of Northeast America,” curated by Eliza Rathbone, Silvermine Artists Guild, New Canaan, CT “Group Annual,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Armory, Brooklyn, NY. 1992 “Salon of the Mating Spider,” Testsite, Williamsburg, NY. “Annual Show,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, NY. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 “Politic-OH!”, Willits Center for the Arts, Willits, CA, Oct. 2011 “Chase the Monkey,” Scharffenberger Cellars Art Gallery, Philo, CA 2010 “Mendocino Coast” Lauren’s, Boonville, CA “Land and Sea,” Artists Collective at Elk, Elk,CA “Ocean Series,” Canele, Los Angeles, CA 2003 “Narrative Works,” Flynn Gallery, Raleigh, NC 2002 “Inside/Out,” Modern Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Reith, Sarah, “The Anthropocene Show”, Ukiah Daily Journal, April 2016 Museum of Contemporary Art – KIASMA Studio,“In the Middle of a Movie,” Catalog, Helsinki, Finland, November 2004. Dickson, Laurie, “Artists Interiors…,” Rockport Publishing, November 2003. Mastbaum, Blair, “Art Pick,” DigitalCity.LA, Los Angeles, CA, November 2002. Emenegger, Ashley, “Drive-by Art,” Artline Newsletter, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2002. Rutman, Howard, “What’s Up & Coming,” LA City Search.com, January 2002. Emenegger, Ashley, “How to Get Unstuck,” Artline Newsletter, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2001. Etkin, Jay S., “Body & Self – A Hit in Memphis,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.7, num.2, Mar 2000. Lalit Kala Akademi, Catalog, I.A.S.G. Invitational, March 1999. Shaw, David, “1nE Review,” Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN, December 1999. Shay, Daniel, “7th Street Int’l: Round Up the Usual Suspects,” I.A.S.G. Newsletter, vol.4, num.10, Washington, DC, December 1997. . SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA Library of Congress, Washington, DC National Archives, Washington, DC Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bob Hope Wing, Los Angeles, CA *Co-curator

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.

Eryn Schon-Brunner

Performing Arts: Dance, Theatre; Visual Arts: Performance Art

Eryn Schon-Brunner is an American choreographer, dancer, and dance educator who lives and works in northern California. Completing her MFA in Dance at Hollins University Summer of 2019, and having earned her BFA at Cornish College of the Arts. Since 2012 Eryn has taught dance at Mendocino College and is artistic director of Mendocino College Dance Repertory Company, producing the annual Fall Repertory Concert and the Spring Dance Festival. As part of the part-time faculty for Mendocino College Theater Conservatory program, Eryn has also choreographed and set movement for many plays and musicals. Eryn is currently artistic director of Eryn Schon-Brunner and Dancers, a pick-up dance company based in Mendocino County. Her work employs classical, electronic, jazz, and contemporary pop music, and her movement vocabulary is also wide ranging. Eryn works across disciplines and often collaboratively, connecting different media, people, and ideas. In 2002, she formed her own dance company, BE Productions Dance, with Rebecca Levy. From 2002 to 2009, BE Productions performed original works in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Boston. She has performed, and taught dance along the west coast and internationally for the past 20 years.

Kara Starkweather

Performing Arts: Dance; Visual Arts: Performers and Writers

Kara Starkweather is a California native, growing up in the South Bay Area. She has been dancing and making dances as soon as she could walk. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Spanish from the University of California at Davis in 2000. She then moved to Santiago, Chile where she danced with Compania Movimiento. She moved to the rugged and beautiful Mendocino Coast in 2002 to start a family of her own. She started the Mendocino Dance Project in 2014 and continues to direct the company, producing annual shows, offering classes and workshops, and facilitating an elementary dance education program in some of the local schools. She is committed to helping art thrive in rural communities. In addition to running her own company, Kara is an active dancer with the internationally acclaimed company BANDALOOP, she has collaborated and toured with the Flynn Creek Circus, choreographed for the Gloriana Opera Company, and partnered with other local arts organizations and individual artists in Mendocino County.

Abigail Strock

A native of Fort Bragg, Abigail Strock has a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from Holy Names University. She has performed with Gloriana Musical Theater, Mendocino Chamber Opera, and the Raven Players in Healdsburg, and currently sings with the Mendocino Music Festival Chorale. Abigail has been teaching music lessons to kids and adults since 2006. She specializes in science-based whole-body singing technique, as well as piano, voice, and general music lessons for young beginners. Her students have consistently been recognized for their excellent performances in local and regional music festivals and competitions. https://abigailstrockmusic.com

Ross Travis

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Storytelling, Theatre; Visual Arts: Film, Performance Art, Performers and Writers

Ross is an award winning Actor/Creator, Bouffon, Physical Comedian and Circus Performer (specializing in Chinese pole), who has studied with world renowned master pedagogues, including Dodi DiSanto, Giovanni Fusetti, Ronlin Foreman, Stephen Buescher, Dominik Wyss and Master Lu Yi. Ross’ lineage of training and experience allows him to create provocative performances that combine circus and bouffon to develop extreme characters and tell stories from the fringes, igniting dialogue and change around ignored or taboo social issues.

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