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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.”

Marta Alonso Canillar

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting

I was born in Spain but have made my home in California since 1991. As a young girl growing up in Spain in the seventies and eighties I was never encouraged to pursue a career in the arts so my artistic inclinations were put in the background as something I did on occasion, never a priority. I am an emerging artist with no formal academic training in the arts. Nevertheless, art has always been an important focus in my life. Over the years, I have taken occasional classes either in Junior Colleges or private studios in photography and ceramics. In 2014, I took oil painting lessons for the first time, from Cynda Valle in Willits, and soon after I got a commission to do a large painting at Mariposa Market portraying a collage look of rural Mendocino. A year later, the newly built hospital in Willits commissioned me to do another painting of the same scale. This time, it depicted a more representational look of their kitchen garden. Early on, portraiture became a favorite of mine and got a few commissions, some of which are in San Diego and Spain. I have been working very “diligently” over the past 3 years to produce a body of work ready to show at some venue. I started the year 2018 presenting three paintings at the Mendocino Art Center, in Mendocino, for their juried exhibit and took Best-in-Show for one of them. I had an exhibit in Willits at the Brickhouse Coffee for the months of February, March and April of 2018 and am currently showing at Edgewater Gallery in Fort Bragg. This year too, I am going to venture into doing Murals in Fort Bragg for the newly established Mural Project and have already lined up a commission for that. Working with Cynda Valle was a reawakening experience. Not only did she teach me the technicalities of oil painting but has encouraged me to look at my art as part of my self, and extension of my being, allowing me to understand that there are no wrongs in the process of making art, helping me to discard those insecurities and replacing them with confidence, as a woman and an artist.

Svetlana Artemoff

Visual Arts: Painting

I was born and raised in San Francisco and took for granted the great art programs in my public school and the ability to access local museums free. As a child, I took classes at the SF De Young Museum and could wander the galleries with sketchbook in hand. Art had to take a back seat while I worked and raised a family. Now that I’ve retired, I am able to take inspiration from the beautiful scenery of Sonoma and Mendocino County and enjoy their supportive artist communities. Although I started painting in oil, and still offer pet portraits in that medium, I also work in watercolor, colored pencil, pen/ink and collage. Most recently, I’ve tried pastels and came to love their texture and softness, especially when used for painting outdoors. Whatever medium I use, I try to capture the emotional essence of what I’m painting.

Susan Barnes

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting

I began in the mid-1970s doing watercolor paintings of landscapes. I love people, so it was not long before I began doing portraits in watercolor also. In the mid-1980s, I moved to Hawaii with my husband Jim, and there started painting in the bright colors I saw in my subjects every day. This continued when I focused more on oil impressionist painting as I moved to the Mendocino Coast in 1992. I moved around Northern California as my husband relocated for his work, but he retired in 2016 and we returned to the Mendocino Coast, which we love. I presently show in the Highlight Gallery in Mendocino.

Susan Blackwelder

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Painting

I am primarily a painter but enjoy dabbling in ceramics, especially clay sculpture. I specialize in portraits of people and pets in oil or pastel though I also enjoy doing landscapes and still life painting. My training in drawing has given me skills that I use in every medium. See more on Susan Blackwelder’s Corner Gallery web page.

Sharon Bowers

Visual Arts

Sharon Bowers aka Aron Lee Bowe is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. Her most recent graphic novel, Journey to the Anthropocene, tells the history of human existence to our present planetary dilemma. She has two humorous graphic memoirs, Alpha Ding and Amazed & Elated, Depressed & Deflated, which won an Independent Publisher’s Medal in 2016. She was the first place winner of the Rosalie Fleming Memorial Humor Prize from the National League of American Pen Women. Visit her website at http://www.aronleebowe.com/

Holly Brackmann

Visual Arts: Textiles

Doug Browe

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor

Doug Browe, Potter, Ceramic Artist and Sculptor My work focuses on history, problem solving, and relationships. Humankind both anthropomorphizes vessels, to the point of manifesting them with power as if surrogate humans; and employs them as metaphors for humans and manifests them in architectural form, they become a protected sanctuary of containment. It excites me to be part of this connection and help move this timeless conversation forward. From the dawn of civilization humans have had a relationship with vessels; we have from the beginning, anthropomorphized them, manifesting in them the power and honor of being surrogate humans. In turn we use them to mimic our many archetypes. My intrigue of this relationship between humans and the vessel moves my work. Currently, I lead the Ceramics and Sculpture Department at Mendocino College in Ukiah CA and have a studio practice making utilitarian ceramics and sculpture in Elk CA. “I am intrigued by the relationship between the vessel, architectural form and the human figure, that place where the human figure finds form in vessels and architecture and architecture and vessels finds form in figuration. I use these narratives to express a variety of personal and social issues in my work”.

Sabine Brunner

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Printmaking

My name is Sabine Brunner. I am a ceramic artist and mom of 2 toddlers (Luka is 6 and Logan is 4 years old). I studied Graphic Design in Aachen/Germany and for my master thesis I designed a tableware with the whole alphabet from A-Z written in calligraphy. After moving to California in 1996, I started doing Ceramics and became a Ceramic Artist. I love giving my ceramic pieces a whimsical feel. In 2015 my family moved to Little River, CA next to Mendocino from the San Francisco Bay Area. We are living our dream of a rural life with lots of space and many animals. We currently have 3 dogs, 2 cats, 4 goats and 9 chickens. More to come… My work has been influenced by living our dream farm life. I am creating whimsical dishes with lots of different, colorful designs on it. My new studio is also housing an antique Pearl Golding Letterpress. You can come and print your own cards on my Adana 8×5 or take a class. My studio is located in Fort Bragg, California. Come and visit me if you are in the area and take a class in ceramics or printing! 223 East Redwood Ave., Fort Bragg, CA 95437

Carolyn Carleton Browe

Visual Arts: Textiles

I have been handweaving rugs and carpets for 41 years. Raised on my family’s 8th-generation farm in Connecticut, my sister and I taught ourselves spinning, dyeing and weaving with the wool from our father’s sheep. Studies in natural and chemical dyeing and weaving in the SF Bay Area broadened my knowledge and in 1980, my rug weaving studio, Carleton Designs, was launched in collaboration with my late husband, Vincent Carleton. In the last 12 years, I have also been exploring new rug designs with ikat dyeing and in pieced and stitched wool felt. Today my rugs are represented by interior design showrooms in San Francisco, Southern California, New York and Chicago. More information and images can be seen at www.carletondesigns.com or contact me directly at carleton@mcn.org.

Sunny Chancellor

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Architectural Illustration, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Photography, Sculpture

Sunny has been experimenting with and around the digital arts realm for many years. With the digital realm comes a great vast expanse of possibility, and Sunny has enjoyed the expansive nature to it’s fullest. From digital photo-editing, to animation, to computer controlled routers, the endless possibilities reflect from his work. Color, shape, design; all interplay in this new, modern medium expression.

Kristin Coddington-Gordon

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Sculpture

Kristin Coddington-Gordon of What Now Ceramics is a ceramic sculpture living on the Mendocino Coast. She is a fierce fighter for the environment, a mother of three creative half wild daughters and married to a guy who knows not to get in the way of her clay. With a back ground in natural history and scientific illustration and most importantly a love for the planet and the self taught, unobstructed time to create Kristin sculpts expressive pieces that seem to be asking for your help. Each sculpture is made by hand without the use of a mold making each piece unique and individual. The sculptures are raku fired and waxed with bees wax. The wood used in Kristin’s sculptures is in collaboration with her husband Bob Gordon who mills local, salvaged wood. By creating sculptures of struggling species, Kristin gives animals a voice. The message is left undefined but is clearly in reference to environmental collapse. She hopes her art stirs up an emotion prompting others to do what they can. The question is asked. What now? See more at WhatNowCeramics.com Also Kristin’s sculpture can be seen at the Lansing Street Gallery in Mendocino & Northcoast Artists Gallery in Fort Bragg.

Mina Cohen

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor

I have been an artist all my life and formally trained with a BA and MA in art. I teach art history and art appreciation at College of the Redwoods and Mendocino College fully online. I travel extensively and have been to all the continents except for Antarctica. Travel and personal traditions inspire my work.

Garry Colson

My creative work includes landscape paintings of what I see around me every day. To capture the experience and mood of the subject, I may choose either watercolor, pastels, acrylic, or ink to express what I see and feel.

Laura Corben

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Now living in Mendocino County, Laura’s interest in the natural world is major focus of her work, both plein air and in the studio. She paints in watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media as well as making numerous journals with ink and watercolor. She earned a BFA from San Jose State University, a masters from the University of Victoria, and taught high school art and art history for many years. Her home studio is in the hills outside of Willits and she is a member of the Artists’ Co-op of Mendocino. Her inspiration comes from a love of Nature, a delight in light and color, changing seasons and living things.

Meg Courtney

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Sculpture

Rita Crane

Visual Arts: Photography

As the daughter of LIFE magazine staff photographer Ralph Crane (whose photos were published in LIFE from 1936 to 1972), I came to the arts in a natural way. My bio is available here: www.ritacranestudio.com/biography.html In Mendocino my Fine Art Portfolio of oceanscapes and landscapes, including an exclusive line of photos on metal, are represented by Prentice Gallery on Main Street. The Mendocino Art Center offers a selection of my Old World Europe Collection, monochrome images, and new tide pool series. These tide pool pieces printed on metal. As for local commercial projects, since 2003 I have been providing high quality photos of interiors, grounds, food, and people for many of our fine restaurants and inns, as well as other small businesses. I am delighted to announce that my photos are included in the Albion River Inn’s cookbook, released in 2016. In addition, many of my large framed prints have been purchased by the MacCallum House Inn to decorate their rooms. Photography is a wonderfully open-ended art form that allows one many opportunities for exploration and expression given the tools of the trade: exceptional cameras, lenses, filters, and plenty of brilliant software that, in the digital world, now replaces the darkroom. Plans for the future include photographing historic Italian, French, and English gardens, experimenting with urban night photography, and creating new images of the ocean in all its beautiful moods. To view my entire portfolio visit: RitaCraneStudio.com, which will take you to my work that is posted and updated regularly on the international photo sharing site Flickr. Rita Crane Photography P.O. Box 91 Albion, CA 95410 All photographs copyrighted by Rita Crane Photo

Suzanne da Rosa

Visual Arts: Crafts, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Textiles; Knitting

I am a knitting historian and master lace knitter. The last 7 years I’ve been researching the earliest knitting manuals from the 1840’s cataloging, reviewing, knitting, updating and charting patterns from these early handwritten lace patterns. In 2021 I created a deck of Victorian Lace Knitting Cards to be used by knitters who want to practice their lace knitting skills, practice designing their own pieces and use them along with their favorite simple patterns to make them their own. The cards are available through my website and will be available for shipping in late January 2022. Along with the cards I’ve designed four Victorian Long Shawl knitting patterns. With this project complete, my 2022 plans are to work with these cards in different mediums than yarn and create outdoor sculptures. I would like to collaborate with other artists to combine lace knitting with other mediums. Other interests include linoleum block printing, solar plate etching and felting and to continue working with Pacific Textile Arts in whatever way I can to increase participation and encourage support of he fiber arts community in the Mendocino/Fort bragg area. Bio: suzannedarosa.com Mendocino Art Center artist in residence (2019-20) bio: https://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/air-20192020/suzanne-da-rosa

Danza Davis

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Murals, Painting, Visual Arts Instructor

Danza Davis is a professional artist based out of Mendocino County, CA. She majored in studio art and botany at Humboldt State University and studied science illustration at California State University Monterey Bay. In addition to her studio practice and public art projects, she is proud to work for California-based Ink Dwell studio whose focus is on creating art that explores the wonders of the natural world. Western Columbine, Acrylic on Canvas,48 x 48 Danza’s current studio work, The Kaleidoscope Series, is a posthumous collaboration with her father that pairs geometric patterns inspired by his work with items from the natural world. North County and Coastal Zone Murals, Mendocino County Juvenile Hall, 2018-2019 Her current public artwork engages incarcerated youth in mural making, made possible by the Arts Council of Mendocino County and the California Arts Council. See more at her website: www.danzadavis.com

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.

Laura Diamondstone

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper

SF Bay area native with many hairpin turns and destinations, currently rooting as a small homesteader in Anderson Valley. Inspired from a lifelong absorption of a spectrum of visual, writing and performing arts by extraordinary and ordinary creatives. My art making is expression, giving tangible form to what sustains inner to environment exchange and dialogue as well as how materials/color/creative process/experience informs and shapes the process. It is an act of indulgence, necessity, and evolution. Abstraction is challenging, experimenting with materials is research, representational and figurative work exercises neurotransmission. I believe in all of it and nature and giving back.

Judith Edwards

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Glasswork, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Works on paper

My relationship with clay began at Grove Street College in Oakland in the 1970s and at Chico State I received a BA in Ceramics. My work is influenced by Mayan Art, Botany, my Marine Science studies & an attraction to Mysticism. Some of my early work also incorporated ceramic sculpture with textiles. Currently, the figurines, tiles and decorative pieces I have been working on are inspired by nature and the mystical use of spirit totems.

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

Laura Fogg

Visual Arts: Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor

Laura Fogg has been an art quilter for over twenty years. Her work is shown regularly in major quilt shows across the country, including Visions and Quilt National, and many pieces have won cash awards. Articles and photos of Fogg’s work have been published in most of the quilting magazines in the US, as well as in a number of national and international books and calendars on art quilting. She has also been featured in two documentary films (one by the American Quilters Society and the other by Lifetime TV in conjunction with the Vagina Monologues production), and appeared as a featured artist on Alex Anderson’s “The Quilt Show” in 2018. Fogg is the recipient of two art-related awards in Mendocino County- the Women’s Art: Women’s Vision award in 2008 and the Mendocino County Arts Champion award in 2012. Art keeps her busy! She is a 10-year member of the Corner Gallery and a longstanding Board member of Art Center Ukiah. She is also a devoted advocate and patron of public art. Laura Fogg has lived all of her adult life in Mendocino County, where she worked for 30 years as a teacher of the visually impaired. In that capacity she won the Schoolmaster of the Year award in 2011. She is now retired and happily watching five grandchildren grow up. Fogg was an art history major at UC Berkeley, with a minor in art, and has a Masters in Education from CA State University-San Francisco. She is mostly a self-taught quilter, though she studied briefly under Natasha Kempers-Kullen many years ago. She currently lectures and teaches art quilting classes and retreats throughout northern California and has been on the board of directors of the Arts Council of Mendocino County since April 2022. I have lived and worked in Mendocino County my entire adult life. After raising my three children I finally found the time to do art seriously. Since then I have won numerous awards in quilt and museum shows across the country and have been published in national quilt magazines and several books on art quilting. My work was also featured in the HBO documentary, “Until the Violence Stops,” which dealt with exposing and preventing violence against women around the world. I was also honored to win the Art Champion award in Mendocino County. I currently teach art quilting classes and retreats across the western US. I am open to any quilt guild, fabric store or group of individuals who want to put a class together. My current work has primarily moved from landscapes and “pretty pictures” to social, environmental and political commentary. I have discovered that through my art I have a voice, which is of primary importance to me at this time.

Margo Frank

Visual Arts: Painting

Making art is my compass, guiding me through the challenges of living in an aging body, in a chaotic world threatened by climate change, injustice and despotic rulers. My work is often a visual expression of a sensory experience- the smell of smoke, the heart-pounding fascination of watching a fire on the next ridge, the weight of hopelessness. in my twenties the creative force that had been squashed at an early age by a shaming teacher was re-ignited, taking me initially into the world of fabric arts and basket-making. Being part of the MendoDada group helped me see that art could be fun, irreverent and political. In the early part of this century I turned from mixed media to painting, first working in acrylic and then, when I discovered the luminosity and versatility of encaustic, working in that medium. At a certain point I noticed that I just wanted to paint on the surface of my encaustic pieces and returned to painting on canvas, using water soluble oil paints. More recently, I’ve found a happy medium between encaustic and oil painting by incorporating cold wax into my work. My relationship with art-making is continually informed and inspired by my work as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, my deep connection to the natural world and the delight of grand parenting two young, creative souls.

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

Katie Gibbs-Gengoux

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Keena Good

Visual Arts: Sculpture

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

Patti Harney

Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Painting; colored pencil drawings

What inspires me to paint is a deep reverence for the innate beauty that surrounds us. I look beyond the obvious and find the beauty within the ordinary. It’s always with humility that I strive to paint that essence into being. From The Girls 27×23 colored pencil on paper, custom framed $1250 I paint with oils, mostly on plywood panels. This allows me to sand, scrape and burn to create rich layers of color and texture. Recently, I have introduced colored pencil drawings to my body of work. My daughter, Lisa, works with me in the business of art and one of the things we love doing together is making hand painted dish towels. We call it “Functional art made with love”. I am a full-time member of the Northcoast Artists Gallery in downtown Fort Bragg. It is here that I show my work (including the dish towels!) year-round. Journey 20×26 oil on wood $1050 This August (8/3-8/29/2022) I will be the featured artist for a solo show at the Northcoast Artists Gallery. I’ll be displaying a wide range of original works, including many new pieces and, matted prints. The name of the show is “Convergence”. Opening night is Friday, August 5th – please come by for a glass of wine and a chat. The show will otherwise be running during normal gallery hours, open every day except Tuesdays. See more of Patti Harney’s artwork at her website. August 6th and 7th Lisa and I will be selling our dish towels at the 29th annual “Art in the Gardens” at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens in Fort Bragg. We’ve even designed a new dahlia motif for this special event. Come enjoy this beautiful setting filled with art, music, food and drink.

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