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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Perry Hoffman

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Crafts, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Painting, Photography, Sculpture; Mosaics

I am Perry Hoffman, artist, photographer, mosaic maker, tile maker and creator of the Tile House in the Mojave desert… specifically in wOnder valley, east of Twentynine Palms. Born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, at the Queen of Angels Hospital. My parents were New York Jews, Rose & Ben, who always taught, peace, love, understanding and compassion for all people and had a love of art and music. You learn these things early. Grateful. Studied art in first grade and got in trouble for drawing a nude. Studied art at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in the early seventies. Played with Paul Reubens and David Hasselhoff. Causing a ruckus, with a few regrets but otherwise a fun time. Migrated in 1975 to San Francisco, doing color xerox collage and mail art, photography and clay and small backyard gardens. Great classes with Toby Klayman in San Francisco, who taught Business and Visual Artist. Forever grateful being introduced to POSTCARDS… Participated in a few group shows with copy art artists in the Albany State Museum and a few in various locations in San Francsico, like La Mamelle Gallery. Those were the days. This part requires a book. Now on the Mendocino Coast in Gualala, with bees and garden and forest mushrooms.

Diza Hope

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Works on paper

Diza Hope is a Northern California painter working in oil, acrylic and pencil. She studied at California College of the Arts and draws inspiration mostly from natural forms. Lately she has been interested in investigating the architecture, rigidity and beauty of animal skulls juxtaposed against the delicate, undulating and graceful shapes found in flower petals. Besides the formal interest; the distillation of the skull becomes a symbol of our universality and basic oneness, being that we are all made of the same carbon, calcium and stardust and the flower, a symbol of our impermanence, but also the beauty we all have the capacity to create and share. Color plays an important role in her painting process as well and she enjoys pushing the boundaries between harmony and discord through her use of it.

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.

Sanna Koski

Visual Arts: Painting

Painting and drawing have been a lifelong pursuit for me. I focused on realistic portrait drawing in black and white for many years, before deciding to dedicate myself to learning to paint landscapes and the figure from life in watercolor and oil. I also paint portraits of people as well as animals in both mediums. You can see more at my website: SannaKoski.com I show my artwork at the Prentice Gallery in Mendocino, and I welcome commissions.

Nancy MacLeod

Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Painting, Textiles

I grew up in the beauty of oak trees and yuccas in southern California’s chaparral. From the time I was a little kid, I drew and painted and made things every day. By High School, which had a fabulous art department, the format was such that I was able to take 8 art classes my senior year. The year after high school I spent studying with painters Ed Seagaitz and Jo Mahoney in Claremont, Calif. I then moved north and put myself through Calif. College of Arts and Crafts making one-of-a-kind art-to-wear garments, and graduated with distinction with a major in Fine Arts, emphasis in painting. I lived and made art in the Bay Area until 2003, when we moved to Philo, where we still live. My main goal in creating art is to make political, social and spiritual commentary in a way that is playful and fun to have around. I like to paint pictures about things I think have an important message. Some of those things are really very ugly, like war, injustice, environmental destruction- but I don’t like to paint ugly things. The idea I want to convey is often, though not always, serious. The execution is meant to be fun, playful, so as not to scare the viewer away, but to give them pause to think on it without being beaten over the head. I paint in what I call “Primitive Narrative”, or “Folk Art Fantasy”. My husband and I also make furniture together, mostly cupboards, which we call “Folk Art Fantasy Furniture”.

James Maxwell

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Multi-media Artist, Author, Arts Educator, James Maxwell moved to the Mendocino Coast in 1973. A few examples of his prolific creative work can be seen below. Top of The Fen (From Visual Essay on Our Local Wilderness) 2’ X 4’ acrylic paint Some details: James E. Maxwell Born: June 15, 1941 Riverside, California Drew and Painted at an early age Riverside School District 1946 thru 1959 Childhood summer vacations with immediate family: 1949 thru 1958 Pacific Northwest and Western Canada Joined US Air Force 1959 After military testing for skills Studied Pattern Recognition and types of Military Codes Assigned Bremerhaven, Germany US Security Service Three years duty. My own one room painting studio in Germany 1960-1963 Traveled extensively throughout Western Europe Museums, and artists’ open studios College: BFA, MFA Art Center College of Design 1963 -1969 William Zacha’s Geranium (Brought Home) 3’ X 4’ oil paint w/copper and faux gold leaf Work: The Hollywood Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Los Angeles Area Television Academy Awards 1970 Honors JAMES MAXWELL Graphics For Contributions to the winning of an Area Television Academy Award OUT OF THE SHADOWS KNBC-TV june 26, 1970 PBS-TV Staff Artist Los Angeles 1974-1976 One Man Showings: La Cieniga Blvd – Hollywood, CA each year 1973-1976 1976 Moved to Mendocino, Northern California Fine Arts-illustration Painting/Sculpture instructor Mendocino Art Center & College of the Redwoods Retired at 68 years of age Returned to Europe when 70 for six weeks visiting friends in England, France, Switzerland, Northern Italy. At 72 returned to England and Northern Scotland, Isle of Sky Traveled with painting supplies South Pacific, Hawaii, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Kingdom of Tonga, and New Zealand, Ireland East West and South for six weeks spring Summer 2016 Returned home overlooking Fort Bragg, CA’s Pudding Creek “I focus on what I can learn from images that question me as much as I question them.” JM

Stan Miklose

Visual Arts: Painting

Jazzminh Moore

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

I was born at Breitenbush Hot Springs in the Willamette National Forest of Oregon. At age two, my mother and I moved to Encinitas, California. My childhood hinged on making this 1200 mile journey twice a year to see my father, first by car and later by plane, and set me up for a life of travel. After high school, I lived in every major city on the west coast and then spent years in NYC, building an art career and traveling the world. I now live in Willits with my six year old daughter. Willits happens to be equidistant between my two childhood homes and for that reason, feels like a perfect place to have landed. Spill, acrylic on birch panel, 23” x 48”, 2013 For nearly twenty years, I was known for painting dynamic portraits with a sense of movement and psychological complexity. In 2018, I ventured into collage and have not looked back. My work has been fundamentally changed. Through the medium of collage, I can unlock subconscious content and imagery heretofore unmined within the confines of representational portraiture. All recent paintings are informed by collages. My work can be viewed at http://www.jazzminhmoore.com I received my BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, and MFA from California State University, Long Beach, both in Drawing and Painting. I have had solo exhibitions in NYC, LA, SF, Paris and elsewhere. My work has been featured in various publications, including New American Paintings, American Art Collector Magazine, the Village Voice, Interview and Zing Magazine. Recent teaching experience includes seven years in Cornish College of the Arts’ Summer Program and an intensive painting retreat at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado. I currently teach Portrait Painting and Figure Drawing at Mendocino College. Claire de Lune, mixed media, 36” x 36”, 2018

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

Bill Mulvihill

Graphic Arts; Media; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Painting, Works on paper

Bill Mulvihill has lived on the north coast since 1970. In the early seventies he worked with Mendocino Art Center instructors Charles Stevenson and Dorr Bothwell. He was also involved in theatre productions performed there, doing posters, stage managing, costume and set design. In the years since then, Bill has worked in many art mediums, drawing, portraiture and printmaking being particular favorites. After completing the College of the Redwoods Graphic Communications Program, he received the certificate in May 2007. Currently, in addition to working with the Arts Council of Mendocino County, he is assistant editor for the Fort Bragg – Mendocino Coast Historical Society newsletter, “Voice of the Past”. Bill also does other design/layout work, digitizing analog audio, & CD and DVD disc design and duplication.

Gene Avery North

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting

Leopard Woman and the Teachers ©2013, 30 x 48 Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Gene Avery North studied painting and photography with Burton Callicott and William Eggleston, respectively. She currently resides in the hill country of Northern California. Strongly influenced by the realism of the fifteenth century Flemish and Italian masters, Gene uses her technical capability, combined with spiritual symbolism, to create a very realistic dreamtime world. For Gene, the creative process begins with an impression, a fully developed image which is the inspiration itself. Little or nothing is done to change or interpret these original “ideas” or lucid dreams. The meaning of these symbols is up to the viewer. “One reason I paint is because I was unable to go to veterinary school, and the art school let me go there for free. Then I mostly painted for rich Texans, which left me indelibly outraged. Now that I am on some hard-won social security, I no longer have to do commissions of things that I would not do otherwise. Painting is the best way I know how to express myself, without using language. I talk way too much. I have always wanted to be a cartoonist, who could paint like Bronzino. Back in those days, if the powers that be did not like what you painted, you would be drawn and quartered by four laughing horsemen. I do not like to talk about art, because the personal reasons I have for painting, are completely irrelevant to the viewer. When I say my words about the paintings, they influence the people who read these placards. Sometimes when I go to a museum, I realize that I just spent more time reading the message than actually looking at the picture. And while it may be true that the meaning is what fascinates, I would wish that the paintings could just speak for themselves. For this reason, there are no cards for you to read about these paintings. Sometimes when you dream, or “see” something interesting, you would never dare to put it into words. There’s something very libelous about words in America, but happily, it’s still safe to be a “crazy artist”. There is no explanation for spending about 500-1,000 hours on each picture. Doing something with my hands, and focusing my attention on that, makes me stop thinking. Which is very quiet, and peaceful. I like to paint heroes and goddesses, with plenty of horses. I like to make graven images and pray to them while I paint them! I want the world to be happy. I am an artist because it prevents me from exploding.”

Micah Sanger

Visual Arts: Painting

Visionary Arts Gallery 45004 Albion St. #8, Mendocino At the Gallery paintings from my Traveling Museum Exhibit (https://www.perception4u.com/museumexhibit) are displayed along with the theoretical physicist quotes that accompany each painting. The exhibit is to encourage viewers to explore in depth the meaning of the words of these great insightful, intuitive physicists and to allow the paintings to lift them into new ways of looking upon their world, revealing its mystery and wonder. An enriching experience awaits the visitors to the Gallery who come with a curiosity and a wish to live life to its fullness and who know that there is much more going on here in this world than first meets the eye. New Video: “The Art of Theoretical Physics” FREE BOOK DOWNLOAD of “TOBE and the RIVER IS” In celebration of our courage and compassion during these times, and because, for many, it is also financially challenging, I would like to offer everyone a free download of my award-winning book https://www.perception4u.com/bookgift ____________________________________________________________ If You Feel Inspired to, please make a donation to the Arts Council of Mendocino County Explore with Tobe the power and wonder of the great River Is. Go on an adventure which is the discovery of yourself. Reviews: “Sanger has succeeded in writing the modern-day Siddhartha: an intricate tale of a deep spiritual journey, within and without. His artistic use of words and illustrations gently opens the door to truth and carries you to the living River; you will be hooked.” Joe Kittel, author of Spiritual Principles in Strategic Alliances and founder of SPiBR.org LLC. “Gorgeous phrasing, fully entrancing and sparkling with freshness. The author has a fine instinct for wowing the reader at the start, and throughout, with beautifully crafted sentences. Even better, the effect hides the effort. Nothing about this book seems forced which is what elevates it. And the wow factor of this book is masterfully-written. Beautiful visuals…engage our senses and place us in the scene. Well done. Stays with the reader.” Writer’s Digest Judge, 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards ____________________________________________________________ Biography I have been an active artist producing paintings since 1970 when I changed my major at Clemson University from engineering to art studio. That was when I discovered my true passion for art. I have been diligent and dedicated to my calling as an artist ever since. I continued my development as an artist when I apprenticed under the nationally known artist Richard Goetz in the early seventies for a brief time, followed by attending the University of Santa Barbara and Chico State University, CA, from 1980 to 1985. Plums – Unified Field, 7″ x 15″ mixed media In 1996 I pulled away from the gallery art scene to go deep into a contemplative life—a life of open-eyed meditation, studying the world 8 to 12 hours a day and often more for many days of the week while taking notes, making sketches, and developing paintings about what I was observing. Out of this exploration into perception and awareness, a rich new way of looking at my world and a new approach to painting arose. Besides objects becoming more alive and energetic in my perception, a sense of this world existing in a dimension, and what I call a “unified field” arose. These perceptions, I found, do not subtract from this physical experience but only add to its mystery and wonder. They also parallel, in many ways, the ideas of theoretical physics. Beyond Form to the Light, 56.5″ x 106″ mixed media I started working on an educational website, (www.perception4u.com) to pass on to others through the text and exercises the experiences and insights I was having. I used my paintings to give visual expression to the ideas I was relaying. Through the exercises on the website, I was attempting to open up to others their own revelations of deeper levels of perception. Over time a substantial number of paintings were created. I knew that one day they would be the source of future exhibits. Barn Jackson Hole, 54.5″ x 61″ mixed media As I watched people interfacing with the exercises of the website, I realized that some individuals needed a more emotional approach to exploring perception. So, in 2013 I began writing and illustrating my book, “Tō•bē and the River Is,” with the idea that through the life of the protagonist, people could experience new ways of looking at their world. The Dream of a World in a Holy Mind It is a whimsical fairytale full of living metaphor. The “River Is” is itself a metaphor for the matrix of the unified field that surrounds us. It was published in 2016 and has already won two Global eBook Awards, one for illustrations, The New Apple Book Award, followed by the prestigious Ben Franklin Award and the Nautilus Book Award. (The book website is www.4riveris.com ) Turtle Rock and Back View of Artist-Dimension, 28″ x 34″ In September of 2017, I started to exhibit my work publicly for the first time since 1996. It started with the Sausalito Art Festival, then the HarmonyUs Festival followed eventually in 2018 by the HarmonyUs Festival again and the Edgewater Gallery in Fort Bragg, California. Now my focus is on displaying my art as a cohesive whole in a traveling museum exhibit with the same purpose it shares with my website, my book, as well as my public speaking engagements—to inspire people to explore the life-enhancing nature of deeper levels of perception. It really is an exciting project of combining my paintings with the words of theoretical physicists to create a very powerful effect. I also mention in my museum proposal that I will give a presentation at a couple of the local high schools. Clear perception opens up a new and exciting world, creating a new enthusiasm towards living, something many of the students can use nowadays. FlatRock – Dimension III, 63″ x 82″ mixed media Visionary GALLERY OPEN DOOR HOURS Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 11:00 to 5:00 11:00 to 5:00 And open by appointment. Please call number below. Open throughout the week for events and classes. Phone Numbers: Visionary Arts Spiritual Center Micah Sanger Sally Wells (505) 455-2867 (707) 357-3466

Virginia Sharkey

Visual Arts: Painting

Featured Exhibit at the Mendocino Art Center through October 29: Sublime to the Canine I’m an abstract painter because I love what is elemental and essential. I’m interested in creating a realm of mystery, surprise, serenity, and beauty. I use color, either oil or acrylic paint, for its feeling tone, each hue having a distinct emotional component, and line for its rhythmic possibilities and the awareness of gravity to indicate a possible intention, as in a “going toward.” I want to create a sense that there is in a work a “presence” that has its own life in a pictorial space that seems, however flat, empty and monochromatic, “full.” — Virginia Sharkey Also see my work at Partners Gallery, located at 335 N. Franklin Street in Fort Bragg, open Wednesday through Monday 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays 10 am to 4 pm. 707 962-0233 PartnersGallery.com Virginia Sharkey Box 20, Mendocino, California 95460 Telephone (707) 937-3021 virginiasharkey.com ~ vs@pacific.net Born: Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan Education: Vassar College, B.A. cum laude Aspen School of Contemporary Art Exhibitions: If you are in Fort Bragg, CA you can see my work at Partners Gallery, 235 N. Franklin St, open every day except Tuesdays and the first Wednesday of each month. The website is http://partnersgallery.com Exhibitions: 2016 Chautauqua 59th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Chautauqua, NY, juried by Stephen Harvey and Jennifer Samet, Directors, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Bellringer Prize Archaeology, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA The Yosemite Series, Solo Show, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA 2015 Crossing the Line, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA Size, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA 2013 ACCI Gallery, Hallowed and Haunted, Berkeley, CA 56th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Chautauqua, New York Juried by Janne Siren, Director, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2011 Confrontational Art, Gualala Art Center, Gualala, CA 2010 Imagining California, Curated by Philip Linhares, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum, Kevin Milligan Gallery, Danville, CA Mendocino Art Center Open Studio Tour Exhibition, September Yosemite Renaissance XXV, Yosemite Museum Gallery, Yosemite National Park and subsequent Traveling California Exhibition. 2009 Naturally Inspired, July 22-August 16, Flockworks, Mendocino,CA 2007 Tsunami of Recollections, Art @3G, Ft. Bragg, CA America’s Landscape,Art @3G, Ft. Bragg, CA Yosemite Renaissance XXII, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park and subsequent,Traveling California Exhibition , Animal Art, Mendocino Art Center, Nichols Gallery, Mendocino CA Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA 2006 Waterfall Paintings, Solo Show, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA 2005 Members’Juried Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Wet Paint, Juried Exhibition, Gualala Art Center, Gualala, CA Friends Show Northcoast Artists Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA Yosemite Renaissance XX, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park and subsequent California Traveling Exhibition 2001 Gamel Fraser Gallery,( 3 person show) Mendocino, CA 2000 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center 1999 Members Juried Art Exhibition. Mendocino Art Center Fifth Annual Warehouse Artists’ Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA Yosemite Renaissance XIV Art Exhibit, Yosemite Museum, and subsequent California Traveling Exhibition, Yosemite, CA, 1998 Galerie Elecktra, Sausalito, CA Bartlett Fine Arts, Pleasanton, CA North Coast Printmakers: An Invitational Exhibition, Northcoast Artists Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA Sly Dog Gallery, Portland, OR Members Exhibition, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA 1998 Gallery Glendeven, Solo Show, Little River, CA Scharffenberger Winery, Solo Show Philo, CA 1997 National Juried Exhibition Curated by Marisol,” Gallery 84, New York, NY Prints and Paintings, Art Hansen and Virginia Sharkey, Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA Fourth Annual Artists’ Warehouse Sale, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Spring Loaded, Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA ART a visual reality, Left Coast Art, Cyberworld Cafe, San Francisco, CA. Members’ Show Mendocino Art Center 1996 Artists’ Registry Exhibition, The Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO 1995-6 The World’s Women On-Line,Video/Internet Gallery, Commons Gallery, Arizona State University, Computing Tempe, AZ The World’s Women On-Line!, United Nations Fourth World Conference On Women, Beijng,China (Touring Version). ADA: Women and Information Technology, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago Ill 1995-6 Oakland Museum Main Lobby, Oakland Museum Women’s Board Collectors GalleryOne 1995 Abrahamson Gallery, Solo Show, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino,CA Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA Fort Bragg Center for the Arts Members Show, Ft. Bragg, CA Art Alive in ’95 Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA Tangents Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA Fort Bragg Center for the Arts, Fort Bragg, CA 1994 The Dog Show, Los Gatos Company, Los Gatos, CA Different Strokes, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA From the Heart of Women, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA 1993 What’s Afoot Gallery, Solo Show, Caspar, CA Prints on Purpose, Village Theatre Gallery, Danville, CA Fish Schticks, What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar. CA From the Heart of Women, What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar, CA 1992 What’s Afoot Gallery, Solo Show, Caspar, CA Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Mushrooms for Paper, Traveling Exhibit, Mendocino, CA Gallery Glendeven, Little River, CA Faculty Art Exhibit, College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA, What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar, CA Tangents Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA The Artists’ Registry Exhibition, The Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO 1991 What’s Afoot Gallery, Caspar CA 1990 Winona Gallery, Solo Show, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA The Magnificent Seven, Calloways, Santa Rosa, CA Tangents Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA 1988 Emerging Mendocino, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1987 Gallery Fair, Mendocino, CA Fort Bragg Center for the Arts, Fort Bragg, Ca 1986 New Work from Los Angeles, LAART, New York, NY 1980 Vorpal Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Berge und Volken um Meran, Solo Show, Amerika Haus Munchen, Munich, Germany Tanglewood Gallery, Solo Show, New York, NY 1978 Kuperion Gallery, Merano, Italy Bilder, Briefe, Noten, Autoren Gallerie, Munich, Germany 1977 Art Workers’ Guild Gallery, Vineyard Haven, MA 1976 Painted Images: Virginia Sharkey, Solo Show, College Center Main Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Vassar College Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Auction 393, New York, NY Eight from Vassar, Vassar College Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 1975 Lotus Gallery, New York, NY 1974 Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY Bibliography: Artists Speak Part 2.mov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWg22ekl-k Auction 393, Auction Sale #5, Contemporary Art, June 12,1978,Art Bidders GalleryCorporation, #61, #62 Flugel, Rolf, Berge und Volken um Meran, Munchner Merkur, Sept. 8/9, 1979. Gilbert, Mervin, Artists Shared their Studios with the Public,Mendocino Beacon, Sept. 5, 1991. Gilbert, Mervin, The MAC Membership Show :Almost Everything for Almost Everyone, Arts and Entertainment, February, 1997. Halle, Howard, 59th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art at Chautauqua Showcases “Lively,Engaging” Works, The Chautauquan Daily, July 8, 2016. Lambert,Leeann, Tuesday People ,The Ukiah Daily Journal, Tuesday, April 7, 1998. Outlook. Cover Artist. February, 1996. Parsons Memorial Lodge Summer Series, Yosemite National Park, Poster,Image, Summer 2009 Rice, Miriam C., Mushrooms for Paper, Video, David Marks and Oleg Harenar Productions,1993. R.M.B. Austellungs Spiegel, Munchen: Virginia Sharkey, Die Welt, Sept. 21, 1979. Sharkey, Virginia, The Artists’ Registry Exhibition at the Dog Museum, St. Louis, MO 1/8-3/8,1992, p.39. Sharkey, Virginia, Rose Fellow, 1976, Vassar Quarterly,Winter, 1981, p. 15. Residencies: 2011 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy 1981 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY 1979 Cummington Community of the Arts, Cummington, Mass Awards: 2016 Bellinger Award, Chautauqua Institution 2010 Yosemite Renaissance XXV Exhibition , People’s Choice Award Yosemite Renaissance 2007 XXII Exhibition, Second Place 2005 Yosemite Renaissance XX Exhibition, Second Place 1999 Yosemite Renaissance XIV Exhibition, First Place 1976 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Fine Arts Collections: Private and Corporate Collections in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Japan

Lauren Sinnott

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Murals, Painting, Works on paper

See a detailed description about Lauren’s latest mural From Finland to Fort Bragg complete with photos & videos here. I am an artist, historian and former politician. www.historymural.com will show you how so many things in my life and work have recently come together in the perfect project: my monumental history mural on the north wall of the Ukiah Valley Conference Center. But let’s back up a little. My diverse portfolio is partly the result of making a living through art in the modern world. Before photography was invented, everyone would want me to create their image. Now, it’s really only dogs that people commission portraits of. I even paid a vet bill once with a mural of dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and mice. At Point Arena High School, I painted a face that gets walked on: the sports mascot, a 6 ft. grinning pirate on the floor of the basketball court. A local big wave surfer modeled. Art entwines with life… and also its loss. That surfer was part of my California family and I portrayed him as a life-size 3-dimensional winged angel after his death at sea. The lady who commissioned this work died recently and now the angel has come back to me. It all started in Wisconsin’s dairyland, where I was raised by an artist mother and poet father. My mom supported us on graphic design, and as a toddler I worked at a little table alongside her. Our house was filled with paintings and books. It was the Age of Aquarius and I knew I was supposed to be at Woodstock, but it was impossible. I was ten. I spent my senior year as an AFS exchange student in Belgium, speaking only French and learning to take class notes in perfect outline form. I discovered the art of conversation, four-hundred year old homes and good coffee. It was there that I began to feel the pull of an old culture living still where it had always been. Back from Belgium, I attended Rice University in wonderfully hot and humid Houston, TX. I earned a BA in Art and French, then a BFA in painting, and an MA in Art History. During graduate study, I encountered a work whose untold story began to open before me, becoming the subject of my thesis, The Double Portrait of Two Men in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. And the story blossomed again with stunning new research on the part of several scholars, leading to my recent paper, Beloved Disciple: Vittore Belliniano and a Double Portrait of Two Men, which explores the possibility that the exalted Venetian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini and his head of studio were lovers. I taught art history for several years at the museum school, painted one of my most exquisite mural in a private bathroom, and became a single mother of two. But I yearned for the ocean! Not the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, which I had never even seen. And Northern California to be specific, because friends had told me “Your kind of people live there.” My boys and I left town in a converted school bus with a wood stove and beds. We found Point Arena located with its lighthouse on a jutting tip of land WEST of the San Andreas fault. This is the other California, where populations are dwarfed by the ridged landscape and pounding ocean. This is exactly what I was looking for, except I forgot that it was going to be impossible to get my PhD. The consolation prize was my life in politics as City Council member and then Mayor of one of only four incorporated cities in Mendocino County. Point Arena is the seventh tiniest city in California, which meant the city staff was small and overworked, and our jobs as elected officials were large and unending. On top of legislative activity, we also had the tasks of employee hiring, evaluating, and firing. It helped to have an eye for detail. It didn’t help to earn only $100 a month. (See more about fights and triumphs in city government and much more of my artwork on my main website www.artgoddess.com which will be sleek and modern by Christmas!) My boys and I lived in our bus in the fragrant manzanita forest for a year and when we moved to town I supported us with art and rent. I took jobs ranging from art cars to tombstone design, from wedding dresses to sewing a life-size brocade torso complete with all female reproductive parts for a doctor. I created the Velvet Vulva line of purses for the lesbian, feminist and enlightened market. I painted curbs and hemmed pants. Business signs and design services were a mainstay. I picked blackberries, ate wild mustard greens, baked my own bread, and gleaned apples from the ground. We took in a parade of roommates to make ends meet. My house was teeming with the boys and their friends, and was full of books and paintings. Recently my son who learned Mandarin and now lives in Taiwan paid me a compliment. He said, “Mom, I never knew we were poor.” And of course, in real terms, we weren’t. All of these experiences have caused me to reflect on the ultimate purpose of the artist and the historian. Art history is a jeweled necklace, a string of masterpieces threaded on inspiration from around the world. Yet art was made by, for, and about real people who led complex lives. A man who loved men and didn’t have wealth or a noble patron in 15th-century Venice could be burned alive in the Piazza San Marco. Ghosts walk in those grand cities and on the quiet streets of my own town, where no more than a century ago, it was permitted to shoot an Indian after dark. Forced servitude, kidnappings and massacres took place across California, including multiple occurrences here in Mendocino County. During the 1850s, the new state government’s official position was denial of rights and extermination was seen as inevitable. Depravity haunts exaltation, and the sacred charge of the historian is to give voice to the fallen, to shine light on the common and hidden, as well as the great. As a Renaissance painting mutely accomplishes merely by surviving, the historian keeps a subject alive with his published words, and the muralist with her imagery. I love the motto of Yale University: Lux et Veritas. Light and Truth – with one we find the other. My latest and largest project, the huge historical narrative mural on the north wall of the Ukiah Valley Conference Center, is the result of these threads interweaving. I could use all those hours of life drawing, all of that house painting, all my knowledge of narrative art through the centuries, and all my experience working with the public in administration. This is a public work for everyone and about everyone. It contains over two-hundred portraits and tells many stories of people who live here now. People can see why this art has meaning. They understand the argument I once presented to a dear friend over dinner: “You will be fascinated,” he was informed, looking doubtful as he questioned art history and the importance of such things. “History is to humanity as memory is to the individual,” I said. We are each of us walking backwards into the future. “Would you want to do that with your eyes shut?” My companion smiled, saw it was true, and ordered champagne, since he was about to hear what had been revealed by a Venetian inventory from 1569.* *That the great collection of Gabriele Vendramin included a little box portrait of Giovanni Bellini with the portrait of Vittore, his disciple, on its cover.

Antoinette von Grone

Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Works on paper

Born in 1954. Studied textile design and high fashion. Interneship in window decoration at Hermes-Paris. Currently working mostly in oil on canvas at my studio in Boonville. Represented by Erickson Fine Art in Healdsburg.

Barbara Ware

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting

I came to Potter Valley in 1973 and live quite remotely near the Eel River. My garden, the natural beauty of Mendocino County, and the plants and animals that surround me give me the majority of my inspiration. I work primarily with watercolor and acrylics and love experimenting with mixed media. I’m in love with my experience with color as I paint, the mingling and mixing of colors on the page. And I love the total engagement that absorbs my full concentration in the process of painting. It’s transforming!

Richard Weiss

Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Media and Visual Communications, Painting

The common thread present in all of my paintings is playfulness. By engaging the viewer to interact with my paintings, I put them back in touch with a childlike frame of mind. I have developed three styles of interactive kinetic paintings. In the first style, the image seems to be in motion but the movement is in the viewer’s mind. The work is in relief but is painted to appear like a conventional ﬂat picture. Tintin & l’Affaire de l’Orbe Pourpre – 3D Reverse perspective – acrylic on wood – 40.25×24.25×6 inches vimeo.com/241112870 In the second style, the viewer can manipulate the image into a myriad of possibilities. The Empire 3D acrylic on wood panels 50×50 inches In the third style, the image changes depending on your position to the painting. The experience is ever changing relative to the angle from which the paintings are viewed . Viewers are able to create their own experience by directing how they wish to see the image morph into another. This active participation provokes a playful complicity between the artwork and the viewer. The King & The Duke – kinetic painting – acrylic on wood- 22 x 37 inches I place cultural icons and other elements of contemporary popular culture into a new context to illustrate thought provoking social, political or cultural issues. Le Dejeuner revisited – Kinetic painting – acrylic on wood – 36×44 inches My goal is to provoke an element of surprise and playfulness. Nuns with Guns – acrylic on wood panel – 37 x 37 inches _________________________________________________________________ PDFs TO VIEW: Artist Statement Bio PDF Exhibitions Awards Publications PDF 3-D paintings – acrylic on wood 3-D KINETIC Paintings 1 – acrylic on wood 3-D KINETIC Paintings 2 – acrylic on wood 3D_Kinetic_Paintings_3 – acrylic on wood 3-D KINETIC Mona Series 1 – linocut printing 3-D KINETIC Mona Series 2 – linocut printing 2D Cat Series – acrylic on canvas.pdf 2D Cowboy Series – acrylic on canvas.pdf 2-D Mona Series 2D_CAT_Series.pdf 2D_COWBOY_Series.pdf 2-D Alice Series – pencil & acrylic on paper 2-D Canvas 1 Lightbox Water Soluble Color Pencil + Pencil Work Pen & Ink + Whimsical Sculptures Glass Painting ______________________________________________ LINKS TO VIDEOS OPTICAL_ILLUSION_PAINTINGS (07:28): https://vimeo.com/659623113 COWBOY SERIES https://vimeo.com/687543720 https://vimeo.com/659599777 Short presentation (5:48) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82oXqi_omn4 Tintin & The Case of The Purple Orb (00:49) The King & The Duke (00:48) Nuns With Guns (00:46) Mona Blue Sky (00:35) Mona Purple Sky (00:39) Pandemonium Fairyland 2 (01:37) Fine Arts Achievements Born in Lyon, France, I worked and lived on three continents before taking residence in California. A freelance graphic artist for businesses and corporations, I have designed movie sets and costumes and illustrated children’s books. I make use of my previous experience in different art forms to develop optical illusion paintings. Previous Achievements A performing musician on three continents, I have written movie soundtracks in France and in the USA. A nominated screenplay writer in America, I have gathered thirteen US movie awards as a movie director and producer. Music: I have performed as a singer/song writer in Europe and Africa and worked as a music producer, writing jingles and film scores in Europe and America and creating Dedicace, a conceptual album reuniting internationally known musicians from four continents. Cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky used Dedicace extensively in his film Tusk. Film: I wrote, directed and produced The Book, a kitsch science fiction feature film (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers meets Flash Gordon) that pays homage to the sci-fi classics of the 70s and 80s. Official Selection in festivals in America, Australia and Asia, The Book won 13 awards and was hailed as “cult material” by critics and festival audiences. Watch the trailer and selected scenes from my film The Book Short morphing video created for The Book https://www.facebook.com/richard.weiss.942

Mark Whitcomb

Visual Arts: Painting

I’m an artist working here in Ukiah. I have lived here for the past 30 years. My art training is as an outsider. I focus mostly on still lifes and figurative painting.

Laura Wiecek

Visual Arts: Crafts, Mixed Media, Painting, Textiles, Works on paper; Book Art

Go to my website ShesNartist.net for all information

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